CONSIDERING ISLAM – An Apologetic

EPHESIANS 6:12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

There’s an increase in the so-called “religion” of Islam that commits violence the world over (especially Nigeria, Mali, Syria, Iraq and Iran) by so-called “radical Muslims”. I say “so-called” in both respects because Islam is more of a political ideology whose goal is global conquest (a “caliphate”) than merely a religion. Likewise Muslims who commit Jihad (conversion to Islam by violence if not first by persuasion) they aren’t “radical” – they’re simply being obedient to the Quran.

PROVERBS 28:19-28 - SOW WHAT ABOUT MY LIFE?

PROVERBS 28:19-28 SOW WHAT ABOUT MY LIFE?

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INTRODUCTION: Proverbs is really a book of contrasts: It reveals the way of wisdom and the ways of foolishness. In the path of wisdom there is blessing and reward; in the other paths of foolishness there is cursing and punishment. In these chapters and verses GOD provides us with choices.

He gave our First Parents a choice: obedience to His will or rebellion against it (GEN 3). He made it just as clear to Israel in DEUTERONOMY:

DEUTERONOMY 30:19-20
19 "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 "that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

Isn’t that what life is about, especially for the disciple of Christ: making choices, hopefully wise choices as a result of reading, understanding, loving and obeying by the power of GOD - the Revelation of GOD – the Holy Bible!

R.U.L.O.P. = R.eading U.nderstanding L.oving O.beying by the P.ower of GOD

CONSIDERING THE VALIDITY OF “The LAST DAYS”

EDITED AND EXPANDED VERSION

Critics and skeptics have ridiculed and scoffed at the idea of Christ’s return for 2000 years. The Bible says this would be the prevailing view prior to the Second Coming of the LORD Jesus Christ:

2 PETER 3:3-4
3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."

They point out that Jesus said He would return “quickly” (REV 3:11; 22:7,12,20) but it’s been two thousand years already! What they fail to realize is that He was referring to the manner of His arrival, not a time duration.

“Quickly” as in “suddenly, without warning” (“like a thief in the night”; 1 THESS 5:2; 2 PET 3:10), or with the speed of lightning:

MATTHEW 24:27
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (See also LUKE 17:24).