Bible Prophecy and Inspiration

Psalm 97:7 – ⁷ All who worship images are put to shame,
those who boast in idols—
worship him, all you gods!

Now I don’t know about you but I remember the first time I read this and thought, that’s interesting.

However, like most of the Bible, we read it and over our lifetime you begin to study and things that you didn’t first understand take on more meaning.

I was familiar with the following verse before I even read the Bible all the way through.

Isaiah 45:5 – ⁵ I am the LORD, and there is no other;
apart from me there is no God.

So when I came across this is Psalms, I thought it was an interesting phrase.

Then as we begin to look at the other religions of the world, we see something quite common in many of them.  Hinduism teaches that everything is god and they are gods themselves.  This would both speak of the idols and all you gods.  The New Age teaches that we are all gods and you just have to get to that higher consciousness.  The Mormon religion teaches that god was once a man, and that as man they can become god.  However, that doesn’t jive with Isaiah above.

Who was the first one to convince man he could be like God?

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 not touch 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.”

Was the devil telling the truth?  God banishes man from the garden and the Tree of Life and he is now gone from perfect into sin.  Two plus two tells me that any religion that believes you can become God is basing their whole life on the fact the devil was telling the truth.

Psalm 97:7 is calling out and mocking those who dare to call themselves god.  We are the creation, not the creator.  There is only One of Him.  Don’t let the devil still your eternity on something you want relate to because it seems good to you or fits what you want.  Humbly seek God and serve Him for the rest of eternity.

How do you think most people in America would answer that question?  Let’s look at that before we actually even tackle that question on ourselves.

We live in a time that everyone is supposed to respect everyone else’s beliefs.  We are to take the position that there is no right and no wrong, just different feelings about different issues.

Over time that gets people into believing that their thinking isn’t wrong it’s just theirs.

Is that correct?  Is that realistic?

There are many issues that one tends to think about and there is usually a right and a wrong.  In using mathematics there is a right answer and a lot of wrong answers.  So what makes something right and wrong outside of that?

The rule book does.

If you’re playing baseball, the game is run by the rules.  There may be judgment calls such as balls, strikes, and outs, but overall the game has to be played by the foundation of the rules and when it’s not, it’s a disaster.

So who makes the most important rule book and what are the rules?

Ah, the most important question to conquer in considering ones soul and eternity.

The God who created everything we know of and even things around us that we are not even aware of is the rule maker.  He is in charge and nothing else is going to matter come crunch time.

Now back to the original question.  Do you think most people would want to hear that they are doing something wrong?  I have to answer with a big NO. 

It’s natural for all of us out of our pride to not want to hear that we are wrong.  So what can change that?

A heart of someone that actually cares more about what God wants rather than what they want.  It matters enough to an individual that he doesn’t just take the word of another person for granted, but wants to make sure that God is saying it.  If God is in fact saying it then that person is happy, because he now is doing one more thing correctly that matters to God.

Proverbs 1:7 –  ⁷ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Psalm 112:1 –  ¹ Praise the LORD. 
Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who finds great delight in his commands.

Psalm 1:2 – ¹ Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.  ² But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

I am at a point in my life that if I’m wrong, because it’s wrong against God’s Word, I want to know about it.  That didn’t come naturally.  Those who know me know I have a hard stubborn head.  I still do, except that I have tried to channel that into being correct on what God feels is right and wrong.  I want God to work through me so I can try to love others with His truths and not just come off as a self righteous uncaring individual.  We have all seen many of those around.

We need to pray that God is always revealing our shortcomings, so we can continue to get closer to Him and allow Him to help us reach others for Him.

If this read a little more butchered in the English language than normal I apologize.  I was having a hard time relaying my thoughts into sensible English.  God Bless.

God is not a liar, so when the wages of sin are death, God meant it.

Someone was going to pay the penalty for sin.  We’re all sinners and we all qualify for death.

In God’s laws He made an out for man.  It was by no means an out for Himself.  He sent His Son to die in our place.  That’s love and we have a tendency on a regular basis to not be very lovable.

Romans 3:25-26-  ²⁵ God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

To be allowed to be back with God, Someone had to pay the price.

That’s where we stand today.  Either you or He will die for your sins.  If you die for them then you are forever cast into darkness for rejecting God.  He paid the penalty and it’s free for the accepting.  There are no excuses for those who won’t take two seconds to find truth.

God doesn’t have to go back on His ways, because someone greater than ourselves paid our penalty.  He is still Just and Loving at the same time.  We are justified through Him as long as we accept Him as Lord.

The wages of sin is death.  We are so blessed that a loving God was willing to take our place.  The rules of a perfect God cannot be broken.  However, if one doesn’t accept His death in the place of their own and make Him Lord, they will follow through with the original setup.

That can be hard for some people to grasp who live in such an unjust and lenient society without absolutes.