Do not let teaching to prepare for the end-times overshadow teaching to prepare for now-times and each person’s end-time.
WHY KILL ALL THE CANAANITES ?
God has His reasons for everything, and He is just and holy in all He commands.
We are not God, and that is why we can’t understand Him sometimes, oftentimes.
Since God is God, we do well to listen to what He tells us to do—and do it.
A little known connection in one story when the Israelites fought the Amalekites (descendants of Esau).
That was the battle where Aaron and Hur held up Moses’ arms until the end of the day, so the army of Israel would win.
Many years later, the Amalekites came against Israel again.
God commanded, through the prophet Samuel, that king Saul should destroy ALL the Amalekites.
Saul disobeyed, and kept king Agag alive.
Again, many years later, one of the ‘Agagites’ named Haman set out to kill all the Jews—with an evil scheme with hate in his heart.
God saved the day, and saved the Jews, through the Jewish queen Esther, and the Agagite Haman was hanged on the gallows he built for the Jew he hated most.
And that is one of the reasons we can understand, for God’s order to destroy the godless people in the Promised Land.
God’s stated reason for the command is because the extreme wickedness of the people of Canaan would rub off on His chosen people and influence them to turn away from God and drift toward the pagan gods.
Sure enough, it happened just like God warned.
And that happens to us today.
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate evolution when it was introduced in our schools.
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate abortion when it was declared legal.
Abortion is America’s horrific version of Israel offering their little children to the god Molec—burning them alive in the red-hot statue.
This country will not endure—half death—and—half life (just like Lincoln said over slavery).
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate the decree to take the Ten Commandments out of our schools.
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate the decree to take the Bible out of our schools.
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate the decree to take prayer out of our schools.
RESULTS ?
God is not pleased—
— America’s students now way behind other countries.
— Sixty million babies dead before the god, the altar, the sacrament of abortion.
— Dozens of children murdered in school, by children acting on what abortion taught them—just animals.
— A generation that does not know God.
— A generation that does not know our Godly heritage.
— Sexual perversion, with inventions of every unimaginable sort.
— Ideology bent on destroying the most God-blessed country on earth.
“The wicked will be turned into hell—and all the nations that forget God.”
BUT
“If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from THEIR WICKED WAYS—then—I will hear from heaven, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.”
God did that for Israel over and over, in the Bible, when they finally turned back to Him.
He will do that for us again, IF we do what He requires in the verse above.
Nothing less will do.
Repent of our sin.
Get forgiven for our sin.
Get rid of our sin.
SENIOR CERTAINTEES (5)
Slow – – – Up to Speed
The other day when I showed up for work with my bobcat, I spontaneously said,
“I may be slowing down and take longer to get here, but my bobcat is up to speed.”
The customer appreciated that (as do others since then), and most folks seem willing to wait for me, and patiently watch me struggle to climb onto my machine, and then autopilot takes over from decades of experience and God’s blessing, and we are both happy.
Now would be a good time to share the secret of my bobcat work (an amazing machine).
I tell people it’s really simple:
+ two pedals
+ two levers
and
+ an unspecified number of angels
Indeed, I ask God to anoint me and my bobcat on every job.
SENIOR CERTAINTIES (4)
Sometimes humor is helpful in senior years (sometimes not).
I’ve been stopped about speeding only two times in my life.
Notice I said about speeding, not for speeding.
One time I was driving my 80cc Yamaha motorcycle on a rough street.
I was stopped for driving too slow—no ticket, no problem.
The other time was a during a sincere effort for a second honeymoon after some very rough years.
We were involved in meaningful conversation, and I didn’t realize I had slowed down, and that got the attention of an officer.
He had me get out of the car, perhaps to check if I was under the influence.
He pointed out that I was driving too slow, and wondered why.
I told him the truth.
He had to verify this with my wife in the car, separately.
When her answer matched mine, the officer was amazed by our story, and engaged in a few minutes of warm conversation.
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A couple positive notes about driving, from my personal experience:
+ In 59+ years of driving, I never had a ticket for a moving violation.
That may have something to do with growing up on the farm, and driving as soon as I could reach the pedals—and driving the tractor slowly for loading hay before I could reach the pedals.
+ The second is such an amazing blessing, holding true for nearly four decades now—there never was a time when I was a passenger with any of my four children driving, that I felt uncomfortable with their driving.
That calls for a humble shout of PRAISE THE LORD ! ! !
SENIOR CERTAINTIES (3)
There is a growing list of uncertainties as we get older.
— thinking of things that might/will happen (worry)
— surprises that catch us off-guard (oh no)
— slowing down (difficult)
— getting weaker (dealing with it)
— forgetting more (with anxiety)
— limited manual labor (can’t do it)
There remains a list of certainties that count.
— getting closer to God
— getting stronger in faith (sometimes because you have to)
— more treasured Bible verses
— more prayer
— more thinking of heaven
— more thanking
— more talking about Jesus
— slowing down (positive—SLOW in search box)
SENIOR CERTAINTIES (2)
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”
SENIOR CERTAINTIES (1)
Just the facts – – – and – – – something positive.
Learning something new—Limited.
Sharing what I’ve got—Unlimited.
WHAT IF IT’S AN INVENTION, NOT A DISCOVERY ?
Disclaimer/Warning !
Please note “WHAT IF” in the title.
I do not declare the following definitively, but the widespread emphasis on (and acceptance of) complex, detailed delineation of end-time time-lines makes me think of the possible parallel between the invention of evolution and the ‘obvious’ conclusion of pre-trib rapture.
My point is not a proof against pre-trib, but an observation that raises the question,
“What if pre-trib positions, and the details that follow, come through logic that makes everything fit, complete with charts that tell all ?”
What if pre-trib is an invention to fit into the end-times what we want—to avoid big trouble ?
The average person (that is, everybody except the teacher/theologian) never experiences, never grasps the Bible verses leading to the conclusions about end-times—as opposed to the common pattern of just “Let me tell you what it means.”
If the end-time sequences are so clear to the theologians, as shown by their ‘charts’, then it should be easy to lead the listeners through the verses from the start, step by step at their speed, to see how you get there.
That doesn’t happen.
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“WHAT IF” there is a parallel ?
Pre-trib rapture:
So sure it’s going to happen exactly this way, right away, with all these details.
Never heard so much fine-tuned detail until recently.
All figured-out—with Bible prophecy to prove it.
Lots of conclusions—now just exactly how did you get there ?
Evolution:
So sure it happened exactly this way, long, long, long time ago.
Why such majority acceptance (or partial acceptance) of evolution by Christians ?
Why Christians did not rise up and stop the universal introduction of evolution in schools ?
Why Christians, even today, are wish-washy about young earth/old earth ‘debate’ ?
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The biggest pitfall, the biggest fallacy, the biggest red flag—with growing emphasis in end-time teaching— is the shift by many in the original Gospel message,
from:
+++ “Repent of your sins and believe in Jesus to not go to hell but have eternal life in heaven.”
to:
XXX “Accept Jesus to avoid The Great Tribulation.”
WHY THE P U S H ! FOR TRANSGENDER ?
I came across an article from ten years ago, that listed some patterns, outcomes, consequences of the militant gay agenda—developments that show “unnatural never has enough”, is never satisfied.
As I re-read about the sadness of unfulfilled lifestyles, that turns to ever-greater power grab for meaning—it almost said, “What’s next ?”
What was next in their demands for more, that they could not find in what they had ?
In the decade since the article, the next step in this continuum of evil* has played out so very graphically.
Transgender—suggested, then recruited, then pushed, then imposed, then criminally forced on children with ideological, medical, physical mutilation.
The depravity of the entire lgbt agenda also simultaneously captured the culture by storm with DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), which caught many institutions and industries so off guard, to drown in the tsunami.
All the above left the culture, this country, without a compass, headed into a hurricane of certain destruction.
THANKFULLY, and I mean “Thank You to God”, there are changes in the last year and the last months.
Major companies have reversed their policies and eliminated DEI.
Many states have banned DEI in public schools and colleges.
The federal government has canceled DEI in all agencies.
And more . . .
Now, America, brought back from the brink of demise, has the biggest fight for its life in history.|
Those who want to change America by destroying it, are writhing in anger and hate over any return to morality, sanity, freedom, democracy, family, nature and nature’s God.
More than ever, Christians must pray and publicly speak up and stand up for Jesus, for family, for Biblical values our country was built on.
* “continuum of evil” answers the question “WHY ?”
When the power of the evil one, the devil, gets hold of individuals and nations, and they forget God, there is no satisfaction or stopping the consequences or indulgence in depravity.
(Read the article from ten years ago, IT IS SAD – – – IT IS ABOUT POWER