As a child I was raised to believe in God.
I was taken to church every week.
I was taught to pray at meal times and before I went to sleep.
I don't know how old I was when we stopped going to church every week.
I don't know how old I was when my mom no longer told me to say my bedtime prayers.
I do know that when I was 19 years old or thereabout that an elderly great aunt visiting for a family reunion brought with her a whole suitcase filled with Christian literature. She gave my mother and father a new Bible and left her books and pamphlets about the house. At some point not long after she left to return to her home in another state, I picked up one of the books she left and began to read it. I was intrigued. I began to write to her (this was before email- very few people had computers and no one had a phone with email capabilities etc. in 1982).
Growing more and more intrigued by the things I was reading I wanted to go to the church my aunt went to when she visited. Not wanting to go alone, my sister, Debbie was nice enough to go with me.
As it happened the church was just beginning to give lectures on prophecy from the Bible when we began going there.
Bible prophecy? I'd never heard about Bible prophecy growing up. What I knew about prophecy at that point was a little about Nostradamus, a bit from fictionalize movies, and fictional novels. I never actually thought too much about the Bible's prophecies. The stories in the book of Daniel focused on the three in the fire and not burning, and Daniel himself in the lion's den and not being devoured. The book of Revelation was well known as prophetic and the fiction movies such as - The Omen, touched on bits and pieces of that Bible book, and many other mostly scary movies and books would take parts of the Bible and use it for sensationalism. I didn't know Biblical prophecy as having real, relevant meaning for me personally.
Intrigued to find out what these prophecy lectures would reveal my sister, Debbie and I decided to go to them.
The things we learned from our Bibles shocked us!
We'd grown up with Bibles. We had to memorize Bible verses for church school that we attended before the weekly church service. I knew what the Bible was. I grew up reading and being read to from Bible story books, and yet suddenly the Bible came to life in a way it never had before.
I was reading from the Bible and the fact that it was a book of prophecy from Genesis to Revelation just floored me.
I read a prophecy written hundreds of years prior to the fulfilment of that prophecy and it threw me for a loop. I would go home to my mother and father and tell them excitedly about what I was learning, wondering how I could never have known these truths before.
A whole new world was given to me.
The Bible had a prophetic outline that spanned from Creation all the way to the end of the world. Kingdoms, empires, countries… so many were predicted to be hundreds and hundreds of years prior to their existence! Did you know that Alexander the Great's rise to power is predicted in the Bible? Did you know the breaking up of the Roman Empire was a prophecy? Did you know the United States coming into being was predicted too? I didn't know any of this!
How could I not have been taught this before?! My sister and I were stunned as the truth was revealed to us. Our spiritual eyes were opened, our hearts touched by the Holy Spirit as the prophetic truths were revealed to us. That our Savior's birth, death, and resurrection were all prophetically outlined was amazing! So many believe in the Savior, but know so little about the prophetic truths He gave to us in His word.
Jesus even taught about the state of the world and people in the time prior to His return when he will bring the Kingdom of God to realization for those He came to save, for those He died for. Jesus taught prophecy, yet we weren't taught that as children or even teenagers growing up.
Do you know about the amazing prophecies in the Bible detailing the past, present, and future?
Heaven and earth are going to pass, it doesn't matter if you believe it or not, it will happen.
So incredibly many prophecies came to pass just as they were given, there is absolutely NOTHING to stop the rest of the prophecies from coming to pass, nothing!
Jesus' words, not mine. Heaven and earth passing.
Mat_5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, the element melting with fervent heat.
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
The DAY of the LORD is almost here - prophecy has been written and it will come to pass.
I'm not stupid, I'm not deluded, I have the brains to logically ascertain truth. Facts, not fiction- the Bible prophecies are FACT not FICTION.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
We are looking for a new heaven and a new earth!
We are awaiting the day of the LORD.
All by the grace and mercy of our Savior, Christ Jesus, now and forever may we be HIS and ready for HIM when HE RETURNS!
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