[Koolau Mountains, Oahu, Hawaii]
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!
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 !
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 !!
