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  • You Will Not Be Led into the Promised Land

    Introduction:

    This brief NEW series is about God and the LORD’s own relationship to man. It follows a pilgrimage from which many turn away.

    These human failings by some from the Bible serve as cautions to those journeying toward the eternal place where the Lord welcomes those who do not refuse to follow.

    :וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים

    And God said:

    There’s something about God [‘ĕlōhîm – אֱלֹהִים] you need to understand from the beginning. When God said, it is; that is, God’s word given to man is always a promise.

    By contrast and by our tendency to turn from God, men (and women) break our promises, violate our vows and void our covenants with our Creator, even as as we do with our ‘fellow man.’

    We are familiar with God as Creator, the One breathing life into men of dust, the One creating a living soul within living and breathing beings. ONLY GOD can do this!

    וַיִּיצֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֗ם עָפָר֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וַיִּפַּ֥ח בְּאַפָּ֖יו נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים וַֽיְהִ֥י הָֽאָדָ֖ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה׃

    בראשית 2:7 WLC

    And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

    Genesis 2:7 KJB

    The LORD speaks it, it is.

    IN THE BEGINNING, GOD creates; but once He makes man [‘āḏām], a relationship between God and man begins.

    Moses’ refers to this relationship, here is ‘the Lord God.’ [yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm]. God’s chosen should speak of their relationship with the LORD God, the existing One, WHO IS HOLY or separated.

    The LORD is G_d and man is not.

    Deceit, sin and turning from the Lord God began in the paradise of our creation. We hid from God and man still tries to hide from God.

    Ark Encounter full size replica of Noah's ark

    Covenant

    Man was created with complete freedom — freedom to believe God in righteousness. Yet man violated a simple command. We just ‘had to know.’

    Mankind wants to have our personal and unique knowledge of what is good and what is evil. I want to judge for myself what and who is good and choose to do evil IF it pleases me.

    Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

    Genesis 6:5 NASB

    What follows in Genesis, yet precedes the saving of one faithful man Noah, is sad indeed.

    As a father or mother grieves for their child who turns away from the loving parental relationship, so does the LORD, Father of all mankind, sorrow for the souls of men.

    Roger @ talk of Jesus {dot}.com – on Genesis 6:6

    And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

    Genesis 6:6 KJV

    Consequently after the DESTRUCTION of ALL MANKIND by water the LORD enters into a covenant a contract between God and man.

    “I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

    Genesis 9:11

    Evil men may appropriate the symbolism of God’s seal in the sky to include all sin into the pantheon of earth worship.

    Promise of the End

    The LORD’s covenant with man not to destroy by flood provides no promise that the end will not come; and yes, a judgment of all flesh will follow. Do not be impatient for justice or the day of the end.

    Men will no longer worship mother nature, but bow down to Christ Jesus, our only Redeemer of sinful flesh.

    No covenant of man or offering to an environment of air breathed through masks can prevent the end which the Word has revealed through the Prophets, a new heaven and earth for the resurrection bodies of the chosen faithful. We have just examined part of this mystery revealed through Christ to John in Apocalypse 10 + Gospel of the Seventh Seal.

    • Will you have life after death?
      • Yes! But to what end?

    The Lord will judge the unrepentant in the fire and judge His own creation at the end of days!

    Covenant between God and Abram

    The Lord God begins again on a cleansed earth by fathering a people and making several covenants with Abraham.

    In this brief series we cannot blaze a trail of a history of covenants between God and man; but understand that broken covenants, including those of Abraham, Israel (Jacob) and Moses, are broken NOT by God, but by many descendants of the promise.

    And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

    Exodus 2:24 KJV

    Descendants of the OATHS of their FATHERS remain BOUND to the same AGEEMENTS between the LORD God and a mortal man.

    Those covenants prescribed penalty for breaking our word with the Lord God.

    road sign 'pay attention'

    The Road Ahead

    • Lot’s Wife
    • Death in the Wilderness
    • Only Two

    The Lord God will redeem His people at a time of His own choosing. It is NOT a time of our choosing.

    And the cleansing of sin, judgment of souls and refining of faith occurs by the Holy Spirit through His Word and only Son of our righteousness, who IS the Messiah Jesus.

    Sinful man in every generation, before the incarnation of the Son of God and until this day, breaks covenant with God time and time again, turning away from the Lord our God, our only hope.

    Even by Christ’s new covenant of redemption for our sins, followers of Jesus Christ must heed the warnings of scripture.

    Read how those who turned from God to their own ways, as is our own tendency even in this year of our Lord 2021, were rightfully judged. Note the warnings from this brief look at just a few of mankind’s many moments of faithlessness.

    I pray that you may once again turn toward the Light of Life and eternal life after inevitable death of the flesh and final judgment of the world.

    To be continued...

  • Disaster From Disobedience, A Savior From Before Eden – 7

    By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. – Hebrews 11:7 KJV

    Godly Fear

    Most of us have a challenge to our faith in God from one of two extremes. Some fear God so much that they cannot relate to the Lord’s Fatherly love for those who love Him.

    Other believers assume an automatic entry into heaven because, they say, “I am a Christian,” or I was born into a godly family. They assume a personal acceptance by a loving God they do not know and fail to follow. May God have mercy on their souls.

    And of course in addition to believers in between these two extremes are those who have no fear of the Lord. These are godless fools turned toward evil with no desire for the wisdom of God or desire to do good in place of their evil.

    He said to mankind, “The fear of the Lord is this: wisdom. And to turn from evil is understanding.” – Job 28:8

    Adam and Eve and their early descendants had a personal relationship with the Living God even after the fall. They could ask God personally for the wisdom to do good rather than turning toward evil. Yet through the generations refusal of the Lord’s advice to choose good over evil has fallen on more and more deaf ears.

    Genesis 5:

    4 Adam lived 800 years after the birth of Seth, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 5 So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died…

    23 So Enoch’s life lasted 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him…

    32 Noah was 500 years old, and he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

    Time passes (hard to know how many score of generations by today’s lifetimes) and man forgets God. Almighty God our Creator becomes as irrelevant to their sin-filled lives as the Lord is to many in these last days.

    And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.” – Genesis 6:3

    Apocalypse of Impending Disaster

    If you do not have a relationship with the all-knowing God, who will tell you with accuracy the disaster which draws near? And now that man has the discernment to judge between good and evil, how can you know what is good without listening to God?

    In fact, as it was in the later days of God’s true Prophets, no man listened to the Living God except one.

    Judgment Decreed

    5 When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time, 6 the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 Then the Lord said, “I will wipe off from the face of the earth mankind, whom I created, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.” 8 Noah, however, found favor in the sight of the Lord.

    Man has not only disobeyed the Creator, but grieves the most loving heart of the Father of man created in His own image.

    Now a different relationship with the Living God will begin, one of fear.

    Genesis 6:17 “Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die. 

    Of course for those who disdained God lost in the flood, fear was short-lived until their terrible deaths. But for all who would witness the great power of the LORD in the days since Noah, the Lord God Almighty evokes fear.

    Genesis 7:

    Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

    You know the rest, or at least you think that you know the rest.

    6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

    It seems like a fearful children’s story. All the men and women and children of the earth were destroyed in the Lord’s cleansing flood. The potter has begun again with one man, Noah, from which He will reform the clay of His own creation.

    Are you like those who perished having no fear of the Lord or respect for the only man to hear God’s heart? (Read above of the potter and the clay, heading the fear of righteous men.)

    24 And the waters surged on the earth 150 days.

    Genesis 8:

    5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

    The Lord’s Promise
    15 Then God spoke to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—

    20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

    You and your family are the only living survivors of the earth’s worst disaster. And the Lord had warned the the evil of mankind had brought man to our own destruction. What does Noah then do? Worship! Noah thanks God for His great mercy.

    21 When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself,

    “I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done…

    Thank God, I say; thank the Lord, re-formed clay of our Creator.

    To be continued…

  • Times of Difficulty – 5

    Times of Difficulty – 5

    Godlessness in the Last Days

    2 Timothy 3:

    But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

    2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

    File- This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo shows Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
    Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos richest man in the world with a net worth of $90.6 billion

    Many lovers of money worldwide, with the richest residing in the US, France, Spain, Mexico, China and Hong Kong.

    Proud and arrogant men and women rule companies and financial interests more powerful than countries.

    We sense the extreme poverty of so many without knowing the truth of many billionaires like Carlos Slim Helú who dominates more than a country just devastated by yet another earthquake.

    Borderless prisons of poverty abuse the starving and obliterate opposition.

    Difficulty in these last days

    How many rulers of this temporary darkness are without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit and more?

    Evil rulers of countries and military forces threaten apocalypse, condone persecution and order elimination of those who oppose them. Is the Lord God their God?

    Hardly a mention of evil in these trying times. Yet one word describes all – godlessness. 

    Meanwhile international headline news conglomerates skew our focus toward consumption, power and fleeting fame. 

    Signs of the End of the Age

    Enlightened ones speculate with futily about global warming and disasters of ‘mother nature.’ 

    Earth did not create us, aliens did not plant us and apes did not conceive our ancestors. Yet idolatry abounds in these times of difficulty.

    When hurricane approaches or disaster strikes do any dare mention ‘acts of God?’

    Matthew 24:

    Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2 But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

    3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

    4 And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.

    6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

    7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

    9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. 10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

    11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

    12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

    14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

    No One Knows That Day and Hour

    In two millennia since the beginning of these last days, in recent centuries of these last hours, in passing minutes of threatening signs:

    Has your love grown cold? Will you endure to the end?

    Is your gospel of the kingdom of Christ Jesus a testimony of truth, an anchor of belief and hope of love?

    37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man…

    Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida, wreaking destruction

    44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

    2 Peter 3:

    … scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4 They will say,

    “Where is the promise of his coming? …”

    5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.

    7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

    Remember 9/11
    2,996 deaths

    10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

    For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man…