Posted on 06/26/2010 8:00:45 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
As we say done here in Alabama, that’ll preach.
Thank You
She'd about had it with Lot when they arrived at Sodom and Gomorrah and she found the men there were actually more interested in each other or other men ~ and certainly not her daughters.
Having failed in her task she and her family ran off into the wilderness where she was turned into stone, and her former husband ended up sleeping with the daughters.
That's roughly the story as told on pictoglyphs in the Kola Peninsula dated as nearly 7,500 years old.
I just added the names because we don't know the characters' names but we can pretty well guess what they were when we can see the same ancient play staged in the pages of the Bible.
No, that alternative reading that has Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed over questions of hospitality just doesn't fit the main line when you track Lot and his family. This particular tale is decidedly feminist in orientation ~ it's about a woman and her daughters, and the curse that destroys the family when she fails to get them suitible husbands.
Thanks Pastor Bill, I always love reading your articles.
People have discussed the Second Coming, Armageddon, Tribulation, whatever, and many believe it is coming.
So, what can one person do?
The Bible doesn’t set a ‘date’ for this ‘event’, instead it sets a ‘condition’. That condition is when there is more evil than good dominating mankind.
So, each person that can keep good in triumph over evil in their life, helps delay the onset of the event.
It is possible for us to delay it a very long time. It all depends on us.
I assure you, God has His timing just right, and there’s nothing we can do to “delay” Him. Besides, why do you cast His return & taking His flock to be with Him to be a bad thing?
Take care that you don’t sound like Peter when the Lord told him He would be taken, suffer, and die. Peter’s response was that this will not be. Do you recall the Lord’s response to Peter? “Get thee behind me, Satan.”
Rejoice - the day of His return draws near! It’s only a thing of dread for those who reject His free gift of salvation.
Food for thought, Amen.
It is amazing to me how much of this type of preaching I see these days. Granted, as you said, most of the church is in a fallen state, but if you look around you'll see people, like yourself, who are calling out to the unrighteous and warning them to repent before the end comes upon us.
Keep preaching brother, keep preaching!
May I have a link to the Kola Peninsula pictoglyphs you’ve mentioned?
The disasters of the old testament were cosmic. You'd have centuries worth of warning of anything like that particularly with the kinds of telescopes we have now, and there is nothing like that on the horizon for any future which is in any rational manner foreseeable.
Wendy - the point is not the particular natural disaster,or it’s predictability, the point is the ripening and universalism of human evil and corruption which will bring about the final judgment of this earth at the coming of Jesus, and whether or not you or I are personally ready to meet God.
Were Jesus Christ himself to return to Earth and present the whole history of the Earth and mankind and civilizations to everyone, exactly as it happened, I would bet 95% of mankind would not even listen or believe it.
The stories in the Bible are meant to teach us something about the nature of man. That many are just knockoffs of earlier stories from earlier civilizations does not diminish the message.
The problem is understanding the message. Which explains why the same messages are repeated throughout history, civilization after civilization, religion after religion.
If found the best example to be contained in the Bible where the Jews roamed the desert, lost. Actually, the ‘story’ was that they kept walking round the same mountain, over and over, never noticing it was the same.
It was the biggest thing within their view. How could they not notice?
Because they were stubborn. I don’t think the story was really about Jews, at all. It was likely a different ‘tribe’ of a different civilization from a time long past, long forgotten.
The message, though, is exactly the same. That is what is so important about the Bible. It is (by God’s wish?) a compendium of the lessons of Earth’s civilizations. It is there to help guide us spiritually and morally.
Yet, we walk around lost in the desert, wandering around the same darn mountain year after year, and wondering why things don’t change.
One must admit, the opinions expressed by God, Jesus, the authors of the Books of the Bible, concerning the nature of man are spot on.
P4L
I wasn't. It's that 'just prior to being whisked away to heaven' part that is the bad thing.
Do you recall the Lord’s response to Peter? “Get thee behind me, Satan.”
Yes. And that makes me curious. What do you think The Lord was saying to Satan, by that remark?
He was saying that to deny that the Christ would fulfill His purpose on earth (through death, burial, & ressurection) was a message from Satan.
Methuselah, even today remembered as the oldest man ever
Wouldn't that be Enoch, as he is still alive?
The Second Coming has come — if you have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Thanks. May I offer my interpretation?
I thought the message being given was that Peter was acting like Satan, who tried to put himself ‘in front of’ Jesus and God. I have the feeling that the terms ‘in front of’ and ‘behind me’ were just like the military command chain.
You don’t stand in front of the General, and you don’t tell him his orders are wrong.
Jesus was telling Peter he was acting just like Satan, and should follow God and Jesus instead of thinking he knew better and should decide what happens.
Maybe we are saying the same thing. I don’t understand how it would be a message from Satan, though.
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