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  • Running from God – 4 – Elijah’s defeat

    Running from God – 4 – Elijah’s defeat

    ‘Wait,’ you’re thinking, Elijah won the contest.

    1 Kings 18: 

    37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”

    38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”

    40 And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.

    broom tree in wildernessLook now at the picture of the dejected Prophet sitting under the broom tree. Does this look like a man victorious?

    Look at Moses in the wilderness. Was Moses rejoicing with the people who had walked through the Sea of Reeds while God Almighty lifted a wall of the sea? Was Moses rejoicing to receive manna from Heaven and a diet of food without flavor for forty years? And did Moses seem victorious standing on a mountain top looking at the Promised Land into which God forbid he should enter?

    The victories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus were God’s, not their own.

    Peter wanted to lift up Moses and Elijah (as the Jews still do, along with David).

    Peter was all too happy to be a leader in of the Twelve in the victory parade leading the thousands of captives to the gates of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.

    Yet when the crowds disappear and there is no one else left to lead – when there is no hero left to follow: where do you go?

    1 Kings 18: 45 And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. 46 And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

    We have a brief moment of joy and celebration in the Lord’s victory through us. But then what?

    Reality sets in of the difficulty of our earthly circumstances separate of God.

    Elijah fled God to the broom tree after God’s tremendous humiliation of the leader of his country and the 850 leaders of their favorite churches (so to speak).

    1 Kings 19:

    3 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree.

    And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”5 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree.

    17 June - 17 July, in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 2015
    17 June – 17 July, in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 2015

    Leaders of false prophets hear now the Voice and Power of the Living God!

    You may kill more than 850 enemies, but two more evil ones will pursue your life.

    Take refuge in the One God and Christ Jesus, God’s sacrifice of love for our sins.

    1 Kings 19: [King] Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying,“So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”

    The true Prophet of God, Elijah, knew he had earthly enemies. The true Christ, the Messiah of God, God With Us, I AM in the Person of Jesus Christ, bowed down only to God the Father.

    And the false leaders of God’s chosen people hung Jesus on a Cross in shame and suffering, until God raised Christ from death and lifted Him up in the flesh from His Blood of sacrifice!

    And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said,

    “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”

    Now Elijah thinks that God has used him and is done with him; but like our loving Father of our Lord Jesus Christ in heaven, God has more difficult work for which to prepare him.elijah map&passages

    1 Kings 19: 7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” 8 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

    The Lord Speaks to Elijah

    9 There he came to a cave and lodged in it.

    And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

    Indeed, what am I doing in this cave of darkness?

    Led by God; awaiting His word.

    Here the prayer of a sinner, saved in Christ.

    Speak, O Lord, and I will listen.

    Deuteronomy 5:

    And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb…

    4 The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, 5 while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain.

    BOW DOWN! if you fear the Lord.

    Yet raise your witness of Christ’s love, if you would live in the love of His Sacrifice.

    He IS: Father, Son and Holy Spirit!

    “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”

    He said:

    6 “‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    7 “‘You shall have no other gods before [ besides] me.

    The LORD, He IS God! And Christ Jesus IS One in the Father and the Father in Him. Jesus IS!

    Christ Jesus IS Lord!

    Muhammad, Smith and many more are as the prophets of Asherah and Baal. 

     To be continued…

  • GOD Allows Violence

    GOD Allows Violence

     O Lord, how long shall I cry,

    And You will not hear?
    Even cry out to You, “Violence!”
    And You will not save. Habakkuk 1:2

    If God did NOT allow violence, the blood of Christ’s Cross could not have been sacrificed for our sins.

    This is a time that Muslims spend in study and prayer. Some will spend the whole night in prayer or in reciting the Qur’an.

    Lailat al Qadr is a good time to ask for forgiveness.

    Whoever establishes the prayers on the night of Qadr out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah’s rewards (not to show off) then all his past sins will be forgiven.  Hadith, Bukhari Vol 1, Book 2:34

    IF this is a time for prayer and fasting in Islam, why must God use Mosques as morgues?

    God allows violence.  Every nation is a nation of sinners.  My nation, the United States is also a nation of sinners. Every man is a sinner.  Every woman is a sinner.

    Sin against God Almighty will be judged.  Sin of false prophets will be judged.  Sin of godless religious and national leaders will be judged. Sin of godless men will be judged.

    No night or month or years of prayer can attain the forgiveness of sin.

    Only the blood of Christ shed on the Cross is sufficient before God our Father to grant the mercy we do NOT deserve – the wonderful grace of our Father God’s love.

    Does that mean we should not pray?  Of course not.  Prayer to God our Father is answered in His time.  Do not pray to idols or angels or men who are dead.  We pray by the grace of the Blood of Christ Jesus.  Our Father loves us and listens to our prayers.

    “Therefore pray for the people of Egypt.  We pray for you in the Name of Christ Jesus, who shed His Blood on the Cross also for you.

  • EMPIRE Fallen: Church Divided – Part 3

    EMPIRE Fallen: Church Divided – Part 3

    10 August, AD 2013 – This time in history.

    The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

    Where does the Early Church fit into this history?

    The tragic answer includes many martyrs for Christ Jesus, including one who died on this day.

    10 August, AD 258 Laurence, Deacon and Martyr, died (b. ca. 225). You can read of the atrocities and horrors of his torture and death in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.

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    Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. – Galatians 1:8 NLT

    AD 570 – Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad – born in Mecca Arabia.  Not everyone accepted God’s message transmitted through Muhammad. Even in his own clan there were those who rejected his teachings, and many merchants actively opposed the message. 

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    The Holy Roman Empire – continued:

    10 August AD 955 The Battle of Lechfeld was a decisive victory of the forces of Otto the Great, King of the Germans, over the Magyar leaders. The Magyars retreated to the Carpathian Basin, where they settled into a more agricultural way of life and were eventually Christianized.

    Otto I is considered by many to be the founder of the Holy Roman Empire.  In order to unify and control the major territories of Germany, he established the Church-State Alliance; this strengthened his power and decreased the power of the duchies. He gave large grants of royal land to bishops and abbots, who became his royal vassals and were obligated to provide him with military and political services. It was successful for both the Church and the State because it had church officials ruling the land, but allowed Otto the power to appoint them.

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    The fall of Rome

    “Rome wasn’t built in a day and did not fall in one day.

    AD 235- AD 476 – A blow-by-blow account of the fall of the Roman Empire.

    The Empire Reorganized – The Church Prospers
    AD 257/258  Emporer Valerian issued edicts against the Christians. This series of persecution was not a general attack as had come from Decius. This was targeted at the bishops and the upper class Christians.

    In the 260’s the borders of the empire were being breached by barbarian tribes. The peace and security of the Roman Empire was threatened on every side. Emperor Gallienus sought to keep things in order – he could not protect the outer regions, so regional legions did their best. Territory was lost around the edges, but the empire was held intact.

    AD 284 – Diocletian became the emperor, and brings Maximian into his confidence. The two men rule the empire as a team, Diocletian ruling in the east and Maximian in the west. In effect, there were now 4 emperors, each waging war against the barbarian hordes in a different region.

    AD 300 – According to Eusebius, there were 40 churches in Rome. The third Christian century was coming to a good close – everything was good – the church was growing, church buildings were getting larger, and the Church was financially prosperous. The peace of Rome was good and the Christian Church was enjoying being a legitimate part of that peace.

    AD 306-324 – Civil war between the two halves of the Empire. Constantine won control of both halves and moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium, later renamed: Constantinople.

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    Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus – The first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity

    AD 325 – Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan, which decreed religious tolerance throughout the empire. He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was professed by Christians.

    AD 337-395 – Emperor Constantine planned succession of the Roman Empire to be divided between his three sons, but war between them caused permanent division in AD 395.

    9 August, AD 378 – The Visigoths defeated Eastern Roman Emperor Valens.

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    AD 383 – Augustine arrives in Milan. After his conversion takes the position as bishop of Hippo  near his native Carthage, N. Africa, in 396, a position which he held until his death in AD 430.

    AD 401-410 – Visigoths make incursions into northern Italy and sack Rome.

    AD 429-435 – Vandals in N. Africa cut-off Roman grain supplies.

    AD 440-455 – Huns threaten Rome, are paid off, and then attack; then sack Rome.

    AD 476 – Last western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, is deposed by the barbarian general Odoacer who then rules Italy.

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    As you can see, “The Roman Empire fell long before Emperors gave up their false claims of leadership of the Roman citizens.

    The Church became divided with Empire.  The Church is up against continual opposition from without and within.

    Faithfulness to God, Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit has given example to pagan Empires of a nation under God.  Yet corruption of church leadership and division of the church has also weakened Christ’s church in the same way as divided and fallen Rome.

    The Gospel has been taken into all the world and Rome had a role in God’s plan.  Christ is opposed at every front by the enemies of the love of God and grace of the risen Christ Jesus.

    Matthew 24:14 – And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come.