BEEN ILL AND OUT OF COMISSISSION...

 Been out of sorts for a couple of weeks; the race is on between me rising breathless to meet the lord, and His blessed hope of His blessed hope of the Rapture.  Either way, I win.  Pray for my wife as well as she is worse off than I am.  MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND GOD BLESS YOU EVERY ONE!

FAITH: TRUST AND BELIEF!

TRUST IN THE LORD JESUS

AND YOU SHALL BE SAVED!

2 Kings 22:18, 30 - But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem . . . . Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

Psalm 4;5 - Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

Psalm 31:6 - I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Psalm 37:3 - Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Psalm 40:3 - And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Psalm 73:28 - But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare allThy works.

Psalm 115:10-11 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD:  He is their help and their shield.  Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: He is their help and their shield.

Psalm 115:10-11 - O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: He is their help and their shield.  Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: He is their help and their shield.

Psalm 118: 9-10 - But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

Psalm 125:1 - They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and He shall direct thy paths.

Proverb 28:25 -He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

Proverb 25;29 - The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

Isaiah 36:7, 15 - But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar. . . . Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

AND YE SHALL BE SAVED!

THE PROPER RESPONSE TO TIME!

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 

[1] To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
[2] A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
[3] A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
[4] A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
[5] A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
[6] A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
[7] A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
[8] A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
[9] What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
[10] I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
[11] He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

WHAT TIME IS IT?  WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS!

Luke 17:22-30

[22] And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
[23] And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
[24] For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
[25] But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
[26] And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
[27] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
[28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
[29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
[30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

SALVATION: D-O, OR D-O-N-E?

 SALVATION:  D-O, OR D-O-N-E?

"There is a wide difference between your religion and mine," said a Christian lady to one in whose spiritual condition she had long been interested. "Indeed," said he, "how is that?" "Your religion," she replied, "has only two letters in it, and mine has four."

It seems that this gentleman was one of that numerous class seeking to get to heaven by their doings, by attention to ordinances and ceremonies, by what the apostle, in the ninth of Hebrews, terms "dead works." But he did not understand about the "two letters" or the "four." His friend had often spoken to him, and on the occasion to which our anecdote refers she had called to take her leave of him for some time, as she was about to go from home.

"What do you mean," said he, "by two letters and four?"

"Why, your religion," said the lady, "is d-o DO; whereas mine is D-O-N-E." This was all that passed. The lady took her leave; but her words remained and did their work in the soul of her friend--a revolutionary work, verily. The entire current of his thoughts was changed. Do is one thing; done is quite another. The former is legalism; the latter is Christianity. It was a novel and very original mode of putting the gospel; but it was just the mode for a legalist, and the Spirit of God used it in the conversion of this gentleman. When he next met his friend, he said to her, "Well, I can now say with you that my religion is d-o-n-e, DONE.." He had learned to fling aside the deadly doings, and rest in the finished work of Christ. He was led to see that it was no longer what he could do for God, but what God had done for him.

This settled everything. The four golden letters shone under the gaze of his emancipated soul, "d-o-n-e." Precious letters! Precious word! Who can tell the relief to a burdened heart when it discovers that all is done? What joy to know that what I have been toiling for, it may be many a long year, was all done nearly 2000 years ago, on the cross! Christ has done all. He has put away sin; magnified the claims of divine justice; vanquished Satan; taken the sting from death and the victory from the grave; glorified God in the very scene in which He had been dishonored; brought in everlasting righteousness. All this is wrapped up in these four golden letters, "d-o-n-e." Oh, who would not give up the two for the four? Who would not exchange "do" for "done"?

Reader, what say you to this? What of your religion? Does it consist of two letters or four? Is it still "do" with you? or have you found your happy portion and rest in "done"? Do you think of it, dear friend--think deeply--think seriously--and may God's Spirit lead you, this moment, to cease from your own "do," and to rest in Christ's eternal "done." (by C.H.Mackintosh, 1820-1896)

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When the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross He cried out, "It is finished" (John 19:30). The work of our salvation was FINISHED, DONE, ACCOMPLISHED and COMPLETED. We simply need to trust and rest in what the Savior has accomplished. Salvation is not working; it is RESTING on the WORK of Another, even the Lord Jesus Christ: But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness (Romans 4:5). Religion is man trying to bring himself to God by human effort, by good works, by ritualism, by traditionalism, by sacraments, etc. Salvation is Christ bringing us to God on the basis of what He did for us on the cross: "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God" (1 Peter 3:18). God's holiness utterly condemns the best man ("As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one"--Romans 3:10) and God's grace freely justifies the worst ("For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"--Romans 3:23-24). The Gospel message brings to man not a work to do, but a word to believe about a work done: "But the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you" (1 Peter 1:25). We are saved, not because of what we have done, but because of the MERCY OF GOD based upon what Christ has done on the cross: "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" (Titus 3:5). A person can never be saved by his own good works: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9). Good works done by sinful man can never please a holy God. The greatest good work is GOD'S WORK accomplished by Jesus Christ who offered Himself on the cross as the sinner's Substitute. Thus we are not saved by good works but we are saved unto good works: "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10). "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13). Are you resting fully in the finished work of Christ? Are you trusting in Jesus Christ, WHO HE IS, WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR YOU and WHAT HE HAS SAID IN HIS WORD? "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else" (Isaiah 45:22).

THE RAPTURE: OUR BLESSED HOPE!

THE RAPTURE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST!

1 Corinthians 12:27 - Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Ephesians 4:10-12 - He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.  And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ....

CHRIST'S PROMISE TO HIS BODY!

John 14:1-3 - Let not your heart be troubled:  you believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father's house are many mansions:  if it 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 again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.  For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep.  For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:  and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Revelation 3:10 - Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

JESUS IS COMING FOR US SOON;

TRUST HIM TODAY AS YOUR

LORD AND SAVIOR!  HE IS TRUSTWORTHY!

THE TIME-LINE FOR THE BOOK OF REVELATION!

THE KEY TO THE TIME LINE

OF BOOK OF REVELATION!

Revelation 1:18 -20 - I AM He Who lives, and was dead; and, behold, I AM alive for evermore,  Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.  Write the things which you have seen (the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus), and the things which are (the time following His Ascension), and the things which shall be hereafter (the Rapture, Tribulation, the Second Coming, and the Kingdom Age);  the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches:  and the seven candlesticks which you saw are the seven churches. 

Note:  John's vision reveals that he was living during the Church Age, and had seen all seven of the periods represented by the individual churches.  The last of the seventh church period was to be described as an apostate church operating without Jesus.  Notice He is standing outside knocking to be invited in (Ch. 3:20).  It is the church period in which we live today.  Chapters Two and Three are focused upon the churches, and are not mentioned during the description of seven-year Tribulation (Ch. 6 - 18) nor during the Second Coming and the 1000 year Millennial Kingdom of the Lord (Ch, 19 -20).  That is why many students of Bible Prophecy see John being called to "come up hither" (Ch. 4:1) as a picture of the Rapture of the true Church (See Ch. 3:10).

TIME IS RUNNING OUT;

PUT YOUR FAITH IN JESUS;

LIKE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT,

HE HAS HAD ABOUT ENOUGH!

WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE BEFORE JESUS COMES!

 AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH!

Genesis 6:5-7 - And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.  And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;  for it repenteth Me that I have made them.

AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT!

Genesis 19:4-8 - But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.  And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,  And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.  Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.  

SO SHALL IT BE IN THE LAST DAYS!

Romans 1:21-32 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:  who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed forever.  Amen.  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:  and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

ACCEPT JESUS TODAY

BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

AN APOLOGY FOR MY ABSENCE FROM MY BLOG!

 First, I want to apologize for failing to keep up with my daily blog.  Life in a home with two old crippled up earthly bodies being helped by a 55 year old daughter with MS is never easy, but when you add in Mom falling of her bed, me loosing my balance and bleeding from hitting the door frame; refinancing my home and trading in two cars for as older one with far fewer miles; etc. etc. ect.; life is tough!  I cannot wait for the Lord to come collect His children in the Rapture, and let the crazies have their anarchy and lawlessness.  But most of all, I want to see the face of Jesus so that I can be like Him!

1 John 3:1-2 - Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons (children) of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not.  Beloved, now are we the sons (children) of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.

Just think about it:  no more sin; no more hate; no more fears; no more poverty; no more loneliness; no more cruelty; no more hunger or thirst; living is Spiritual glorified bodies!  Praising Him forever!  We will totally righteous and always pleasing to Him!  Glory to our Mighty God, His promotion from Prince of Peace to King of kings and Lyord of lords, and eternal Wonderful Counselor!  Come Lord Jesus so we can watch your Coronation!  Come for this world is not our home, and we want to come home!  I love you dear Savior and Lord!