Monday, May 23, 2011

Can An Individual Predict Judgment Day?

Recently, an old reverend decided he had figured out when the rapture of the church would occur. With all due respects to the old gentlemen, time proved him to be wrong.

Why was he wrong? The answer is quite simple, no one can predict when God will send Jesus back to get His church.

In Matthew 24:36 Jesus tells you, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” To me this message is pretty plain. no one but God knows when Jesus will return to rapture or “catch up” His body, the church.

Through out history many have claimed to know when the rapture will occur. There is one religion who claims that the rapture has already occurred. However, all these claims are unfounded. The rapture is the next thing on God’s agenda regarding mankind.

After the rapture, you can know when Jesus will return to earth for the second time. He will touch down in Bozra (modern day Turkey), and He will come to save God’s chosen people, the Jews.

The timeframe for this coming will be, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days. . . the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. . .” (Matthew 24:29, 30). As soon as the tribulation ends, the seven years of Jacob’s trouble prophesied by Daniel, , the earth will see Jesus coming for His second appearance on earth.

If someone tells you that the rapture will occur at such and such a time, don't believe them. Only God knows for sure. The main thing is that you know for sure that if someone happens to guess it right that you are ready to meet Jesus in the air!

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Monday, May 16, 2011

The Reflection of God’s Word Expresses His Glory

How does the reflection of God’s word express His glory? God’s glory, the sh’khinah Glory of God, visited Moses in the “burning bush” of Exodus 3. From that point on, God’s glory lived with the Children of Israel, and He exhibited His glory to the people as “fire and a cloud.”

From the reflection of God’s word we find that His glory expresses itself. When the tabernacle was set up in the wilderness, God’s glory took up residence over the Cherubim that sat on the mercy seat, Exodus 25:22. From this place of residence, God spoke with His children.

Then in 586 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar burned Solomon’s Temple. God’s glory left and returned to heaven until Jesus came in Luke 2. The shepherds saw the glory of God for the first time in over 500 years, and “. . .they were terribly frightened.”

The Bible teaches that Jesus was the exact radiance of God’s glory (Hebrews 1:3). Although Jesus didn’t glow or have a cloud follow Him, the words that Jesus spoke showed you the sh’khinah Glory of God.

Therefore, whenever you reflect on God’s word, the word gets in you. You then begin to behave according to the words that have been revealed to you. Your life changes to match the essence of the glory of God from His word.

So the reflection of God’s word expresses His glory through your using His word as a marker for your life. God’s sh’khinah Glory is revealed every time you show Jesus to the world. His word reflecting from you could indeed guide another to reflect on God’s marvelous glory!

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Symbolism the Bible and Jewish History

When you compare the wild olive to believers, you see that a born-again-believer must first be broken as the servants did the wild olive. A believer has to confess his/her need for a savior, and have Christ take out the sin nature that is at our very core.

After this heart surgery by the Master Physician, you are then ready to shine your light with the oil of the Holy Spirit. As the oil from the wild olive burned clean and bright after the olive had been smashed and the inside of it removed, you too will shine brightly for those around you to see.

Paul writes in Romans 11 that you are a wild olive shoot grafted in. He didn’t use a cultivated olive shoot or a sycamore. He used a symbol, “wild olive shoot” with which his readers could associate.

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