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  • The Time Is Near for our Church – Prologue

    The Time Is Near for our Church – Prologue

    1 The revelation [apokalypsis] of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place.

    He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

    To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood 6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

    7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

    TIME’S UP!

    Has anyone ever announced that to you?

    Were you ready?  Was it a test? Did you know that the end of your time was coming?

    What would happen IF you got up one morning and God sent an Angel to you with an announcement:

    TIME’S UP! I’m taking you up from this earth today.

    What would you think? How would you react?

    You might think: HOW? Will it be an accident? A heart attack? Will someone murder me unexpectedly?

    You might wonder: How soon?  Do I have time to finally write a will? Can I call a loved one, first?

    You might remember that sin: the person you could NOT forgive, that action you never confessed. You might recall how little you had given to your church and how often you had found better things to do than worship God and thank Jesus Christ for His sacrifice on the Cross for you.

    You might even think to ask: Am I going to HEAVEN or HELL?

    You might even be in AWE that an angel would show up to bring a message to you.

    Admit it: you’re finally fearful of the end of your TIME. All of a sudden, DEATH and Eternal Life have a personal relevance.

    The Apostle John, or course, was a better witness of Christ than you or me. He had  actual first-hand witness of Jesus’ resurrection. Yet even John may not have expected the revelation Christ gave to him, which John wrote for us as the final book of the Bible.

    (You should read ALL of Revelation on your own.)

    8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

    I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. 19 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.

    Of course we know that the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ IS GOOD NEWS. Although Revelation sounds more and more like NOT so good news.

    IF the CHURCH will heed the warnings of Christ through the angel to John to the seven churches to OUR 21st c. church: there is still TIME remaining in the hourglass of these last days.

    The King James Version states: Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.

    John saw what was, what was then, what was to come soon for the first century church, AND John saw what would happen well beyond the day of the death of his earthly flesh in the first century. John saw the hereafter: an AWESOME vision of Eternity.

    Are YOU ready? Is your church ready?

    Haven’t we had just about enough of this Kingdom of the evil one?

    The TIME of the hereafter is NEAR.

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    READ the cautions for our Church. NEXT: Ephesus

  • Sinclair Ferguson – 27 Sep. 2013 (rebroadcast)

    Sinclair Ferguson – 27 Sep. 2013 (rebroadcast)

    The following is a conversation with a pastor, one of the most esteemed theologians  of our day on retiring from the pulpit, passing on the baton of ministry to others & of his upcoming books and teaching.

    I recommend this to any Pastor, Elder, Deacon or Theology student (as am I).

    It will require an hour of thoughtful quiet time, followed by prayer of application.

    Roger

    http://www.ligonier.org/blog/google-hangout-sinclair-ferguson-september-27/?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FergusonHangout-September2013

    In addition to being Senior Minister, Dr. Ferguson is Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. A graduate of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, he is the author of some two dozen books, has authored numerous articles and has contributed to various symposia. His writing interests have ranged from works of scholarship to books for children. He has served as minister of two congregations in Scotland, one on Unst, the most northerly inhabited island in the United Kingdom, and the other at the center of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. He has served more than twenty years as a seminary professor and is currently on the faculty of Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, Texas as well as part time faculty of Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.

    Source: Sermon Audio

    I recommend Dr. Sinclair’s books and teaching heartily.

    Roger Harned 

  • A wife of whoredom: Nations and the Bride

    A wife of whoredom: Nations and the Bride

    +++++++ Conclusion to “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom.

    Hosea 6

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

    6 “Come, let us return to the Lord;
    for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
    2 After two days he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
    3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord

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    Few countries embrace Jesus Christ, the Son of God who IS and IS to come as NATIONS with official proclamation: Jesus IS Lord in our Nation.

    • Dios bendiga a Argentina

    • Guð blessi Ísland

    • Gud velsigne Norge

    • Ο Θεός να ευλογεί την Ελλάδα

    Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! – Psalm 33:12

    Yet MANY Nations who once claimed God, even now play the whore.

    Hosea 8

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

    8:1 Set the trumpet to your lips!
    One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
    because they have transgressed my covenant
    and rebelled against my law.

    7 For they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.

    10:3 For now they will say:
    “We have no king,
    for we do not fear the Lord;
    and a king—what could he do for us?”
    4 They utter mere words;
    with empty oaths they make covenants…

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    “In the name of God, I, ______, take you, ______, to be my wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.”

    Read more: 

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    Dearly beloved,

    Are you NOT joined to the Groom, Christ Jesus?

    Is Jesus Christ your Lord?

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    Dear Church making claim and witness to the Name and Cross of Christ:

    Do NOT relegate Jesus Christ into a lowly place alongside the religions you change for your Nation.

    Do NOT hear the agendas of the false prophets and false christians with false professions of faith.

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    Give NO ear to the worldly agendas of those who would CHANGE god to serve their SELF interests.

    “Religions’ of sinful Nations may “change their mind,” yet for all time, even before God’s true Prophets like Hosea until beyond this 21st c. day:

    Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. – Hebrews 13:8

     

    For the Lord will say to these: “I never knew you.”

    AMERICA, BLESS GOD.

    Great Britain, Bless God.

    European Union, Bless God

    Australia, Bless God

    Brazil, Bless God

    DR Congo, Bless God

    Russia, Bless God

    Let your Nation, bless God.

    Malachi 3: 6 “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

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    Jesus Christ IS the Groom, returning in these last days for His Bride, His Church.

    Are you a wife of whoredom?

    Our Heavenly King, Who was and IS and will be returning for His Church warns and encourages in the Good News of Matthew 24:

    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.

    Return to Christ Jesus, our Lord. He has paid the price for your return.

    He has redeemed you from the whoredom of your sin.