SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/14/2022 7:50 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “They
Curse the Light”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
16:1-4
Message of the verses: “1 And the
Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Him asked Him to show them a sign
from heaven. 2 But He answered and said to them, "When it is evening, you
say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3 “And in the morning,
’There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do
you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern
the signs of the times? 4 “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a
sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah." And He
left them, and went away.”
One of the things that people have the ability to do
is to add onto things, things like technical data, and man can add onto these thing in each generation. In the
Bible as we read through it we see what is called progressive revelation, and
in a sense that is what mankind can do, but the problem with mankind as they
continue to learn things of the world is that they have no comprehension of the
things of God. Mankind, in the days of
WWII developed the Atom Bomb and used it a couple of times to help end the war,
however it was God who made the Atoms that man figured out how to split and
make a bomb with, and I don’t think that too many of these people who were
working on the bomb thought too much about that when they were working on
it. God made our planet in seven days
and all the wonderful things that we find on it and we are able to do with what we
find on it but we lack so much if one does not realize Who it was who created it and
because of that they miss out on the greatest thing possible, and that is
getting to know the One who made all of this and giving Him the glory for His immense
creation.
MacArthur
writes “In answer to the disciples’ question about ‘the sign of [His] coming,
and of the end of the age,’ Jesus said, ‘You will be hearing of wars and rumors
of wars;…nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in
various places there will be famines and earthquakes…And many false prophets
will arise, and will mislead many. And
because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold’ (Matt.
24:3, 6-7, 11-12).
“Those
signs that Jesus will return abound in our day.
No period of history has experienced more wars or been so preoccupied
with the prospect of war as our own.
With unprecedented surpluses of food in some parts of the world, other
parts still experience devastating famines.
Cults and false religions of every sort are proliferating even in
countries that have been nominally Christian for hundreds of years. The spirit of lawlessness and self-will is
rampant.”
Just
a reminder that this quotation comes from a book written in 1988, so even in 34
years these things that have been written about seem like ancient history
compared to what is going on in our country and around the world at this
time. We have billionaires buying up
farm land in order not to produce food, in order to have people starve because
they believe that our world cannot sustain all the people that are on the earth
at this time. I have a friend of mine
who lives in Bangladesh who said a few years ago to me that if all the people
in the world lived in the state of Texas there would be more room for them than
for the people living in Bangladesh. All
I can say is that I have studied the Bible and what is says about the end times
and I think that we are very close to what the Bible calls the Rapture of the
Church. Maybe after the disappearance of
a couple of billion people those left will be happy because we are gone and won’t
have to go on with their tricks to starve people.
8/14/2022 8:15 AM
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