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YES!!!

It was populated by HUMANOID beings, which rebelled against God, along with satan.

They all perished in the FIRST flood (Genesis 1:1-2; 2 Peter 3:5-6), which took place PRIOR TO Noah's (which was the SECOND and FINAL flood).

Those beings' disembodied SPIRITS are called "demons" in the Bible.

As a result of their rebellion, the earth was DEVASTATED.

Hence, in Genesis chapter 1, as God is about to RE-CREATE the destroyed earth, we find the earth was in a chaotic state: without form, empty, desolate, COVERED IN DARKNESS, and ENGULFED IN WATER (Genesis 1:1-2).

Since God is NOT the author of chaos, the earth COULDN'T HAVE BEEN that way originally, when He first created it.

It BECAME that way because of their sin.

Humanoid beings rebelled and, after giving them ample time to repent, which they DID NOT do, God sent severe judgments. ALL of them perished in the FIRST flood.

Then God "came" to earth in the form of Adam, a spiritual and physical copy of Himself, made JUST A LITTLE BELOW God (Psalm 8:5).

Adam's original mandate was to establish God's Kingdom on that renovated earth "HAVE DOMINION OVER the whole earth, subdue it" (Genesis 1:28).

The same thing will happen to earth, ONCE AGAIN, during the coming tribulation, Second Coming and Millennium.

The biggest differences are:

1) This time God sends Last Adam (Jesus) to establish His Kingdom.

And those who TRUST Jesus will be EVACUATED BEFORE He judges the earth with tribulation for the SECOND time.

Was there "Rapture" for SOME of those pre-Adamic, humanoid beings that, PERHAPS, stayed loyal to Jesus?

Were they resettled in some other realm until the earth "situation" is fully resolved?

Maybe: I don't have Scripture at the moment to prove it, but it's something interesting to ponder.

2) Jesus WON'T FAIL in His mission to establish His Kingdom on earth, as Adam failed.

3. This time God won't destroy the earth and its rebellious inhabitants with water, by sending a flood, but by fire (2 Peter 3:5-7).

God made a covenant with Noah and the animals in the ark that He would never again destroy the earth with water (Genesis 9:11).

And He ALWAYS keeps His Word.

If we read Revelation chapters 8, 9 and 16, we realize that, as Ecclesiastes 1:9 says "what HAS BEEN (already) is WHAT WILL BE":

Tribulation judgments will, once again, leave the earth in a chaotic state: devastated, desolate, most of its population destroyed, COVERED IN DARKNESS, and DEVOID OF WATER.

Nothing remotely like this has ever before been experienced BY HUMANS.

Non-humans HAVE been through VERY SIMILAR judgments before.

We find clear evidence of this in Matthew 24:21:

"For then shall be great tribulation, SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THIS TIME, NO, NOR EVER SHALL BE".

Nothing like this has happened SINCE "the beginning of the world" which is when satan's rebellion, and the rebellion of those other beings on earth, took place (Genesis 1:1-2).

God will judge PERSISTENT, NON-REPENTANT human rebellion JUST LIKE he judged their rebellion.

This is why God's Word must be studied and SCRUTINIZED IN DETAIL.

This is why it must be MEDITATED "DAY AND NIGHT" (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:2).

This is why we must always seek the Holy Spirit's PRICELESS guidance and revelation.

"Seek and YOU WILL FIND":

God's holy Word is AMAZINGLY accurate.

The WEALTH of information is contains is truly astonishing.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2016

 

ARTIFICIAL "LOVE"

There is NOTHING sadder, more pitiful and HYPOCRITICAL than "Christians" TRYING to MANUFACTURE "love".

I repeat: There is NOTHING sadder, more pitiful and HYPOCRITICAL that "Christians" TRYING to MANUFACTURE "love".

We see it during religious services each Saturday or Sunday:

Christians SPEAKING and ACTING in nice, religiously proper fashion, PRETENDING to be "loving", AS IF they knew the Love of God...

They talk and act AS RELIGION HAS TOLD THEM that God's Love IS SUPPOSED TO act.

RELIGION wouldn't KNOW God's Love if HE were to slap it in the face and spit in its BLIND EYES.

We've also seen and heard THOSE SAME Christians, when they TAKE OFF THEIR RELIGIOUS MASK and they SPEAK and ACT AS THEY REALLY ARE:

And it ISN'T pretty.

That's when the pettiness, jealousy, insecurity, competition, SELFISHNESS, CARNALITY, and LACK OF GENUINE Love manifests.

Human love comes to most of us NATURALLY.

God's Love comes to us SUPERNATURALLY.

God's Love is A GIFT of God's Grace.

God's Love is THE FRUIT OF the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5; Galatians 5:22).

All we can do is RECEIVE Him.

Then YIELD TO HIM and TRUST Him to MANIFEST HIS LOVE in and through us.

You CAN'T get "it" ANY OTHER WAY.

You CAN'T MANUFACTURE God's Love.

We CAN'T just CONJURE IT UP at will.

In fact those who PRETEND to have God's Love are usually THE LEAST loving.

What they're really DOING, by PRETENDING to love, is MANIFESTING THEIR GIGANTIC, CARNAL EGOS:

They are saying: "I'M MORE LOVING THAN YOU THEREFORE I'M A BETTER CHRISTIAN THAN YOU".

"I got the love of God, and YOU DON'T".

THAT'S to what it actually boils down.

Divine Love ISN'T ALWAYS "nice":

God IS Love and He wasn't always nice in the Old Testament. And JESUS, the Manifestation of God's Love, called THE RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITES OF HIS DAY "morons", "blind guides", "snakes", and "children of hell" (Matthew 23: 23--33)

He also KNOCKED THEIR TABLES OVER and THREW the money changers OUT of the temple (John 2:14-15).

One of the reasons that UNBELIEVERS are TURNED OFF by Christianism is that THEY CAN SPOT A FAKE - A MILE AWAY.

The world is dying and going to hell FOR LACK OF GENUINE LOVE.

ALL THEY SEE are Christians PRETENDING to love, then competing with each other, stabbing each other in the back, then showing their true colors as GREEDY WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, ONLY INTERESTED IN MONEY.

We have ALL failed miserably in manifesting the Love of God to a lost, dying and decaying world.

May God help us to DROP THE RELIGIOUS MASK, and BE GENUINE for His glory.

 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2016

SAVE YOURSELF

God provided Salvation for man's sin, through the Sacrifice of His Son, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Revelation 13:8).

He provided Redemption BEFORE the universe existed, BEFORE the earth existed, BEFORE humans existed, BEFORE sin was even committed, and BEFORE you were even BORN.

That's HOW SECURE His Plan of Salvation is.

God IS God.

God IS ALL-MIGHTY.

He planned THE END since THE BEGINNING (Isaiah 46:10; Revelation 21:6).

And His Plan is PERFECT, COMPLETE and lacks NOTHING.

And yet there are MILLIONS around the world who PROFESS to believe in God, WHO SAY they are "Christian", and yet DO NOT TRUST GOD to provide them ETERNAL Salvation.

They DO NOT TRUST that the Sacrifice of God's Son IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE THEM.

They deem God's ETERNAL Plan of Redemption FLAWED and INSUFFICIENT.

If they DIDN'T, they wouldn't TRY TO "SAVE" THEMSELVES.

Again: If they REALLY TRUSTED God, if they REALLY BELIEVED He planned and predestined their Salvation since BEFORE He created the world, THEY WOULD NOT TRY DESPERATELY TO SAVE THEMSELVES.

Some of the ways that people TRY TO SAVE THEMSELVES INCLUDE:

1. Belonging to some religion or denomination.

2. Following a particular religious "leader".

3. Their own good works.

4. Trying to keep the Law.

5. Trying to observe the 10 Commandments.

6. Circumcision.

7. Not eating or drinking certain things.

8. Being what THEY CONSIDER "a good person".

9. Donating to some charity or "ministry".

10. Some combination of the above.

Those who TRY TO PROCURE THEIR OWN SALVATION through these - or ANY OTHER METHODS - DO NOT TRUST GOD.

If they TRUSTED Him, if they HAD FAITH IN Him, they WOULD TRUST THAT HE PROVIDED COMPLETE SALVATION - from beginning to end - FREE, and by SHEER GRACE.

They would REST in that most blessed ASSURANCE.

Since Salvation is based ENTIRELY on TRUST (faith) and NOT ON WORKS, these individuals ARE NOT SAVED (Ephesians 2:8-9).

They ARE AS LOST as ANY PAGAN.

They are JUST AS LOST AS any Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, New Ager, or non-Messianic Jew.

They are JUST AS LOST AS any atheist or agnostic.

I don't care HOW MUCH THEY CLAIM TO "believe in God".  I don't care how "Christian" they claim to be.

To believe is TO TRUST. Faith is TRUSTING.

If you WANT SALVATION, you MUST TRUST JESUS, AND JESUS ALONE (Jeremiah 17:5).

YOU MUST TRUST WHAT HE DID TO SAVE YOU, NOT what YOU DO to "save yourself".

There's ONE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN WAY of being lost, and ENDING UP IN HELL, and that's trying to "SAVE" YOURSELF.

That way is TRYING to "complete" Jesus' Sacrifice with your "OWN righteousness", AS IF His Blood, Death, Resurrection and Ascension HAD NOT GOTTEN THE JOB DONE (Isaiah 64:6).

So, if you WANT TO END UP IN THE TORMENT OF HELL FOR SURE, I got 4 little WORDS FOR YOU:

"GO AHEAD: SAVE YOURSELF".

FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2016

KINGDOM RESTORED

 

"When they therefore were come together, they asked him, saying: Lord, WILL YOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO Israel?

 

And he said unto them: It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.

 

But you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

 

And when he had spoken these things, WHILE THEY BEHELD, HE WAS TAKEN UP; AND A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHT.

 

And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

 

Who also said: You men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? THIS SAME JESUS, WHO IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YOU HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN" (Acts 1:6-11).

 

After the Resurrection, Jesus appeared to the disciples on numerous occasions and spoke to them for 40 days about the Kingdom of God (Acts 1:3).

 

Then they asked Him if He would RESTORE the Kingdom to Israel AT THAT TIME (1st century A.D.).

 

Although Jesus replied that it was not for them to know (AT THAT TIME), IT IS FOR US TO KNOW some two millennia later.

 

With the benefit of hindsight we now know that the answer to their question was "NO", since He didn't restore the Kingdom to Israel in the 1st century, or in the 19 plus centuries that have come and gone since then.

 

What did the disciples' mean by their question?

 

The Kingdom of God began with Adam, and was abruptly interrupted by satan's interference which led to sin and expulsion from Eden.

 

They, however, were asking about restoring the Kingdom to Israel.

 

The Kingdom in Israel began with Saul, followed by David, followed by Solomon, followed by his son Rehoboam, during whose rule the Kingdom was SPLIT into the 10 Northern tribes and the Southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin.

 

In 721 B.C. the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom and took the 10 tribes captives. Only God knows their whereabouts today.

 

In 586 B.C. the Babylonians conquered the southern kingdom and took the Jews and the tribe of Benjamin captive.

 

Instead of being "lost" to the world, they returned 70 years later, as God explicitly promised.

 

The disciples understood that the risen Jesus would, at some point, restore all 12 tribes and the Kingdom to Israel, since He would be their King, as well as King over the whole earth (Zechariah 14:2-9).

 

His Kingdom on earth a/k/a the Millennium will begin right after His Second Coming (Revelation 20:4).

 

That's what Jesus referred to when He told Jews that "you will be hated BY ALL NATIONS (gentiles, same word) FOR MY NAME'S SAKE" (Matthew 24:9).

 

Those who remain on earth during the tribulation will be unbelievers.

 

They will SEE Jesus appearing in the clouds to take His Church home (rapture us).

 

Once they realize what's happened, they will KNOW that He will return 3½ years later to establish His Millennial Kingdom on earth.

 

They WON'T WANT Jesus as king.

 

Hence, they will pledge their allegiance to the Antichrist believing that he can PREVENT Jesus' Second Coming, and His Kingdom on earth.

 

Every Jew hater, every gentile, believer or unbeliever, should know this:

 

Like it or not, JESUS WILL RULE THIS WORLD.

 

Like it or not A JEW will rule the world.

 

It's INEVITABLE.

 

His Kingdom is ETERNAL.

 

He CANNOT BE stopped or toppled.

 

He will rule OVER YOU, if you're lucky enough to be alive during that wonderful era.