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Do Not Imitate Evil

19 Dec

3 John 1:11 – 11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

Anyone who does good is from God.

Why is this?

Because no one is good accept God.

Luke 18:19 – 19 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.

The only reason we can do good in this fallen state we’re in is to tap into the good of God.

When we imitate evil, we are helping the camp of the enemy.  Do we really want to do that?  I don’t think any of us really want to help out the enemy.  But if we turn our backs on God, we are doomed to do so, because without Him we are not good.  The question is how not good?

Matthew 6:23 – 23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Scripture after scripture after scripture, warn us to obey God and die to the world and our old sinful nature.

Don’t ignore the warnings and quit listening to the voices that suggest whatever it is your doing isn’t really all that bad.  Get into the Word and you’ll discover that our Lord isn’t keen on evil at all.

 

Does Just Believing In God Make You Saved?

16 Dec

Satan believes in God.  Is he saved?

Satan believes that Jesus lived.  Is he saved?

I hear so many times that if you just believe, you will be saved.  However, that’s extremely vague.  What is it that you believe?

Romans 10:8-10 –  8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9 That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

Lord?

That’s Lord, the one who rules over your life.  You’re not just believing He lived but you confess Him as Lord.  God in the flesh.  Authority given over to Him from the Father to save those which are lost.

If you believe that there is a higher power, that’s not saved.  If you believe Jesus was a good teacher and walked the earth, that’s not saved.  Satan believes in those things too.

You must believe in your heart AND confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead.

 

Two Current Prophecies Strengthening This Year – Part 4

15 Dec

The first couple of days we talked about the Arab Spring and how it pertains to the Gog and Magog War.
Yesterday we started talking on another movement which is Occupy Wall Street.  Both of these movements are a combination of using the masses and the news media to further the cause of a New World Order.

When you try to divert a river, you go downstream and dig huge diversions and slowly get the river to flow in that direction.  The river is too powerful to just stop and make it go where you want.  You need its
own power to help.  That’s what we see now.  Enough people over time have changed their thinking to embrace socialism.  The rich have gotten richer and the poorer have gotten poorer.  Now the middle class is slowly losing ground due to the bad economy, brought on by the housing bubble and the banks tightening down.  As a result the extended unemployment has gotten many in the middle class dependent on the
government.

We left with the question yesterday of where does the spirit of a one world order come from?

Well we know Jesus is going to rule and reign on His throne and rule the nations after He comes back.

Revelation 20:4- 4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Daniel 2:44-45 – 44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.  ……..

However there is another that has wanted to take the place of God.  He wants to establish his throne and be like the most high.

Isaiah 14:12-15 –12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! 
You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my
throne above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the
sacred mountain.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself
like the Most High.”
15 But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.

Satan has wanted to be like the Most High.  He wants to be worshipped.  He wants to sit on the throne and make the world worship him.  That’s why he wants the world to be under one power.  It’s the spirit that is pushing for the One World Government or the New World Order.  It’s another attempt at the Tower of Babel, which is man coming together to reach Heaven without God.

Those who are doing so are following Bible Prophecy exactly.  Only God could have prophecy written about 2000-3500 years ago and have the very people who don’t even believe in Him follow it.

The devil and the antichrist are trying to get the world together in socialism so they may rule it.  They want to control the commerce.  Satan will make it to when he defiles the temple of God and calls himself God, people will either worship him or they won’t buy or sell.  They also will be sentenced to death.

Occupy Wall Street is the first open attempt to get the masses in this country chanting for socialism.  Wall Street stands for capitalism.

It’s amazing to see all the prophecies strengthening as we grow nearer.  The one thing you need to do is put all your faith in Jesus and not into this world.  You will only have peace with what’s going on when you do that.

 

Two Current Prophecies Strengthening This Year – Part 3

14 Dec

The last couple of days I have be talking on how the Arab Spring is strengthening the prophecy of the Gog and Magog War in Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39.

Today I will be talking on how a world dictatorship and one world order functions much better under socialism than democracy.

The news media realized just how influential and ripe the listening public is right now by seeing the reaction to the Arab Spring.

Enter “Occupy Wall Street.”

Who comes up with these names?

It’s another term for Hate Capitalism, but that doesn’t sound as catchy or as good when trying to influence the masses.

Have you wondered why the news media would take the tea party and try to smear them as being unruly hate mongers?  They are the picture of true protesters.  Hold their signs nicely and clean up the place after they leave.  The problem is they are trying to get their old democracy back and the government and news media have been working very hard to get us where we are at.

Where is that?  They have been working hard to bring us down as softly as they can into socialism.  They don’t want anarchy in the world’s strongest nation, just for it to equal out with the others.  Anarchy is the exact opposite of what they want.  They want to bring the whole world together under one rule.

Getting us to national healthcare is not about healthcare as much as it is being the most important issue when getting a nation to be socialized.

The reason for world Socialism is so we don’t blow each other up, overpopulate, treat each other poorly, etc.  The powers at the top in government feel that they should lead this measure for the world’s own good.

Where does this spirit of a one world order come from?

Tomorrow we will continue on with this.

 

Two Current Prophecies Strengthening This Year – Part 2

13 Dec

Yesterday we started on the significance of the Arab Spring and how it fits with Bible Prophecy.

In the last days we have the Gog and Magog war which names many members of nations that will attempt to annihilate Israel.  This war is in chapters of Ezekiel 38 and 39.

I didn’t always believe the War was in conjunction within the tribulation period or Armageddon, but upon further study I don’t see how it cannot be.  The most important reason, but certainly not the only reason is the passages at the end of Ezekiel 39.

Ezekiel 39:21-29 –  21 “I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them. 22 From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God. 23 And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my
face from them.

25 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. 26 They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. 27 When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the
countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations. 28 Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

The end of the Gog and Magog verses matches that of when Jesus comes back in last few chapters of Zechariah.  Those verses relate to Revelation 19.  When do the Jews realize recognize their Lord and Messiah?  At the end when Jesus comes back.

Back to the significance of the Arab Spring.  All the nations mentioned in the beginning of Ezekiel 38 are nations mentioned that will join Russia (Magog) in this invasion.

Ezekiel 38:1-6 –  1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him 3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. 4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. 5 Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, 6 also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

One thing that is significant about the players is they all seem to be Muslim countries.  Put is always stated to be Libya and its surrounding close neighbors including Tunisia.  Certainly fits with the times in the fact that Russia is always looking to lead the world; and Israel’s Muslim neighbors have a hatred that the Jews are in Israel or the fact that they are even alive.  The two will work together to achieve and further their goals.  Does it work out for them?  Not according to the end of Ezekiel 38 or the chapter of 39.

The Arab Spring just keeps pushing this future prophecy closer and closer.

Tomorrow we will talk about the other prophecy strengthening before our very eyes.

 

Two Current Prophecies Strengthening This Year – Part 1

12 Dec

I am going to go over two prophecies that have been forming in front of our eyes this year.  Many end times prophecies are strengthening as we move towards the second coming, but two of them this year have been moving rather quickly and are no small feats.

The first one we’ll hit on is the Arab Spring.  We’ve seen Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya all come out from dictatorships.  The West and America championed these advancements.

In no way do I condone the atrocities’ that those dictators put on their people, but let’s take note on where the countries leadership is heading today.  The Muslim Brotherhood has a heavy influence in these countries.  Before the dictators were exactly that, dictators.  Their agenda was their own, which means don’t
rock the boat, hang low and you’ll be off their radar.   That means if Christian’s we’re hanging low and not irritating the King, no problem.  Same went for other groups.

That’s gone now.  Islam in the name of Allah and the Koran are supposed to conquer.  If those who are not Muslim do not conform, they are persuaded to change their faith up to the point of death.  Before, the dictators did not like that dissention.  They wanted order in their own way.  So to say the Arab Spring has
not been good for non-Muslims, is to make an understatement.

Does the news media talk about the Christian persecution?  Not very often at all.

Why?  One answer is; a blinded news media towards God is going to error on the side of those trying to kill His bride and His chosen people.

Tomorrow we’ll continue on the Arab Spring plays into Bible Prophecy.

 

Some Earthly Obedient Guidelines

09 Dec

Colossians 3:18-25 – 18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

21 Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from
the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.

Two things I want to point out here.

One, if we live the way we are told to, life works smooth instead of being a mess.

Two, you’re not doing it for yourself or just to please others.  We are supposed to do it because this shows obedience to the Lord.

The Lord says if you love me you will keep my commands.

John 14:21 –  21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.”

Don’t listen to the world.  This country is broke and in debt negligently.  Divorce is at 50 percent.  Suicide is rampant with alcoholism and drug use.  Do you know what the news media and powers that be have to say?  We need to remove God more.

Obey the Word of God.  The Lord wants us to succeed in the Kingdom.  He wants us to succeed in reaching others with His love.  As a result He wants to reward us and doesn’t wish for any of us to have to be repaid for our wrong, but there is no favoritism because our Lord is fair.

If you can’t obey now how will you be able to obey later?  Start putting it into practice if you haven’t, today.

 

Be Careful With Updated Bible Translations

07 Dec

In the day and age we live in you always have to be careful.

I have always been a NIV Translation guy.  I always cross reference things to get a better understanding, but found it to be the easiest to read when I was growing in the Word 18 years ago.

Today the NIV has done a new translation for 2011.  In my posts I mostly use the NIV 1984 with some KJV.

Why?  Here’s an example:

Proverbs 14:12 – 12 There is a way that appears to be right, 
but in the end it leads to death.

Huh?  Right to whom?  Right in what way?

It actually upsets me very much.  Here is the 1984 NIV:

Proverbs 14:12 – 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, 
but in the end it leads to death.

Oh!  Now I get it.  Man’s thinking is not good.  He thinks he’s right and it ends up leading to death.

Who are we worry worried about offending that we would change the scripture.  All the other common versions from the past use “to man.”

Political correctness has crept into our Word of God now and if we’re not careful they will change the meaning if they find it offensive.

The word man refers to both man and woman.

The same is happening in the pulpits.  Don’t offend anyone.  Speak positively and make the church grow.  Don’t speak of sin, it’s unpopular.

We have to be innocent as doves but as shrewd as snakes.

Matthew 10:16 – 16 I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Just like the real Word of God it states in the last days people will stray from the Truth and follow doctrines from demons.

1 Timothy 4:1 –  1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

Study God’s Word to seek Truth, because it does matter to God.  You’re opinion may mean a lot in this day and age in this country, but that isn’t the truth to God.

 

Satan Masquerades As An Angel Of Light

06 Dec

Paul was warning the Corinthians that were trying to preach a different gospel.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 – 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

Paul takes pretty seriously God’s truth.  People who are teaching all roads lead to Rome such as  Universalism or that there is no Hell are certainly not following the Word of God.  Their truth comes from
their own self or understanding.

Satan masquerades around like an angel of light.

Why are people teaching these things?  Because there popular for one.  They rationale that God can only be love and could never punish anyone for eternity.   Is that what the Bible says?

Were His own people punished when they rejected Him?  Constantly!

God’s Word when tested is perfect.  Man is not.  It wasn’t written by men, but by the Spirit of God.  To pick and choose which parts of the Bible you want, leads to the above problem of not teaching the truth.

Satan likes it when man gets the courage to be smarter than God.  It plays right into his hand.

Their actions in the end according to Paul will lead to what they deserve.

Proverbs 14:12 – 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

 

One Foot On A Banana Peel And Another In The Grave

05 Dec

Are you excited for the return of Jesus for the Church?

If you came home to meet your family after being away for a long period of time and they didn’t want to see you, how would you feel?

Matthew 22:1-14 – 1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.

4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.

13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

Now this parable was speaking of the Jews of the day.  However, when I read it, it still applies for the so called Lord’s people that are too busy for Him.

Be honest.  If you’re not wanting Jesus to appear because things are too good for you on this earth,
would you call that loving the world?

I don’t know how you can call it anything but that.

There is a crown for those that love His appearing.  That means that people that died 1900 years ago that loved His appearing will get that crown.  Those who don’t will not.

2 Timothy 4:8 – 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his
appearing.

If you’re not excited about seeing Jesus, how well is your relationship with Him going?

Put yourself in the shoes of Jesus when it comes to bringing home His own during the rapture.  How do
you feel about those who didn’t really like the idea of you coming back?