The book of Revelation! One.

Why no longer Popular?

Over the last forty years it seems that the book of Revelation is not as popular as it was say in the 1950’s?

One reason may be that it is difficult to understand or it is not relevant to the problems in the modern age?

The other reason is perhaps it warns those of us who claim a faith in God, but live in rebellious sin? Revelation does tell us the fate of liars, those doing dishonest gain and living in effeminate lifestyles!

1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Ephesians 5:3-6, Revelation 9:20-21, 21:8, 27, 22:14-15.

Amazing Scriptures!

A process of God at work in the Believer?

Romans 8:28 is one of those scriptures like John 3:16 is often quoted but little understood since mush of it is passed by in the saying?

God gives us a promise that those who mean bad for us, this could also mean other believers might actually turn out better for us and be more of a loss to them!

A good way of explaining this process, is say you wanted to leave where you where living but for another reason you could not do it yourself and your neighbours told lies to get you out thinking they were getting rid of a problem to their space? While you got moved on to something better that suited you much more than what you had been in and also the new resident that replaced you might turn out far worse for those who opposed you?

God does actually care about us and will not leave us in a place or situation that does not benefit Him!

Genesis 50:20, Acts 4:28, Romans 8:28.

Holocaust Denial?

Historical Revisionism!

How many Gentiles love Jewish people or support Israel today?

Not many is perhaps the answer, then you have some serious problems!

God has a plan for Israel in their promised land that He gave them in times past and that they now possess, there in mention of the Palestinians in His plan, unless they confess Jesus and join the Ekklesia or Bride of Christ?

We must be very careful in relation to what we think we know about the Holy Bible, how we read it and understand it? The Christian Protestant Church is tainted with the false doctrine of Replacement theology that tells believers we get all the blessings and the Jews the curses!

But the Holy Bible never says anything like that and many today who ignore the word of God on many issues will not enter Heaven tax dodgers, braggers, liars, chancers and people who play games with God for unjust motives!

Zephaniah 2:8, Zechariah 2:11, 8:7, Matthew 2:6, 12:42, Mark 12:39, Luke 1:68, 2:32, Acts 7:34, 11:26, Romans 9:27, 11:25, Revelation 2:14, 21:12.

We are living in dangerous times, things will only get worse and Christians are being martyred at an estimated 250 per month worldwide! Most are being killed for many reasons around the world, but in the west its threats to shut-up and don’t rock the boats of sin and disobedience to God!

Historical revisionism is leading silly people to believe lies upon lies and change history in the continued move of being anti-God! Israel is back in its land and it needs to carry on clearing it for Jesus return! The Bible is a hard book and its hard to be a believer, but we must remember that the world has never given us anything good??

Adultery and Divorce!

A plague in modern Society?

Marriage today has become cheap, being not much more than a fad something to be experienced and then broken up and put aside?

No longer is marriage between and man and a woman, but now it is same sex running contrary to the teachings of the Holy Bible because its based on selfish motives and lust over that of love and forgiveness!

Christians are failing to speak out or to condemn evil practices in our nations and society! The fear of man now predominates the Church were ever it has got a foothold?

There does not seem to be a separation line between faith and the world, something to show that when we are born-again we have become a changed people? We have to live in the world, but the world must not live in us influencing us back to what we were before!

Believers need to show couples getting married in Churches the seriousness of what they are doing, the vows and promises they are making to God first and then to each other! The need to forgive when each will fail, to know that we have to forgive, since He first forgave us!

That same sex marriage is wrong and is an abomination to God, love here is not the question but rather lust which is evil and leads to many other sexual sins!

Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Psalm 81:12, Matthew 5:28, Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:15, 18, Romans 1:27, 7:3, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 7:2-3, 11:12, Ephesians 4:32, Colossian 3:13, Hebrews 13:4, 2 Peter 2:10.

Bearing the Name!

CHRISTIAN?

Are you afraid of the lions?

What a strange question to ask a believer in the death and resurrection of Jesus, who is our Lord and saviour?

Our redeemer and the one who is returning one day to gather us His Ekklesia to be taken up with Him!

Yesterday the media reported that two-hundred and fifty Christians are killed world wide each month, probably most of them are real believers over that of carrying the name tag that other religions have?

Today in our ever secular society believers are being attacked for believing the teachings of the Bible, which oppose many issues, moral, sexual and our integrity in business, leadership or management!

But many others in leadership are refusing to make a stand for the truth, because they fear these new lions!

Acts 5:41, 11:26, 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16.

Jesus Circumcision?

Fulfilling the Law and set us Free!

The Law is what the world lives under and to set us free from rules and regulations was the work of Jesus, who we as believers in Him will be celebrating this Christmas?

Many have taken away the emphasis of this part of the story of the birth of Jesus, their reasons may be more to do with anti-Semitism rather than it being just a minor issue!

Jesus came for Israel first and so He had to fulfil the Jewish Law by doing everything that it required, because He was both perfect and sinless a second Adam. If we see this and point it our to others, it will make understanding more of the New Testament teachings in a better way.

Limiting it because its not relevant now, is no excuse in explaining the role of the law which will come up again and again in the scriptures! One is concerned that much racism amongst believers is both a block and short coming to mission, outreach and preaching the Gospel today?

Let us this season stand back knowing the fulness of this season and our own salvation in God, hoping that by our witness others will to come to faith in Jesus the King of Israel and the Saviour of the world!

Luke 2:21, Genesis 17:12, Leviticus 12:3, Galatians 4:4-5.

By faith Alone?

The conundrum of the Reformation!

Martin Luther added in the word alone to the translation of the Holy Bible to German and English to emphasise his point in relation that only faith saves!

But the original Greek manuscripts never had the word alone, since faith was already known as the key to knowing God!

The problems for Martin Luther like or loath him was he had ninety six issues with the Roman Catholic Church, which he questioned and then had no choice but to break away from?

Faith in itself encompasses much, but the Latin translation from the Greek may have deliberately blocked this truth off, so that made the Pope infallible as the leader of the Universal Church.

Today occasionally if not commonly many new words are being added to the Bible to get a clearer meaning, one must be careful to not go beyond what is being said? Because some of this can be used to change the meanings and justify sin, since we remain fickle in our nature!

Romans 1:17, 3:28, 5:1-2, Galatians 3:11, Philippians 3:9, Hebrews 11:6-7.