SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/3/2025 8:42 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “Opposers of the Truth”
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: 2 Timothy 3:8-9
Message of the verses: “8 Just as Jannes
and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of
depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make
further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and
Jambres’s folly was also.”
This is actually the only time that these names, Jannes
and Jambres are mentioned in the Bible, but we can see that these two opposed
Moses. So it is pretty safe to say that
these two men were magicians who did some of the things that God did, that is
copying His miracles like turning water into blood, that are seen in the book
of Exodus. There came a time that these
magicians could not duplicate the miracles done through Moses and then they
tried to get Pharaoh to let the people go, but it was in the plan of God that
he did not let them go until the death of all first born in Egypt who did not
put the blood onto their doors.
MacArthur writes “Because Jannes perhaps means ‘he who seduces’ and Jambres
‘he who takes rebellion,’ those may have been symbolic names given to these men
at a later time. Jewish tradition holds that
they pretended to convert to Judaism in order to subvert Moses’ divine
assignment to liberate Israel from Egypt, that they led in making and
worshiping the golden calf while Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the Law from
God, and that they were slaughtered by the Levites along with the other
idolaters (see Ex. 32). That possibility
is consistent with Paul’s warning about false leaders who corrupted the church
from within. Just as those two men opposed
Moses in his teaching and leading ancient Israel, so those men in Ephesus also
opposed the truth of the gospel.
“If
Jannes and Jambres were indeed among the Egyptians magicians, Paul may be
warning that, similarly, these men in the early church also might perform
magical feats. They may have been like
the ‘false Christs and false prophets [who] will arise’ in the last days, ‘and
will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect’
(Matt. 24:24; cf. 2 Thess. 2:9).”
Paul taught many things about what will happen in
the end times, and remember that the “end times” actually began with the
resurrection of Jesus Christ, but most of the time when we see the words “end
times” it is spoken about what will happen during the tribulation period, which
is actually the last seven years of Daniel’s prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27,
a prophecy that I have gone over many times in writing my Spiritual Diaries,
and a prophecy that is possible to begin to be happening as one looks at what
is going on in the world today. All that
remains for it to begin is the Rapture of the Church which Paul wrote about in 1
Corinthians 15:51-58, and also in Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians 4:13-18: 13
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep,
so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who
have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede
those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the
Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17
Then we who are alive and remain will be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so
we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these
words.” It is my belief that because the Lord used these end times events in
order to cause me to come to Christ a little over 51 years ago, that that is
the things that I truly enjoy in studying the Scriptures and as said I can see
that the events in our world that are going on are similar to the things that
will take place during the tribulation period then it is my joy to write about
them in my Spiritual Diaries and then put them onto my blogs so that people who
read them can look around and see that the Bible is true, and that because it
is true that unbelievers will look at these events and trust the Lord Jesus Christ
as their Savior and Lord and miss the awful events of the tribulation period,
which is the most horrible time that will ever happen on planet earth. In fact the Lord said if He did not return
when He will return that the whole earth will be destroyed.
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life Today: Remember there is much evil in this world we
are living in, and so tell the truth of the Gospel so salvation will come to
those who accept the Lord as their Savior and Lord.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to write the truth and post in onto
my blogs so those who read it can grow in grace as believers and those who are
not can come to Christ as Savior and Lord.
5/3/2025 9:30 AM
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