Will The Lord Return To Earth, What Do You Expect? Cont'd. (3)

Now, turn to Exodus 15. This psalm, the first psalm in the bible, it's the celebration of the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, and is celebrated every year by Jewish people all over the world. Jewish people who follow their own Haggadah know this better than we Christians, because they recite this every single year. When God brought Israel from Egypt, not only was it He, and He alone, who slew the firstborn, but it was He, and He alone, who fought against their enemies and destroyed them. And when the song was sung, verse 3 says, “The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is His name.” Yahweh is a man of war, Yahweh is His name. And in those words, we are celebrating the fact that it was God, and God alone, who delivered them. Adonai ish milchamah, Adonai shemo. Yahweh is a warrior, His name is Warrior God.

That’s what we have portrayed about sweet King Jesus in Revelation 19. Jesus, when He comes down, is a man of war. Look at the words, verse 11, “He judges and wages war.” Look at the words of verse 15, “From His mouth comes a sharp sword.” The point is that it is He who will fight directly, personally.

The Second Coming of Jesus: What do you expect? The greatest calamity in all of human history.

The people of the world don’t understand this. They use the word Armageddon which is our word, a bible word. But they use Armageddon to describe nuclear holocaust, nation against nation.


Back in the days of the Soviet Union there was such a threat of the end of the world, many thought, by one nation lobbing missiles against another and though it was thought that was Armageddon, it was not. That would be horrific, it would be world war, but it’s not Armageddon.

 Armageddon is the nations gathered together at the end of the Tribulation period to withstand God the Father putting His Son Jesus Christ on the throne of David in Jerusalem. That’s what Psalm 2 is about. That’s what  Psalm 110  is about.

In Psalm 2, the nations are gathered together against the Lord, and against his Messiah, his anointed. And the One who is in heaven laughs in derision as He says, “I set My king on My holy hill, Zion.”

Do you think the nations can withstand the power of God? That’s why there’s the greatest cataclysm of all of history. What makes it the worst is it’s not water, it’s not fire, it’s not disease, but it’s the Lord Himself who comes to judge.



Blessings upon You.

Will the Lord Return To Earth, What Do You Expect? Cont'd. (2)

Many of us are familiar with the story of the ten plagues. In the book of Exodus 11, the announcement of the tenth plague is given. The last plague God used to deliver Israel from Egypt is the most horrendous of the list. There were others that were awful, the turning of the Nile to blood, the darkening of an eclipse that lasted for days and was specific on the Egyptians and not the people of Israel. Some eclipse that was. Cattle disease, boils, gnats, flies, awful things, but none of the plagues is like the tenth. Because in the tenth plague we’re told that from the house of pharaoh, to the humblest farmer in the land, and even extending out to the barn, the firstborn of Egypt will die. They will not die, however, as Sunday school lessons have it, by the “Angel of Death,” but by the hand of God.

Take a look at Chapter 11 verse 1: “The LORD (Yahweh) said to Moses, ‘One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh.’” He says I will do this. Verse 4, “Thus says the LORD, ‘About midnight, I am going out into the midst of Egypt’” You see what we’ve done? We’ve softened this because it’s almost intolerable. It’s something that we can’t stomach. God? No, we’d like it to be done by an angel. God? No, we’d like it to be done by a demon. God? No, we’d like it to be done by a storm or a disease, but God says, “I will do this.” And so He did.

Turn to Chapter 12 and look at the summary in verse 29. “It came about at midnight that the LORD struck all the first-born.” Not an angel, not a seraph, not a messenger, but the Lord.

Many religious people do Passover Seders in the spring. The rabbis sometimes got things right, and this they nailed. In the Passover Haggadah, the liturgy for that wonderful service of praise to God for deliverance from Egypt, there is a homily on these words from Chapter 11 where God says, “I will go out into the midst of Egypt.” Listen to this.

 “The Lord, (Yahweh), brought us forth from Egypt, not by means of an angel, nor by means of a seraph, nor by means of a messenger, but the Most Holy. Blessed be He in His own glory. As it is said, ‘I will pass through the land of Egypt in this night, I will smite every firstborn of the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment.’ I, Yahweh, will pass through the land of Egypt, I, and not an angel. I will smite every firstborn, I and not a seraph. And on all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment, I, not a messenger. I, Yahweh, I am He, there is none other.” And that’s the way it was.


When the final act of deliverance was done, it was God who did it. And that was to get His people out of Egypt. And then when they came to the watery mass, and the army was behind them and the Sea of Reeds or the Red Sea was before them, then it was again that God acted in His own person, not by an angel, not by a seraph, not by a messenger, but in His own glory.


To Be Cont'd.


Stay blessed.

Overcome Your Fears By Trusting the Lord Of Host

John 16:33, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” 

When God created man, He gave them the right to life; within that right was discretion, the ability to decide what to do and what  not to do. Without such, life would be meaningless. All of us who have fallen have made a decision and all of us who have not fallen, faced similar temptations but made a different decision. 

Children of God, why are you down-cast because of discouragement? Any suggestion that trouble, sickness and discouragement will not come to us is a false doctrine. Therefore, when it hits hard and feels unbearable, that's the time to think wisely and speed up the attack. It is definitely not the time to relax and become discouraged.

We fight through our failure and fear by maximising our forward motion. You can choose to walk out on wrong opportunities and you can also choose to let the One who created you assist you in every difficulty of life. 

You can also choose to pray more, fast more and commit to God more earnestly. Hear what Jesus is saying to you in the Book of John 16:33, you who live in the world, I have given you the strength to overcome whatever comes. 

Therefore, keep in mind that when discouragement comes, you should not stop but dig deeper into the knowledge of God, the almighty and fight it through to the end. With God's power, nothing is impossible now or ever. Success is guaranteed when we go in the strength of the Lord God of heaven and earth, trusting and believing his word for our life. 

Prayer:
 Today i come against any power of discouragement into my life and i denounce all negative suggestions in my mind and i empower myself with the word of God, that nothing is impossible for Him to do for me and i can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
 I pray this prayer of victory over all my fears now, in Jesus' mighty name amen.

God bless you all.

Will The Lord Return To Earth, What Do You Expect? (1)

The Second Coming: What do you expect? The greatest cataclysm of world history. The prophets talk about the bad news of the return of God to earth in the person of Jesus by a phrase that’s been mentioned a number of times in this book. The phrase is the Hebrew phrase yom Adonai. We translate it “the day of the Lord” or “the day of Yahweh.” The prophets stumble over each other trying to find adequate language to describe the horror of that day.

Turn to the end of the Old Testament to the little book of Zephaniah. Zephaniah shares with Joel and many other prophets of God a phrase that is the phrase of absolute horror. It’s called the great day of the Lord.

Zephaniah in 1:14-16 writes that the great day of the Lord is near and hastens quickly. The noise of the day of Yahweh is bitter. Mighty men will scream aloud. That is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, devastation and desolation, darkness and gloominess, clouds and thick darkness. I look at all of those pairs of words, and I see a man ransacking a thesaurus, if there were such a thing available, trying to find adequate terms to describe the calamity of the day of the return of Christ to the earth, because when He returns it will be in the worst judgment in the history of the world.

How can that be? How can that be if Genesis 6 to 9 describes the death of all living by the great flood? How can that be, given the suffering that we’ve experienced even in our own lifetime, like the recent calamitous flooding in places like Honduras, from typhoons, tsunamis, horrible earthquakes, hurricanes, all of these so-called acts of nature? How can there be something worse than all of those things?

I think what makes the Second Coming worse in judgment is that all of those things God did through mediation, that is through Creation, nature gone riot, Creation in upheaval. But in the Second Corning, the judgment will be done, not by water, not by flood, not by fire, not by storm, but by His own hand. Did you hear that? 

To be cont'd.

God Bless You !

May Your Joy Be Full

For the person who seemingly enjoying life may somehow find it strange when the other says "life is tough". That statement however, is no doubt an accurate appraisal of our existence on this earth. When the writer of the biblical book named Job picked up his stylus to write his story, he could have begun with a similar-sounding and equally blunt sentence, "Life is unfair."

No one could logically argue the point that life is punctuated with hardship, heartaches, and headaches. Most of us have learned to face the reality that life is difficult. Or unfair? Something kicks in, deep within most of us, making it almost intolerable for us to accept and cope with what's unfair. Our drive for justice overrides our patience with pain.

Life is not just tough/difficult, it's downright unfair. Welcome to Job's world.

Job was a man of unparalleled and genuine piety. He was also a man of well-deserved prosperity. He was a God-fearing individual, extremely wealthy, a fine husband, and a faithful father. In a quick and brutal sweep of back-to-back calamities, Job was reduced to a twisted mass of brokenness and grief. The extraordinary accumulation of disasters that hit him would have been enough to finish off any one of us today.

Job is left bankrupt, homeless, helpless, and childless. He's left standing beside the ten fresh graves of his now-dead children in a windswept valley. His wife is heaving deep sobs of grief as she kneels beside him, having just heard him say, "Whether our God gives to us or takes everything from us, we will follow Him." She leans over and secretly whispers, "Why don't you just curse God and die?"

His misery turns to mystery with God's silence. If the words of his so-called friends are hard to hear, the silence of God becomes downright intolerable. Not until the thirty-eighth chapter of the book does God finally break the silence, however long that took. Even if it were just a few months, try to imagine. You've become the object of your alleged friends' accusations, and the heavens are brass as you plead for answers from the Almighty, who remains mysteriously mute. Nothing comes to you by way of comfort. It's all so unfair; you've done nothing to deserve such anguish.

Pause and ponder their grief — and remember that Job has done nothing to deserve such unbearable pain. If it had been you, how would you have responded? 

Job endured it all when it seemed all hope was lost and God in turn rewarded him with greater riches than he had before. certainly, his joy was made full.

God bless you all.

Praise Is Comely For The Upright

Read Psalm 95.

Sometimes when you don’t feel like praying, or you’re consumed with needing to speak to the Lord but can’t gather the words, try that old standby—count your many blessings, count them one by one.

It’s amazing how you can get carried away from worries and woes and self concern when you start naming out loud what you’re thankful for. Right away your focus shifts from your needs to the Father’s graciousness and love. Try this:

LOOK UP . . . thank You, Lord . . .

• for Your sovereign control over our circumstances
• for Your holy character in spite of our sinfulness
• for Your Word that gives us direction
• for Your grace that removes our guilt

LOOK AROUND . . . thank You, Lord . . .

• for our wonderful country
• for close family ties
• for an opportunity to help others
• for a place to live, clothes to wear, food to eat

LOOK WITHIN . . . thank You, Lord . . .

• for eyes that see the beauty of Your creation
• for minds that are curious, creative, and competent
• for memories of pleasures and recent accomplishments
• for broken dreams and lingering afflictions that humble us
• for a sense of humor that brings healing and hope
• He is worthy of our highest praise and gratitude. To Him goes all the glory amen.

Feel like you can’t or don't know what to pray about, make a personalized list of blessings, you will be sooooooo surprised!

God bless you all.

Hebrews 13:5 - “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.”

I don’t know where you are in your life today, but if you find yourself in a pit of despair remember this, God is not up in heaven just watching you; God is very real in your life. God’s presence is with you. He says, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you"

Now, this doesn't mean that you are immune to all negative things that could come your way in life. But you can know that in the midst of your circumstances he has promised that he will be with you in trouble. If you will listen to him, and abide in him, he will hear your prayer and bring you out of all your troubles.

Hebrews 13:5-6– “…I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,”  so that we confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid.
What will man do to me?”

Prayer: Every trouble in my life, receive divine solution now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, amen.

God bless you. 

Your Godly Response

Psalm 99:7

He [the Lord]spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; they kept His testimonies and the statute that He gave them.

Obedience is a right response to God!

We talk so much about how you can find God’s help for your life, for your finances, for your relationships, for your work, that we can gradually come to think that the universe, and even God Himself, exist for us — that we are the center of all things.

How important to remember that God is the one who sits on the throne of the universe. He is the one around whom all things revolve. He is God and we are just creatures. We are so wrong when we take God’s directions for life as mere guidelines — general suggestions that we should take into account.

The reality is that God has set two ways of living the Christian life before us. One way leads to a life of blessing and fruitfulness. The other way leads to frustration and emptiness or a wasted life.

Today God is inviting you to live the way of obedience to Him. If you choose to keep enough Christianity to appease your conscience, but still live for yourself, you will come to the end of your life full of regrets.

It would be wise to respond to God’s invitation to you today by bringing your whole life under His leadership and listen when He speaks.

God bless.

God Gives Open Doors Too!

An Unprecedented Open Door

Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan concerning Christ. That is why I am here in chains. Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should. -  (Colossians 4:3–4)

Jesus has given us, as a people, an unprecedented open door. We read in Revelation 3:7, “What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open.”

If the key is a symbol of His authority, then the door is a symbol of opportunity. The idea of an open door is a concept that is used often in the New Testament. Paul spoke of it in 2 Corinthians 2:12: “When I came to the city of Troas to preach the Good News of Christ, the Lord opened a door of opportunity for me.” In Acts 14:27, Paul and Barnabas spoke of a door of faith that was opened to the Gentiles.

We should pray for such doors to open in our own lives. In fact, Paul said, “Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan concerning Christ. That is why I am here in chains. Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should.”

We should all be looking for open doors. We should not rest on past accomplishments or victories. We need to be looking for opportunities today and in the days to come.

You see, this year, this month, may be the last opportunity to go through an open door. Just because a door is open now doesn’t mean it will remain open forever.

Will you walk through those open doors? Will you look for those opportunities? Will you do what God has called you to do?

Prayer: Every closed door fashioned to negatively affect my destiny, open by fire, open by fire, oooooopen by fire now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ amen.

God bless.