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Israel Will Be One Nation Again, For Good – End Times Prophecy

21 May

After King Solomon, Israel was divided into two nations.  Israel to the north and Judah to the South.

It was 930 BC when they divided and the northern kingdom Israel met its end in 722 BC.  Judah would later fall and Jerusalem would be ransacked and burned in 586 BC.

So the importance of this prophecy is because Israel was more than one nation for many years.

Ezekiel 37:21-22 – 21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.

There will be one King.  That King, will be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords .  The Messiah the Jews have rejected for 2000 years.

Zechariah 12:10 –  10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on [me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Jesus will rule and reign for a thousand years.  The devil will be bound and thrown into the bottomless pit for a thousand years.  All of those who loved the Lord and are part of the first resurrection will rule and reign with Him.

The House of Israel will finally have their King under a unified nation.

 
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The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

20 May

Matthew 18:3-4  3And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

We need to have faith like a child and be humble like a child.  We need our Father and should be excited about His agenda for us and our lives.  Do you remember when we were just little children?  We trusted things our parents told us and if they had an idea, we were on board.

What happened as we got older?  We got our own ideas and were going to do it our way.  It’s good to be unique.  God made us all with our own personality.  But as humans we’ve taken it much further than that.  Now the attitude is I’m a big boy or girl and I’ll do what I please or see fit.  Just remember one thing.  God said he who humbles himself like a little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.  Humble yourself towards God and be his child.

 
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I Love God!

19 May

I love God!  I love Jesus!

Do you love God?  Do you tell him?

How would you feel if the people you loved never gave you the time of day?  The ONLY time they came around is when they needed something.  Let’s say they ignore you.  Is that a true friend?

I don’t know about you, but I’m closest to the ones I’m in contact with.  The ones I hang out with.  Those are the individuals I care about the most.

God wants you to come to Him.  He wants you to cast your burdens on Him.  He wants you to thank Him.  He wants you to praise Him.  He wants the humble spirit, not the proud individual who has it all under control and sees no need for God.  He didn’t create you for that purpose.

Mark 12:30-  30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

We all have bad habits.  The best good habit you can form is to pray to God all the time.  Thank him for your meal.  Pray before bedtime.  Thank Him when things are going great and praise His name.  As you begin to do this you will have a walking and talking relationship with Jesus and God.

 
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What Will Our Resurrection Body Be Like? – Rapture

18 May

Does the Bible give us any indication of what our resurrected body is supposed to be like?

Philippians 3:20-21 – 20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

It says that the Lord Jesus Christ will transform our lowly current body to be like His glorious body.

When is this supposed to happen?

1 John 3:2-3 – 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

When does the Church have Christ appear to them?

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 – 16For 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. 17After 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.

So even though to be absent from the body is to be present in the Lord, the dead will still meet the Lord in the air.  When is this?  At the Rapture.  That is when the Church that is still living meets the Lord when he appears.

It’s at that time our bodies become like His glorious body.  The perishable will put on imperishable.

1Corinthians 15:52-54 – 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

What was the glorious body of Jesus like?  We know He had the power to appear at will.

John 20:19 – 19On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

He also appeared for Thomas a week later in a locked room.  So the body will be able to disappear and appear, yet it isn’t a ghostly body.

Luke 24:37-39 –   37They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

Just after this happened, we find out that this body will also be able to eat.

Luke 24:40-42  40When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took it and ate it in their presence.

This should not surprise us.  How else would we be able to enjoy the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Revelation 19:9 –9Then the angel said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”   

This body is dying.  This world is getting worse and becoming more evil as the Day of the Lord draws nearer.  Invest into your future.  You are everyday, one way or another.

 
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Only One Way

17 May

Do all faiths lead to Heaven?

Not according to the Bible.

Peter while talking to the Sanhedrin in the book of Acts said this about Jesus.
Acts 4:12 – 12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

Paul in 1 Timothy 2:5-6 says –  5For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time.

Jesus Himself acknowledges that there is no other way to God except by Him.
John 14:6 – 6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The bridge has been prepared for all who want to come back to God.  He provided the way by His Son dying for our sins.  Any other bridge that is an attempt by man to get to Heaven or back to God, falls way short.  

If you haven’t accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, don’t waste another minute.  You were made to serve God.  If you would like to more on why you need Jesus I have done my best to make a condensed outline for you.  If you are ready to accept the Lord now, there is also a page to the upper right that will guide you through that.

 
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If you’re Satan- How Do You Confuse Them?

16 May

If you’re Satan and you are at war with God and want to be like the most high, how do you get man to turn his back on God?

Man is already a fallen rebellious creature, because he listened to the serpent (Satan) in the Garden of Eden.

If you’re Satan and you tell him not to worship God, he’s probably defiant enough that he will.  If you tell man to worship you, he’s defiant enough he won’t.

So what do you do?

For a start, how about give him lots of choices?

Worship the sun, moon, stars, idols, yourself, false religions, anything…….but the one true God.

Imagine taking a white ping pong ball and throwing it into bathtub full of yellow ping pong balls.  Now stir up the balls.

Now a lot of people are going to look at the tub and say “Wow, that’s a lot of ping pong balls.  Do I really want to take the time to look for the white ping pong ball?  When I find the white one, is it really any different than this yellow one I like over here?  Who’s to say the white one is the right one anyway?  By the way, what am I doing at this tub in the first place?  It’s down-right confusing and who’s to say I need a ping pong ball?  I’m a grown up, I don’t need no stinking ping pong ball.  Ping pong balls are for the weak which need to play with their toys and I don’t need that.”

Does this analogy ring a bell?  I think it does.  It was a lot of fun to write too.     

You see Satan isn’t stupid, he’s evil!  He’s gotten to know man pretty good after six thousand years.

Now if someone wanted to, they could bend down with the light on and look through the balls and spot the white one really easy.   

So how did such an easy thing such as man falling, Jesus dies to pay the debt, you accept him as Lord, and your back with God again, get so complicated?

Satan’s been working hard that’s why.  Look at that paragraph on the ping pong balls again.  It does make your head swim.  Some people out there aren’t looking for the white ball (Jesus), but many are and it is confusing.

Can you help them?  Do you yourself know why you believe what you do?  Can you help others that are confused?  Because they need questions answered!  We need to study the word and build a foundation so we can.

The next question is, will you?

John 21:17 – 17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
      Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”

    Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. 

If you don’t know Jesus and would like to make Him your Savior, please click on “How To Accept Jesus As Savior” in the right upper column.

 
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Study Revelations

15 May

I want to encourage you to get a great study on the book of Revelation.

All of my favorite teachers have great commentary on the book as well as others studies. 

Chuck Missler
Hal Lindsay
Jack Van Impe

Grant Jeffrey has great books that are all laced with the end times and the book of Revelation but I don’t know that he has an actual study or commentary.

The neat thing about the study of Revelation, is it will take you through many other books such as Daniel.  

Their sites are over on my Links.

 
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End Times Prophecy – Jews To Be Gathered Back Into Israel

14 May

I have done an End Times Prophecy on Israel becoming a nation again in the last days.  I also did an End Times Prophecy on the Dry Bones that shall live in Ezekiel 37.

Sticking with that theme I am going to reveal three areas of scripture where God is going to bring his people from other nations and put them back into their promised land.

Isaiah 43:5-6 – 5 do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.  6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth-

Both Isaiah above and Jeremiah below are talking about regathering Israel in the last days.  The whole chapter of Isaiah 43 and Jeremiah 31 refer that He will be their God and Savior and they will never be removed.

Granted, during the last 3 and half years of the Tribulation, there will be a lot of unrest and fleeing to the hills, but they are still there to stay and God’s promise will be fulfilled.

Jeremiah 31:7-10 – 7 This is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations.  Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’  8 See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth.  Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return.

 9 They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.  10 “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands:  ‘He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.’

Ezekiel also confirms this in chapter 37:21 – 21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.

Why did I leave out verse 22?  Because that will be next week’s End Times Prophecy.

Through these three Major Prophets, God made it clear that in the end Israel was going to be back in its own land.  It also makes it very clear that the Messiah was going to be their ruler.  They will not be displaced again.

To all the replacement theology Christians, God is a God of promises.  He didn’t replace Israel with the Church.  God has promises for the Church and God will keep his promises with Israel.  In the last days Israel will be a nation and His Jewish people he made those promises to will be gathered back into their land.

 
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A King’s Example On How To Serve Others

13 May

John 13:5 – 5After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

On the night that Jesus was going to be betrayed and was just finishing His meal at The Last Supper, he told his disciples He was going to wash their feet.  Of course this was unexpected as these men had been with Jesus for three years and He was their Lord.  Peter even stated that Jesus should not have to wash his feet.

Jesus however was explaining to them something that was two-fold.

First, you need to have your sins washed of Me or you can’t be a part of Me. 

John 13:7-8 –   7Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
 8“No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” 
Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

Since Jesus had not yet died, the whole being washed by the blood idea was foreign to them.  Jesus knew in the future that it would make sense to them as he stated in verse 7.

Second, Jesus was teaching us how to be a humble servant.

John 13:14-17 – 14Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

If our King can wash feet, we can wash feet. 

How does that pertain in today’s world?   Here’s a thought and question for you.

Two men are participating in two different jobs.

The first man works his tail off and becomes a big company executive.  Even though he worked hard some other people had to be sacrificed along the way.  He acquires wealth.  Has multiple homes or a mansion.  Has the ability to travel anywhere in the world and can buy anything he wants to buy.  Many people in the world would state this is quite a success story.

The second man wanting to serve the Lord feels a calling from God to be a missionary.  He goes over where he sleeps in a hot muggy hut.  The food is challenging but he feels blessed to have food since people in nearby villages don’t have hardly any.  He lives to share the gospel to others so they may be able to pass it on to others.  Also should they die they have a chance to be in Heaven with the Lord.  The bugs and other creatures are a little more out of the norm than he’s used to and the medical facilities are almost non-existent.

Who is living more like the King who washes our feet?  Who is dying to self in this example?

2 Corinthians 5:17 – 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Which of the two men do you look up to?  The one who sacrifices comfort and tries to pass on God’s love to others, or the one who serves himself?

This scripture I think describes the situation for both men.

Matthew 6:19-21 – 19“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

I believe this scripture will be in many of my posts, as I feel in this generation, we need to hear it and be reminded of it on a regular basis.

Jesus washed his disciple’s feet, as an example of how we are to treat others.  John 13:17- 17Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

 
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It Is More Important To Serve God Than Man

12 May

Acts 4:18-20 – 18Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God. 20For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

This scripture really touched me as I read it recently.  In today’s world and the way our country is going, you are going to have to be strong in your faith.  You are going to be challenged to stop believing the way you are biblically supposed to.  It is already happening in the world and in the US.

The pressure of the world’s thinking has already made its way into many of our nation’s pulpits.  It’s no secret to those who believe God’s Word is truth, that God doesn’t think the same way as man.

Soon the biggest crime concerning religion will be intolerance.  This is already happening in the media.  It is the war cry for many religious movements that believe all roads lead to God.

However, that’s not what God says in the Bible.  There is only one way to God the Father and that is through Jesus, His only begotten Son.  We all know as Christians that a rekindled relationship with our Creator is not religion.

As we move forward don’t get swept away in the tide of the world.  It says in the last days some shall fall away.

1 Timothy 4:1 – 1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 

Folks, this abandoning isn’t a reference to non-believers.  This abandoning is a reference to those who believe they are serving God.

I am not one of those people who ignore grace.  Grace is what we are saved by.  I am not one of those people who sets a bar up high and believes you must be great or you will fail.  I’m just here out of love and obedience to God my Father and his Son my King and Savior, to remind you what the scriptures are telling us.  I am praying, pleading, begging, whatever.  Please just get into the Word of God and make Him number one in your life.  Make Him your first love.  Recognize the time your living in and don’t miss it like those who weren’t looking for him in his first coming.  There is a ton more about His second coming and there is not going to be any excuses. 

All you must do is make Him your first love and seek!  You will find!

 If you want to accept Jesus at this time and you haven’t yet, begin your journey now.  Head over to the top right column of this page and click on How To Accept Jesus As Savior.  It will be the most important day of your eternal life.

 
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