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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Reading stories of human heroism is a popular pastime. And the world is
full of such. But contemplating human heroes doesn’t change one’s heart
or transform a sinner into a saint. Witness: idolizing sports heroes is
vanity.

But here’s a miracle known and experienced worldwide in any culture or
language: reading Bible stories does change the heart; in the process
it makes a bad person become a good one. It’s proof of biblical
inspiration.

Modern cell phones are a phenomenon: with the right one and the right
service, you’re in touch with almost anyone anywhere in the globe. With
the Bible in your hands and in your heart, you’re in touch constantly
with the noblest and best people of the human race of all time. No,
it’s not through Spiritualist séances; you don’t communicate with dead
people--the Bible condemns that as contact with evil angels who fell
from heaven with Lucifer, the devil. What happens instead is that
through your reading the Bible with a heart that believes in Christ you
experience actual identity-fellowship with those Bible characters of
all ages--through the work of the Holy Spirit. You identify with them
in their experiences of learning to know God. Not through the cinema
screen, but through the Holy Spirit you enter into their knowing Him.
It’s beyond the realm of normal fellowship with humans, but through the
Bible “he that walketh with wise men shall be wise” (Prov. 13:20). By a
heavenly osmosis more real than any earthly science, you receive the
life of Christ through the Bible. Cherish that hunger and thirst for
righteousness; the Lord promises that you shall be filled (Matt. 5:6).

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Have you ever thought how weak and helpless Jesus was of Himself when
He was with us in the flesh? Did you know that He did not work even one
miracle “of Himself”? He said, “I can of Myself do nothing.” When He
made decisions, He could not make them of any wisdom inherent in
Himself, because when He left heaven to come down and become one of us,
He laid aside all the prerogatives of His divinity. “As I hear, I
judge,” He adds. What He said or taught, He had first to learn. In
other words, He did not bring with Him within Himself any wisdom from
heaven. His mother Mary had to teach Him to read the Old Testament, but
He was different from our children--from the beginning, He loved it. He
was agape in the flesh.

Jesus took all our weaknesses upon Himself, “in all points made like
His brethren,” not unlike them! The flesh or nature which He “took” was
“like,” not unlike, ours. “Morning by morning” He was awakened by His
Father, to learn in prayer and study of the Word (Isa. 50:4, 5). In
those prayer and study sessions as a Youth He gained an education that
qualified Him to be better than a “Ph.D.” He said, “The Lord God has
given me the tongue of the learned.” He spoke so beautifully, so
clearly, powerfully, succinctly, that people marveled, “How does this
Man know letters, having never studied” [that is, in a college or
university]? (John 7:15). Jesus took no credit to Himself; He gave all
the glory to His Father: “My doctrine [My teaching. My speaking] is not
Mine, but His who sent Me” (vs. 16). But that does not mean that He
brought that wisdom with Him from heaven: He learned it in those
“morning by morning” educational tete-a-tetes with His Father! And all
that super-Ph.D. Wisdom is yours for just the hunger to acquire it--!
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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

If we love the Good News of the gospel of Christ, we will not want to
argue about the nature of Christ. We will want to flee from any place
where such contention arises. The nearness of the divine Savior is too
holy, too solemn, too most precious, to be submitted to the verbal
violence of theological crossfire.

If one hungers to know Jesus more intimately, there is no book in the
Bible where you see Him more closely bound with yourself in your human
nature than in the book of Psalms. The divine Son of God has become one
of us! The fact that Jesus ascended to heaven in the sight of His
apostles (Luke 24:51) doesn’t mean that He is far away. “Behold,” He
said just before He ascended, “I send the promise of the Father upon
you” (vs. 49). That “promise” is the Holy Spirit, the presence of Jesus
in the Spirit. “I will not leave you orphans,” Jesus assured them, “I
will come to you” (John 14:18).

How does He “come” to us? Not in the flesh; there is a closer nearness
than that. It’s “dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, abiding
under the shadow of the Almighty” through the Word (Psalm 91:1). It’s
sharper in clarity than any DVD can be, you “see” Him, “behold” Him as
“the Lamb of God,” in those Messianic psalms.

In this way you “abide in [Him] and [His] words abide in you” (John
15:7). The four Gospels are wonderful revelations of Jesus; but when He
walked with Cleopas and his friend that Sunday afternoon to Emmaus,
Jesus didn’t have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to quote--just the Old
Testament, largely the Psalms. But it was there that “He expounded unto
them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke
24:13-27, KJV).

Now, you join those three as they walk together, the two disciples as
they listen, Jesus as He “expounds.” “Constrain” Him to “abide with
you” when it’s “toward evening, and the day is far spent,” instead of
seeking TV or silly entertainment. Your eyes will be “opened” and like
those two you will come to “know Him,” too. And then, as surely as day
follows night, the time will come when you will say, “Did not [my]
heart burn within [me], . . . while He [opened] to [me] the
scriptures?” (vss. 29-32, KJV). Yes! Thank God!

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Some sincere subscribers of Dial Daily Bread are asking, “Is there
Biblical evidence that Elijah understood and preached the grace of God,
that is, righteousness by faith? Was he stern, hard, lacking
compassion?” We know:

1. God sent him (1 Kings 17; 18), and “God is love” (1 John 4:8).

2. His message was preeminently reconciliation of alienated hearts in
home and national life (Mal. 4:5, 6). That took “grace unlimited.”

3. His prayer on Mt. Carmel was calm, simple, heart-felt, gracious.

4. The people’s “heart” was “turned . . . back again” (1 Kings 18:37).

5. What did it was God’s acceptance of the blood sacrifice that clearly
prefigured Christ’s sacrifice on His cross (vs. 33). It’s not too much
to say: Elijah preached to the nation a great sermon on the cross that
day.

6. The people responded, believed, humbled their hearts before this
divine revelation of the abounding grace and forgiveness of God. But
the priests of Baal hardened their hearts against it; in hopeless
rejection, they would crucify Christ a thousand times over. This
demonstration was in miniature the judgment at the end of the
millennium (Rev. 20:11-15). To execute the priests of Baal was the
people’s choice, their unanimous will. It was clear: their sin was the
unpardonable one.

7. The fruit of Elijah’s ministry? Genuine reformation and revival. And
God translated him! (2 Kings 2:11). Pretty good evidence of grace.

If at the tsunami someone knowledgeable had yelled and screamed at you,
“Run for higher ground!” would you have said, “Stay put. He doesn’t
sound sweet and mild!”? There are times when love (agape) must scream
at you.

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The last two verses of the tell us of the only hope this
strife-torn human race has: the coming of “Elijah.” God says, “I will
send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the Lord [Jehovah or Yahweh]. And he will turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their
fathers” (Mal. 4:5, 6).

That will be the most far-reaching reconciliation we have seen since
(Think how much and all the Middle East needs “Elijah”!)

It’s not idle words. God has made this promise. The sacrifice of Jesus
Christ on His cross is the only reconciling agency in existence;
therefore it follows that the coming of “Elijah” must be proclaiming
the message of Jesus Christ in all His reconciling power. It will be
what unbelieving hearts find almost inconceivable: a proclamation of
what the Bible calls “the atonement” that will work miracles of grace
worldwide. The mention of “fathers” and “children” means the entire
human race in all our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural alienations. A
blessed unity will be realized as people kneel together at the cross of
the Son of God, at last “beholding” or perceiving its full
significance.

No, it will not be 100 per cent successful. It would be, except for one
anti-Elijah-message factor that will intrude: the Battle of Armageddon.
Side by side, two movements will develop--on the one hand, a blessed
reconciliation (“at-one-ment”) of human hearts with each other and with
the heavenly Father, and simultaneously on the other hand, the
exacerbation of enmity between humans and God (Rom. 8:7): it will be
the ultimate polarization of the human race, “the hour of His judgment”
(Rev. 14:6). No one will be neutral.

A big job for one “prophet” to accomplish! The already-translated
Elijah (2 Kings 2:1, 11) will be “sent” to do the work worldwide as he
was sent personally to encourage Christ at His Transfiguration (Matt.
17:1-3). (That was a work of reconciliation!) Elijah will have
“144,000” to help him (Rev. 14:1-5).

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

There may be a little treasure of truth buried in the story of Elijah
that illustrates the kindness and compassion of the Lord. The faithful
but lonely prophet has been directed to seek shelter in the home of the
widow of Zarepath. He appreciates her hospitality and her faith. But a
terrible sickness suddenly takes the life of her young son (1 Kings
17:17, 18).

At first Elijah has brought sunshine and gladness into her widowed
life. But now the bereaved mother imagines that the man of God has
ministered this grief to her in that his holy presence in her home has
brought all her sins into memory and judgment. (Evidently she has had a
checkered past--well, who hasn’t!) She wails in her anguish, “Have you
come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?” (vs.
18).

Elijah takes it personally; he knows he is hated in Israel and
Phoenicia, everybody everywhere blames him for this famine. Now it
seems that God has humiliated him by bringing this bereavement on this
widow. When he takes the dead son from her, he doesn’t pray a quiet,
unimpassioned prayer as he did later on Carmel; he agonizes his
distress. “He cried out to the Lord, ‘O Lord my God, have You also
brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?’”
(vs. 20). A prayer from a broken heart!

In mercy, the Lord answered his prayer of distress and resurrected the
child.

Do you suppose that the Lord granted this precious interlude blessing
as a way to strengthen the faith of Elijah when he stood alone and
friendless before the king, the priests of Baal, and the multitude, on
Mt Carmel? He remembers: the Lord has honored his prayer by raising a
dead child to life. Wouldn’t that recent memory nerve his spirit and
encourage him? Since he had been hidden from the murderous hatred of
Israel, no one on Carmel knew of this recent happening in Sidon; Elijah
shared this little secret with the Lord. That should be enough to
fortify his faith: yes, the fire will fall!

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Elijah the prophet is often misunderstood and unappreciated. It is true
that he was a humble man from the mountains of Gilead with no official
endorsement. But he was a deep and keen thinker on a level far beyond
that of the leadership of Israel. As he saw the horrible effects of the
national apostasy, he thought of its cosmic consequences. The great
controversy between Christ and Satan was involved. The honor of the
very name of the true God was in jeopardy. If God could not save
Israel, how could the Messiah save the world? This was a portentous
crisis.

We need to understand Elijah better. God has promised to send him again
“before the great and terrible day of the Lord” (Mal. 4:5, 6). Unless
we understand correctly, there is danger that we may follow ancient
Israel in their national apostasy from the truth of God.

Elijah shares with one other man in the Old Testament a profound
understanding of God’s character of love (agape). In Exodus 32 we read
of Israel worshipping a golden calf within days of their forming the
grand Old Covenant at Sinai. God purposed to be done with them, but
Moses changed God’s mind in his plea: if You can’t forgive and save
Israel, “blot [my name] out of Your book which You have written” (vs.
32). Rather than see Israel lost, he says, I choose to relinquish my
own eternal salvation. In the exercise of such faith, Moses found a
link that bound him to the cross of Christ, for that is what Jesus did
in His love for us--the “width, and length, and depth, and height of
the love (agape) of Christ . . . which passes knowledge” (Eph. 3:18,
19).

Now, in his love for apostate Israel, Elijah finds a link that binds
him in faith to Moses. Could this be the reason why heaven sent Moses
and Elijah to visit with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration? Only
they could encourage Him in His self-sacrifice on His cross, when He
died our second death to save us!

We can be sure this kind of love is implicit in whatever message
“Elijah” will bring us when he comes back.

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Mike Pearse has written a thought-provoking book entitled WHY THE REST
HATES THE WEST. He examines the phenomenon of the most “Christian” of
nations evoking the most virulent hatred of the non-West peoples of the
world. His thesis is simple if stated in simple biblical terms:
“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,” and no longer represents the
values of Christ (Rev. 18:2).

It wasn’t always like this. When President Theodore Roosevelt sent the
Great White Fleet around the world, it was revered. In the halcyon days
of the Marshall Plan, the common people in Europe would shout, “Yo para
America!” President Lincoln’s “last, best hope of mankind” stirred
wonder in human hearts everywhere. There was hope that God was
intervening in human history!

The God whom Christians profess to worship says He is “love” (agape).
He must be honest and fair, as well as just and merciful. The Book He
has given the world (the Bible) warns us of the final events of world
history when the Enemy in the “great controversy” will seek to wreak
his hatred on mankind. The One who is a God of love (agape) has
promised that in His love He will “send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” who will perform
a ministry of unprecedented reconciliation between honest human hearts
and the true God (Mal. 4:5, 6). The “rest” may not overcome their
hatred of “the West,” but every human heart that will believe truth
will respond to this final revelation of the true character of God.
Speaking of the last angel’s message of the more abounding grace of
God, His promise is that “the earth [will be] illuminated with his
glory.” That last angel’s message and “Elijah’s” final message will be
the same--the yearning heart of the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
pleading with “every one,” “Be reconciled to God!” (2 Cor. 5:20). When
the true “Elijah” came to the Jews in the person of John the Baptist
(Matt. 11:13, 14), they brushed him aside. Now is our last chance to
repent: let’s not reject “Elijah” one last time!

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

This coming weekend millions of earnest Christians will be focusing
their study on the humanity of the Son of God. This will not detract in
the least from His divinity; they will “behold the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29), and in so doing will
“behold” Him as the One whose “name [is] Immanuel, which is translated,
God with us” (Matt. 1:23).

In order for us humans to “behold” Him, we must see Him as He has
revealed Himself to us. That is, He is “the Word [which] became flesh,
and dwelt among us.” It is there that we “behold His glory” (John
1:14). “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given” (Isa. 9:6).
“The humanity of the Son of God is everything to us,” says a thoughtful
writer. And Jesus Himself tells us to look, and look, and look to Him
in His humanity, for only thus can we perceive Him in His divinity. “As
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up: that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but
have eternal life” (John 3:14). To “believe” in Him is the same as to
choose to “behold” Him. That was the only hope for the Israelites in
the wilderness bitten by the poisonous serpents--to “behold” that
serpent on the pole that Moses had made at the command of God,
representing Christ.

Yes, our very life itself, our salvation, depends on “beholding” Him in
His humanity which veils His divinity. No one can spend too much time
“beholding the Lamb of God” there. In Hebrews one we “behold” Him in
His pre-incarnation divinity, as “God” (vs. 8); but the inspired author
says we don’t “see” Him clearly until we “see Him” “made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death, . . . that He . . . might
by the grace of God taste death for everyone” (2:9). We must see Him
in His humanity.

The chapter goes on to focus our view intensely on Him as One who
“likewise took part” of the same “flesh and blood” that we have, so
that “in all things He had to be made like His brethren” (vss. 14-17).
Only so, as He has “suffered, being tempted [is He] able to aid [us]
who are tempted” (vs. 18). As we “behold” Him thus, are we becoming
fanatical? A million times, no! Why, He is our only hope!

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People around the world continue to ponder what significance the recent
great tsunami may have for us. Was this “natural disaster” just
something that happened, or did either God or Satan have something to
do with it? A subscriber has suggested that these thoughts are
meaningful and relevant:

1. “Satan works through the elements . . . He has studied the secrets
of the laboratories of nature and he uses all his power to control the
elements as far as God allows.” That makes sense for Jesus says Satan
is “the prince of this world,” and Paul says he is “the prince of the
power of the air” (John 14:30; Eph. 2:2). Satan was once the highest
of the angels; he is malevolent in nature (Isa. 14:12-19; Rev.
12:7-12).

2. When Satan was “permitted to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and
herds, servants, houses, children were swept away, . . . as in a
moment.” That is precisely what we read in Job 1, 2. Therefore how
urgently important that we “dwell in the secret place of the Most
High,” and “abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1).

3. None of us has more than a breath between us and our appointment
when we “appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2 Cor. 5:10). (On
His part, that is not a fault-finding judgment, He wants to vindicate
us! And He will do so if we do not “frustrate His grace,” Gal. 2:21).

4. “It is God who shields His creatures and hedges them in from the
power of the destroyer.” Thank Him for the “hedge” we have today!

5. “But the Christian world have shown contempt for the law of
Jehovah.” He must “withdraw His blessings from the earth and remove His
protecting care from those who are rebelling against His law.” Somehow
He must get that message across to the world.

6. “Satan will . . . bring trouble . . . and lead men to believe that
it is God who is afflicting them.” It is our privilege to proclaim to
the world that His grace abounds “much more” than all the evil Satan
can invent.

7. Pretending to heal, Satan will “bring disease and disaster . . .
These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous”
(Isa. 24:4, 5). Let’s read and memorize Psalm 91; it’s present truth.

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The History Channel is pushing the da Vinci Code as something to appeal
to devout but serious thinking people. There is enough of a little
smattering of biblical connection to lend it an assumed legitimacy,
while in fact it is a glorifying of pagan legends of the so-called Holy
Grail. Antichrist has been invested with an enticing allurement. The
idea deceived the Nazis.

The prominent female in the legend is a distorted personification of
the Mary Magdalene of the Bible. The History Channel purports to be
“history,” and lends credence to the supposed story of Jesus Christ
yielding to Mary’s sexual blandishments--unable to overcome the
supposedly irresistible temptation of illicit sex. Trying to track the
historical whereabouts of “Christ’s love child” is the TV mystery
ensnaring millions. The underlying idea is that sexual temptation is
beyond control. But it’s the basic stuff that makes AIDS and broken
lives. Fornication and adultery are made “holy” in the pursuit of the
Holy Grail. The fruit: broken hearts and blasted lives, a moral
tsunami. The soul devastation may be near you, even next door. There is
a nightmarish bomb that can kill the people in a city but leave its
glittering architecture unscathed; the da Vinci Code is its spiritual
counterpart.

Has it caught God by surprise?

His promise is that when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the
Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against the evil one (Isa.
59:19). That promise is in the final gospel message of Revelation
18:1-4. It will “lighten the earth with glory.” God’s Good News is the
message of three angels in Revelation 14 that must go to “every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people” before the return of Jesus. The third
one’s message is especially significant (vss. 1-12).

Just before His death, Jesus said that the Bible truth of the story of
the authentic Mary Magdalene must be told “wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached” (Mark 14:9). It’s a part of that third angel’s
message in verity!

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The latest issue of TIME is devoted to the American dream of “the Pursuit of Happiness.” It would make a sizable book on the subject from every perspective --except that of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

What does His Good News say?

1. He is “the Savior of the world” (Joh 4:42) which means He is already your personal Savior, sinful and unworthy though you know you are.

2. If your unhappy heart cries out, “Father!” that is the litmus test that proves you are already “adopted” as a child of God (Rom 8:14-17).

3. In fact, it is God Himself who “has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your heart, crying, Abba, Father” (Gal. 4:6). Christ promised that He would not leave you an orphan (John 14:18). Not ever.

4. Your unbelieving heart says, “But I am so sinful! How can I already be ‘a child of God,’ ‘adopted’ into His family?” The Son of God redeemed, saved, justified the human race when He died our second death on His cross (Heb. 2:9). Believe and you are “justified by faith.” He
(a) “chose” you, (b) “predestined” you to be saved, (c) “adopted” you, (d) redeemed you, (e) forgave you, (f) has “abounded toward you in all wisdom and prudence,” and (g) has “accepted you in the Beloved” (all this is in Ephesians 1:3-11). The first person plural pronouns’ antecedent is “all men,” “every man” (Rom. 5:5-18)--all because “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (vs. 20).

5. It all means that you are indeed a “child of Abraham” by faith (Rom. 4:1, 4, 5, 11, 12, 16, etc.). He is the “father of all who believe.”

6. “But my faith is not perfect!” you cry. Neither was Abraham’s--until he finally offered his only son on Mt Moriah (Gen. 22). You are a new-born child; you have growing to do (1 Peter 2:1-5). By God’s grace, you are on the way. Your “faith will work” perfect obedience (Gal.
5:6).

7. The way to happiness: believe the new covenant promises to Abraham. They are in Gen. 12:2, 3 and Ex. 6:5-8 (to us); and don’t forget, John 3:16.

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A thoughtful reader in Europe writes, “I’d like to know English well so I could have a long face-to-face dialogue with you” about God’s “explosive righteous anger” [that we mentioned on DDB a few days ago]. “I believe it’s very important for the Bride-to-be [of ‘the marriage of the Lamb’] to understand the Bridegroom’s character before choosing to spend eternity with Him. When does His anger ‘explode’? After we talk about ‘God is love,’ must we still remain terrified of His losing His temper? Is love still fear?”

It’s 100% true that God is not a heavenly Wimp. What makes His anger white hot is the inhumanity of man toward man, especially abusing helpless children (as in the tsunami aftermath). Jesus went on and on about that in Matthew 18:2-14, saying that if anyone “offends” even one of them, it would be better if a millstone were tied around his neck and he were dumped in the ocean. True love (agape) is not only soft as velvet, it’s also hard as steel. God’s righteous anger exploded toward Sodom and Gomorrah because they did not “strengthen the hand of the poor and needy, and they were haughty” (Ezek. 16:49, 50, KJV).

The most awful wrath in God’s great universe is “the wrath of the Lamb” (Rev. 6:16; who has ever seen a lamb angry? watch out when this One loses His temper!).

I have seen marriages collapse because hubby was a wimp. A woman loves a gentle man, yes; but it’s still true she loves a m-a-n.

The “Lamb’s wife” to-be is the corporate body of His church; her surrender of heart to Him for eternity (as to her Bridegroom) is based on her appreciation of His character (Eph. 3:14-21). But let’s not forget that this “appreciation” on her part includes in her soul a powerful hatred of sin. She loves Him more intimately because she reverences that holy temper of His. “There is no fear in agape, but perfect agape casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). Yes!

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* The text stares at you, telling you to do something you feel you just
can’t do: “Be ye reconciled to God.” It says it with emotional
intensity, “As ambassadors for Christ, we beg you, we plead with you,
we implore you, as though God were on His knees before you begging you
to give in and drop your hatred of Him, your alienation from Him, your
heart-resentment against Him, and let your bitter heart be at-one with
Him!”

* But you can’t. You’ve been through the tsunami.

* You feel He is totally at fault, He has taken your wife, your
husband, your children, all your family, from you and has left you
their bloated, rotting corpses to bury. The loss of your house and
possessions is nothing compared to this. God did it!! Of course you
resent Him! You hate His beautiful blue ocean, too, you never want to
see it again. Why, O why has He done this to you? You have been taught
all your life to believe in Allah.

* And now the Bible says, “Be reconciled to Him!” You wish you had
drowned, too. That would have been the easiest way to go.

* You “survivor” reading this, where you are in comfort, probably
feel miffed at Him for letting you have a fender-bender in the rain. Or
letting you lose at the gaming table. Or get shot at in Iraq. Or catch
AIDS, or cancer. You are the young couple in Sacramento who had just
bought a house and then a drunk drove his car into it and set it and
himself on fire. Why did You do it, or let him do it?

* Or, in Paul’s Corinth,--God is the One who lets you be the Roman
slave to spend your life walking barefoot while others worse than you
ride in chariots.

* Well, the same Christ who begs you “be reconciled to God” is in
the darkness naked before the world, in torture, screaming, “Why, O why,
have You forsaken Me?” Not, I am tempted to feel that way, no; You
did it! You abandoned Me! And if I don’t reconcile Myself to You, the
world and the universe are lost forever. I can’t! but I must; and He did.
See Psalm 22, 69.

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The tsunami weighs on people’s minds everywhere, while we give to relieve the distress as best we can. Someone asks a deep question:

“If people can be saved eternally in God’s kingdom without ever hearing the name of Jesus, why do we send missionaries? Why not just let them live up to whatever light they have? Paul says, ‘What may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. . . . Gentiles,
who do not have the law, by nature do the things contained in the law, these, . . . show the work of the law written in their hearts’” (Rom. 1:19; 2:14, 15).

If Christ is “the true Light which gives light to every man who comes into the world,” what is the need of preaching the gospel? (John 1:9). The “Light” will of itself judge “every man.” Let people
be--with what light they have!

If there should never be a personal, visible second coming of Jesus Christ, and every one must depend on a resurrection from the dead, there could be a bit of logic in that idea. BUT . . . there can be no resurrection for anyone without the personal appearance of Jesus! If He doesn’t come, no one can realize eternal life. He only is “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). And that means some people must be prepared to endure meeting the glorified Christ face to face while still alive, whom to see is death unless they have become “pure in heart,” for only they can “see God” and live (Matt. 5:8).

That means to “overcome even as [Christ] overcame” (Rev 3:21). And there the “everlasting gospel” of Revelation 14:6-15 comes into focus— yes, the final “light” which must “lighten the earth with glory” (Rev 18:1-4). We will need a much more clear understanding of the cross, the
sacrifice of Christ.

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Is there anywhere a human heart that by nature doesn’t have a storm inside? If you are perfectly at-one-with God, you belong in Heaven.
Well, at least, it’s your job to help those billions who by nature share the universal human problem of alienation from God. “Why has He
allowed ME to suffer? Why ME . . . to endure injustice? Is God fair?”

One may piously exude all the -self-righteous phrases while deep inside unanswered questions destroy our “peace with God” (Rom. 5:1). And
it’s not only teens who have that cauldron boiling inside; grey-hairs do, too.

Here’s a shocker: the closer you come to Jesus Christ, the bigger you will realize your problem to be. Come VERY close to Him, and you will
“taste” the depth of the darkness He experienced on His cross when He cried out, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken ME?” If one has never
grown up out of innocent childhood, he may never think or feel on that level; but Jesus did. “Why doesn’t God DO something?” is the heart-cry
of the person who dares to think, not only about his own tiny little problems, but about those suffering millions, . . . and about the people in Iraq,
. . . and why do the poor have to suffer while the rich have long since left being millionaires, now you’re nobody unless you’re a
billionaire, . . . and why must the innocent suffer so? “My God, My God, why have
You forsaken our world?”

Back again to the cross on Calvary: in that total darkness, while He hung there in that deepest perplexity and despair, He made a choice--to
BELIEVE that His Father was good even though everything was shouting in His ears that His Father was unjust. In total darkness, in the vastness
of empty heart-broken space, He built a great bridge between alienated humanity and God. It’s called the Atonement, the at-one-ment. If His
Father has forsaken Him, HE WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS FATHER. On His cross He built something out of nothing like He had created a universe out of
nothing. At any cost, He will believe Good News. He will create Good News. You don’t have to build that Bridge; all you have to do is,
well, believe that He built it.

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Why did our heavenly Father permit the Song of Solomon (Canticles, Song of Songs) to get squeezed into the Bible? It’s sexually sensual! It
makes no mention of God, “righteousness,” “obedience,” “covenant,” “justice,” not even of “grace.” And the “law” is absent.
It’s just heterosexual love. Would any church board vote to include it? Would any

church school or academy have teens study it word for word? (They don’t, and maybe they’re missing something God put there to help
solve the teens’ sex problems.)

Yet Jesus Himself quotes it several important times. For example, John 7:37, 38/4:15; Rev. 3:20/5:2-6; Eph. 5:27/4:7). The reference to the
“knocking at the door” is from the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint). Christ and the apostles frequently used that version just
as we use different Bible versions today. Any book of the OT that the NT quotes approvingly demonstrates it’s right to be in the Bible.

So, the Song of Solomon is undeniably part of the Word of God that is “living and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing
even to the division of soul and spirit, . . . a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart,” “profitable for doctrine, . . .
for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (Heb. 4:12, 2 Tim. 3:16).  What value is there in such a sexually explicit book?

SS owes its place in the Bible to Revelation 19:7, 8. Two verses explain why the Lord God created us in the Garden of Eden to be “male
and female.” The rain-soaked Bridegroom-to-be who “knocks on the door” of the beautiful girl at night and she ignores Him (SS 5:2-6), turns
out to be Christ Himself; and the fiancee who has not “made herself ready” for the marriage turns out to be the “remnant” church of
Rev. 12:17. Her long refusal to get up out of her comfy bed and let Him in breaks His heart, and He leaves disappointed beyond description (SS
5:6).

But there’s Good News in the Bible: He still loves her (7:6), and she will yet “make herself ready” for “the marriage of the Lamb.”
Then at last “the Hallelujah Chorus” breaks out exuberant (Rev. 19:6).

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