The Lord knows those who are His, 1Tim 2:19, but often even other believers do not know!
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As some have said, “We are not the only Christians, but we are (or should be) Christians only.”
The true church of our Lord is NOT a human entity at all. It has no earthly headquarters. It has no earthly head. Jesus is its head, and He is in heaven.
It is an eternal temple made without hands.
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We often misunderstand the nature of God’s holy temple, His holy church. We are living stones in this temple 1Pe 2:5 , which will one day fill the whole earth, Dan 2:35.
Even those who crucified Him, Rev 1:7.
Some think that if we do not know the date and hour of Jesus Coming (which we don’t!), that means there will be no signs of Jesus Second Coming.
This is a Fallacy.
There are many things of which we may not know the day or hour, yet there will be signs of these things being about to happen. You may not know the day or the hour that snow will next fall where you live, HOWEVER, there will signs of snow approaching. Freezing temperatures. Snowy looking clouds.
There are many things we do not or cannot know, but there will be signs of Jesus approaching coming (Lk 21:25-28), and we are to be “Watching,” Mk 13:37 KJV.
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To try to unravel the book of Revelation without the Old Testament prophets, is something which I do not think can be done. The book Revealing the Christian Age, tries to tie together many of the main links. Available from your bookseller.
An uproar, a tumult, of the nations against God and His Christ and His followere here on earth, and is a subject of the both the Old Testament and the New Testament, and is talked about in many passages, including Revelation, and in Isaiah 17.
A key question is: Who will be protected during those times? And Scripture gives some answers.
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God does look after His own!
More details on these things are given in both Prophecy Principles and Revealing the Christian Age.
Revealing the Christian Age gives the reader the tools for a second look at the book of Revelation. For more information click the books tab at the top of this site. These books are available from your book seller.
God will judge between the nations it says in Isaiah 2. And God will bring peace to the earth, and an end to death and decay and things running down!
Part of this is about what we often call “heaven.” It seems to speak of what we would call a earth in a new universe. Scripture repeatedly calls this “a new heavens and a new earth.
The imagery involved in this new earth is astonishing, dazzling, beyond our present earth bound minds to fully comprehend.
But also involved is the soon-to-be passing away of our present universe, IN ITS ENTIRETY! An equally daunting idea.
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These subjects are discussed in more detail in my first two books, Prophecy Principles, and Revealing the Christian Age, which are available from your bookseller. Our age, and its outcomes have been revealed to us.
Major religions are often pictured as mountains in Scripture. Isaiah 2 pictures the later to come Christianity as coming to dominate all other religions.
More than that, it pictures a future time, when ALL nations will voluntarily flow to it. But that has NOT happened … at least YET!
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Harlotry is a big subject in Scripture, and Harlotry in the Old Testament Hebrew sense, includes not only women, but also men, and it includes all types of promiscuous behavior.
Also there is the Great Harlot in Scripture. She is symbolized by ancient Tyre and Sidon. She is a Religio-Commercial-Political entity which has dominated world trade, and many nations, evidently since pre-Christian times.
But God is going to relieve Himself of His enemies, and is going to restore the Jews to faithfulness in His Messiah, Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth. Scripture tells us these things will happen at some point in the Christian Age, when the Jews are in great distress.
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These issues are dealt with in detail in my third book, Jewish Chronicles. The discussion there starts with how the Jews got off track from faithfulness to their God, and where this has led, and where this is going.
It is a big question, how many will be saved?
Many will assure you that ALL will be saved, but that is NOT what Scripture teaches.
The truth is that at some point God may say to you and men, “I have had enough.”
That can have disastrous result for us. However, God does give people, even really bad people, plenty of time to turn around, plenty of time to repent, and come to God, if we will.
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Isaiah 1 indeed gives us a program for life, even if we are very deeply in sin.
Israel and Judah were very lawless and sinful in the 8th century BC, that is to say in the prophet Isaiah’s time. There was much worship of false god, much violence and personal revenge, and only the most superficial sorts of worship of the living God.
They, like many of us, “knew” many things which are false, but did not REALLY know the living and true God.
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So once again! How far do we take this stuff? How many times have read something in Scripture and said to yourself, “How can that be?”
We read all sorts of things which God says “will be,” and sometimes our eyes sort of glaze over, then we just sort of pass over things, which we should never pass over!
We should trust God! He is smart enough to make all of this? How can He be wrong?
Compare 1Jn 5:10.