Monday, April 21, 2025

PT-1 "Continue in God's Word" (2 Timothy 3:12-17)

 

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!!!

 

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