Exciting Times indeed -- I want to keep my eyes on Christ and on Israel.
And on the truths found in the Bible. That Book is indeed the Word of God and one of the most exciting aspects of it is prophecy and all the fulfilled prophecies that verify Scripture. God doesn't miss. He never has.
Have you considered this and therefore are walking with him or are you far from him today?
Listen, the farther one takes a stride from the Master's side.. the farther one goes from the God of love, wanders off away from our dear Lord.. the less they will know real peace, love, and joy inside. Please come to.. or come back to him. Now is good. Some look around and have asked...
How did we even get here.. to the point where gathering to burn Bibles in the streets is protected by the first amendment, but gathering at church to study them isn’t? Weird huh.
It wasn’t enough for Democrats to burn our flag, to burn our businesses, to burn our churches, to burn our Bibles on the streets of Portland.. they now want to burn this nation.. yes, burn you through more of their cheating like mail in voting.
Is Coronavirus aka Covid 19 a Sign of the End Times?
Sure, I think it's a birth pain. Perhaps we're now in the end of the end times ..right before the Rapture happens. The Rapture is the next event on the prophetic calendar. Nothing needs to happen before it happens according to Scripture.
Jesus Loves You, Has a Good Plan Still. He Promised to Come Again
to Rapture His Church Outta Here. You Can be A Part of that! Make Your Reservation in Advance.
One of the greatest promises in the Bible is the promise from Christ to His disciples (and to us in our day as well) that someday He will come again to
take us up to heaven with Him. Just hours prior to His unjust trial before
the Roman governor Pilate and His crucifixion, Jesus said,
Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God,
believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that
where I am, there you may be also ( John 14:1-3).
“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.” Matthew 24:38-42
“For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." 2 Timothy 4:3-4
After the Rapture happens then comes the wrath on earth, but you weren't appointed unto wrath, believer. Are you a (spiritually) born again believer yet? Man, who really wants to go through those years of tribulation and great trib here like this world has never seen before? If they only knew.. nobody would. No one would want to.
And God says in Ezekiel 33:11: ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live."
And you're perhaps heard about that popular one who will show up on this world's scene. The deceiver will promise strength and peace and security, but the Bible says he will speak out against the Most High and he will wear down the saints of the Most High.
That’s why I warn you to beware now of a new leader with great charisma trying to take over the world during this terrible time of chaos and confusion. This person is known in the Bible as Antichrist. He will make many promises, but he will not keep them.
We must not take his mark, but we must trust in the promises of God Almighty through his Son, Jesus Christ.
Please read the words of Isaiah. He was one of the greatest Hebrew prophets—called by scholars “the
prince of prophets”—he lived about 800 years before Jesus Christ showed up. He spoke frequently for the Lord to His people. This prophet’s name was Isaiah, and his track record of fulfilled prophecies serves as proof that he
spoke for God because only God can foretell the future with 100 percent precision, yes and have it all come to pass.
For some time there's been an interest in this. In Isaiah 46:9-10, this prophet spoke on behalf of God, saying,
Remember the former things of old,
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not yet done,
saying, “My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all My pleasure.”
Here, God declared beyond all unbelief that He alone is God,
and for proof to verify the Scriptures, He pointed to the accurate fulfillment of His prophecies as the evidence.
Only God can tell, in advance, what will happen in
the days soon to come.
There are more than a 1000 prophecies in the
Bible. And more than 500 have already been fulfilled. The skeptic might
say that is only a 50-percent fulfillment rate. The trouble with that
objection is that the other 500-plus prophecies haven’t yet been fulfilled because they are still in the future.
They have to do with the end times,
an area of study known as eschatology. These prophecies are now going to be fulfilled soon, and we can expect them to continue
being fulfilled at an increasingly rapid pace.
For example, it is more than interesting that the people of Israel
began returning to the Holy Land after expulsion from the land for
some 1850 years. And since 1948, Israel has been recognized by the
United Nations as a sovereign nation. This regathering of the people
and rebirth of the nation are among hundreds of signs of the end
times that are being fulfilled today—signs we’ll examine more closely
later in this book.
The point in Isaiah 46:9-10 is that God, through Isaiah, pointed
to fulfilled prophecy as proof that He is God. On the basis of God’s
perfect track record when it comes to prophecy, we can trust what He
has said about who He is, what He has said about the past, and what
He proclaims will happen in the future.
The most basic definition of authentic Bible prophecy is that it
is history written in advance. Anyone can utter a sorta prophecy, but having the prophecy come to pass right on schedule, well that can only be done by God, for He
alone knows the future. This is why it is possible to say that fulfilled
prophecy proves beyond question that the originator of the prophecy is authentic. And when you consider that more than 500 of God’s
prophecies have been accurately fulfilled without a single error, then logic tells us that God is surely the source of all things behind those
prophecies.
God knows very well.. you, me, us all, and the future ahead, but that
does not mean He causes all of it. We all have sinned. Hate that, but we still do from time to time.
We need the word for victory and guidance. We need Scripture for strength, warnings, edification and inspiration -- it all points to Jesus Christ and his work. All of the written word is inspired by God (see 2 Timothy 3:16-17).
The Bible is completely inerrant in the original
manuscripts -- so much prophecy in there!
To review.. you know that about 27% of the Bible (comprised of the Old Testament 39 books, which are also used by the Jews, and the New Testament 27 books) is about prophecy (i.e., 8,352 verses out of 31,124
verses in the whole Bible).
There are 1,845 references to Christ’s
Second Coming in the Old Testament, and 318 such references in the New Testament.
Compare that to the 109 declarations in the Bible about His first coming [Tim LaHaye, 2012]. In the Bible, only the doctrine of salvation is mentioned more than the doctrine of
Christ’s Second Coming [LaHaye, 2011a].
The Apostle Paul, for example, mentioned
baptism 13 times, communion 2 times, and the Second Coming 50 times.
You remember how the Bible was written by 40 authors guided by the Holy Spirit. Yes, they were supernaturally inspired by God in this, over a period of
1500-2100 years (Moses wrote Genesis-Deuteronomy in approximately 1400-1450 BC,
and Revelation was written shortly before 100 AD; but, it’s possible that the book of Job
was written around 2000 BC). Bible prophecy can be used to confirm that the God of the
Bible is the one true God, by tracking the fulfilled prophecies.
Turn, trust..believe. The living word (Jesus) and the written word can be trusted.
Jesus was the fulfillment of what the Old Testament prophets had prophesied about -- they all pointed to him. Yes, for hundreds of years.
You know how the Jewish people largely rejected Christ, and are still looking for the Messiah's first appearance. But Christ made it clear that: He is the Messiah, He will snatch his Church out of here, and he is coming back to earth to rule and reign with us.
How do we know that the Bible is the Word of God? I like how Hank Hanegraaff uses the acronym MAPS to provide proof of the Bible’s Divine Inspiration [2011]:
The Book is inspired for you--it's God's love letter to believers. And why must you turn trust, and be born again? Cuz in the Bible God says you must be born again in his Son Jesus. He says we all must repent and have saving faith -- must be born again spiritually (See John 3:3).
The Bible says that to all those who receive him, he gives the power to become sons of God. Forgiven and washed clean in his righteousness. Simple as that. Jesus is the living word—the Father's only ultimate Solution for you, me and our world. When we become sons of God, we have what Jesus has: a meaningful relationship with God the Father. We enjoy abundant and eternal life starting then not later on, and because Jesus paid our full penalty, we also have full forgiveness for our sins. Humbly request. Ask.
Never forget that what's taught in the Bible is fully accurate and has all been verified by fulfilled prophecy.
“Since the accuracy rate for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy so far has been 100%, we can be confident that it will continue to be so. No other religion in the world has such confirming evidence to inspire its faith.” ―
“The Bible says that the Cross offends. If you are offended, I am doing my job. If you are attracted to Christ, the Spirit is doing his work." ―Bruce Barnes
Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins. So selfless -- I want you to know him. You must come to him on his terms.
In Romans 10:9-10 the Bible says, ‘If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
Would you pray something like this.. Dear God, I admit that I’m a sinner. I am sorry for hurting your heart -- so sorry for my sins. Please forgive me and save me. I ask this in the name of Jesus, who died for me on the cross..in my place. I trust Jesus right now. I believe that the sinless blood of Jesus is sufficient to pay the full price for my salvation. I accept and invite you in, Jesus. Thank you for hearing me and receiving me. Thank you for saving my soul.
