Month: September 2022

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” Isaiah 26:3

This great memory verse, especially for those who have tendencies to worry a lot.

“Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.” Isaiah 26:19-21

This passage is good Old Testament reference of the first resurrection.

“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:  Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us” Isaiah 30:8-11

People want “smooth things” not the truth. Romans 16:17-18 says, much the same thing. ^“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” Amos 3:3

This is a great memory verse, yet one that is regularly ignored by young people charging into bad marriages, by Christians joining up with apostate churches, an with business people entering into bad partnerships.

“Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:” Amos 4:4

This verse offers a little glimpse into the character of God by showing us something that most Christians choose to ignore: God is sometimes sarcastic. Obviously, it isn’t God’s will for anyone to transgress, yet He invites them to do so in this verse.

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:” Amos 8:11

That’s the kind of famine that is sweeping America these days. This country has had its opportunity to receive the truth yet is has chosen to use its liberty to live in pleasure. So God is sending a spiritual famine where churches are more into building programs and entertainment than they are in the word of God. People have been so spoiled by this apostasy that write off all Bible believing churches as cults and avoid them like the plague.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Genesis 1:1

Notice how God’s first sentence involved declares that atheism, pantheism, fatalism, materialism and evolution are all dead wrong. It is taken for granted the God exists, that He is one God (opposed to “gods” or “the gods”), that He had a specific plan of creation that He is personally involved with His creation (read verses 1-31), that He created all matter, and that all of this happened suddenly, rather than evolving over billions of years.

“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2

What happened in Genesis 1:2 is further described in 2 Peter 3:5-6, “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:”

So the flood in 2 Peter 3:5-6, is not the flood of Noah but is the flood of Genesis 1:2. Note the “waters” in Genesis 1:2.

“Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.  He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set Jmy head.” Job 19:6-9

A picture of a man in Hell as is also Lamentations 3:1-8, “ I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.  Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.  He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.  He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.  He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.”

Job pictures:

1. The sufferings of Christ

2. The sufferings of a sinner in Hell.

3. The sufferings of the Jews in the Tribulation.