Here it is Tuesday already and I am wondering what news will unfold this week - especially if it is in fulfillment of Bible Prophecy. I had originally intended to post a video here concerning the soon cryptocurrency that will be used instead of cash. But I happened to accidentally run across a video which sparked my enthusiasm and which is more up-building and encouraging than more information on the "Bad" happening now or that will happen in the near future because of the New World Order and the people pushing for it. But if you are interested, go to the Web and enter "Microsoft patent 060606 on cryptocurrency " (Note the 666). It seems "this cryptocurrency will measure body activity of the user in the form of body radiation, body fluid flow, a brain wave pulse rate, etc,; and then will award cryptocurrency in exchange for the appropriate body activity" (quoting part of www.reddit.com). I kid you not!! Absolutely unbelievable!
To begin with words of encouragement, following is a video narrated by Pastor Chuck Smith, the founder of the Calvary Chapel churches. The message in this 14 minute sermon clip is based on Nahum 1:7. The sermon stresses putting God first in our lives, and then everything else will fall into its proper place.
The writing above on the video is partly obscured and is worth taking to heart! It says:
"When you pray - God listens.
When you listen - God talks
When you believe - God works."
Nahum 1:7 encourages us: "The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and He knoweth them that trust in Him."
We are certainly living in troublesome times right now, no doubt about it! Following are some Christian quotes and Bible verses that deal with faith. Faith can see you through all trials and is closely related to trust in God and Jesus.
This quote by Martin Lloyd-Jones is quite to the point and applies always: "Faith is a refusal to panic."
"Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake." - Martin Luther
"Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist." - Peter Kreeft
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Nahum 1:7 has this to say: "He is a God of infinite mercy; and in the midst of all this wrath mercy is remembered."
"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the ONE Who is leading." - Oswald Chambers
The following Scripture (1 Samuel 12:24) is very meaningful to me, or I should say personal in a very real sense. I was so lost and sinful when I was younger, and the good Lord rescued me from all that darkness and brought me into His saving light and led me to a living faith in the Savior, Jesus. I am filled with gratitude for how He has renewed my mind and transformed my heart. No believer in Jesus is perfect, of course, and we will not be so until we are with the Lord in glory. The main thing is that once we are truly born again (a spiritual rebirth) we do not deliberately and willfully sin - which is outright rebellion against God. We make mistakes, we sin accidentally and in ways like anger or resentment, but we take it to the Lord and pray for forgiveness and He will help us to overcome it.
"Only fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things He has done for you." - 1 Samuel 12:24
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." - Galatians 2:20
"But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." - Hebrews 11:6
The above verse is so very important ! You must have faith in order to please God !! Most Christians realize this, but some new to the Gospel may not understand the importance of faith and total surrender to the good Lord.
This world has gone mad, so to speak! We need to have faith in order to endure what lies ahead as well as to endure what is happening at the present time.
This is where faith and strong trust and confidence in the Lord comes in!
We believers have a blessed hope! Jesus will soon take us to be with Him when the Rapture of the Church occurs. Keep looking up!
Titus 2:13 tells us :"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ."
Concerning the signs of the end times we are now experiencing, Jesus said at Luke 21:28 : "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up , and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."
Where to begin? So much is happening at warp speed right now so far as current events fulfilling Bible prophecy of these end times we are living in now ! I will not concentrate much on the coronavirus in this article, but I do want to urge you to go on the Web and enter ID 2020 Alliance, or ID 2020 Alliance chip. There is a lot of information to be found there on that subject concerning the mandatory vaccine for all citizens of the world in order that you may be tracked and thereby be able to return to work, etc. That vaccine, as I have stated before, will alter your DNA and is dangerous!
Please continue reading here, as towards the end of this article is an encouraging hymn concerning how God will take care of you!
Let us consider an important Scripture:
"Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel." - Psalm 78:41
The above verse is referring to the rebellious and stiff-necked people of Israel in ancient times. It would be good if you read, if not all of Psalm 78, then at least verses 36 to 42.
Quoting from an article : "Paul S. Rees in an article entitled "God in Shackles" writes these words: "It is we who put shackles upon God. We cannot keep Him from managing the stars above us, but we can prevent Him from managing the soul within us."
Isn't this a true description of what modern man has done with the God Who created him and the God Who wants to work His will within man!
A definition of the word "limited" as used in Psalm 78 means to "set boundaries upon", or to "set a mark upon."
You've no doubt heard the expression "putting God in a box". It is as if people think that putting God away somewhere in a little box will keep Him from interfering with the way we live our selfish lives. Someone has said , "It is like drawing a boundary line beyond which God must not pass."
Actually, when you think about it, it is like it has been said, "God hangs the planets in outer space, but He has a difficult time managing the human heart because of man's resistance."
Following is a 42 minute audio sermon by Charles Spurgeon on which he bases Psalm 78:41 as the subject.
Spurgeon, in the above sermon, informs us that we limit God by sometimes "Dictation" to Him and other times by "Distrust" of Him. Unbelievable that "some even push sin to the extreme by the utter "Despair" of His goodness and mercy. Spurgeon goes into more detail about the above three mentioned ways we limit God.
One thing that hit home with me in the above sermon (because once I also felt like "The chief of sinners" because of my sins before I was born again by faith in Jesus) -- Spurgeon says that if you feel your sins are too great to be forgiven, "You could never have exceeded the grace of God. God will forgive you!"
Spurgeon says, "God is the most tender of heart than any other being."
Isaiah 55:8, 9 informs us: (8) "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. (9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."
"So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: It shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." - Isaiah 55:11
Think of all the promises of God found in the Bible - about the end times and the occurrences we see happening right now in fulfillment of His Word and prophecies; think of all the prophecies and promises concerning Jesus the Messiah which were fulfilled 2000 years or so ago when He walked the earth and died for our sins; and be happy about the promise of the soon return of Jesus to take true believers to heaven during the Rapture of the church before the 7 year Tribulation period - and be happy about so many more promises and prophecies !
[Near Sharks' Cove - Oahu, Hawaii]
In today's chaotic and troubled world, we really don't know what to believe anymore, as we are lied to so much. But Christians put their hope, faith, and trust in the good Lord. He does not lie! His Word is truth and life!
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." - Proverbs 3:5-6
God wants us to be dependent upon Him, and to not do things "our way". We need to pray to Him and Jesus to guide us and to help us to do His will. He wants us to believe His promises, and to look for their fulfillment and to do this without doubt, fear, or distrust -"With their whole heart." You are commanded to depend on God Himself and Jesus - not to depend on yourself.
So right now, with the pandemic and the other bothersome occurrences in this present time, we need to look to the good Lord in every thing, in every aspect of how we are to live obediently and to not grieve Him. This lock-down may go on for some time, with various "privileges" partly restored. Many Pastors and scholars of eschatology believe that life will not go back to normal. This is all leading up to the New World Order; the One World Government; the One World Economy, and the One World False Religion. Read Revelation 13, 17, and 18 concerning that. Better yet, read ALL of the Bible Book of Revelation. Think about all of the restrictions and the closure of churches, just to mention a couple of things. (Have you noticed that liquor stores and other non-essential businesses are open.... yet they close the churches on us!!!!) It is good we have technology and the Internet to watch sermons. I am grateful for that and I know you are also.
If you are a true follower of Jesus the Savior, we will not be here to suffer all that is to come - and we will not have to take the mandatory vaccine either. Many pastors and scholars realize and preach that Jesus' return is even more imminent than ever before !
Now that is good news ! Praise the Lord! We are out of here soon! Let us hang on to that blessed hope! (Titus 2:13). To be in heaven with Jesus is so much better.... so much so that words cannot describe the joy and glory of it ! Thank God for His tender mercies and grace and love and forgiveness! Thank Jesus for His sacrificial death which paid our sin debt in full ! By faith in His shed blood and His Redemptive work on the cross, by faith in Jesus as the Savior, we also may have eternal life ! Isn't God good !
Other good news is that millions have been saved during this pandemic..... they have put their faith in Jesus. Also, the sale of Bibles has dramatically increased during this lock down. See how God can bring good out of even bad things?
[Near Bellows Beach - Oahu, Hawaii]
Romans 5:3-5 explains (3) "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; (4) And patience, experience; and experience , hope: (5) And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us."
"Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work." -2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
Following is an encouraging hymn on how God will take care of you:
If you have not been saved (born again from above - a spiritual rebirth) then you will have to endure the horrors and devastation and plagues of the Great Tribulation; and if you take the Mark of the Beast in order to buy and sell, you will be doomed to hell forever. Read Revelation 13.
But there is hope for you if you turn to Jesus now in repentance and believe that He is the Savior, and that He is the only way to heaven and eternal life. If you do not do that now and you end up suffering the soon rule of the antichrist, there is still hope for you to be saved during the Trib. for the Bible assures us of that in Revelation 7:9-14.
Revelation 7:14 says: "And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."
However, if you become a believer during the Tribulation, you do not want to take the Mark of the Beast (the antichrist) in order to buy food, etc., or to sell anything. You will, therefore, either die by starvation, or the antichrist system will eliminate you by beheading you. But you will be immediately at home with the Lord in heaven at your death ! "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" - 2 Corinthians 5:8
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." - Revelation 20:4
Following are some Scriptures for those who are not saved at this present time :
Romans 10:9,10,13 tells us: (9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life: but the wrath of God abideth on him." - John 3:36
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." - John 14:6
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
Have a blessed and Christ centered weekend - and life !!
Remember pleasures such as enjoying beautiful gardens instead of being cooped up indoors? Well, some good news was published yesterday, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Let us pray that it comes true. Earlier on this blog information was posted about Bill Gates (you know, the one who wants to reduce the world's population) and how he proposes to give mandatory vaccines to the entire world to supposedly stop this coronavirus; this blog reported that that vaccine would alter your DNA and perhaps be a precursor to the Mark of the Beast mentioned in the Bible at Revelation 13. Beware of that vaccine of his.... it also is a tracking method on citizens, as a sermon by J.D. Farag warned us, and which was recently posted to this blog as well. Or go to You Tube and enter "J D Farag" and you will see several informative Bible prophecy updates by him about the virus and also much info concerning the end times we are now a part of.
Below is the 6 minute news video on what this administration is pushing back against:
Put your hope and faith in the good Lord and not in any man or in any government!
Governments are beneficial and even necessary, of course. No problem with that. The meaning is, that if you are a True Believer in Jesus, you will put Him and God First in your life. Do not go against God's Holy Word for any reason. This will especially apply to those who are left behind (after the Rapture to heaven of Christ's sincere and faithful followers) to face the 7 year Tribulation period and during that time of tribulation they become true believers. They do not want to follow the Antichrist for any reason. To do so will damn them to hell.
"Then Peter and the apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men." - Acts 5:29
Keep praying!
Stay close to the good Lord by much Bible reading and study as well as prayer.
God wants to fellowship with us. He desires a close, intimate, personal, and loving interaction with us.... through His Son Jesus, the Savior. By doing so, your love and faith in the Lord will grow and grow and your fear will not consume you; your anxiety will not control you as you ponder all the evil and chaos in today's world. You will learn to trust the Lord and to look to Him for peace and guidance. Wonderful advice in the Bible is to learn to "Wait on the Lord". There are several Scriptures that give that advice, but here is one I have hung on to for several years :
"Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: Wait, I say, on the LORD ." - Psalm 27:14
If you are a true believer in the saving power of our Redeemer and of His shed blood at Calvary, you have a hope that will sustain you through these trials prevalent today. Remember, if all that is happening now points to the fact that the 7 year Tribulation is near, with all of the precursors occurring right now mentioned in the Bible concerning the Trib. , then think how close the Rapture by Jesus of the true believers must be.... the Rapture happens before the Tribulation.
"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." - Titus 2:13
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father. but by Me." - John 14:6
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
It is important that you watch a 39 minute prophecy update by Pastor J.D. Farag, which was posted yesterday, Sunday, April 5. The update is subtitled "Global Crisis - Biblical Answers"
Please go to You Tube and enter "J D Farag" and look for the video by him posted on April 5.
Some of what Pastor Farag tells us in this video is similar to what was written in my blog post of March 30, 2020. Scroll down to view my post there. In his video of April 5, Pastor Farag goes into much more detail than my blog post did. He explains that this mandatory vaccine for coronavirus is also a tracking method on all citizens of the world. And in my post on this blog 3-30-20, I said that this covid 19 vaccine would alter your DNA. Other sources have expressed that perhaps it would make you like part human , part cyborg. (This might especially be true of the Mark of the Beast in the tribulation period mentioned in the Bible at Revelation 13). I am not saying this speculation is true ! I have not researched that "Chatter" concerning being part cyborg, so do not think of me as being irresponsible if this is not true. (Love you guys!) Just repeating what some believe to give you a better idea of what talk is going around. Do some research on your own about this mandatory vaccine. On the Web, enter "ID 2020 Alliance Chip" for starters. Lots of info there.
I highly recommend that you also watch Pastor Farag's video of April 2, 2020, in which he poses the question "Will life ever be normal again?" That 27 minute video follows:
Things look rather bleak right now ..... but God !
Read your Bibles, pray without ceasing, and have faith that the Heavenly Father will see you through all of the calamities facing the world today.
For true believers, they realize that all that is happening right now fulfills Bible prophecy and Jesus will return soon! We do not know the day or the hour, but no one can deny that it must be near when they consider all the catastrophes occurring now -- a convergence all at once of events that fulfill Bible prophecy. God is shaking the earth to get our attention! It is a wake up call !
If you have not yet believed in Jesus, and that He is the Savior and the only way to heaven, please do so now! What follows the Rapture of the Church is a 7 year Tribulation period of horrendous plagues, natural disasters, and more ..... and all because God will be pouring out His wrath upon wicked mankind on the earth at that time. You do not want to be here then! You need to read the Bible book of Revelation to comprehend more fully what will occur during the Tribulation. If you think things are bad now with the coronavirus and other catastrophes happening all across the globe, compared to the 7 year Tribulation and what occurs during that time, ... it will make today look almost like a picnic !
To be saved, you need to understand that you are a sinner, and in need of a Savior. (Romans 3:23 and Romans 6:23)
Next, you must believe in your heart....all of your very being... that Jesus is the Savior and that His shed blood at Calvary paid the price for your sin debt (He took our place there on the cross... He took on all of the sins of the world) - Romans 10:9,10,13
Then, call on the name of Jesus, confess that He is the Savior (Romans 10:9,10,13)
Believe in Jesus with all your heart and soul - all of you ! Please realize that we are NOT referring to head knowledge; an intellectual belief. That will not save you. It has to be with your heart....so much so that you will be transformed and renewed in your mind and your life will reflect that miracle of salvation. See Romans 12:1-2 and 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Romans 10:9,10,13 tells us: (9) "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." - John 14:6 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
"And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." - Jesus at Luke 21:28
The title of this article above - "The power that banishes fear" - is from what Dr. David Jeremiah tells us in the following 13 minute sermon clip:
Dr. Jeremiah tells us that we can "either pray or worry", and that "our minds should be totally on God." Watch the video for the solution that banishes fear.
Many people the world over are now experiencing fear because of the pandemic. This post will focus on ways to help us to cope instead of focusing on the virus itself.
"With the power of God within us, we need never fear the powers around us." - Woodrow Kroll
"You and I cannot change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us." - Warren Wiersbe
"Fear cannot get a stronghold in the heart of someone who's full of the vision and the Majesty of God." - David Wilkerson
"Life makes many an attempt to take away our faith. Things happen to us and and to others which baffle our understanding: Life has its problems to which there seems no solution and its questions to which there seems no answer; life has it's dark places where there seems to be nothing to do but hold on. Faith is always a victory, the victory of the soul which tenaciously maintains its clutch on God." - William Barclay
Christians have a hope that strengthens them and helps them to endure:
"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." - Titus 2:13
Concentrate on what is the true center of Christian Life.
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on the things on the earth." - Colossians 3:1-2
A wonderful verse to apply here is found at Nehemiah 8:10 b ".... For the joy of the Lord is your strength."
It is true that Christians can feel fear and worry and anxiety, but we should not let it take control of us. Those feelings should be temporary as we should place our hope and trust in the good Lord.
"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." - 2 Timothy 1:7
Psalm 62:5-8 assures us, (5) "My soul, wait thou only upon God; For my expectation is from Him. (6) He only is my rock and my defense: I shall not be moved. (7) In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. (8) Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us."
The above verse was used in a devotion by Charles Spurgeon, and following is a partial quote from a portion that devotional.
"Our heavenly Father sends us frequent troubles to try our faith. If our faith be worth anything, it will stand the test...... A faith which can say "though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him", (Job 13:15) is heaven-born faith.
"Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope" (Romans 5:3). The Lord is honored by these growing virtues" says Spurgeon. "The wisdom and power of the Great Workman are discovered by the trials through which His vessels of mercy are permitted to pass. Present afflictions tend also to heighten future joy. ...... Will not the recollection of past sufferings enhance the bliss of the glorified?"
When we are in heaven, there will be peace and harmony and much love. We need to endure to the end. The best way to endure is to have a close, intimate, loving, personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, His Son. How do we do this? Many of you know it is by prayer without ceasing and much time spent in the Bible, the Holy Word of God. By doing those two things, you will learn more about God and Jesus, and your love for them will grow and blossom and develop into something beautiful and eternal.
Remember that song, "This world is not my home?" We need to remind ourselves of that when we get caught up in day to day living and cares and worries. And now, we have much chaos and evil in this old world, and all that is on everyone's mind now is the recent pandemic. Just remember, this world is passing away but he who does the will of God will remain forever (1 John 2:17).
Here is a version of the song mentioned above, sung by Jim Reeves.
Bible prophecy is being fulfilled right now at warp speed. Not only on a daily basis, but even minute by minute some new conflict or development proves that we are living in the end times and that Jesus will soon return to Rapture true believers to heaven before the 7 year Tribulation begins. Friends, many things happening today were prophesied concerning the Tribulation period.... they are right now precursors to the Trib. .... we are not in the Tribulation now, but we are ever so close to it according to the Bible. It is like God is shaking and stirring up things in an endeavor to wake up as many people as He can and thereby have them turn in faith to Jesus as the Savior before it is too late. If you are not saved by faith in Jesus as the Savior, Who is the only way to the Father and to heaven, following are some Scriptures to encourage you to surrender to the redeeming power of Jesus :
Romans 10:9,10,13 tells us (9) "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believeth in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." - John 3:36
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me." "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?" - John 11:25, 26
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
Have a blessed and Christ centered weekend - and life !!
