Recently, I was
teaching a small group of prophecy lovers when I made the statement that our
amazing God revealed prophecies 2,000 to 2,700 years ago that we see coming
on the scene today. A friend with a wonderful sense of humor was in the
group and he replied, “Yes, it’s enough to make you think that God has the
gift of foreknowledge.” Right! By fulfilling ancient prophecies recorded in
the Bible, God is demonstrating His foreknowledge. He is proving that He
truly knows the end from the beginning (Isa. 46:10). This ability to reveal
what will happen before it happens is incomprehensible to all of us, but it
is indisputable proof of His existence; and it is also a statement that He
keeps His promises AND He carries out His warnings. Many like to believe His
promises, but they prefer to ignore His warnings.
A possible economic
collapse is another thing we talked about in the group. God clearly said,
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Ex. 20:3). He is God and He has a
right to occupy first place in our lives.
But, for far too long, Americans
and Globalists have made an idol or a god out of their money. Again and
again, the Jews set up worthless idols in Old Testament times and God always
destroyed them. Our economic problems are really a reminder that God has not
changed. He is still God. He doesn’t like to be ignored, replaced or
forgotten. Unless we change quickly, He is going to make our money a
worthless idol.
While I am on
the subject, I was discussing this with a female friend in the group. She
loves Bible prophecy and is a wonderful Sunday school teacher. She reminded
me that many worship the god of pleasure and society won’t do anything about
it. God may be about to take their money away so they can’t spend it on
adultery, pornography, abortions, alcohol, drugs and the like. That is
another sign of the end of the age. Paul said, “Men shall be lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God” (II Tim. 3:4). God is not against
pleasure. He even wants us to make Him our greatest pleasure. But He may
have to bring humankind to the point of not being able to afford some of
these wrongful pleasures. Having to choose between the necessities of life
and pleasure will be a reminder to us that He is still God.
While I was writing the
above paragraph, it occurred to me that many in the environmental movement
worship the god of nature. There is nothing wrong with nature. It was given
by God. But nature is not god. And this may be why nature seems to be
turning against us. We need to learn that nature can also be an enemy and
when we die nature won’t be able to do anything for us. But the Creator of
nature can. And He will if we have accepted His Son.
Eh . . . yes, life is
interesting and God is doing a lot of things. People need to be paying
attention. One way or another, we are going to learn that there is only one
God.
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Daymond & Rachel Duck
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