The Days are at Hand

Good Morning,  And welcome to a brief edition of the "Biblical Perspectives" blog.  Our aim here is to look at current events in light of a Biblical Perspective.  Meaning, we will look at it through the filter of what I consider to be the infallible Word of the Living God.  As I was searching the FoxNews website I came across many troubling headlines, but one stuck out to me and it is what I would consider the real M.O. of the government and "world system" as a whole.

While there are millions of people across the world, and thousands across the United States of America in poverty, sick, dying of cancer, and homeless soldiers we have our government looking at the hazards of....wait for it.....wait for it....you guessed it, CHRISTMAS LIGHTS! -- The "Real Evil" of today's society.  A quote from Foxnews.com said the following - 

"The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a regulation for Christmas lights on Monday, deeming some holiday decorations a "substantial product hazard." - Foxnews.com

Now why, among all things would the CPSC care about Christmas lights?  They've been around for decades!    I'm reminded of the words of Jesus when He said, 

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. - John 15.18-20 (Biblegateway.com)

This is just another way that the "world" is trying to put the light of Christ under a bushel.  And while "Real" persecution has not officially began in the United States like it has in the Middle East, this is just an example of things to come.  The CPSC states that the Christmas light hazard has caused the death of 258 Americans......since 1980!!  As a matter of fact here is the stats offered through Foxnews for those of you who are now worried about the dangers of Christmas lights -- 

"The CPSC said there have been 258 deaths associated with Christmas lights between 1980 and 2013. However, fatal incidents have been on the decline, with an average of less than one fatal (0.9) incident a year since 2008. The number of people who die of alcohol poisoning in California every year is greater than the number of Americans who have been killed by Christmas lights in the past three decades. - Foxnews.com

Ladies and Gentleman, the time is arriving when what is good is being called evil, and what is evil is being called good, and unless this nation repents then the Bible promises judgment from a Righteous God.  Isaiah 5.20 says it like this;  

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

"Woe to those"!  The word "Woe" you hear in this passage is a noise of lamentation.  It is the Hebrew equal to a deep sigh or gasp.  Basically it means that the nation or people that call, what God calls good, evil are in serious trouble and walking in God's judgment.

So Christians, its another sign that the time to step up your prayer life has arrived.  The Apostasy in the church is one of the many reasons we are seeing what we are seeing in the U.S. today.  Our elected officials that allow such ignorance are there because we put them there, so at the end of the day, we have only ourselves to blame. - But Jesus says "when you see all these things, lift up your head, your redemption is drawing near". - Luke 21.28

Now there is your Biblical Perspective!  Blessings to you all!

Here is a link to read the article in its entirety

Lunar Tetrad - 3rd of 4

I hope I have not overloaded everyone's News Feed with Biblical info.  I guess if you have an overloaded News Feed that is what it should be loaded with.  Tomorrow morning (Technically at this hour, later today) I plan to view the 3rd Blood Moon of the Lunar Tedrad of 2014/2015. (6:55 AM)  These blood moons all take place on Jewish Feast days as they are introduced to the world via Leviticus 23.  These are high and holy days, (thus where we get the term "Holiday"...it is a Holy-Day)  These feast days where days where God told His people that He would meet with them for Holy Convocations and they were to be celebrated in certain ways.  I believe they were prescribed by God in such a way that they foreshadow both the first coming and the second comings of Christ Jesus.  The fact that the Jewish people use a Lunar, Biblical Calendar makes the fact that these Lunar Tedrads occurring on Jewish feast days all the more interesting.  NASA confirms that these types of Lunar eclipses have happened in the past and as I have learned from great men of God like Pastor Mark Biltz and Pastor John Hagee, every time a lunar tetrad has occurred something very significant has taken place in and amongst the Jewish people.

• In 1493/94 - 4 blood moons showed on Jewish feast days and that was the year following the Spanish inquisition.  This lead to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and prompted a devout Jew named Christopher Columbus to set sail to the "new world" that would ultimately become the USA.

• In 1949/50 - In the wake of the Holocaust and the announcement of the biggest prophetic event in the modern era, Israel had become a state for the first time since ancient Bible times.  God said it would happen through His prophets and the year following those events, God showed great signs in the Heavens with 4 blood moons!

• In 1967/68 God lit up the Heavens with a celestial light show of 4 blood moons, it was in 1967 that the Israelites overcame all odds to win a 6 day war that saw them regain Jerusalem as their capital for the first time since ancient Bible times.

• And now in 2014/2015 we see God, again, putting 4 blood moons on Jewish feast days as what most scholars believe to be a prophetic sign to the nations and Israel that His "Appointed Times" have come again.  We are now closing in on the 3rd of 4 and look at the increased hostility toward the nation of Israel.  The bombings, the rocket attacks from Hamas, and now the Iranian nuclear energy talks.  What is the message God is telling His people? - I will tell you this much, the final celestial sign of this tetrad is set to take place on September 28, 2015.  It is the Feast of Tabernacles in Judaism, and the moon is a "Super-moon" and it is the only 1 of the tetrad visible from Israel.  It also happens just a few weeks removed from the end of a Shemitah Year (another Biblical principal worth studying).  What is God telling the world?  I don't know for sure, but I know Jesus' Biblical mandate to "watch, and pray, for when you see all these signs, lift up your head, your redemption draws near. - Luke 21:28.

If you are not right with God through His Son Jesus Christ, then it is time to get that way.  Do not be overtaken like a thief who comes in the night.  For if you are watching and waiting, then you will not be overtaken.  

With all of this said, I will now be enjoying my Passover/Resurrection Sunday weekend with family, friends, church family, and most of all...My Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. --- Peace to you!

Passion Week Devotions, Day 2

Jesus Cleanses the Temple  

Today is Tuesday, Nissan 11. – According to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus rode in triumphantly on Nissan 10 where He was inspected by the congregation of the children of Israel for 4 days ending in His crucifixion on Nissan 14, or Passover to you and me.  ON this day on the Biblical Calendar, Mark tells us that Jesus went into the Temple after spending the night in Bethany.  As He went into the Temple He found money changers and people selling animals for sacrifice.  The problem was that the Scriptures call the Temple a “House of Prayer to all Nations” (Isaiah 56.7), however, the Jewish leaders of that day had made it a “Den of Thieves”. 

Apart from the fact that the people were changing money and selling defective animals, Jesus’ anger was aroused because the selling and trading was taking place in the “Gentile Courts” of the Temple.  This was the place that God had always allowed the Gentiles to come and be a part of God’s love and what God was doing here on Earth.

The scripture tells us that Salvation is of the Jews and they are called to be a light to all nations (Isaiah 49.6).  However, they had not done what God called them to do.  It was then that Jesus removes the sinfulness of keeping all people from coming to salvation (the Hebrew word for Salvation is YESHUA, which is Jesus’ actual name)…So the Jews of that day were preventing the nations of the world from ultimately coming to Jesus, which was the Jews job in the first place.

What we ultimately see in the “Cleansing of the Temple” was Jesus coming to His Father’s house and removing the leavened from His Father’s House.  You see in Jewish homes throughout the Old Testament, the parents would send their children around the house to search for leavened as it was a Biblical command that no leavened be in the house at all during the feast of unleavened bread. – Jesus as God’s Son was removing the leavened from His Father’s house just like He was called to do as a good son, but As the Good Shepherd, He was clearing the way for a new sheep of His pasture…YOU AND ME! --- Praise God for His love that sent His only begotten Son, that whoever shall believe, shall live forever!!