Sermon Beggs The Season of Return
Good morning, great to be here with you
Praise God we are able to gather here together and worship God in truth and spirit, in prayer, song, and message
Todays message will be a bit different.
We will briefly cover todays events and how they fit into scripture
So we will look at:
1. Current events
2. Commands of God
a. To know and obey His commands.
b. To know how to defend our beliefs with logic.
i. By offering information concerning bible passages that cannot be explained without the influence of a super intelligent being
ii. By offering information that confirms evidence that the bible is legitimately the truth by outside sources
c. To know and understand prophies, those fulfilled and those unfulfilled, and how they relate to one another.
i. By looking at prophesies that have been fulfilled and how they were fulfilled perfectly.
ii. How the fulfilled prophesies gives us faith in the unfulfilled prophesies
iii. The signs of the end times.
SERMON
Well, we have a new president, and he wasted no time with executive decisions that will most likely cause a crash of the already weak economy due to the covid-19 pandemic.
He has already decided it is okay for homosexual boys to compete in sports with girls.
I understand he has already or is about to re-establish the Obama law making it legal for a school boy to identify himself as a girl and use the girl’s locker rooms and restrooms in the schools, and that decision can be made on a daily basis, and in addition to that, it is or will soon be legal for men to use women’s public restrooms again whenever they choose.
And, as you know the democrat party stands against freedom of religion, even to the point of removing the rights we have to worship as we please using the covid-19 as their excuse.
Church buildings are setting empty all over the nation,
while protesters gather with great blessing from those same leaders.
Well, I bring all that up to make a point.
Daniel 2: 21 tells us God raises up leaders and removes leaders and 1 Peter 2:17 tells us we are to honor those leaders,
And I believe He raises up leaders to either bless a nation or curse a nation.
One of the possible reasons I see for Him raising up this evil in our nation,
to lead us, is to curse us.
Ezekiel 14:13-14
13 “Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it. 14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness,” says the Lord God.
We just had a leader who was attempting to lead America back to its original ideology of honoring God’s will.
I hope God did this so we could see more clearly the evil direction the left is wishing to lead the nation.
But I think it was to fulfill His prophecies of end-times… the return of our savior.
And we should be able to find comfort in that, but we need to know what evidence points to that.
There are three divisions in scripture which I believe all work together to help describe the end time events, and I will be sharing those with you today.
God tells us we are to obey his commands and in order to do that we must know what those commands are.
John 14: 15 if you love me keep my commandments
1 John 2:4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
THAT MEANS WE MUST STUDY THE SCRIPTURE IN ORDER TO KNOW THOSE COMMANDS
2 Timothy 2:15Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.
God tells us we are to be ready to defend his word and our faith at any time we’re asked
1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts set Christ apart [as holy—acknowledging Him, giving Him first place in your lives] as Lord. Always be ready to give a [logical] defense to anyone who asks you to account for the hope and confident assurance [elicited by faith] that is within you, yet [do it] with gentleness and respect.
this is where Christian apologetics comes in and we should have some basic knowledge of the reasons that we can trust the scripture to be the word of God
The inspired word of God
we can know these defenses by knowing and understanding the scientific facts stated in the scripture that could not have been known by mankind at the time it was presented.
I suggest everyone learn two or three of these facts so you can be able to defend the bible.
Read them, and choose your favorite examples, for that makes easier to remember.
there are two areas in which we should know
the science as I just stated and mathematics.
and I will give you a few scientific facts this morning to illustrate how we do know God has inspired the Bible by putting in these scientific facts.
And of course, they are my favorites
Now, evolution is the only other option to creation to account for our presence.
It is mathematically impossible, and I will give you an example of that by looking at population growth. But I will only give a very edited version of that.
I have two favorite facts from the Bible I like to share in regard to our Earth.
Bear in mind there over a hundred of such scientific facts stated, in regard to diet, health, geology, biology and any other ology you can think of.
Two of my favorites are.
Fountains & Mountains stated to exist in the bottom of the ocean in Gen 7:11, Job 16, & Jonah 2:6
Obviously when these were written, no man could explore the ocean floor, it is too deep, too dark, and the pressure is enormous.
It wasn’t until 1977 that science with the help of deep diving submarines built to withstand 6,000 pounds per square inch, were oceanographers able to study the ocean floor, and what do you think they found? Yep… mountains and fountains just as the bible said.
DNA referred to in Psalms `139:13 – 16
Psalm 139:13-16 Amplified Bible
13 For You formed my innermost parts;
You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was being formed in secret,
And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were appointed for me,
When as yet there was not one of them [even taking shape].
It wasn’t until 1953 That two scientists, Watkins and Crick discovered DNA, the building blocks of life, a code, which the bible told us about 3,000 years ago.
Let’s take a look at facts outside of the bible that confirm evolution is impossible,
What does mathematics tell us about mankind?
There are many ways to prove the impossibility of evolution mathematically.
However the following is my favorite, because I think it is the easiest to understand.
THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD
The population of the world, based upon the Berlin census reports of 1922, was found to be 1.8 billion.
The human race must double itself 30.75 times to make this numbers.
In other words, if we raise two to the thirtieth power, we have app 1 billion 73 million people; or to the thirty-first power, app 2 billion 147 million. Therefore, it is evident that to have the 1922 population of the globe, the net population must be doubled more than thirty times and less than thirty-one times. We find it to be 30.75 times. After all allowances are made for natural deaths, wars, catastrophes, and losses of all kinds, if humans would double its numbers 30.75 times, we would have the population of app 1.75 billion people around the globe in 1922.
Now, according to the chronology of Hales, based on the Septuagint text, 5077 years have elapsed since the flood, By dividing 5077 by 30.75, we find it requires an average of 165 years to double the population.
The basic premise of Science is to see or reproduce or observe the evidence of a matter before it becomes a theory or law. And this is what we have with population studies.
It is confirmed by the number of Jews, or descendants of Jacob. According to Hales, 3850 years have passed since the marriage of Jacob.
By the same method of calculation as above, the Jews, who, according to the Jewish yearbook for 1922, numbered app 15.4 million must have doubled their numbers app 23.9 times, or approximately once every 161years.
Also, the 25,000,000 descendants of Abraham must have doubled their numbers app every 162years, during the 3,988 years since the birth of his son Ishmael. These periods of doubling which tally so closely, app 165 years for the whole race, 161 for the Jews, and 162 years for the descendants of Ishmael, cannot be a mere coincidence, but are a demonstration against the great age of man required by evolution, the correspondence of these figures, 165 ,161 and 162 is so remarkable that it must bring the conviction to every serious student that the flood destroyed mankind and Noah became the head of the race.
Final observation, since 1922 the time used for this lesson, the population has risen to close to 8 billion people, more than tripling itself in app 90 years.
This is an indication that the population is now growing exponentially. According to Harvard social biologist Edward O. Wilson, the earth has a maximum carrying capacity of 9 to 10 billion people before we run short of fresh water, and resources to feed the people. f we continue at the current rate, we should hit maximum levels in 20 – 30 years. And, honestly… less than that… and what will happen? Total Chaos? We don’t have the answers do we.
However, we can see how this is a huge indication that we are in the last days.
Prophesies
this section and also part of it which confirms the last section offers us these evidences…
Because the fulfilled predictions have been fulfilled perfectly, and that the lions share of these predictions have been fulfilled, leaving just a few end-time events, we can find faith in these last day predictions to be just as accurate as those already fulfilled.
to begin with there are approximately 2500 prophecies in other words predictions of future events in the Bible that have already been fulfilled.
Approximately 2,500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible, which already have been fulfilled to the letter—no errors.
And, I think most commentators are saying they have all been fulfilled except a few end times events which are in place to be fulfilled.
this accomplishes two things first again it supports the fact that the Bible had to be inspired by a higher knowledge.
Secondly the prophecies which were fulfilled were filled so perfectly that it gives us confidence that the few remaining prophecies will also be fulfilled perfectly.
the unfulfilled prophecies are included because we are to be watchers.
we cannot know the end or the last day and hour no one knows that but God however we are commanded to know the seasons and I want to give you some examples of how we can know that we are now in the season of the return of Christ.
Daniel 12:4 states that there will be increased knowledge and people be running to and fro .
Psalms 83 list a group of nations that will come against Israel.
Many think this was fulfilled before Christ was born but it could not have been because it’s not until today that all these nations are ready, in union, to attack Israel as a group.
the other fact is that the Bible tells us when they attacked Israel, they will all be destroyed they’ll be left desolate and that has not happened to any of these nations and in history there’s only been 2 or three of these nations that may have attacked Israel at the same time … that brings us to modern day prophecy.
That gives us a pattern that when things are fulfilled they may be fulfilled individually but then in the last days as a group.
For instance in Matthew 24 it tells us there will be earthquakes, pestilences, famines wars and rumors of wars and these have all happened at various times throughout history but it is only today that they’re all happening at once
So, there is a pattern emerging,
Prophesies from both the old testament and New Testament declaring certain events must be occurring at the same time when the end comes, and we are seeing that today.
In the prison system we have studied Apologetics from every angle
Now we are going to be studying prophesies, and especially end time prophesies, from every angle
And I will probably be sharing that information with you in sermon form as it develops.
So, to recap
We must know Gods word.
We must know how to defend God’s word logically.
We must have a solid understanding of prophesies.
We must become watchers.
Matthew 24:32-33 Amplified Bible
Parable of the Fig Tree
32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its young shoots become tender and it puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near; 33 so you, too, when you see all [a]these things [taking place], know for certain that He is near, right [b]at the door.
And, again, what are these things? Those things listed above when they are all coming together at the same time.
And like John the Baptist… a voice crying out in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord.
We must warn the people.
Now let us close in our typical fashion with Numbers 6: 24 – 26
24 “The Lord bless you and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you;
26 The Lord [a]lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” ’
I pray as we leave here today, you will keep watch, and warn whoever you can, we are in the season of the end.
Thank you for your time and the lesson is yours.
