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Ten Horns – Ten Regions Theory – End Time Bible Prophecy

03 Sep

I’m in the midst of doing posts on the antichrist, but feel this is a good time to share the stuff I’m seeing and how it may relate.  Understand the Bible Prophecy is study that more is learned as things come to pass and I’m only sharing what I am observing as the time draws closer.

We talked a few weeks back about the four beasts in Chapter 7 of Daniel’s dream and how it describes the coming world governments, just as the statue dream that King Nebuchadnezzar had.  We talked about how the ten horns and ten toes signify that ten is very important in this world government.  That takes us to verse eight.

Daniel 7:8 – 8 “While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

Who is the little horn?  It is believed to be the antichrist.  He speaks boastfully and he rips up three of the other horns.  So the little horn has the power to rip up three out of the ten.  Only a world ruler would have that kind of power.

We also read in Revelation 17:12 a similar account.

Revelation 17:12 – 12“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast.

Now I want to concentrate on this for a second, because I believe that time is showing us that the ten horns are not ten countries of Europe with their rulers.  I believe that there was a good reason to believe that, and two of my favorite teachers still teach that, but the Roman Empire was considered a world government.  They are the last one and are now reconstructing again, thus the iron mixed with clay we see in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is the Roman Empire revived.

However verse 12 above says these are ten kings that have not yet received a kingdom.  Now if these are truly rulers of 10 existing countries, then they have had kingdoms.  If we are now talking about ten future kings that will take over ten regions that the whole earth is being divided up into, now we have ten kings that don’t have a kingdom yet.

Why ten regions?  That’s what I hear that the new world order people are suggesting.  The word I’m hearing is that it is the Bilderberg group that would like to see this.  Understand that as one who loves the study of prophecy, I’m just writing on what I’m seeing.   Is it a fact?  No.  God’s Word is fact; I’m just watching it unfold in amazement and Love Jesus so I’m sharing what I see.   

So how does this work with other scriptures?  Well in Revelation 17:13 the next verse it reads:

Revelation 17:13 – 13They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.

These ten horns or kings have one purpose and that is to give their power to the beast.  Who is the beast?  The antichrist.  I will be doing a post on the antichrist being the beast more also in the future.

Now what else I found interesting is that the antichrist is going to rip up three of the ten horns.  I think this is very significant in the end times.  If this ruler truly has authority over every tribe, people, language and nation, like it says in Revelation 13:7, then being ripped up is truly troubling to these three horns.

Who would be my guess as these three horns or regions?

How about the kings of the East?  There are a couple of passages that refer to their disdain and their coming to battle.

Revelation 9:13-16 – 13The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.

Revelation 16:12-14 – 12The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. 13Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

Why are they so upset that they are going to face off against the antichrist in the battle of Armageddon?  I will speculate on this as we read on. 

When I heard that the new world order crowd was looking at ten regions and before I looked at any map they were contemplating, I felt that three of the regions would indeed be from the kings of the East.  Sure enough the maps I’ve seen have three regions which include Japan, China, along with India and Indonesian areas. 

There is one other thing I find intriguing that I have to share.  There are three major religions in the world and they are Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism.    Judaism isn’t one of the largest, but I’m a pre-trib rapture guy, so once the church is gone you’ll have Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism.  Tribulation saints will still be getting saved, but I believe the church age is over.  Those in the tribulation not getting saved are probably in with the prostitute religion, or will be happy to worship the antichrist.

We know that there is a seven year peace agreement made with the antichrist and Israel.  This agreement is also known as Daniel’s 70th week.  There has to be an agreement to allow the rebuilding of the temple for sacrifices.  Does the antichrist convince both Islam and the Jews that he is Messiah and gets this treaty signed?  If he does accomplish this and turns on the Jews half way through, wouldn’t this please Islam?  When he then wants those who are Hindu’s to worship him and they don’t will he rip those horns up?

Obviously one could “what if”, all day long.  However, there is a fact that the king’s of the east will be marching for Armageddon to oppose the antichrist.  The antichrist does rip three horns up.  There are ten horns and they are ten kings who have yet to receive a kingdom.  Their whole purpose is to give power unto the little horn which is the antichrist. 

When I look that all over, ten regions being the ten horns makes a lot of sense.  Only time will tell.

 
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We Really Are A Bunch Of Boiling Frogs – Part 2

02 Dec

Yesterday we spoke on some of the prophecies that are happening all around us and some that are forming in front of our very eyes.

With all of them taking shape, what is the church as a whole doing?  They’re sitting in hot pot of water.

We talked about Israel yesterday quite a bit and they are the number one indicator on God’s time clock.  Another one we mentioned is the one world government that is being pushed on us and is coming together.

Daniel 7:16-17 – 16 I approached one of those standing there and asked him the meaning of all this.  “So he told me and gave me the interpretation of these things: 17 ‘The four great beasts are four kings that will rise from the earth.

Daniel 7:23-27 – 23 “He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. 24 The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. 25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.

 26 “‘But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever. 27 Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.’

So we not only read about the one world government but the one world ruler as well in the above passage.  He signs a 7 year peace treaty with Israel.  A time to the Jewish people is 7 years.  Time, times half a time is three and half years.  That is when the antichrist breaks the treaty and defiles the temple.

The wonderful thing is it always ends with Christ coming down with His army and ruling for a thousand years. 

Another end time prophecy that is forming quickly is a one economic system.

Revelation 13:15-17 – 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Our Country is Trillions upon Trillions in debt.  It can’t be paid off and the last spurt in the economy was from credit debt.  We saw back in 2008 just how linked all the economies are.  When our markets started to fail, others started to fail.  The one economic system is coming because it will be the answer to the world’s monetary problem when they all fail.  It’s one of the biggest reasons people will be in awe of the antichrist.  It will also curb identity theft, monetary theft, etc.

This technology is being perfected now.  They will put a little chip in your right hand or forehead and it will work like a credit card.  There is a one world order group that wants the whole world done by 2017.

Wow it’s getting hot in the pot.  But most people don’t know it, because they don’t read or meditate on God’s Word.

Tomorrow we’ll wrap it up with a more prophecy that had to be possible before the Lord’s return.

 
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The Little Horn – The Antichrist

18 Nov

In Daniel chapter 7, Daniel had a dream of four beasts.  These beasts also represent the four empires that were present and were still to come.  The first beast represented Babylon, the second the Medes and Persians, the third was Greece, and the fourth represents the Roman Empire.  It’s on this beast that we see the mention of the horns.

Daniel 7:7-8 –   7 “After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns
 8 “While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

I wrote a postearlier on the ten hornsand my current take on it. 

It’s the little one that comes up from among them that is the focus here today.

Daniel was troubled and asked one who was there in the vision the meaning of the things he saw.  When he got to the fourth beast the scripture says:

Daniel 7:23-27 –   23 “He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. 24 The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. 25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.

 26 “‘But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever. 27 Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.’

In these verses we see that the fourth beast or revived Roman Empire devours the whole earth.  The other king is the little horn and he subdues or rips up three of the original ten kings.  This is also the second time in the chapter that Daniel indicates he is a boastful, proud individual and here he shows it by speaking against God.

I’ve heard Chuck Missler refer to him as Mr. Big Mouth.  I believe that is a very fitting name for the antichrist as he is going to be the world’s biggest politician and leader someday, which chooses to speak against God any chance he gets.

Tomorrow will be a part two but I didn’t name them that way because the two posts can stand on their own.

 
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Daniel Chapter 7 – One World Government – Part 2

13 Aug

Last week we started looking at Daniel’s dream in chapter 7 and how it was parallel the dream Nebuchadnezzar had.  Both dreams describe four kingdoms that were to rule the earth.

The Lion represented Babylon and the Bear represented Medo-Persia. 

Daniel 7:6 – 6 “After that, I looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked like a leopard. And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.

The leopard is a very fast animal and signified the quick conquest of Alexander the Great.  Alexander led the Greeks to a world conquest.  Alexander died at a young age and his son was too young to take over.  So the four main generals took over and created four divisions.  That is believed to be the four heads on the leopard.

Daniel 7:7 – 7 “After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.

Daniel’s dream like the statue dream the King Nebuchadnezzar had, shows a symbolic feature of this empire that has ten of a specific feature.  In the statue in was toes mixed with clay.  On the beast it’s ten horns.

So the ten horns and the ten toes are driving home the significance of ten something which has to do with world government.  I personally believe that it refers to ten regions that the new world order groups are trying to separate the globe into.  This is just my opinion and it is based on a couple of things.

One, we know that this government engulfs the whole world, otherwise the antichrist wouldn’t have control of all those who buy and sell.

Revelation 13:7 – 7He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.

Revelation 13:16-17 – 16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

Two, the horns are ten kings that have not received a kingdom.

Revelation 17:12-13 – 12“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. 13They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.

As I said I believe its ten regions because the whole earth has to be involved and two, that’s what the one world order groups are pushing for. 

There is a lot more to Chapter 7 of Daniel.  It also finishes with the last Kingdom being run by the Son of Man which we now know is Jesus.  Much of the rest gets into the antichrist and that is another end time prophecy.   In fact starting next week I will start into the antichrist.

 
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Satan Hates You With A Passion

08 Jul

Who is Satan?

A guy in a red suit? 
A radical fallen angel who just likes to have a good time and party?
A creation of God who decided, “I just got to be me!?”

Jesus had this to say about Satan to the Jews who were rejecting him.

John 8:44 – 44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Humans can’t even hold a candle to Satan when it becomes to being evil.  They are only students of the most infamous murderer of all.

Joseph Stalin, Russian leader between the late 1920’s until his death of 1953, had around 60 million people die while under his leadership.  It is estimated that 20 million of those were killed by repression, famine, etc.  Others died in war figured around 20 million.  The numbers drastically fluctuate, but as you can see he still ranks in the tops of all time as a lethal guy to be under.

Mao Zedong (tse-tung), leader of China in 1943-1976.  He was known as the leader that had more deaths in peace time than any other ruler.  Estimates run between 40-70 million people.

Then there is the infamous Adolf Hitler.  Holocaust is responsible for 11-14 million lives.  Six Million Jews exterminated.  Why is Hitler possibly the most evil dictator?  He used Genocide to kill people.  He wasn’t just killing to remain in power but exterminating certain groups.  He is responsible for World War II that cost 56 million lives.

Plenty of groups such as the Scythians and Barbarians in the past brutally mutilated or tortured people.  They couldn’t think of worse ways to treat and destroy people.

Why do I say all this?  Because their father Satan, puts them all to shame.  Here’s another one for you.  Satan hates them too.  He doesn’t know how to love.  There are Satanist out there committed to him and he hates them too.  Ironic when you think about.  Normally when you give up yourself to anyone, you want to be loved back.

Peter warns us about the Devil in 1 Peter 5:8 –  8Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

In the last three and half years of the Tribulation that comes upon the world that we read about in Revelation, Satan loses a war and is cast down from Heaven.
Revelation 12:7-8 – 7And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

It says in Revelation 12:12 that Satan is full of fury because his time is short.
    12Therefore rejoice, you heavens
      and you who dwell in them!
   But woe to the earth and the sea,
      because the devil has gone down to you!
   He is filled with fury,
      because he knows that his time is short.”

The 3 and half year mark is when the Antichrist is fatally wounded.  He is miraculously raised  from the dead.  That’ s because Satan incarnates him and now demands to be worshipped as God.  The false Prophet, who is of Satan, makes an Image of him and demands that it be worshipped.  If people do not, they are killed.  Also he causes all to have the Mark of the Beast or they are unable to buy or sell.  Once again if people don’t they will be killed.
Revelations 13:11-18 – 11Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.  18This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666.

Satan obviously goes immediately after the Jews and the new Christians that have now converted after the rapture.  He does this because both groups remind him of Jesus.  However, in Revelation 17, he goes after the great prostitute.  I believe the great prostitute is the one world church that you already see the spirit of now on this Earth.  Once Christians are gone the world religions are going to form one big happy family and the only taboo is intolerance.  That’s another post though.  The point is for the first half of the tribulation it says she rides the beast.  It’s a major player in the last days.  In Revelation 17:16 Satan and his current kingdom will now turn on the great prostitute and kill them.  16The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

Starting to see a theme here?  Satan now wants to be worshipped in the last days.  Right now it’s just fine if you believe whatever you want as long as it isn’t worshipping Jesus Christ, but that will change and he will demand to be worshipped in the last days.  The people that won’t, he will want them to die.  However, hopefully when they do it’s for Christ.

Before Satan is done he will kill Millions.  New Christians.  Jews.  anybody that doesn’t worship him or the take the Mark of the Beast.

He is a LYING MURDERER and he has been taken way too lightly in our generation.

So right now, who do you want to serve?  Here are two characters.

Character A -Helped create you.  Came to Earth and died in your place for your sins.  Stands in front of God and intercedes for you.

Character B-  Someone who hates you.  He wants disaster in your life and the more the better.  Would love to inflict pain on you.  Take away any joy you have.  One who stands in front of God and accuses you of all your wrongdoings.

Who will you serve?  Yourself?  No one?  Whomever I choose?

If that’s your answer, you didn’t come up with it first.  Satan beat you to it.

John 10:7-10 New King James Version –  7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

The thief is Satan.  Please, if you haven’t accepted Jesus as your Savior do so now.  There is a page that will help you do so in right column.  You can be saved and escape the wrath that is to come.

 
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Psalm 22

02 Feb

I just wanted for you all to read Psalm 22 and once again reflect on David’s prophecy concerning the betrayal and crucifixion of Jesus.  It really became obvious in hindsight.  I’m sure in the past it read like David was making a poem about hard times and adversity, finishing with the Lord’s final rule.  Once Jesus lived the accounts, it became obvious that it was a fulfilled prophecy.  We serve an awesome God.

Psalm 22:1-31 –

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.
4 In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
5 They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
8 “He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him.  Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”

9 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother’s breast.
10 From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

12 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
13 Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.  My heart has turned to wax;
it has melted away within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
16 Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. 
18 They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

19 But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
20 Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.
21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

22 I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.
23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!  All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you will I fulfill my vows.
26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the LORD will praise him— may your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations  will bow down before him,
28 for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.

29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
30 Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn— for he has done it.

 
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Almost All False Religions Promise You Can Be Like God

19 Jul

Many times when this subject is talked on it comes across as attacking or self righteousness.  Nothing
can be further from the truth in my post that I’m doing.  It is one hundred percent out of love that I
have for many people.  It’s also a couple of pages long, but please read it all the way through.

Genesis 3:1-5 – 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made.  He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must nottouch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.  5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your
eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

What happened?

They ate of the tree they were not supposed to and they now were not permitted to eat from the Tree of Life.  They bought the lie of the serpent, which is you can become like God.  There are religions based completely off the fact that Satan or the serpent was telling the truth.

Was he telling the truth?

Genesis 3:13- 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Well Eve now acknowledges she was deceived by the serpent, so I don’t think she believes he was now telling the truth.  God is now punishing them so I don’t believe he thinks the serpent is right.

Genesis 3:16-20 –16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.  Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of
it all the days of your life.  18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the
field.  19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it
you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Once again is God interested in you becoming God or like Him?

Genesis 3:21-24 – 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must
not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24
After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Isaiah 45:5 –5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you,
though you have not acknowledged me,

Isaiah 45:18 – 18 For this is what the LORD says—he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says:  “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:22 – 22 “Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 46:9 – 9 Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.

God’s love came in the form that He couldn’t allow a sinful fallen man to live forever.  Without the Tree of Life one doesn’t live forever.

It doesn’t appear that He is interested in us being God or like Him.  However, He loves us more than we could ever know.

The plan for redemption was already planned just versus before God kicking Adam and Eve out of the Garden.

Genesis 3:14-15- 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.  15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

God’s letting Satan know that He (Jesus) would crush his (Satan) head, and Satan would strike the heal of Jesus.  Satan may have thought he had the Son of God beaten when He was crucified on the cross, but that turned into victory for everyone who is now willing to accept Him as Lord and His death to take the
place of theirs.  His work…nothing of our own .

We might not be able to become God, in fact God opposes that pretty strongly.  However, to be an heir
of the Lord and share in the Kingdom with Jesus, that has been stated.

Titus 3:4-8 –  4But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a
trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good.  These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.

Galatians 4:6-7 – 6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

God’s Word makes it clear that He alone is God and there is NO other. The Dead Sea Scrolls have proven the text hasn’t changed in the last 2,000 years, so we can count on it to be accurate.  An opportunity to rule and reign with Christ as an heir, is an incredible opportunity and biblically accurate.

 
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Your Heavenly Reward Is Not Based On Worldly Accomplishments

10 May

The rewards that we are going to get from Jesus are not going to be based on all your hard worldly work.  Your 401k is not a gage on your heavenly retirement.  The employee of the month plaques for a job well done at the work place are staying behind.

 1 Corinthians 3:9-15- 9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

 10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work. 14 If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.

The foundation is Jesus. 

Throughout we read of the parables Jesus taught. 

Parable of the Sower – The first too examples either don’t understand or quickly fall away.  The other two read like this.

Matthew 13:22-23   – 22 The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. 23 But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

In rewards talk I see this parable in our world today.  I see missionaries and pastors out there giving up their lives for the love of the Father and wanting to have others come to know the Lord.  They are trying to produce a crop.  I see many others trying to produce a worldly kingdom.  Those things usually take our focus off God.

We also see it in the parables of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) and Ten Minas (Luke 19:11-27).  In both cases they were entrusted with a certain amount and the ones who produced were rewarded with much more.  Both times the one that wasn’t entrusted with much at all and didn’t produce was casted out and it was taken away from him.

We need to serve the King.  The devil is the one whispering in your ear to serve yourself.  He is a thief, liar, and murderer. 

Do you want the most sure fire way to hear God’s voice?  It’s in His Word.  You can read and hear it as much as you like.

Your reward is based on your work, just not the work your doing for yourself or the world.  It’s based on what you’re doing for the Kingdom.  How much you love the Lord.  Are prayer warrior?  That’s working for the Kingdom.  Are you doing things for people in His name? 

No one gets paid to milk the cow if he is a computer programmer.  Another doesn’t get paid for picking up rocks out in a field if he is a waiter.  You get rewarded when you accomplish work in the right area.  The Lord wants to reward us all.  Pray and seek what it is He wants you do and start today.  Your loving work for the Lord will only draw you closer to Him.

 
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How Many Will Die In The Tribulation?

10 Mar

There are a few scriptures that indicate about what percentage of mankind will perish in the last days.  I also believe this is before Jesus comes back with His armies and puts many more to the sword that have chosen to take up arms against Him.

Revelation 6:7-8 – 7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

I just put down verses seven and eight, but the previous two horses before the fourth one are a part of the equation that kill by sword and famine.  This one is plague and I’ve heard a theory that the wild beasts could mean actual beasts that lose their fear of men, or the pestilences in the form of viruses etc, which kind of goes along with plague.  Never-the-less the first horse is supposedly the antichrist riding in on a horse with a bow and no arrows, signifying peace and shortly right after the other three horses of death and destruction follow.

I believe the church is gone before all of this as I am a pre-tribulation guy.  If you want to know why I am a pre-tribulation guy I have many posts in the rapture category explaining why.  So 25 percent or so will be killed in Revelation 6.

Revelation 9:13-19- 13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.

 17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

Sounds like missiles or warheads to me.  Just think this is John almost two thousand years ago trying to explain what he was seeing in his vision. 

So where is our math equation right now?  Let’s start with a 100% and take off 25% for the fourth of mankind killed in Revelation 6.  Now we have 75% left and a third of mankind is killed in Revelation 9.  One third of 75% is 25%.  So just from those two things spoken in Revelation we have half of mankind being killed from just these things alone.

Now there is one more interesting thing that Jesus says in Matthew 24.

Matthew 24:38-41 – 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

Notice in verse 39 the ones being taken away are the ones that perish.  Then Jesus continues on the next verse and says that is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.  Two men will be in the field and One taken.  That’s how much?  That’s fifty percent.  Two women and one will be taken the other left.  Once again fifty percent.

Over half of those on earth will die during the tribulation at least, probably more.  It truly will be hell on earth.  Even when this all is happening though, many still will not repent.

Revelation 9:20-21 – 20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

I see the hardness in many today. 

Open your hearts to the Lord and may your spirit grow in God’s love.

 
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Parable Of The Sower – Part 2

28 Jul

Yesterday we talked about the first two groups in the Parable of the Sower.  Group One never really accepts after hearing the Good News. 

Group two, hears it with joy, but the roots are shallow and anything that comes along causes their faith to die before it really had a chance to get established.

That brings us to Group Three.  Group Three appears to have inserted roots at one time into the soil.  Unlike Group Two, they have a different problem.

Matthew 13:22 –  22The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.

Is group three in the Parable saved?  It doesn’t say the words falls away like in the second group.  My guess is group three is saved, but is unfruitful and unproductive.

It says that the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth are making this group unfruitful. 

Do we want to be fruitful?  Does God and Jesus want us to be fruitful?  I will have many other posts on the this subject so I won’t go into a lot of detail, but in the parable of the talents, Jesus uses phrases in it such as:

Matthew 25:21 – 21“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

On the other hand:

Matthew 25:26-30 – 26“His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

 28” ‘Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

After reading that, my assessment is that we all want to be in Group Four.  Those are not the only versus in the Bible that make you want to be in Group Four.

Tomorrow let’s look at Group Four a little closer.

 
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