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Does Jesus Indicate Prophecy Is Important –Part 2

02 Oct

Yesterday we concentrated on some scriptures that Jesus had for the Pharisees and Sadducees back during His first coming.

Today let’s see what He says about the importance of looking for Him during His second coming.

Matthew 24:42-44 – 42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Immanency!  It says the Lord could come at an hour you do not expect Him.  That means from the time He took off into the clouds till He does really appear.  So much for looking for Him at the end of the seven year tribulation.  I would know exactly when He would come back.  Yet it is healthy for all of us to live like it’s today.  It should keep us focused.  It should keep our eye on the real prize, not some earthly one.

What else has He got to say on the subject?

Luke 12:35-40 – 35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. 38 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night. 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

How can we keep watch?

By reading God’s Word and knowing the signs of His coming.  It is important to Jesus that people study God’s Word and are paying attention to the prophecies.  It will be good for those servants.

 
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Does Jesus Indicate Prophecy Is Important?

01 Oct

Does Jesus Indicate Prophecy Is Important?

Let’s examine some scripture to see if Jesus thought that to know prophecy is important.

Matthew 16:1-3 – 1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

2 He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ 3 and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

It appears that Jesus was reminding those who were in charge of looking for His coming that they were missing it.  He also seemed to be upset about that.  I would say this scripture indicates that Jesus wants us to know the prophecies.  Let’s look on.

Luke 12:54-56 – 54 He said to the crowd: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does. 55 And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. 56 Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?

In this scripture which somewhat parallels the other He even gets a little more specific and states, “how is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?”   So not only were they missing the sign of the times, they were missing that very present time.

They were missing the very one they were supposed to be looking for.  Yet they were looking for the Messiah.  They weren’t looking for a lot of things, but mainly the Messiah.  And yet they still were missing Him.  Why?  Their hearts were looking for the wrong thing.  Had they really been looking for the Messiah they would have started to recognize Him.  They were seeking world power and getting back on top instead of under the Romans.  They didn’t want God or the Messiah Himself, but what came in their minds with it.

Has anything changed?

I don’t think so.  I look around at even Christian friends and they are still chasing after everything but the Messiah, and yet they still try to convince themselves they are.

We’ll continue on this subject tomorrow.

 
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The World Is Ripe In Deception – Part 2

26 Sep

Yesterday we talked about how the world is ripe for deception.  The fact is we are ripe in deception.

Who is ripe?  Not just the unsaved, but those Christians who don’t know God’s Word.

The next verse is one that is in the Tribulation but I see major deception already to those who have focused on the world and this life and have fallen asleep.

Revelation 13:11-14 –   11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12 He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

If you are not in the Word of God and not wearing the Armor of God, you will fall into certain amount of deception.  It’s just too alive and rampant right now.  In today’s world right is wrong and wrong is okay.  Things continue to get so bad, that those things that used to seem bad are nothing to worry about in our own minds.  They seem small anymore.  The problem is its all evil.

3 John1:11 – 11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

So we see that it is important to do good not evil, but how do we know what is what?  God says what’s good and what is evil.  If you don’t know the Word, you won’t know what it is.  Because right now the world is trying to convince people the exact opposite of good and evil.

Isaiah 5:20 –20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Don’t be deceived; study your Word of God and His love letter to you.

 
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The World Is Ripe In Deception- Part 1

24 Sep

Yes I didn’t write for deception because that would mean it is to come.  Deception is everywhere.

Who is being deceived?  I’ve been watching pretty closely and here is what I see.

Anyone who does not pay one hundred percent to the scriptures is being deceived.  That means Christians and those who are not Christians.  The body that has not attempted to make a good effort on putting on the Armor of God is living in their own hopeful world.

So where is the deception Pat?  The shorter answer is, “where is it not?”  It’s in our Country rampantly.  It never shines more than during an election process.  It’s in the whole world.

Who gets deceived?  The one who doesn’t know the Word of God.

The argument can be made that it has always been that way.  True, but at least there were more who did know it only 50 years ago that was passing on the Truth to others.  Now deception is coming from the pulpits.  Why?  Because they are not teaching the Word of God as if it is Truth.  They pick and choose.  When the world looks strongly at something that the Bible opposes, they choose the world.  They say you can’t trust the Bible, so we have to pick and choose what works for us.  That’s a doctrine that comes from demons.  Oh yeah, deceiving spirits are alive and well in America.  If you read your Old Testament they used to infiltrate the prophets (false prophets) that weren’t in tuned to God.

If you believe everything is great and always believe it will be in this country for you, you’re deceiving yourself.  It wasn’t too long ago a man named Hitler was busy over in Europe and those complacent fooled themselves that he will be happy just doing the next little thing on his agenda.  His agenda was to take over the world and destroy the Jews, he wasn’t going to stop.

As humans and our narrow focus, history is what has happened in our narrow little lifetime.  Anything before our parent’s childhood is like a storybook that doesn’t mean anything.  That’s called false positive thinking and that is a form of deception.

Tomorrow we will continue on with this topic.

 
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How Many Friends Does Israel Have in The Last Days?

04 Sep

Zechariah 14:2-4 –2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.  3 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.

How many nations are friends of Israel today?  If you said the U.S., this current administration is not.  Currently Israel is hanging on that thread of nobody hardly being in their corner.  Because they are the only democracy over there and because there is still some good support from the people in the United States they get a little support.  Canada is still friendly but not as much of a worldly presence.

Not even Hitler used the open language of his plan and the annihilation of the Jews as clearly as the leadership of Iran today.  Hitler also didn’t have most of the Jews back in their land or nuclear capability.  The President and the Ayatollah of Iran have repeatedly said they will use their capabilities to try and end Israel.

What has the world done?  Basically nothing.

Why?  Because they have the support of Russia and that could lead to a world war.

Who are the main big players in the last days to go against Israel in Ezekiel 38 & 39?  Russia which is called Gog and the old Persia which is now the Iran/Iraq area.

We know that Iran’s wishes are religious and spiritual.  But what about an unspiritual Russia?  Russia for the last 70 years has always been about domination and growing.  There is a nice south port down in Israel amongst the oil.  Many also believe that Israel is on top of a major amount of oil or in drilling distance themselves.  If your Russia that seems like an opportunity to further your goal.

Will that happen successfully?  As we read above, it will not.  The Lord Himself comes down to fight against those nations.

Israel has the most important Friend at that time.  A Friend that will keep His promise which He made to Abraham long ago.

 
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Series Of Earthquakes In Southern CA

27 Aug

We we’re down in Anaheim and had gone to bed when the Yorba Linda 4.5 quake hit at about 11:23 PM on August 8th.  My wife hadn’t been through one before and it wasn’t very big, but it was only 5 miles away from the epicenter.  She said, “What should we do?”  I rolled over and told her to go back to bed.  I let her know that earthquakes come and go, they’re not warnings of something to soon hit that’s bigger.

Ironically I’m looking online and twice this last month another earthquake almost the same size did hit nearby.  They were bigger than an aftershock.  Yesterday Brawley, CA had a 5.3 followed up by a 5.5 only less than an hour a half later.  August 11th, there were two quakes in Ahar, Iran 11 minutes apart that we’re 6.4 and 6.2.  However, we only had a couple of aftershocks the next day we couldn’t even feel, so I didn’t have to eat my words that night.

There was also a large quake in El Salvador of 7.4 yesterday or even today by the UTC clock used to tell the time.

Almost everyone who knows bible prophecy knows it that earthquakes are one of the significant signs of his coming.  They are like birth pangs.  They will happen closer together and more intense as the time of His coming approaches.

Matthew 24:7 –7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

 
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Stiff Necked People

02 Aug

Acts 7:51-53 – 51 “You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! 52 Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him — 53 you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it.”

Stephen gave a great history lesson of the Jews to the upper tier of spiritual leadership.  This just how he finished and did they repent?  Did they feel shame for missing what they had been foretold and missed?

No, since they didn’t have the Holy Spirit, they were still blind.  So responding the same way demons do when they hear the Word, they picked up stones and killed him.  They didn’t want to hear it.

Today bible prophecy, which there is more written about Christ’s second return than His first, is in full bloom.  Ignorance is not an excuse because people like me are telling them about it.  They don’t want to hear it.

The bad thing though is the reason people don’t want to hear it is because they are not excited about the Lord coming back.  The reasons vary, but the reality is they are not interested in Him coming back.  If a Christian is not excited about the Lord coming back after they hear about it and the scriptures point to it, there is a Holy Spirit problem.

The lack of the Holy Spirit problem today is rapidly affecting the church.  Many denominations have turned away from the literal interpretation of the Word of God.

What are the results?  Even though God promised the Jews He was going to rule on David’s throne, apparently to many denominations, He’s not.  To other denominations he isn’t coming back, or not until man paves the way.  Apparently He doesn’t mind same sex couples as that one is rapidly sweeping through the pulpits.

However, we still have literal verses of prophecy that explain and predict those things above.

2 Peter 3:3-4- 3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

2 Timothy 3:3-4 – 3 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. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Don’t be part of the itching ear clan.  Seek Truth.

 
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A Spirit Playing A Harp?

04 Jun

A Spirit Playing A Harp?

Satan always has a way of making an impression on the church.

First of all, if being a spirit and playing a harp for an eternal church service was how Heaven was going to be, you would be ecstatic.  That’s how your new self would respond to your new destiny.

However, does that really make a lot of sense?

The devil has used this to try and persuade people that the world has got so much more interesting and better things to offer than boring old Heaven.  He has successfully done a pretty good job, because almost everyone I see isn’t chasing after Heaven but trying to get in a heaven on earth.

A spirit, playing harp, on a cloud?  Which part of this matches up?

God made a creation and creatures on a perfect and beautiful earth.  He then made man and his partner so they could help run this institution.  What does man and his wife do?  They sin and turn it over to Satan.  No it’s cursed.

Man however, was made perfect and he had a body.  They were made for relationship with each other, with the animals, and with the Lord.  They had tasks to do.  They weren’t floating ghosts that had nothing to do but sit around.

Let’s take a look at Jesus after he resurrected.

Luke 24: – 36 Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” 37 But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.”

40 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. 41 But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, “Have you any food here?” 42 So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 And He took it and ate in their presence.   NKJV

He had flesh and bone.  He ate fish and honeycomb.  He intermingled back amongst His disciples.

We were created the way we were supposed to be created.  The fall cursed the current way we think and the reason we start dying from the time we’re born.

Jesus died and paid the penalty we were doomed to have had to face.  Now all we have to do is get back to making Him Lord just like it was before the fall in the garden.  Time to make Him Lord again and receive that resurrected body that happens at the rapture.

What purpose would a ghost have for a mansion?

John 14:2-4 –  2 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. 3 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. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

Don’t let the devil deceive you.  Heaven is perfection.  Perfection on how you will view it.  How you will feel about being there.  It will be all that you could hope for, because the Lord made us and knows exactly what we like even more than we do.

Serve Him every day.  He’s worthy!

 
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A Continued Word Of Prophecy

01 Jun

Nehemiah 1:8-9 –8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.

It happened back in the day of Nehemiah and the promise is there to stay.  As we read more prophecy the Lord has brought Israel back in these last days.  He will sit on the throne of David and rule and reign for 1,000 years.  The devil doesn’t like it and feels that if he can get rid of the Jewish race there will be no throne to sit on.  He has a whole large religion trying to achieve that for him.

I’ve read the ending along with many of you.  He doesn’t get that done no matter how hard he tries.  Our God reigns!

 
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What’s One Of The Signs Of The Last Days?

30 Apr

2 Peter 3:4 – 3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

If you’ve read much of my blog you’ll remember that I have written many times that there would be a great falling away from the true faith.  Those are believers that are doing that, not unbelievers.  This post is to point out the same issue regarding believers.

Peter is stating that scoffers will come in the last days mocking the idea that Christ is going to return.  They have a form of taunting in them.  They will say “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?”  Peter exposes their hearts though.  He indicates it’s because they are following their own evil desires.  Once again, SELF!

Seeing any of this today?

Here is my analogy.  A huge group of people are down in a valley partying it up.  They are surrounded by high hills all around them.  The hills easily climbable but the hike will take awhile and some work.  There are those who choose to climb the hills and “wow” they see signs of things that they have only heard about coming off in the distance.  They go back to the crowd and tell them what they saw.  A few find it fascinating and head for the hills.  They go up and see even more than the previous group and come down to tell others.

This keeps happening and what they see in the distance once they get up to the top of the hill just keeps getting closer.  However, many that have made the hike have gotten older and have died.  Others that come back to tells those partying in the valley about how they are seeing even more are not finding too many that are interested in disrupting their valley party.

This story is just an analogy in regarding that people refuse to look for the signs or even take any time to learn what they may be.  It isn’t going into the consequences of a heart that doesn’t want to look for or seek the Lord.

There are two things around us in these last days that are easily seen by a mere time consuming but simple study.  One, evolution is very flawed and for brilliant minds of scientist to put their complete faith in it reveals the true definition of “blind faith.”  Second if you study what the signs are for Christ’s Second Coming, you couldn’t come to any other conclusion except that it is right at the door.

So where is the problem with believers and the missteps?

If a believer doesn’t know the Word of God they are ripe for picking by the evil one.  Satan and his demons hang out in the darkness.  Jesus wants us in the sheep pen where he can guard us.  However, many believers stubbornly refuse to stay corralled in the pen.

A majority of Christians today don’t know the difference between Light and darkness.  They don’t know the difference between Truth and a lie.  It’s because they don’t know the Word of God.

To reach others we need to know the Word.  To protect our hearts and souls we need to know the Word.  There is a war going on for man’s heart and soul.  Are you going be Switzerland and be neutral?  God doesn’t want neutral.  He wants you to choose His side.

The signs are all around us and we are nearing the time Jesus is going to take His church and the group of the scoffers is getting bigger every day.

 
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