| Renewed Life and Perspective. NOTE: You will hear it here, few others have the courage! Unlike Facebook which is designed for the communication of personal information, www. biblecombibleman.com has kept by and large away from personal information and ego building in favor of objective Bible truth. It is a little unusual and different now for the chief editor, writer, and owner of biblecombibleman.com to know start a most critical message with a personal note; however it is in the tradition of such notable evangelists as Hyman Appleman, who for the benefit of you who missed those golden years of SBC evangelism was a converted Christian Jew and sponsored by the SBC {who also by the way was the evangelists for pastor Ira Peak at Queensboro Baptist when at age 9 I made my public profession of faith}. Without apology and after a renewed perspective of legally dying 6 times, I am told as I was unconscious through the process in which 6 CPR's were given {3 on the McLennan Tennis Center Court by Jim Arnold and 3 in the ambulance}, and the EMTs in the ambulance, the emergency room doctor A.J. Kirk, and the heart Surgeon were doing their skillful and knowlegable work. {Most of us however, give God and the guardian angel He has attached to me since youth and who has pulled me through many tights! “to God be the glory for the great things which He has done”, and is continuing to do each day for those who really have the spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear.} Even the heart surgeon, and I am not using his name now as I do not yet have permission, when I tried to shake his hand and thank him for saving my life, stated that we must give God the credit. Agree, and many of us know that God is still every day in the healing business; however, often He chooses to use as instruments of healing such men as this heart surgeon who dedicated himself to years of training and experience in order to develop the necessary high level of skill and knowledge that God can use. NOTE: If the skill and knowledge is there, God will use it; and if it is not, God can and will just do it by Himself. Now enough of preliminaries and into the heartfelt expression from this new perspective of what must at least be called renewed life {some like the emergency room doctor, A. J. Kirk are calling it a medical miracle because of the short time between when I collapsed on the tennis court during drills at the McClennan tennis center, and through the timely CPR administered by Jim and others {including a prayer group of tennis players behind him} to the rapid response of the EMTs to the emergency room of John Peterson Smith. NOTE: Sorry if I offend any of you readers faith or lack of faith as I must inevitably do because this is the time of the great Apostasy of Christians and churches called in the Bible the great Falling Away, immediately before the Second Coming of Christ also the 5 stages of which are recorded in II Timothy 4:4,5. “For the time will come (1) when they will not endure sound doctrine {Christians and church members hearts, minds, and will are set against sound doctrine or any acknowledgement of the unsound doctrine of themselves and their leaders, also like in the book of Jeremiah before the destruction by God of Jerusalem}, but (2) out of their own wants {personal desires, wants, and rationalizations have come to control and motivate the average church member in what could aptly be called PURPOSE DRIVEN WANTS, (3) they heap up to themselves teachers with itching ears, (4) turn away from the truth, and (5) be turned into fables. Naturally the fifth and final step is out of the control of you pastors, evangelists, and church members. Based on the harm you have done to yourself, to churches, and to the name and cause of Christ, God takes over and He himself turns you into fables much like the unsound doctrines of the Mormons and the Roman Catholic Church. 1. The recent calamity of many tornadoes on the FW Dallas Metroplex were, according to the Bible, brought on Gods people to show His displeasure with their complacency, comfort in Zion, idolatry, and extent to which they are presently sunk deep into the Falling Away. Yes, against Gods people of the metroplex where perhaps the Bible belt has no more density of churches and people claiming to worship the true God of the Bible. 2. You who are clinging to the false belief of Darby and Scoffield about some mystical and idealistic “rapture” except at the immediate end of the Falling Away and the Second Coming are allowing yourself to be deluted by a divorced lawyer who became a minister at the First Congregationalists church in Dallas, named Scoffield, and before him an Irish Roman Catholic Priest, Darby, who in his books puts the authority of Roman Catholic documents on doctrine above the authority of the very Word of God which is the Bible. Sorry, but that is sac ri-religious. What such false beliefs do to you is to allow--yes, necessitate--that you ignore the reality of the present Falling Away. NOTE: Stated in a more positive fashion, the doctrines of Scoffield and Darby on eschatology state: (1) As a scoffield Bible believing Christian, I can not presently be in the Falling Away taught by the real Bible, because I will be raptured to be with Christ long before the Falling Away; and (2) my doctrines on last things put the Second Coming of Christ, the Falling Away, and all the corresponding world events of the last great battle around Jerusalem at least one thousand years in the future so that I have nothing to be concerned about as I ignore the world news today which tells me more about the Bible than I have been able to learn from my Scoffield Bible and my pastors who bought it hook, line, and sinker from a divorced congregationalist lawyer and Roman Catholic priest, or otherwise helpful such Bibles, and due to the influence of the Scoffield Reference Bible Association in Memphis, Tenn. 3. Christianity has never been a majority movement even in the United States, much contrary to public opinion. Jesus, the authoritative founder of Christianity gave no countries or times in history exclusive exceptions to the clear teaching: Broad is the way that leads to destruction, and MANY there be that go that way, while narrow is the way that leads to everlasting life and FEW there be that go that way.” It seems trite but still not heeded by Americans that the difference between the MANY and the FEW in America who believe in any life changing way is the same as the difference between the majority and the minority. How much more bluntly do you want to hear it than when Jesus taught, “Many will say to me in that Day of the LORD and Lord that wraps it all up}, Lord, didn’t we cast out devils in your name and do many marvelous works; and He will say, ‘Depart from me you that work iniquity, for I never knew you.” NOTE: This little testimony is one of renewed life and perspective, and quite frankly a perspective right there in the Bible from the beginning of the Word of God for those who had a proper attitude to understand, that hopefully can prevent such a shock to you as standing before Christ and God and for the first time realizing a perspective from the Eternal that you ignored in favor of church membership {other than in the assembly of the firstborn written in heaven}, good works, or some idolatrous imaginations of what God and Christ are really like and what they think and have taught in the pages of the Bible. 4. Sorry current generations, but it is your fate of history like no other time in the history of this world,to be victims of the odds for real salvation being against you what with the combination of the truths of the MANY and the FEW combined with the present great Apostasy called time and time again in the Bible “the Falling Away”. I don’t care who your pastor is, or how popular; nor how large your church is; or what denomination, the odds are that no way you are going to turn up at the end in eternal life. Why else do you think the Bible states things like “work out your salvation with fear and trembling”. And look out when you allow any of these influences of your current life to have authority over the clear teachings of the Word of God--for that alone is blasphemy against the authority of God and His Word that you can not survive past the Great Judgment Day at the Second Coming. 5. The density of churches and denominations in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex is unparalleled even in America or in the history of the world; and you would be inclined to think right up to the time of the recent tornado calamites that according to the Bible, also time and time again, which GOD sent on the Metroplex to tell them that they are not nearly as right or as saved as they thought. And this is not the first time a whole nation of God’s people have shocked by utter destruction, as you who continue to participate in these online Bible studies on “Jeremiah and Prophesy”. 6. Like today in America, the prime problem of this whole nation of Gods people was idolatry. Millions of Christians, in name only, have created a false image of God in their own puny brains which is more like a santa claus and one that never chastises His people, than like the real God of the Bible, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. What do you think just happened to you in the Metroplex? Or do you really think the hand of God was not in that whole tornado outbreak including the fact that miraculously not a soul was killed. You see, the blunt fact is that you individually must ask yourself, what does God knows that you don’t to destroy your church and not another, or your home and not another. 7. Hopefully a few of you have realized the real message and messages of “Jeremiah and Prophesy” during the last 3 years, especially in Jeremiah 40 where the remaining people of God show their true colors, or what they had been thinking all along as they rejected the preaching of God through Jeremiah. “We will not listen. We will continue to worship the Queen of Heaven as did our forefathers before us, for when we did worship the Queen of Heaven we were better off.” a. You know, especially in this day of the resurgence of the Gospel of wealth and the corollary of success under the disguise of the Gospel of Prosperity and Health, that so much of your so called cult of faith is to be BETTER OFF. Were it not for the current popular cult of Osteen, thousands of Christians of the falling away would realize how far they have indeed departed from the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the cross once for all delivered to the saints; and comprehend the curse on this large cult in Houston Texas. b. They had this false image of god, an image of the Queen of heaven, in their own minds; and stuck with it along with all the unrighteous practices; and yet no own told God or Jeremiah that right up until the end in Jeremiah 40. Of course, God knew and Jeremiah, even Ezekiel knew; but Gods people did not have the intellectual honesty to make their real beliefs public until near the end down in Egypt. 8. Such is the mystery of “idolatry” that it hardly matters what is the name, or what the idol is called; as any reality of it exists only in the human brain. There is only one God of this universe, the LORD of Creation, the God of the Bible, and the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. So that any other god you chose to believe in, serve, or worship is really a figment of your imagination with one exception. The only other real supernatural being is SATAN so that quite often what you in reality doing in idolatry is to serve and worship SATAN. The first 2 of the 10 commandments are far more interconnected than we realize. As we are forbidden to make any image of God, mental or otherwise, so when we do and as we do we create an idol in our own brain. And or yes, Satan under the disguise of a queen of heaven, or any other disguise, is always ready and waiting like a lion that goes about seeking whom he may devour, to make you better off. Satan comes to Christians about to do something, or think they are doing something, saying if you fall down and worship me, I will give you all these things of the world; and naturally you will be better off than before. Yes, it is real, just like He did to Jesus before the beginning of His Ministry. Therefore is it thought a strange thing to you, if SATAN comes to a whole large church in Houston Texas offering them a gold mine in every yard in 2 years or an oil well? And you know that hurricane and subsequent tornadoes that hit Clear Lake, Houston, and Galveston seemed to fall on deaf ears! |
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