Category: Revelation

Original Confidence!

Staying the Course?

Not all who come to faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus stay the course, fear of man, tiredness, trials cost and burn out many that is why Jesus told us about the sower and the seeds in His Gospel parables!

But if we fail, we should repent and seek our Lords forgiveness, since our destiny is not a good destination and there is no return after death?

God wants us to be both wise and honest and press on knowing in whom we have believed and that He will never fail or leave us and we will make it home, one day to be with Him for evermore!

Proverbs 13:11-14, Malachi 4:1, Hebrews 3:12-15, Revelation 17:7.

Prophecy?

Preaching to warn Ekklesia!

Not all always seems to be right in many fellowships when it comes to the services, the lack of preaching the Gospel message for over worship is one area that is lacking the influence of honesty and integrity in society?

The fervent preaching where it is done can become more of the man, rather that God and the balance is lost on the truth, and placed on personality?

We need to focus on the fact that it is the Lord that is leading us and not us leading ourselves?

2 Samuel 23:2, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2:1-3.

The cost of Faith!

Bearing Witness?

All believers will be challenged about our faith in Jesus, about truth, honesty and integrity and we have both a testimony and a knowledge of God and what He is doing for us!

When we think of Stephen the first martyr of the Ekklesia, we see a man who could not be out done and so out of spite and jealousy free slaves handed him over to the religious men of the day to have him stoned to death.

Many believers around the world today are being murdered for the name of Jesus, wither they practice or not, they bear the name Christian and Islam is one of the most hostile followed by all atheism nations who make excuses for truths they cannot bear to hear?

Matthew 10:15, Mark 13:9, Luke 21:13, John 15:26, Revelation 6:9-11.

Islam, not a religion of much peace?

7/10/23. Thirteen plus hundred people Murdered!

Even before this terrible event in Israel one could not describe Islam as a religion of peace as it likes to be seen by the its self, many nations in conflict are up against Islamic fundamentalism and when it is not that it is the sectarianism between Shia and Sunni Islam?

No matter where in the world Muslims live, there is a anti-Jewish and Christian mentality, a hostility that they must have their way over every other belief system and if let be more and more is taken until they dominate with violent threats to convert to their way of thinking!

Islam came to the fore in the sixth Century and contains about two-thirds of the Holy Bible in the Qumran, but the interpretation is way off and the New Testament/Injil is seen as corrupt, while some books are false or have key sections on salvation removed.

Jesus/Isa is seen as a human man, a great Prophet, and all that is spiritual about Him and other areas are discounted proving that they have a limited insight, even less than the Jewish faith! Yet they claim much, including the right to Palestine a Roman concept and Jerusalem, which is really the home of the Jewish Temple, where both the Anti-Christ and Jesus will be revealed.

Matthew 10:28, Mark 9:31, Luke 12:4, John 8:37-40, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Revelation 6:8.

Pentecost!

A gap between the Jews and the Gentiles?

Most believers just accept that the Holy Spirit was poured out on all in Jerusalem, ten days after Jesus ascended into Heaven!

But when we read the book of Acts we will discover that this is not true and there is a substantial gap, letting us know that it was the believing Jews who first received and then much later the Gentiles through the work of the Apostle Peter.

This theme runs right through the New Testament in Revelation the tribulation will come to the Jews first, then to the rest of the world.

Acts 2:1-6, 10:44-46. 11:1.

We need each Other?

As Believers!

Meeting together is hard for many of us in closed countries, some religious others unbelieving by state control? But for others it is illness, forgotten in the numbers, rejection, being outcast for mistakes, mental-illness and other?

God only wants things for a time to teach people to try harder and not fall backwards, but get up say sorry to Him first and get moving again!

We should know that it is hard to be a ‘Christian, but its worth it, since we are a saved people with a eternal hope and purpose and we have been empowered by the Spirit of God to reach out to others and to see souls saved!

We are also a people of prayer, of communicating with our creator and knowing that He hears and answers our prayers, heals people, influences governments and leaders even without them being aware of their right actions with integrity and that our Lord is coming back for us at the end of the ages!

John 16:7-9, Ephesians 5:21, Jude 1:15, Revelation 6:9-10.

The Holocaust/Ha Shoah!

Christian anti-Semitism, anti-Israel?

Replacement theology and 19thCentury German modernism are two evil roots against God and His people the Jews to cut them off from their inheritance!

These are modern facts in the Christian religion and it is leading to a denial of Biblical truth on many fronts, in relation to the events of the book of Revelation in having no practical application for believers today?

We are told in this last book of the Holy Bible and of the New Testament that the dragon will hunt down believers in the last times, for many today around the world that feels like it is already happening!

Revelation 12:3-17, 13:4-11, 16:13, 20:2, Lamentations 4:18, Micah 7:2.

1 Timothy 3:16. Part-Two.

An essential Message?

This is how the Apostle Paul is summing up the coming, death, resurrection and return of Jesus, the Messiah and King of Israel and the key events of the Gospel message in these last two letters to Timothy his spiritual son!

We see affection, strong advice that has to be heeded, because being a believer does not get easier, the more so when we are serving Him in anyway, even just talking to our family, handing out the odd tract we will be attacked by Satan!

What else can we pull of of this one verse He was proved, He pleased, He was seen, He was and is being preached and many still come to Him by faith!

But the day of grace is passing and we are now already in the night of apostacy and things are only going to get worse as Satan is to be revealed to the world, we have a greater commission to reach the lost before it is too late?

Matthew 16:20, Mark 1:11, Luke 1:76-77, 16;16, Acts 2:22, Colossians 1:19-20, 23-24, Hebrews 2:2-3, 2 Peter 1:17. Revelation 1:9, 20:4.

EVIL! Two.

World War-I/II+ We Remember?

There is much pride in the human heart to remember the fallen of past wars and conflicts and it would seem honorable to do so, but not was all right in these two world wars and all wars!

Men in fear were treated as cowards and shot and their families not compensated with a war pension, greed and spite came to the fore, those who refused on religious grounds were either killed or rejected by society?

Meanwhile the suffering of nerve gas, high-explosive ammunitions left men with terrible if not horrific wounds and in the 1939-45 war many nations refused the Jews prior to the Nazi-Holocaust while others avoided their rescue and Britain maintained similar prison conditions in the Middle-East until Winston Churchill got challenged by the events?

Wars have to be fought to save our systems of politics and at one time supposed Christian values, but this is a smoke screen to cover arms sales and the pride of royal families, madness of dictatorship and excuses for sin and they will continue until even the Day of Armageddon!

Genesis 44:4, Numbers 13:32, Job 19:19, 35:12, Psalm 78:68, Proverbs 24:1, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Jeremiah 31:3, Hosea 11:1, Matthew 5:11, Luke 7::47, John 3:14-18, 12:43, 13:34, 15:9, Romans 8:37, Ephesians 2:4, Revelation 16:16.