Month: October 2023

How God Guides

Problem

  • Understanding doctrine?
  • No sense of direction?
  • Relations with others?
  • Irreconcilable differences?
  • Customs, rituals?
  • Directions to take?
  • Major change?

Solution

  • Unanimous agreement
  • Persistent obedience
  • Responsible concern
  • Cordial separation
  • Important principles
  • Sense of Peace*
  • Vision or call**

*God will give you a Sense of Peace when you are on His path

**A Vision or call should be clear, otherwise you bloom where you’re are planted

Satan’s stratagem to thwart God’s plan

  • Adam and Eve -Genesis 3:3-6, 14-15; 1 Timothy 2:14-15
  • Cain’s murder of Abel -Genesis 4
  • Corruption of Adam’s line -Genesis 6
  • Abraham’s seed -Genesis 12, 20
  • Famine -Genesis 50
  • Destruction of male line -Exodus 1
  • Pharaoh’s pursuit -Exodus 14
  • The populating of Canaan -Genesis 15
  • Against David’s line -2 Samuel 7
    • Jehoram kills his brothers -2 Chronicles 21
    • Arabians slew all but Ahazariah -2 Chronicles 22:1
    • Athaliah kills all but Joash -2 Chronicles 22:10-11
    • Hezekiah assaulted, etc. -Isaiah 36, 38
    • Blood curse on Jeconiah -Jeremiah 22:30
      • – thus, the Virgin Birth
    • Haman’s attempts -Esther 3
  • Joseph’s fears: -Matthew 1
  • Herod’s attempts: -Matthew 2
  • Attempts at Nazareth: -Luke 4
  • Two storms on the Sea: -Mark 4; Luke 8
  • The Cross
  • Summary: -Revelation 12

…and he is still not through until he is thrown into the bottomless pit for the millennium (Revelation 20:1-3). Until then Satan will continue to attempt to remove all that come to recognize who Jesus was when He entered His creation on His first coming, and will then ask Him to return for His second coming (Hosea 5:15; Amos 9:11). After Jesus’ second coming the millennium will be Satan free until the end of the millennium when he will make another attempt to deceive humanity, but will lose and be sent to his eternity (Revelation 20:7-10)…

Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38-39: Order of Events?

  • 1) Israel regathered in the Land (Ezekiel 37:12; Isaiah 11:11-12; Deuteronomy 30:3-5).
  • 2) Ancient cities rebuilt and inhabited (Ezekiel 36:1-5, 8-10).
  • 3) They meet Muslim/“Arab” resistance (Jeremiah 49:16; Zephaniah 2:8; Ezekiel 25:12; 32:5; 36:2; Obadiah 1:10).
  • 4) Israel establishes an army for defense (Ezekiel 36:6-7; 38:8).
  • 5) Adjacent Muslim nations Confederate (Psalm 83:1-8).
  • 6) Confederacy committed to the destruction of Israel (Psalm 83:1-5, 12).
  • 7) War starts between Confederacy & Israel (Jeremiah 49:2, 8, 19).
  • 8) Title regained: “My people Israel” (Hosea 1:8-10; Romans 9:25-26; Ezekiel 36:8-12).
  • 9) Israel decisively defeats the Confederacy (Obadiah 1:9, 18; Ezekiel 25:13-14; Jeremiah 49:10,20,21, 23-26; Isaiah 11:12-14; 17:1; 19:16-17).
  • 10) Israel has become “an exceedingly great army” (Ezekiel 37:10; Jeremiah 49:21).
  • 11) Israel takes prisoners of war (Jeremiah 48:46-47; 49:3,6,11; Zephaniah 2:10-11).
  • 12) The Region is reshaped (Isa 17:1; Jeremiah 49:2, 10; Zephaniah 2:4).
  • 13) Israel expands its borders (Obadiah 1:19; Jeremiah 49:2; Isa 19:18-19).
  • 14) Israel “dwells securely” in the Land (Ezekiel 38:10-12).

Psalm 83 will be fulfilled when Israel’s immediate neighbors attempt to annihilate them. The ill-fated Magog Invasion attempt of Ezekiel 38-39 will then be ready where Israel’s outer neighbors will come for spoil, and God Himself intervenes on Israel’s behalf.