JESUS CAME A SECOND TIME, HE IS NOT COMING AGAIN!

Hello all!

Plain and simple and so easy to understand is the following article by Don Preston.  It is so very important that anyone searching for the Truth consider looking at what the Bible tells us about the timing of the Second Coming of Christ.  Most churches are teaching a falsehood by preaching the end of the world and Jesus coming back in the future.  Once one understands the timing of His second Coming the WHOLE of the Bible will take on a clarity that is beyond anything being preached today.  The scales will fall from one’s eyes!

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Can God Tell Time?

by Don K. Preston

https://www.preteristarchive.com/Hyper/2001_preston_god-tell-time.html

A Look At the Evidence

1.) Matthew 10:23–Jesus said he would return in the lifetime of his disciples.

2.) Matthew 16:27-28–Jesus said he would return with his angels to judge all men before every one standing there died. Please read it!

3.) Matthew 24:29-34–Jesus said he would return in the clouds with his angels–in that generation!

4.) Acts 3:19ff–Peter said Jesus would return when all the Old Covenant prophets were fulfilled. If the Old Prophets have not been fulfilled the Old Covenant is still in effect, Matthew 5:17-18.

5.) Romans 13:12–Paul said “the day is at hand.”

6.) Romans 16:20–Paul said God “will bruise Satan under your feet shortly.”

7.) I Corinthians 1:4-8–Paul said the Corinthians would have the miraculous gifts until “the end,” the Day of the Lord.

8.) I Corinthians 7:28-31–Paul said “the fashion of this world is passing away,” and “the time is short.”

9.) I Corinthians 15:51f–Paul said not all of them then living would die before the resurrection.

10.) Philippians 3:20-4:5–Paul spoke of the resurrection at Christ’s coming and said “The Lord is at hand.”

11.) I Timothy 6:14–Paul told Timothy to live faithfully “until the appearing of our Lord.”

12.) Hebrews 9:28; 10:37–The writer said Christ would appear a second time for salvation and then asserted “in a very, very little while he that will come will come, and will not tarry.” Isn’t it sad that man says Christ HAS DELAYED, in spite of what this verse says? WHAT DOES INSPIRATION MEAN? DID THE WRITER LIE? WAS HE MISTAKEN?

13.) James 5:7-9–James urged his readers to be faithful “until the coming of the Lord;” he says “The coming of the Lord is at hand:” and “The judge is standing right at the door.”

14.) I Peter 4:5,7,17–Peter said Jesus was then “ready to judge the living and the dead;” “the end of all things is at hand;” and “the time is come for the judgment to begin at the house of God.”

15.) I John 2:15-18–John said the world was passing away and “it is the last hour.”

16.) Revelation–this book says no less than ten times that its predictions “must shortly come to pass,” were “at hand,” were to happen “quickly,” there would be “no more delay,” etc, etc.

Reader, these are not by ANY means all the verses that either directly stated Christ’s return was at hand or indirectly taught it as true. What will you do with these verses in God’s inspired word? Do you realize there is not one verse that uses language of imminence about the coming of the kingdom that is as strong as some of the language about the coming of the Lord? See Hebrews 10:37. Christ never said “in a very, very little while the kingdom will come” BUT THE INSPIRED WRITERS SAID IT ABOUT THE COMING OF JESUS! If, as the amillennialist correctly insists, we must acknowledge the strong language of imminence in regard to the coming of the kingdom, must we not acknowledge the even stronger language that is used in reference to the coming of the Lord? If not, why not?

Yes, But

Someone will respond to the above by saying “Wait, now, Christ has not returned because earth and time continue. Every man did not see him come back, therefore he did not come back.”

The problem here is one of preconceived ideas. The prevailing idea about Christ’s return says he will come back bodily, on an actual cloud, with real angels. Time will end as the physical earth is burned up, and every nation and all the dead are raised out of physical graves to stand before Christ and be judged.

Obviously, from a physical perspective all this has not happened. But is it just possible that this concept of the Day of the Lord is wrong? If you have agreed with our investigation about God’s use of time words you are forced to rethink your concept about the nature of the Day of the Lord; or else call the inspiration of scripture into question! Which will it be?

The Day of The Lord

Space forbids a full discussion of the nature of the Day of the Lord. May we recommend you obtain a copy of our other works listed in the cover of this tract. Briefly however, we will give a brief definition of “the coming of the Lord.”

Just as the restoration of the kingdom of Israel was a spiritual, not a physical restoration, Acts 1:6; 2:29ff; 3:19ff; 15:14ff, etc; the return of Christ was a spiritual, not a physical, event as well.

In the Old Covenant the Coming of the Lord was when Jehovah acted by “instrumental means” to judge a nation or people. The language used to describe the event sounds like the end of creation; but was only the end of the “world” under consideration. God was said to ride a cloud into Egypt in judgment. He did not bodily ride a cloud into Egypt; the Assyrians destroyed Egypt. But since God used the Assyrians he was said to come with the clouds, Isaiah 19-20.

God predicted Edom’s destruction at the hands of the Babylonians, Isaiah 34, in what sounds like the end of material creation. Earth was to burn and melt, the stars would fall. This did not happen literally of course. Edom was destroyed, Malachi 1:2-3. It was the Day of the Lord. God acted, therefore he came.

In Psalms 18 David described in graphic detail how God had delivered him from his enemies. He said God descended on the clouds, the earth was shaken, all creation was moved. This did not literally happen but is highly symbolic language to describe God’s actions. The technical term for this language is “apocalyptic language.”

Apocalyptic language was never intended to be taken literally and leads to direct contradictions when literalized. When Jesus promised to return with the clouds and angels he was using standard apocalyptic language to describe the time when he would put a full end to the Old World of Judaism. When Peter, II Peter 3, described the Day of the Lord when “heaven and earth” would perish he was using Old Covenant apocalyptic language to predict the very same day Jesus spoke of. This was when Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD.

In 70 AD Jesus destroyed the Old World of Judaism that had stood for over 1500 years. The temple was the only place on earth where sacrifices could be offered; and only genealogically confirmed Levites could offer those sacrifices. National Israel had been God’s chosen people to bring Messiah and his word. That purpose was now accomplished and Israel had rejected her own Messiah and kingdom. Concurrently, God was establishing a New Covenant and a New People. When that New Covenant was fully delivered and confirmed, and when the Old Covenant people had fully rejected it, Christ came in judgment. He took that Old Nation out of the way. When Jerusalem was destroyed Jesus’ claims were fully vindicated by the fulfillment of all prophecy, Luke 21:22. He was “seen” to be true when his predictions came to pass. He was revealed to be at the right hand of power on high when his prediction of Jerusalem’s fall came to pass. This was the coming of the Lord. In short, Jesus never predicted to bodily return to this earth.

This extremely simplified explanation will hopefully cause you to want to study more. You may not be familiar with these ideas but we hope we have piqued your curiosity.

This one fact remains. Jesus promised to return in the generation of his disciples. Language could not be clearer. We have demonstrated above that when God used time words he meant what the words suggest. “At hand” means “at hand;” a “long time” means a “long time.” This being true one must acknowledge 1.) Jesus lied, 2.) he failed, 3.) He was mistaken, 4.) or he came! The Bible is either inspired or it is not–I believe it is inspired. I believe Jesus also did not lie, fail, or make a mistake. This is why I have changed my mind about the nature of the coming of the Lord.

God truly can tell time; he can read a calendar. In the clearest language possible he predicted the time, not the day or hour, but the generation of Christ’s return. That was the first century generation. The only way to maintain a belief in the inspiration of the scriptures and Jesus is to be willing to believe he kept his words; this means a change in your beliefs about the nature of the coming. Are you willing to change?

What do YOU think ?

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Wonderful!  I  hope you are seeking and doing so to find out for yourself!

JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!!

 

RELIGION IS “ANTICHRIST” : Always has been and still is!!

RELIGION IS “ANTICHRIST”

( Always has been and still is!!)

Hello all!

 

 

I am so excited about writing this article because it came to me out of the blue and seems to be the perfect follow up to my last article. Having written so much about how Truth verses Religion and taken it to so many different corners of the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, this just hits home in my heart! Even more than that Jesus plainly tells us what “antichrist” is by the way He chastises the religious Pharisees, Sadducee and Scribes of His time. As we look at the WOES of the Pharisees, and Christ’s warning to them, from Matthew chapter 23, it will be plain to see how much He hated what the religious leaders of His day did with the Truth.

Yet, before we get there, I would first like to take a look at the very word “antichrist”, and how it is used in the Bible. First of all, the word “antichrist” is only mentioned 5 times in four verses of two books of the whole Bible in 1John and 2John. Three times in 1John and once in 2John and it is never capitalized as being a particular person or government. It is an adjective not a noun or proper noun! If the Apostle John was the only Bible writer to use the word antichrist; we must look to John, not Paul or Revelation to tell us its meaning. If we study the writing of Apostle John carefully, we will learn what antichrist is, not who is THE antichrist.

Let’s look at those verses:

1Jo 2:18
“Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.”

John explicitly tells his audience that they are in the “last days”…he says it twice! So, just think about that for a moment…has it been the “last days” for the past 2000 years!? Futurists totally ignore these end time references that are all throughout the New Testament…but that is another article.
Note that John did not say that “the’ antichrist” shall come!

1Jo 2:22
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

1Jo 4:3
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

John is telling the followers of Christ that there are already antichrists in the world during the first century. The Jewish leaders were a great example of these antichrists along with pagan Rome. Both were and are systems of religious practice, the Jews lost in the Old Covenant laws, and the Roman Empire lost in pagan worship of the Sun and Moon etc.

2Jo 1:7
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Already many false prophets and deceivers were in the world of first century Jerusalem. Greatest among them are the Pharisees and Sadducees and Scribes that did not believe that Jesus was God in the flesh. Note: John says that these are deceivers and “an antichrist”. He never once says the words “the antichrist” or is the word ever capitalized!

The word “antichrist” is best defined as an ADJECTIVE, it is describing anyone who did not believe in the Truth that God as Christ came in the flesh. Adding the word “The” to antichrist changes the word to a NOUN that signifies a person. There are many today even as it was in John’s day that is filled with the spirit of antichrist.

Jesus and John among others warned the sheep of those who preached not the Gospel of the Kingdom. They came in some other way and their intent was and is to lead the sheep astray. The Apostle John said, those who were antichrist were against Christ.

Christ Himself said that those who were not for Him were against Him and would be scattered. An antichrist is anyone that is against the Truth of Christ, and anyone who denies that He would fulfill His purpose completely by bringing the New Covenant and destroying the Old.

(Mat 12:30
He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.)

How Jesus Addresses the “antichrists” (the Jewish Religious Leaders) of His Day

When it comes to the Jewish religion not much has changed in the past 2000 years. Everything listed in the verses below are still happening within the religious communities of these people and within the Christian communities that deny that Christ came a second time, in Spirit, in 70 AD. They deny that Jesus fulfilled all that He came to do and that there is still something man needs to do to enter the Kingdom of God. This is such a grievous error.

These religious leaders still lay heavy burdens of dogmas and rituals on the shoulders of their followers without lifting a finger themselves.

Mat 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Jesus is the Source of all!

Hello all!

Long time since I wrote last.  Many things have been happening with me that needed to be addressed before I begin this new adventure of writing my first book.  There are some areas of my life that I needed to take the log out of my own eye before beginning to attempt to take the splinter out of others eyes in the form of walking my talk and and letting the Source fill and empty me.

I am so excited to have found all the outside puzzle pieces of this greatest mystery of all time.  I have the Big Picture and now I begin the journey to fill in the fine lines.  I know what has helped me most is knowing the difference between Truth and religion and how that plays out throughout the Bible and the History of man.  Jesus truly is All and Everything!  He is in every puzzle piece just as He is in every book of the Bible. I will be learning as I am writing and that is the best part of all.

Yet before I pick up where I left off in my series entitled “Jesus is All and Everything”, I found a poem, among the many I have written over the years, that reminded me of what I was learning in 1987…over 30 years ago, that still rings so true to this day.

THE SOURCE

Not to be earned, nor made up
this awesome gift from the divine.
With my heavenly host I’m beginning to sup
On truth and love sublime.

So caught up in only me
I didn’t understand the facade,
until the shock of loss, gracefully, set me free
to feel Your light dear God.

I pray to have the power,
to be happy in place and time, yet,
without You in my life every hour
I wither on the Vine;

Low! I am a sinner!
But why sin twice
with guilt self-pity and remorse?
When the joy I can live
is the best I can give
returning it to the Source.

I had no idea that fear
was at the root of all desire.
Yet, I cannot compare my meager conception
to the grace that you transpire.

Through the maze of self-deceit
I tried to control my direction,
until I found laying burdens at Your feet
the only perfection.

As You remind what life deems
without Your love light coming through,
I pray to become the empty cup
that you fill up with the wine of love and truth.

Low! I am a sinner!
But why sin twice
with guilt self-pity and remorse?
When the joy I can live
is the best I can give
returning it to the Source.

 
Patricia Currey

12/1986

Jesus is All and everything!!!

Patti C.

JESUS IS THE TREE OF LIFE

#1 on my list of 77 in my series “Jesus is All and Everything”

JESUS IS THE TREE OF LIFE

Hello all!

This is the very first article in my “Jesus is All and Everything” series. I am going to share my position on this subject and what I have gathered from my research and Bible studies. There actually is some very good articles out there, written by very learned believers, and I encourage you to search the web on this subject so you can continue to find out for yourself.

I believe that the Bible is a completed work. There is nothing more to be added or taken away and all has been fulfilled. I guess it could be compared to a novel or even a fairy tale, in the sense it has a beginning and an end. Not to be trite about “the Greatest Story ever told”, but to show how there is a “once upon a time” and a “happily ever after”.

The book of Genesis is the “once upon a time” that begins in the Garden of Eden. And the Book of Revelation is the “happily ever after” where all mankind shall partake of the Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life in Genesis (Once Upon a Time…)

Gen 2:9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 2:16
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Gen 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
No matter what futurists may say it is obvious that when God created the Tree of Life he intended for mankind to eat from this tree. Adam and Eve definitely had access to it before the Fall. The Tree of Life was in the center of the Garden as a main sustainer of Life and if Adam and Eve did not sin they would have eaten from this tree daily and lived forever.

Tree of Life = Truth (Christ)
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil = Religion (Self)

Tree of Life leads to eternal life through Christ.
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil leads to death.

Tree of Life = oneness with God. There is no “self” apart from God
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil leads to knowledge of a “self” (ego) apart from God, wanting to be their own “god”.

The first man Adam was barred from this tree after he sinned against God.

(Genesis 3:22-24)

“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

Upon eating the forbidden fruit, Adam was cursed with toil until he returned to the dust of the earth, then driven from the garden and prohibited from partaking of the Tree of Life.

This prohibiting Adam from eating from the Tree of Life prevented him from trying to live forever, and an act of mercy from God keeping Adam from living forever physically (not spiritually) under the curse.

The Tree of Life is also associated with a very unique river a river that not only waters the Garden of the Lord but it was the source of four other rivers. This unique river is the source of “the Water of Life” flowing to all corners of the earth as mentioned Psalms 46:4 and Eze 47:12.

Psalms 46:4
“There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.”

Ezek 47:12
“And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.”

We see this association continue in the New Testament in John 4:10-11, 7:38.

Jhn 4:10
“Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.”

Jhn 4:11
“The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?”

Jhn 7:38
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

 

The Tree of Life in Revelation (Happily Ever After…)

We read in the Book of Genesis how Paradise is lost and man barred from the Tree of Life. In the Book of Revelation we read where Paradise is restored with a “new heaven and a new earth” with the Tree of Life in the midst of the New Jerusalem.

Rev 2:7
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”

Rev 22:2
“In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”

Rev 22:14
“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

What an amazing story and the most amazing thing is that it is NOT a fairy tale it is the Truth! Jesus is the Tree of Life that heals the nations and we who believe in Him out of us will flow His river of “living water”.

In closing I would just like to mention how important it is to see the Word of God (the Bible) as a completed work. Once one researches enough and sees how uncomplicated it really is to understand, their eyes are opened and all the symbolism of the Word falls into place. To be honest, I cannot ever imagine going back to believing that there is any future story to be told. The Greatest Story Ever Told has been told!

The Joy I feel in knowing (without a shadow of a doubt) that what Jesus did is a “done deal”, and that God’s plan succeeded so totally and perfectly, supersedes the 40 years of wondering on a desert trail. The trail through denominations and the traditions of men, wondering lost down so many paths in search of the Truth. It was all worth it and I am so full of love of Him that I cannot stop myself from writing about what He has taught me. It is really a marvel to FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF!

God is perfect and His timing is perfect and…

JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!

Patti C.

“MAN MADE THE BIBLE SCARY”

 

“MAN MADE THE BIBLE SCARY”

( A poem)

Man made the Truth complicated,
God would never do a thing like that!
Humans wanted to change their history
by making it a mystery
no one could understand.
That is just the opposite
of what God had planned.

The “created” decided
to create a Creator,
of their own choice,
so they could hear the shouts of men
above God’s still small voice.

Man made the Bible scary,
full of darkness across the land,
making a child of God leery,
least they get buried in the sand.
The sand of ritual and dogma,
shutting out all the Light.

So that those who live in His Kingdom
must learn how to fight.

Fight the good fight with glory,
Fight the good fight with love.
With their hearts ever knowing
all their strength and glory
comes from above.

From the King of all creation,
from the Prince of peace,
everyone that shall know Him,
shall find a wonderful release.
Release from the prisons,
release from the pains,
ever overcoming
by giving Christ the reigns.

P. Currey

5/22/18

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The choice is always one of fear or love…and we make those kinds of choices everyday. It does seem that the world around us operates more on fear than love, and that most seem more fascinated with eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil than eating of the Tree of Life.

I wrote this poem only a few days ago and wanted to put it on before I started my “Jesus is All and Everything” series of articles to show another aspect of how the Truth verses religion. And also because my first article will be about Jesus being the Tree of Life.

May He have His arms around you!

JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!

Patti C.

 

JESUS IN EVERY BOOK OF THE BIBLE

JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!

                                          (His Presence in Every Book of the Bible)

Hello all!

It is about time that I own up to my tag line of JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING, and prove that He truly IS! I have compiled a list of Jesus through the Bible, starting in Genesis and ending in Revelation. I was amazed when I first started this list, and I looked up other lists on the internet and kept adding and adding to mine. I had a few that no one else included in their list, and by the time I added them all together the final number is 77. Wow! What a perfect number!

I am posting the entire list here with the Bible quotes to go with them. I will then start at number 1 and go more in-depth on each one in what will be about 77 posts. This is something I have been wanting to do for a long time, so I am excited to get started.

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JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!

(OLD TESTAMENT)

Number 1: Tree of Life (Genesis 2:9 and 2:16) my addition

Number 2: Seed of Woman (Genesis 3:15)

Number 3: Melchizedek (Genesis 14:18) my addition

Number 4: Passover Lamb (Exodus 12:21)

Number 5: High Priest (Leviticus 21:10)

Number 6: Great Prophet (Deuteronomy 18:15)

Number 7: Captain of the Lord’s Host (Joshua 15:5)

Number 8: All the Judges (Judges)

Number 9: Boaz the kinsman Redeemer (Ruth 4:14)

Number 10: The King being enthroned (2 Samuel)

Number 11: King of Kings (Daniel 2:37)

Number 12: Lord of Our Fathers (Ezra 7:27)

Number 13: the Redeemer (Job 19:25)

Number 14: Intercessor between God and Man (Esther)

Number 15: The Shepherd (Psalms 80:1)

Number 16: Chief Cornerstone (Psalms 118:22)

Number 17: Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14)

Number 18: Wonderful Counselor (Isaiah 9:6)

Number 19: Mighty God (Isaiah 9:6)

Number 20: Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6)

Number 21: Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6)

Number 22: Mighty One (Isaiah 60:16)

Number 23: Man of Sorrows ( Isaiah 53:3)

Number 24: Blessed Hope (Titus 2:13)

Number 25: Judge of all nations (Joel 3:12)

Number 26: King of an Eternal Kingdom (Daniel 7:14)

Number 27: Sacrifice for All Sin (Jonah) 3 days in the earth

Number 28: King of Israel (Zephaniah 3:15)

Number 29: Servant of God (Zechariah 3:8)

Number 30: The BRANCH ( Zechariah 6:12)

Number 31: Sun of Righteousness (Malachi 4:2)

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JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!

( NEW TESTAMENT )

Number 32: Authority (Matt. 28:18)

Number 33: Beloved Son of God (Matt. 3:17)

Number 34: Bridegroom (Matt. 9:15)

Number 35: Prophet (Mark 6:4)

Number 36: Savior (Luke 2:11)

Number 37: Son of Man (Luke 19:10 )

Number 38: Son of the Most High (Luke 1:32)

Number 39: Good Shepherd (John 8:58)

Number 40: I AM (John 8:58)

Number 41: Lamb of God (John 1:29)

Number 42: Light of the World (John 8:12)

Number 43: Messiah (John 1:41)

Number 44: One Who Sets Free (John 8:36)

Number 45: The Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25)

Number 46: The Door (John 10:9)

Number 47: The Way (John 14:6)

Number 48: The Word (John 1:1)

Number 49: True Vine (John 15:1)

Number 50: Truth (John 8:32)

Number 51: Advocate (1John 2:1)

Number 52: Bread of Life (John 6:35)

Number 53: Sacrifice for Our Sins (John 4:10)

Number 54: Holy Servant (Acts 4:29-30)

Number 55: Judge (Acts 10:42)

Number 56: Head of the Church (Eph. 1:22)

Number 57: Peace (Eph. 2:14)

Number 58: Indescribable Gift (2 Cor. 9:15)

Number 59: Risen Lord (1 Cor.15:3-4)

Number 60: Rock (1 Cor. 10:4)

Number 61: Supreme Creator Over All (1 Cor. 1:16-17)

Number 62: Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5)

Number 63: Our Hope (1 Tim 1:1)

Number 64: Deliverer (1 Thess. 1:10)

Number 65: Lord of All ( Phil. 2:9-11)

Number 66: Great High Priest (Heb. 4:14)

Number 67: Author and Perfecter of Our Faith (Heb. 12:2)

Number 69: Almighty One (Rev. 1:8)

Number 70: Victorious One (Rev. 3:21)

Number 71: Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Rev. 5:5)

Number 72: Faithful and True (Rev. 19:11)

Number 73: King of Kings (Rev. 17:14)

Number 74: Alpha and Omega (Rev. 22:13)

My additions

Number 75: The Life

Number 76: The 3rd Temple

Number 77: The Sabbath

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Quite amazing isn’t it!? It is such a thrill to research and present this after proclaiming it for so long. I hope you are as amazed as I am when you realize how much the Lord truly is the WORD!

JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!

Patti C.

 

JESUS: Son of God, Son of Man, Sun of Righteousness

JESUS: Son of God, Son of Man, Sun of Righteousness

“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.” (Isaiah 60:1)

Hello all!

We all know that Jesus is the Son of God and the Son of Man, but less known is how He is the “Sun of Righteousness”. I wrote a poem a few months ago that reminded me of how much a life needs to revolve around this “Sun of Righteousness” and be filled with His light. I call the poem “Let Me Be Your Satellite” and will include it here. Yet, before I do, I would like to take a few moments and look at what the Bible tells us about this “Sun” and include some excepts from an article by Charles Spurgeon on this issue.

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Bible passages:

Mal 4:2

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”

2Sa 23:4

“And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.”

Luke 1:78 -79

“Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

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Now, to perhaps the most important and telling verses from Psalms that Charles Spurgeon expound on in his article about the Sun of Righteous and Psalms 19:4-6.

http://www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/1020.htm

“The Sun of Righteousness”

November 12th, 1871
by
C. H. SPURGEON
(1834-1892)

“In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.”—Psalm 19:4-6.

“The Sun of righteousness.”—Malachi 4:2.

We should feel quite justified in applying the language of the 19th Psalm to our Lord Jesus Christ from the simple fact that he is so frequently compared to the sun; and especially in the passage which we have given you as our second text, wherein he is called “the Sun of Righteousness.”

But we have a higher justification for such a reading of the passage, for it will be in your memories that, in the 10th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul, slightly altering the words of this psalm, applies them to the gospel and the preachers thereof. “Have they not heard?” said he, “Yea, verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.” So that what was here spoken of the sun by David, is referred by Paul to the gospel, which is the light streaming from Jesus Christ, “the Sun of Righteousness.”

We can never err if we allow the New Testament to interpret the Old: comparing spiritual things with spiritual is a good mental and spiritual exercise for us; and I feel, therefore, that we shall not be guilty of straining the text at all when we take the language of David in relation to the sun, and use it in reference to our Lord Jesus Christ.

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I was very inspired by thinking of Jesus as the Sun of Righteousness and realized that the best I could ever be would be to revolve around Him and absorb His Light. And, it would always be His light shining forth through me as without Him I would have no light at all. I named my poem “Let Me Be Your Satellite” because that is what I want to be. After looking more into the word “satellite” and it’s origin and meaning, I found it to be just the metaphor I was looking for.

Here are a few insights into the word “satellite”.

http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi-bin/student?satellite

satellite (n.)

1540s, “follower or attendant of a superior person,” from Middle French satellite (14c.), from Latin satellitem (nominative satelles) “attendant, companion, courtier, accomplice, assistant,”

Meaning “planet that revolves about a larger one”

1 : a follower resembling a slave

Although it is now closely connected with the modern world of space exploration, satellite is actually a very old word. Its origin can be traced to the Latin word satelles, meaning “one who escorts or follows after an important person.” This is also the original meaning of satellite in English.

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There cannot be a more important Person to follow after than Lord Jesus. I want to be a satellite that revolves around this Sun of Righteous. As always, anything good about me is God.

 

LET ME BE YOUR SATELLITE

(A poem to Jesus)

Let me be Your satellite
absorbing all Your light,
as the dark cosmos unfurls
let me be the one who whirls
and turns around
Your brilliant Sun.

Let me be Your satellite
surrounded by You in the night,
reflecting the warmth of Your glow.
Following beside You
I am never alone,
as You give Spirit
to my flesh and bone.

Let me be Your satellite
blinking colors toward the earth,
as a mid-wife at a new birth.
In the shadow of your wings
comforted always
by the joy that brings.

Let me be Your satellite
don’t desert me out in space,
for surely I would disappear
without a trace.
But, hold me in Your sphere,
staying so near,
that Your light will shine
upon my face.

P.C. Nelson

2/18/18

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All Glory to the Sun of Righteous!! Just another reminder to myself that…

JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!!

Patti C.

 

THE NEW COVENANT: GOD’S CALL TO LOVE

THE NEW COVENANT: GOD’S CALL TO LOVE

Hello all,

The Old Covenant of Law keeping passed away when Christ came and died for all mankind. There was no longer any work that man could do to earn his way into the Kingdom of God, as Jesus fulfilled all the Law and the prophecies about His coming and bringing in the Kingdom.

The New Covenant imparts holiness and acceptance before God based on our faith in what we have heard, namely that Jesus is the Son of God who has become both Lord and Savior. One’s status before God is not built or torn down according to their ability to keep any part of the law.

When we put our faith in Jesus and not our law keeping effort, we are born again. Life starts a new.

I have another poem I wrote during a time of suffering in my life that I would like to share here. I was able to find a couple readings from Oswald Chamber’s book “My Utmost for His Highest” that pertain to this subject and I will include excerpts, from both, in this article, one before my poem and one after.

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Have You Ever Been Carried Away For Him?

By Oswald Chambers

February 21

(She hath wrought a good work on Me. — Mark 14:6)

If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all.
Have I ever been carried away to do something for God not because it was my duty, nor because it was useful, nor because there was anything in it at all beyond the fact that I love Him?

There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him the abandoned tokens of how genuinely we do love Him. Abandon to God is of more value than personal holiness. Personal holiness focuses the eye on our own whiteness; we are greatly concerned about the way we walk and talk and look, fearful lest we offend Him.

Perfect love casts out all that when once we are abandoned to God. We have to get rid of this notion – “Am I of any use?” and make up our minds that we are not, and we may be near the truth. It is never a question of being of use, but of being of value to God Himself. When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

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(poem)

His Call to Love

We are each God’s canvas
on which He paints everyday,
ever mindful of what we hold on to
let go of, or give away.

For each shall find recourse
in all His loving ways,
for all that is ever reached for
can be ours this very day.

He looks to see if we can see,
that all He gives is not earned
but free.
And all He takes is but our sin,
so tomorrow we can again begin.
His blessing wondrous
in that they come disguised
as trouble and sorrow
beneath darkened skies.

Always showing us, in His great love
that He sacrificed all from above
by giving us His only Son,
no debt of man could ever repay,
To save for all eternity
the souls of all who obey
His call to love.

P.C. Nelson
3/13/03

May we all have ears to hear!

 

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You Won’t Reach It On Tiptoe

By Oswald Chambers

May 11

(Add…to your brotherliness…love. — 2 Peter 1:5, 7)

“The Holy Spirit reveals that God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

“Now,” He says to me, “show the same love to others” — “Love as I have loved you.” “I will bring any number of people about you whom you cannot respect, and you must exhibit My love to them as I have exhibited it to you.” You won’t reach it on tiptoe. Some of us have tried to, but we were soon tired.

The Lord “suffereth long….” Let me look within and see His dealings with me. The knowledge that God has loved me to the uttermost, to the end of all my sin and meanness* and selfishness and wrong, will send me forth into the world to love in the same way.

God’s love to me is inexhaustible, and I must love others from the bedrock of God’s love to me.”

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JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!!

Patti C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE LEAVING AND RETURNING TO PARADISE

LEAVING AND RETURNING TO PARADISE

“Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”
(Mar 10:15)

Hello all,

I have a couple more poems that the Lord gave me during a time of suffering that I would like to share here. What was amazing to me was how much I learned about the Lord and myself and how once I saw the end-product of my suffering, I was glad to have gone through it. The poem I am sharing today is about the loss of innocence in childhood, and how one regains that childlike innocence when they mature as a follower of Christ.

I had the most ideal childhood. I was born on a 400 acre farm in upstate Ohio and it was such a blessing. There were all manner of animals and wonders of nature to experience everyday. There were forests, cornfields and old barns to explore and everyday was an adventure. I remember feeling so close to the Lord, I called Him “Papa” and He was always with me as my best friend and companion. Somehow I thought all children felt this way, and that they have a direct relationship with the Lord without knowing anything about the Bible or religion.

For me there was a leaving of this innocence when I started to go to church, and seeing all the hypocrisy of the members and not feeling close to the Lord anymore, as if I had somehow lost Him. When I was “born again” at age 26, I was immediately transported back to those days as a child, and I could feel the Lord’s presence all the time! I realize what Jesus said about becoming as a little child to enter the Kingdom of God.

And now, that it is 40 years later, finally knowing the difference between the Truth and religion, and knowing that that Jesus (God) did all He promised to do and the Bible is a completed work, has totally set me free from seeking and searching and awaiting the final “coming” of the Lord and the end of the world. It just isn’t so…it is a DONE DEAL. We all have access to the Kingdom of God, NOW, once we have found out the difference between Truth and religion.

This morning I was reading Oswald Chamber’s daily readings from his “Utmost for My Highest” and the reading for today, April 29th, reminded me of the poem I had written entitled “Backward Bent”. So, first I would like to include an except from that reading as he is so on target and so very eloquent in his presentation.

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Gracious Uncertainty  April 29 “My Utmost for His Highest”

By Oswald Chambers

…it has not yet been revealed what we shall be… —1 John 3:2

…Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life– gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. This is generally expressed with a sigh of sadness, but it should be an expression of breathless expectation.

We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises. When we become simply a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies. That is not believing God– it is only believing our belief about Him. Jesus said, “…unless you…become as little children…” (Matthew 18:3).

The spiritual life is the life of a child. We are not uncertain of God, just uncertain of what He is going to do next. If our certainty is only in our beliefs, we develop a sense of self-righteousness, become overly critical, and are limited by the view that our beliefs are complete and settled. But when we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy. Jesus said, “…believe also in Me” (John 14:1), not, “Believe certain things about Me”. Leave everything to Him and it will be gloriously and graciously uncertain how He will come in– but you can be certain that He will come. Remain faithful to Him.

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Poem:

“Backward bent”

When did I lose you Lord?
In a grassy field chasing a mouse?
Or when I saw my Home as just a house?
That childhood vision I couldn’t crowd out,
became but an echo when I heard my own shout.

I remember back that far, catching fireflies in a jar.
Seeing Your face in the violets that grew,
and everyday was something new.
How terribly sad that we should fall
from the graceful blessing of hearing Your call
to the lonely wretched state of being so small.

Oft it seems life is backward bent.
We have it all then it goes away,
only to find it is something we can’t invent,
nor, make to stay.

Yet, if we had no taste of You
to remember when away we flew,
how would we ever long to know
the songs of Heaven toward which we go.

Yes, the leaving seems such a defeat,
a long lonely journey on a one-way street,
leading to the returning that will make us complete.
In all the ways I’ve lost you Lord, and gone astray from Thee,
if I but listen with a child’s heart
I’ll know You never lost me.

P.C. Nelson

3/28/03

 

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Find out for yourself! The Truth will set you free!

JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!!

Patti C.

DON’T STAND IN THE WAY OF WHAT THE LORD IS DOING IN ANOTHER PERSON’S LIFE!

DON’T STAND IN THE WAY OF WHAT THE LORD IS DOING IN ANOTHER PERSON’S LIFE

4/26/18

Hello all!

I love reading the daily readings from Oswald Chambers book “My Utmost For His Highest”, it is the first thing I do everyday. Sometimes I just pick it up and open it and read whatever page it falls open to…just an added lesson for the morning. This morning it fell open on August 10th and the reading reminded me of a poem I wrote at a time in my life when I was really suffering. From my suffering, I learned to look at how the Lord uses suffering to teach us and reach us, and how we should not try to stop it in another person’s life unless He tells us to do so, as we may be interfering with what He wants them to learn.

This was an important lesson for me, and one I think that all, who love the Lord, need to be reminded of once in awhile. Sometimes we take service for God as our calling, when in actuality we can only serve Him when He does it through us, it is service with Him that is the only true service.

Here is an excerpt from the reading and it is followed by my poem.

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The Holy Suffering of the Saint

By Oswald Chambers

August 10

Let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good… —1 Peter 4:19

“Choosing to suffer means that there must be something wrong with you, but choosing God’s will— even if it means you will suffer— is something very different. No normal, healthy saint ever chooses suffering; he simply chooses God’s will, just as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. And no saint should ever dare to interfere with the lesson of suffering being taught in another saint’s life.”

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THROUGH THE CLOUDS

Don’t stand in the way of what the Lord is doing
in another person’s life.
He is showing His face, as sun through the clouds,
bringing His grace through the turmoil and strife.

If we could see the world as the opposite of Heaven
reflecting the glory at the end of the trail,
we would understand that without the suffering
the reason for our lives would fail.

Don’t stand in the way of a suffering brother,
don’t try to carry his cross up the narrow path,
for suffering is the gift that each is given,
And each must pick up the cross he hath.

Don’t stand in the way of what the Lord is doing
in another person’s life.
Yet, be there to remind them of where they are headed,
cheer them as upward they walk.

We are all lost sheep climbing the same mountain
as we wander back into His flock.

P.C. Nelson

4/11/03

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JESUS IS ALL AND EVERYTHING!!!

Patti C.