Posts filed under ‘Religious – Christian – Theology’
It’s Not About Us
We need to learn to focus on the fact that there is still beauty in this world along with at least some measure of righteousness (from those who know Him and God exercising His restraint). This is solely due to God. This does not mean we will never be on the receiving end of direct evil. It simply means that because of God’s restraining hand, the evil that is allowed to touch us is for our growth and His glory and it will never be fully unadulterated evil that will only exist in hell.
Zechariah’s Fourth Vision
The filthiness of Joshua’s rags reference Israel’s stain of her national sin. Joshua stands in for Israel the way Jesus stands in for us now. Interestingly enough, God removed Joshua’s guilt and Satan is silenced. He has no rebuttal because he clearly understands that God fully pardons Joshua the way He will fully pardon Israel’s sin in the future as God pardons the sins of the unbeliever who comes to God in faith in the finished work of Jesus on Calvary’s cross. Satan cannot dispute this.
End is Not Yet
Things are globally escalating to the point where the world is going to need a “savior;” a voice of intelligent reason who can de-escalate things and lead the way to “peace and prosperity.” If Antichrist had come on the scene 10 or 20 years or more ago, the global situation was far different from what it looks like now. The world seems to be on a fast-track to severe global conflict (including wars and rumors of them, failures of the electric grid, debanking people, push toward climate change, out of control inflation that makes it very difficult for the average person to put food on the table, and a kinetic and growing cultural division throughout American society among other things. If the current global situations did not exist, few would be thinking about someone needed to save the world.
Continue Reading October 4, 2024 at 11:00 AM Leave a comment
Zechariah’s Second Vision
This vision of Zechariah 2 speaks of the day when God in Christ will restore both – during the Millennial Kingdom. The nation of Israel, and Jerusalem itself. This vision speaks to fact that Jerusalem would have a large population, and…
God Himself will physically protect Israel from all harm. Two great affirmations are in this third vision: Our Lord’s return will be glorious (2:1-9) and Our Lord’s future blessings will be glorious (2:10-13).
Destroying Democracy?
We are in the final stages of America being stripped of its sovereignty to foreign powers. It’s really as simple as that. If you recall, a previous article I wrote – Devising Iniquity – highlighted how God has often (though not exclusively), worked in the past to judge nations. He would bring one nation against another in what appeared to the world to simply be a particular nation or empire flexing its muscles to conquer a neighboring nation. Once this conquering was complete, the nation that conquered would usually absorb that nation into their current nation, increasing its size and resources (including the ability to tax). To the average person watching, they would merely think that one nation was lording it over another, not realizing that God was directing affairs.
Continue Reading September 30, 2024 at 12:50 PM Leave a comment
Sin’s Ongoing Destructive Curse by
One day, this will all be over and we will see Him as He is with our totally renewed mind, glorified body and absolutely no propensity to even think about sinning, much less make a way for sin. While we are here though, we need to realize that we are always only a few steps away from falling away from God due to our sin. While we will not lose our salvation when we sin, we lose other things (fellowship with God and eternal rewards). While God will always extend His forgiveness to the believer, blotting out new sin, He is under no obligation and never promises to blot out the circumstances our sin creates.
God’s Hidden Hand
What is fascinating about all of this – at least to me – is the fact that when these things occurred several thousand years ago, it all looked very human or naturally occurring to the outside observer, with one empire growing to the point of being able to conquer neighboring empires or cities and absorb them into that growing kingdom. It is the human way of life due to our sin nature and the curse on Creation. Someone must be top dog it seems.
Continue Reading September 20, 2024 at 12:59 PM Leave a comment
News and Notes Sept 18
All this said, I think (and I’m only guessing based on the information available), that something big is on the horizon. I don’t know what it is or when to expect it. Russia using nukes, possibly directed at USA? Iran/Hezbollah raining down everything they have on Israel? I have no idea but it’s very possible and even likely that God will allow things to worsen drastically because of His coming wrath and judgment. The USA deserves judgment just like every other nation throughout history that laughed at God and turned their backs on Him. We did that in earnest beginning in 2008.
Continue Reading September 18, 2024 at 11:39 AM Leave a comment
Quick Update
I honestly have to marvel at God’s timing. It is what makes God’s will truly His own. When we read the Scriptures and come across verses and sections that highlight near future events and far future events, we can get caught up into thinking that things aren’t turning out the way God wants them to turn out. This, of course, is nonsense. Since God is outside of our time and can come into it and leave it without being affected by it, everything to God is happening right now. This is one reason the cross is always before Him. He sees everything in the past, the present and the future all at once. So to Him, things are truly just around the corner. For us, things take time to work out.
Babylon Rising Pt 2
But let’s not kid ourselves, please. Things will continue to worsen. This is the spirit of Babylon and though the original Tower of Babel was destroyed and the original city of Babylon (as well as the kingdom itself), was completely destroyed in ancient history, the ideology they were built on has never been destroyed. It has remained and Satan has continued in the spiritual realm to grow the spirit of Babylon throughout the world in order to gain control of the entire world in the final one world global order of Daniel 2.
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