Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Description: Where is your name written?
Not sure what significance this has, but the first non-euorpean pope for 1000 years has been elected, and the first ever Jesuit. His name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, but is now Pope Francis (76 years old). Sounds like Malachi got it wrong, though something may be construed.
What does this mean? Is it a sign of the end? Some would like to say so. Personally I see no prophecy this is fulfilling. Time will tell what the reality is though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis
Revelation 12:12 (KJV)
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
If Gabriel struggles to prevail against Lucifer… How will we go?
Synopsis:
Is temptation of value?
1 Peter 1:5-7 (KJV)
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. [6] Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: [7] That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
It seems the German church is up to its old tricks again. First in 1940s they had their people sent to prison and killed on the war issue (no, I am not a part of the Reform, but no one can deny this historical fact), and now they are distancing themselves from Walter. Very disappointing to see, however not overly surprising. Please pray for their leaders, that they will reconsider and learn from the past, and also please pray for Walter, that he can stay strong in his faith and convictions.
The work which the church has failed to do in a time of peace and prosperity, she will have to do in a terrible crisis, under most discouraging, forbidding, circumstances. The warnings that worldly conformity has silenced or withheld, must be given under the fiercest opposition from enemies of the faith. And at that time the superficial, conservative class [**note this means people who do not speak against sin**], whose influence has steadily retarded the progress of the work, will renounce the faith, and take their stand with its avowed enemies, toward whom their sympathies have long been tending. These apostates will then manifest the most bitter enmity, doing all in their power to oppress and malign their former brethren, and to excite indignation against them. This day is just before us. The members of the church will individually be tested and proved. They will be placed in circumstances where they will be forced to bear witness for the truth. Many will be called to speak before councils and in courts of justice, perhaps separately and alone. The experience which would have helped them in this emergency they have neglected to obtain, and their souls are burdened with remorse for wasted opportunities and neglected privileges.–Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 463. {ChS 158.1}
Full Article here
2012-11-28 – Paul Godfrey – Thoughts and Feelings – mp3 - youtube
Character is a combination of thoughts and feelings.
This is the study referred to in this prayer meeting: youtube
But not so when the great controversy shall be ended. Then, the plan of redemption having been completed, the character of God is revealed to all created intelligences. The precepts of His law are seen to be perfect and immutable. Then sin has made manifest its nature, Satan his character. Then the extermination of sin will vindicate God’s love and establish His honor before a universe of beings who delight to do His will, and in whose heart is His law. – {DA 764.3}
[PT 1 of 9]
We’re going to be discussing the structure of prophecy. Like we looked at in the previous lectures, prophecy is very, very important. In the bible, prophecy has been given to us for a number of reasons, which I’ll get into a couple of minutes. But prophecy is possibly the most powerful but the most misunderstood aspect of the word of God. God has sealed up His truth in prophetic language and He’s done so that only diligent study is able to unlock it. More and more as we enter the final times of the world, those that are truly diligent about the word of God are the ones that are able to unlock and explain prophecy. The reason God locked prophecy in prophetic in language is so that He could protect it from corruption from outside fingers as it were; from people that would influence the bible and prophecy to mean something else so that Satan once he understood prophecy would adjust it. But because it’s locked up in prophetic language, it can only be encoded and decoded by the bible. The only way to unlock or decode prophecy is to learn the language of prophecy from the bible and apply that language to the information. So, you get a type of prophetic stencil which when you look at the prophecy through the stencil it makes sense. Prophecy was given to us as it explains in Amos 3:7 to give us security in our knowledge about what’s coming in future.
