Month: April 2021

Unconditional Covenants

  • Abrahamic Covenant –
    • Genesis 12: 2-3
    • being challenged by the world today
  • The Land Covenant –
    • Genesis 12: 7; 13: 12-17; 15: 9-21; 35: 9-12
    • being challenged by Islam
  • The Davidic Covenant –
    • 2 Samuel 7: 11-16; 1 Chronicles 17: 11-14
    • being challenged by by the churches
  • The Everlasting Covenant (with Israel) –
    • Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Hosea 5: 15; Zechariah 13: 8-9
    • being claimed by the churches

The Cycle of Nations

“from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;
from dependence back again into bondage.”
— Alexander Tyler, 1750

Life Cycle of Democracies

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse…from the public treasury… the average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
Alexander Tyler

When Nations Die, by Jim Nelson Black

  • Social Decay
    • Crisis of Lawlessness
    • Loss of Economic Discipline
    • Rising Bureaucracy
  • Cultural Decay
    • Decline of Education
    • Weakening of Cultural Foundations
    • Loss of Respect for Traditional Values
  • Moral Decay
    • Rise of Immorality
    • Decay of Religious Belief
    • Devaluing of Human Life

The Only Exception

The Pagan Capital of the World —Nineva—was 40 days from “ground zero!” Jonah was the reluctant prophet. His message was, “40 days and you get yours!” The Greatest Miracle in the OT happened!

A Litmus Test

  • Has the church failed to tell you that you are a sinner?
  • Has the church failed to deal with you as a lost individual?
  • Has the church failed to offer you salvation in Jesus Christ alone?
  • Has your church failed to proclaim the horrible consequences of sin, the certainty of hell, and the fact that Jesus alone can save?

Four Basic Forces

  • Gravity: keeps our feet on the ground, the earth in its orbit, the galaxies in their places
  • Electromagnetic: radio waves, light, as well as the molecules of chemistry;
  • “Strong” Nuclear force: holds the atom together
  • “Weak Nuclear force”: radioactivity, the heat of the sun, etc.

The first two decrease in strength inversely with the square of the distance between two objects; The last two act only at very short ranges.

The nucleus of every atom is held together by what physicists call “weak”
and “strong” forces. The nucleus of the atom contains positively charged
and neutral particles—to use a simplistic model. Mutual electrostatic
repulsion between the positrons would drive the nucleus apart if it were
not for the “strong” nuclear force which binds the nucleus together.

Opposites attract and likes repel. Jesus is keeping the like charges in the nucleus of every atom from repelling each other. When He refrains a nuclear boom will result.

3 Days in the Bible

  • Jonah – Mt 12:40
  • Akedah – Gen 22; Heb 11:19
  • Noah’s New Beginning – Gen 8:4
  • Rahab’s cord – Josh 2:15-16
  • Tolah worm – Ps 22:6
  • And Many Others:
    • Gen 31:22; 34:25; 40:20; 42:18
    • Exo 19:11, 15, 16
    • Lev 7:17, 18; 19:6, 7
    • Numbers 7:24 19:12, 19; 29:20; 31:19
    • Jos 9:17
    • Jdg 20:30
    • 1Sa 20:5, 12; 31:1
    • 2Sa 1:2
    • 1Ki 3:18; 12:12
    • 2Ki 20:5, 8
    • 2Ch 10:12
    • Ezr 6:15
    • Est 5:1
    • Hos 6:2
  • Jesus’ predictions in the New Testament:
    • Matthew 16:21; 17:23; 20:19
    • Mark 9:31; 10:34
    • Luke 9:22; 13:32; 18:33; 24:7, 21, 46
  • Other New Testament References:
    • Mat 27:64
    • Joh 2:1
    • Act 10:40; 27:19
    • 1Co 15:4

Rahab’s Cord

Tolah Worm: Ps 22:6


But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. Psalm 22:6

Tolah also means “scarlet” (= “Crimson” 38x). Scarlet dye was made from a particular worm, Cermes vermilio. The Cermes vermilio pierces the thin bark of twigs to suck the sap, from which it prepares a waxy scale to protect its soft body. The red dye is in this scale.

When reproducing, the female climbs a tree (usually the holm oak), where it bears its eggs; the larvae hatch and feed on the body of the worm. It gives its life…a crimson spot is left on the branch; when the scarlet spot dries out, in three days, it changes to white as it flakes off…

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18