SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/21/2025 9:28 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “Continue
in God’s Word”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
3:12-17
Message of the verses: “13 But evil men
and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But
continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of,
knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15 And that from a child thou
hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be
perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
I have decided to continue looking at this third
chapter of 2 Timothy by using Dr. Warren Wiersbe’s commentary and then I will
see what I want to do after completing the remaining verses of this
chapter. Now the verses above conclude
the third chapter of 2 Timothy, but it will take a few days to get through
them. The name in the focus part of this
Spiritual Diary is the main point and there will be sub-points which will
follow after as we break down these verses into sub-sections.
Dr.
Wiersbe writes: “The only way to defeat
Satan’s lies is with God’s truth. ‘Thus
saith the Lord!’ is the final answer to every question. Evil men and deceivers are going to get worse
and worse. They will deceive more and
more. Why? Because they are being deceived by Satan! In these last days, there will be more
deception and imitation; and the only way a believer will be able to tell the
true from the false is by knowing the Word of God.” Now the Be Book on 1st and 2nd
Timothy “Be Faithful” was written in 1981, 44 years ago, and a lot has changed
in the world since then. My point is
that it seems the technology we have in the world the worse the world
becomes. Now I love the technology of
being able to sit at my desk each and every day and write my Spiritual Diaries
and then put them onto my blogs and then look the next day to see that the
Spirit of God has sent them around the world, which tells me that the Lord is
using them to send the gospel message around the world. However there are many people using
technology for evil purposes. Looking at
what will happen in what the Bible calls the Tribulation Period, which is the
last seven years of planet earth before the Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth
to stop the war of Armageddon one can see how technology will be used during
those seven years. My ministry in
writing these Spiritual Diaries is to get the Word out so that those who will
accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord will not have to go
through those seven years of hell on earth for those saved now in the Church
age will go to be with the Lord in what is called the Rapture of the Church,
which will happen before the Tribulation period. I have written about the Rapture of the
Church in many of my Spiritual Diaries.
The books of 1st and 2nd Thessalonians speaks of
the Rapture along with the long chapter of 1 Corinthians (15th
chapter) also speaks of this. Also in my
study of the 9th chapter of Daniel which has what has been said the
greatest prophecy found in the Bible one can even see what will happen in the
end times from the end of the 9th chapter, the 490 year prophecy
which is seen there. That prophecy began
in the second chapter of Nehemiah and then 483 years later Jesus came riding on
a donkey into Jerusalem and offering the Kingdom to the Jews they turned Him
down. That was 173,880 days after the
Nehemiah chapter two began those 490 years.
Luke writes the following about this event which we call Psalm Sunday: 41 When He approached Jerusalem, He
saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things
which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes” (Luke
19:41-42). Now these verses happened
right after Jesus rode into Jerusalem and I want you to notice the highlighted
section of verse 42, or “this day” was 173,880th day of the prophecy
given in Daniel and because the Jews turned down their Messiah Daniel’s
prophecy of 490 years stopped with seven years left on it. Daniel goes on to tell us what will trigger the
beginning of these last seven years as he prophesied that there will be a man
who is called the Antichrist who will make a peace deal with the nation of Israel
and they will accept it. That event will
begin the last seven years of Daniel’s prophecy, which the Bible calls the
Tribulation Period.
I
realize that this had nothing to do with our verses in 2 Timothy, but as one
looks at what is going on in the Middle East at this time, especially with Iran
whose nation is part of the Tribulation Period, along with Russia, Egypt,
Europe, Turkey, and others some think that the event of the Rapture is very
close to happen because the events of the Tribulation Period seem to be very
close.
So
what is the best thing to do? Going to
heaven in the Rapture is the best way, the only way to miss the events of the
Tribulation Period. To do that one must
realize that you are a sinner, born a sinner, to realize that the Lord Jesus
Christ came to earth in order to die on the cross for your sins, and so after
realizing you are a sinner you pray to the Lord and tell Him that and then
thank Him for taking you place on the cross and invite Him into your life to be
you Savior and Lord. Then celebrate the
fact that you have become a child of God.
Every
day after I post my Spiritual Diaries onto my blogs I pray five things, and the
very last thing that I pray is if it is the Lord’s will that the very last
person in the Church age will accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and
Lord will take place after reading one of my Spiritual Diaries. It could be you!!!
4/21/2025 10:16 AM
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