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Christian Social Witness of Roger Harned and other Talk of JESUS .com authorsChristian Social Witness has increasingly become about SOCIAL MEDIA platforms & sharing live preaching & local Bible studies virtually. Stories in this category address 21st c. Christian issues of communication. Here’s where I need your help:
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  • CODE RED Crisis on the 1’s – More Days of Difficulty

    CODE RED Crisis on the 1’s – More Days of Difficulty

    Code Red again, Alert.. I told you so.. Difficulty Ahead

    CODE RED! Isn’t it a sensational ALERT from media yesterday?

    (Next I want to say, “Tune in at 10” or something like that.)

    What I will actually point out is that we have heard these sorts of warnings before. BREAKING NEWS – Now seemingly constant.

    Four years ago when I originally posted this Scriptural Rerun had different, but just as urgent headlines from distant places. (Check out the NEWS LINKS in the attached post.) OR check out this one you probably haven’t seen while international media promote more politically proper finger pointing to former brokers of power.

    UN humanitarian office puts Yemen war dead at 233,000, mostly from ‘indirect causes’

    UN – Dec. 2020

    I have written about missions before from the early days of talkofJESUS.com

    And oh yes, centuries before Christ, Prophets warned us what God would do, not just what mankind would do to spoil God’s creation.

    Sin continues to spoil this earth and heavens of His, as well as millions of devastated lives and souls.

    Roger@talkofJESUS.com

    Scriptures

    Genesis 6

    Exodus 12

    2 Kings 19

    Joel 1 & 2

    Original talkofJESUS.com post

    Times of Difficulty
    from August 21, 2017 – Topic: Media Neglect of Deaths in the News
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  • Sunday Rest – a Commandment ignored by 21st c. christians

    Sunday Rest – a Commandment ignored by 21st c. christians

    Just another Senseless Sunday

    A Sunday REST? Some will remember the alliterative song, “It’s Just Another Manic Monday.” Now we rush through our senseless Sundays no differently than a ‘manic Monday.’

    In that sense, recalling when everything once CLOSED ON SUNDAY, now we long for those Sundays when the supermarket wasn’t overcrowded and our mail carrier didn’t deliver our latest online purchase to our door.

    “Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

    Matthew 11:27 NASB

    Today’s sermon was so good I took two naps! (That was after I returned home, Pastor.) I needed that Sunday rest.

    Don’t you?

    Jesus invites us to rest, actually inviting the weary (and who isn’t?) to come beside Him in life. Unfortunately, Christians and Jews seem to do no better at rest or taking a day off for the Lord God.

    In today’s Summer Scriptural Rerun the Messiah points us to the LORD’s Commandment given to Israel through Moses that we so easily disobey.

    Scriptures

    Excerpts from:

    Exodus 15, 20 & 31

    Mark 2

    John 6

    Original talkofJESUS.com post

    Another Sabbath: No Rest
    from November 3, 2018 – Topic: Sabbath rest
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  • King over the Abyss of Darkness

    King over the Abyss of Darkness

    Judgment from the places of Darkness

    Jesus Christ defeated the accuser of the world in a most unexpected way. The Lord died sinless on a Cross, descended into Hell, then rose again to the throne of Heaven to judge the living and the dead.

    God had banished an angel from heaven just as the Lord had sent man from Eden. The place of Light now separated from darkness, as it was in the beginning.

    Apostles (all beloved brothers of John) suffer cruel deaths. First century saints suffered cruel deaths as Christians for following The Way of the Messiah Jesus. Christ reveals the mysteries of heaven to John. Judgment is yet to come for those who oppose the Lord God! Satan and death are defeated and Christ will reign once more.

    painting of John receiving the Apocalypse from heaven

    The Apocalypse of John

    ἀποκάλυψις – apokalypsis

    Literally, the unveiling.

    But most believers prefer the comfort of John’s Gospel or assurance to the saints in his three letters.

    Are Christians also scared of the dark?

    Or is it that we just can’t bear to consider the wrath of God’s judgment and punishment of sin?

    Scriptures *

    * Excerpts of Scriptures from chapters noted, some linked to chapter or terms for further study.

    Revelation 9,12,16,18, 19, 22

    John 1,8 & 12

    Genesis 1

    Luke 8,

    1 Samuel 2 & 9,

    1&3 John

    Amos

    Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD!
    What will the day of the LORD be for you?
    It will be darkness and not light.

    Amos 5:15 CSB

    Original talkofJESUS.com post

    A Witness through John – King of the Darkness
    from October 31 [All Hallows Eve] in the year of our Lord 2018 – Topic -Satan שָׂטָ
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