Abraham had learned that God would keep His promises through a lifetime . All nations gather at Apostle Taylor's crusade . . We arent guaranteed of leaving such an impressive legacy. (Jeremiah 25:9-12) Because we cannot know or understand God's higher purposes until He reveals them, we have to trust Him. This is an overflow of your own walk with God. Sunday school is fine, but its no substitute for family times in Gods Word and prayer. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, Hallelujah! Congressmen, one was the Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury, and one became Vice President of the United States. Let no one deceive you in any way. And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. God's Promise to David. Statistics vary slightly, but over 100 of his descendants became ministers, missionaries, and theological professors. Sometimes God will raise up a king to serve as a destroyer of other nations only to destroy that king and his nation when they pass the point of no return. In Revelation 1:8, the Lord God says, I am the Alpha and the Omega, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. In Revelation 22:13, Jesus says, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. Jesus is the Lord God! So Israel was carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Psalm 102:15 - " The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.". Pray constantly that you wont lose your first love for Jesus Christ. When our services of God are soured with sin, his providences will justly be made bitter to us. Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.read more.All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. Its not enough to know about God through His Word, although that is foundational (you cant love a God you dont know). For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Or, if you spend hours every week watching game after game, but then dont have time to read your Bible, pray, teach your kids Gods ways, or serve the Lord, maybe sports has become your idol. I will shake the heavens and I will shake the earth and all that is will be undone. Which is more important in child rearing: A parents genuine love for God or proper techniques and methods? But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, said the LORD. W Home Read the Bible English Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. They kept their religious rituals, but lacked a love relationship with God. The word of the Lord came to me: Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not, Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular, Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular, A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute, LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk. And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, Come! And out came another horse, bright red. That includes all nations, all races, all cultures. Lord God, you are the Builder of all things. Details Select delivery location Buy Now Secure transaction Ships from Media-Recovery Sold by Media-Recovery Ships from Media-Recovery In 1900, a man studied the descendants of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, the New England revival preacher, theologian, and president of Princeton University. How you handle trials teaches your kids a lot about God! 17:1-7). John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever. Its the principle of 2 Timothy 2:2: The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. There are four generations there: Paul, Timothy, faithful men, and others also. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it? And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. You cannot pass on to your children what you do not possess. The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.read more.When He had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Help our leaders - and help us - not to be divided, but to commit to working cooperatively for the common good. Thats the foundation for raising godly generations. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. Putting them on your forehead means that your thoughts and attitudes should communicate Gods truth. To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. Your kids will see the reality of your love for God. Or, if you dont show the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. Period! Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. I Here are 14 verses to encourage us to think about family in terms of generations, generations of influence. These are but the beginning of the birth pains. Deuteronomy 6:18: You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord. Every aspect of lifeyour thoughts, attitudes, words, deeds, schedule, possessionsmust be lived with a view toward pleasing the Lord. It was raised up on one side. Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.. "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. Deuteronomy 6:7: You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. Teach diligently in Hebrew means literally to sharpen or whet. 1:2-3). Raise Up A Nation (1991) Lord Don't Move That Mountain Fret Not Make Me Over Lest I Stray Enter His Courts God's Got A Way John 3:16 God Never Fails Raise Up A Nation A Sinner's Prayer (1990) A Sinner's Prayer Come In What Will Tomorrow Bring Just For Me Mary Don't You Weep Numbers The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow Just When I Needed Him Most That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it. You must listen to him. Eighty-six were state senators, three were state governors, three were U.S. Its easy to drift into worshiping the god of affluence rather than managing the resources that God has entrusted to you in light of His kingdom. Deuteronomy 18:1-8.THE LORD IS THE PRIESTS' AND THE LEVITES' INHERITANCE. He makes the nations great, then destroys them;He enlarges the nations, then leads them away. Dixie Blues. More than 100 were lawyers and judges. but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.. 7 After the king was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, 2 he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.". 14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. Those rules arent to take our fun away; theyre to keep us safe. And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land. Your goal is to teach your kids to please God with all their lives. When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come! And I looked, and behold, a black horse! Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. Loving God is not just a matter of having warm feelings about Him, although we should feel love for Him. Why/why not? Abraham followed God's order based on his faith that God would keep His promise to raise up a nation through Isaac. We'll be focusing on Exodus 32:1-10, but will allude to Numbers 14:11-24 where Israel's unbelief at entering the Promised . And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. As mentioned, the Hebrews came to take verses 8 and 9 literally. Bill Glass, an evangelist who counseled with prisoners almost every weekend for 25 years, said that among the thousands of prisoners he had met, not one of them genuinely loved his dad. And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. And he said, Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. I am saying that when you lose your temper or do not display the fruit of the Spirit towards your family, you need to confess your sin to them and ask forgiveness. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Jeremiah 12:17 But if they will not hear then (Jer. If youve been negligent, thankfully the Lord allows U-turns! and their incorrigibleness shall end in affliction. In Genesis 1, we see God creating the heavens and the earth, with the Spirit of God involved in the process. Its easy to forget the Lord and the great salvation He provided (Deut. and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation. The results were ultimately disastrous, because it was the Pharisees, who outwardly kept the law to the letter, who killed their Messiah who preached the need for inward reality with God. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com. If your kids are grumpy in the morning, show them and tell them how to begin the day with a cheerful heart, focused on Gods blessings. As Jesus said (John 14:21), He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him. (See, also, John 14:23; 15:10, 14; 1 John 5:3.) And on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. 2:4-5)? Avoid such people. Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. If your kids see you walking in reality with God daily, loving His Word, applying it to your life, and growing in the fruit of the Spirit, your love for God will be infectious. But God views success in terms of godly, loving family relationships. F 6:2). U He graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1976 in Bible exposition) and Califo More, The Net Pastors Journal, Eng. The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. shall eat the offerings--As the tribe of Levi had no inheritance allotted them like the other tribes but were wholly consecrated to the priestly office, their maintenance was to arise from tithes, first-fruits, and certain portions of the oblations presented on the altar . For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the. Copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Then Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and made them commit a great sin. 6:16; see Exod. But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. We should never forget that everything the prophets predicted about the future was always intended to produce obedience in the present. But they missed the intent of the passage, which is that Gods Word is to permeate every area of life. So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice, I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it as their fathers did, or not.read more.So the Lord allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua. 6:5-6), You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Those are choice opportunities to talk about how people act and how Christians are to act. Ezekiel 47:15-17 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; , Interjection | first person common singular, Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular, A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts, Preposition | second person masculine plural, Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc, LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel, gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative, A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural, Direct object marker | second person masculine plural, Untranslatable mark of the accusative case, Preposition-m, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct, A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft, Arabah -- a steppe or desert plain, also a desert valley running south from the Sea of Galilee. 2 He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets. The Old Testament exodus is a picture of Gods redemption at the cross in the New Testament. It may be a trip to the grocery store or a family outing. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. Verse 7 assumes that you do, in fact, take the time to sit down in your house to talk with your family (with the TV off!). Andrews, Inez - Raise Up a Nation - Amazon.com Music CDs & Vinyl Holiday & Wedding Christmas Have one to sell? Copyright, Steven J. Cole, 2017, All Rights Reserved. Sell on Amazon $3306 $5.99 delivery December 8 - 13. As his disciples, we follow Christ's example as well as his commands. But we can make an impact for Christ on this world if we raise up godly generations by loving God fervently, teaching our children diligently, and living in the world carefully. If we faced the threat of being arrested for gathering as a church, everyone here would be actively trusting in the Lord. So our goal and prayer should be that our godly children raise godly children who in turn raise godly children. Luke tells us of Jesus' struggle with the devil in the desert, during which he fasted for 40 days. Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God. So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Many years ago, Marla and I used to enjoy the TV series, Little House on the Prairie. One of my favorite episodes was when Charles and Carolyn (the father and mother) left their farm on the prairie to travel to Milwaukee for a 25-year high school class reunion. You come at it from every angle and in every situation. Numbers 34:8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: 1 Kings 8:65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. People would be obedient to God, and His blessings would flow, but then they would allow the influence of pagan cultures to lead them astray. Psalm 145:21 - "My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD. We are expected to act in faith on God's promises just as Abraham did, but we do that from a position of trust based on all the knowledge we have of God. NIV When God calls us, He equips us - 5 Inspirational Biblical Examples #1 When God calls, He enables! Fight lukewarmness like the plague! Theres the idol of affluence. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. B Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. 2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. Be diligent to teach your children! God would always raise up a man, or in one case, a woman, to protect Israel. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on. And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase., And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. The only way to know this triune God is by His revelation to us of Himself through His Word. He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.. And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments. If youre often angry and yell at your kids at home, but then put on your Christian front when you go to church, your kids will conclude, If thats Christianity, I dont need it! If your kids see you and your wife angrily yelling at each other and not resolving conflicts in a godly way, but then you go to church and posture yourselves as an exemplary Christian family, your kids conclude that Christianity is just a religious game that doesnt affect real life. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice; 4 O Notice also that God told them what to do. If you dont know the answer, admit it and do some research to find the answer. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. He proved to us that man does . May our leaders work together harmoniously and not get sidetracked by partisan politics. Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. Genesis 11:8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. The prophet Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 32:30, quotes God's scathing indictment of the people of both Kingdoms: " [T]he children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth." Because of their sins, as II Kings 17:18-20 indicates, God. 6:20-25). Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away. Some Jews, for example, obeyed verses 8 and 9 literally. Genesis 9.12: And God said: "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. April 6, 2014 Prophet Ken Dewey. Daniel declared, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. 1. The Plenitude Of Gospel Grace: A Pardon Written With His Blood, The Favour And The Peace Of God; The Seeing Eye, The Feeling Sense, The Mystic Joys Of Penitence; The Godly Grief, The Pleasing Smart, The Meltings Of A Broken Heart, The Tears That Tell Your Sins Forgiven, The Sighs That Waft Your Souls To Heaven; We don't know exactly how this happened. But most of the biblical commands are aimed at fathers. The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among youfrom your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him. The biblical prophets have much to say to us today, declaring not only what will happen but whyand how we are to receive this truth from God. Teach that to your kids and always be open to their questions. C Who has wrought desolations in the earth. At the end of the program, as Charles and Carolyn returned to their humble little farm, their children bounded out of the house, delighted to welcome them home with hugs. Even though we did this for years with our kids, we still had to be diligent to keep at it.