Sign-The Last Day Civilization

Bible Questions Answered:
“...is it just me, doesn't it seem that most people today, love evil...”

Bible Answer: 

The Apostle answers this question for a young pastor.
And just think, if conditions, and people were like this in Paul's day, what would he tell us 2,000 years later?

II Timothy 3:1-9 KJV
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

II Timothy 3:2 KJV
Lovers of their own selves
Covetous
Boasters
Proud
Blasphemers
Disobedient to parents
Unthankful
Unholy

II Timothy 3:3 KJV
Without natural affection
Trucebreakers
False accusers
Incontinent (Unable to restrain themselves/ no self-control.)
Fierce
Despisers of those who do good.

II Timothy 3:4 KJV
Triators
Heady (Impetuous and rash, domineering and overbearing.)
Highminded
Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

II Timothy 3:5 KJV
Having a form of Godliness, but denying the power there of.

II Timothy 3:6 KJV
People who are led away with various lusts.

II Timothy 3:7 KJV
Ever learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth.

II Timothy 3:8 KJV
People who turn away from the Truth.
Corrupt minds.
Reprobate (Morally corrupt, destined to eternal judgment.) concerning the faith.

II Timothy 3:9 KJV
Sin and sinners may be concealed today, but will one day be exposed!

Be sure to read the blog posting ...    Last Day Signs

Salvation Prayer

Christian Stand

Bible Questions Answered: 
“...pastor I can't believe that some people have come out against team players for using Christian gestures out on the field. And then when I heard about  it someone told me it was someone from a religious organization that had objected I could not believe it. What do you say?”
Ted/ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bible Answer:
Christians on the whole, are asleep, as our Saviour said they would be.
Matthew 25:5 KJV
While the Bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

Now is the time for Christians to shine as never before, and we can because, never before has our world been so spiritually dark.

Matthew 5:10-16 KJV
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Thank God, for every Christian, who will stand “UP,” and be counted! Whether it be on the baseball field, the workplace, down at the mall, or political rally!

In the United States, it use to be, that a Christian, could, in the work place, wear a cross on a chain around their neck. A Christian man, could wear a cross pin on his shirt.
That use to be, now if you try that you more than likely will be fired. And how is it in your country?
When Christians, hid in the closet, darkness over takes the land.

When was the last time you took your Bible to work with you, that good size Bible with the gilt edges?
And read from it on your lunch break? And carried it downtown, with you?
No, Sunday, going to church, does not count.

If you are a Christian, what is your answer? Your answer, reflects the  condition of the Christian church today.

Matthew 10:33 KJV
"... whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.

Mark 8:38 KJV
If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Luke 6:22,23 KJV
22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Romans 1:16 KJV
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

I Timothy 4:10 KJV
For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

II Timothy 2:12 KJV
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny Him, He also will deny us:

Hebrews 11:24-27 KJV
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

Hebrews 13:12-14 NLT
12 So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates to make His people holy by means of His own blood. 
13 So let us go out to Him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace He bore. 
14 For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.

I Peter 4:12-14,16 KJV
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of Glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified.
16 "...if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.

Christian, now is the time to stand.
Now is the time to encourage others to stand as well, and to thank others who are not afraid to be known as followers of Jesus Christ.

John 9:4 KJV (Jesus)
I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.


Salvation Prayer

Lamp-A Shiniing

Bible Questions Answered:
“..these are friends of ours, but though we've tried to witness to them, nothing seems to take hold.”
Sylvie/ Annecy, France

Bible Answer:

In the Holy Land, is the custom, whether rich or poor, at night to have a lamp burning.
A simple clay lamp, filled with olive oil, a wick of flax, and a house may be full of light.

Light to them spoke of the victory of life over death, goodness over evil. Darkness was as evil, and death.

There were only two occasions in which a house could be found dark. One, when someone had moved out of the house and it was empty, the other, when the resident was dead.

Job 18:5,6 KJV
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.


Proverbs 13:9 KJV
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.


John 8:12 KJV
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the Light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.

If after, having prayed and given the seed, the Word of God, there is no life, Jesus said...

Matthew 13:3-9 KJV
3 And He spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Joshua called his people to decide:

Joshua 24:2,14,15 NLT
2 Joshua said to the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says..."
14 “...fear the Lord and serve Him wholeheartedly. Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord alone. 
15 But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”

A house filled with the light of the Lord:


Psalm 18:28 KJV
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Psalm 27:1 KJV
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 34:5 KJV
They looked unto Him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Psalm 36:9 KJV
For with thee is the Fountain of Life: in thy light shall we see light.

Psalm 37:6 KJV
And He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Psalm 43:3 KJV
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Psalm 56:13 KJV
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Psalm 89:15 KJV
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

Psalm 97:11 KJV
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Psalm 112:4 KJV
Unto the upright there ariseth Light in the darkness: He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Psalm 119:105,130 KJV
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Proverbs 4:18 KJV
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 6:23 KJV
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Isaiah 2:5 KJV
"...come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Isaiah 5:20 KJV
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 8:20 KJV
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Isaiah 9:2 KJV
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great Light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the Light shined.

Isaiah 42:16 KJV
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Isaiah 60:1 KJV
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

Isaiah 60:19 KJV
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an Everlasting Light, and thy God thy Glory.

How is your house?
Is it full of light and life, or is it in blackness, and spiritual death?

I Kings 15:4,5 NLT
4 But for David’s sake, the Lord his God allowed his descendants to continue ruling, 
shining like a lamp..."
5 For David had done what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight and had obeyed the Lord’s commands throughout his life..."

Salvation Prayer

Enemy-Spiritual

Bible Questions Answered:

“...my friend has been involved for some time with a Luciferian group, she has asked me on several occasions to come to one of their meetings, just to see what kind of people they are.......”

Ersten/ Stuttgart, Germany

Bible Answer:

Who is Lucifer/ Satan:

(See the blog posting …..   Lucifer  

(It was Satan, who deceived Eve.)

Genesis 3:5,13 KJV

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled (deceived) me, and I did eat.

(Satan twists (wrests) scripture.)

Matthew 4:5-7 KJV

5 Then the devil took Him to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple,

6 and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say,

‘He will order his angels to protect you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’”

7 Jesus responded, “The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the Lord your God.’

(Satan, removes the Good Seed, the Word of God.)

Matthew 13:19 KJV

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

(Satan, sows Tares.)

Matthew 13:38,39 KJV

38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; (Tares represent, unbelievers, children of the devil.)

39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

(Satan is a deceiver.)

II Corinthians 2:11 NLT

So that Satan will not outsmart us. For we are familiar with his evil schemes.

II Corinthians 11:14 NLT

"... Satan disguises himself as an angel of light."

II Thessalonians 2:9 KJV

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

(Satan is our adversary.)

I Peter 5:8 KJV

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

(Satan's plan is to have his followers lead a life of "no" self control, filled with perversions)

Romans 1:24-27 NLT

24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies.

25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator Himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.

26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.

27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.

Galatians 5:19-21 NLT

19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures,

20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division,

21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

(Satan causes discord among brethren.)

Genesis 4:8-12 KJV (Cain and Abel.)

8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.

11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

I John 3:11,12 KJV

11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

(Satan, afflicts with disease.)

Job 1:12 KJV

And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

Job 2:7 KJV

So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

(Satan, blinds the minds of unbelievers.)

II Corinthians 4:3,4 KJV

3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the Image of God, should shine unto them.

(Satan, opposes the Saints.)

Zechariah 3:1 KJV

And He shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at His right hand to resist him.

Ephesians 6:12 KJV

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

(Satan is the defiler, of body and soul.)

Luke 9:42 KJV

And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.

Luke 13:16 KJV

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

(Satan causes jealousy, hatred and wars.)

Genesis 37:3,4 KJV

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.

4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

James 4:1-3 KJV

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

(Satan drives unrighteous man to greed.)

Matthew 26:14-16 KJV

14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,

15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver Him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.

I Timothy 6:10 KJV

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

(Satan causes suicide.)

I Samuel 31:4,5 NLT

4 Saul groaned to his armor bearer, “Take your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to run me through and taunt and torture me.” But his armor bearer was afraid and would not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

5 When his armor bearer realized that Saul was dead, he fell on his own sword and died beside the king.

Matthew 27:3-5 KJV

3 Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

(Satan leads men to do evil spiritual works.)

I Samuel 28:7 NLT

Saul then said to his advisers, “Find a woman who is a medium, so I can go and ask her what to do.”His advisers replied, “There is a medium at Endor.”

(Satan causes disobedience and Self-Will.)

I Samuel 12:15 KJV

But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against your fathers.

I Samuel 13:9-14 KJV

9 And (King) Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.

10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.

11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;

12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which He commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.

II Samuel 24:10 NLT

But after he had taken the census, David’s conscience began to bother him. And he said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly by taking this census. Please forgive my guilt, Lord, for doing this foolish thing.”

(Satan, causes men to worship false gods and their images.)

Exodus 20:3-5 KJV

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;

Leviticus 26:1 KJV

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.

(Satan causes men to swear and curse.)

Exodus 20:7 KJV

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.

Ephesians 4:29 KJV

"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth..."

(Satan causes breaking the Sabbath.)

Exodus 20:8-11 KJV

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lo rd thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Isaiah 58:13,14 KJV

13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

(Satan causes, disrespect of parents.)

Exodus 20:12 KJV

Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Matthew 15:4 KJV

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

(Satan causes men to Lie, and commit Murderer.)

Exodus 20:13 KJV

Thou shalt not kill.

John 8:44 KJV

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

I John 3:15 KJV

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

(Satan leads men to adultery.)

Exodus 20:14 KJV

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Matthew 5:27,28 KJV

27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

(Satan leads the unrighteous to steal.)

Exodus 20:15 KJV

Thou shalt not steal.

Ephesians 4:28 KJV

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

(Satan tempts men to lie, and bear false witness.)

Exodus 20:16 KJV

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Proverbs 19:9 KJV

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Revelation 21:8 NLT

“But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

(Satan cause unrighteous men to be covetous.)

Exodus 20:17 KJV

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

Luke 12:15 KJV

And He said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

As believers, we may be victorious over all the power of the enemy!

Ephesians 6:10-18 KJV

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.

11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

I John 4:4 KJV

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

Revelation 12:11 KJV

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Salvation Prayer

Bible Lesson: Miracles Of The Old Testament: The Rod Of Moses Changed Into A Serpent.

Bible Lesson: Miracles Of The Old Testament: The Rod Of Moses Changed Into A Serpent.

Occasion: The Revelation Of God's Power.

Location: Horeb.

Bible Text:
Exodus 3:14-20 KJV
14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is My name for ever, and this is My memorial unto all generations.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
20 And I will stretch out My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

Exodus 4:1-5 KJV
1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And He said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

At Moses experience of the burning bush, God called and instructed him.

Exodus 3:18 KJV ”...unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.”

Exodus 4:2-4 KJV
2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And He said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:


God gave Moses the power to preform three different signs, the first of which is discussed here.

Can God do the miraculous?

Genesis 18:14 KJV (The Lord's promise to 100 year old Abraham, that he would become a father.)
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah (90) shall have a son.

Matthew 19:26 KJV
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Luke 18:27 KJV
And He said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

Our God lives in the supernatural, what is considered supernatural by man, is only natural to Him.

But can our supernatural all powerful God, endue men with power?
Yes!
God told Moses.....

Exodus 4:2-4 KJV (Signs by the hands of Moses. First sign.)
2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And He said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:


This “sign,” was to show the Hebrews, that God, indeed had called and commissioned Moses, and to  reveal to Pharaoh, the power of the living God.

Today, we cannot help but be reminiscent of our Lord's call to His church.

Luke 16:15-18 KJV (The Great Commission. Signs by the hands of believers.)
15 And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; 
(Explanation:  Kept By The Power Of God  )
they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

John 14:12-14 KJV
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it.

Luke 24:49 KJV (Christ's promise of Pentecost.)
And, behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with Power from on high.

Acts 1:8 KJV
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Moses went before all of Isarael and showed them the power that God had intrusted to him and....

Exodus 4:29-31 NLT
29 Then Moses and Aaron returned to Egypt and called all the elders of Israel together. 
30 Aaron told them everything the Lord had told Moses, and Moses performed the miraculous signs as they watched. 
31 Then the people of Israel were convinced that the Lord had sent Moses and Aaron. When they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

The people of God, having seen the power of God, bowed their knees and worshiped!
But the Lord said of Pharaoh, his heart was only hardened, hardened against God.

Exodus 3:19 NLT
But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand forces him.

Unbelief and rebellion, was Pharaoh's answer.

And what dear child of God, of the signs and power of God in the midst of His people today?
There will always be the Pharaohs with their hardened hearts!
But thank God, there always will be a people, who will bow the knee and worship the living God, in thanksgiving!

Which one are you?

Matthew 11:1-6 KJV
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding His twelve disciples, He departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
3 And said unto Him, Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another?
4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:
5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in Me.

Matthew 17:20 KJV
And Jesus said unto them...If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Mark 9:23 KJV
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Luke 9:1,2 KJV
1  One day Jesus called together his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority to cast out all demons and to heal all diseases. 
2 Then He sent them out to tell everyone about the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

Luke 10:1,9,17-19  KJV
1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before His face into every city and place, whither He Himself would come.
9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
18 And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Explanation:  Kept By The Power Of God  )

The enemy before us today is greater than the Pharaoh of Egypt, and yet the victory belongs to the people of God!

II Corinthians 4:4 KJV
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the Light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

I John 4:4 KJV
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.

I Corinthians 15:57 KJV
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I John 5:4 KJV
For whatsoever is born of God over cometh the world: and this is the victory that over cometh the world, even our faith.

John 9:4 KJV
I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Salvation Prayer

Prayer Request For Christians In Kenya

Prayer Request for Christians in Kenya:

Please pray for Christians in Nairobi,Kenya, East Africa.

Sunday morning, militant Islamist group al-Shabaab (Ally to Al-Qaida), threw hand grenades inside two churches.  As Christian people ran out the church doors, for safety, the militants sprayed them with gunfire. Seventeen people dead, scores seriously injured, seven are in critical condition.

Local media showed dead bodies of believers under church pews.
Also on Sunday, two other militants threw hand grenades into a Roman Catholic Church in Garissa.

All these militant assailants have escaped.

Dear Christian, we must be in prayer, for our brothers and sisters around the world, that are under Satan's  attack.

Matthew 10:40-42 NLT
40 “Anyone who receives you receives Me, and anyone who receives Me receives the Father who sent Me. 
41 If you receive a prophet as one who speaks for God, you will be given the same reward as a prophet. And if you receive righteous people because of their righteousness, you will be given a reward like theirs. 
42 And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of My followers, you will surely be rewarded.”

If these things be true and of course they are, what a great reward will there be for those who take it upon themselves to intercede for suffering believers around this world. And their numbers are rising!

Revelation 12:12 KJV
"...Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Victory Ahead for God's people!

Romans 8:35-39 KJV
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

II Timothy 3:12,13 KJV
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Hebrews 13:3 KJV
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Revelation 12:11 KJV
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Revelation 2:10 KJV
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

II Thessalonians 1:3-12 NLT (Apostle Paul speaks to the suffering Thessalonian church.)
3 Dear brothers and sisters, we can’t help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing. 
4 We proudly tell God’s other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering. 
5 And God will use this persecution to show His justice and to make you worthy of His Kingdom, for which you are suffering. 
6 In His justice He will pay back those who persecute you.
7 And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with His mighty angels, 
8 in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus. 
9 They will be punished with eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from His glorious power. 
10 When He comes on that day, He will receive glory from His holy people—praise from all who believe. And this includes you, for you believed what we told you about Him.
11 So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of His call. May He give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. 
12 Then the name of our Lord Jesus will be honored because of the way you live, and you will be honored along with Him. This is all made possible because of the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Salvation Prayer

Empty, Swept, And In Order.

Bible Questions Answered:

“In Matthew 12 what is that purpose of the evil spirit story?”

Robel/ Adis Abeba, Ethiopia

Bible Answer:

Bible Text:

Matthew 12:43-45 NLT

43 “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none.

44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order.

45 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before.

That will be the experience of this evil generation.”

In this chapter the Pharisees had come against Jesus for His healings on the Sabbath.

Matthew 12:15,22 KJV

15...and He healed them all;

22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and He healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

The Purpose of our Lord's words, verses 43-45 are this.

He is comparing that state of an individual to the state of a nation, and both are the same.

The Man:

Matthew 12:43 KJV

“When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none.

Job 30:3 NLT

They are gaunt with hunger and flee to the deserts, to desolate and gloomy wastelands.

Leviticus 16:20-22 NLT

20 “When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place and the Tabernacle and the altar, he must present the live goat.

21 He will lay both of his hands on the goat’s head and confess over it all the wickedness, rebellion, and sins of the people of Israel. In this way, he will transfer the people’s sins to the head of the goat. Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness.

22 As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people’s sins upon itself into a desolate land.

Revelation 18:1,2 NLT

1 After all this I saw another angel come down from heaven with great authority, and the earth grew bright with his splendor.

2 He gave a mighty shout: “Babylon is fallen—that great city is fallen! She has become a home for demons. She is a hideout for every foul spirit, a hideout for every foul vulture and every foul and dreadful animal.

What is the desert?

A place of tremendous heat, an anhydrous land of death.

At every hand, remains of life that once was, now but bones, bleached by the sun.

A perfect picture of hell itself, and more than probably, place of the spirits origin.

First let it be known without doubt, such an entity, does not of its own accord, leave its safe haven willingly!

It must of necessity, be “cast out” by the power of God!

Once out, it seeks rest, but it finds none.

Isaiah 48:22 KJV

There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

Matthew 12:44 NLT

Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order.

God created humanity to be His chosen vessels. His temples, filled with His Spirit.

I Corinthians 3:16,17 NLT

16 Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

17 God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

I Corinthians 6:19,20 NLT

19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,

20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

II Corinthians 6:16 NLT

And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said:

“I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Ephesians 2:20-22 KJV

20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Corner Stone;

21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

I Peter 2:5 KJV

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

God's vessels were not created to be, empty!

Either the temple is filled with the glory of God, or by reason of it vacuous surroundings, its doors are open, to that which is not glorious, but dark and evil.

Matthew 12:45 NLT

Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before.

All, take warning!

These evil forces with which man must do combat, are “not,” stupid!

Young and old, be sure of its meaning.

Realizing that it might only be cast out once more, seeing how it had once, been already. It reasons within its tortured being, what must be done, so as to never to be cast forth again.

And in its evil wisdom, that comes from beneath, it ...”finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. “

Whereas the man was once possessed, now he is fully commandeered!

If only the man, while he was clean and empty had sought the things of God and filled his temple with the presence of the Almighty, his vessel would not have remained empty and begging, but full, full of the power and presence and glory of God, but alas, this he did not.

The Nation:

Matthew 12:45 NLT

“...And so that person is worse off than before.

That will be the experience of this evil generation.”

Our blessed Saviour had come to a people, steeped in tradition and rituals, not in a relationship to the living God.

John the Baptist, came and warned them, some repented and were baptized.
Jesus the very Son of God, came and brought the Word, and Power of God. He was a fountain of life.. Some believed, but many, many others refused to have Him. Even worse they claimed that the works that He did was by the power of Beelzebub.

Matthew 12:22-37 NLT

22 Then a demon-possessed man, who was blind and couldn’t speak, was brought to Jesus. He healed the man so that he could both speak and see.

23 The crowd was amazed and asked, “Could it be that Jesus is the Son of David, the Messiah?”

24 But when the Pharisees heard about the miracle, they said, “No wonder He can cast out demons. He gets His power from Satan, the prince of demons.”

25 Jesus knew their thoughts and replied, “Any kingdom divided by civil war is doomed. A town or family splintered by feuding will fall apart.

26 And if Satan is casting out Satan, he is divided and fighting against himself. His own kingdom will not survive.

27 And if I am empowered by Satan, what about your own exorcists? They cast out demons, too, so they will condemn you for what you have said.

28 But if I am casting out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has arrived among you.

29 For who is powerful enough to enter the house of a strong man like Satan and plunder his goods? Only someone even stronger—someone who could tie him up and then plunder his house.

30 “Anyone who isn’t with Me opposes Me, and anyone who isn’t working with Me is actually working against Me.

31 “So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy can be forgiven—except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven.

32 Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come.

33 “A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad.

34 You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.

35 A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart.

36 And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak.

37 The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.”

Now take warning!

Jesus stated, what is true of an individual, may be, just as true, for a nation!

Empty, swept, and in order, having heard the gospel, having seen great works of God, having seen time and time again the power of God. To neglect such, as to not give place or habitation to it, is to be a land of emptiness, inviting evil powers to reign instead.

Matthew 12:45 KJV

“...And so that person (that people) is worse off than before.”

Jesus warned, the Unpardonable Sin, is that of rejecting the call of His Holy Spirit.

Matthew 12:31,32 NLT

31 “So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy can be forgiven—except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven.

32 Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come.

Jeremiah 8:20 KJV

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Hosea 10:12 KJV

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow (Hard) ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and rain righteousness upon you.

If the warning is refused:

II Thessalonians 2:5-12 NLT

5 Don’t you remember that I told you about all this when I was with you?

6 And you know what is holding him back (Anti-Christ), for he can be revealed only when his time comes.

7 For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one (God the Holy Spirit) who is holding it back steps out of the way.

8 Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed, but the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by the splendor of his coming.

9 This man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles.

10 He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the Truth that would save them.

11 So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies.

12 Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the Truth.

Christ's words to the Jews and Pharisees:

Matthew 12:38-42 NLT

38 One day some teachers of religious law and Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we want you to show us a miraculous sign to prove your authority.”

39 But Jesus replied, “Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah.

40 For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

41 “The people of Nineveh will stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for they repented of their sins at the preaching of Jonah. Now someone greater than Jonah is here—but you refuse to repent.

42 The queen of Sheba will also stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for she came from a distant land to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Now someone greater than Solomon is here—but you refuse to listen.

Salvation Prayer

Fiery Furnace Of The Last Days

Bible Questions Answered:
“Pastor, several of us fellows here would like to know your take on what scripture portrays best the coming of the Lord for his people.”
Jerome/ London, United Kingdom

Bible Answer:
Although there are more than one, the best picture we have of the last days of the Church of Jesus Christ are found in the writings of Daniel.

Daniel 1:1-7 NLT
1 During the third year of King Jehoiakim’s reign in Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 
2 The Lord gave him victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah and permitted him to take some of the sacred objects from the Temple of God. So Nebuchadnezzar took them back to the land of Babylonia and placed them in the treasure-house of his god.
3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, his chief of staff, to bring to the palace some of the young men of Judah’s royal family and other noble families, who had been brought to Babylon as captives. 
4 “Select only strong, healthy, and good-looking young men,” he said. “Make sure they are well versed in every branch of learning, are gifted with knowledge and good judgment, and are suited to serve in the royal palace. Train these young men in the language and literature of Babylon.” 
5 The king assigned them a daily ration of food and wine from his own kitchens. They were to be trained for three years, and then they would enter the royal service.
6 Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were four of the young men chosen, all from the tribe of Judah. 
7 The chief of staff renamed them with these Babylonian names:
Daniel was called Belteshazzar.
Hananiah was called Shadrach.
Mishael was called Meshach.
Azariah was called Abednego.


Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah  found themselves as refugees in a foreign land. They looked different, their conduct was different, and they spoke differently than those around them. They longed for their homeland.

The Christian today, finds himself in a foreign land,

Hebrews 11:10,13-16 KJV (Abraham) Read the whole chapter.
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a city.

The land in which Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, found themselves was a land filled with idols, something they knew only too well, that angered the living God.

Exodus 20:3-6 KJV
(First Commandment)
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.


(Second Commandment)
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.

I John 2:15-17 KJV
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

I John 2:15-17 NLT
15 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 
16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. 
17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.

One day....
Daniel 3:1-7 NLT (Be sure to read the whole chapter.)
1 King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet tall and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. 
2 Then he sent messages to the high officers, officials, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the provincial officials to come to the dedication of the statue he had set up. 
3 So all these officials came and stood before the statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
4 Then a herald shouted out, “People of all races and nations and languages, listen to the king’s command! 
5 When you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and other musical instruments, bow to the ground to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s gold statue. 
6 Anyone who refuses to obey will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”
7 So at the sound of the musical instruments, all the people, whatever their race or nation or language, bowed to the ground and worshiped the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

One world government, one world leadership, and its leader demanded worship of his statue (image).
If one refused, one was to be thrown into a fiery furnace, and certain death. There was no place for dissenters in this kingdom!

Daniel 3:8-18 NLT
8 But some of the astrologers went to the king and informed on the Jews. 
9 They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “Long live the king! 
10 You issued a decree requiring all the people to bow down and worship the gold statue when they hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and other musical instruments. 
11 That decree also states that those who refuse to obey must be thrown into a blazing furnace. 
12 But there are some Jews—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—whom you have put in charge of the province of Babylon. They pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They refuse to serve your gods and do not worship the gold statue you have set up.”
13 Then Nebuchadnezzar flew into a rage and ordered that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought before him. When they were brought in, 
14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you refuse to serve my gods or to worship the gold statue I have set up? 
15 I will give you one more chance to bow down and worship the statue I have made when you hear the sound of the musical instruments. But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. 
And then what god will be able to rescue you from my power?”
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you. 
17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. 
He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty. 
18 But even if He doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.”

Where are the people of Christian faith, who in these last closing hours of time, will stand up to the evil king and to sin, and not be afraid?
Wherever they are, God,Himself will be with them!

Hebrews 13:5 KJV
"...for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

Matthew 18:20 KJV
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 28:20 NLT
"... I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Eight times in the third chapter of Daniel, the "fiery furnace" is mentioned.

Can there be any doubt for the people of God?
The days of judgment are at hand, and they will be “fiery days”.

Days of actual fire, from border to border, only God can tell.
But to be sure there are other fires already burning, burning to their greatest.
Raging Fires of....
Lust for power and authority, no not just of corrupt politicians, but within the church itself.
Lust for wealth, with the cloak of hypocrisy.
Lust for Physical pleasures, of every variety.

Hatred of authority.
Hatred of race, class or religious beliefs.
Hatred of God.
Etc. etc.

These fires are raging and will rage.
And what is the voice of God?


Isaiah 52:11 KJV
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.


II Corinthians 6:14-18 KJV
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, informed the king, they would “not,” bow to his statue, even if it meant going into the fiery furnace. They fully believed that God could save them, yet if He didn't still, they would never bow down.

And what was the result?

Daniel 3:19-23 NLT
19 Nebuchadnezzar was so furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face became distorted with rage. He commanded that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usual. 
20 Then he ordered some of the strongest men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace. 
21 So they tied them up and threw them into the furnace, fully dressed in their pants, turbans, robes, and other garments. 
22 And because the king, in his anger, had demanded such a hot fire in the furnace, the flames killed the soldiers as they threw the three men in. 
23 So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, securely tied, fell into the roaring flames.

I Peter 4:12-14 KJV
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of Glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, their wrists and legs bound by strong cords, were carried by the king's soldiers, to the fiery furnace. They would pay the price for irreligious rebellion.

Daniel 3:24,25 NLT
24 But suddenly, Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and exclaimed to his advisers, “Didn’t we tie up three men and throw them into the furnace?” “Yes, Your Majesty, we certainly did,” they replied.
25 “Look!” Nebuchadnezzar shouted. “I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed! And the fourth looks like a God!”

When will our precious Lord of Glory, come for His people?
When the fires are at their greatest, but come He will!

Luke 21:36 KJV
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.

I Thessalonians 1:9,10 CEV
9 Everyone is talking about how you welcomed us and how you turned away from idols to serve the true and living God. 
10 They also tell how you are waiting for His Son Jesus to come from heaven. God raised Him from death, and on the day of judgment Jesus will save us from God’s anger.

I Thessalonians 5:9,10 KJV
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

II Thessalonian 2:7 NLT
For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one (God the Holy Spirit) who is holding it back steps out of the way.

John 14:16 NLT (Wherever the church of God, there too the Holy Spirit.)
And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you (God the Holy Spirit).

II Timothy 4:18 KJV
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

II Peter 2:7-9 CEV (See Genesis 19:22 KJV)
7-8 Lot lived right and was greatly troubled by the terrible way those wicked people were living. He was a good man, and day after day he suffered because of the evil things he saw and heard. 
So the Lord rescued him. 
9 This shows that the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their sufferings and to punish evil people while they wait for the day of judgment.

Revelation 3:10 KJV (Christ's promise to the church at Philadelphia.)
Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Revelation 3:10 NLT
“Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world. 

Our Bright and Morning Star, will appear, amidst the flames of fire and protect His people!

Daniel 3:26-30 NLT
26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came as close as he could to the door of the flaming furnace and shouted: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!”
So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stepped out of the fire. 
27 Then the high officers, officials, governors, and advisers crowded around them and saw that the fire had not touched them. Not a hair on their heads was singed, and their clothing was not scorched. They didn’t even smell of smoke!
28 Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! He sent His Angel to rescue His servants who trusted in Him. They defied the king’s command and were willing to die rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. 
29 Therefore, I make this decree: If any people, whatever their race or nation or language, speak a word against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will be torn limb from limb, and their houses will be turned into heaps of rubble. There is no other god who can rescue like this!”
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to even higher positions in the province of Babylon.

Rescued: 
Romans 10:8-13 NLT
8 In fact, it says, “The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart.” And that message is the very message about faith that we preach: 
9 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 
10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. 
11 As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in Him will never be disgraced.” 
12 Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on Him. 
13 For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

The Most High God, knows how to deliver His people.

Job 5:19 KJV
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

Psalm 50:14,15 KJV
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto The Most High:
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.

Jeremiah 1:8,19 KJV
8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

Jeremiah 15:21 KJV
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

Jeremiah 39:17 KJV
But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.

Daniel 6:19-21 (King Darius)
19 Very early the next morning, the king got up and hurried out to the lions’ den. 
20 When he got there, he called out in anguish, “Daniel, servant of the living God! Was your God, whom you serve so faithfully, able to rescue you from the lions?”
21 Daniel answered, “Long live the king! 
22 My God sent His Angel to shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, for I have been found innocent in His sight. And I have not wronged you, Your Majesty.”
23 The king was overjoyed and ordered that Daniel be lifted from the den. Not a scratch was found on him, for he had trusted in his God.

Let the fires rage, for soon the fourth Man, will appear, come to save His own.

I Corinthians 15:51-58 NLT
51 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! 
52 It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed. 
53 For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.
54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
56 For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 
57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.

Luke 12:40 KJV
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Salvation Prayer