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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Revelation - A Hugely Practical Book

  Chapter 1 is God is totally in control, His death and resurrection prove His love, and He is about to prove his sovereignty. Get ready the time of mercy is drawing to a close and the time of judgment (which is still mercy but in a different light) is coming.

 

 Chapter 2 and 3 Get ready people of God, the stakes are high the reward is great, show the world I am worth it all. A time is coming when He is going to purify His people. The third commandment has to do with not "bearing the name of God in vain" which is to say, God bought us with a price and we are His. We are His ambassadors, His representatives, the bearers of His Name, His reputation with the people of the world is in our hands, which is why He is very hard on hypocrisy.  https://www.openbible.info/topics/hypocrisy  These chapters speak of the fire of purification falling on the followers of Messiah, so that they can be good witnesses of Him at the crucial time before the fire of judgment falls on the earth.

 

Chapter 4 and 5, The Judge of all the earth is seated and the time of mercy is drawing to a close and the time of Judgment is about to begin in all its righteous fury. Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.The courtroom of God is in session as is shown by all the parallels to Daniel 7, which is the scene in heaven when God starts to reveal to Daniel how He is going to purify His people AND judge the nations. 

Revelation Chapter 4 and 5 and the allusions to Daniel 7

1. Introductory vision phraseology (Daniel 7:9 [cf.7:2,6-7]; Rev 4:10

 2. A throne set in heaven (Daniel 7:9a; Rev.4:2a [cf 4:4a] 

3. God sitting on a throne (Daniel 7:9b; Rev.4:2b) 

4. Gods appearance on the throne (Daniel 7:9c; Rev4:3a) 

5. Fire before the throne (Daniel 7:9d-10a; Rev 4:3a) 

6. Heavenly servants surrounding the throne (Daniel 7:10b; Rev. 4:4b, 6b-100; 5:8, 11, 14) 

7. Book(s) before the throne (Daniel. 7:10c; Rev.5:1-5) 

8. The book(s) opened (Daniel 7:10c; Rev. 5:2-5,9) 

9. A divine (messianic) figure approaching God’s throne to receive authority to reign forever over a kingdom (Daniel 7:14-14a; Rev. 5:5b-7, 9a, 12-13) 

10. The kingdom scope: “all peoples, nations, and tongues” (Daniel 7:14a [MT]; Rev 5:9b) 

11. The seer’s emotional distress on account of the vision (Daniel 7:15; Rev. 5:4) 

12. The seers reception of heavenly counsel concerning the vision from one of the heavenly throne servants (Daniel 7:16; Rev. 5:5a) 

13. The saints given divine authority to reign over at Kingdom (Daniel 7:18, 22, 27a; Rev. 5:10) 

14. Concluding mention of God's eternal reign (Daniel 7:2-3; Rev. 4:6) (Beale - Use of the OT in Revelation)

Monday, November 14, 2022

The Passing of a Friend, Mark Klafter

 

Technology can be used to ease the passing of a friend.  I know people who saved an out-going or incoming message that was on their answering machine for years because it was the voice of a loved one.  Mark Klafter was a friend, a mentor, and a man who was filled with the wisdom of God. 

I am grateful for the technology that allows us to still have access to his wisdom on a number of different sites.  He was interviewed on the Apocalyptic Gospel Podcast here

 https://www.apocalypticgospel.com/2021/07/14/s2e8-i-want-you-to-be-unified-with-our-people-an-interview-with-mark-klafter/

He was a speaker at a conference here and there are numerous clips over the years of him at this site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOmvCdECRio&t=5997s 

He has been a very integral part our little Tuesday night Bible Study on a number of occasions and this is one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IknfYWBSkSs&t=96s


It is a blessing to be able to access these and once again hear his voice and see his smile

Thursday, November 3, 2022

The Stakes are Incredibly High

 Why so intense?

Why pushing so hard (from a place of rest and trust) ?

Why constantly telling your teens about the latter days and the end of this age?

Why so angry at false doctrines that encourage comfortable, rest-assured, you said a prayer everything is okay Christianity?

Why so opposed to the pre-trib rapture lie?

Why attempting to crush nationalism as an idol? 

Why always driving home the point that "Kingdom Now" and trying to take over the "7 Mountains" is a mis-guided gentile lie that invalidates hundreds of prophecy of the people and the land of Israel and therefore invalidates the God of Israel?

BECAUSE THE STAKES ARE SO HIGH!


MARANATHA!