The Restoration of All Things

During the time prior to the Great Tribulation, God will allow the anti-Christ to bring peace to global conflict and to conquer the world by his cunning political methods. In addition, God will send strong delusion on anyone who did not receive the love of His Truth in order to be saved. They will believe the anti-Christ’s deception and take pleasure in wickedness. God will bring judgment on these rebellious people (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12).

In spite of Satan’s promises through the anti-Christ, the world will experience widespread famine, pervasive human and animal loss, the wholesale martyrdom of Israeli believers in Christ, unparalleled earthquakes and fires and cosmic disturbances, the contamination of the world’s water supply, diminished light from the sun and moon and stars, terrible plagues, and angelic forces who use a demonic army to destroy even more of the earth’s population (Revelation, Ezekiel, Daniel).

Once God purges the earth of evil, He creates a new eternal heaven and earth, which will eclipse the beauty and splendor of our current world (Isaiah 65:17, 66:22). He will establish His Kingdom on the earth and we will serve Him (Revelation 22:3). God will restore to His beloved Saints everything which Adam and Eve relinquished to Satan in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1; Revelation 20-21).

God does not send good people to heaven and bad people to hell. In fact, God never sends anyone to hell, nor does He condemn us (John 3:16-17). We actually condemn our self to hell by our unbelief (John 3:18; 1 John 3:21).  Adam and Eve chose to believe Satan’s lie, rather than God’s truth, and most of mankind has followed suit ever since. God’s benevolent plan for mankind from the beginning of time, and still is for us to spend eternity with Him in His Paradise.

Prayer:

Father God, You love us so much that You sent Your only begotten Son to save us from the penalty of our sins. You never send judgment without first sending a warning. In fact, You gave us Your prophets, apostles, pastors, evangelists and teachers to remind us about the truths of Your Word. Thank You for giving us the opportunity to repent of our sins and to receive the saving work, which Jesus Christ obtained for us on Calvary’s cross.

Though for the Day:

Jesus returned to Heaven until the time comes for Him to restore all things to Himself. - Acts 3:21

God's End Time Purposes

 God views the past, present and future as one event. He knew man's penchant for depravity and our eventual need for Jesus as our Savior. He crafted His end time plan prior to establishing the earth. He dwells in eternity and is not restricted by time as we are. He had a major plan for humanity and it has now almost entirely unfolded.

The anti-Christ's rise to power may be happening as I type. However, God will remove His Saints from the earth before the anti-Christ is ever revealed (1 Thessalonians 5:9). God will judge our works and reward us at the Judgment Seat of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:10). We will be dressed in our wedding garments, which are made from our righteous works for God, while we are alive on this earth (Revelation 19:8).

Then we will have a wedding feast with Jesus in Heaven (Revelation 19:7-9). At this same time, the torment of the Great Tribulation is taking place on the earth. Jesus opens the seal, trumpet and bowl judgments, which bring devastation and destroys the corrupted earth and the people on it (Matthew 24:4-31; Revelation 6-19).

During the Great Tribulation, the two Jewish witnesses will preach in Jerusalem while 12,000 from each of the Jewish tribes will go out through the earth to win the lost Jews to Christ. God will save those in Israel who choose to believe, and these Saints will give their lives in martyrdom. At the end of the seven-year Great Tribulation, Jesus will return to the earth.

This is called The Second Coming of Christ (Revelation 19:11-21). We, His Bride, are coming with Christ in our immortal, glorified bodies at this same time. The Word of the Lord defeats all the armies of the world assembled by the Anti-Christ at the "Battle of Armageddon" (Revelation 19:11-21). Then He will lock up Satan with all of his demons in the lake of fire. We will rule and reign with Jesus during the Millennium (Revelation 20:3).

Prayer:

Father God, You never send judgment without first sending warning. Noah believed Your counsel about his time's coming Day of Judgment and he built the Ark. He preached Your plan for 120 years. He and his family heeded Your forewarning and were saved from Your wrath (Luke 17:26; Hebrews 11:7), while everyone else perished. As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the end times (Matthew 24:37). Thank You for saving us, and making us part of your eternal plan. Please, draw our loved ones, who do not believe, to come to Your loving heart now, before it is too late.

Thought for the Day:

God has not yet poured out judgment on evil, because He has been storing up the cup of His fury since the sin of Adam and Eve; He will dispense it during the Great Tribulation. - Revelation 14:10

God Never Condemns

When Adam and Eve sinned, they lost everything God created for our enjoyment in Paradise. At that time, the spirit of man died. Human beings are all born with a living body and a living soul - our mind, will and emotions; but our spirit is dead in Adam’s sin (Ephesians 2: 1). When we accept Christ as our Savior, He not only rebirths our spirit through salvation, but He renews our soul through a lifetime of sanctification. Since our thoughts and actions grow more positive, our body is healthier as well.

The influence of sin in the world from the time of Adam and Eve causes all of the sickness and trials we have now, but God uses them for our good and for His higher purpose (Romans 8:28; Isaiah 57:1). God never sends judgment without first sending a warning. He warned the people in the Old Testament through the prophets, but few people heeded their admonition. God even took the form of a human being and came to earth as Jesus Christ to warn the people of coming judgment, and His contemporaries crucified Him. Those in the early church heard about judgment through the Apostles. Today, we have the Word of God as our warning.

Since the book of Revelation was written and circulated, we have had a clear harbinger of things to come. Most people have a Bible in their home, but very few ever read it or take it seriously. This is Satan's doing. He appeals to mankind's intellect and convinces them that the Bible is nothing more than fairy tales, that Jesus’ divinity is improvable and that God does not exist – all lies. Biblical prophecy is the major proof that the Bible is true. Every prophecy is either already literally fulfilled, being literally fulfilled today or soon to be literally fulfilled through end time events.

Jesus will soon rapture His Church. Receiving our rewards and marrying Jesus, our bridegroom, along with our wedding feast, takes seven years. Those unbelievers left behind on the earth after the rapture will go through horrid torment during this same seven years. That is why we try so hard to talk to people about Christ now in order to give them a chance to hear the truth before the judgment comes. Revelation chapter 6 begins with the seals that represent the beginning of God's judgment of unbelievers on the earth during the Great Tribulation period (Matthew 24:4-31.)

We condemn our self by our unbelief (John 3:18; 1 John 3:20). God condemns no one (John 3:17). God desires that no one will perish, but that all will come to repentance and faith in Him (John 3:16; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9). Jesus actually came to seek and to save those who are lost in sin (Luke 19:10). If we sin, Jesus is our advocate with our Heavenly Father (1 John 2:1). God calls us to continue living in Christ so that when He appears, we may be confident in our salvation and stand before Him unashamed (1 John 2:28).

Prayer:
Father God, we are so impressed with the length and breadth and width of Your love for Your People (Ephesians 3:18). You made promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that You will fulfill in the Millennium. The Bride and Israel will dwell together with You as joint heirs with Jesus of all that You have in store for us. Thank You for the opportunity for us to choose You and to follow You and to live for You now and for eternity.
 
Thought for the Day:
Those who refuse to love God’s Truth and be saved, because they delight in wickedness, will receive powerful delusion during the Great Tribulation; so that they will believe the anti-Christ’s lie and be condemned for eternity with Satan and his demons. - 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

 

Why Do People Refuse to Believe the Bible?

God used several diverse men from different times and places to write consistent accounts, which confirm one another. Scholars put these confirmed writings into the 66 books of the Bible we read today. Scribes so accurately transcribed these words throughout the ages, that if you compare them they all say the same thing with minimal differences. Even the recently recovered Dead Sea Scrolls prove the accuracy of the Bible, which we have today. Yet, people refuse to believe its veracity.

God gave us the Bible so we could base our faith and practice on its truths. It is full of historic events, traditional stories and common sense instruction for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training us in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16). Archeology, history, science and mathematical logic all help us to recognize the authority of the Bible. There is no need for a revision of history between then and now or any manually constructed evidence to prove the truth of the Bible.

If you compare the Old Testament of the Christian Bible with what historians during that time documented about the land and people mentioned in the Bible, you will find that it is based on facts, which are proven by history. Scientific astronomy also proves that the heavens declare the glory of God and the skies proclaim the work of His hands (Psalm 19:1). Even stories such as Noah’s flood, which many people discount, are proven by archeological findings. In fact, no archeological find has ever disproved the Bible. The Bible is repeatedly proven true by these and so many more secular facts.

Then, the supernatural attributes of the Bible’s prophecies, many of which are already literally fulfilled, give us another detail to prove its accuracy. Over 300 of these Old Testament prophecies are linked with the New Testament accounts of Jesus Christ. Experts tell us that the mathematical statistics and probability of getting just 8 of these 300 prophecies fulfilled by Jesus Christ is 1 in one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000). This gives us faith to know that those prophecies that have not yet happened will certainly be literally fulfilled as well. This is not possible with any other religious leader or the holy book of any other religion.

There are many anti-biblical beliefs in the world today, which make sense to the human mind, but in the end they all lead to spiritual death (Proverbs 14:12). Many intelligent men throughout time sought to make a case against the Bible. When they did their research, however, they were forced to accept what scientific reasoning, prophetic accuracy, archaeology and history were showing them. Every effort they ever made turned out to prove the truth and accuracy of the Bible. Many of these people even chose to join the Christian family because of the verification of their research.

God has given us plenty of rational evidence pointing to the supernatural accuracy of the Bible. Why then do people refuse to believe the validity of the Scripture? Our culture invents doubts for the seeker’s mind, university professors demand that Biblical information not be used in their classrooms, and people hurt by hypocritical and even well-meaning Christians choose to close their mind to God’s Truth. Satan has deluded them and blinded their eyes from seeing the truth. People also suppress the truth because of their wickedness.

The truth about God is made simple to us in so many ways. Even nature reveals God’s eternal power and divine character. We clearly see and understand God’s Truth through creation, and no one has a valid excuse not to believe. Although the truth about God is evident, people still choose not to glorify Him as God, nor to give Him thanks for all He does for each and every one of us every single day of our lives (Romans 1:18-21).

Humanistic thinking is pointless and leads us away from God. People close their irrational hearts to the light of God’s Word. These people claim to be wise, but by their actions and thinking they prove themselves to be fools. They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for humanistic and satanic lies. Therefore God gave them all over to the sinful desires of their hearts. They believe false doctrine and worship one another rather than the Creator who is forever to be praised (Romans 1:22-25).

There are even a few major world events that prove we are living in the end times. They start with the dispersion of the Jews by the Roman Empire (Ezekiel 22:15); the persecution of the Jews (Isaiah 3:24); the re-gathering of the Jews to Israel in 1948 (Ezekiel 37:21); the Six Day war in 1967 (Zechariah 12:3-5); the Hebrew language is restored to Israel, so the people can worship the Lord in one accord (Zephaniah 3:9), the shekel is restored as the currency of Israel (Ezekiel 45:12); of all the Middle Easter countries, only Israel gushed forth with water on the barren heights, deserts turned into pools of water, and fruit, forest and olive trees grew in the wasteland and became the Garden of the Middle East (Isaiah 41:18-20, 27:6, 35:1-2; Ezekiel 36:34-36; Amos 9:14-15).

We already have the beginning of birth pains. The increase in destructive forces of nature, pestilence, famine, disease, wars and rumors of wars are already occurring. The news is full of record-breaking events (Matthew 24:4-8). Christians are persecuted in record numbers, many are turning away from faith in Jesus Christ, false prophets have arisen to lead people away from the one true God, and there is an increase in wickedness where people commit atrocities without conscience (Matthew 24:9-13; 2 Timothy 3:1-5).

Toward the end of civilization as we know it, the Bible prophesies a war against Israel by the Middle East and Russia (Ezekiel 38-39). Russia is already aligned with these nations. The time is growing short for you to make a decision to follow Christ. God will intervene in Israel’s favor during this war as he did in the Seven Day war. Will you allow God to intervene in your life and bring you to salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ? When the gospel of the kingdom is preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, then the end will come (Matthew 24:14). The revelation of the anti-Christ as the leader of the world, unified in politics, religion and commerce, will usher in the Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:15; Revelation 13:16-18, 20:4).

This is also called the Day of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 5:2). God’s wrath will be revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of every unbelieving nation (Luke 21:25-27). This will happen during the last seven years of human history. He will judge all the nations of the world; put an end to Satan’s dominion over the earth; and send out 144,000 Jewish evangelists, so that His beloved Israel will be saved. Most Bible prophecies are already fulfilled. We are hovering in the fourth and fifth chapter of Revelation. You may not have much time left in your life to believe in Jesus as your Savior and to surrender your will and your life to God. Please do not wait…tomorrow may be too late.

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