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be in the dark about God’s word” –
Our Daily Bread
INTERESTING ARTICLES
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Is God’s Spirit in
everyone?
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Sing Praise to the Lord
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Half of Protestants
agree with Catholics that good deeds & Faith are needed for Salvation
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China banning children
from church
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What value is music?
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WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR
SALVATION?
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INTERESTING ARTICLES……
IS GOD'S SPIRIT IN EVERYONE?
The Christian
Post – Sep. 14, 2017 -- It is impossible to be a Christian without the Holy
Spirit. This is one reason Jesus told His disciples, "I tell you the
truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor
will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you." (John 16:7)
God the Father
sent His Son to save us because He loves us. The Son of God suffered and died
on the cross for our sins. And the Holy Spirit brings people into a
relationship with our Creator through faith in Christ. He comes to live inside
everyone who believes in Jesus as Savior.
So is God's
Spirit in everyone? Well, we find the answer to that question in Scripture.
The apostle
Paul wrote to the believers in Ephesus: "You also were included in Christ
when you heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation. Having
believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is
a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance." (Eph.
1:13,14)
This deposit
is only given to those who receive Christ as Savior. (John 1:12) Unbelievers
are not forgiven of their sins or given the Spirit as a deposit.
When Paul was
warning the churches in Galatia not to be seduced by legalism, he wrote,
"I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit
by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?" (Gal. 3:2)
Obviously, they received the Holy Spirit the moment they were converted as they
believed the good news of salvation through faith in Christ.
And Paul wrote
to the church in Corinth: "Do you not know that your body is a temple of
the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not
your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body."
(1 Cor. 6:19,20)
A few chapters
earlier Paul wrote, "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple
and that God's Spirit lives in you?" (1 Cor. 3:16)
The
indwelling of the Holy Spirit within God's people was prophesied in Old
Testament times by the prophet Ezekiel: "I will put my Spirit in you and
move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws." (Ezekiel
36:27)
And
Jesus described the Holy Spirit's guidance this way: "When He, the Spirit
of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth." (John 16:13)
So
if you want to know the truth, you will need the Holy Spirit to teach it to
you. He guides believers as we fill our minds with Scripture and meditate upon
God's Word. Don't forget that the Holy Spirit is the Person who inspired the
Bible to be written. "All Scripture is God-breathed." (2 Tim. 3:16)
When
a person drinks wine in excess, it leads to strange behavior. In contrast, the
Holy Spirit works good things inside every Christian. And so Paul was inspired
to write, "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead,
be filled with the Spirit." (Eph. 5:18)
You
cannot be "filled" with the Holy Spirit unless the Holy Spirit is
already living inside you. If you were going to fill a jar with water, you
wouldn't pour the water outside the jar. You would pour it inside. Likewise,
your soul can be filled with God's "living water." (John 7:37)
For
addition reading: http://www.christianpost.com/news/is-gods-spirit-in-everyone-199052/
SING PRAISE TO THE LORD
Let them praise the
name of the LORD, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and
heaven.. (Psa. 148:13)
Israel365 – Aug. 28, 2017 -- Psalm 148 can be divided into two
parts. The first part speaks of the Lord being praised in the celestial
spheres, while the second part speaks of humans praising God in this sphere.
Though both seemingly exalt Him the same way, as it says, “Let them praise the
name of the Lord,” the praises are actually very different. The angels exalt
God “for it was He who commanded that they be created.” They are programmed to
sing the Lord’s
praises. Humans, on the other hand, worship Him because they see
the beauty of creation, understand God’s compassion and voluntarily choose to
sing His praises. We are all recipients of God’s love and His bounty. It is our
duty to recognize what He gives us and to sing His praises.
HALF OF PROTESTANTS AGREE WITH CATHOLICS
THAT GOOD DEEDS AND FAITH ARE NEEDED FOR SALVATION (Excerpt)
The Christian
Post – Sep. 4, 2017 -- About half of Protestants in the U.S. now agree with the
"historically Catholic belief" that both faith and good deeds are
needed for salvation, rather than faith alone, a Pew Research Center survey shows.
White Evangelicals
stood out as the strongest believers in faith alone, however.
Pew, which
released the survey to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, explored
different questions, though one of the main focuses was on the requirements for
salvation.
Fifty-two
percent of U.S. Protestants said both good deeds and faith in God are needed to
get into heaven; 46 percent said faith alone (sola fide) is needed. Among
Catholics, 81 percent agreed that both good deeds and faith are necessary.
Meanwhile, two-thirds of white evangelicals said they believe faith alone is
needed for salvation.
(Catholics argue that
"faith and works" is a misleading oversimplification of their
beliefs.)
Protestants
were similarly split on the Reformation principle of sola scriptura (which
means that Scripture alone is authoritative for the faith and practice of
the Christian), with 46 percent saying the Bible provides all the religious
guidance Christians need and 52 percent saying Christians need guidance from
church teachings and traditions in addition to the Bible. Among white
evangelicals, nearly 60 percent agreed with the principle of sola sciptura.
Overall,
only 30 percent of Protestants, 7 percent of Catholics and 44 percent of white
evangelicals believe in both sola fide (Faith alone) and sola scriptura.
Some
respondents were asked to answer the question of what is needed to get into
heaven in their own words. Common responses to this open-ended question
included belief in Jesus and being born again (32 percent); being a good person,
moral values and doing good works (19 percent of all Christians);
repentance and asking forgiveness for sins (12 percent); and belief in
God (11 percent).
In
other findings, Christians were largely split on the topic of purgatory,
which some believe to be a place where souls go to be cleansed of their sins
before they can enter Heaven.
Overall,
54 percent of U.S. Christians rejected the existence of such a place, while 33
percent said that they believed in it. White evangelicals were most likely to
say it is a false belief, with 72 percent rejecting it. Catholics found
themselves at the opposite end of the scale, with 70 percent stating that
purgatory is a real place. While a majority (65 percent) of Protestants overall
said purgatory does not exist, black Protestants were split on the belief, with
47 percent saying it exists and 48 percent saying it doesn't.
Eph. 2:8,9 For it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Not by works, so that no one can boast.
EDITOR’S NOTE:
REGARDING THE QUESTION OF PURGATORY,
SCRIPTURE IS PRETTY CLEAR ON WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR SOUL AFTER YOU DIE
Luke 16:22,23 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was
carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was
buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke 16:
19 – 31 is the parable about a rich man and the beggar man Lazarus which gives
us a picture of what happens after death to the Spirit of the righteous believers who have accepted Jesus Christ as
Lord and Savior. Although poor and a beggar, Lazarus was a righteous man in the
eyes if God. When he died, the Lord sent angels immediately to carry Lazarus’
soul into the “Bosom of Abraham”. When
the un-righteous rich man died and was buried, God’s word made no mention of
how his soul was escorted into Hell. But
we know that it ended up in Hell immediately since scripture says he saw
Lazarus in Abrahams’ bosom and was asking Abraham for relief.
In
Addition, Scripture says that there was a great gulf fixed that no one can
cross over. This means that there is no
possible holding area, such as a holding pen called “purgatory”, where one can
be prayed for or one can expend money to move their loved one from Hell to
Abraham’s bosom.
You
either accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior while you are alive or you
die eternally in sin. There is no second
chance once you die!
Albert
Barnes' Commentary on Verse 22
“Was carried by the angels”
- The Jews held the opinion that the spirits of the righteous were conveyed by
angels to heaven at their death. Our Savior speaks in accordance with this
opinion; and as he expressly affirms the fact, it seems as proper that it
should be taken literally, as when it is said the rich man died and was buried.
Angels are ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who are heirs of
salvation Hebrews 1:14, and there is no more improbability in the
supposition that they attend departing spirits to heaven, than that they attend
them while on earth.
Abraham‘s bosom - This is a
phrase taken from the practice of reclining at meals, where the head of one lay
on the bosom of another, and the phrase, therefore, denotes intimacy and
friendship. See the notes at Matthew 23:6. Also John 13:23; John 21:20. The Jews had no doubt that Abraham was in paradise.
To say that Lazarus was in his bosom was, therefore, the same as to say that he
was admitted to heaven and made happy there.
CHINA BANNING CHILDREN FROM CHURCH
(Excerpt)
'Joining Christian groups and attending religious activities'
now forbidden
WND – Sep. 9,
2017 -- China’s Communist Party-controlled government long has tried to
stamp out faith. It has banned churches unless they are affiliated with
the government, imprisoned pastors and lay leaders, and discriminated against
church goers.
Lately, government
officials have removed crosses from church buildings.
Now, according
to UCA News, at least four regional governments in China are banning
children from church.
The
governments have issued notices that “restrict children from joining Christian
groups and attending religious activities,” the report said.
Children are
being turned away from church, even if they show up with parents.
“Additionally, the ban includes promises that
officials will launch investigations into both government approved churches and
underground congregations who operate outside the tightly controlled official
Beijing-run Catholic and Protestant churches,” the report said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has “instituted formal plans
to ‘sinicize’ religion with the intention of bringing
more religious followers under the control of the ruling Communist Party, which
itself is official atheist and forbids members from practicing,” the report
continued.
WHAT VALUE IS MUSIC?
Genesis 4:21 "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the
father of all such as handle the harp and organ."
Creation
Moments – Sep. 8, 2017 -- The Bible tells us that the earliest generations of
human beings were making music. By the time the eighth generation of man came
along, Jubal, a member of that generation was able to make his living providing
musical instruments. On the evolutionary side of things, however, musical
ability would seem to provide no survival advantage. Yet, the human brain
devotes considerable resources to the processing of music. Our love of music is
wired into our brain. Each of our sense organs is important to our enjoyment of
music. And each of these organs is linked to its own part of the brain which is
responsible for how we experience the music.
Parts of the
brain are reserved for memory which stores the music. Other parts of the brain
are dedicated to trying to understand the entire piece of music, referencing
back to parts of the music stored in the memory. Even more interesting is that
one need not hear music to activate the various parts of the brain devoted to
music. Positron-emission tomography reveals that a person only needs to imagine
music for these portions of the brain to become active. The ability to make or
appreciate music offers us no apparent survival value, and therefore, according
to evolutionary theory, should not have developed. Yet, our brains, and indeed,
all our senses, are designed to make and appreciate music.
The obvious
message here is that evolution had nothing to do with the formation of human
beings. Rather, we were created by God Who loves music, and wants
us to praise Him with music.
WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR SALVATION?
Is it possible
to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are saved? That’s a question I
often hear from people who have professed that they trust in Jesus Christ but
just aren’t sure if their faith is adequate. The good news is that God wants us
to have unquestionable assurance of our salvation (1 John 5:13). And there are three words that will
help us determine whether our faith is genuine.
Knowledge. First, we must know that we are sinners and our sins have
alienated us from God. Since we are helpless to remedy this situation, He is
our only hope for salvation. Second, we need to know that Jesus is deity and He
came as the God-man to die in our place and thereby pay the penalty for our
sins. His resurrection proves that His sacrifice was sufficient for our salvation.
Conviction. According to John 16:8, one of the Holy Spirit’s jobs is to
convict us of sin so we can see our need for a Savior. But that alone is not
enough. God’s Spirit also convinces us the message of salvation in Christ is
true and we must respond.
Trust. Being fully persuaded of our sin and the sufficiency of
Christ’s provision for our forgiveness and salvation, we believe and place
trust in Jesus as our Savior and Lord.
The entire
Trinity is involved in our salvation. The Son provided the perfect sacrifice
for sin, the Father draws us to Christ, and the Spirit convicts and convinces
us to believe in Jesus and receive Him as our Savior. We are saved because of
God’s amazing grace and limitless love.
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INTERESTING ARTICLES
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Is God involved in
natural disasters
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The sounding of the
Shofar
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The Bible Jesus, The
Muslim Jesus: Are they the same?
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It’s Murder! –
Confessions of a former Planned Parenthood worker
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IS GOD INVOLVED IN NATURAL DISASTERS?
The Christian Post – Sep.. 8, 2017 -- Following close on the heels of the devastation
brought about by Hurricane Harvey on the Gulf Coast is Hurricane Irma.
Currently trekking its way as a category 5 storm across the Caribbean (the
strongest ever recorded in the Atlantic), Irma is now seemingly headed for
Florida with the prospect of moving North.
My wife, Kim, and I have been earnestly
praying and asking God to send this terrible tempest out to sea, sparing life,
injury, and property.
God is sovereign over the weather and
natural causes. The Bible tells us in Luke chapter 8 that the disciples were in
a boat with Jesus on the sea when a serious storm threatened them. Jesus then
"rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was
calm" (Lk. 8:24).
We live in a fallen world, meaning that
since human sin entered, all of nature was negatively impacted. Sometimes the
laws of nature go awry and this will continue until God's redemption is
finalized.
But this doesn't mean "that God has
a hands-off policy when it comes to natural disasters," says Dr. Erwin Lutzer, formerly the pastor of the Moody Church, in
Chicago, Illinois.
Lutzer continues: "Many people want to
protect God from the clear teaching of the Bible, which shows He is involved in
natural disasters. It is not that God causes them, but the very fact that He
could prevent them shows that we need to face squarely the fact that natural
disasters happen within God's providence."
Indeed they do, and Lutzer
mentions a number of them found in the Bible. He writes, "Let me give you
a few examples. During the time of the plagues in Egypt, clearly, God sent
those plagues. Then you have the time of Noah; the flood obviously was sent by
God. It says regarding Jonah, God hurled a storm into the sea. We must see God
in natural disasters."
What then can we learn from these
catastrophic events? I suggest we can learn the same lessons learned from any
kind of suffering the Lord allows.
First, sometimes God is trying to get
our attention by way of the storms, whether the storm is figurative or literal.
Rabbi Daniel Asore
has wisely said natural disasters can be a warning, "like a father
slapping the table in order to warn his children that they are doing something
that angers him."
Is God trying to get America's
attention?
I think we have every reason to
believe that God is angry with our nation and warning us about our sins. We are
being torn apart from within by conflicts demonstrative of our many trespasses,
the worst being our elimination of God from the equation of life, and not just
personal but public. From without, we have a rogue country, North Korea, with
an apparently deranged dictator (Kim Jung-un) intent on using nuclear weapons
against us. One major hurricane, Harvey, has devastated the state of Texas. And
at the time if this writing, now another, Irma, is bearing down on Florida and
possibly could move up through Georgia and into the Carolinas.
America seems to be facing both
natural and possible man-made disasters.
The late Dr. D. James Kennedy
once admonished: "God uses trouble to draw us closer to himself.
We often fail to see the great purpose God has for us. He created us to have
fellowship with him. Day in and day out he blesses us in so many ways, yet we
often focus on the gift and overlook the giver. We become spiritually lethargic
and forget about God. Some people, it seems, never look up until they are laid
flat on their backs."
God can speak to us through
disasters of various sorts, reminding us of who is in charge and our utter
dependence upon him. He can sometimes be calling us to repentance,
individually, corporately, as well as nationally.
We need to repent of our
trespasses against God's laws, turn to Christ as our Great Redeemer, and walk
in the ways of the Lord.
For addition reading: http://www.christianpost.com/news/is-god-involved-in-natural-disasters-198336/
THE SOUNDING OF THE SHOFAR
Israel365 -
Sept. 6, 2017 -- The significance of the shofar
dates to the dawn of Jewish history. In the Torah, the shofar serves various
purposes, both practical and spiritual. It was sounded during military
operations, such as the battle of Jericho in Joshua 6. The shofar is intimately
connected to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New year; the Torah refers to Rosh
Hashanah as the "day of the shofar blast." The blowing of the shofar
awakens our slumbering souls and urges us to repent and evokes the collective
memory of the shofar blasts that accompanied the receiving of the Torah on
Mount Sinai. Many believe that the shofar blasts of today foreshadow the shofar
blasts we will hear in the End of Days, as described in the above verse.
THE BIBLE JESUS - THE MUSLIM JESUS: ARE THEY THE SAME? (Excerpt)
The Muslim
Jesus Is Not Even Close To The Jesus Of The Bible
Weekend News
Today - August 29, 2017 - The establishment brings us deceptive and
disingenuous apologetics for Islam on a regular basis, and there is rarely any
pushback. Even religious publications such as the National Catholic Reporter,
seem to have no compunction about bringing these soothing falsehoods to their
readers. That is why it is good to see
the deceptive Islamic apologetics dissected for once.
National
Catholic Reporter is among the last places one expects to find a Muslim
apologist peddling theological snake oil, but Friday’s headline — “The Muslim
Jesus Provides Common Ground For Christianity, Islam” — left no doubt about
what Ra’fat Al-Dajani was
offering.
“The Islamic
version of the Jesus story especially, is quite similar to the Christian
version,” claimed Al-Dajani. “Jesus is variously
referred to as ‘Spirit from God,’ ‘Word from/of God’), ‘Prophet-Messenger
of God,’ and the ‘Messiah,’ who will come back on the Day of Judgment to
destroy the Antichrist.” Al-Dajani is described as “a
Palestinian-American writer and commentator.”
In fact, other
than the Virgin Birth, the five letters that spell J-e-s-u-s are the only
“common ground” shared by the Muslim and Christian versions of the child born
to Mary two millennia ago. The biggest issue that separates the two faiths is
by far the most important one — was Jesus God, as he claimed?
Christians
believe Jesus was simultaneously both the Son of God and the Son of Man, fully
divine and fully human. He left no room for doubt about it on numerous occasions,
as when, according to John 8:58, he told the Pharisees “before Abraham was, I
am.”
That claim,
when uttered by any man, was considered blasphemous and deserving of death by
the Pharisees. Pilate, Caesar’s man in the Jewish homeland, found nothing under Roman
law to justify executing Jesus but, as a matter of political expediency, he
ordered the crucifixion.
Three days
later, the tomb of Jesus was empty and soon thereafter Jerusalem was in an
absolute uproar because, according to the Bible (see Acts 2:14-39), the
disciples were telling anyone who would listen that they had seen and talked to
the resurrected Jesus, who would someday return to judge every person who ever
lived.
That’s NOT the
Jesus of the Koran, which says at 5:17: “They have certainly disbelieved
who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary.” In case there might be any
doubt on the point, the Koran adds this at 9:30: “Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!” Being
cursed is the worst fate possible for a Muslim.
Similarly, as
Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer notes, the Koran utterly rejects the Christian
claim that Jesus died on the cross, saying at 4:157: “And because of their
saying: We killed the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger – they did
not kill him or crucify him, but it appeared so to them; and those who disagree
concerning it are in doubt about it; they have no knowledge of it except
pursuit of a conjecture; they did not kill him for certain.”
In other
words, the Koran argues that Jesus survived crucifixion.
Al-Dajani concludes his National Catholic Reporter post with
these words:
“Naturally
there are theological differences between Muslims and Christians regarding
Jesus but there are far more similarities and these similarities are what
should be emphasized in order to show the common ground between these two
faiths …”
No, there are
almost no similarities. The Koran and the Bible don’t even agree on the
essential nature of God. Christians believe in God the Father, God the Son and
God the Holy Spirit. The Trinity of three persons who share
one essence.
For the
faithful Muslim, as the Koran says at 4:171, “Allah is only One Allah. It is
far removed from his transcendent majesty that he should have a son.”
Genuine common
ground between Christians and Muslims cannot be based on misrepresentations of
the core beliefs of either faith, especially when they are logically
irreconcilable, as on the issue of whether Jesus is God…
'IT'S MURDER!' CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER
PLANNED PARENTHOOD WORKER (Excerpt)
Charisma News
– Sep. 5, 2017 -- As a talk radio host, I've received many calls from listeners
in pain, but none so poignant as the calls from
mothers who aborted their babies in years past. In some cases, the women break
down weeping as they talk about aborting their baby several decades ago. In one
case, it was a troubled father who called the show, also breaking down in tears
as he described how he talked his girlfriend into aborting their child many
years back. All the "shout your abortion" campaigns cannot undo the
agony of abortion, nor can Planned Parenthood's light-hearted, Ooti the Uterus, emoji campaign.
Recently, I
received a call that was unique in its perspective and pain. It was from a
young Christian woman who, in a time of financial need as a single mother, took
a job at Planned Parenthood. (She called in anonymously.) She wondered if she
was doing the right thing, since she wasn't directly involved in performing
abortions. But she was struggling deep down, also asking me if God could
forgive for what she was doing.
After I
assured her that God would absolutely forgive her but that she needed to leave
her job—she called on a Friday afternoon, and I urged her never to go back—she
then opened her heart wide, beginning to sob on the phone. She said, "But
there is a room in the back that is called a POC room—Products of Conception.
It's where things are processed. They refer to it as either tissue or fetus but
I saw it for the first time. It's a baby. It's not tissue. It's really bad. It
is. It's a baby: there's legs, there's arms and there is eyes.
It's a baby."
Yes, it's a
baby—actually, many babies—ripped apart into little pieces, tiny children who
were intricately formed by God but have been torn up by people for profit and convenience.
It really is a horror.
Off the air, I
received this woman's contact information and passed it on to some pro-life
co-workers. Telling her story in more depth to one of those workers, she said,
weeping, "It's murder. I saw an ultrasound during the abortion ... and the
baby was trying to escape ... to get away ... but he couldn't..."
No wonder she
was in such spiritual turmoil.
To her credit,
she called Planned Parenthood that following Monday, saying she would not be
coming back, even though they offered her more money and assured her they were
doing good.
But there was
no turning back for her: "Once, I saw tiny fully developed hands in the
little Pyrex dish. Tiny, tiny hands perfectly formed ... that was one of the
last straws for me. I kept thinking that one day Jesus will return. I believe
in the rapture. What if He returned and found me doing this? I gave up
my whole belief system for money. I was paid $70,000 and they offered more when
I quit!"
DUSTY STARS
Genesis 1:16 “And God made two great lights; the greater light
to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars
also.”
Creation
Moments – Sep. 5, 2017 -- The news has again been filled with stories about the
search for planets orbiting nearby stars. All these stories assume that our
Earth was not formed by God. They perpetuate the idea that the Earth and other
planets in the solar system formed when dust around the young sun began to
collect into lumps.
The
search for planets orbiting other stars concentrates on stars that have dust
around them. Scientists who believe in evolution think that if they find
evidence of planets forming around those stars, evolution will have a stronger
case against the Bible.
Research
papers delivered at the American Astronomical Society discussed the dust around
the star Beta Pictoris. They say that this star,
visible from Earth’s southern hemisphere, has chemical elements in its
surrounding dust that are similar to the chemical elements they think were in
the original dust cloud around our sun. Another paper said that the gaps in the
dust surrounding eight other stars are due to the formation of planets around
those stars. The distance of all these stars is too great to allow actual
sightings of any orbiting planets. As David Black, director of the Lunar and
Planetary Institute in Houston, correctly pointed out, “The landscape of
previous efforts to detect planets is littered with the corpses of claims that
haven’t been substantiated.”
Are there planets
around other stars? We don’t know. But we do know that the Bible’s account of
how the Earth was created by God is perfectly accurate.
GOD HONORS OUR COMMITMENT TO HIM
Daniel and his
friends faced the same dilemma that we do today—how to live a holy life. At
times, our society seems to accept Christian values and standards, but that’s
not always the case. Our challenge is to live under God’s authority while remaining
in submission to the law of the land. But what if we are forced to choose
between the two? Our first inclination should be to seek the Lord’s guidance
before marching forward.
Had Daniel
bluntly declared, “I won’t eat this food!” he wouldn’t have lasted long, and we
wouldn’t have the book of Daniel in the Bible. But the Lord gave him the wisdom
to humbly seek permission from the person who was in a position of authority
over him. God honored the young man’s commitment and provided a way for him to
live righteously in a pagan world.
We tend to
hold up Daniel and his three friends as extraordinary people who lived amazing
lives. But they were regular people, just like us. Have you ever wondered what
the Lord could do in the life of an ordinary person like you or me? The
determining factor is not the individual’s greatness, but rather his or her
commitment to a heavenly Father who can do remarkable things in a life fully
devoted to Him. That’s the kind of person God is looking for.
Although we
don’t know all that God could do in and through us if
we radically committed ourselves to Him, the thought of missing out on His
plans should be enough to motivate us to obey. On arriving in heaven, we don’t
want to discover blessings were forfeited because we weren’t fully devoted to
Him.
In Touch
Ministry
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."
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:
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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