Thursday, July 30, 2015

The Contemporary Music trend... Is it expedient?

Eph_5:19  Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 

Col_3:16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.


"THE PURPOSE OF THIS POST IS TO SHOW THE OPINIONS AND IDEAS THAT MAY AFFECT THE NEXT GENERATIONS... WE SHOULD BE CAREFUL TO LEAVE A CLEAR PATH TO THE NEXT GENERATION THAT THE CHANGES MUST BE GOD'S CLEAR WAY AND NOT A NEW TACTIC OF SATAN TO DESTROY WHAT WE HAVE FOUGHT FOR... JUDGE WELL BECAUSE WE WILL FACE JESUS IN THE BEMA... WE ARE NOT TO JUDGE HERE BY OPINION BUT BY THE CLEAR WORD OF GOD"

Music — An expression of a thought or idea, expressed through notes, pitch and harmony.
Music is one of the most influential things in the universe. Its purpose is divine. It is to worship God, and bring Him glory.
Music is important to God. All throughout HIS Book, the Bible, music plays an important role. It is important for the church ministry because it is a form of worship.

Here is why music is important to God
(1)The Psalms is the hymnbook of the Bible. It has 150 chapters.
(2) God responses to music [II Chronicles 5:12-14
 (3) Angels sang at Jesus birth [Luke 2:8-14].
(4) Songs will be sung in heaven [Revelation 15:3-5]
(5) A trumpet will sound at our final calling [II Thessalonians 4:16]
(6)It is used as a distress call — Paul and Silas [Acts 16:22]
(7) It is used after a victory [Exodus 15:1- 10,21]

Music greatly affects the entirety of a person. Because music is vibration, it can easily be transmitted to a person who also receives and transmits vibration.Music affects a person...

1. Physically - Good music — increases eyesight by 25%, allows you to digest food better. Makes plant grow a few times more than normal plant growth. Bad music
— Gives headache, causes indigestion, kills plants

2. Mentally
(1 )What the musician believes greatly affects the listener even if the musician doesn’t say a word
(2) Information, attitude, idea, philosophy and even religion can be passed mentally through music.

3. Spiritually
(1)It either makes you strong or weak spiritually.
(2)Spiritual songs from God can help you flee temptation and calm fears.
(3) Check Christians who listen to rock music and you’ll find worldly, hardheaded, rebellious and wrong attituded Christians.
(4) Satan and his crowd back up rock music.


WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO THE WORLD’S MUSIC
(1 )The singers defy the name of God through its lyrics — Exodus 20:7
(2)It is a fountain of rebellion, because Rock Music is actually an expression of rebellion to authority. (Ex. God, Parents, Law)
(3)Because of the lifestyle, philosophy, beliefs and practices of the artists.
(4)Because the lyrics and philosophy of the songs agrees with the Satanic Church by Anton Lavey. (5)Satan uses it to control your mind, and then your life.
(6)It is against God’s will. — Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 6:1-3; Ephesians 4:24
(7)The world’s music teaches that salvation is by works, not by faith in Christ Jesus alone.

HOW TO FIGHT SATAN’S MUSIC
(1.)Decide never to listen or sing Satan’s music
(2.) Decide to replace it with God’s music. Always sing true Christian music.
(3). Burn those worldly records. (Don’t give them away).
(4)Stand on the word of God. (Ephesians 6:10-19).
(5)Be a soul winner. Have a burden for others who are bond by the devil and are going to hell.
(6)Put God first in your life. (Matthew 6:33).
(7)Love Him above all. (Mark 12:30)

Why We Are Opposed to Contemporary Christian Music

“When the standard of music is lowered, then the standard of dress is also lowered. When the standard of dress is lowered, then the standard of conduct is also lowered. When the standard of conduct is lowered, then the sense of value in God’s truth is lowered.”



"In the past ten years a large percentage of churches in America, and in other countries have changed from a traditional New Testament church model to a contemporary Purpose Driven model, many with sorrowful results..








°Change in music to a contemporary rock style.
.•Removal of hymn books; eliminating the choir.
.•Replacement of organ and piano with heavy metal instruments
.•Repetitive singing of praise lyrics.
.•Dressing down to casual and informal attire.




CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC WEAKENS THE FUNDAMENTALIST STANCE OF A CHURCH



A final reason why we are opposed to Contemporary Christian Music is that when it comes into a church (or into the life of an individual) it weakens the church’s fundamentalist stance and results in a gradual lowering of standards of morality and doctrine.


The late Gordon Sears, who had an evangelistic music ministry for many years and ministered with Rudy Atwood, was saddened before his death by the dramatic change that was occurring in many fundamental Baptist churches. He warned: “When the standard of music is lowered, then the standard of dress is also lowered. When the standard of dress is lowered, then the standard of conduct is also lowered. When the standard of conduct is lowered, then the sense of value in God’s truth is lowered.”



Frank Garlock of Majesty Music warns, “If a church starts using CCM it will eventually lose all other standards” (Garlock, Bob Jones University Chapel, March 12, 2001).


The late fundamentalist leader Ernest Pickering gave a similar warning: “Perhaps nothing precipitates a slide toward New Evangelicalism more than the introduction of Contemporary Christian Music. This inevitably leads toward a gradual slide in other areas as well until the entire church is infiltrated by ideas and programs alien to the original position of the church.”

We can see this happening on every hand today.


CONSIDER THE EXAMPLE OF LANDMARK BAPTIST CHURCH, CINCINNATI, OHIO. It used to be an old-fashioned Baptist church with old-fashioned standards of music and dress and a commitment to the old English Bible.


In the 1990s the church took at turn away from its roots and at the heart of this change was music. In 1996 the church brought in a Campus Crusade band that played “high energy ‘50s and ‘60s rock and roll.”


In 2001, Mat Holman became the pastor. The church web site says, “Being a firm believer that church should be fun and on the edge, Matt puts all his energy into making Landmark a place where everyone belongs.”


The church now features a teen ministry called EnterRuption. “The purpose of EnterRuption is to create a relevant environment for students to bring their friends. We utilize a live band (secular and Christian music), dramas, skits and a relevant message.” I wonder if Paul’s message on Mars Hill, in which he boldly rebuked his listeners’ idolatry and demanded repentance, was “relevant”? I have a sneaking suspicion that the messages presented at EnterRuption aren’t exactly Acts 17 in nature. Somehow, such a message doesn’t fit an atmosphere geared toward “fun” and bathed in rock and roll.


The pop group Jump5 performed at Landmark Baptist Church on Dec. 6, 2003. “The music of the Nashville-based group is thoroughly modern pop, high-spirited and 100% fun.”

CONSIDER THE EXAMPLE OF BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH IN FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA. This church illustrates the changes that contemporary music brings. At one time this church was an old-fashioned Baptist church that believed in separation and was committed to the King James Bible, but for many years the church has been moving ever more gradually in a contemporary direction. By the time the 2002 Baptist Bible Fellowship International conference was held here the contemporary “worship team” was led by four women.


Today the Bethlehem Baptist Church has much gone about as far as you can go away from its roots in the matter of standards. In a letter dated July 3, 2003, Pastor David Stokes said: “With regard to dress and modesty issues, we enforce NO RULE on our folks. … apparel issues are really of NO CONCERN to us” (emphasis added).


If the pastor really means what he says, then it would be fitting for a Sunday School teacher to come in her bikini! Of course, the pastor probably wouldn’t allow that, which proves that what he really means is that he has rejected the OLD strict conservative Bible standards and has replaced them with his NEW loose worldly standards. All churches draw lines in dress, but while some draw them using biblical principles, others draw them using the world’s principles. Of course, the latter group consistently labels the first group mean-spirited legalists.


Stokes also led the church to drop its “King James Only” clause from the by-laws and he now preaches from the New American Standard Version and the New Living Translation, among others.


In recent years the church’s name was changed from Bethlehem Baptist Church to Fair Oaks Church.


One of the church’s ministries is Skate Night, which is sponsored by secular skateboarding companies. Thus the church is blatantly yoking together with unbelievers in open defiance of Scripture (2 Cor. 6:14-18). A description of Skate Night was given by a local newspaper: “CHRISTIAN ROCK THROBS inside the small gymnasium off West Ox Road in Fairfax, just a few decibels louder than the clacking of wheels. ... It’s Sunday night and more than 170 teenagers and young adults -- all but one of them male -- line the walls of the Bethlehem Baptist Church gym, waiting their turn to grind and swoop and dive over a maze of makeshift ramps and rails” (Washington Post, April 4, 2001).


The church testifies that it is using rock music and skateboarding to win young people to Christ, but the Skate Night web site’s gospel presentation is so weak as to be almost meaningless:


“We’re not talking about religion; we’re talking about a relationship. It’s about recognizing that you are not perfect. We’ve all made mistakes. From pimping and drug abuse to telling a little white lie, we are all in need of a Savior. He doesn’t care what you look like, what bad things you have done, or even how good you may think you are. He just wants you to know Him!”




That is not the gospel message that we find in the New Testament. There is no clear explanation of man’s sin. There is nothing about God’s holiness and justice, nothing about what Jesus did to become our Saviour, nothing about His death, burial, and resurrection. Nothing about the blood. There is nothing whatsoever about repentance or turning. And as for God not caring how good a person might think he is, He most certainly does, because if a person thinks of himself as good in any sense, he cannot be saved. Someone might get saved through Fair Oaks Church’s Skate Night ministry, but it would be in spite of its gospel presentation and not because of it.


The Bethlehem Baptist Church paper in 2002 featured a photo of the church’s new Youth Pastor, Rob Hoerr. Bedecked with a goatee, an earring, and a P.O.D. T-shirt, this independent Baptist youth director is proudly promoting the Christian rock lifestyle.


P.O.D. is a rock band. The initials are supposed to stand for Payable On Death. The tattoo-covered band members curse in interviews, smoke, watch R-rated movies, and criticize kids “who want to segregate themselves from the world.” The group’s leader said, “Jesus was the first rebel. He was the first punk rocker going against all the rest of it” (Sonny of P.O.D., www.shoutweb.com/interviews/pod0700.phtml). In another interview, P.O.D. said, “We’re not passing out pamphlets saying ‘Get your life straight or you’re gonna burn in hell” (Sonny, Guitar World, Oct 2000, p. 78). Sonny says, “I like Slayer. I like Manson. I like music and this dark imagery” (2001 interview with Theresa McKeon of Shoutweb titled “P.O.D. The Fundamental Elements of God Rock”). He is talking about the antichrist rocker Marilyn Manson. P.O.D. guitarist Marcos says, “You know, everyone is free to rock ---. When we go on stage we go crazy. We are like four guys you should put in a mental hospital” (interview with Hwee Hwee Tan of Singapore, October 2002).


Is that the example you want your young people to follow, dear parents? I say woe unto the worldly youth directors who are leading young people in such paths, and woe unto those pastors who appoint such youth directors!


Thus we can see that Bethlehem Baptist Church has gone a long way down the road from its roots as a conservative, fundamentalist Baptist church, and music is at the very heart of the changes.


CONSIDER THE EXAMPLE OF TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. This church was pastored by J. Frank Norris from 1935 to 1950 and by G. Beauchamp Vick from 1950 to 1975. In past days, it was the most prominent church in the Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI). Vick was one of the founders of the BBFI in 1950 and was president of Baptist Bible College. It was a conservative, fundamental Baptist church that eschewed ecumenism, preached strong Bible doctrine, and promoted holy living and separation from the world. It also used only the King James Bible. Preaching in 1975 at the 25th anniversary of the founding of the BBFI, G.B. Vick said:


“It’s become fashionable to use many different versions of the Bible today. ... Listen! This King James Version, our English Bible, the Bible of our fathers and mothers, is the one that has come floating down to us upon the blood of Christian martyrs, our forefathers. It has been, I say, the one text of the Baptist Bible College, and it will be as long as I have anything to do with this school! [loud amens and applause] ... Let’s stick to the old Book.”


In those days at Temple Baptist Church it was the old Book and the old Paths, but that changed in the 1990s.


In 1990 the church got a young new pastor named Brad Powell, and he began to lead the church into a contemporary direction.

The church’s music today is described at its web site: “The PRAISE BANDS provide music for all services. The Praise Bands consist of the piano, synthesizer, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, and drums.”


The church began having CCM concerts in the early 1990s, starting out with the softer rock groups. In September 1993, for example, they had Steve Camp. By October 1996, they featured Michael Card, who is radically ecumenical, working with Roman Catholic John Michael Talbot (who prays to Mary) and claiming that denominational distinctives are not important.


The music style of the CCM groups at Northridge Church has gotten ever harder. In September 2003, the church hosted Sonic Flood, and Charlie Hall was scheduled to be there in October. In September 2003, the church was scheduled to host Darlene Zschech (pronounced check), who promotes ecumenism and unscriptural charismatic doctrines and practices.


In February 2000 Temple Baptist Church changed its name to Northridge Church of Plymouth, Michigan, after taking a survey of the community and finding out that most people don’t like the name Baptist.


CONSIDER THE EXAMPLE OF SOUTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH, GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA. This church was founded in September 1946. From 1965 to 1996 it was pastored by Walt Handford. His wife Elizabeth is one of the daughters of the famous fundamentalist evangelist John R. Rice, founder of the Sword of the Lord. It was long associated with the Southwide Baptist Fellowship. It was an old-fashioned fundamental Baptist church until the 1990s.


Elizabeth Rice Handford is editorial consultant of Joyful Woman magazine, which in the 1990s began to feature ecumenical personalities such as James Dobson and Elisabeth Elliot, both of whom have non-critical affiliations with the Roman Catholic Church.


In September 1993, Southside Baptist Church hosted Ray Boltz for a CCM concert.


That same year Southside gave up the King James Bible in favor of the NIV. In support of this move, the speaker at Southside for the Sunday evening service, September 12, 1993, was Kenneth Barker, chairman of the New International Version translation committee.


By 1994 the church had a staff member who was also employed by the extremely ecumenical Campus Crusade for Christ. In an interview with Charisma magazine in 2001, Campus Crusade founder Bill Bright described his philosophy: “I have felt that God led me many years ago to build bridges. I’m a Presbyterian . . . and yet I work with everybody who loves Jesus, whether they be charismatic or Catholic, Orthodox or mainliners. ... I’m not an evangelical. I’m not a fundamentalist.”


In 1996, Charles Boyd became pastor of Southside Baptist Church. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, both of which are New Evangelical to the core.


Southside Baptist Church recently changed its name to Southside Fellowship.


It is good that these churches are changing their names, because they are certainly changing their philosophy. In each case, they will profess that they have not changed anything important. Brad Powell of Northridge (formerly Temple Baptist of Detroit) claims that by following church growth guru Bill Hybels of Willowcreek, he has not changed anything of significance. For those who have eyes to see, this subterfuge won’t fly. If Temple Baptist Church was right and scriptural in its early days, Northridge Church is wrong today, and if Northridge Church is right and scriptural today, the old Temple Baptist was wrong. The doctrine and practice and philosophy of the old church and the new are not compatible. For the Bible believer, the choice between the contemporary church growth philosophy and the old traditional fundamentalist philosophy is not “both and,” it is “either or.”


The pastors who follow the contemporary church growth principles claim that they are not changing doctrine, only style. That is simply not true. Many of the so-called “style” changes are doctrinal. To allow church members to dress immodestly like the world without any reproof or correction is a doctrinal issue. To borrow the music that the world uses for sexual pleasure and to incorporate that very music into the church program is a doctrinal issue. To claim that music is neutral is a doctrinal issue. To yoke ecumenically with charismatics and such is a doctrinal issue. To say that preaching should focus on the positive is a doctrinal issue. To take Matthew 7:1 and Romans 14:4 out of context to approve a non-judgmental, doctrinally non-controversial approach to the Christian ministry is a doctrinal issue. To use community surveys for planning church policy is a doctrinal issue. To adopt a New Evangelical philosophy is a doctrinal issue.


When a church changes its “style” in these areas, it is undergoing a radical doctrinal change; and continual boasting to the contrary is mere noise without meaning and only deceives the willfully blind. There is little doubt that J. Frank Norris and G. Beauchamp Vick would consider the current “style” at Northridge doctrinal issues.


Therefore, we believe Gordon Sears was right when he said: “When the standard of music is lowered, then the standard of dress is also lowered. When the standard of dress is lowered, then the standard of conduct is also lowered. When the standard of conduct is lowered, then the sense of value in God’s truth is lowered.”


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Monday, July 20, 2015

#3 Prophecies of Christ Coming in the OT by Shinji Amari/LD Foreman

Prophecies of the Second Coming of Christ in the New Testament 

 
1. Jesus Himself promised of His return.
 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1-3)

Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. (Matthew 26:64)
2. Prophesied by the angels 
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. 
(Acts 1:11)
3. Prophesied by the apostles:
A. The Apostle Paul: 
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 
(1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. 
(2 Thessalonians 1:7-10)
B. John:
 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. 
(Revelation 1:7)
C. Peter had a glimpse of the glory of Jesus' return.
 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.  (2 Peter 1:16-18)
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:  (1 Peter 1:7)
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
(1 Peter 1:13) 
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
(1 Peter 4:13)





Friday, July 17, 2015

#2 The Prophecies of Christs Coming in the OT by Shinji Amari & LD Foreman

There are many verses in the Old and New Testament Bible concerning His Second Coming. Some of those prophecies are listed here:

1.) Prophecies in the Old Testament:
  1. The Lord will come as a judge and mediator to establish peace forever. "He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people;The shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore." Isaiah 2:4
    2.  The day of the Second Coming of Christ is called "The Day of the Lord," and "the Day of God's Anger" for mankind of unfaithfulness to Christ and inequities of man.
Behold, the day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate and He will destroy its sinners from it.
For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not give their light;
The sun will be darkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
"I will punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the LORD of hosts
And in the day of His fierce anger.
Isaiah 13:9-13, Isaiah 24:11-22, "the Day of Revenge" 63:1-4




    3. The Lord will come to reign absolutely as the king of kings at Jerusalem (Zion)
"Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem And before His elders, gloriously. Isaiah 24:23

   4. Jesus, who is God, will bring salvation to Israel, heal the sick, restore the land of Israel with blessings of nature, and the Israelites who were scattered to the four corners of the earth will return to their native country, Israel and to whom He will change their sorrows into joy.

Isaiah 35:4-10  Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.  (5)  Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.  (6)  Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.  (7)  And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.  (8)  And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.  (9)  No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:  (10)  And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 51:3  For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.


   5. The Lord will come with fire to judge people.

Isaiah 66:15-16  For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.  (16)  For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
1 Corinthians 3:13  Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
 
    6. "Jehovah" in Hebrew suggests the return of Christ. This word in Japanese is "the Lord" in the new translation and "Jehovah" in the old translation.

This word is mentioned 4,700 times in the Bible, but the Jews were told not to take the name of the Lord in vain (Exodus 20:7), so they did not utter the name out of a feeling of awe. Therefore, the correct pronunciation of this word is not clear till today, but the meaning can be defined from its writing. As God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." (Exodus 3:14) In other words, it is a be-verb in Hebrew, and this contains all the states of the verb, "was, is, will be." Jesus Christ said " I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, " says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." (Revelations 1:8)

Therefore, the Second Coming of Jesus is included in the name of Jehovah as the name exist forever.


To be continued...

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

The Second Coming of Christ Series: What will happen? By Shinji Amari/L.D. Foreman

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  (John 14:3)

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.  (Rev 1:7)


1.) The second coming of Christ is the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. Acts 3:21.

It has been almost 2,000 years since the Lord had spoken about His second coming. But the world of the Lord is so true, and will come true, so we look forward to His return with great hope and expectation. The prophesies of His return are written many times in the Bible. The environment of the earth, economic conditions, political situations and moral religious issues has clearly shown the sign of the end times.


This also shows the Lord's return is at hand. For antichrist forces, it would be an awful judgment time, but it would be a time of salvation, a time of joy and a day of a great hope for Christians who look forward to the Second Coming of Christ.

Christ promised us that He will renew all things after His judgment is done.

The Bible talks about this: "...whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." Acts 3:21

In fact, the Second Coming of Jesus is a time when all things are released from their bondage and renewed. All things will be made new.
The reason why the second coming of Christ is included in the Church Age is because the most blessed climax will occur for His church when He returns. It is "the Lamb's marriage" which means a wedding between the church and Christ. This is one of the most important purposes of His return. While He returns first in the air, the rapture will occur, His scriptural churches and the faithful saints will be taken up to meet with Christ. The head of the church and the husband (Christ) will join together with the bride of christ (the church). Later, Jesus will come back to the earth, and bring salvation to Israel and judge nations. Then the Millenium Age will start when Christ and the church will rule the entire earth. a new heaven and a new earth will begin on this earth subsequently. In the Age of Heaven, Christ together with the church will reign the Kingdom of God forever.

2. The four aspects concerning the second coming of Christ:
    1. individuals
    2. churches
    3. the Jews
    4. nations

"The End Time Events and Eternal Plans of God" in the following outlines the events in the Second Coming of Christ. Based on this diagram, the readers need to grasp the whole perspective of the future events in the Bible.





To be continued....



Authors from the book:  "Bible in Eight Ages"
LD Foreman 1913-1984




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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Management 101: Are you a LEADER or a BOSS?

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Knows ‘we’ not ‘I’ build a ‘successful’ team



A leader knows alone he can travel few miles, but together the team can cover many. This is why they make plans for the entire team, not just themselves. However, most bosses put their highly inflated egos and self-centered personality above team spirit and thus, fail to bring out the best of themselves as well as that of the team.

Knows the power of appreciation



A great leader knows how powerful the words of appreciation are. They know how a simple ‘thank you’, ‘great job’, ‘love your idea’ and ‘you are the best’ can motivate their team members to walk an extra mile and deliver their best.

Encourages and enthuses ‘all’ minds in the team



While some people are self-motivated and are eager to learn and take new responsibilities, others need encouragement to feel motivated and get enthusiastic about their job. And this is one thing that leaders excel at.

Owns the responsibility of developing his team members



A great leader knows that every person on this earth has the potential to do something great, it is just that someone needs to spend some time for nurturing their talents and help overall growth.

Politely ‘request’ not just ‘give orders’



A leader knows that his better hierarchical position gives them the right to shoot commands or order people, but they still choose to make a polite request—simply because, they respect other people as much as they respect themselves.

Fixes problem instead of playing the ‘blame game’



In event of a breakdown, leaders do get to the root cause of the problem but only after resolving the problem at hand. Yes, they make it a point to tell people what really went wrong without playing the blame game.

Mentors people on how they can deliver their best



A good leader not just manages or dictates target, but coaches team members on how they can optimize their strengths to overcome their weaknesses so as to become a better professional.

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Monday, July 6, 2015

10 Reasons Why You Should Oppose Same-Sex "Marriage"





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In the cultural battle over “same-sex” marriage, one of the American groups overlooked in the debate is the Native American population. Organized along ancestral tribes, these groups form a diverse, yet significant portion of the U.S. population.
Native American tribal leaders have discussed the issue of “same-sex” marriage at length over the past several years as the debate has raged in America.
Where many of them have come out on the matter is sure to make liberals howl.
CNS News reports:
Tribal laws of the two largest Native American tribes in the United States prohibit gay marriage, as do the laws of nine other smaller tribes.

The Navajo and Cherokee Nations, the first and second largest tribes respectively, together have about 600,000 members. The nine smaller tribes that ban gay marriage have another 350,000 members. These tribes all either define marriage as between a man and a woman or explicitly prohibit same-sex marriage, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Since 2011, six of the eleven tribes revisited and upheld their preexisting legal definitions of marriage as between a man and a woman, AP researchers found.
It will not matter what the Supreme Court decides on “same-sex” marriage. These tribes have their own sovereignty as CNS News reveals:
Due to their status as sovereign nations, these 11 tribes will not need to change their marriage laws, which govern nearly one million tribal members, even if the Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage later this month.
If the court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling determines that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Native American bans on gay marriage will remain in effect because federally-recognized tribes have the right to establish their own laws and are not subject to the U.S. Constitution.
These Native American tribes have thought through this issue and their statements are clear, concise, and legally binding as CNS News explains:
For example, the Cherokee Nation Marriage and Family Protection Act of 2004 defines marriage as “a civil contract between one man and one woman” and states that “no marriage shall be contracted…between parties of the same gender.”
Title 6 of Chickasaw tribal law states that “a marriage between persons of the same gender performed in any jurisdiction shall not be recognized as valid and binding in the Chickasaw Nation.” However, the law notes that it does not prohibit “members of the same sex from entering written contracts” with one another.

10 Reasons Why LGBT “Marriage” is Harmful and Must be Opposed

1. It Is Not Marriage

Calling something marriage does not make it marriage. Marriage has always been a covenant between a man and a woman which is by its nature ordered toward the procreation and education of children and the unity and wellbeing of the spouses.

The promoters of same-sex “marriage” propose something entirely different. They propose the union between two men or two women. This denies the self-evident biological, physiological, and psychological differences between men and women which find their complementarity in marriage. It also denies the specific primary purpose of marriage: the perpetuation of the human race and the raising of children.

Two entirely different things cannot be considered the same thing.

Click link: 10 Reasons Why Homosexual “Marriage” is Harmful and Must be Opposed



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