Dear.....
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people
that have fought against Jerusalem;
Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,
and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Zechariah 14:12
The
world has thankfully till now only experienced in conflict, the use of
atomic bombs twice, once in Hiroshima on 6th Aug 1945, followed by
Nagasaki on 9th Aug 1945.
And for those who have visited the
memorials of these two cities, or have taken time to see the photographs
or read the eye witness accounts of the aftermath of the atomic
explosions, the words of Zechariah 14:12 seems hauntingly reflective of
the human carnage then.
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts;
Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts,
and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
Zechariah 1:3
In
the Bible, Prophet Zechariah was commissioned by God to encourage the
people in their unfinished responsibility, the task of rebuilding the
temple of God. The temple must be built, for one day the Messiah's glory
will inhabit it. Future blessing is contingent upon present obedience(
quote from "Holman Holy Bible")
Today, with the New Covenant, we are the temple of God. We are the unfinished work. We must be made ready before Christ returns.
In
the Old Testament, the Book of Zechariah precedes the last book of the
Old Testament, the Book of Malachi. Much as Zechariah exhorts us to be
made ready as the Temple of God, the Book of Malachi reminds us to be a
living example to our children even as they are being made ready. And
indeed after the Book of Malachi was a period of 400 years of prophetic
silence, for God, appointed no new Prophets till the beginning of the
New Testament. The New Testament began with the presentation of Jesus
Christ, the long awaited Messiah in the first Book of the New Testament,
Matthew.
We are living in the last days. The time and urgency to
be ready for the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is now. We will
have no luxury of a further 400 years before Christ returns. In the
400 years of Godly silence, God was still at work, to prepare the ground
for the return of Christ and the spread of the Gospel.
Therefore
the he goat waxed very great:and when he was strong, the great horn was
broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of
heaven.
Daniel 8:8
The Old Testament
ended with the Jewish Diaspora living under the Persian Empire. The
Greeks took over under Alexandra the Great (the goat in Daniel 8:8). And
by the time the New Testament began, the Roman Empire was flourishing
with Greek and Latin as the global language, and with Rome as the
centrifugal point of the Empire. Both facilitated the spread of the
Gospel.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1 Peter 1:15
A runaround I hope I have not given you. And may it not be a maze I have walked you through, but rather be amazed by the Bible.
The
Word is God and God is the Word. The living word of God will not just
guide, correct, teach, encourage and uplift us. But the many prophecies
will be brought to fruition.
There are many more treasures that
awaits us who are willing and determined to soak in the Word of God.
Truths that are God inspired that will make us ready for His return,
much as it will empower us to be living testimonies of the grace of God
our Father in Heaven.
Confess your faults one to another, and
pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like
passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain:and
it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
James 5:16-17
The
power of prayer. Prayers not just bring us into communion with our
living God, but prayers allow us to know His will, and to be the conduit
upon which His will is glorified to the watching world.
And
likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in
their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is
unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error
which was meet.
Romans 1:27
Tonight,
the US Supreme Court has just brought the world further down the
slippery road to hell. It has struck down the Defense of marriage Act
provision, and marriage is no longer limited to heterosexual union. The
momentum towards a global Sodom and Gomorrah have increased greatly the
past one year with more countries joining the bandwagon. And on a
corporate level, increasingly the blue chip names are jumping onto the
bandwagon. The day is near where to do business, you will have to carry
the "mark of the beast." ie LGBT supporter.
Who knowing the
judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Romans 1:32
Christ
will return to judge the the world. God wants all to be saved, but
sadly not everyone is willing. But many will, and the time has come for
us the blessed, to be like Elijah of old, to lead the flock through
prayers and its empowerment.
For the body is not one member, but many.
1 Corinthians 12:14
And
it is not just one Elijah, but a community of Elijahs. The Elijah of
old felt distraught and overwhelmed despite being used by God in all His
glory. Today, there are many of us who have seek to serve God well, yet
could find ourselves in a similar situation.
I believe in these End
Times intensified, God Who has lifted the blindness in our hearts these
past decade, prepared us individually in His service since, is now bring
about a coalescing of this individual ministry into a collective unity
of Spirit.
For in this world, the evil one is arraying its forces for
what is already a lost battle for them. Satan knows that, but in its
deceit, it hopes to draw more into its downward spiral to eternal
damnation.
A parallel economy, of God fearing individuals who run
their personal and work lives based on Kingdom living. The world is no
longer where one can separate belief from work. The LGBT movement on the
pretext of equality is imposing inequality on the world. Soon, there
will be only one toilet for all sexes, for there is no male or female in
their world. In their warp arguments, to stand firm to live out one's
beliefs is taken to be discrimination and hatred against them.
Differences of opinion at least in the context of the English language
as I know it is never taken to be discrimination!!
A parallel economy is less of a physical demarcation, but rather one of spiritual focus and spirit led living.
How
do we conduct our lives with Christ as our bedrock rather than what the
world demands. The latter a conformity towards consensual evil, with Mr
Obama and the major US corporations leading the charge, flanked by
their British and French counterparts.
'..... And now I will show you the most excellent way.'
1 Corinthians 12:31
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1
Love.
That is the plea of the LGBT movement. It started from the lack of love
for their being different to now, the right to love differently. And
soon, as to move to a collective majority in the institutional arena,
the right to hate you because you do not live their kind of lusts. The
Christians in the old Communist era were persecuted. Yet many could
still love their evil masters to pray for them. Can we do the same for
this new nemesis?
For love, God's love conquers all.
And
Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two
opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him:but if Baal, then follow him.
And the people answered him not a word.
1 Kings 18:21
Elijah prayed for rain, and rain came. He prayed as our Lord directed him.
Today,
God commands us to shower the world with love, not lusts as is the
agenda of the LGBTs. But lust is not the sole preview of the LGBTs. We
are all as guilty.
Will we not now repent and be determined to be different from the world, to be like Christ?
And boldly proclaim like what Elijah did in the evil times
"Elijah stood up boldly for God in a time when idolatry had swept his land. In fact, his name means "My God is Yah(weh)."
God blesses
Eng Hieang
30th June 2013
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