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I am fed up reading what people say about God when they don’t even know Him. He is described by some as being ‘the great energy’, ‘the essence’, ‘the mighty force’ all kinds of names which all may true of His nature but God is spirit, He is not some remote being that we can only imagine in our thoughts, one that cannot be known on a personal level, He is the Almighty, the Creator and He can be known. He is the Father of all mankind, He is your Father if you believe in Him and put all your faith and trust in Him AND in the One He sent……Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the Saviour. God wants us to know Him, He wants a relationship with each one of us and to prove He loves us He gave His only begotten Son as a sacrifice, a payment for all of our sins. He offers the free gift of a life everlasting if we repent of our ways and accept His gift but like any gift that is presented to us it doesn’t become ours until we take it. We have to repent and accept Jesus’ sacrifice by accepting Him as our Saviour for salvation is through Christ Jesus. The Bible tells us that Jesus is THE ONLY WAY to God, there is no other way, no religion, no other faith or belief, half-truths, false doctrines, false gods, or any other thing that can be substituted for what God has done for us through His Son, Jesus. Call God by whatever name you wish but you must have this relationship with Him, through Jesus or else there is nothing to look forward to. Gods word tells us that those who believe in Jesus as their personal Saviour and have accepted Him will be resurrected to life eternal,
Revelation 5: 9-10 speaking of Jesus (The Lamb)
“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals,because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”
Notice, they will reign on Earth. What happens after the thousand years on Earth isn’t told.
And here in Revelation 7
The Great Multitude in White Robes
9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”
11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12saying:
“Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!”
13Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
14I answered, “Sir, you know.”
And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15Therefore,
“they are before the throne of God
and serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne
will shelter them with his presence.
16 ‘Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’
nor any scorching heat.
17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’ ”
These are those who have placed their hope and trust in Jesus now, in their mortal lives.
For those who are alive when the time of the end is here and still do not repent, God in His word says this..
Revelation 9
1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Notice especially the last few words…..
There can be no compromise, we cannot afford not to listen, we must not think that just because God loves us all he loves the things we do or the things we believe about Him. God IS a loving god but He is also a God who judges. He sets the rules and if we follow His way He is ready to forgive us our sinful ways. We cannot assume our lives and lifestyles are acceptable to God if they do not conform to His commandments and laws which are the source of righteous morality. May God bless us as we reach out in true repentance.
Shirley Anne
