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Washed
by the word vs defiled by the news
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What
makes the Bible different?
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The
parable of the cancer pill that no longer cured cancer
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God’s
view of education
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WASHED
BY THE WORD VS DEFILED BY THE NEWS
Charisma News – Aug. 10, 2022 -- This past Sunday night, having
just returned home from a beautiful day of ministry in Fort Worth, Texas, I
decided to spend a few minutes catching up on the latest news. This is part of
my regular routine, either in preparation for my daily radio show, while
working on my next op-ed or simply to be aware of what is happening in the
world.
But this time, I couldn't stomach the latest
news. I felt defiled.
Immediately I sensed the contrast between the
beautiful worship I had experienced earlier in the day—the holy presence of
God, the purity of the Word, the glory of the Spirit—and the filthiness of this
carnal world.
The headlines were not only filled with bad
news. They were also filled with venom and malice. They were meant to provoke
and enflame and divide. They were earthy, carnal, "of this world."
They were defiling.
In fact, there was a large picture of one of
our elected officials at the top of one of the webpages, and the moment I saw
him, I felt animosity towards him. "What an evil man," I thought to myself
for a split second.
But then I caught myself.
I know virtually nothing about this man other
than the negative stuff I've read about him. I have never read one sympathetic
article about him or listened at length to anyone speak well of him.
And had I been on the other side of the
political and ideological divide, he would likely be viewed as a hero, a
champion of important causes who is unwilling to compromise. His picture would
evoke warm feelings, not hostility.
The truth be told, and more than we would like
to admit, we are manipulated and defiled by the news—by which I do not simply
mean the latest reporting of the facts. I mean the biased, partisan news that
bombards us every day.
It does not build our faith. It does not bring
us closer to God. It does not purify our thoughts. It does not produce love.
Contrast the negative effects of the news with
this beautiful description about Jesus the Messiah and His bride, the Messianic
congregation (known as the Church): "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ
loved the church and gave Himself up for her, that He might sanctify her,
having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, so that He might
present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such
thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands
should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves
himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it,
just as Christ does the church, because we are members of His body"
(Ephesians 5:25–30).
Notice again that phrase: "the washing of
water with the word," meaning, the Word of God. This is how the Lord
cleanses us. This is how we renew our minds. This is how we grow in faith. This
is how our inner being becomes beautiful. This is how we become more and more
like Jesus. What a glorious, holy process of metamorphosis!
That's why Paul exhorted in Colossians,
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one
another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with
thankfulness in your hearts to God" (Colossians 3:16).
With the Word dwelling richly in our hearts,
we can do what Paul called us to do in the rest of the verse, teaching and
admonishing one another in all wisdom and expressing our joyful worship with
thankfulness in our hearts to God.
With our hearts and minds filled with partisan
headlines and sensationalistic news (or for that matter, filled with any kind
of earthly garbage), we will do little spiritual good. With our hearts and
minds filled with the Word of God, we can make an eternal difference in many
lives.
It is one thing, then, to stay informed and to
be alert. It is another thing to be defiled.
It is one thing to be aware of what is
happening in our world. It is another thing to feed on the news.
Let us, instead, be nourished by the
life-giving, life-sustaining, life-transforming living Word of the living God.
Let us drink from healthy, pure, beautiful and
glorious streams. Not only will we ourselves thrive and bear much fruit, but we
will be able to give nourishing drink to others as well.
Be washed afresh with the Word of God, and
then go and wash others.
WHAT MAKES
THE BIBLE DIFFERENT?
Sixty-six books, written by 40 different
authors over nearly 2,000 years, and yet the message is seamless throughout.
Prophecy Update Website – Apr. 8, 2011
-- The Bible, the best-selling and most widely read book of all time, is in
nearly every home in America. It is unlike any other book — it’s alive and
totally relevant to our lives.
In His first coming, Christ fulfilled
some 150 prophecies and hundreds of specifications with amazing accuracy. This
is unlike say, Nostradamus, whose quatrains are vague, general and could be
construed to mean almost anything.
I have picked just three of these
prophecies (Christ’s birth, betrayal, and death) to examine. The odds of any
one individual fulfilling them by random chance are truly astounding.
The prophet Micah in chapter 5 verse 2
predicts Jesus would be born in Bethlehem, which of course he was: “But thou,
Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the
thousands of Judah. Yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be
ruler in Israel.”
Compare this with Mathew 2:1: “Jesus was
born in Bethlehem of Judaea.”
The prophet Zechariah predicted the
betrayal of Jesus in the 11th chapter verses 12-13. “And I said unto them, if
ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So, they weighed for my
price 30 pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, cast it unto the potter:
a goodly price that they set on me. And I took the 30 pieces of silver, and
cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.”
Consider the various details that had to
be met to fulfill this prophecy: Jesus would be betrayed for precisely 30
pieces of silver, not close to 30 or about, it was exact. They would give the
money to a potter and the transaction would take place in the temple.
Now compare this with Mathew 27:3-10:
“Then Judas, which had betrayed him … brought again the 30 pieces of silver to
the chief priests and elders. … And he cast down the pieces of silver in the
temple. … And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field.”
We find that this prophecy was fulfilled
with uncanny precision.
Was this coincidence, or an accident? I
don’t think so.
Psalm 22 is a picture (in advance) of
the crucifixion of Christ. It begins with what sounds like a direct quote by
Jesus on the cross: “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
Compare this with Mathew 27:46, when
Jesus cried out these very words from the cross. Just a coincidence, you say?
Continuing in Psalm 22 with verse 14: “I
am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like
wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up. … They
pierced my hands and my feet. … They part my garments among them, and cast lots
upon my vesture.”
See Mathew 27:35: “And they crucified
him, and parted his garments, casting lots.”
This is a perfect picture of the
crucifixion process that was written 800 years before Christ and 700 years
before crucifixion was invented by the Persians and later adopted by the
Romans. The mode of capital punishment in Israel was stoning — they knew
nothing about crucifixion.
In verse 6 of this Psalm, it states “I
am a worm and no man.”
The Hebrew word for worm
is “towla,” though it is often translated scarlet or
crimson. The worm referred to in the Hebrew is the Coccus Ilicts
from which they got crimson dye.
“When the female species was ready to
give birth, she would attach her body to the trunk of a tree. She was fixed so
permanently that she would never leave again. The eggs would hatch and the
larvae would feed on the body of the adult. When the mother died she would
leave a crimson stain on the trunk of the tree. After three days the spot would
turn white and fall off.” This is from “Biblical Basis for Modern Science by
Henry Morris.
Isaiah wrote, “Come now, and let us
reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
as white as snow; though they be red like crimson (towla),
they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).
People say, “You can’t prove the Bible.”
I beg to differ.
Volumes could be written documenting
thousands of Biblical examples of supreme design that is absolutely impeccable.
These are not generally noticed by the casual reader, but are revealed to those
who would conduct a diligent search.
As Jesus spoke through the writer of the
Psalms, “In the volume of the book, it is written of me.”
THE PARABLE OF THE CANCER PILL THAT NO
LONGER CURED CANCER (Excerpt)
Michael Brown: Today's watered-down gospel is powerless to save
souls
In
the year 2015, as the story is told, a renowned scientist discovered a cure for
cancer after more than 30 years of research and testing. But it was not just a cure.
It was the cure, effectively eradicating all cancer from all
patients at all stages of the disease. This was the greatest discovery in the
history of medical science!
The
scientist, overflowing with gratitude and excitement, informed the pharmaceutical
company he had been working with, sharing this extraordinary moment, and within
minutes, the whole organization was ablaze with excitement. At last!
Immediately,
the company sent its marketing team over to meet with the scientist and work on
a strategy for mass distribution.
But
there were some obstacles to be overcome.
First,
it would cost a small fortune for each dose, more than many people would earn
in a lifetime. How many could afford a treatment like this? How could insurance
companies cover it?
Second,
it had to be taken in pill form to maximize its release through the body, but
the pill was so large that a horse could barely swallow it.
Third,
the pill left a miserable aftertaste, not for a few seconds but for one full
week, making it almost impossible for the patient to eat or drink for seven
full days.
This,
too, seemed unmanageable.
So,
the marketing team said to the scientist, "We are excited beyond words by
your discovery and can't wait to get it out to the masses. This will truly
change history! We just need you to get the price down to $1,000 per dose,
reduce the size of the pill and package it in easy to swallow gel form, and get
rid of that foul aftertaste. Once that's done, we won't be able to manufacture
these fast enough. Let's do this!"
One
year later, the scientist called the team back. He had some major news to
share! He had succeeded on all fronts.
The
pill now cost only $1,000 per dose. It slipped right down your throat, even
without water. And it even had a delightful aftertaste.
There
was only one problem: it no longer cured cancer.
And
that, my friend, is the story of the contemporary gospel.
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We
have made it cheap and easy and pleasant, but it no longer saves or transforms.
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We
have removed the reproach of the cross, turning discipleship into something
cool and popular.
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We
have removed the demands of the cross, preaching a Jesus who adds good things
to you but requires nothing of you.
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We
have removed the sting of the cross, presenting a celebrity Jesus rather than a
crucified Christ.
There was no evidence
of repentance. Many have sadly forgotten that the only evidence of the new
birth is the new life. The real problem is that some evangelists, like some
converts, have failed to realize that the fault lies in the defective
message."
Today, that defective
message has become the norm, with all kinds of celebrities and well-known
people professing their faith in Jesus, seemingly without shame, but then
continuing to live in open, unrepentant sin for years.
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This
is not the gospel of Jesus that calls us to die to sin and self and to follow
Him.
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This
is not the gospel of grace that empowers us to live a new life by the Spirit.
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This
is not the gospel of forgiveness that produces a love for the God who had so
much mercy on us and a hatred for the life we once lived.
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This
is not the gospel that saves sinners any more than the new pill of my parable
is the pill that cures cancer.
Worse still, this
contemporary gospel misleads the masses, since they look at Jesus as a cool
additive to make their lives better rather than as the Lord of all who died for
them so they might live for Him.
Enough, then, with
this soul-damning, deeply deceiving message.
Let us return to the
gospel that saves. Its rewards are infinitely greater than its costs.
GOD’S
VIEW OF EDUCATION
Deuteronomy
6:7 “And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when
thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.”
Creation
Moments – Jan. 27, 2021 -- Christian parents are rightly concerned at some of
the things taught to their children in public schools. They are concerned about
their children being taught a different morality which is not a biblical
morality. They are concerned that their children are not taught the truth about
the theory of evolution, or about creation. And our answers frequently focus
around persuading school districts to teach all views of origins, including the
Bible, and for the right to withdraw our children from lessons on alternative
moralities and lifestyles. Sometimes, we need to stop and think – are we just
putting a small band-aid to cover a huge compound fracture?
We
think that schools train our young people to live in the world. But when they
get into the world of work, how many bosses do they find segregating their
workers into age bands? The Bible speaks differently of education. “You shall
teach [these commands] diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when
you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and
when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:7). It is we parents who are responsible for the
education of our children, and one day we will be judged on how well we did
this, or whether we handed the responsibility over to those who would not teach
our children the righteous way to go. Let’s make sure our children are taught
the truth from the beginning, and throughout their childhood.
TRANSFORMED
BY THE WORD
After Paul’s
conversion, he disappeared for three years, during which the Holy Spirit
instructed him in the ways of God. This was a critical time for his growth as a
believer.
The Lord speaks so we
can comprehend and communicate the truth. What happened during Paul’s desert
years was only the beginning. God renewed the apostle’s mind and worked on
conforming him to the image of Christ. For Paul, that change meant applying his
knowledge as a Pharisee to the revelation that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.
Here was a man who
knew Scripture thoroughly, but the truth that Jesus was the promised Messiah
made him reconsider the foundation he’d been trusting. Everything Paul knew
about God had to be reevaluated in light of this new information. The apostle’s
spirit was being shaped according to the Father’s will. And long after Paul
began his ministry, the Lord kept working on him. Every person who reads his
letters is a witness to this process.
Like Paul, you are the
Holy Spirit’s student, and the knowledge you reap from Scripture can change your
life. If you let yourself be transformed by the Word of God, you will share it
with others and make disciples.
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THE WORLD IS MARCHING
TOWARD THE TIME WHEN GOD PLACES HIS KING ON THE THRONE
The Psalms offer much
encouragement for believers and have done so for many centuries. They offer
comfort for a variety of troubling situations and provide perspective to help
us deal with troubling emotions.
Many saints recognize the
prophetic value of the Psalms. Psalm 22, for example, provides vivid details of
Jesus’ crucifixion many centuries before that type of execution even existed.
Who but God could have revealed such specifics almost a thousand years in
advance?
While reading through
Psalms several times in the past few years, I have observed anew their
prophetic value. Many of them look forward to Jesus’ return to earth and His
reign over the nations of the earth.
The apostle John wrote
about this time in Revelation 20:1-10 where he provides
the length of this intermediary kingdom before the eternal state. We refer to
this time as the Millennium because John specifically tells us that it will
last for one thousand years.
A multitude of verses in
the Old Testament speak of this future rule of King Jesus. For this post,
however, I will highlight what the Psalms tell us about God’s King.
GOD
THE FATHER GIVES THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD TO HIS SON
I love Psalm
2 because it sets the stage for all other Messianic prophecies in the
Psalms. Here we learn that it’s the Father who gives the nations of the earth
to His Son as His inheritance.
In Psalm 2:7–8, we read this:
Psalm 2:7–8 KJV – “I will declare the
decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten
thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and
the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”
Daniel 7:13-14 provides added
context to these verses. There, “one like the son of man” approaches the
“Ancient of Days” who gives Him a realm such “that all peoples, nations, and
languages should serve him.” Similar to what we read in Psalm 2, the Father
gives the Son dominion over the kingdoms of the world.
Psalm 2:9 describes Jesus’
future rule in a way that eliminates interpreting it as His headship over the
church or the eternal state:
Psalm 2:9 KJV – “Thou shalt break them
with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
Jesus most certainly
doesn’t rule in such a way over His bride. And such a reign can only apply to a
time when sin and death still exist, which eliminates the eternal state.
I wrote the following in
my book, The Triumph of the Redeemed:
The presence of rebellion
and harsh judgment during this reign of Jesus, as we see in Psalm 2,
differentiates it as well from the eternal state where sin and death will no
longer exist (Revelation 21:4). No other time fits with the conditions of
Jesus’ rule as described in Psalm 2; it must be the Millennium where Scripture
indicates that sin and rebellion will occur (Zechariah 14:16–19; Revelation
20:7–10). Only the millennial reign of Jesus aligns with the conditions
described in Psalm 2.
Psalm 2 opens the door to
glorious prophecies throughout the Psalms that tell of Jesus’ triumphant Second
Coming and the praise-worthy glories of his thousand-year reign over the
nations.
JESUS
WILL PUT AN END TO WARFARE
When I arrive at Psalm
46 on my trek through the Psalms, I stop and read it several times. During
these chaotic times, it reassures me of God’s sovereignty and future reign over
the nations.
In a context that speaks
to the coming Tribulation period as described in the book of Revelation, Psalm
46 tells us that Jesus will put an end to all the warfare in the world
when He returns. It will not happen until then. Indeed, it cannot.
Psalm 46:9 KJV – “He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the
spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.”
What does this all mean
for us?
It’s a call to rest secure
in God’s sovereignty over all of history knowing that Jesus will someday rule
over all the lands and peoples of the earth. Until then, violence will continue
unchecked in our world.
I love verse 10 of this
Psalm; I often quote it to myself when current events trouble my soul.
Psalm 46:10 KJV – “Be still, and know
that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the
earth.”
We can quiet our hearts
knowing that in the future, the Lord will fulfill the last two lines of Psalm 46:10.
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WHAT
DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THE END OF THE AGE?
Charisma News – Jul.25, 2022 -- Let's be brutally honest here.
It would be arrogant and foolish to imagine that, in one short article, any of
us could make a definitive statement about the Bible and the end times. After
all, these issues have been debated for hundreds, if not thousands of years,
and the debate continues to rage until this day. Plus, what Bible are we
talking about? And what do we mean by "the end of the age"?
Let's answer those questions first.
When talking about "the Bible," I'll
be referring to the version of the Bible shared by the largest number of
people, namely, the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New
Testament.
Judaism accepts only the Hebrew Scriptures
(called the Old Testament by Christians) as the Bible. And Roman Catholics and
Orthodox Christians accept the Old Testament, the New Testament and the
Apocrypha as sacred Scripture.
But all Christians agree on the Old and New
Testament as being Scripture, so for simplicity's sake, when we speak about
"the Bible," that's what we mean.
As for "the end of the age," we're
asking the question: What does the Bible say will occur at the end of the
world?
Even then, we have opened up a hornet's nest
of controversy, as within evangelical circles alone, there are numerous
competing end-time systems, including: historic premillennialism,
dispensational premillennialism, amillennialism and postmillennialism (within
this, there are also variations of preterism). Is
your head spinning yet?
There are some theologians who believe the
world will only get worse before Jesus returns, others who believe things will
pretty much remain the same until then and others who believe the whole world
will become Christian. How do we sort this out?
I suggest we focus on the majors, looking at
the large themes that are repeated over and over again in the Bible rather than
trying to figure out every last detail. That's why I've told people for years
that if they keep a prophecy calendar, they should use a pencil when filling it
in.
Here's big theme No. 1: In the end, God's
kingdom will triumph. In the end, righteousness will rule. As described in
these famous words of Isaiah:
In the last days the mountain of the Lord's
temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted
above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
Many peoples will come and say, "Come,
let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He
will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths." The law will go
out from Zion, the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He will judge between
the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their
swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not
take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore (Isa. 2:2-4).
At that time, either literally or
metaphorically, "The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie
down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a
little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will
lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will
play near the cobra's den, and the young child will put its hand into the
viper's nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for
the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the
sea" (Isa. 11:6-9).
This will be the answer to the prayer that
Jesus taught His followers to pray, saying, "Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is
in heaven." (Matt. 6:9b-10).
Here's the next big theme: Until that time, we
will see parallel extremes, with the darkness getting darker and the light
getting brighter until the Lord returns. It will be as if the devil himself
stops hiding in the shadows and unveils the full force of his wickedness while
God Himself says, "Really? Now watch this!"
That's why there are many verses that speak of
the separation of the righteous and the wicked in that final hour.
To quote Jesus Himself, "Once again, the
kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all
kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then
they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away.
This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate
the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace, where
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matt. 13:47-50)
And this: "When the Son of Man comes in
his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All
the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one
from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the
sheep on his right and the goats on his left" (Matt. 25:31-33)
As for specifics, a good case can be made for
the following (and I'm just citing one or two verses for each point, knowing
every points will be challenged): 1) The nations of the world will attack
Jerusalem and seek to destroy the Jewish people, but God will fight for them
(see Zech. 12 and 14); 2) The whole world, aside from God's faithful children,
will be deceived by a one-world ruler who will demand worship for himself (see
2 Thess. 2:1-11); 3) Still, a massive number of people will come to faith from
all nations (see Rev. 7 and Rom. 11:25-26), yet it will also be a time of great
apostasy and wickedness (see Matt. 24:12, 2 Thess. 2:3); 4) The Holy Spirit
will be poured out mightily in the midst of mass deception (Matt. 24:10-11;
Acts 2:17-21; Rev. 13; 16:13-14); 5) Jesus will return and set up His kingdom
(Rev. 19).
The end times will be marked by final
separation and judgment, by massive upheaval and then setting things right, by
parallel extremes. That's what I understand the Bible to say. Let the debate
begin!
WE CANNOT
KNOW “THE DAY OR HOUR”
Hal Lindsey
Weekend News Today – I want all of my
friends to know that I AM AGAINST any form of predicting a specific day that
the end of this age and the Rapture will occur.
I am well aware that a certain Christian
Teachers have predicted when the end of this age will occur. When this fails,
it will be used by our enemies to discredit the expectation that the Rapture
could take place at any-moment.
The Lord Jesus clearly commanded that we
are to recognize the general time of the seven-year tribulation that will end
with Christ’s personal return to the earth to end Armageddon and set up His
1000-year Kingdom on Earth.
After Jesus made many prophecies about
His coming and the end of the age, He said, “Now learn the parable from the fig
tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you
know that summer is near; so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize
that He is near, right at the door. Truly I say to you, this generation will
not pass away until all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass
away, but My words will not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows,
not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” (Matt.
24:32-36 NAS)
In this very important parable, Jesus
applies the significance of the prophecies He had just spoken. Everyone knew
that when the fig tree puts forth its first leaves, the general time of summer
was near. There was no specific date assigned to these phenomena, but everyone
recognized that the general time of summer had arrived. Jesus then applied this
to what He had predicted about the signs of His return and the end of the age.
When the signs all appear in the same time period and begin to multiply like
“birth pains”, we are COMMANDED TO RECOGNIZE that the general time of their
fulfillment was near– right at the door.
The Lord Jesus then warns that no one
can know the specific day or hour, but He commands us to know the “general
time” and prepare.
This is why I do not believe anyone can
know the specific day. Even the Angels of Heaven cannot know that. But I do
believe we must recognize that we are in the general time of the end of this
Age and Christ’ s return. Jesus said of this time, “...this generation will not
pass away until all is fulfilled.” The generation that saw these signs begin to
all appear and multiply in severity will not die until all is fulfilled. We are
that generation! The question is – are you ready?
IS THE ANTICHRIST ALREADY HERE? (Excerpt)
Charisma News – Nov.
`6, 2021 -- Many believers will argue and say that the Antichrist has yet to
come to this earth. However, Lion of Judah Ministries contends that the
Antichrist is already here and is alive and well.
Perhaps he has not
made his presence known in a physical sense. But the spirit of Antichrist, Lion
of Judah says, is alive and well on planet earth and his message is being
spread worldwide.
"The Antichrist
is here, and the evidence is that he sitting on the throne of the hearts of
men”. "Some Christian circles believe that this man has already been born and
now it is just a matter of time before he is revealed on the stage of mankind.
We don't know if that is true or not, but what we do know is that when he
comes, his primary objective is to be worshiped, to be exalted and to be
uplifted. All of the adoration that rightfully belongs to God, he will want it
for himself."
This may be a future
act in a physical realm, but the walls of the kingdom of the Antichrist have
already been built before our very eyes, and many believers are simply choosing
to ignore it. Lion of Judah Ministries says the Antichrist is already on his
throne, waiting for the doors of his kingdom to be opened.
"He has already
sent his servants out into the world to gather followers and subjects in
anticipation for his big reveal”. "Many view the coming of the Antichrist
as a future event, but it is not. He is here already, and many are waiting at
his doors. The proof that he is already here is evident to see just by looking
at this world. He's creeping into the hearts of mankind and secretly putting
himself at the throne of their hearts."
1 John 4:3 reads,
"... and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have
heard is coming and is already in the world."
Charisma News – Sep. 21, 2021 -- King David
wrote this song of praise and thanksgiving unto the Lord as he reflected on the
way the Lord delivered him from his enemies. Held within this one verse are seven
analogies that characterize God as our deliverer and shows forth His concern
and complete care for us. We must not lose sight that our greatest deliverance
was from the captivity of sin, and it was only found through His great love for
us through the finished work of the cross (Ps. 18:2).
The seven analogies are as follows:
·
Rock: David said He is a rock; that means He is unmovable and
unshakable no matter what life is throwing at you in this moment. Our God is
unchanging. He is sure, steadfast and steady!
·
Fortress: In Christ Jesus, we are held within a
fortress in which the enemy cannot infiltrate. In Christ Jesus, there is
protection.
·
Deliverer: The Lord Jesus Christ has delivered us from
the bondage of sin and the second death. In Christ, we live! Just as the Lord
delivered David from his troubles, our Father Jehovah will do the same for us.
·
Strength: This strength the
Lord gives to us is not our own; it is a supernatural strength that comes
through the Holy Spirit that enables us to run in the Lord's rest. This type of
strength is unwavering and unfailing.
·
Buckler: He is our buckler, which means He is our armor! He covers
us with His presence and shields us against our enemies.
·
Horn of My Salvation: He is our Savior! Satan no longer reigns over
us. We through being born again have been put under Christ's reign. Satan has
lost his power over us!
·
High Tower: In the secret place with the Most High, we abide in the place of refuge and safety if our
faith stays upon Him and Him alone!
REFLECTING ON GOD’S FAITHFULNESS
When we remember God's
faithfulness in the past, our confidence in His Word grows.
Our
heavenly Father is always faithful to His promises. We can be certain of this
because He made them on the basis of His truthful, unchanging character (Hebrews 6:17-18). But sometimes when
our circumstances are especially difficult, we tend to forget that God is
always dependable. That’s why we need to pause periodically to look back over
our life and see how He’s provided, guided, and guarded us along the way.
Many
times over the years, I have been the beneficiary of
God’s faithfulness to His Word. For example, Romans 10:13 says, “Everyone
who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Despite my lack of Bible
knowledge at age 12, I recognized that I was a sinner and called on Him for
forgiveness. And He saved me, just as His Word said.
There
have been so many times when God provided just what I needed. After feeling
called to become a preacher, the Lord orchestrated a series of events that led
to my receiving a full scholarship for college.
Think
about God’s faithfulness to you. How has He directed your path and supplied
your needs? As you trust in Him, He’ll demonstrate just how trustworthy He is.
In
Touch Ministry
THE GRACE THAT WE
STAND IN IS MORE THAN WE DESERVE
SECTION II - SPECIAL
ARTICLES/ BOOK REVIEWS
IN THIS SECTION:
· WHAT
HAPPENS AFTER WE DIE? (WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS)
· WHAT’S
IN A NAME?
· "BOB PIERCE - THIS ONE THING I DO" - A BOOKREVIEW/SUMMARY
· "THE HIDDEN CODES OF THE BIBLE" - A BOOK REVIEW/SUMMARY
· "SIGNS OF THE TIME” - A BOOK REVIEW/SUMMARY
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER WE
DIE?
By D.E. Davis
For Christians, we are
told in Scripture in 2Cr 5:8 that to be absent from the body is to be present
with the Lord. For those who turn away from God, we are told that they are
eternally separated from God and go to a place called Hell. Rev
14:11 says that the smoke of their torment ascendeth
up for ever and ever.
The question that
everyone ponders is: What really happens after we die? Do we just lay dormant
until the Lord takes us to be with him or until judgement is handed out at the
Great White Throne as called out in Rev. 20:11? Are we conscience? Do we feel,
touch, think, recognize loved ones, know what is happening around us? All
questions that we have ask ourselves, no doubt, at some time in our life.
My own personal review of
the Scriptures has led me to believe that after we die, even though our body
may be dead and buried, our Spirit is alive and fully conscience. Chuck Missler likens this state of conscienceness
to the software that runs the Computer; once the hardware goes, the software
remains intact and available for further applications.
There are two
illustrations in the Bible that makes it clear as to what happens after death,
when we're in the spirit.
The first one is
illustrated in the Luke account of Lazarus and the rich man in Chapter 16.
After death, Lazarus, a man of God, is escorted into Abraham’s Bosom, a holding
compartment in Hell for the Believers prior to the Cross. The non-believing
rich man was "buried" and went into a separate compartment in Hell
(Hades), apart from Abraham’s Bosom, where he was in Torment according to
Scripture. Both were in a Spirit state; yet by the account, they could see each
other and speak to each other.
The second account is in
Revelation, where John is taken (in the Spirit) to Heaven to see those things
that shall come to pass prior to the return of Jesus Christ to the Earth, or
Second Coming (not the Rapture).
I had to conclude from
the study, based on the following Scripture, that all of the senses we have
here on earth will be with us throughout eternity, even unto death.
· THE ABILITY TO LOOK/SEE - Luke 16:23;Rev. 1:12;4:1,4;
5:1,2; 6:1,2,8,9; 7:1,2; 8:2; 9:1,17; 10:1,5; 13:1,2,3;14:1,6; 15:1,2; 16:13;
17:3,6; 18:1; 19:11,17,19; 20:1,4,11,12; 21:1,2,22; 22:8
· THE ABILITY TO HEAR - Rev. 1:10; 4:1; 5:11;
6:1,3,5,6,7; 7:4; 9:13,16; 10:4,8; 12:10; 14:2,13; 16:1,5,7; 18:4; 19:1,6; 21:
3; 22:8
· THE ABILITY TO BEHOLD ( to obtain knowledge of:
understand: perceive) - Rev. 5:6,11; 6:5,8,12; 7:9; 8:13; 13:11
· THE ABILITY TO REASON - Luke 16:30
· THE ABILITY TO CRY (even though there will be no
more crying in Heaven) - Rev. 5:4,5; Luke 16:24
· THE ABILITY TO SPEAK - Rev. 5:13; 10:9; 21:6,15;
Luke 16:24, 29,30,31
· THE ABILITY TO FEEL/TOUCH - Luke 16:23, 24,25
· THE ABILITY TO REMEMBER - Luke 16:25
· THE ABILITY TO WONDER - Rev. 17:6
· THE ABILITY TO WRITE - Rev. 1:11; 10:4; 19:9
· THE ABILITY TO QUESTION - Rev. 7:13
· THE ABILITY TO TAKE (THE BOOK/ROD) - Rev.
10:8,9,10
· THE ABILITY TO FALL (ON KNEES) - Rev. 19:10; 22:8
· THE ABILITY TO STAND - Rev. 13:1
· THE ABILITY TO WORSHIP - Rev. 19:10; 22:8
· THE ABILITY TO PERFORM TASKS - Rev. 11:1
God has promised in 1 Thess 4:16 and 1 Cor. 15:52,53 that one day, we shall be
reunited with Him in body and will be transformed and conformed to Him - in the
twinkling of an eye. We are also told in Scripture that we shall see Him face
to face- see the Lamb that was slain for you and me. We know by His Word, that
we will Praise Him, Worship Him and Rule with Him.
One thing in the study
that I found extremely fascinating was the difference in treatment between
Lazarus and the non-believing rich man. Scripture says that Lazarus was escorted
to Heaven by an Angel, but there is no indication in Scripture about how the
rich man arrived at Hell. Could it be that God had a specific purpose why He
chose not to tell us in Scripture?
Finally, knowing that
others may have varying interpretations of these Scriptures, I strongly urge
you to review the Scriptures yourselves to determine what you find as the truth
according to God’s Word.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
For those who wish you
had some other name because you don't like the name you were given, you had
better think twice. It is most likely that the name your parents
picked out for you was not their choice but God's choice. Let’ s
face it, the word of the Lord is true. That's why in Eph. 1:4, God proclaimed
that He had chosen us from before the very beginning of the world.
If you follow the
Genealogy of Adam in Genesis, Chapter 5 (*) you will receive an insight into
what importance God put in names - It's an exciting message:
Genealogy Meaning
Adam Man
Seth Appointed
Enosh Mortal
Kenan Sorrow
Mahalalel The
blessed God
Jared Shall
come down
Enoch Teaching
Methuselah His
Death shall bring
Lamech The
Despairing
Noah Rest,
Comfort
Now let us look at God’s
Plan for Redemption:
"Man (is) appointed
mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (that) His death
shall bring (the) despairing rest."
Let us now look at the
Genealogy of Abraham (*):
Genealogy Meaning
Abraham Predestination
Isaac Called
Jacob Justified
Joseph Glorified
(*) Source: Chuck Missler’s Briefing package: “A Walk Thru the Bible”
WELL YOU SAY! BUT THAT WAS ALL OLD TESTAMENT AND
WOULDN'T BE APPLICABLE FOR TODAY - WOULD IT?
Well, let us
see.................. As a Christian, did God not choose you by name at the
same time he chose Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan,
Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and
Joseph - before the very foundation of the world? If God had a
purpose for their name, would you expect anything less for your name since He
chose you at the same time?
As a Christian, You ought
to thank God daily that you, by your given name, was written in the Lamb's book
of life before the very foundation of the world and that you will be a partaker
in all the promises of Rev 21:27.
Within the last couple of
years, researchers have found many startling discoveries through the use of
super computers, specifically, hidden codes that God supernaturally placed
within the Hebrew text of the Bible. Over 2000 years ago, the names
of historical and current leader’s names were placed in the Bible. Such names
as Adolph Hitler, Eichmann, Arafat, Peres, Rabin, Rabin's murderer Amir,
Ben-Zion Netanyahu, Saddan Hussein, George Bush, Schwarzkoph, Peter Arnet (CNN), Timithy McVeigh, Bill Clinton.
Do you think that God
would limit His calling out to just those who had a highly visible historical
impact on this world? There is no doubt that He had a purpose in
doing this, if nothing else, just to get your attention that He is the Creator;
that He alone knows the beginning from the end.
It is my firm belief that
as we advance further with our computer technology and peel back the layers of
the Hebrew text of the scriptures, we will make many more startling and
exciting discoveries. One being that God has written each and every
one of our names in His Word.
HERE IS WHAT GOD SAID:
Isaiah 66:22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name
remain."
BOOK REVIEW by D. E.
Davis (September 1997)
BOB PIERCE -"THIS
ONE THING I DO"
By Franklin Graham with
Jeanette Lockerbie
It is amazing the worlds
that open up to an individual, once the Power of the Holy Spirit comes upon
him. Just three years ago, where once I was blind to Missions, to all the
inspired men and women God has called to service and the multitude of people
all over the world who have been saved, new worlds are ever opening to me to
see how awesome the power of God is in our Christian lives.
Such was the power and
strength of faith Bob Pierce had in our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. It is difficult for me to even attempt to assess
where God has put Bob along with other past great men of the faith, but from
what I read about his life with Christ, he certainly had his eyes focused on
Jesus! I personally feel inadequate and humbled to even put in
words, my thoughts about this man. Bob was a man Blessed by
God. I feel sad that I never had an opportunity to know him, but
look forward to meeting him one day in heaven.
If ever there was a verse
of scripture that represented Bob Pierce, it had to be the title of this book
as taken from Philippians 3:13,14 ".......this one thing I do,....I press
toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ."
Bob was raised in Los
Angeles and at the age of 12, gave his life to Christ and was baptized in the
Nazarene Church. "God simply called me to give my heart to Jesus, and I
followed Him." He died in 1978 of leukemia but lived his life
for Christ in between in between those dates as if Christ was coming tomorrow
and he still had to witness to the whole world before dawn
broke. Throughout his career, he dedicated his life mainly to
Missions and over the years was responsible for founding such World re-noun
programs as "World Vision", an organization dedicated to meeting the
emergency needs in crisis areas such as Korea after the Korean
war. During that time of need, he established a Korean
Orphanage, serving over 30 thousand Korean war orphans. Bob was also
responsible for starting the World re-noun Korean Orphan's Choir. As
an outgrowth of "World Vision" he founded "World Medical Mission"
which covered all emergency medical needs in countries all over the world which
had no medical facilities. He was also founder of "Samaritan's
Purse" and organization dedicated to funding World emergency need, no
matter where they were. These organizations are still meeting the
needs of those in crisis today.
If his work through these
organizations was not enough, he became a United Nations War Correspondent
during World War II; was Co-founder for "Youth for Christ"; and
became a Motion Picture producer/Radio program host, author and a lecturer, but
first and last, he always considered himself an evangelist! Even though Bob
knew that he was "extraordinarily gifted by God, he was never impressed
with himself - he considered himself just an earthly vessel, available at all
times for the exclusive use of the Lord".
In his own words, he had
"many flaws, failings but had abundant faith in God who lives and cares
about people."
If I had to pick four
areas of the Christian life that I feel truly represented Bob Pierce, they
would be 1) Unwavering Faith, 2) Compassion for others, 3) Obedience to God and
4) Commitment to accomplish the Will of God in his life.
From the Beginning, Bob
knew his calling was for Missions to the Asian Countries. His first
mission led him through Hawaii to Hong Kong and eventually to
China. Getting to China was his first big test of faith - he had no
money, even for the first leg to Hawaii. Bob held the opinion that
God knows ones needs already and if He has called you to a task, He will
provide and enable you - just move out! He did just that and went to the L.A.
airport that day without any money in his pocket. His faith paid off
as God provided the funding for each leg of his trip just at the moment he
needed it. This was the norm rather than the exception
throughout his career as an evangelist. What ever it
was, where ever it was, if God called, Bob would act no matter what the
circumstance......he knew that God would always provide.....and He did!
Bob had a compassion for
the spiritually and physically suffering of the world. "He was
the friend of the little people, the forgotten, the hurting, the maimed, the
unheard and the unsung". Bob's theme was "Let my heart be
broken with the things that break the heart of God". It was Bob's personal
belief that "wherever you find men and women who really love Jesus Christ,
you find the compassion of Christ spilling out of them to meet human
need." Over the years World Vision, Samaritan's Purse and other
organizations like them; one in particular, Mission Aviation Fellowship Pilots
(MAF), who flew Missionaries around the world in crisis situations, helped so
many helpless and needy men, women and children. They knew first
hand the healing power of God.
Bob dared it all to be
obedient to the Lord's call. Once he had in focus the mission that
God wanted him to accomplish, he followed in Faith to bring the unsaved to
Christ. It was his opinion that " If you are an ambassador, act
like one!"- no matter where you are. Bob would bring to memory how other
great men of Faith were obedient even in the face of death. During
World War II, a young South Korean Pastor, Mr. Im was
mistaken for a North Korean Communist and imprisoned. During
his internment, he would go around camp singing "Jesus Loves Me" and
other Christian songs. He not only uplifted and inspired other
fellow Christian prisoners to come together, he brought many more to
Christ. Together he and another prisoner, Chaplain Voelkel, established a Bible Study where over 6,000
prisoners finished a six month Bible
Study. Six Hundred (600) of those finishing the Bible
Study became pastors and came back to Korea to preach the
Gospel. In another instance, he related how a Korean school teacher
was put to death in front of his students because of his faith and obedience to
the Lord.
To be an ambassador for
the Lord "is one of the greatest things that could ever have happened to
anyone - to let God put a fish hook into you so deep that there is no way of
ever getting off the hook."
"Bob did one
thing all of his life, and that was to lead people to the foot of the Cross
where they would put their faith in a risen Lord Jesus Christ. He
lived every minute completely amazed that God could use him. No matter
how much he was able to do in how many places, it was never
enough." This was the kind of commitment Bob made to Jesus;
"to commit yourself, give yourself away to God
irrevocably, forever. Say to Him, go ahead and burn me up. Spend me.
Eat me up. Use me for you Glory." And that's exactly what he
did.
Being a man of God was
not always easy for Bob and he paid a high price. In one measure or
another he had to forsake his wife, his family, his Mother and Father, his
brothers and sisters and other worldly possessions to follow Jesus. He
not only lost his health, he lost his Daughter, Sharon, to death.
Committing your life to
Christ in a Godless society is never easy; many times
you feel like you may be the only one putting your life, your self image, your social acceptance on the
line. As Bob came to realize, ". Someone has to go
and pay that humiliating price of literally letting your ego be stomped on- not
just pushed in and suppressed, but laid out there for people to stomp
on. We need to do this by the grace of God with love and patience:
sow the seed on rocky soil, nurture it, and maybe never be applauded."
Committing your life to
Christ really comes down to this; What really matters
to you in Life?
On his death bed in the
City of Hope, Bob left us this one message - "I don't care what you have
attempted. What you have succeeded at, or what has been your work in Christ's
name while you are here on earth - only one thing matters when you have reached
the last step before you go to stand before Christ:
- Did you tell men and
women who Jesus is?
- Did you bring them to
some comprehension of His redeeming love?
- Did you make it plain
to them that He alone can pay their way to heaven throughout His atoning death
on the cross?"
Such was the life of a
man of God, Bob Pierce.
HIDDEN CODES OF THE
BIBLE
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ACT 17:11 - Exhorts you
to daily review the scriptures to see if what is being said is true
References: Grant
R. Jeffrey - "The Signature of God"- RECOMMENDED READING
Other
reading: "The Hebrew Factor" by Yacov Rambsel
Prepared
by D. E. Davis
Daniel 12: 4 - "But
thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the
end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall
be increased."
Here is undeniable proof,
the third in the series, that every word, every letter and every punctuation in
Bible text was put their by
the inspiration of God. It gives new meaning to the words
"increase knowledge". It's just one of the many signs, and
without a doubt, the most exciting revelation that God said he would reveal to
man in the "end time". As you will see, God has put
his signature throughout the Bible, has revealed History before it ever
happened, all through hidden codes that were supernaturally placed into text
which was written over 2,000 years ago; which could only be found with today's
computer technological advances. The codes are found in what scholars call "Equidistant Letter Sequences" or
ESL. That is, each sequential letter in an encoded word or phrase
was found the same distance apart numerically; The exact interval designed by
God.
Actually, the discovery
of hidden codes in scripture dates back to before WWI and it was not until 1988
that the use of computers were able to detect a
significant amount of coding in scripture. Since then, the research
that Grant Jeffrey and others have done has just exploded and new discoveries
are happening every day.
Here is a summary of what
has been found and outlined in Grant's book, referenced above. It is
my understanding that he is in the process of writing another book to tell what
he has found subsequent to "The Signature of God".
Luke 21:15 - " For I
will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able
to gainsay (refute) nor resist."
Proverbs 25:2 - "It
is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out
a matter."
THE
SIGNATURE OF GOD
What follows is what most
of the human race would find hard to believe. It unfathomable to
think that the Hebrew Bible, containing 304,805 Hebrew letters, written by 40
individuals could contain hidden messages that if one letter was taken out of
the text, one word was removed, the hidden message could not be
revealed......yet the message has been sustained for over 2,000 years and has
been revealed to man just as Jesus said it would be. Jesus has
actually placed His name and other messages about Himself into text which
proves he is the creator of all; King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
GOD'S SIGNATURE
God has personally signed
scriptures throughout the Old and New Testaments in various
ways. For example in the Old Testament, he
has encoded his name, Jesus, in the following scripture:
THE HISTORY OF THE
WORLD FROM ANCIENT TIMES UNTIL TODAY
God has also encoded
unbelievable detail about many of the things we read about and which touch our
lives daily. For example, he outlines:
PLACES AND THINGS
· Gen. 2: 4-10 - The key word
"Eden" was spelled out sixteen (16) times in the span of 379 Hebrew
letters. The letters were all equidistant from each other.
· Gen. 2 - In this chapter which deals
with the garden of Eden, scientists found encoded in the Hebrew text,
Twenty-five (25) names of trees that were in the
Garden of Eden.
· Gen. 1:1 - Starting with the first appearance of
the Hebrew letter "Tav", the word
"Torah" was found every 50th letter.
· Ex. 1: 1 - Again, starting with the first
appearance of the letter "Tav" and counting
every 50th letter, the word "Torah" was spelled. Num./Deut. - In the
book of Numbers the word "Torah" was found
spelled backwards every 50th letter. In the book of Deuteronomy,
"Torah" was found again spelled backwards, but this time every
forty-ninth (49) letter.
NAMES AND EVENTS
· Holocaust
· Deut. 10: 17-22 - Beginning with the second to
last appearance of the Hebrew letter "bet" in this passage, they found
every Thirteenth (13) letter, the phrase "b'yam marah Auschwitz" which means "in the bitter sea
of Auschwitz." Also encoded in this passage were the
names of the other Nazi Concentration camp, "Belsen".
· Deut. 33:21 - Beginning with the letter (resh) that appeared in the Hebrew word "Yisreal," and counting every twenty-second (22) letter
from the left to right they found the phrase "re'tzach
alm" discribing the
Holocaust, which when translated, means "a people cry murder,
slaughter."
· Adolph Hitler
· Deut. 10: 17-22 - The word "Hitler"
spelled out in Hebrew was found every twenty-second (22) letter.
· Deut. 33:16 - Beginning with the first appearance
of the Hebrew letter "mem" and every two hundred and forty-sixth
(246) letter from left to right you find that the coded letters spelled out the
phrase, "Melek Natzim,"
which translates as the "king of the Nazis."
· Eichmann
· Deut. 32:52 - Beginning with the appearance of
the first letter (aleph) and counting from left to right every six hundred and
seventy (670) letters, the name "Aik'man"
is spelled, which is the Hebrew form of the name "Eichmann."
· Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
· "Sadat occurred together with the name of
the leader of the Moslem Brotherhood assassinating team that killed
him.......it contained the year of his assassination, 1981, and the
words "president," "gunfire," "shot'" and
'Murder".
· Desert Storm
· Beginning in Gen. 1:7 and continuing through the
rest of Genesis, Grant Jeffrey indicated at the Prophesy Conference in Irvine,Ca. on 27 Sept. 1996 that they had recently found
information in hidden code in scripture relating to Desert Storm. I
believe more details will be available in Grant's next book.
· The French Revolution
· Gen. 39,41 - "Another passage in the Book of
Genesis revealed a cluster of encoded words that deals with the French
Revolution. The following words are clustered ogether"
"Mapecha HaSarfatit"
which spells "the French Revolution" in Hebrew, "Louis,"
the name of the French king, and the word "Beit (house of Bourbon,")
his royal dynasty. In the same cluster were the following
words: "Hamarseilles" (the name
of the French anthem) and the word "Bastillia"
(the infamous French prison for political prisoners........"
OTHER HISTORICAL
INFORMATION
· Word pairs - "In their initial experiment,
.......the scientists arbitrarily chose three hundred (300) Hebrew word-pairs
that were logically related in meaning, such as hammer and anvil, or tree and
leaf, or man and woman." ".....the researchers were astonished to
find that every single word-pair had been located in Genesis in close proximity
to each other."
· King David's Ancestors
· Gen. 28 - " Every one of the five Hebrew
names of these ancestor of King
David (Pharez, Zerah, Boaz, Obed,
Jesse) were found encoded at forty-nine (49) letter intervals, hidden within
the text of Genesis 38".
· Famous Jewish Rabbi - "The Jewish
people celebrate the memory of their famous sages by commemorating their date
of death. Incredibly, the computer program found every single one of
the sixty-six names of these famous rabbis embedded in the text of Genesis
paired at significantly close proximity with their actual date of birth or
their date of death."
IS THE HEBREW BIBLE
UNIQUE TO GOD' S INSPIRED EMBEDDED CODES?
Grant points out that
"The researchers attempted to reproduce these results by running the
computer program on other religious Hebrew texts outside the Bible, including
the Samaritan Pentateuch. .......the researchers could not detect word pairs in
the Samaritan Pentateuch or any other Hebrew text outside the
Bible. In fact, an exhaustive analysis reveals that no other Hebrew
text outside the Old testament contains these mysterious codes, not even the
Hebrew apocryphal books written during the four hundred years before the birth
of Christ"
A WORD OF CAUTION
"No one can search
the Torah using these codes to foretell future events. The reason is
that it is impossible to extract the encoded information unless you already
know what the future facts are." "The prophet Isaiah
warned against false prophets and declared that only God can
Prophesy future events accurately
(Isa. 46: 9,10).
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"Computer tapes are
now available so that anyone with a computer can personally verify the
existence of these codes beneath the text of the Scriptures.
As Christians, we can
stand firm in the word and shout for joy. God has given us "the
words and the wisdom that none of our adversaries will be able to refute or
contradict", no matter how much they try!
PRAISE THE LORD!
SIGNS OF THE TIME
References: Grant
R. Jeffrey - "The Signature of God"- RECOMMENDED READING
Prepared by D. E. Davis
June 10, 1997
Prelude
How do we know that Jesus
is the one true God when there are so many religions, cultures and cults that
claim that they serve the one true god? How about Buddha, Allah?
Scripture says that God
alone knows the beginning from the end. The way that God establishes
His authority is through Biblical Prophesy. There
are over 500 prophesies that were prophesied over 2,000 years ago that have all
come to pass. There are still some Old Testament that have yet have
to be fulfilled (Daniel Ezekiel), but there has never been an event prophesied that
has not come to pass in it’s
time. 100% accuracy tells us that the God of the Bible is the only true
God. No one else in the history of the world, living or dead, can
make this claim.
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In Matthew 24:3, just
before Jesus' ascension into heaven, the disciples of Jesus ask Him what would
be the sign of His second coming. Over the centuries various groups
have attempted to guess when Christ would return to the earth to claim His
inheritance as promised throughout scripture. As we know, no one has
been right yet!. God clearly states in Matthew 24:36 that no man,
not even the angels, know the day or the time when Christ will return. Only God
the Father knows.
This summary is clearly
not another attempt to forecast this event. This summary does,
however, attempt to provide an awareness of what is happening around you so
that you will not be caught unaware. (Ref. Luke 21:34 and Matthew. 24:42).
ACT 17:11- Exhorts you
to daily review the scriptures to see if what is being said is true.
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SIGNS OF THE TIME-------------------
Grant Jeffrey has done a
wonderful job of providing critical information about events that are happening
in this generation that all Christians need to know; Events that
were prophesied over 2,500 years ago. Approximately 90% of the
material contained herein was extracted and summarized from Grant's
book. I highly recommend reading this book as it contains so much
more that you will want to know.
THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL
The rebirth of Israel was
prophesied in several scriptures throughout the Bible. Isaiah 66: 8
predicted that Israel would be born again in "one"
day. Ezekiel 4:3-6 and Levitcus
26:18 foretold the exact number of days that it would take Israel to
re-establish themselves as a nation in the last days. ( The exact calculation
can be found in Grant Jeffrey's book referenced above). On May 14, 1948, the
Jews proclaimed their independence of the reborn state of Israel.....The exact
day that was predicted over twenty-five (25) centuries ago.......No other
ancient nation ever ceased to exist for a period of centuries and then returned
to take its place on the stage of world history."
PRESENT ARAB-ISRAELI
CONFLICT
In Psalms 83:2-8, God
inspired King David to predict that upon Israel's rebirth as a nation it would
be immediately surrounded by their enemies. The modern names of
those nations named in scripture include Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and
Syria....the nations that have now joined the Palestinians in their attempt to
destroy Israel.
In Gen. 12:
3, God has promised to punish those nations that come against
Israel. "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth
be blessed."
RESTORATION OF THE
HEBREW LANGUAGE
When Israel was captured
by Nebuchadnezzar in approx. 562 B.C., Israel was no longer allowed to speak
the Hebrew language, but had to learn the language of the
Chaldeans. The Lord predicted, however, through Zephaniah 3:9, that
he would restore a pure language to Israel so that they may "serve him
with one consent". It was in the early part of this Century
that the Hebrew language was revived from the dead language. Today,
Hebrew is a living language to over 5 million Israelis.
THE FERTILITY OF ISRAEL
In Isaiah
27:6; 35:7 and Joel 2:23, the Lord prophesied through these prophets that the
deserted, unproductive, barren land of Israel would once again become
productive in the last days and that Israel would experience tremendous
increases of rain. Ever since Israel has returned to the land, they
have flourished in the land and now supply over 90 percent of the citrus fruit
consumed in Europe. Rainfall has increased by more than "10
percent every decade for the last century and Israel has planted in excess of
two hundred (200) million trees and transformed the complete environment of the
Promised Land." According to the United Nations, Israel is now
"the most agriculturally efficient land on earth."
THE UNWALLED CITY
Ezekiel 38:11 speaks of
the future invasion of Gog and Magog (Russia) saying "And thou shalt say,
I will go up to the land of un-walled villages; I will go to them that are at
rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither
bars nor gates". Grant explains that "even army bases and Israel's
settlements in the West Bank and Gaza have no walls today.........How could
Ezekiel have known twenty-five centuries ago that the development of modern
weapons such as bombs, airplanes and missiles, would have made walls and gates
irrelevant for defensive purposes in the last days. In the ancient
past even small villages as well as cities depended on walls for defense
against invading armies."
PLANS FOR REBUILDING OF
THE TEMPLE
Revelations 11:1, 2
foretells of Israel rebuilding the Temple in the last days. There is
much controversy between the Israelis and the Muslim's because the Dome of the
Rock (Al-Aqsa Mosque) it is believed, sits on the very spot where the Temple is
suppose to be
built. In recent years, however, aerial Infra-red photography shows
that this may not be the case. Ezekiel 44:14-18, tell
about the sacred vessels and linen robes that must be used in the
Temple. "The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has already prepared
over 75 of the objects, vessels, and linen garments required for future Temple
service.......over 500 men from the tribe of Levi have already been trained to
fulfill the duties of Temple worship and sacrifice."
Update:
Just recently in the
Washington Post on May 28, 1997, it was reported that a 10
month old heifer named "Melody" is the first red
heifer to be born in Israel in over 2,000 years. "In ancient
times, the ashes of a red heifer were mixed with spring water to purify high
priests before they entered the Temple."
THE REBUILDING OF
BABYLON
We know that the old city
of Babylon (now called Iraq) will be built again in the end times because
Isaiah 13:6, 19 foretells of its destruction. In Isaiah 34:8-10 it
is prophesied that the rebuilt City of Babylon will burn for
ever.
"As unlikely as it
seems, the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein has spent over one billion
dollars rebuilding the ancient city of Babylon and intends that it will become
the center of their future renewed Babylonian Empire. Interestingly,
the whole city of Babylon was built over an underground lake of asphalt and
oil."
THE ANOINTING OIL
The prophet Daniel
prophesied in Dan. 9:24 that the when Jesus returns, that the most Holy of
Holies will be anointed with the anointing oil. "One of the
five ingredients, afars' mon,
was thought lost forever, when the Temple was destroyed in A.D. 70 and the only
two groves of afars'mon trees in existence were
burned
to the
ground. Incredibly, several years ago, archeologists in Israel found
a clay flask buried near the Dead Sea caves filled with the ancient oil of
anointing. Scientists confirmed that the oil is two thousand years
old and is composed of the precise ingredients described in Exodus
30:25,26."
PESTILENCE/FAMINES/EARTHQUAKES
Matthew 24:7 prophesied
that in the last days "For nation shall rise against nation and Kingdom
against Kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilence, and earthquakes,
in divers (various) places." Grand Jeffrey writes regarding
these matters:
· Pestilence - In 1991, the Central Intelligence
Agency produced a report which "concluded that up to 75% of the population
of Africa living in the area south of the Sahara Desert may become infected
with AIDS over the next 12 years. This will mean the death by AIDS
of over three hundred million people
in Africa alone. In July
1991, the South African Medical Journal reported that a staggering 47% of black
male and female blood donors tested positive for AIDS during 1989."
In Nov. 1996, the Associated Press reported that
"Sexually transmitted diseases are diagnosed 12 million times a year in
the United States - including a staggering 3 million cases among
teen-agers".
· Famine - The United Nations today
"claim that over thirty million in Africa are now at risk of dying from
the most devastating famine in this century. The UN estimates that
one billion people are in danger of starvation while another billion lack
proper nutrition. North American food reserves (grain and corn) are
at the lowest level in sixty years."
· Major killer earthquakes – “Major Killer
earthquakes (7.2 or greater on the Richter scale) occurred only
once per decade throughout history until our century. However, since
A. D. 1900, the growth in major earthquakes has
been relentless. From 1900 to 1949 it averaged three
major quakes per decade. From 1949 the increase became awesome with
9 killer quakes in the 1950's; 13 in the 1960's; 56 in the 1970's and an
amazing 74 major quakes in the 1980's. Finally, in the 1990's,
at the present rate, we will experience 125 major killer quakes in this decade."
WORLD WIDE COMMUNICATION
In Revelation 11:9,10, it
is prophesied that during the tribulation period, the antichrist will have the
two witnesses that God sent killed and their bodies will lay in the street for
three and a half days while the whole world watches.
Did not the whole world
watch Desert Storm on CNN television? With all the technological
advances in telecommunications, including the recent opening of the World Wide Net to our computer industry, any event happening
in any part of the world can now be viewed while it is
happening. The prophesy of the two witnesses could
literally be fulfilled today. This could not have happened just 10
or 15 years ago.
INCREASED KNOWLEDGE AND
TRAVEL
Daniel 12:4 prophesies
how much knowledge and travel will increase in the end time. "But thou, O
Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the Book, even to the time of the
end: Many shall run to and fro and
knowledge shall be increased."
Today, it is estimated
that "Human knowledge is growing so quickly that it literally doubles every
twenty-four months." With the discovery through the use
of modern "Super" computers by Grant Jeffrey and other researchers of
the hidden codes that God supernaturally designed into the original Hebrew text
of the Torah describing not only the history of the world in advance, but also
verifying his Authority through His personal signature throughout his
scripture, we realize that God chose this generation to reveal this unique
aspect about himself.
It is also amazing that
in this century, we have gone from horses to cars, from cars to supersonic
spacecraft; not only can we now travel the world in a matter of hours, but in
the case of the U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery, we can now travel at speeds in
excess of eighteen thousand miles per hour.
REVIVAL OF THE ROMAN
EMPIRE
Daniel 2:40-44 predicts
that the old Roman Empire will be revived in the end times into a ten Nation
alliance. We currently see the foundation being laid today through
the European Economic Community. "In 1957, six (6) Countries signed the
Treaty of Rome laying the foundation for the future United States of
Europe.............Since then the Maastricht Treaty consolidated the fifteen
(15) Nations of the European Union into the worlds
first superstate." All it will take is the re-shuffling and/or
the consolidation of Nations to bring this prophesy to a literal fulfillment.
ODDS THAT THESE
PROPHECIES WERE FULFILLED BY CHANCE IN THIS GENERATION
"In the Bible there
are several types of generations. One generation is defined as the
length of life of the average person - seventy or eighty
years. However, a generation of governing is usually defined as
forty years,...........During the last two thousand years since the days of
Christ, there were fifty such forty-year generations. Therefore, the
odds are one chance in fifty that any one of these specific prophecies happened
by chance in our generation rather than some other generation."
"The odds that more
than one event happening in our life time are:
"Another way of
looking at this is that the chance that the prophets of the Bible correctly
guessed these prophecies is also one in 97,500 trillion............in other
words, it is simply impossible that men alone could
have written the Bible
without the supernatural assistance and inspiration of God."
Matthew 24:32-35 -
"Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that
it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This
generation shall not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not
pass away."
Luke 21:28 - "And
when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads;
for your redemption draweth nigh."
ANTI-CHRIST TO BE
REVEALED
As of today, no one knows
who the Anti-Christ is, but we do know what God has told us about him:
Many people try to
spiritualize or say the events prophesied in the Bible are just
symbolic. Any doubt about how God handles these prophetic events
should have been erased on May 14,1948. God is literally fulfilling
scriptural prophesy before our very eyes. Can we expect anything
less for those few remaining prophesies for which He has promised the world; 1)
the removal of the one who restrains the man of lawlessness/Sin (the rapture of
the Church), 2) His second coming to take possession of His inheritance, 3) The
millennial kingdom and 4) the new heaven and new earth.
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Ezekiel 33:6 - "But
if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the
trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person
from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require
at the watchman's hand."
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