Yes, God Has A Sense Of Humor

If you're going to be a false prophet just keep in mind that God invented the term "Smackdown"




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Paul: You Can't Keep A Good Apostle Down

Saul of Tarsus was a Roman citizen by birth (his father was a roman citizen) which had its advantages, for one you could own property, have a legal trial, enter into legal contracts, marry another Roman, run for office, and was immune from many taxes. Best of all you didn't get whipped or tortured, and you could only be executed for treason and if you were executed they couldn't crucify you. 

For all their cruelty the Romans were fairly tolerant, you could do pretty much anything you want, worship who or whatever you want, buy, sell, or steal what ever you need, and just carry on as ungodly as you want, just as long as you didn't commit treason or cause a riot. The Jews of the first century didn't get that whole "not rioting" part quite right and paid for it dearly in 70 AD. Up until that time the Jewish people were nothing but trouble for Rome with their Pharisees and their Sadducees and their Zelots, always bickering and arguing one point of law after another. It is said that if you put two Jews in a room they'd end up with three different opinions of the room. Then one day along came a young Rabbi named Jesus who really stirred up the crowds, Jerusalem was constantly on the verge of revolt and the only thing that kept the city from exploding into riots was some quick maneuvering by the Sanhedrin which eliminated the young rabbi and things seemed to quiet down a bit. Then came Saul.  

OT Tuesday: Here Be Unicorns

Ah unicorns! The mystic horned My Little Pony variant who rides rainbows, purrs under the touch of a virgin princess, twinkles like a Twilight vampire, and whose flatus is the worlds hope for clean renewable energy. A poultice made from the horn of the unicorn was said to cure stomach trouble and epilepsy, as well as neutralize poison. It is said poisonous plants burst when near a unicorn's horn and that if you draw a circle around a spider with a true horn when the spider leaves that circle it will starve to death. 

Of course everybody knows that unicorns are mythological, they never existed, they're the things of fevered dreams and old wives tales. Right? And since they never existed any document that refers to a unicorn is merely a fable, a little bit of nonsense not to be taken seriously. 

So what do we do with Bible passages like

⁹ Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? ¹⁰ Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? ¹¹ Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? ¹² Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? (Job 39:9-12 KJV)

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The Great Falling Away - Every Church a Hard Hat Zone?

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,(2 Thessalonians 2:3)

Sometimes I read the prophesys and wonder "Why do you have to be so accurate?" Maybe the better question is "Why should I be here now?" I don't like Ugly, and it's getting really Ugly out there; false gospels preached in order for the minister to become more popular, sins are being accepted as "life choices" in order for that particular church to appear "inclusive",  perversions of the bible are being produced to make sin appear to be a virtue. Maybe I would have been happier in the late 18th to early 19th century when  men were men, Christianity was Christianity, and locomotives burned coal and boiled water.

Two thousand years ago the Apostle Paul prophesied that there would be "the apostasy" or a great falling away from the word of God before the appearance of the beast as prophesied in the book of Revelation. If you look with discernment fortified with knowledge of scripture you'll see the falling away as it happens. We're not just talking about daughters of satan dancing naked in the moonlight swearing allegiance to "the old religion" (that goes all the way back to the 1950's), nor are we simply talking about evangelical atheists whose highest form of worship is treating themselves to Starbucks as a reward for swearing at a Christian school child. Our biggest problem is within the church itself. 

THE Angel of the Lord = Who?

Twenty centuries ago God walked the land in the divine person of Jesus Christ teaching, preaching and healing. As he walked through the holy land the blind saw, the lame leaped, the deaf heard, the dead rose, the lepers were cleansed and the good news was preached to the poor (Matt 11:5). Yet this wasn't Jesus' first visit to Judea. As I mentioned yesterday, He created everything, He was there at the beginning. He did not come into existence in that manger in Bethlehem, that was His incarnation (coming in flesh), He was around for a loooooong time before that. And it's not like after He was done creating everything He turned to the Father and said "I'm a bit tired from all this creating, wake me when it's time to be born." then took a nap. He had things to do.

Remember: we cannot see God's face and tell people about it, there's this whole dying thing involved. In Exodus 33:20 God the Father plainly told Moses  "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!" That's where Jesus comes in. One of Jesus' duties is to be God's physical presence here on earth enabling Him to speak to us face to face without a prophet or angel as an intermediary.