A True Friend

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1 Samuel 23:14–18 14 David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph. Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn’t let Saul find him. 15 One day near Horesh, David received the news that Saul was on the way to Ziph to search for him and kill him. 16 Jonathan went to find David and encouraged him to stay strong in his faith in God. 17 “Don’t be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him. “My father will never find you! You are going to be the king of Israel, and I will be …

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REASONS TO OBEY GOD

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Daniel and his friends were in a strange land, prisoners of a king who sought to benefit from their superior skills and intellect. As he grew to manhood, Daniel managed to operate within the foreign system without compromising his belief in the heavenly Father. He did not eat forbidden foods. He did not bow to idols. He valiantly maintained his prayer times, even in the face of persecution and punishment. God honored Daniel’s faithfulness, rescuing him from the lions’ den and blessing him with great favor. At every crossroads, Daniel chose to follow the commands of the Lord. He still …

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40 The Parable of the Sword

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In Ezekiel Message 40 The nation Israel God says that He is against them. As a result of their gross sins he will bring judgment against them. He is their adversary since they turned against them. The central point in this message is that He as their antagonist will bring a sword out of its sheath and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. In other words when the Babylonians come for the final time acting as God’s sword unsheathed they will indiscriminately kill all that are in their path. This will include the righteous as well …

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“There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.”— Psalm 76:3

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Our Redeemer’s glorious cry of “It is finished,” was the death-knell of all the adversaries of his people, the breaking of “the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle.” Behold the hero of Golgotha using his cross as an anvil, and his woes as a hammer, dashing to shivers bundle after bundle of our sins, those poisoned “arrows of the bow;” trampling on every indictment, and destroying every accusation. What glorious blows the mighty Breaker gives with a hammer far more ponderous than the fabled weapon of Thor! How the diabolical darts fly to fragments, …

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Does Matthew 24 Refer to the Rapture or to Jesus’ Second Coming?

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By: The John Ankerberg Show By: Dr. Renald Showers; ©2005 What is the “abomination of desolation”? Who are the “elect”? Dr. Showers explains. 1 Does Matthew 24 Refer to the Rapture or to Jesus’ Second Coming? 1.1 The Abomination of Desolation Many, many sincere Christians, many of whom I have great respect, believe that the Rapture is being presented in Matthew 24; and they believe it’s being presented two places in Matthew 24. Let me give you some background. The Abomination of Desolation In Matthew 24:15, Jesus refers to the abomination of desolation which was spoken of by Daniel the …

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87 God Sacrifices to The Birds and Beasts

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Ezekiel 39:17-29 As we begin this section of Scripture following the allied invasion of Israel by the Russians and Muslim nations it is convenient to link these passages to the invaders. The invaders have all been destroyed and in verse 39:4 God said, “I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.” Careful exegesis of these passages reveals that while appearing similar are not the same. This passage of Ezekiel 39:17-20 is more correctly linked to the end of the Great Tribulation and has parallel application to the same …

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“We love him, because he first loved us.”— 1 John 4:19

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There is no light in the planet but that which proceedeth from the sun; and there is no true love to Jesus in the heart but that which cometh from the Lord Jesus himself. From this overflowing fountain of the infinite love of God, all our love to God must spring. This must ever be a great and certain truth, that we love him for no other reason than because he first loved us. Our love to him is the fair offspring of his love to us. Cold admiration, when studying the works of God, anyone may have, but the …

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Cave Dwellers

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1 Samuel 22:3-23 3 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.” 4 And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. 5 Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth. 6 Now Saul heard …

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As in The Days of Noah Were Msg 17

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With all the disturbing visible activities seen today in the world less frequently do we hear spoken of the unseen world of cellular engineering, DNA manipulation and cloning taking place. These concepts collectively referred to as transhumanism are indeed indicative of the end time concept of the promulgation of abnormal activity. Watch this video on YouTube

“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.”— Romans 14:8

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  If God had willed it, each of us might have entered heaven at the moment of conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for immortality that we should tarry here. It is possible for a man to be taken to heaven, and to be found meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light, though he has but just believed in Jesus. It is true that our sanctification is a long and continued process, and we shall not be perfected till we lay aside our bodies and enter within the veil; but nevertheless, …

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“They are they which testify of me.” John 5:39

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Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of him. At the creation we at once discern him as one of the sacred Trinity; we catch a glimpse of him in the promise of the woman’s seed; we see him typified in the ark of Noah; we walk with Abraham, as he sees Messiah’s day; we dwell in the tents of Isaac and Jacob, feeding upon the gracious promise; we hear the venerable Israel talking of Shiloh; and in the numerous types of …

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