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Reminder Of The Man Of Lawlessness

21 Apr

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 – 1Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

I was responding back to someone who was nice enough to send a comment and wrote this back to him and thought it would be a good post.

The One who holds back the lawless one can only be the Holy Spirit.  When He’s out of the way the church is gone and out of the way also.

We need to love His appearing.  There are many that will be saved after the rapture and before the second coming.  They are the tribulation saints we read about.

Why the need for 144,000 sealed Jews, 12,000 from each tribe and two witnesses?  Because the church is gone.  Otherwise, isn’t that the churches job?

People don’t want to focus on this earth or delay in accepting the Lord.  If they don’t love the truth, then as the scripture says in verse 11, God sends then a powerful delusion.  Deep down they already want to believe the illusion and that’s why they have never sought Him.

The signs of the second coming are getting stronger each day.  The rapture is going to be at least 7 years prior to that.  Don’t hesitate to study all you can.  One, it will build your faith, two, we need to share with those who are willing to listen.  At least if they don’t accept now, they will have knowledge and could possibly be those who give up their lives and accept Jesus as a tribulation saint.  Otherwise it’s verse 11.

 
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Who Do You Serve?

15 Apr

So choosing to blow people up, strike terror, who do you think those people serve?

Romans 13:9-10 – 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Matthew 22:37-40 – 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

So did those people or groups that did this or even celebrate the attack in Boston believe the above words?

No.

If you believe that all roads lead to Rome understand this.  A God that says the Jewish people, are a people He has made a covenant with and gave them the land they’re in, is not the same god as the one that wants every last one of them destroyed and the land taken from them.  They are not the same God.

It is amazing to see how many people can’t even make that simple distinction.  The problem isn’t lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of wisdom and a lack of caring to look at it in depth.

So who do you serve?  A god of fear, hate, and destruction.

Perhaps you would rather serve a God that loved you enough to pay for your sins and die for you instead.  It will cost you.  It will cost you being the god of your life and to start serving Him.  He wants you and rather or not you realize it, you need Him.

 
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If Someone Is Looking For Christ And Not In The Air……Then

13 Apr

Many people in the church believe they have to prepare the earth before Jesus comes back.  Is that biblical?  Isn’t that saying that they are bringing the millennium for Christ, instead of Christ taking control and doing so?

Here’s what I read:

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 –  16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

I have a date with the Lord in the air.

As a pre-trib rapture Christian, I believe the Lord comes for His bride and it’s off to the honeymoon.  So if there is a group trying to lay the foundation for the Lord so he can lead them on this utopian earth they are trying to make, who are they going to see?  The antichrist.

Don’t get me wrong, we are to be witnesses for our Lord.  We are to be spreading the Good News.  However, our citizenship is in Heaven and not being a dweller on this earth.

Our Savior is coming to call us in the air.  It’s a blessed hope.  The antichrist is coming to try and run his kingdom on the earth through the most troubling and horrific time.  Christ comes back at the end of that time with His bride, which is at Armageddon.  Then rules and reigns in the millennium and allows His own to help rule with Him.

Don’t love this earth, love Heaven.  Don’t be looking for antichrist, but Jesus Christ.

 
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No Greater Love

31 Mar

John 15:13 – 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

He died for each and every one of us, which are willing to accept it and make Him Lord.  Today reflect on how much love the Lord has shown to each one of us.  For a perfect loving God to die for a bunch of out of control haywire humans, is nothing to be taken for granted.

The God who made the whole universe died in our place, so we may live.  Praise your glorious name Lord!

 
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Obedience Is So Important

20 Mar

Psalm 128:1 – 1 Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
    who walk in obedience to him. 

Blessed.  A word we should not overlook.  Our Lord wants us to be obedient, obedient out of love.  Serve Him and not ourselves.  Make Him Lord, that’s what wants.  He wants our hearts. 

That’s what our walk needs to be all about.  The further off the path the darker it gets.  It’s easier to get lost when it gets dark.  

We need to be afraid of spiritual darkness.

 
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Are You Excited To See God?

02 Mar

Psalm 42:2 – 1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?

Reading these verses remind me that I hope the rapture is in the next second.  Are you excited to be with the One who loves you and only wants heaven and happiness for you?  Or are you fixated on this world and all of your own accomplishments more.

I underlined “more”, because the Lord wants us to keep Him the center and work hard while we’re here, but I can promise you if you’re more excited about this place than His coming..?????

Put yourself in His shoes.  You’re coming back for your bride and your bride would rather you not show up right now.  You’re bride doesn’t even want to think about you showing up right now.

Just thinking about that and hearing yourself read it is kind of scary, isn’t it?  It kind of reminds of this parable.

Luke 14:15-24 –  15 When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”

16 Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 17 At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

18 “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’

19 “Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’

20 “Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

21 “The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’

22 “‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’

23 “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. 24 I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.’”

Don’t love the world, Love Your Lord!  His appearing is so close.  Is your heart ready?

 
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Make Every Effort

22 Feb

2 Peter 1:3-11 – 3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

10 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, 11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Such encouraging words to remind us to keep our eyes on the prize.  It’s a reminder that the Lord isn’t just looking for someone to accept His grace and then just continue living anyway they want.  We are to make every effort to be an ambassador for the Lord.  Live for Him.

 
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No Mind Has Conceived….No Mind From Earth Has Ever…

18 Feb

1 Corinthians 2:9 –

9 However, as it is written:

“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him”

I can think of some pretty cool things.  However, just like in my life, the Lord knows what I need more than I would choose.  He does a fabulous job.  Praise be to our wonderful Lord.

Which takes us to phase two.  Those verses up above mean….we can’t possibly imagine how great the Lord has made it for us in Heaven.  How AWESOME is that!

I’ve written on the story before and want to bring it up again.  One night back when I was in my late twenties (been awhile now :)) I just really wanted something to uplift my spirit from the Lord.  I didn’t ask for anything specific, just something encouraging.

The coolest thing happened.  I went to sleep and had a great dream.  You know what it was about?  Neither do I.  I wasn’t allowed to remember.  Am I freaking you out?

Here is what I was allowed to get from the dream.  I remember by my emotions that I was extremely in awe and excited.  I remember that I thought it was incredibly beautiful.  I remember coming out of the dream and away from what I was shown and saying, “Lord you have shown me more than I could ever have asked for!”

You know how I know it was from the Lord?  One I asked before I went to bed, which I never had before and still haven’t since.  Two, I wasn’t allowed to remember one of the neatest and incredible things that my mind enjoyed.

But I know this.  When I read the above scripture and add it to the wonderful gift that the Lord gave to me, I know that we cannot even conceive how great it will be.

Are you ready?  Are you living for Him?  There have been some recent signs in the stars with the meteor hitting in Russia and the asteroid flying close by.  Pretty wild that they happened on the same day.  There have been 15 earthquakes over 6.2 since January 30th.  Out of those, 7 were 6.8 or higher.  Also we have the Pope stepping down.  The Prophecy of the Popes isn’t biblical, but still pretty amazing.  According to it, this is the last Pope before Rome is destroyed.   Why is it so amazing?  If you’re Catholic, this isn’t the kind of prophecy that you’re excited about being fulfilled and yet it has been known for 400 years now.  Look into it.  It is interesting how it can fit in with things of Revelation.

I believe our King is coming soon.  Real soon.  God Bless.

 
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Show Me Your Ways Oh Lord

01 Feb

Psalm 25:4-5 – 4 Show me your ways, O Lord,
teach me your paths;
5 guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.

We really need to want this in our hearts.

If the Lord is the most important thing in our lives, we have to concentrate on Him and make Him our habit.  It’s a good habit.

 
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Don’t Fear Those Who Can Kill Only The Body

29 Jan

Luke 12:5 – 5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

It’s a reverent fear that we should have.  It’s a respect for the One who made us.

So many people say they are not motivated by fear.  That’s not really always true.  The problem is that many people sitting in a comfortable situation can state it that way, but if a lion came in your living room and it looked hungry, you going to be motivated by fear to move out of the room.

Would it be an intelligent move?  Absolutely!

Now with our Lord, He is also love.  So the reverence doesn’t lead to following a scary tyrant.  People look at it as a negative, but it isn’t that way when you get to know the Lord.  It’s another way to keep us on the path we need to be on.

If the truth be known, nothing should be scarier in existence than being an enemy of God.

When someone threatens to kill you on this earth, trust me it isn’t out of love.  So if you cave into that person, what are gaining except a temporary sparing of this earthly life?  However, if you know your Lord, when someone kills you, you’re present with Him.  Rather now or later, you’ll want to be with Him.

If you’re being killed because of your love and obedience to Him, it will be recognized by your Lord.  There is a martyr’s crown.

There are times when people chose the Lord and it has lead to an earthly death.  They didn’t fear the one who could kill the body more than the one who can kill the body and throw the soul into hell. There is coming a time in these last days that believer’s may have to choose the same on a more mass regular basis.

The people, who threaten you to believe their way or face death, don’t love you.  They don’t serve anyone who loves you.  The One who loves you, made you, died for you, and wants your allegiance and heart.  If you choose not to serve Him, you should fear.

Make Him your loving Lord, not your adverse enemy.

 
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