Bible Prophecy Today

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        What is our key text

 

              for our study of 

 

            Bible Prophecy ? 

 

         2 Peter 1:19

     We would encourage you

 

       to memorize this verse

 

       and as many Scripture

 

        passages as you can.

 

     All through the centuries

 

       of time, God’s children

 

      who have been cast into

 

         prison have been

 

             sustained by the 

 

 promises that they have put to

 

 memory.  Do you think we could

 

 ever be put in prison in Canada

 

 for our Christian Faith ?  It is a

 

 very real possibility as we will

 

 see from our study of Prophecy.

 

  We live in a “free country”

 

  now, but, Prophecy tells us a

 

     change is coming, even in

 

 Canada.

2 Peter 1:19     We have

 

 also a more sure

 

Word of Prophecy;

 

 whereunto ye do well that

 

 ye take heed, as

 

      unto a light that shineth in a

 

 dark place, until the day

 

 dawn, and the

 

Day Star

 

arise in your heart.

2 Peter 1:20  

 

"Knowing this first, that no

 

 Prophecy of the Scripture

 

 is of any private

 

 interpretation." 

 2 Peter 1:21  

 

For The Prophecy came

 

 not in old time by the

 

 will of man: but holy

 

 men of God spake as

 

 they were moved by

 

The Holy Ghost .

 

Who is the

 

Author

 

of

 

 Bible Prophecy ?

 

The Holy Spirit of God !

 

2 Timothy 3:16 & 17

 

      “All Scripture is given

 

 by inspiration of God,

 

 and

 

 is profitable for

 

 doctrine, for

 

 reproof, for correction,

 

 for

 

 instruction in

 

 righteousness: 

      That the man of God

 

 may

 

 be perfect, thoroughly

 

 furnished unto all good

 

works.”

 

How do we become

 

 Christians ? 

 

We become Christians

 

 by a study of

 

God’s Word. 

 

Is it enough just to read

 

 and study the Bible ?

 

  Once we have read

 

 God’s Word what is the

 

 next step we must take

 

 to become a Christian ?

 

We must obey 

 

 God’s Word.

 

In John 6: 63 Jesus said:

 

 “It is the Spirit that

 

 quickeneth; the flesh

 

 profiteth nothing: the

 

 Words that I speak unto

 

 you, they are spirit,

 

and they are life.”

 

We must eat the

 

Word of God

 

and digest it into our

 

 very being if we would

 

 truly be followers of

 

 Jesus.  The Word’s of

 

 Jesus  must control our

 

 heart and our mind.  We

 

 must have not our own

 

 will, not our own mind,

 

 but the mind of Christ

 

if we would be saved in

 

 God’s Kingdom !

 

 Philippians 2:5    

“Let this mind be in you,

 

 which was also in

 

Christ Jesus:

 

” What does it mean to

 

 have the “mind” of

 

 Christ ?

 

If we have the mind of

 

 Christ, then with Jesus

 

 we will say as He said in

Psalms 40:8  

I delight to do Thy will,

 

 O My God: yea, Thy Law

 

 is within my heart.

Is The Law of God

 

 abiding in our hearts

 

 today ?  Do we “delight”

 

 to obey God’s Law as

 

 Jesus did ?

 

We have a lot of

 

 Christian Canaanites in

 

 the world today ! 

 

Do you know what a

 

 Christian Canaanite is ?

 

 Do you remember the

 

 name of the first child

 

to be born to Adam and

 

 Eve ? What was his

 

 name ?  Cain.

 

What was the second

 

 boy’s name ? Able.

 

  Right from the

 

 beginning of history,

 

 these two young men

 

 have  shown us how

 

 to tell  the

 

 True Christians

 

from the Canaanite   

 

    Christians !       

 

Genesis 3:21  “Unto

 

 Adam also and to his

 

 Wife did the Lord God

 

 make coats of skins,

 

 and clothed them.”

 

Who is the person called

 

 the “Lord God” in this

 

 verse.

 

John 1: 1 - 3

“In the beginning was

 

 The Word, and The Word

 

 was with God, and The

 

 Word was God.  

The same was in the

 

beginning with God. 

    “All things were made

 

 by Him; and without Him

 

 was not any thing made

 

 that was made.”

    

The Lord God in Genesis

 

 is Jesus Christ the

 

 Mighty Creator of

 

everything in the

 

universe of God ! 

 

When Adam and Eve

 

 disobeyed  God’s

 

 Commandment not to

 

 eat of the

Tree of Knowledge

 

of

 

Good and Evil,

the terrible tragedy of

 

 Sin entered this planet.

 

  Adam and Eve were

 

 now naked sinners.

 

  Christ Himself, offered

 

 the very first sacrifice

 

of

 

 a totally innocent

 

 animal and clothed His

 

 poor naked children.

From that time, until the

 

 death of Christ on the

 

 cross in 31AD, God

 

 instituted the offering of

 

 animal sacrifices to

 

 remind them of the

 

 terrible results of sin

 

 and of the promise of a

 

 Saviour who would one

 

 day die for the sins of

 

 the world.

 

One day Cain and Able

 

 came to the alter to

 

 offer their sacrifice.

 

  Able brought a lamb.

 

 Cain brought fruit and

 

 veggies. God accepted

 

 Abel’s offering but God

 

 refused Cain’s offering.

 

Why did God refuse

 

 Cain’s offering ?

 

God had said a lamb

 

must be offered, blood

 

 must be shed to atone

 

 for sin.

Cain thought he could

 

 change the rules a little

 

 bit and God would not

 

 mind.  But he found God

 

 did mind and would not

 

 accept anything except

 

 the sacrifice of blood.    

 

There are millions of

 

“Christians” today who

 

 think and do exactly as

 

 Cain.  They actually

 

 think they can change

 

 the Commandments of

 

 God.  They think that

 

 God does not mean

 

 what He says.  They

 

 THINK they can deviate

 

 a “little bit” and God will

 

 overlook their

 

 disobedience !   

 

God will

 

 not accept anything but,

 

 100% obedience.

99.9 % is not acceptable

 

to God.  No one will

 

 enter heaven who

 

 thought they could in

 

 the tinniest degree

 

change the Word of God !

 

Revelation 22: 14

 

Blessed are they that do

 

 His Commandments,

 

 that they may have right

 

 to the Tree of Life, and

 

 may enter in through the

 

 gates into The City.”

John 14: 15 

“If ye love Me, keep

My Commandments.”

 

1 John 2: 4

 

“He that saith, I know

 

 Him, and keepeth not

 

His Commandments, is a

 

 liar, and The Truth is not

 

 in him.”

 

It is amazing, that

 

 anyone who professes

 

 to be a follower and

 

 believer of the Lord

 

 Jesus Christ, amazing

 

 that anyone who says

 

 they believe The Bible,

 

 would ever dare to say

 

that the

 

 “Commandments of God

 

 were nailed to the

 

 cross” ! 

All of these verses were

 

 inspired by the

 

Holy Spirit of God

 

and written into the

 

New Testament

 

after the cross !

Matthew 5: 17-18

 

Think not  that I am

 

 come to destroy  

 

The Law,

 

or

 

The Prophets:

 

I am

 

not come to destroy,

 

but to fulfil. 

    For verily I say unto

 

 you, till heaven and

 

 earth pass, one jot or

 

 one tittle shall in no

 

 wise pass from The

 

 Law, till all be fulfilled.”

 

Is all fulfilled ? 

 

No, Jesus has not yet

 

 returned. Soon, very

 

 soon He is coming, but,

 

 will The Law of God

 

 then be done away ?

 

Of course not ! 

 

The Law of God

 

has existed from all

 

 eternity and will never

 

 be done away. 

 

The Law of God

 

reveals to us the

 

 Character of God,

 

it is unchangeable !

Let us beware lest we be

 

 found in the camp of

 

 Canaanite Christians !