What GOD Says!

 

What GOD Says!

GOD’s Will Is Salvation Not Judgment!

 

Lamentations 3:31-33 “For JEHOVAH will not cast off forever. Though He causes grief, He shows Compassion according to the multitude of His Mercies. For He does not afflict willingly (Lit. from His Heart), nor grieve the children of men.”

 

Ezekiel 18:31-32 “Cast away from you all the transgressions you have committed and get yourself a New Heart and a New Spirit. For why should you die, House of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies’,” says JEHOVAH GOD. “Therefore Turn and Live!”

 

2 Peter 3:9 “JEHOVAH is not slack concerning His Promise, as some count slackness, but is Longsuffering towards us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance!”

 

Ezekiel 33:11 “Say to them, ‘As I Live,’ says JEHOVAH GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked Turn from his ways and Live. Turn, Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, House of Israel?’”

 

Micah 6:8 “He has shown you man, what is Good; and what does JEHOVAH Require of you? But to do Justly, to Love Mercy (Or Lovingkindness), And to walk Humbly with your GOD!”

 

Isaiah 55:6 “Seek JEHOVAH while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.”

 

Deuteronomy 4:29 “But from there you will Seek JEHOVAH your GOD and you will find Him, if you Seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

 

Psalm 146:5 “Happy is he who has The GOD of Jacob for his Help, whose Hope is in

JEHOVAH his GOD.”

 

Matthew 6:33-34 “But Seek First The Kingdom of GOD and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

 

Jeremiah 29:11-13 “For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says JEHOVAH, thoughts of Peace and not of evil, to give you a Future and a Hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and Pray to Me and I Will Listen to you. And you will Seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”

 

Romans 8:28 “We know that all things work together for the Good of those who Love GOD, to those who are The Called according  to His Purpose.”

 

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, If My people who are called by My Name will Humble themselves and pray and Seek My Face, and Turn from their wicked ways, Then I Will Hear from Heaven and Will Forgive their sin and heal their land.”

 

Romans 8:1 “Therefore there is now no condemnation to those who are in CHRIST JESUS, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to The SPIRIT!”

 

2 Corinthians 7:1 “Therefore, having these Promises beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting Holiness in the Fear of GOD.”

 

2 Peter 3:11-13 “Therefore since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in Holy Conduct and Godliness…Nevertheless we, according to His Promise, look for New Heavens and a New Earth in which Righteousness dwells.”

 

Philippians 2:12-14 “Therefore my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, Work out your own Salvation with Fear and Trembling; for it is GOD Who Works in you both to will and to do for His Good Pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing.”

 

Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear GOD and Keep His Commandments, for this is man’s all.”

 

https://youtu.be/SCRsEn9cEHs

The End Times!

 

The End Times!

Revelation 11:14-19

 

“The second Woe is past! Behold the third Woe is coming quickly!

Then! The seventh angel sounded: and there were loud voices in Heaven, Saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world have become The Kingdom of JEHOVAH and His CHRIST! And He shall Reign Forever and Ever!’

The twenty-four elders who sat on their thrones before GOD fell on their faces and worshipped GOD, saying: ‘We give You thanks JEHOVAH GOD Almighty! The One Who Is and Who was and Who is to come; because You have taken Your Great Power and Reigned! The nations were angry and Your Wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should Reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your Name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth.’

Then The Temple of GOD was open in Heaven and The Ark of His Covenant (The Covenant of JEHOVAH) was seen in His Temple! And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake and great hail.”

 

Related Scriptures:

Verse 15: Joel 3:12-16 (Revelation 11:15-19, 12:10-11, 14:14-20); Isaiah 27:13; Exodus 15:18, 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, 55-58

Verse 16: Revelation 4:4, 10-11

Verse 17: Revelation 16:4-7, 19:6, 20:1-6

Verse 18: Psalm 2; Daniel 7:9-10 ; Revelation 20:7-15

Verse 19: Revelation 4:1, 8:5, 15:5, 16:21

 

Revelation chapters 14-22 follow 11:15-19 in order, chapters 16, 17:1-19:10 are occurring simultaneously.

 

Some will ask, since I have done so many papers and videos on Revelation why this paper and video? My secondary point is that the seventh trumpet sounds the day of CHRIST’s Return to rule the earth, that is when the Rapture and the Harvest happen! My primary point is a question: Are you watching and are you ready? JESUS told us to watch 5 different times and told us to be ready 4 different times in The Gospels; He tells us to hear (listen) 17 times in The Gospels and Revelation.

 

JESUS told us three things through The Gospels and The Revelation: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” (In Revelation – “what The SPIRIT is saying”); those who overcome or endure to the end will be Saved (In Revelation “I Will…”) and “Watch and be Ready.” In The Revelation He also said, “I know your works.”

Matthew 11:11-15, 13:14-17, 25:1-13, 31-46; Mark 4:22-25, 13:32-37; Revelation 2-3

Related Scriptures: Proverbs 18:15, 23:12; Philippians 4:8-9; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6; Hebrews 11:13

 

https://youtu.be/gnZUgW1rqTg

Call GOD By His Name! by Max Lucado

 

Call GOD By His Name!

By Max Lucado*

 

“Though foreign to us, The Name YAHWEH was rich to David. So rich in fact, that David chose it over EL Shaddai (GOD Almighty), EL Elyon (GOD Most High) and EL Olam (GOD The Everlasting.) These and many other titles for GOD were at David’s disposal. But when he considered all the options, David chose YAHWEH. Why YAHWEH? Because YAHWEH is GOD’s Name.”**

 

“I might call you dad, mom, doctor or student and those terms may describe you, but they aren’t your name. If you want to call me by my name, say Max. If I call you by your name, I say it; and if you want to call GOD by His Name, say YAHWEH! GOD has told us His Name. (How He must long to be close to us.)”

 

“The Name I AM sounds strikingly close to the Hebrew verb to be-havah. It’s quite possibly a combination of the present tense form (I am) and the causative tense (I cause to be). YAHWEH, then, seems to mean “I AM” and “I Cause.” Why is that important? Because we need a Big GOD!”

 

“GOD is The “One Who Is” and The “One Who Causes.” And if GOD is The “One Who Is,” then He is an unchanging GOD.”

 

“When we say, “I am,” we always add another word. “I am happy.” “I am sad.” “I am strong.” “I am Max.” GOD, however, starkly states, “I AM” and adds nothing else. “You are what?” we want to ask. “I AM,” He replies. GOD needs no descriptive word because He never changes. GOD is what He Is! He Is what He has always been!”

 

* Travelling Light (Desk Top Flip Calander), Max Lucado, Blessings Unlimited

 

** My notes: In The First Covenant most of the times it says, “The Lord” it is in the original Hebrew GOD’s Name, all we have now are the four consonants YHWH, interpreters fill in the vowels A and E and sometimes O, to make it YAHWEH or YEHOVAH (in English JEHOVAH). GOD originally gives us His Name in Exodus 3:13-16 when He is speaking to Moses. All through the First Covenant GOD tells us His Name and to use it. Thank you Max Lucado for reminding us.

Amos Chapter 5

 

Amos Chapter 5

 

5:1-3 Chapter 5 is an interesting passage of Scripture to Israel that also applies to The Church: It opens with a warning of GOD’s lamentation against Israel. “Hear this Word which I take up against you, this lamentation, House of Israel. The maiden of Israel has fallen not to rise again. She lies forsaken on her land, with no one to lift her up. For thus said The LORD JEHOVAH. ‘The city that goes out by a thousand had a hundred left and that which goes out by a hundred has ten left to the house of Israel!’”

 

5:4-6 The Call: “For thus said JEHOVAH to the house of Israel, ‘Seek Me and Live!’ But do not seek Bethel, nor enter Gilgal, nor pass over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall certainly go into exile and Bethel become a non-entity! Seek JEHOVAH and Live lest He break out like fire upon the house of Joseph and shall consume it, with no one to quench it in Bethel!’” JEHOVAH GOD was reminding the people of Israel to seek Him first and not to seek comfort or safety or provision in the prominent cities of Israel. (Matthew 6:25-34)

 

5:7-13 Through Amos, JEHOVAH kept reminding the people Who He Is and of His Judgment against sinners: “You who are turning right-ruling (Justice) to wormwood (poisonous bitterness) and have cast down righteousness to the earth…Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.” (The Church is supposed to be proclaiming Salvation through JESUS CHRIST that leads to Repentance, Mark 16:14-18.)

 

5:14-15 JEHOVAH speaks of Blessings: “Seek Good and not evil so that you Live! Let JEHOVAH GOD of Heaven’s Armies be with you, as you have spoken!” (Even today Christians call out for GOD’s Blessings while they harbor sin in their life or ignore the sin around them in the Church.) “Hate evil and Love Good and set up right-ruling in the gate (The gate is the place of government and business). It might be that JEHOVAH GOD of Heaven’s Armies shows favor to the remnant of Joseph!”

 

5:16-24The call to Repentance: “Therefore JEHOVAH GOD of Heaven’s Armies, JEHOVAH, said this, ‘There is wailing in all open squares and in all the streets they say, “Alas! Alas!” and shall call the farmer to mourning and skilled lamenters to wailing…I have hated, I have despised your festivals and I am not pleased with your assemblies...Let Right-ruling roll on like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.’”

 

5:25-27 Judgment: “’You brought Me sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, House of Israel, but you took up Sikkuth (Tabernacle of Moloch) your king; and Kiyyum (Chiun), your idols, your astral mighty ones which you made for yourselves! Therefore I shall send you into exile beyond Damascus.’ Said JEHOVAH GOD of Heaven’s Armies – His Name.”

 

https://youtu.be/v4FDyso7ZuI

JESUS Never Died!

 

JESUS Never Died!

 

“What?” you ask, “JESUS never died? The Bible tells us that He died! What you’re saying does not make sense! Peter, James, John, Mark, Luke and Paul all tell us that JESUS died!”

 

Yes they do and they are correct! JESUS’ fleshly body died on the cross, but JESUS – GOD did not die and could not die!* JESUS as The Son of GOD gave His body as a sacrifice in obedience to GOD The Father to take away the sins of the world (all those who believe that He is GOD and that The Father raised His body from the dead, Romans 10:10-15).

 

If you are a Jew or a Christian than you believe that there is only One True GOD – JEHOVAH! JEHOVAH is The Father, The Son and The Spirit! JEHOVAH is eternal, He has always existed and always will exist; everything in our existence is made by GOD and for GOD and not all of it is eternal, including our bodies!

 

As ordained by JEHOVAH before He created anything in our existence, JESUS was born as The Son of Man of a virgin, JESUS could not have a human father and be The Son of GOD. His fleshly body was subject to temptation and sin just as ours is, but JESUS never gave into temptation, so He never sinned. Therefore JESUS was able to be GOD’s acceptable sacrifice to remove the judgment of sin from humanity (all who believe). His fleshly body had to die in place of our fleshly bodies or else we could not be saved from GOD’s Judgement as a sinner. In our natural mortal life we could not overcome temptation and sin so we were destined to die in judgment and be condemned to eternal torment (our spirit  does not die)!

 

So JESUS The Son of GOD did not die, but JESUS The Son of Man did die and rose from the grave in a new spiritual body; remember after JESUS’ resurrection the disciples did not immediately recognize Him. This is the resurrection that all the apostles teach us is the assurance of our future resurrection if we believe in JESUS!

 

* For decades I had a hard time believing what I was taught about JESUS’ death and being separated from The Father and taking our punishment in hell for 3 days, where He somehow miraculously rose from the dead. I have written a paper on that subject

(Did GOD Look Away When JESUS Was Crucified? https://youtu.be/ZVwyOV-cyRs).

 

https://youtu.be/7sHTHnT3JTs

 

JEHOVAH's Sovereignty

 

Isaiah 44:21-45:25

JEHOVAH’s Sovereignty!

 

JEHOVAH speaks through Isaiah to Cyrus, a man He chooses before he is born to end the seventy years of punishment of Israel for their four hundred ninety years of disobedience. If you though JEHOVAH showing His Power through the Pharoh in Moses’ time was showing His Sovereignty, think about this. Before he is born, JEHOVAH is calling Cyrus to be an international leader who will conquer the mightiest nation on the earth at that time so that Cyrus can set Israel free to return to Israel and Jerusalem! JEHOVAH then speaks through His servants in that day to bring to Cyrus’ attention what JEHOVAH has declared about him. (Jeremiah 25:12-14; Isaiah44:24-45:25 Ezra 1:1-4)

 

JEHOVAH declares His Sovereignty over Israel: 44:21-23.

 

JEHOVAH declares Who He Is: 44:24-27;

“Redeemer,

forms us in the womb,

makes all things,

stretches out the heavens,

spreads abroad the earth,

frustrates the signs of the babblers,

drives diviners mad,

turns wise men backward and makes their knowledge foolishness;

confirms the words of His servant (prophet),

preforms the counsel of His messengers (angels),

says to Jerusalem ‘You shall be inhabited.’

says to the cities of Judah ‘you shall be built and I will raise up her waste places.’

says to the deep (oceans) ‘Be dry! And I Will dry up your rivers.’”

 

JEHOVAH says of Cyrus (who will not rule for about 150 years): 44:28-45:14;

”He is My shepherd and he shall perform My Pleasure, saying to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be built,’ and to the Temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’

Thus says JEHOVAH to His anointed, to Cyrus whose right hand I have strengthened–to subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings,

to open for him the double doors so that the gates will not be shut!

‘I Will go before you and (I Will trample down the walls or I Will humble the great ones of the earth) make the crooked places (mountains) straight;

I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron.

I Will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, JEHOVAH, Who call you by your name, AM The GOD of Israel.

For Jacob’s, My servants sake and Israel My elect, I Have Called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me.

I Am JEHOVAH and there is no other!

There is no GOD besides Me!

I Will gird you though you have not known Me, that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me!

I Am JEHOVAH and there is no other!

I form the light and create darkness,

I make Peace and create calamity!

I, JEHOVAH, do all these things.

I, JEHOVAH, have created it!”

“Thus says JEHOVAH,  The HOLY One of Israel and his Maker; ‘ask Me of things to come concerning My sons (Israel); and concerning the Work of My hands (do) you command Me?

I have made the earth and Created man on it!

I–My hands–have stretched out the heavens and all their host I have Commanded!

I Have raised him up in righteousness and I Will direct all his ways; and he shall build My City and let My exiles go free, not for price or reward, says JEHOVAH of hosts!’”

“Thus says JEHOVAH: ‘The labor of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and they shall be yours; they shall walk behind you, they shall come over in chains and they shall bow down to you. They will make supplication to you saying, ‘Surely GOD is in you and there is no other; there is no other GOD.’”

 

Isaiah declares JEHOVAH’s Sovereignty: 45:15-17;

“Truly You are GOD Who hide Yourself!

GOD of Israel, Savior!”

All who make idols will be ashamed, disgraced and confused.

“Israel shall be Saved by JEHOVAH with an Everlasting Salvation; you shall not be ashamed or disgraced Forever and Ever!”

 

JEHOVAH speaks for Himself: 45:18-19;

“For thus says JEHOVAH, Who Created the heavens,

Who is GOD Who Formed the earth and made it, Who has Established it, Who did not Create it in vain (Or empty, a waste), Who formed it to be inhabited: ‘I Am JEHOVAH and there is no other!

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, “Seek Me, in vain (Or in a waste place)”; I JEHOVAH speak Righteousness, I declare things that are Right!’”

 

JEHOVAH speaks to Israel about idolatry: 45:20-21;

“Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge who carry the wood of their carved image and pray to a god that cannot Save! Tell and bring forth your case; yes, let them take counsel together.  Who had declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, JEHOVAH? There is no other GOD besides Me, a Just GOD and a Savior; there is none besides Me!”

 

JEHOVAH’s call to be Saved: 45:22-25;

“Look to Me and be Saved all you ends of the earth!

For I Am GOD and there is no other!

I have Sworn by Myself; the word has gone out of My mouth in Righteousness and shall not return!

That to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take as oath; he shall say, ‘Surely in JEHOVAH I have Righteousness and Strength (Or Only in JEHOVAH are all Righteousness and Strength).

To Him men shall come and all shall be ashamed who are incensed against Him!

In JEHOVAH all descendants of Israel shall be Justified and shall Glory.”

 

https://youtu.be/32dPIpF7Vfw

What Did JESUS Say?

 

What Did JESUS Say?

 

There is so much talk and teaching about the End Times that it is hard to keep up with the latest prophesies and revelations and teachings. There are so many varying opinions on what is happening and what is about to happen and what will happen in the future that it is hard to know what to believe. And what you believe will dictate how you live your life!

 

The whole Bible has prophesies and teachings about the End Days, sometimes they seem contradictory, but they are not, but most of us do not have the wherewithal to do the kind of study to be able to put it all together in order so that we understand the full picture of the coming events.

 

So let us look at what JESUS told us to do:

 

The Future:

Watch –

Matthew 24:40-44, 25:11-13; Mark 13:32-37 (Matthew 26:36-46, Mark 14:34-42); Luke 12:35-48, 21:34-38.

 

Be ready –

Matthew 24:44, 25:10; (Luke 1:13-17 John The Baptist), Luke 12:35-40, 22:31-34; Revelation 19:6-8.

 

Endure or overcome –

Matthew 10:21-22, 24:10-14; Mark 4:16-17, (Mark 13:12-13, Revelation 17:14); John 16:31-33; Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26, 3:5, 12, 21;17:14; 21:6-7.

 

Now:

 

Mike Huckabee says, “We should be ready for anything; but we should not be afraid of anything!”

 

The Work – Matthew 5:43-48, 6:1-21, 26:11, 28:16-20; Mark 16:14-18; Acts 1:7-8; Revelation 2:2 “I know your Works!” JESUS said this to each of the seven Churches (2:9, 2:13, 2:19, 3:1-2, 3:8, 3:15).

 

This is where “Peace that passes understanding!” (Philippians 4:6-7) comes in, JESUS said we would be persecuted, He even said it was a Blessing! (Matthew 5:10-12). How you ask, by abiding in JESUS’s Victory (Ephesians 2:11-18 [14]; 1 Corinthians 15:57-58)!

 

https://youtu.be/B9MguKkGfOY