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Replacement Theologians Must Concede That God’s Word Is Untruth

16 Mar

Replacement theology is when Christians today believe the Jews have blown it with God and there are no more promises to them.  They want to take all the good promises to Israel and transfer them to the Christians, but the bad ones are to still belong to the Jews.  That is why the world including the fallen church is turning against Israel.  

 Ezekiel 37:15-28 –  15 The word of the LORD came to me: 16 “Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Ephraim’s stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 17 Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.

 18 “When your countrymen ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by this?’ 19 say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim’s hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick, making them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.’ 20 Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on 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. 23 They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

 24 “‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. 25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever. 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. 27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 28 Then the nations will know that I the LORD make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.’”

God brought the Jews from out of the world and back into the land that He promised them.  Forever He will be with them as their God.

Replacement theology calls God’s Word a liar.  Replacement theologians call themselves Christians.  Don’t be caught in a group that refers to God as a liar. 

 You can trust God’s Word and its warnings that many people will be turning away from the faith in the last days.

 
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Quote C.S. Lewis

15 Mar

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
C.S. Lewis

 

Spiritual blindness.  They are getting further away from the Light and the Truth.

 
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Rejoice In The Lord

14 Mar

Philippians 4:4-4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

Paul says it again.  When something is stated twice in a row, we need to pay close attention.  REJOICE!  There is nothing that matters more than our God!  Whatever your circumstance REJOICE!  I don’t care if it is good or bad, because the fact is you’re a child of God and nothing else combined compares to that.  Reflect and Rejoice!

Do not let the cares of this world keep you from our God.

 
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Can’t Drink Of Both Cups

13 Mar

1 Corinthians 10:21- 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

I think this can happen when we abuse grace.  We are taught to accept the Lord ask for forgiveness and acknowledge Him.  The modern day church chickens out after that and fails to preach the unpopular message of repentance and serving the Lord.

It’s important to attend services where you are challenged to live for the Lord and to strive to live holy.  Thank you Pastor for sticking up for the Truth.  In the last days, the Truth isn’t a popular message.

 
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Continue To Pray For Others

12 Mar

When Paul was standing in front of King Agrippa, he said the following:

Acts 26:29 – 29 Paul replied, “Short time or long—I pray God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.”

That just reminded me that we can’t give up on praying for those the Lord has put in our hearts to pray for.  There is so much power in prayer as it comes from the Spirit of the Lord.

We are impatient as humans and very often short sighted.  There is a lifetime for someone to choose and walk with the Lord.  We must continue to keep praying for each other and the lost.  How joyous it is when one turns and comes to the Lord.

The most powerful thing in the world is God’s Word.  That’s what Jesus kept referencing to Satan when being tempted.  It is written.  Amazingly to boot, Jesus is the Word.

If we don’t blind ourselves, it is easy to see Prayer working all around us.  It’s powerful.  More powerful than most of us who are Christians even know.  It’s not a genie in a bottle and is not to be used or looked at that way.  It is God’s power and needs to be done for His will and our lives in Him.  It is His will that none should parish.  The reminder today is to pray for those who are lost that he is putting on your heart and pray for those who are struggling also.

 
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Kirk Cameron

09 Mar

Most recently Kirk Cameron was on Piers Morgan.  He stated that he believed that gay marriage is unnatural.  He also stood by his conviction that abortion is wrong under any circumstance.

As a result he has taken a lot of heat.  What did he say that was wrong?  He’s accused of hate.

The only thing Kirk Cameron did was tell his moral convictions on his beliefs.  This is what labeled Kirk Cameron a person of hate in America today.  Speaking of being an American, Fran Drescher said Kirk needs to rethink what it is to be an American.  Obviously we know that Fran believes that it’s not okay to speak your moral conviction in public, unless of course it’s her own.

Kirk explains that he doesn’t hate, but his mission is to love all people.

There are a couple of verses that stick out to me on this matter.

John 15:18 – 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

Isaiah 5:20-21 – 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.  21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
and clever in their own sight.

Proverbs 14:12  – 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Proverbs 16:25 –  25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

When God uses a name twice it’s to really get attention.  What about when the wisest man uses the exact same verse twice?

Romans 1:21-27- 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

The world gnashes its teeth at God.  The worldly don’t want God but to be the god’s of their own lives.  Kirk Cameron is being attacked in his obedience to the Word and he was being very nice about it.  However, Satan doesn’t like nice and he is in a battle with our Lord.

Will your heart come to Jesus and do what’s right and be attacked by the world or will you follow the world and accept its path.

Luke 12:8-9- 8 “I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God. 9 But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

We need to stick up for what’s right.  God Bless you Kirk and as believers we’ll keep you in our prayers.

 
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Security

07 Mar

Psalm 56:10-11 – 10 In God, whose word I praise,
in the LORD, whose word I praise—
11 in God I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

If we are right with the Lord there is nothing in the end that can be done to us.  Man can kill the body, but he doesn’t kill the soul.

Luke 12:4-5 – 4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 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.

In the end people that are living will have to choose rather to take allegiance to the antichrist and be damned forever if they dawn the mark or stand up for Christ.  Fear not those who only kill the body, but Him that can kill the body and the soul.

Fear God and serve Him as He is Love.  Don’t chase after man and his dark lost ways.

Our security is in the Lord.

 
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No Fear Of God

06 Mar

Psalm 36:1-2 – 1 An oracle is within my heart
concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:
There is no fear of God
before his eyes.
2 For in his own eyes he flatters himself
too much to detect or hate his sin.

In these last days we have been able to see before our very eyes over the last 5 or 6 decades the erosion of respect for our Lord.

As people get further away and are not taught about God they lose the reverence for the Creator.  They have no fear.

Should you fear the Creator who made you that can ultimately decide everything of your eternal future in your life?

Yes.  A reverent fear is biblical and would be wise.  It keeps us on the right track.

Arrogance has overwhelmed the United States and its people as a whole.  We are entitled to everything.  We’re told were the best and have no basis for any type of reality.  History is nothing that bold arrogant people ever want to hear about unless were just speaking about 80-90 years ago.  Then you hear about how they pulled out of the depression and everything goes on in cycles.

What about the ultimate cycle.  Countries, governments, royalty, all come and go.  Nobody wants to ponder on that because we are a positive thinking culture.  Reality is we’re broke and it can’t be paid back.  The only thing that helps America is the whole world is broke and now is tied together.

It’s not hard to see how the antichrist is going have access to the whole world as it is going to have to come together just to survive mass anarchy.   He will have the temporary answers and those without God will love him.

America has lost its reverence and fear of the Lord and therefore has lost its wisdom.

Proverbs 1:7 – 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

The arrogance I read in people commenting after reading articles is amazing.  The television and it’s mocking of anything good and biblical is atrocious.

They are listening to their pioneer leader.  He despised wisdom and discipline.  Satan had no fear of God.

 
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Rapture Timing

05 Mar

It’s been awhile since I wrote on this topic.  I have a lot of posts on support for the pre-trib rapture.  There is a lot that I ended up writing on, because there is so much in God’s Word.  If you are curious to know what those are, just go over to the categories and select on Rapture.  You will need to go quite a ways back as I wrote on them in the first six months of my blog.  Also if you put a search for pre-trib most of them will come up that way too.

Today I want to talk on some of Paul’s verses to the Thessalonians.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 –  1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come.

If the Thessalonians were worried they missed the rapture and it was supposed to be at the end when Christ comes back during the second coming, does that make sense?  These guys studied and believed Jesus was the Messiah and that he is coming back to rule and reign like it says in Daniel, Zechariah and Isaiah as well as other prophets.  If they missed it, they were still over in the vicinity of where Jesus is coming to rule and reign, not on the other side of the earth.

So why were they worried that they missed it if none of the other signs of the second coming had happened yet.  Those are the things that Paul was reminding them about.

It appears to me that they had the idea that the Lord’s return was imminent.  They believed nothing had to proceed before the Lord could come back and take his own to be with Him.

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 each other with these words.

One of the most important parts of these verses that get overlooked is the last verse.  Therefore encourage each other with these words.

I supposed lots of people can get encouraged about many different things.  If you told me I had to try to endure to the very end of the Tribulation before the rapture, I don’t know how encouraging that would be.

I find it more encouraging to hear these words.

1Thessalonians 5:9 – 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I’m encouraged by those words.

I’m not encouraged by these words though.

Revelations 13:5-8 –5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. 6 He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.

9 He who has an ear, let him hear.

10 If anyone is to go into captivity,
into captivity he will go.
If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
with the sword he will be killed.

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.

Now I believe the Tribulation saints are the ones who accept Jesus after the rapture, not the church.

I would not be encouraged if the Beast was given power to make war with the saints and conquer them (us).  I don’t know how 1 Thessalonians 5:9 works into this either.  Also we’re told the gates of hell would not prevail against the Church.

Matthew 16:  –  16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

If the Beast is allowed to prevail over the church, does this not cause some problems with words of Jesus above.  However, if the Church is gone and these are the saints after the rapture, that’s not the case.

There’s a lot of other things that support the pre-trib rapture as stated before. I just was motivated to write on this today.

 
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And From Knowledge, Self Control

02 Mar

2 Peter 1:6 – 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;

Once we get the knowledge we need to practice perseverance of our goodness and self control.  All these things lead to Godliness.

Practice makes perfect.  It is so important that we do, because it is important to our LORD.

 
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