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B001="According to premillennislists, the Antichrist’s career and the incredible events of a seven-year tribulation, end in the climactic war of Armageddon —a war that would annihilate the world if not for the intervention of Christ’s second coming. Typically, the premillennialist will interpret a vision in Revelation as though it were a news report from the future.
Things seen in dreams and visions, however, are not always possible in reality. The vision well represents the spiritual battle that is going on in the world today. But it’s not a literal description of an actual physical battle —for the simple reason that it’s physically untenable.
For example, why would horses be used in a modern day battle? And how could a river of blood like that in the vision exist in reality? (Rev 14:20). The sensational claims about this imagined future conflict distract us from the very real battle now being waged between the spiritual forces of good and evil (Eph 6:10-17)
“...cities like London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Chicago —obliterated!. ...entire islands and mountains blown off the map... “Behold the Lord will lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants” ...So many people will be slaughtered in the conflict that blood will stand to the horses’ bridles for a total distance of 200 miles northward and southward of Jerusalem (Rev 14:20)” —Hal Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth
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Rev 22:6-21
This passage may be divided into three parts:
John and the angel say only what Jesus gives them to say. All the words are from Christ really, regardless of who is actually speaking.
"; B007=""; B008="It is a sad thing to be cut off from God. It certainly makes God sad.
Many years ago, I was given a beautiful dog. She was a young blue heeler.
Because I had to go to work each day, she and I would be separated for a long time.
She was unhappy being alone. As she watched me going off to work, she would thump the tin shed with her tail making an awful din, and she would wail at the top of her voice.
When I finally came home, she was always waiting, and she would jump and bark with joy. Realizing her sorrow and longing, I gave her to my brother who gave her work and company.
If a dog can have such strong feelings about being separated, how infinitely more sad must God feel?
"; B009="A man dreamed he saw footprints in the sand. In the beginning there were two sets of footprints side by side, but further on, one set alone. An angel said, “You became a sinner and Jesus walked with you no more.”
Yet farther along were two sets of footprints again. The angel said, “You believed and obeyed Jesus. He walked with you once more.”
Still farther on, again there was only one set of footprints for a time. “Why”, the man asked, “did the Lord leave me to walk alone again?” The angel said, “These footprints are not yours but the Lord’s.” The man still didn’t understand. “Where are my footprints?” he asked. “In a time of trial,” said the angel, “the Lord lifted you up and carried you in his arms.”
If the man had not followed the Lord in faith, the Lord would not have walked with him, and would not have been there to carry him through the troubled time.
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The dates and times surrounding the life of Jesus are not very far wrong, but there is some uncertainty.
There are three main calendars involved:
Because a year is not an exact whole number of days, man-made calendars and clocks do not keep in step with the natural times and seasons unless adjustments are made now and again.
In our days, scientists keep our calanders and clocks in step very accurately, adjusting our clocks by a mere second when necessary.
The time governers also use the “leap year” (an extra day in February) to keep our calendar from ever getting more than a day out of kilter.
However this attention to the accuracy of calendars was not always maintained.
At some periods down through the centuries, the calendar got so out of alignment with the seasons that things like seedtime and harvest were seriously affected.
Even when adjustments were made, they were sometimes gross, confused, and parochial.
The lack of uniformity in calendars used in the past, and in the adjustments made to them, creates difficulties in establishing dates more accurately than a close approximation.
"; B012="Jesus said, “Don't let your heart be troubled. You believe in God, so believe also in me.
In my Father's house are many mansions. If that were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you —and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again, and receive you to myself, so that where I am there you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don't know where you are going so how do we know the way?”
Jesus said to him “I am the way, and the truth and the life! Nobody can come to the Father except through me”
These two verses clearly state the two natures of Jesus Christ, divine and human.
Of course, some great heresies and schisms arose from philosophizing about these basic truths, because although they are simple truths, they are also profound.
Some aspects of these truths are simply stated in scripture, but not fully explained.
When people added their own explanation to God's revelation, heresies and schisms resulted. We try to goback to the basics.
In our first lesson, we have compared and discussed two statements about Jesus in John 1:1,14, “The Word became flesh... and we have seen his glory”.
Now we are going to look at John chapter one more closely, to examine five further statements which enlarge on this theme.
The outline of our studies from now on is presented as an acrostic on the word GLORY, each letter standing for some important aspect of Jesus’s nature and work mentioned in John chapter one.
I hardly know where to begin this lesson, or what to put in.
How do I explain to you that the destiny God has purposed for you is that you should be an honoured member of God’s own household?
This right will be granted you on one condition, well within your ability to meet. You must believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God and receive him as your Saviour.
What bothers me is that —unless you are an exceptional person— I could talk for half an hour about this in your hearing, yet you will not hear! You will not appreciate what I am trying to tell you. You will listen to me politely, as one does to a minister.
You may even approve of what I say, and even feel good that once again you have exercised your freedom of religion and done your worship for the week. Yet you won’t really have heard anything I said. It will be just religious words, the familiar sounds of church, a message lost on you.
There was a little dog owned by an elderly lady. It sat each day at the cottage gate. Neighbours and passers by would say hello, give it a pat, tell it what a cute little doggie it was.
One day, the dog was at the gate as usual. As each passer by would greet it, the dog would give a few barks, and look toward the cottage. It would follow the passer by along the fence and bark again.
Each passer by would say something like, “Dear me, you are noisy today! There, there now! That’s a good doggie!” This went on for three days. Then the dog disappeared.
After a while the passers by and neighbours missed the little dog at the gate, and realised that they hadn’t seen the elderly lady either. Two neighbours went in to see if all was well.
In the kitchen they found the elderly lady and the dog both dead. Both, it turned out upon investigation, had suffered stroke. It was realized that the little dog had died of distress, because nobody had really listened to what it had been trying to tell them.
Sometimes I feel like that little dog. My ability to communicate this message to you is limited. If you will not be sensitive to what I am trying to say, then my effort will be in vain.
A YOUNG CHRISTIAN TRACT published in the late 1950s by a group of young Christians in the interest of spreading New Testament Christianity in Australia and throughout the world. The above is the original text except for the addition of headings and some style editing to modernize archaic expressions.
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