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Sunday, January 11, 2015
Sunday, January 4, 2015
For the Devil So Loved the Nephilim...
This post was made back in 2013, and it was a popular read. I think it is a good, missed insight in the Church today, so I thought I'd repost it for you readers. Shalom to you in the name of Yeshua!
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While I was reading in the Bible in 1 Chronicles, and the Yhwh gave me an insight which I've never heard anyone point out before... but it's because the majority of U.S. preachers do not accept the reality of the Nephilim, the human-angel-animal-plant hybrids, so their Biblical worldview does not allow them to see it. And it's not their fault... They were raised like the rest of us, in the 20th century scientific enlightenment worldview that largely rejects supernaturalism. This is also what much of the signers of the American Declaration of Independence were, but that's an entirely different work, to which Chris Pinto has done an outstanding job with, if you're not already familiar with him and his Noise of Thunder radio program.
1st Chronicles ch. 20 is a most interesting chapter. It tells of encounters the post-settlement Israeli army under king David had with the giants, the Nephilim, or, descendants of Anak. The first account is of Joab leading the army into Battle against the sons of Ammon. Now not much is said here to indicate anything strange, until we read that David took the king's crown, which weighed one talent of gold. We're like, okay, cool. It was a heavy gold crown. I can totally see that. But the Scofield Ref. bible, (which I was using the other day) translates the measurement of this unit to be 76 lbs!!! :-O I said! You just don't wear a 76 lb. object around on your head everyday, unless you have really thick neck muscles! But this could be easily explained if he were Nephilim, which many of the people groups descended from Ham and Canaan, which lived in the region were (Gen.9:25-26; 10:15).
Next in the chapter we are told about a giant, when the Jews battled the Philistines in Gezer, named Sippai, who was a descendant of Rapha, or the Raphaim (1 Chron. 20:4). In v. 5, we're told there was another war with the Philistines, where Elhanan killed Lahmi, the brother of the the infamous giant Goliath (1 Chron. 20:5)!
Verse 6 tells us of a man of great stature, who had a total of 24 fingers and toes (1 Chron. 20:6). It seems that many of the skeletons which were unearthed and many spirited away, reportedly had such features. This giant was put to death by David's nephew, Shimea. So all of these descendants of Anak, which Joshua had not entirely wiped out (Joshua 11:22), were finally dealt with. The text doesn't tell us that the giants were totally wiped out, only that these mentioned were killed. From evidential remains found around the globe, the activity on the fallen angels to deceive humanity was taking place on a global scale. There are many sites that are exposing these facts, and they are asking questions, where are the remains at? Why have they been kept out of the public's eye? What purpose would the government have in withholding this sort of information?
The Bible gives us the explanation for that too. It tells us that in the last days there will be a great deception on the earth so powerful that even the very elect would be deceived, if that were possible (evidently, it sort of sounds like it is ~ Mt. 24:24; Mk 13:22; 2 Thess. 2:3)! But I think what Jesus and Paul are teaching here is that it will be very powerful, very deceptive, and the seeming "Christians" will be taken in by it, but not those truly called to salvation (2 Thess. 2:10-11). But certainly, by those verses, those who do not know Jesus and His life-transforming/redeeming power will be given to the deception coming on the world.
But here's where the scriptural insight came. Just when the Israelites have been wiping out the remaining giants living in the land of Israel, the children of the gods (the fallen angels), Satan has taken notice and come to put a stop to it, and attack King David!
1 Chronicles 21:1 Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel. (emphasis mine)
So you see, the chosen people of Yhwh had been destroying whom I believe you can demonstrate scripturally are the seed of the serpent. And while that curse (Gen. 3:15) ultimately is fulfilled in the individual seeds of Christ and the Anti-Christ, I think it is also played out in a larger scale between the children of Adam and Eve and the fallen archangel Lucifer. And as the people of Yahweh God are killing the human-angle hybrids, the fallen angels wanted vengeance for their off spring being killed.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Does God Hate the Pope???
In one of my recent posts, we looked at the question of how God can love the world, but hate the wicked. This brings us next to the highly controversial Pope of the Vatican, who is stirring up a lot of controvresy, by pronouncing some very unbiblical, unorthodox things.
Lord Yeshua taught concerning the day of Judgment, when all mankind, Barrack Obama and Vladimir Putin included, will stand before El Elyon and give account of their transgression. And Yeshua taught,
When the Pope, as leader of the largest church that claims the name of Yeshua, actively and unrepenting-ly teaches that unbelivers can go to heaven, that all religions are good, and that homosexuals can serve as Yhwh's spokesmen/prophets??? I dare say that the Pope will make it into the prescence of Yhwh. It sounds more as if he is setting himself up for the kingdom of the Usurper, the fallen archangel known as the Satan (adversary/accuser) who will teach a humanistic doctrine that we are all gods (Gen. 3:5), to "do as you want will be the whole of the law."
Truly, Pope Francis seems to be filling out the expectation of many, both Catholics and Portestants, that the last Pope would be the false Prophet (or some said, Antichrist himself).
Matthew 7:21
John 14:24
One such pronouncement was last year in May of 2013, when the Pope came out and said that Atheists can go to heaven to, if they "do good". So let's think about this for just a moment. Isn't an Atheist by definition one who does not believe in God... and therefore does not believe in heaven? Or is the Pope merely leading them to open up to the hypocrisy of the hidden truths within? Or is it something more sinister?
Heaven, by definition, is the dwelling of God. Therefore I can't understand why the Atheist even desires to go to heaven. But I digress, even so, how did the Pope make such an anti-Christ-ian comment? Is he of the anti-Christ??? Things that make you go hmmmm?
One of the major UNBIBLICAL doctrines that the Pope claims, is that of Papal infallibility, meaning that he can overwrite the teachings of Scripture, and even contradict it, because as the vicar of Christ, he is essentially, the person of Christ on earth! What did Yeshua say about His Words, the Bible?
and again, this is uniform with the teaching in the Tanakh.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.
Uh-oh! Someone should show that verse to the Pope!!! But he's probably already got a defense for it. In fact, he (the office of Pope) has deceived millions of people down through the centuries. In fact, one young Catholic monk came to understand that apart from the teachings of the church, the Grace of God when the Holy Spirit enlightened him to Romans 1:17:
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed [a]from faith to faith; as it is written, “[b]But the righteous man shall live by faith.”
This young Catholic Augustinian monk was born again! Jesus said one cannot enter the kingdom of heaven unless he is born again (Jn. 3:3). When the Spirit enlightened Luther's eyes to the meaning of Romans 1:17, he said, "It were as if the gates of heaven were opened to me."
So this young Catholic Monk, who found the treasures of heaven by renouncing immorality and self-effort, and being born again into a child of God, would disagree with the current Pope. Yes... the protest continues! And what did the words of our Lord say concerning those who may enter heaven?
Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Now the Pope is saying "Lord, Lord," and he is also saying "Mary, Mary," which is another unbiblical teaching for another time. Soon he will be saying "E.T., E.T.!" when the alien disclosure occurs... as numerous Catholic clergy have made statements that supposed aliens, which they already know exist, as morally superior to us, and we should listen to them
Lord Yeshua taught concerning the day of Judgment, when all mankind, Barrack Obama and Vladimir Putin included, will stand before El Elyon and give account of their transgression. And Yeshua taught,
Matthew 7:21-23
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
When the Pope, as leader of the largest church that claims the name of Yeshua, actively and unrepenting-ly teaches that unbelivers can go to heaven, that all religions are good, and that homosexuals can serve as Yhwh's spokesmen/prophets??? I dare say that the Pope will make it into the prescence of Yhwh. It sounds more as if he is setting himself up for the kingdom of the Usurper, the fallen archangel known as the Satan (adversary/accuser) who will teach a humanistic doctrine that we are all gods (Gen. 3:5), to "do as you want will be the whole of the law."
Truly, Pope Francis seems to be filling out the expectation of many, both Catholics and Portestants, that the last Pope would be the false Prophet (or some said, Antichrist himself).
Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
John 14:24
He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
Revelation 13:11
11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Project Bluebeam, Demons and the Mark of the Beast
I just came across this video by Freeman Fly. He's done his research, and much of it conincides with what we have been discovering and what has been revealed to us about the Freemasons, Illuminati, Occult and Crowley. Be sure of this, the mark of the leader, the "Maitreya" is not far off. But don't let this give you a spirit of fear if you are in Christ. He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world (1 Jn. 4:4), and we're about to see some spiritual warfare like we've never encountered. Pray, and stand firm in the armor of God!
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Thursday, November 28, 2013
For the Devil so loved the Nephilim...
I hope that all my family and friends has had a wonderful Thanksgiving time with family and friends, lots of good food and time hanging out with loved ones. I've been out of the loop for a week or so with crazy trails going on around some much needed home improvements, and getting ready for all the festivities of Thanksgiving. But I'm back now.
A week or so ago I was reading in the Bible in 1 Chronicles, and the LORD gave me an insight which I've never heard anyone point out before... but it's because the majority of U.S. preachers do not accept the reality of the Nephilim, the human-angel-animal-plant hybrids, so their Biblical worldview does not allow them to see it. And it's not their fault... They were raised like the rest of us, in the 20th century scientific enlightenment worldview that largely rejects supernaturalism. This is also what much of the signers of the American Declaration of Independence were, but that's an entirely different work, to which Chris Pinto has done an outstanding job with, if you're not already familiar with him and his Noise of Thunder radio program.
1st Chronicles ch. 20 is a most interesting chapter. It tells of encounters the post-settlement Israeli army under king David had with the giants, the Nephilim, or, descendants of Anak. The first account is of Joab leading the army into Battle against the sons of Ammon. Now not much is said here to indicate anything strange, until we read that David took the king's crown, which weighed one talent of gold. We're like, okay, cool. It was a heavy gold crown. I can totally see that. But the Scofield Ref. bible, (which I was using the other day) translates the measurement of this unit to be 76 lbs!!! :-O I said! You just don't wear a 76 lb. object around on your head everyday, unless you have really thick neck muscles! But this could be easily explained if he were Nephilim, which many of the people groups descended from Ham and Canaan, which lived in the region were (Gen.9:25-26; 10:15).
Next in the chapter we are told about a giant, when the Jews battled the Philistines in Gezer, named Sippai, who was a descendant of Rapha, or the Raphaim (1 Chron. 20:4). In v. 5, we're told there was another war with the Philistines, where Elhanan killed Lahmi, the brother of the the infamous giant Goliath (1 Chron. 20:5)!
Verse 6 tells us of a man of great stature, who had a total of 24 fingers and toes (1 Chron. 20:6). It seems that many of the skeletons which were unearthed and many spirited away, reportedly had such features. This giant was put to death by David's nephew, Shimea. So all of these descendants of Anak, which Joshua had not entirely wiped out (Joshua 11:22), were finally dealt with. The text doesn't tell us that the giants were totally wiped out, only that these mentioned were killed. From evidential remains found around the globe, the activity on the fallen angels to deceive humanity was taking place on a global scale. There are many sites that are exposing these facts, and they are asking questions, where are the remains at? Why have they been kept out of the public's eye? What purpose would the government have in withholding this sort of information?
The Bible gives us the explanation for that too. It tells us that in the last days there will be a great deception on the earth so powerful that even the very elect would be deceived, if that were possible (evidently, it sort of sounds like it is ~ Mt. 24:24; Mk 13:22; 2 Thess. 2:3)! But I think what Jesus and Paul are teaching here is that it will be very powerful, very deceptive, and the seeming "Christians" will be taken in by it, but not those truly called to salvation (2 Thess. 2:10-11). But certainly, by those verses, those who do not know Jesus and His life-transforming/redeeming power will be given to the deception coming on the world.
But here's where the scriptural insight came. Just when the Israelites have been wiping out the remaining giants living in the land of Israel, the children of the gods (the fallen angels), Satan has taken notice and come to put a stop to it, and attack King David!
1 Chronicles 21:1 Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel. (emphasis mine)
So you see, the chosen people of Yahweh had been destroying whom I believe you can demonstrate scripturally are the seed of the serpent. And while that curse (Gen. 3:15) ultimately is fulfilled in the individual seeds of Christ and the Anti-Christ, I think it is also played out in a larger scale between the children of Adam and Eve and the fallen archangel Lucifer. And as the people of Yahweh God are killing the human-angle hybrids, the fallen angels wanted vengeance for their off spring being killed.
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
The Kingdom Epic: Satan's Last Stand
All of history, up to the present time, has been one long battle. Ever since shortly after the begining of creation, Satan, who was known as Lucifer, the archangel, wrested legal, covenental control of all autrhority away from the Creator God. But Yahweh, in His omnipotent sovereign foresight saw all of this, and already had a plan set in motion. Messiah was crucified before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:20-21), to redeem those chosen before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4); there was no plan B.
All through history, Satan and his minion forces have tried to destroy humanity, created in the image of Elohim (Gen. 1:27). But more than that, they have attempted to wipe out the line of Messiah, prophesied to our first parents and the serpent himself while still in the garden (Gen. 3:15).
Down through the ages, Satan has enticed humanity, made in the image of Elohim (the Creator God), with the promise of powers and abilities to "improve" humanity, or to "become as gods" (Gen. 6:4, 10:8). Before the great flood, recorded in all the histories of the peoples around the world, fallen angels descended and chose women to sire offspring. The Nephilim (Giants) were on the earth in those days, and also afterward (Gen. 6:4). So we see a corruption of the genetic seed of the ones made in the image of Elohim, Yahweh.
And he almost succeeded... but the YHWH saved the world through Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others aboard the ark. This brought them through the worldwide devastating flood, in order to rebuild humanity. But in fallen man's lust for power not his, he is led astray again, and so the Nephilim were reintroduced.
But this time, Elohim gave rise to a race of people, the Jews, through which He brought about the prophesied seed (Gen. 3:15) promised to crush the head of the serpent. It was prophesied through many prophets descended from Abraham, called out of Iraq, under the Torah of Moses. And the seed was through the tribe of Judah, born in Bethlehem, of the City of David. The best attested fact in history is the birth of the Messiah, in a small, humble cave used for keeping animals (Mt. 2:1).
And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she was about to give birth, he might devour her child. And she gave birth to a male child, who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God, and to His throne. (Rev. 12:4,5).
Here we have in the Twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation, history encapsulated in the first four verses. The passage is by no means chronological in the current sense of the word, but it is describing this inerplay between one, the orchestration of Yhwh, and two, the attempts of the rebellious archangel bent on forging humanity into his instrument of glorification.
So we can see, that since the flood, with the distribution of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth into their respective regions of the earth (Gen. 10), Yahweh brings about the woman crowned with twelve stars on her head, that is, the nation of Israel, descended from Shem.
When Yeshua was born in that small little city of Bethlehem, and King Herod learned of this new king born, prophesied by the Hebrew prophets, he had every child under two yeas old put to death (Mt. 2:16). At this point in history, we see the dragon, set before the woman with twelve stars (Israel), attempting to devour the child, the prophesied seed of woman (of the virgin Mary) (Gen. 3:15; Is. 7:14). He failed. Joseph was warned in a dream to take his child and flee to Egypt (Mt. 2:13)!
Since that time, Jesus grew up, carried out his ministry, and offered his life up as a willing Passover sacrifice to satisfy the justice of El Elyon (Jn. 10:11; Rom. 3:25; Heb. 2:17; 1 Jn. 4:10). After Yeshua's ascent into heaven, his disciples were clothed with power from on high (Acts 1:8) and went forth proclaiming the good news of Yeshua's redemption until the time when the gospel has been proclaimed in all the earth as a testimony to all the nations (Lk. 24:47; Mt. 24:14).
It's been two-thousand years since the ascent of Messiah. During this time, Yeshua's followers have been going forth into all the earth, carrying this message, attended with many signs and miracles performed in the name of Yeshua, or Jesus, as our English audience knows Him. For two-thousand years, Satan and his forces have been seeking to stop this reclaiming of the rightful Ruler. And he has led many astray, killed many, left many in despair and hopelessness, or shattered when they come to their ends, and realize that all their hopes were built on a lie, but repentance is gone.
And now the pieces over the last century have been moved into place, to bring about the final one-world empire prophesied by the Hebew Prophet Daniel (Dan. 7:19,23). This last period of seven years (Dan. 9:26) is Satan's last grasp at the reigns... if he can somehow wipe out the Jews, he will prove Yahweh Elohim is a liar, and not God, and therefore, become triumphant. So it's no-holds-barred. Satan is pulling out all the stops! Every lying trick and deception that he can offer, every deception that he can muster, in one final attempt to wrest creation away from Yahweh, from Yeshua.
And as we see at present, he is turning the leaders of the nations of the world against God's chosen people Israel (Zech. 12:2,3). They are in the spell of the dragon (1 Jn. 5:19, Eph. 2:2)! But Israel belongs to Yahweh, they are His people, and the land is His land (Lev. 25:23)! And they are His tool to destroy the works of Satan, and bring about reconciliation, and redemption for this tattered, war-torn planet (Col. 1:20).
And He will bring righteousness, and peace upon the earth! And under Yeshua's reign from Jerusalem, the earth will enjoy (finally) the blessings of Yahweh, unprecedented blessing and harmony so longed for by new agers (Isaiah 11).
We are in end-game mode. This is it. And as followers of Christ, we must take up our crosses and follow Him. For those of us in the formerly United States, we are going to learn this lesson as never before! And for many, it will end in death. This was foretold us (2 Tim. 3:12). But soon coming is the return of the Real Ruler, the true King, who is King of kings, and LORD of lords! His name is YESHUA!!!! Hallelujah!!!!
In the words of an old hymn by Luther:
"For still our ancient foe, doth seek to work us woe; his craft and power are great, and armed with cruel hate, on earth is not his equal. Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing; were not the right man on our side, the man of God's own choosing. Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus it is He! Lord Sabaoth His name, from age to age the same, and He must win the battle!
This world with devils filled, should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed, His Truth to triumph through us; The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him, his rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure! One little word shall fell him!
That word, above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth. The Spirit and the gifts are ours, through Him who with us sideth. Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also. They body they may kill, God's Truth abideth still. His Kingdom is forever.
"For still our ancient foe, doth seek to work us woe; his craft and power are great, and armed with cruel hate, on earth is not his equal. Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing; were not the right man on our side, the man of God's own choosing. Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus it is He! Lord Sabaoth His name, from age to age the same, and He must win the battle!
This world with devils filled, should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed, His Truth to triumph through us; The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him, his rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure! One little word shall fell him!
That word, above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth. The Spirit and the gifts are ours, through Him who with us sideth. Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also. They body they may kill, God's Truth abideth still. His Kingdom is forever.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Pope for a New World?
Yesterday I was out and in a conversation with a conservative Catholic man who is in full agreement with me about the signs of the times, and how we are heading (quickly) to a one world government. We had just finished our conversation and stepped into a convenience store to purchase some snacks. On my way out, I notice a magazine with a large photo of the Pope on the front cover. It was Time Magazine, and the captioned read: "Pope for a New World."
These are the times we are living in. With Joe Biden's recent declaration about bringing in the New World order... though I doubt there will be much order in it... Things appear to be rapidly moving to this end. And if the Pope really is the false prophet, then this seemingly unanimous support being given to a "Christian" socialist emporoer would be what we expect to happen.
Revelation tells us that the second beast, the false prophet, has "two horns like a lamb," but "the voice of a dragon." Is the scripture telling us that this false prophet, when he comes, will stand in the stead of Christ, but have the agenda of Satan and the Luciferic one-world order?
But let us remember, as Martin Luther said(I believe he said it), "the Devil is God's Devil." All that he will do, is well within the confines of YHWH's redemptive purposes to cleanse and sanctify a people for Himself, and bring salvation to humanity, fulfilling the promises made to Abraham so long ago, that "all the peoples of the earth will be blessed through you."
Friday, March 22, 2013
Paul McGuire -- Lucifer, Nephilim and the Fourth Dimensional DNA War
Paul McGuire -- Lucifer, Nephilim and the Fourth Dimensional DNA War
In the article above, McGuire connects the dots with what has been happening when the angels left heaven to marry women and create offspring, their own 'kind', what the German Nazi regime was up to, and what the modern day transhumanists are after.
In the article above, McGuire connects the dots with what has been happening when the angels left heaven to marry women and create offspring, their own 'kind', what the German Nazi regime was up to, and what the modern day transhumanists are after.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
ExoVaticana: Petrus Romanus & The Vatican's Astonishing Plan for the Arr...
An upcoming bestseller, for sure! After Petrus Romanus: Is the Final Pope Here, For prophecy students and those who want to know where we are in the scheme of things, this is sure to be very intriguiging with excellent documented research like the last book!
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Paul McGuire -- Satanic Message Reaches Four Billion Through Great Britain Olympics
Paul McGuire has a very insightful and sobering analysis of the occultic symbolism that was used and broadcast before millions through media during the Olympic ceremonies! Is this a foreboding of what's to come. Jesus said that in the last days, "it will be as in the days of Noah." It appears we are indeed well into that sitz im leben.
Paul McGuire -- Satanic Message Reaches Four Billion Through Great Britain Olympics
Paul McGuire -- Satanic Message Reaches Four Billion Through Great Britain Olympics
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Monday, March 15, 2010
When Does God's Love End and His Hatred Start?
An excellent question was presented to me. When in a sinner’s life does God’s love for that sinner end and His hate begin? This is a difficult question, but I think part of understanding it is understanding the nature of man and of God.
First, in beginning this statement, we need to understand man’s condition. Man is fallen from the sinless state in which God created him (Gen 3:6,7). We are born with a sinful nature. “The heart [of man] is wicked and deceitful above all things. Who can understand it?” (Jer. 17:9). Romans 3 tells us: 10As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; 11there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
Colossians 1:21
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
There is nothing good in mankind to seek God or want God (Rom 3:10-11). “Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God” (Rom. 8:8). Eph 2:1 says: “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins.”
18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. Phillipians 3:18,19
So the Bible describes man as hostile, an enemy of God, spiritually dead in his sins (Gen 2:17). There is no way we can please God. Isaiah tells us that even our good deeds are like polluted garments to God (Is. 64:6). Our nature is so thoroughly pervaded with sin, there is nothing in us that can want God (Rom 3:10-11). Jesus said, “No one can come to me unless the Father draws him” Jn 6:44. We are dead in our sins, and all of us, apart from God’s grace, are running headlong straight to hell. And if not for His Amazing Grace, that’s where we all should end up. The only thing we can earn from God in our sinful nature is condemnation. We are all guilty and deserving of hell.
Of God, we know that He is love (1 Jn 4:7-10). That is His nature. God is love. God created man upon the earth, and provided a Savior to redeem him from his sins. Scripture says: For God so loved the world, that He sent his only begotten Son... (Jn 3:16).
That is a characteristic of God's being. God IS love. But yes, because He is love, He MUST punish sin and sinners go to the place of punishment God created for Satan and his fellow fallen-angels (Mt 25:41). Part of God being love, is that God is Just or Righteous. He must punish evil.
In the Bible, a person’s name was very important, and had to do with Characteristics of that person. So when God revealed His name to Moses, it was very significant. God was revealing to sinful man WHO HE IS. He said: Exodus 34:6-7 Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and bounding in lovingkindness and truth; 7 who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."
We know that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23). So here's the dilemma: Why doesn't God send us all to hell? For He is perfectly righteous and just and there is no sin in Him (1 Jn 5:1). Because He is Love (eternally), as a manifestation of His love, He sent the Savior at the right time to die for the sins of those whom God would redeem.
Pastor John Piper (www.desiringgod.org) gave an illustration that I find very helpful. It's like humanity is in a mass running full speed away from God. But God has mercy, and He reaches out and saves some. So I don’t think that it’s so much of an issue about when His love starts or ends. All people on earth experience the love and kindness of God.
Matthew 5:44-45 44 "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
All people on earth experience the goodness and general grace of God. “Every good thing given, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows.” Jas. 1:17.
In Romans we read: Romans 9:13 13 Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." One thing we need to keep in mind is, God does not hate as humans hate. Jesus said that if we hate our brother in our heart, we are guilty of murder. The lives of Jacob and Esau are very instructive. What is the difference between Jacob and Esau. Scripture says God hated Esau. His purpose of election was upon Jacob. But what did that look like in their lives. God fulfilled all his promises to and blessed Esau, so that at their reunion after their long estrangement, Esau needed nothing of Jacobs possessions. God had blessed Esau with riches and earthly prosperity (Gen 33:9). But Jacob had been marked with the discipline of God, for his holiness (Heb. 12:10). He walked up to his brother with a limp (Gen 32:25,31). That is the difference between those the LORD redeems and those he doesn’t; those whom He adopts as His children, he disciplines for their holiness.
Hebrews 12:5-6 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM; 6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."
First, in beginning this statement, we need to understand man’s condition. Man is fallen from the sinless state in which God created him (Gen 3:6,7). We are born with a sinful nature. “The heart [of man] is wicked and deceitful above all things. Who can understand it?” (Jer. 17:9). Romans 3 tells us: 10As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; 11there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
Colossians 1:21
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
There is nothing good in mankind to seek God or want God (Rom 3:10-11). “Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God” (Rom. 8:8). Eph 2:1 says: “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins.”
18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. Phillipians 3:18,19
So the Bible describes man as hostile, an enemy of God, spiritually dead in his sins (Gen 2:17). There is no way we can please God. Isaiah tells us that even our good deeds are like polluted garments to God (Is. 64:6). Our nature is so thoroughly pervaded with sin, there is nothing in us that can want God (Rom 3:10-11). Jesus said, “No one can come to me unless the Father draws him” Jn 6:44. We are dead in our sins, and all of us, apart from God’s grace, are running headlong straight to hell. And if not for His Amazing Grace, that’s where we all should end up. The only thing we can earn from God in our sinful nature is condemnation. We are all guilty and deserving of hell.
Of God, we know that He is love (1 Jn 4:7-10). That is His nature. God is love. God created man upon the earth, and provided a Savior to redeem him from his sins. Scripture says: For God so loved the world, that He sent his only begotten Son... (Jn 3:16).
That is a characteristic of God's being. God IS love. But yes, because He is love, He MUST punish sin and sinners go to the place of punishment God created for Satan and his fellow fallen-angels (Mt 25:41). Part of God being love, is that God is Just or Righteous. He must punish evil.
In the Bible, a person’s name was very important, and had to do with Characteristics of that person. So when God revealed His name to Moses, it was very significant. God was revealing to sinful man WHO HE IS. He said: Exodus 34:6-7 Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and bounding in lovingkindness and truth; 7 who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."
We know that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23). So here's the dilemma: Why doesn't God send us all to hell? For He is perfectly righteous and just and there is no sin in Him (1 Jn 5:1). Because He is Love (eternally), as a manifestation of His love, He sent the Savior at the right time to die for the sins of those whom God would redeem.
Pastor John Piper (www.desiringgod.org) gave an illustration that I find very helpful. It's like humanity is in a mass running full speed away from God. But God has mercy, and He reaches out and saves some. So I don’t think that it’s so much of an issue about when His love starts or ends. All people on earth experience the love and kindness of God.
Matthew 5:44-45 44 "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
All people on earth experience the goodness and general grace of God. “Every good thing given, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows.” Jas. 1:17.
In Romans we read: Romans 9:13 13 Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." One thing we need to keep in mind is, God does not hate as humans hate. Jesus said that if we hate our brother in our heart, we are guilty of murder. The lives of Jacob and Esau are very instructive. What is the difference between Jacob and Esau. Scripture says God hated Esau. His purpose of election was upon Jacob. But what did that look like in their lives. God fulfilled all his promises to and blessed Esau, so that at their reunion after their long estrangement, Esau needed nothing of Jacobs possessions. God had blessed Esau with riches and earthly prosperity (Gen 33:9). But Jacob had been marked with the discipline of God, for his holiness (Heb. 12:10). He walked up to his brother with a limp (Gen 32:25,31). That is the difference between those the LORD redeems and those he doesn’t; those whom He adopts as His children, he disciplines for their holiness.
Hebrews 12:5-6 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM; 6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."
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