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This Blog Isn’t Talking About Religion

06 Jun

What is religion?  Religion can be any kind of faith.  It can have many different kinds of rituals.

This site isn’t about religion.  It’s about the God and Creator of this universe whose Son is Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ.  Anyone can say they believe in God, but until I hear the name Jesus, I don’t know which God you’re talking about.  In today’s world I have to listen to someone for awhile to make sure it is the Jesus of the Bible.

Religion can be anything.  Atheists are in a religion.  It just happens to be the fight and belief that there is no God.

If you get up in the morning walk into the bathroom and pray to the toilet, flush it three times, go to the bathroom and then flush it three more times you got yourself potential religion.  You definitely would have a religious routine going.  Certainly if you did it every day one would say you’re quite faithful.

Being religious does nothing for your soul.  You can be sincere in all that you do and believe it wholeheartedly.  If you die and your sins aren’t forgiven and you’re not redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, you’re going to be sincerely in bad shape. 

What’s the difference between Christianity and the rest of the beliefs in the world?

God who made you is in charge and He made the correct Way.

John 3:16 – 16“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 14:6 –  6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The rest were made by men who were seeking and never found the right way. 

Trust me.  To look at all religions without looking heavily into them would be quite confusing.  If you start looking at some of them and break them down, they begin to look man made.

When you finally have a relationship with God and Jesus, the other beliefs are greatly exposed.

God built the bridge after man destroyed the first one.  All other bridges made by man and Satan fall way short.  When you finally get to the end of those bridges, it’s a long way down.

If you don’t know Jesus as your personal Savior I invite you to go over to the right upper column and click on “How To Accept Jesus As Savior.”

 
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Reflection – Praise God While In The Shower

05 Jun

As busy people we tend to have our minds going a million miles a minute.

I find that some of the greatest time I get to spend with the Lord is while I’m in the shower.

Take a few extra minutes and just pray, talk, thank, praise your Lord. 

It can be a great prayer closet.  Take time for your God.  He takes time for you.

 
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One World Currency- End Time Prophecy

04 Jun

This week I will go over the scripture that support prophecy that we will have a one world currency.

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.

We’re not concentrating on the Mark of the Beast today, that’s another prophecy.  I want to concentrate in this post that there is going to be a one economic system.

Just 20 years ago no one could fathom that technology could produce a system that could literally control all the commerce.  We are witnessing this before our very eyes and are getting towards the nearing of this economic system.

Twenty years ago it was the bar code.  What did the bar code introduce to us that was different?

It was system that the computer could keep track and recognize all inventory.  It also recognized the product so you could price it through your own store and computer system soon after.

Banks soon followed and the convenience of the debit card came along.  Now there is less need for cash and the time to process checks has decreased.

Why do the governments want a cashless society? 

Just alone tax invasion is enough for this system concerning them.  Your caring government, if you haven’t been able to tell, cares about taxable income.  However, it isn’t the only thing.  They can keep track of all transactions.  In the war on terror they can keep an eye how people on their watch lists are going about their business. 

Here’s one that the government, consumer, businesses and many more all care about and that’s fraud.  Fraud right now in the American system is in all facets of facets of life.  From theft, to multiple benefits, tax fraud, etc.

This move hasn’t happened by chance.  There are numerous groups which their purpose has been to move this earth to a one world government.  What seem liked a bunch of conspiracy talk not all that long ago is now becoming reality.

Time to panic?  No!  As Christians we are to look to God and Jesus.  We are not of this world.  This is what Jesus states in John 17:16.

John 17:16 – 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.

Was he talking just about his disciples?  No he is talking about all of us who love Him.

As I write these End Time Prophecies, I have to tell you it is challenging to keep them separate because they are all coming together at the same time.  Study the Word.  Make Jesus and God your first love and God Bless.

 
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Zechariah 12:10 – Who Is Jesus? – Part 2

03 Jun

Zechariah 12:6-9 –  6 “On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.  7 “The LORD will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. 8 On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them. 9 On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

More versus on the Lord saving Israel in this battle.  These are incrdible prophetic versus but I will hit more on the battle in other posts.  This post is to help us to understand who Jesus is.

Zechariah 12:10 –  10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

So we know from above that we are talking about the Lord God.  We’re still in the Old Testament.  We’re not switching gears here.  We’re still talking about the Lord God.  What does he say?  “They will look upon Me, the One they have pierced….”  The one they have pierced.

God was pierced?  By the house of Judah?

Yes.  The Romans carried out the crucifixion, but it was Israel that rejected Him and had Him sentenced to death.

Jesus is God.  God is Jesus.  We have the Holy Spirit in there too.  That’s why the Trinity is important.  There isn’t three Gods.  They are three persons, which act as one.  The best study for the Trinity is to know as much of the Bible as possible.  That’s what pulls it together and gives one more understanding. 

Zechariah 12:11-14 – 11 On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, 13 the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, 14 and all the rest of the clans and their wives.

We finish Zechariah 12 with more mourning from the Jews.  You have to understand the Jews are not only mourning because of his crucifixion 2000 years earlier, but because I believe this battle is in the end times and they just got done making a deal with the antichrist also. 

In the end, the real Christ comes back and saves Israel, the house of David, the house of Judah.  They will then have their true Messiah and they will know Our God.

Jesus love you.  Please get to know Him as your Savior.  If you don’t, you will eventually know Him as your Judge whom you have rejected.  He is ready for you.  If you don’t know Jesus, please go over to the right upper column and click on “How To Accept Jesus As Savior.”  The sooner you accept Him as Lord the sooner you can start your life the way it was suppose to be from the beginning.

 
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Zechariah 12:10 – Who Is Jesus? – Part 1

02 Jun

I am going to do a few posts entitled “Who Is Jesus?”. 

Why?

Because one I think many people in the church haven’t been taught who He is.  Scriptures from the Old Testament said who he was going to be and The New Testament scriptures claim who He is and who He said He was.

Zechariah 12:10 – 10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

And “I”…..it says.  Who is “I” in this passage.  Well for one were talking about an Individual who was pierced by the Jews or the Hous of David.  It’s a prophetic verse as we’ll read below and it’s in the Old Testament.  Whomever they have pierced, the House of David grieves terribly that they have done so.

So lets take a look from the beginning of Chapter 12 in Zechariah.

Zechariah 12:1-14 –  1 This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares: 2 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. 4 On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the LORD. “I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. 5 Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD Almighty is their God.’

So we know that this first part is the Lord and it’s a word from him as stated in verse 1.  Zechariah 12 is about Israel being surrounded by all the nations around them who want to destroy them.  Kind of like…in today’s world.  In verse three the Lord states Jerusalem will be an immovable rock.  So when Israel gets back in the land again at this period and time, they’re not officially going anywhere again.  I say officially because during the last 3 and half years there’s a lot of chaos, but their still not removed.  Verse four says the Lord will look out for the house of Judah.  Verse 5 now confirms who we think is speaking, because this is the Old Testament.  The Lord Almighty is their God.

Tomorrow we will continue on with this story in Who Is Jesus?- Zechariah 12:10 Part 2

 
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Pre-Trib Revelation Chapters 1-3 – Rapture

01 Jun

The first post I want to write on that I believe supports a Pre-Trib position is the Churches in Revelation Chapters 1-3.

In Revelation Chapter 1 Jesus was telling John to write on a scroll what he sees and send it to the Seven Churches.

Revelation 1:11 – 11which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:19-20 – 19“Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later. 20The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

So in chapter 1 Jesus is talking a lot above the churches and the spirit of the churches.

Chapters 2 & 3 speak on the seven churches.  That’s entirely what those chapters are about.

Chapter 4 comes along and John is up in the throne room and……no more church.

The church is talked about all in the first three chapters and then not again.

Anything else interesting about Chapter 4 since the church isn’t talked about again? 

Stay tuned for the next couple of weeks to come.

 
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How Quickly Can Humans Forget? –Part 3

31 May

We’ve been in the story of the Exodus and the focus is on how quickly man can forget the awesome Hand and works of God.

The Israelites were at the Red Sea and complaining to Moses.  As we know God parts the Red Sea in another awesome miracle.  The Israelites cross over and do a dance and sing songs for the Lord.

Immediately they have no water in the desert and they come up to Marah.  The water was bitter.  It doesn’t indicate that people asked Moses to ask God to make it drinkable.  It says they grumbled against Moses.  Once again, Moses went to God and God had him throw in a piece of wood and they could drink of it.

Not even few small paragraphs later we have them complaining of …… Food.

Then God rains down Manna.  Do they obey God concerning  Manna?  Of course not.  Don’t get me wrong, many of them did.  The others, well they were going to try and store some the next day and it was rotting, just like God said.  Others went out to find some on the Sabbath and there was none, just like God said.

We look at the Israelites and we think,” Are you blind?  Do you not hear and see the Hand of the Lord?”

Trust me on this one.  Nothing has changed.  The time period changes, but humans don’t change.  When they are trusting God and following Him and his Word, they are blessed.  When they are not, destruction comes.

God does get tired of man not obeying Him.  Plagues were set off on the Israelites who continued to grumble.  Plagues were set off on those who chose the idol over the Ten Commandments.  The whole assembly that came out of Egypt, besides Joshua and Caleb, died in the desert.  They were not allowed to enter the Promised Land.  Why, because they wouldn’t listen to God.

The next generation listened to God and they began their conquest of the Promised Land.  Who were they conquering?  Nations that were evil in God’s eyes and that weren’t obeying Him.

How quickly can humans forget?                                     

We were once a great nation.  Why?  This nation served God and overall was an ally of Israel.  Not always strong and shame on us when we weren’t, but guilty enough that their neighbors aren’t fans of ours.

Now this nation worships money.  It’s over $12 Trillion down and that’s the conservative estimate.  It has been fighting since 1962 to throw God out of everything. 

Make sense?  Actually, when one gets to know the Word of God and the sinful fall of man, it does. 

Study God’s Word nonstop.  The only sanity, in an insane and out of control world, is God and His Word.

 
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How Quickly Can Humans Forget? –Part 2

30 May

Yesterday we spoke of the ten awesome plagues that God put on the Egyptians.  The Israelites witnessed it all.  After the Plague of the Firstborn, the Egyptians begged the Israelites to go and even gave them their goods, silver, and gold, when they were asked by the Jews.   

In another mighty act the Lord led them in the form of a pillar of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

In Exodus 13:17 the Israelites are on their way out of Egypt.  God has just delivered them singlehandedly from a strong dominant well to do nation.  How many versus does it take for them to lose heart?  About 15 versus it seems.  Pharaoh has a change of plans and decides he wants his slave labor plan back along with everything that was just plundered from them.

Exodus 14:5-9 – 5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” 6 So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. 7 He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them. 8 The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly. 9 The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.

I don’t think Pharaoh’s heart needed to change much nor needed a lot of persuasion from God to harden.  So with one miracle after another, day upon day from the Lord, how did the Israelites respond?

Exodus 14:10 – 10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.    

Crying out to the Lord is the good part.  We need to cry out to the Lord for deliverence, but were they crying out to the Lord in confidence?

Exodus 14:11-12 – 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

Now I don’t know about you, but when they were upset during captivity when the Egyptians took away the straw and still wanted the same number of bricks, I can understand whining to Moses that more hardship was being brought on by Moses’ boldness.  At that time they were trying to go with the flow and they were being beaten for something they weren’t prepared for.

That was before the Hand of God led them out of Egypt.  Now after witnessing God’s mighty strength, are they praying to Him stating, “please God, help us again!?”

No.  They’re complaining to Moses asking him if it was because there were no graves in Egypt that he brought them out into the desert to die.

They were asking Moses if “he” brought them out of Egypt to die?  I’m pretty sure we read that Moses was very careful to explain to the Israelites that it was God that delivered them out of Egypt. 

My, how quickly man forgets!  I emphasize the human race, as the Israelites are just the example in this story.

We could stop right there and wrap it up, but there is so much more.  We could use another day and let’s make that tomorrow.

 
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How Quickly Can Humans Forget? –Part 1

29 May

Moses was chosen by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

No generation of people has seen the direct mighty Hand of God at work more than this one.

They witnessed 10 plagues that were sent upon the Egyptians to help set them free.  Those plagues weren’t only to help set them free, but to display the awesome power of God also.

One by one they witnessed them.

The Plague of turning the Nile to blood.
The Plague of Frogs.
The Plague of Gnats.
The Plague of Flies.
The Plague of Livestock dying.  Yet not the Israelites livestock.
The Plague of Boils.
The Plague of Hail.
The Plague of Locust.
The Plague of Darkness.
The Plague of the Firstborn.

The Plagues were a strong judgment on a nation that had enslaved and suppressed God’s chosen people.  Not only were the judgments awesome in their severity, but just to make sure there was no mistake, the Israelites were warned and spared of the judgments.  This way, no one could pass it off by unfortunate circumstances.

Were the plagues bad timing for the Egyptians?  No, they came right after God told Moses to tell them they were coming if they didn’t let the His people go.

Did this generation of people (Israelites) as a whole, straighten up and live unwavering from this day forward?

Let’s discuss more on this tomorrow.

 
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Daniel 12: 9-10 – End Time Prophecy

28 May

Daniel 12:9-10 – 9 He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

I said I was only going to do one end time prophecy at a time, but verse 10 actually has two prophecies in it.  One is an end time prophecy and the other has been going on for 2000 years and is still happening in the last days.

 Many will be purified, made spotless and refined….  Now this portion of scripture can only be referred to Jesus’ work on the cross and the victory He has shared with all those who make Him Lord.

What can wash away my sin? What can make me whole again?  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.  Thank you, Robert Lowry who wrote us such a blessing of a song in 1876.

1 John 1:7,9
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Only the blood of Jesus makes us pure in God’s eyes and refined.  All of us are sinners and are anything but pure or refined without Him.

So this prophecy is still going on today and as long as people are willing to accept the Lord, it will continue.

Now let’s look at the next half of the scripture.

……but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

We’re in the last days and look around you.  Signs are happening left and right and there are people pointing it out to the wicked.  They don’t see it.  Most of them don’t want to see it.  They don’t want to look towards the Light, because evil is more comfortable in the dark.  Wisdom comes from the Lord.

I’ll be doing many posts on the scriptures on the evilness of man in the last days so I don’t want to repeat it here. 

The last part of the scripture states – but those who are wise will understand.

Friends, we are blessed today to have many wonderful teachers who have dedicated their lives to understanding the second coming of Jesus.  My favorites are Grant Jeffrey, Chuck Missler, Hal Lindsay, and Jack Van Impe.  But there are others such as Jimmy DeYoung who appears on John Ankerberg’s show.  Dr. Ed Hinson on the King is Coming.

You have to be careful and search the scriptures because some others will tend to either have an agenda or appear to get off base.  All of the above have my endorsement and I encourage you to read their material and watch their shows.  Their website links are in the right column of this website.

As always if you do not know the Lord and would like you to ask Him to be Lord of your life, please go to the upper right hand column and click on the “How to Accept Jesus as Savior” page.

 
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