My many thanks to both the author and publisher, in putting this before the public. (John B 's adaptation to this story)
This world is not a safe place. That says Loren Siebold, is why Jesus promised to return, someday, and take us, the believers, to a very safe place.
The worst Earthquake in recent history, occurred in 1976, in China. The lives of 650,000 human beings, was snuffed out in moments. Yes, it difficult to comprehend so many people dying in the same area, at about the same time. Please, remember, these were all human beings, with as much consciousness and the the love of life that You and I have! That's 650,000 people who loved and were loved, gone in a flash of horror!
Such disasters happen more often that one might suppose. The worst disaster, i n terms of human lives, also in China's Yellow River's flood in 1931. So many lives were lost, that the authorities, just put the number between 1 and 2 millions, and LEFT it at that!
Note(JB): Can you now understand the why China has spent millions, building the Three River Gorge dam, earth's largest, by far?
This earth, is not naturally a tranquil place. For years we may go along happily, bumping from one day to the next, then suddenly there's a Katrina, or an Indian Ocean tsunami, or the one that hit Japan, where in she lost a Nuclear Power Plant, spewing deadly Plutonium in the ocean.
NOTE(JB) One golf ball sized ball of plutonium is more than enough to kill all humans on this earth and then some!
Yet what about the earthquakes all over this earth? Or, what about the Billions who have died because of some disease, and many scientist say we are ONE MUTATION away, from a Super Bug, or supergerm, we have no defense against, and either could take millions of lives!
However, all these are from only an Impersonal Nature, what about the intentional destruction, caused by humans? The totality of deaths by human actions, from 1914 to 1958, including both World Wars, and Korea, is known only to God Himself, Hitler comes in as a picker, with about 45 million, Stalin saw to the murder of that many Jews alone in the old U.S.S.R. not to mention the 15 million Ukrainians, he starved to death, in his push for Collective Farming, But that still short of China's Mao, during his "War of Liberation?" and His RED Book revolution, that removed 50+ millions of human beings! That's just the "Bad Guys", what about the Good Guys", how died because of our p[arts in these wars?
NoteJB): If the "WEST" has not intervened during these wars, what , pray tell, which language would we be speaking in today? German? Japanese? Russian? Chinese?
DESPAIR.
After sin, the world has never been and never will be , a safe place, It is any wonder that people are afraid? Atheist Bertrand Russel wrote, " All all of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction is the vast death of the solar system.... Only on the4 firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built."
What a dismal philosophy of life! Despair is hardly a "Firm Foundation,". A world built upon despair is a world of total selfishness, where each one survives by his or her will and strength, even at the expense of of all others. There's no happiness, and no peace of of mind!
Note(JB) But that's the place, all who believe in evolution and atheists have chosen to live, their lives! Here today, gone tomorrow! How hopeless is that?
With each election, we all hope that they newly elected one will solve our problems. But they won't. Yet many carry on thinking that their prosperity will solve and heal their wounded souls, IT WILL NOT! Some put their hopes in fame and prosperity, yet with every news story about a Beyonce' or a Tiger Woods, it become self-evident that success seldom brings a long-term happiness!
Isaiah 60:2 "For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people:"
But then, when things are most dark; when we are most overwhelmed by everything this world shows us--- the hypocrisy of politics, the confusion of psychology, the petrification of organized religion, the dissolution of the family unit, th4e failure of work and money to satisfy... when all seems lost, Isaiah promises:
Isaiah 60:2 ".but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee."
God's promise to enlighten the world in darkness, comes to pass in three stages, or events.
The first one happened just a little more than 2,000 years ago, with the arrival of The Son of God, Jesus Christ. He opened a new door, the door of Salvation, and the the beginning of a new hope. None that ever heard Him was left unchanged!
Then, His ordained death on the Cross, that fateful Friday at 3 PM. as the Jews counted even any part of a day, as a whole day, He Sabbath ed in the earth, until Sunday sunup,the first day of the week, He arose from the dead, He arose to heaven to receive His Father- God's approval, He3 returned to earth again, to teach the final wisdom to His 12, but before leaving again, He gave his promise to return again, John 14:1-3 , but He promised to send the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, to teach all who are willing, to surrender to His love!
John 1:11-12 " He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:"
Those who believed in Him, were not spiritual believers, that actually saw Him, heard Him and talked to Him, the Resurrected Jesus, to whom they would pray in His name.
Colossians 1:27 "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:"
Revelation 1:7 " Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen."
NOTE(JB) If every eye shall shall see Him, just how "SECRET" shall His coming, and our "RAPTURE," be?
Matthew 24:27 " For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
NOTE(JB) secret lightnings?
1 Thessalonians 4:16 "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:"
NOTE(JB): Is there any doubts that a trumpet is by far the most loud of all instruments? SECRET rapture HOW?
WHY, why should we each believe that Jesus will return to gather His own? For the very same reason He was willing to die of us, LOVE, He loves each one of us, even if He hates what we do!
Revelation 21:4-5 "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful."
Note(JB) i n Human terms.....John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
John 15:15 " Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."
NOTE(JB): Because there no way for us to repent nor ask for forgiveness from the grave, we must do this while the Breath of Life is still within us! None know the day nor date of their last breath, thus today... IS THE DAY, to get right with God, in prayer!
Thanking you for your time. Comments? Questions? John at servant@frontier.com
Need/Want more? Visit your Seventh-day Adventist Church any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10 AM. Know that only YOU can fill YOUR spot in heaven, that has been set-aside for you only!
Other sites: aftv.org blbn.org amazingdiscoveries.org itiswritten.com redeem.international
servantsite@wordpress.com
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment