Bible Prophecy Today


 

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 hearts: 

 


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.

 

 Isaiah 42:9    “Behold,


the former things are


come to pass, and new


things do I declare:


before they spring forth I


tell you of them.”

 

 John 13:19    “Now I tell


you before it come, that,


when it is come to pass,


ye may believe that I am


He.”    

 

God chooses the people


for His own reasons and


not all will receive the


Gift of Prophecy, but


here is what God says  


in Joel 2: 28 – 32.

 

Joel 2:28    And it shall


come to pass afterward,


that I will pour out My


Spirit upon all flesh; and


your sons and your


daughters shall


prophesy, your old men


shall dream dreams,


your young men shall


see visions: 

 2:29 And also upon the


servants and upon the


handmaids in those days


will I pour out My Spirit. 

 2:30 And I will show


wonders in the heavens


and in the earth, blood, and


fire, and pillars of smoke. 

 2:31 The sun shall be


turned into darkness, and


the moon into blood, before


the great and the terrible


day of The Lord come.”

 

In every generation God


has given dreams and


visions to His faithful


people.   Sometimes the


dream or vision is to


encourage us to be faithful,


showing us that God’s plan


is going forward and that


Jesus will soon return.

 

Other dreams or visions


expose the evil that Satan


is planning  against God’s


faithful people and often


warn of coming disasters.

 

How can we tell if a dream


or vision is from God ?

 

 Isaiah 8: 20

 

To The Law and to The


Testimony if they speak


not according to  this Word,


there is no light in them.”

 

The dream or vision will


not contradict the



Word of God.

 

Also: Matthew 7: 20 says:


“By their fruits ye shall


know them”

 

What does that mean ?

 

The messenger with the


dream or vision will


demonstrate in their


manner of living the “fruits”


of the Spirit of God. What


are the “fruits” of the


Spirit of God ?

 

Galatians 5:22, 23. 


“But the fruit of The Spirit


is love, joy, peace,


longsuffering, gentleness,


goodness, faith, 


meekness, temperance:


against such there is


no law.” 

 

If the messenger is from


God, he or she will 


demonstrate all these


beautiful fruits of the Spirit.


They will love as Jesus


loved, they will  be joyful,


peaceful, longsuffering


towards all people, they


will be gentle, doing good


things for people, they will


demonstrate a strong faith


in God, they will be meek,


esteeming others better


than themselves, they will


be temperate in all the


different areas of life. 

 

What does it mean to be


temperate” in all things ?

 

One definition of


temperance is: 


Temperance is total abstinence from that which


is harmful and moderation


in that which is good.

 

 What does it mean when


The Bible  says that those


who have the “fruits” of the


Spirit, “against such there


is no law.”

 

Who comes under the


penalty of The Law ?  The


person who obeys The Law


or the person who breaks


The Law ?  The person who


breaks The Law comes


under The Law and will be


charged accordingly.

Those who have the


“fruits” of the Spirit are


people who keep The Law !

 

They say as Christ said in


Psalms 40: verse 7 & 8.

 

    “Then said I, Lo, I come:


in the volume of the book it


is written of Me, 

   

I delight to do Thy will, O


my God: yea, Thy Law is


within my heart.”

 

Have we allowed Jesus to


write His Law in our


hearts ? 

 

A few years ago I fell


asleep as I was driving to


Hope, I rolled my truck,


sheared off a hydro pole


and ended up in a shallow


ditch up-side down with


several broken ribs.  When


the Police Officer came to


the hospital and brought


my brief case He said,


“Mr. Weber, I am supposed


to issue you a ticket for


careless driving for


$356 dollars but I just do


not have the heart to do it”.

 

Now Friends I was under


The Law, but by the mercy


of the Police Officer  and


My kind Heavenly Father


touching his heart, I


received “grace” and


escaped the penalty of


The Law.

 

But now, did “grace” do


away with The Law ? 


No The Law is still there. 


Grace, delivered me from


the penalty but grace did


not do away with


The Law ! 

 

Ephesians 2:8


“For by grace are ye saved


through faith; and that not


of yourselves: it is


the gift of God:..”


We are saved by God’s


grace through faith but that


grace did not nail


God’s Law


to the cross ! 


God’s Holy Spirit says in


Romans 3: 31:

 

“Do we then make void


The Law through faith?


God forbid: yea, we


establish The Law.”

 

Not one dot of the i or the


crossing on the t can ever


be changed in God’s Law.


If God could change His


Law, then Jesus died in


vain. Jesus died because


God could not change His


Holy, Just and


Righteous Law.

 

Jesus died to save us from


our sins not in our sins ! 


What is sin ?

 

1 John 3: 4  

 

“Whosoever committeth sin


transgresseth also The


Law: for sin is the


transgression of The  Law.”

 

What are the wages we will


receive  from a life of sin ?

 

Romans 6: 23.

 

 “For the wages of sin is


death;


but The Gift of God is


eternal life through


Jesus Christ our Lord. 

 

Brothers and Sisters, we


are in the very last days


just before Jesus comes


and the Devil is going forth


as a roaring lion.  Satan


knows our weak points and


he is working 24/7 to get us


trapped in sin.

 

Satan will come as

 

an angel of light

 

and so will those who are


working with him !

 

 

Jesus warned us there


would be


many false prophets,


many false teachers


and many of them would


call themselves;


Christians” !

 

Right after Jesus said we


would know them by their


fruits, He said in:

 

Matthew 7: 21- 23 ; 


Not every one that saith


unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall


enter into the kingdom of


heaven; but he that doeth


the will of My Father which


is in heaven.

 

    “Many will say to Me in


that day, Lord, Lord, have


we not prophesied in


Thy Name ?


and in Thy Name have cast


out devils ? and in


Thy Name


done many wonderful


works ? 

    And then will I profess


unto them,


I never knew you: depart


from Me,


ye that work iniquity.” 

 

Who will enter the


Kingdom of Heaven ?

 

Not every one that saith


unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall


enter into the kingdom of


heaven; but he that doeth


the will of My Father which


is in heaven.”

 

“If you love me”, Jesus


said, “keep


My Commandments”.

 

Some one told me that the


Commandments of Jesus


and the Commandments of


The Father are not the


same.  Is that true ?

 

They said Jesus only gave


two Commandments, 


Is that true. ?

 

Jesus said Love The Lord


Thy God and love your


neighbor as yourself on


these Two Commandments


hang all The Law


and the prophets.

 

Love, brothers and sisters


is “obedience”.

 

Jesus said in


Matthew 28: 19 – 20;

 

Go ye therefore, and teach


all nations, baptizing them


in the name of the Father,


and of the Son, and of the


Holy Ghost: 

 28:20    Teaching them to


observe all things


whatsoever I have


commanded you: and, lo,


I am

with you always, even unto


the end of the world.


Amen !

 

This is our


marching orders.


The world is our field of


labor and every person that


God connects us with is to


be presented with some


portion of The Gospel seed


in some manner.  It may be


a Scripture, it may be a


word of encouragement, it


may be a kind deed to fill


their immediate needs or


just being


friendly and cheerful. 


As was mentioned last


Sabbath,


the world is full of


hurting people.

 

Remember when


Jesus


was 12 years of age and He


attended the


Passover Feast 


with  Mary and Joseph.


When it was over and His


parents started for home,


He was not at their camp


site, but they supposed He


was with friends and would


soon find them, and so they


began their  journey back


home. 


When Jesus did not appear


after a few hours they


sought Him among their


friends but He was not


there.  They made their


way back to Jerusalem


with heavy hearts to


search for Him and after


three days found Him in the


temple in conversation


with the scribes and elders


of the Jews.  Mary scolded


Him for His actions but


what did Jesus say,  “And


He said unto them, How is


it that ye sought me?


wist ye not that

 

I

 

must be about


My Father's


business ?” 


Luke 2: 49.

 

Brothers and Sisters, the

 

 Father of Jesus is our

 

 Father also and it is

 

time for us to be about our

 

 Father’s business ! 

 

Soon, very soon it will be


too late !

Every moment souls are


dying without any hope


of salvation. We must tell


them there is hope, there is


a God who loves them,


there is a Saviour who died


for them ! There is a

 

Saviour who rose from the

 

 dead and because He

 

 lives, they too can live,

 

 forever !  Praise God !

 

 When Jesus died on


Calvary’s cross,

Satan thought he had

 

 destroyed forever the

 

 Son of God

 

and that he could hold


Jesus in the tomb forever.


He stationed


his evil angels


around the grave and even


led the Jews to place a


Roman Guard there also.

 

 

Jesus


was placed in the tomb just


before sunset on


the sixth day,


which we call 


Friday, and He rested in the


tomb on the


Seventh Day Sabbath. 


But when the time came


for


Jesus


to arise, when the moment


on God’s clock came to the


“appointed time”; 


all the powers of hell


and all the legions of Rome


could not hold the


Prince of Life


in the grave !


When that mighty Angel


came from heaven and


rolled back the stone in the


doorway of that tomb,


Jesus



 

suddenly appeared in


His Glory


and the Roman soldiers fell


as dead men and


all the host of evil angels


scattered to the wind ! 


Praise God !

 

Jesus is, alive, He is risen,


His tomb is empty, He lives


forever and because He


lives we too shall live, 


forever !

 

When Christ said,


it is finished


and His breath stopped as He died on the 14th day of


the first month of the


sacred calendar of the


Hebrew Sanctuary Service,


there was an earthquake,


and the Bible says some


graves were opened 


Scripture tells us in


Matthew 27: 52,53   

 

“And the graves were


opened; and many bodies of


the saints which slept


arose, 

   

And came out of the graves


after his resurrection, and


went into the holy city, and


appeared unto many.”

 

 

This little company of


Saints that were


resurrected with Jesus and


went with Him to heaven,


is what the Bible calls the,


first fruits” of all the


righteous dead that will be


resurrected at the second


coming of  Christ !  They


are an assurance to all the


faithful children of God that


those who die


before Christ returns will


be resurrected also ! 

  We can not understand


Bible Prophecy


without the help of the


Holy Spirit.,

and we will not receive the

Spirit’s help unless we are

walking in obedience to

all the light that God has

shed upon our pathway.

 

 

  Are there other gifts that


we can receive also ? 


Yes, look at ;

1 Corinthians 12: 8 – 11.

 

12:8 For to one is given by


The Spirit


the word of wisdom;


to another the


word of knowledge


by the same Spirit; 

 

12:9 To another faith


by the same Spirit; to


another the gifts of healing


by the same Spirit; 

 12:10    To another the


working of miracles; to


another prophecy; to


another


discerning of spirits;


to another


divers kinds of tongues;


to another the


interpretation of tongues: 

 12:11    But all these


worketh that one and the


selfsame Spirit, dividing to


every man severally as


He will.”

 

 God has many different


gifts that He gives to those


who are walking in


obedience to


His Holy Word.  God knows


what gift is best for us that


He can use to help


someone to find their way


to Jesus and be saved.

 

Everyone has been given a


gift that he or she can use


for God’s glory.  We just


need to ask God to show us


what He would have us do


and we will receive the


Spirit’s guidance as


promised.  It may not be


prophecy, but all the gifts


when brought together


make the Church of Christ


complete and able to be


successful in leading


others to Christ.

 

When we read the


Bible Prophecies


and then see them being


fulfilled in the past and


even today   then  we


are encouraged because


we know the


Word of God


is true. Jesus said in:  

 

John 13:19


“Now I tell you


before it come,


that, when it is come to


pass, ye may believe that


I am He.”

 

Jesus said in


Matthew 28: 19 – 20;

 

Go ye therefore, and teach


all nations, baptizing them


in the name of the Father,


and of the Son, and of the


Holy Ghost: 

 28:20    Teaching them


to observe all things


whatsoever I have


commanded you: and,


lo, I am

with you alway, even unto

the end of the world.


Amen!