Careful The Maggots Are All Around US

"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows this he will also reap". (Gal. 6:7)  "For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart" (Heb. 4:12). 

Hey Gang:  We were privileged, a few years back, to sit under the teaching an excellent Bible Scholar.  As an educator, Pastor Richard was a scholar who spent his waking hours reading the words of man, "Always  learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Tim. 3:7). One day God taped him on the shoulder and said, "Now hear this, now hear this!  From this moment on you will read nothing by My Word!”      

For seven years that is precisely what he read.  No man-written books, no magazines, no newspapers, just the Word.  His example has rubbed off on me, especially in the last few years, for I find that the Word IS the living way, truth and life.  

 A quick trip through the prophecy section of the local Bible Book Store is absolutely amazing.  Just to read the titles requires an hour or more and most are based on the hidden things that God said, and they, the authors, have received a revelation that gives insight to that hidden truth.      

  

Now, I want to make a confession to you.  I spent a lot of money and a lot of hours in perusing many of these so called authorities in God's prophetic word and then one day I came across this verse that rang my bell– “When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it pre-sumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him” (Deuteronomy 18:22).  

 Our good friend, Jeremiah, also had a warning for those who would follow: "The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, then that prophet will be known as one whom the Lord has truly sent." (Jer. 28:9).

Good advice for this day and age, when Satan is on a rampage spreading ‘bad news’: remember that when Daniel wrote the most complete prophecy that has ever been written by man, God said, "lock it up until the latter times". 

Well, folks, I believe this is the latter times, not because of Hal Lindsay's book The Late Great Planet Earth, or multitudes of other such novels, but because Jesus laid it out in Mathew 24 where He gives his children  a panoramic picture of what the world will look like - just before He returns.

Soooo, young friends, are you willing to invest a little time to see what the Master Predictor of all that is to come has provided for you?  Then get alone and let the Lord of Glory tell you exactly like it is, and how it will be.  And, note in Matthew 24 the first warning that He gives is- "See to it that no one misleads you.  For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many" (v.4-5).   

Blessings, 

Gramps