The 2nd Coming of Christ is NOT the Rapture
The 2nd Coming of Christ
The Internet and God
I don’t know how anyone has ever been successful at anything until the Internet came along; not really. How did we accomplish anything without it? For one, I think we believed God a lot more than we do now. All the different ways of marketing on the Internet can be mind boggling and defeating. All the things you supposedly have to do to be successful is overwhelming.
Prayer is still the number one ingredient to success. When I started my first Roofing Company in Whitestone, NY, I din’t have a cell phone or a computer. I came up with a catchy name, Cry Wolfe Roofing and my wife answered the phone when anyone called my number. I returned calls every evening, made appointments when it was convenient and followed through. I built a business based on quality, responsiveness and kindness. I thanked God for every job and I sowed the seed He blessed me with into ministries that promoted His Word.
The second biggest key to success, abundant sharing. Most people go by the word tithing which implies giving 10% of your income to a charity. No matter what you call it, it is a biblical principle that most successful people apply. Giving of your time and money to others is a great principle for success.
People are constantly building their own towers of Babel. The Internet is one such tower. If God’s not in it then it’s all about you. Do you want to be a “self-made man” or Spirit-made?
Blogging Sucks
Who really has time to “blog?” I really don’t think it makes a whole helluva lot of difference how frequently you blog except for the fact that you lose a lot of time when you could be doing something a lot more constructive! People who have time to blog regularly are obviously either very blessed financially or they have nothing better to do with their time.
Pastime
My favorite pastime is fishing/boating. Tomorrow I am going with a friend here at our apartment complex who has a boat. God bless him! Fishing is fun, but Catching is even better! Whenever I come home with no fish, Joanne says where’s the fish? I say, I went fishing, not catching! Ha!
I have been a Deep Sea fisherman in the Sea of Cortez for 21 years. Here in California it is predominantly bottom fishing for Halibut and White Sea Bass. I have yet to catch one. It is a whole new paradigm for me, a big learning curve.
It is a lot like rightly dividing the Word. You know something one way your whole life, then you learn that there is another way to understand the Bible. You’re resistant at first, thinking you know all you need to. Over time you end up making “investments” in new equipment, become humbler, and learn about “grace.” You start listening to people you never thought you would.
Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t have a pastime, an activity that brings them closer to God and the Lord Jesus and their fellow man, outside of their normal everyday activities. Even Jesus took time for himself.
What do you do to get away from “it all?”
Sleeping
In the Old Testament when a believer died he was referred to as being asleep. This concept of death carried over to the new as well. Here it refers to those who sleep in Christ. Death is such a harsh reality that it is no wonder it is referred to throughout the Bible as being asleep; it is so much gentler and peaceful.
I don’t know about you, but I love to sleep! Yet, to those of us still living, sleep can be sort of a curse. We can’t get a lot done while we are sleeping; if we are lucky, we might wake up with a new idea, a new way to approach something we were thinking about the day before. But, with the dead there is not even that. Ecclesiastes tells us there is no reasoning or consciousness of the fact we are dead.
What we do know from the Bible is that when we, as born again believers, wake up, it will be to meet the Lord Jesus in the air with other living believers. This will be the 1st thing we will be cognizant of after we die. It may be days, weeks, years or even centuries; but we know that whenever it does occur, we will be there. This is our Hope as believers.
As far as the Old Testament saints are concerned, they will not realize this awareness until seven years later at the resurrection of the Just. A major difference between their awakening and ours is that they will go directly to the land they were promised, as their inheritance. Those involved in this event, will only be those who never had the opportunity to believe in Jesus Christ.
With the exception of the 144,000 of the twelve tribes of Israel who are sealed during the Tribulation, the only chance of having eternal life is by becoming a Christian, in accordance with Romans chapter 10. If I were not all ready a part of the first group, there would be nothing standing in my way to procure eternal life. Sweet dreams.
What is holding you back?
The Logic of the Old/New Testament?
The Logic of the Old/New Testament?. See how believing in this concept of dividing the Bible into these 2 sections is completely illogical.
The Logic of the Old/New Testament?
The Greek word logos, from which we get the word logic, is also used in reference to God’s Word. The division of the Bible between the Old and New Testament is not only illogical but completely unbiblical. There can be no new testament while the testator is living. A testament (will) is of no effect until after the testator has died!
God who is the Holy Spirit divided the Bible into 8 sections called dispensations or administrations, oikonomia. By revelation, Jesus Christ, revealed the one we live in today to the apostle Paul. A major paradigm shift occurred when the Apostle Paul came on the scene, a shift from believers living under the Law of Moses to that of the grace of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
Paul introduced to us the oikonomia of Grace, called the Secret. It is called the Secret because God kept it a secret from the beginning of the world. Prior to his ascension, Jesus didn’t even know about it; imagine that, his own Father didn’t even tell him. We are presently in the 5th administration of the Bible. The one previous to this one was the Law Administration which was governed by the Law of Moses. Prior to that was Judges, Conscience and the original Paradise. The book of Acts serves as a transition or adjustment period between Law and Grace.
The Law administration ended with the death and raising again of our Lord Jesus, as Jesus fulfilled the Law. Pretty logical isn’t it. It stands to reason that since Jesus fulfilled the Law, that the Law of Moses was in effect during the gospels of Matthew, Mark Luke and John. Therefore, these gospels cannot be considered part of what Bible Translators called the New Testament.
Think on that a while. Logic and reason have been replaced by mysticism in the mind of most believers. When we accept as true, illogical concepts , our minds become blinded to the truth. When something we believe doesn’t make any sense, it is probably not true.
Does this make sense to you?
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