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What do we know for sure about the Israeli/Palestinian problem?

 

“God so loved [both sides] that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

 

We know that God loves the Jews. Paul tells us in Romans that even though as a nation they rejected their Savior when they crucified Him, “God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew..... At this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace” (11:1-5). (There were 7000 in Elijah’s day who did not bow to Baal.) The fact that the Jews as a corporate body rejected their Messiah does not mean that individual Jews cannot find salvation in Him if they repent. And the heavenly Father does not want to see Jews oppressed; the Holocaust was terrible. He wants Jews to live on earth happily and securely. Christ prayed for those who crucified Him, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do” (Luke 23:34). That prayer is still valid.

 

We know also that God loves Palestinians and Muslims. Christ is described in the Bible as “the Savior of the world” and “the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe” (John 4:42; 1 Tim 4:10). He is “the bread of God [who]...... gives life to the world” (John 6:33). The privilege for both sides is to repent. The love of Christ still works miracles in human hearts. Ariel Sharon’s determination for Israel to leave Gaza (he tells the Israelis, “Blame me!”) encourages the hope that even yet the Holy Spirit will work on Jewish and Palestinian hearts. When repentance is understood by Christians, Muslims, and Jews, when the meaning of Christ’s cross is perceived, then the world will be lightened with the glory of a message of great good news (Rev. 18:1-4). It’s on God’s agenda for the world!

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Israelis are going through anguish. Their Prime Minister and Parliament have voted that it is necessary that Israelis leave the Gaza Strip. Conquered in 1967 from the Palestinians, they have regarded Gaza ever since as their God-given possession. Some have made their homes there, but it was necessary that the Israeli government keep soldiers there to protect them at enormous expense, for these few thousand Israelis have lived surrounded by more than a million Palestinians who believed they had no right to be there. How would you feel living in your house in a huge neighborhood of people who didn’t want you there? And you saw no hope of ever making friends with them.

 

How did God tell these Israelis that He was giving Gaza to them? Did He speak by the ultra-modern weapons supplied by America and other allies in the 1967 conquest? The Palestinians have not believed that. Did God speak through Abraham, giving Jews the entire land of Palestine, irrespective of their crucifying their Messiah when He came? It was only through that Messiah that they were to realize their eternal ownership of the land! (They actually repudiated their claim to the land when they cried out at Christ’s crucifixion, “We have no king but Caesar!” John 19:15). And the Palestinians also claim Abraham as their father!

 

A conflict in the interpretation of the Bible lies at the bottom of Middle East tension, and thus, of world tension.

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Each new year the car factories put out new models and their advertising lures us into thinking that our old model must be replaced with the new. We are even embarrassed to be seen driving the old models.

 

There is a similar trend in books that “explain” Daniel and the Revelation. New “models” are produced with new methods of interpretation. And of course, anything “new” is intriguing; everybody admits that the church is “lukewarm,” “in a rut,” in need of new ideas. In the process of new interpretations, of course, the old “historicist” understandings of these prophetic books are cast off. Yet those are the understandings that God’s people have cherished for some two centuries. There is involved some precious history of God’s leading of His people that is being abandoned.

 

The apostle John in writing the book of Revelation cried tears: “No one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it. So I wept much......” (5:3, 4). It was then that John was introduced to the Hero of the book: “a Lamb [stood] as though it had been slain” (vs. 6). The book of Revelation was not written without tears, and neither will it be understood except with tears. The story of the crucifixion of Jesus is paramount in this last book of the Bible; that Lamb is mentioned some 25 times. The book is a profound exploration of the heavenly love that led Him to “empty Himself” (Phil. 2:5, 6), to “pour out His soul unto death” (Isa. 53:12), to “taste death [the real thing] for every man” (Heb. 2:9), to endure “the curse” of God (Gal. 3:10), to die when He felt the indescribable pain of His Father forsaking Him (Matt. 27:46).

 

The book of Revelation traces through history the footsteps of this Lamb.

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Many sincere Christians have a terrible time wrestling with the temptation to love the world. It’s very alluring. We are commanded, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). Quite straightforward! Further, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom.12:2). And Jesus prayed for us to be kept from the evil that is in the world (John 17:15).

But how do we overcome this allurement? By super-will power? Suppose a man tells his wife, “I’m really trying hard not to fall in love with some other woman...... pray for me!” how will she feel?

 

If the allurements of the world are tugging at your heart, quite likely you have never understood what Paul says is “the truth of the gospel” (Gal. 2:4, 15). “I am crucified with Christ,” he says (2:20). Jesus wanted His disciples to “watch” with Him “one hour,” but they were too sleepy (Matt. 26:40). It will take you an hour to be “crucified” with Christ; you are on your knees, every other “voice” hushed, you are absorbing Psalm 22 or Psalm 69, or the story in the Gospels; you have turned away from Mel Gibson and all the other videos and movies that distort the cross; you let the Word speak to you.

 

You are now “seeing” things far more vividly than any movie. You see yourself crucified with Jesus. Paul says what you “see” on your knees has power to change you forever. “God forbid that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14). It’s truth: once you’ve “seen” that cross as the story is in the Word, the world’s allurements lose their appeal for you.

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Many sincere Christian have a terrible time wrestling with the temptation to love the world. It’s very alluring. We are commanded, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). Quite straightforward! Further, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom.12:2). And Jesus prayed for us to be kept from the evil that is in the world (John 17:15).

 

But how do we overcome this allurement? By super-will power? Suppose a man tells his wife, “I’m really trying hard not to fall in love with some other woman...... pray for me!” how will she feel?

 

If the allurements of the world are tugging at your heart, quite likely you have never understood what Paul says is “the truth of the gospel” (Gal. 2:4, 15). “I am crucified with Christ,” he says (2:20). Jesus wanted His disciples to “watch” with Him “one hour,” but they were too sleepy (Matt. 26:40). It will take you an hour to be “crucified” with Christ; you are on your knees, every other “voice” hushed, you are absorbing Psalm 22 or Psalm 69, or the story in the Gospels; you have turned away from Mel Gibson and all the other videos and movies that distort the cross; you let the Word speak to you.

 

You are now “seeing” things far more vividly than any movie. You see yourself crucified with Jesus. Paul says what you “see” on your knees has power to change you forever. “God forbid that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14). It’s truth: once you’ve “seen” that cross as the story is in the Word, the world’s allurements lose their appeal for you.

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In mid-August our earth’s rotation around the sun brings us near the tail of a comet with tiny grains of sand-like material that glow white hot as they strike our atmosphere. We call these shooting stars as they flash across our midnight sky. This August meeting is with the Perseid meteors. There is another similar encounter that occurs in late November.

 

In Matthew 24:29 Jesus spoke of “signs” in the heavens that would indicate that we are entering “the time of the end” that Daniel spoke of (11:35; 12:4). It’s in the Savior’s great sermon on the end of the world: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days” the signs were to appear. He has been describing the persecutions of the Dark Ages which Daniel and Revelation both pinpoint as 1260 years between 538 and 1798 A.D., when so many true followers of Jesus were martyred. But the actual martyrdoms in Europe ended soon after the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. Mark reports the timing more precisely as “in those days, after that tribulation” (13:24, 25), “the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light.” Thoughtful people who revered the Bible recognized this “sign” in the mysterious May 19, 1780 darkening of the sun. Then Jesus added: “the stars will fall from heaven.” On the night of November 13, 1833 the most spectacular burst of shooting stars ever seen was in populous New England. Again, people who revered the Bible were reassured that we have entered into Daniel’s great “time of the end.”

 

Some keep expecting that God must repeat these “signs in the heavens” in order for His people to be well warned. But when Thomas refused to believe the historical reports of his fellow-disciples of the resurrection, Jesus rebuked him (John 20:29). God expects us to respect the record of history!

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

How can we understand the world in which we live? Current history is bewildering, frightening, and confusing.

 

A tidbit of news flashes across the screen—Sweden has the highest number of pleasure boats per capita in the world, higher even than the United States. Darfur has what appears to be the greatest amount of suffering; Niger and neighboring Mali suffer catastrophic hunger from drought and the plague of locusts; the prime rate in the U.S. is up a quarter percent—what does that mean? Meanwhile those who live in the world’s great cities such as London and New York are gripped by a terror that no one seems to know how to conquer. Even our subways frighten us.

 

We come aside and do what Jesus said to do—“shut your door” and pray to our heavenly Father who “sees in secret” (Matt. 6:6): Lord, what does it all mean? Like King Zedekiah in distress, we inquire, “Is there any word from the Lord?” The Lord’s prophet replied immediately, “There is.” It was what the spirit of prophecy had been saying all along, “Repent” (cf. Jer. 37:17).

 

“The word of the Lord” today is that He is not sleeping, nor has He left us “in darkness.” His word is still “a light unto our path” (Psalm 119:105). In Daniel, Revelation, Matthew 24, 2 Timothy 3, etc., He has given us abundant instruction about “the latter times.” “Let not [our] hearts be troubled” (John 14:1-3). When Jesus told us to pray in “secret,” He was amplifying Psalm 91: “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” The context is precisely terrorism: “His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,...... nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.” (This must be of special comfort to our boys and girls fighting in Iraq!) What is “the word of the Lord”? “Deny [ourselves] and take up [our] cross daily and follow [Jesus]” (Luke 9:23). Is that “fun”? “At [His] right hand there are pleasures,” peace, even now (Psalm 16:11). Yes! Stay close to Him!

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When you are too tired to think, perplexed, you’re in darkness, tempted to discouragement, you don’t know what to say even if you try to pray, your Savior has a suggestion for you (this is a free rendition of Matthew 6:9-11):

 

“Pray a prayer like this:

 

“My Father in heaven, may Your name, Your reputation, be honored in and through, me! Give me by Your grace the ability to think of what YOU need more than what I need! Save me from bringing disgrace on You!

 

“May the hindrances to the coming of Your kingdom be overcome; in other words, let nothing further delay the second coming of Jesus! Teach me how I (unworthy as I am) can ‘hasten,’ not delay, that day (2 Peter 3:12).

 

“May the righteous purposes of God find fulfillment on this sin-cursed world, may His love become triumphant here, even as those purposes find fulfillment in heaven. Teach me how I can help, not hinder.

 

“Give me today a morsel of the bread of life that I can assimilate, some concept of ‘the truth of the gospel’ clearer today than I knew yesterday (Gal. 2:5, 14). Don’t let my soul starve any longer.

 

“Take away my sin of ‘enmity against [You]’ (Rom. 8:7), save me from holding any grudge against You or any other human being.

 

“Deliver me from the entanglements of Satan as the British Scorpio delivered that Russian sub from its entanglements 600 feet down. Amen.”

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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

What is the fundamental difference between genuine Christianity and Islam? It has to be in the very idea of God—who He is. The first chapter of the Koran reveals the Muslim idea of God: Allah, “the Beneficent, the Merciful, Lord of the worlds. Owner of the Day of Judgment.” Very exalted idea, solemn. It’s the heart-moving concept of monotheism, deliverance from the confusion and darkness of pagan polytheism. Muslims are profoundly thankful that they are not pagans; they regard any idol worship or reverence for idols as blasphemy. And that stirs their loyal jihad-indignation.

 

The idea of God that Jesus tells the world is different. He is “our Father, which is in heaven,” whose name is “hallowed.” The idea is purest intimacy of family love that grips the human heart from babyhood and always cries “Abba! Father!” (Rom. 8:15). The fatherhood of God is the fundamental idea that Jesus preached over and over. To every human soul He proclaimed, God is YOUR Father!

 

And such a heavenly Father is far more than being “Owner of the Day of Judgment.” He “is love [agape],” an idea absent from the first chapter of the Koran. So great is His love for a sinful world that He gave Himself in the giving of His Son to die the second death. He “poured out His soul unto death,” that ultimate death of total denial of self (Isa. 53:12). There has to be a Father and Son that the Son may reveal the Father’s love in such a way. In genuine Christianity, every believing human soul also becomes “owner of the day of judgment,” for the agape (which God is) “casts out fear” of judgment (1 John 4:18). Human beings are not Allah—forever no; but believers in Christ become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). They too bear the cross. Many Muslim hearts yearn to understand. Let’s tell them.

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The media, TV or newsprint, is reminding the world of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the 60th anniversary. As the story of the genocide of the Holocaust is something German youth must not be allowed to forget, so we must re-examine that horrible event. We invented a hell on earth. President Truman’s advisors urged him to drop the bomb and he, a good man, felt it was what he should do; but they did not realize that the war would have ended in days with Japan’s surrender without the need of the atom bombs. Today some sober, thoughtful historians say it was a terrible, inhumane mistake. But we felt driven to do it.

 

The book of Revelation promises a “blessing” for the one who will read or hear “the words of this prophecy” (1:1-3). Let’s pause in our busy lives today and read again chapter 13, not to win some theological argument or to make a new chart of pin-pointed “last days events.” Just to ponder what lesson the Holy Spirit may impress upon our hearts. It’s very sober reading.

 

The year 1945 was pivotal in our human history; so is 2005. In chapter 13 we read about the Lamb of God, the Christ who was “slain from the foundation of the earth,” and about His “Book of Life”; and we also read about the solemn events that common sense tells us are imminent.

 

Let us be thankful that the Holy Spirit has not yet been totally withdrawn from the earth, and may we show our thanks by proclaiming the most precious gospel to all who will listen. “Tomorrow” we can’t.

 
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Is it possible that children can acquire the guilt of childish sin? Paul speaks to them directly: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord,...... Honor your father and mother” (Eph. 6:1). Disobedience is, of course, sin. But let’s face the honest truth: some parents are very difficult for any child to “honor.” And every child has the problem we all have--inheritance of a fallen, sinful nature from Adam. Even in childhood, in their young hearts the great controversy is raging between Christ and Satan. There is the divine commandment: “honor your parents.” It must be obeyed. But how?

 

Thank God, the commandment-Giver became a Child! As such He was “in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15). Here’s a shocking thought: was Jesus as a child tempted to dishonor His parents? Didn’t He have the best woman in the world as His mother, the virgin Mary?

 

Well, she herself confessed her need of a Savior (Luke 1:46, 47). She loved her child Jesus, yes; but a mother can love her child and at the same time be tempted to exasperation in dealing with him/her. We have a glimpse of Mary in the story of her encounter with Jesus in the Temple when He was 12. On the way home from the Passover, she had frankly forgotten about Him for a day of travel. He was staying behind to do His “Father’s business.” Her annoyance with Him is evident in her remarks when she found Him: she couldn’t hide her exasperation (Luke 2:43-50).

 

Yes, children, Jesus was tempted to give a disrespectful answer; His mother had shown her disbelief and impatience for a moment and He had to rebuke her. But He did so with loving respect and patience! The same Savior will give you grace to obey your parents “in the Lord,” and to “honor” them.

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There are Christians who are content with the blessings of life that they believe the Lord has granted them. They appreciate their knowledge of God and of His truth. They love their fellowship in their church. They are thankful for their knowledge of the gospel, the hope they have in this dark world, the meaning that their faith has brought into their lives. They also appreciate the economic plentitude that they are privileged to enjoy. And they look forward to the second coming of Jesus and are content to leave the time of His coming to His inscrutable providences; they do not try to define the word “near” with reference to the second advent. They are not concerned whether “near” means in their lifetime or in some future generation. There is always the first resurrection they look forward to. Thanking God, they feel rich and increased with goods. Satisfied.

 

Then there are other Christians who are deeply concerned about that word “near.” Their hearts are burdened for the pain and sorrow that is so widespread, and ever more so, in our world. They are constantly burdened with the last prayer of the Bible, its very last words, “Even so, come Lord Jesus”! They cannot be truly happy until He does come. They want to “hasten” His coming in any way the Lord can permit them to help. They feel deeply concerned if somehow His people have delayed His coming and thus inadvertently have prolonged the suffering of many people worldwide. They know a deep consciousness that the suffering of unfortunate people is felt by Christ even today, and they sympathize with Him in the burden He must feel. These people sense in a particular way a “constraint” of the love of Christ, moving them to dedicate their entire lives to ministry of some kind through the leading of the Holy Spirit. If Disneyworld depended on them for economic sustenance, it would fold; they want to give of what money they have, to world missions. They want to follow the Lamb (the crucified Christ) wherever He goes. Where are you?

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The divine Author of the Holy Bible evidently intended that Daniel and Revelation should be read in the context of the other 64 books that make up the written word of God. Thus the symbolism of those two books is not hard for any thoughtful reader to understand (Jesus told the woman of Samaria that “the Father is seeking such to worship Him,” John 4:23). “Beasts” = nations or kingdoms; “sea” = large populations; whirlwind storms (“four winds”) = war; “horns” on beasts = prominent leaders or kings; and time expressed in “days” = literal years, thus a “month” = 30 literal years, etc., etc. Abundant evidence discloses these and other correlations.

 

It’s obvious that our divine Author is not trying to hide truth from the world, but He wants to reveal it, hence the name “Revelation.” The book is for everyone to understand. That’s why it went through a special process of being “signified”--a literary task committed to a special “angel” whose job was to translate its message into inspired cartoons (see Rev. 1:1).

 

Reverent-minded Bible students accordingly concluded centuries ago that the time symbolism in the “sixth trumpet” of Revelation was intended to pinpoint the identity of Islam (9:13-15). They recognized that the “hour, and a day, and a month, and a year” led to August 11, 1840 when the Muslim political power of the Ottoman Empire collapsed. In God’s providence this event was widely published, resulting in the conversion of many atheists to biblical Christianity. To see Islam in Bible prophecy was pivotal in the rise and progress of the great second advent movement that shook the world in the 1840s. It laid the foundation for a world movement today that proclaims that the second coming of Jesus is near. The prophecy in God’s word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path (cf. Psalm 119:105). Be thankful!

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We just happened to turn the TV while CNN was covering the Air France Airbus plane crash in Toronto. As we watched the fireballs and the black smoke, I said to my wife Grace, “We are probably watching hundreds of people die.” And we imagined ourselves passengers. Then a bit later when the AOL computer news said there were “No fatalities!” I thought it must be a mistake--but thank God! there was not one fatality!

 

We had just been reading for our “family worship” the book of Acts, and Luke’s account of Paul’s shipwreck--probably the most famous transportation-disaster story in history, known worldwide (Acts 27). The number of passengers and crew was similar--276 (Acts 27:37) with 309 on the Airbus. Again, they all (but Paul!) expected to die, and again, there were “no fatalities!” Again, the vessel was a total loss with everything on board (vs. 22). Probably there will be books written about this Air France crash and we will hear stories of passengers who prayed for God’s protection.

 

What is amazing in the Acts story is how this one man on board who at Corinth “was weak and trembled all over with fear” (1 Cor. 2:3, TEV) and was one of the Roman prisoners whom “the soldiers made a plan to kill...... in order to keep them from...... escaping” (vs. 42), was nerved by the Holy Spirit to become the man in charge of everything, directing the “army officer,” all “the soldiers,” “the sailors,” the captain, and everybody else. Because Paul was an openly acknowledged servant of His, “God in His goodness to [him]...... spared the lives of all those who [were] sailing with [him]” (vs. 24). Perhaps the Lord again had a faithful praying “servant” on board that doomed Airbus. Often the Lord has spared the lives of many who do not recognize Him because of the faithfulness of a few who do.

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The Lord has promised to “send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” Who is the “you”? The entire human race corporately? The entire church corporately? The answer may be yes. But each of us as individuals can latch on to the promise and ask the Lord to send Elijah to us personally--if we will welcome him. Yes, the Lord is serious; He has promised. How would you like to have a personal visit with the man who confronted King Ahab and all Israel? He will tell the truth if you are prepared to hear it. But remember: there is no truth except in love (agape; Eph. 4:15). Elijah is a man of true love. He is not unkind, harsh.

 

What will Elijah’s work be? “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers” (Mal. 4:6). It will be “heart work”! Melting human hearts; reconciling alienated hearts; restoring the ministry of love; as hearts forgive one another in love, some tears will come; hearts that have been dead will be quickened (an old fashioned word that means made alive again); communication between estranged hearts will be opened again; forgivenesses will be given one to another; cold relationships will become warm; Elijah’s coming will be Ephesians 4:31, 32 redivivus: “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.”

 

Elijah will come, that’s for sure, because the Lord promised to send him. He will be sent to this generation “if [we] will receive it” (see Matt. 11:14); if not, then he must await a future generation. But for sure the Lord doesn’t want to send Elijah if he will have to take refuge again outside of “Israel” at some Brook Cherith or at some widow woman’s house in Zarephath (1 Kings 17:9).

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In Bible imagery, rain is usually a blessing. There is “the latter rain” which comes at just the right time to ripen a thirsty crop for harvest. (Our hearts go out to India where phenomenal torrential rains have caused floods and 700 plus deaths.)

 

But think of a farmer worried about his crop in Israel long ago. Early rain was a blessing that made the seed sprout. The barley matured to a certain place in plant growth that seemed to promise a rich harvest this year; but now the growth is stunted. Drought came at just the wrong time. An enormous crop that never matures for harvest is an agricultural disaster. The farmer doesn’t have modern irrigation; he is dependent on rain from heaven.

 

You can imagine the distress in the family, the earnest prayers going up day by day for the Lord to send the long-awaited “latter rain.” It must come from Him!

 

In the Bible, this describes the condition of the Lord’s church in the last days. The enormity in the size of acreage that the farmer has planted in barley is not good news unless the crop gets that most precious latter rain at the right time. Diligent labor is effort wasted if it doesn’t result in a harvest of mature grain ripe for the sickle.

 

Jesus teaches that “the harvest is the end of the world” (Matt. 13:39). But there are two harvests--character develops in two kinds of people: those ready to meet the Lord at His return; and those whose rebellion against Him has also matured (Rev. 14:16-20). A “sickle” is used in both harvests, one by Jesus coming in glory, the other by some other “angel” whose “sharp sickle” reaps a harvest cast into the “great winepress of the wrath of God.” There must be two kinds of “latter rain.” Time to be alert. No time to sleep!

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Does the book of Revelation tell us what its name means--that is, reveal the meaning of what’s going on in the world today? Yes! Let it speak. Its series of Seven Churches reveals the over-all history of Christ’s true church through the ages down to our time today (chs. 2, 3). Its series of Seven Seals reveals the history of apostasy in the Christian church down through the ages (chs. 4-7). Its series of Seven Trumpets reveals the meaning of world history in relation to God’s plan of salvation (chs. 8-11).

 

For centuries, humble Protestant scholars have seen in chapter 9 the story of Islam and its significance in the world. “The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth....... And the sun and the air were darkened......” (vss. 1, 2). The sixth trumpet pinpoints the identity (vss. 13-21). Islam was divinely permitted for a special task: to be a scourge to the fallenness of apostate Christianity. The apostasy (“the falling away,” 2 Thess. 2:3-7) in the popular church in the early Christian centuries fed a ferocious zeal for Islam’s propagation. Reverence for idols, for example, ignited in the Muslim breast an anger they saw as “righteous,” and in retrospect one understands it directed at blatant public contradictions of God’s holy law. Muslims had protested a fallen Judaism; now they protested a fallen church. They saw Islam as the world’s savior. Thus they still see it.

 

The culture of the West is widely viewed as “Christian.” We are in history redivivus. The “fallen star” had its origin in heaven; its monotheism impacts the thinking of the billion-odd Muslims, among whom die-hard zealots view Hollywood and dancing cheerleaders as the ultimate essence of “Christianity.” The book of Revelation clarifies the confusion of our post 9/11 world. “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, for the time is at hand”(1:3). Its message to all is, “Repent”(3:19).

 

Take a good look at the “seven trumpets.” The “seventh” is even now wounding (11:15-19). The News behind the news is Christ’s High Priestly ministry.

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Christianity Today announces that Sunday October 9, 2005 is to be “National Porn Sunday, exploring america’s dirty little secret” (sic). This “one day event” is “to bring hope to those struggling with pornography.” It will attract crowds of all ages.

 

“Those struggling” include too many Roman Catholic and Protestant clergy, and there are the masses. Pornography is no longer a “dirty little secret.” It’s the open plague of the “Christian” West--one source of the violent energy of raw Muslim hatred (which is monotheistic). Illicit sex, sex outside the boundaries of love (agape), has an alluring appeal to fallen, sinful nature inherited from Adam. Our world is becoming Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

The apostle Paul confessed that he finally realized that the temptations to illicit sex that he knew in his sinful nature proved what sin is. He “hated” the pornography of his day, yet knew he actually loved it (Rom. 7:7-18). Paul both condemns the hypocrisy of pastors’ secret slavery to it yet feels a brotherly sympathy for them as they “struggle” with it. The world loves to watch Natalie Holloway smile and dance in her much abbreviated costume.

 

God created us “male and female” with the ability to pro-create, a thrill in partnership with God Himself. Hence we humans can know a depth of iniquity that even Satan and his evil angels cannot “know” so well, because pornography plumbs a unique human horror of mutiny and hatred against God. Satan incited humans to crucify Christ; THEY did it.

 

The October 9 “event” will be futile unless it is a true presentation of “Christ and Him crucified.” Nothing but the reality of what happened at the cross can heal. The Son of God died the world’s second death--“the breadth and length and depth and height” of His love.

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“Is the book of Revelation difficult to understand?” No! The very name means it’s open, clear, something the heavenly Father wants you to understand.

 

“But there are so many conflicting interpretations of it!” Its divine Author tells us, “Blessed [happy] is he who reads, and those who hear the words of this prophecy” (1:3). Note: the happy person is not the one who gets bogged down in bewildering, conflicting commentaries about the book; he’s the one who actually reads the book as it is.

 

“But its symbols perplex me!” They are there on purpose, like a holy cartoon that conveys a message too deep and important for mere words. They will make sense; be patient. Read!

 

“I must work to make a living; I can’t spend years in universities. And conflicting preachers confuse me. Can common, ordinary readers understand it?” The honor of God is at stake--He has promised that either “reading” or “hearing the words of this prophecy” will be rewarded. John 3:16 says that those who believe will not “perish.” Those who don’t believe spend their lives “perishing.” Not understanding Revelation or having no hunger for it, is a bleak existence, even though you are absorbed in the propaganda of the media. Jesus came to give you life “more abundantly” (John 10:10). Don’t be too proud to enjoy that truly rich life. Read the book itself. Revel in it.

 

“Is there some key word in Revelation that I need to know, to start with?” The answer is “the Lamb,” the crucified One who is the Savior of the world, especially of those who believe (1 Tim. 4:10). “The Lamb” is there some 25 times. He is your Elder Brother! The book will bring you close to Him. Stay with it. You’ll understand what the cross means.

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