Bring out all the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears! All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true. "You are My witnesses," declares the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after Me. I am The Lord, and besides Me there is NO SAVIOR. I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and "you are My witnesses," declares the Lord, "and I am God. Also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can turn it back?"
Isaiah 43:8-13
Okay, so there's this whole "openness" theology going around these days, a FALSE DOCTRINE, that teaches that God doesn't know the future, that He is sitting on pins and needles like the rest of us, waiting to see what's going to happen and then He really isn't powerful enough to do anything about it anyway! Really?? Seriously??? Were these people dropped on their collective heads? I would have them read JUST the book of Isaiah. Does that quote I gave you give you the impression that this God we serve is NOT ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGN, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. Do you know one HUGE reason you can KNOW the Bible is God's inerrant, God-breathed ONLY ABSOLUTE TRUTH? Because first of all, it's the only book that DARES to tell the future and then BE RIGHT 100% of the time. Yes you heard me correctly, 100% of the time. Take just the prophecies concerning the first coming of Christ, hundreds of them and Jesus fulfilled them ALL, LITERALLY, down to the smallest period and apostrophe! That's the way God ALWAYS fulfills His prophecies, LITERALLY, meaning we are to take them that way and not try to spiritualize them or write them off as metaphorical speech. Which is what unknowing but well-meaning Christians do to the prophetic book of Revelation. Just because the Apostle John had trouble describing things that were going to happen in OUR generation back in the FIRST CENTURY so that his descriptions are a little mysterious sometimes, people write The whole book off as nothing but a symbolic battle between good and evil. Give me a break. Do you know there is a special blessing in the book of Revelation for people who bother to take their time, open their hearts to the Holy Spirit, and read and understand the importance of this precious book. Jesus called it the Great Tribulation, do you think He would really leave us with NO information about that time period?? I don't think so.
"Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this PROPHECY, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near" Rev 1:3
I don't know how I got to Revelation from ISAIAH, but the Holy Spirit was just moving me along. I guess my whole point would be that we serve an incredible, SOVEREIGN, all-knowing, all-seeing God who takes His word and how we handle it very seriously and if GOD Himself refers to a WHOLE BOOK in the Bible as PROPHECY, and yet to be fulfilled prophecy at that, then so MUST WE. We don't have the option of picking and choosing what parts of the Bible to believe and what not to believe. If we claim to follow Christ then we must TAKE IT ALL. And you know? It's pretty black and white. It's man who tries to complicate it and who twists it so that it means what THEY want it to say instead of taking what God has clearly stated!
Bless you my brothers and sisters!
Michelle
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