Eternal Security Is Candy Coated SOUL POISON

WARNING! If you were a Christian then converted over to the security in sin gospel by eating the candy coated SOUL POISON of eternal security, you are finished! You are DOOMED. You will be damned, unless you come back to your senses and start to live holy again! candy coated poisonThough this is shocking rare truth to hear in our day, it is fact and important to remember. Tell those you love these things. The eternal security teachers are unrecognized dangerous cult leaders. They have slowly trained their followers to think and respond in a certain way, which is spiritually destructive to them and their families. Just as a brainwashed Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon answers a certain way regarding their doctrine, the eternal security proponents have been subtly brainwashed and programmed by blind guides to do the same! They have the same answers, because their false hope is built on the same distortions and lies. To believe in eternal security (once saved always saved) is to embrace a false grace and a counterfeit gospel, instead of the Biblical truth! It is to be oblivious to and blatantly reject the aspect of the Christian gospel that is revealed in 1 Cor. 15:2.

By this gospel you are saved, IF you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

After the brainwashing is completed, as an advocate of eternal security, you will still confess yourself as a Christian, but now you will also think Paul (as a Christian) was the worst of sinners! That alone will help extinguish all future Holy Spirit conviction in your life for sin. You will now argue that you are not righteous and not a good person, while you insist you are a sinner! You will unashamedly admit that you sin all the time (or at least every day) with NO fear of God or the deadly effects of sin! By doing this, you have distorted and smeared the holy and saintly image of Christianity, before others you contact, into a powerless empty form of godliness mixed in with worldliness, lust, greed, lying and the like. You will profess to have eternal salvation, but in the same breath you deny that only those who OBEY Jesus get eternal salvation (Heb. 5:9). You now believe the same sins that were dragging you to hell before getting born again can be committed afresh but will no longer drag you to hell. You are that deceived and brainwashed!

Eternal security is like candy coated poison for the soul. It will spiritually poison to death all who partake! It will have you believe your future sins are already forgiven before they are committed — without repentance, forgiving others and/or confession of those sins to God. It is also to believe that God isn’t even able to see your sins after getting born again, yet somehow you will still lose rewards because of those same sins he supposedly can’t see. (You remain oblivious to contradictions like this.)

The heavenly Father and Son you now believe in are mythical and you unconsciously and unwittingly think God can be mocked regarding who will reap eternal life (Gal. 6:7-9). You deny God would ever cut you off from Christ for not bearing good fruit (Jn. 15:1-6). You deny Jesus would ever disown you for disowning him, like he said he would (Mt. 10:33), and you blindly deny that the lukewarm will be expelled out of the body of Christ by Jesus Christ himself (Rev. 3:15,16). You scoff at the idea of being afraid that God would cut you from Christ, as he did the Israelites over their unbelief (Rom. 11:19-23). Hence, you will remain deceived and arrogant in an empty and non-existent security. You magnify that you are saved by grace (Eph. 2:8,9), but deny you can fall from the same grace to the place where Christ is of no value to you at all (Gal. 5:2-4).

Because you have been taught by the blind guides that those who do not adhere to eternal security are believing in a works salvation, you have automatically dismissed the above truths and all others like them, as though they were ridiculous and unbelievably wrong because we aren’t saved by works.candy coated poison The harmless looking eternal security cult leaders have almost certainly sealed your fate in the unquenchable fires of hell, unless you escape their grip! Remember these things — If a Christian converts over to eternal security, he:

  • Has been set up for a spiritual fall (1 Cor. 10:12);
  • Will lose his crown, for he isn’t holding on (Rev. 3:11);
  • Will NOT enter God’s kingdom because he isn’t even making any effort to enter God’s kingdom, much less making EVERY EFFORT (Lk. 13:23,24)! He thinks that would be works and he will surely be lost eternally on this point alone, unless he returns to holy loving.

You now also think the same God who can’t see your sins after salvation is also holding you, keeping you and guarding you even as you live as his enemy (James 4:4). You deny you will have to endure to the end for salvation (Mt. 10:22; Heb. 3:14; Rev. 2:10,11).  You also think you are guaranteed a definite and certain entrance into God’s paradise kingdom, even if God strikes you dead because of your heinous unrepentant sins. You laugh at the idea that merely looking back after placing your hands to the plow will show you as unfit for God’s kingdom (Lk. 9:62). You oppose these truths of God and embrace a demonic lie because of your itching sin loving ears (2 Tim. 4:2-4). The sins you cherish are dragging you to hell, but you think sin is no longer the issue since the cross. One salvation passage you will surely never cite or ponder is Gal. 6:8,9:

The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Instead, if you are like most, you will follow the deceived church crowd and use the flimsy so-called Romans Road salvation presentation to present your false gospel. You will surely be damned unless you come back to your senses and live holy again. Be assured of this: Eternal security is the greatest doctrinal threat to holiness that exists! Multitudes are in hell now because of it and you will join them unless you change! Don’t remain a blind follower of the blind. Your SOUL is in the greatest danger.

[Consult the 801 page book (hardback or soft cover) The Believer's Conditional Security for much more information and details. Order from Evangelical Books.]

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The Wisdom of the Righteous

John the Baptist was a most unusual servant of God. He was a powerful holiness preacher, who turned people’s hearts from sin to the wisdom of the righteous by preaching to them:

And he [John the Baptist] will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous–to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. (Luke 1:17)

John the Baptist repeatedly mentioned hell, or an equivalent, in his preaching!good preaching In fact, John was the first in the New Testament to mention unquenchable fire (Mt. 3:12). So what is the wisdom of the righteous that the disobedient turned to? That is another way of asking, what is the wisdom of Christians, since Christians are righteous? Job 28:28 says:

And he said to man, “The fear of the Lord–that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”

John turned the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, that is, to fear the Lord. There is no fear of God before the eyes of the wicked, according to Psa. 36:1-3:

An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes. For in his own eyes he flatters himself too much to detect or hate his sin. The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Like all good preachers, John the Baptist helped the wicked to detect and hate their own sin. That in turn led some to turn away from sin (repent) to the wisdom of the righteous. His faithfulness to God and the people of his day ultimately cost him his life! He was finally beheaded because he preached against divorce and remarriage (Mk. 6:18). John severely offended unrepentant people with his preaching, just like Jesus offended people. Jesus taught John was the greatest born of women (Mt. 11:11) and the angel Gabriel said he would turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous. John was one of the greatest preachers of all time.

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Examine The Scriptures

examine the Bible ScripturesIf you hear a teaching you aren’t acquainted with, should you pray about it or examine the Scriptures to test it for truth? The Bereans were commended because they examined the scriptures to see if Paul’s message was really Scriptural! Not a single word says they prayed about it! It is obviously not wrong to pray about things, but we are to test a teaching with God’s written word (2 Tim. 3:16,17). Read this carefully:

Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Many of the Jews believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men. (Acts 17:11,12)

Since the Bereans could verify Paul’s message with Scripture, we know Paul’s preaching must have been based on Scripture, as all Christian sermons should be!  He himself was preaching the word, as he told Timothy to do (2 Tim. 4:2). The Bereans received the message and also tested the message by examining the Scriptures to see if it was true! That process led to many of them becoming believers!  Them getting eternal life began with a soul winner (Paul), preaching the Bible message to the religious lost who accepted Scripture as God’s truth. [Be assured it wasn’t the Romans’ Road to salvation presentation of our day that Paul used!] Paul’s message rocked their Jewish belief system. It was different and something they weren’t already believing. They were challenged by a holy man of God boldly teaching from the same Scriptures [Bible] they believed.

Finally, the Bereans were willing to change and turn away from their false doctrines. They wanted truth and not a lie. Dear reader, do you want God’s truth like the Bereans? Are you willing to examine the scriptures like they did? They were commended for these characteristics, which led to eternal salvation.

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A Righteous Man Falls Seven Times

Never in my life have I ever heard the phrase, a righteous man falls seven times used correctly!  It has always been distorted and misused in connection with a righteous man falling into sin. Most recently, after witnessing to two women captive to HERETIC Charles Stanley and his false gospel, I have heard the phrase a righteous man falls seven times misused again and I’m disturbed! righteous man falls seven timesTo try to end this horrible misuse of Scripture by the eternal security proponents, please note the context:

Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man’s house, do not raid his dwelling place; for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity. (Prov 24:15,16)

NOTE: A righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but it is NOT referring to falling into sin! The righteous man falling seven times is referring to falling into calamity, as from an outlaw raiding his dwelling, according to the context! Please don’t be deceived about that or mislead others by using that passage to argue for the doctrine of demons called once saved always saved. Furthermore, don’t allow an eternal security teacher misled you about who the righteous are:

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil…. (1 John 3:7,8)

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Pat Robertson’s NON-Christian Counsel

Pat Robertson is NOT Biblically sound. He is a dangerous spiritual snare to people. Pat Robertson’s marriage related advice should be discarded! Pat RobertsonHe has made numerous outlandish statements in the past, but most recently he has given appalling NON-Christian counsel to a woman with an adulterous husband whom she wants to forgive.  First, here is the actual question from the wife named Ivy, then Pat Robertson’s NON-Christian counsel afterwards:

IVY: I’ve been trying to forgive my husband for cheating on me. We have gone to counseling, but I just can’t seem to forgive, nor can I trust. How do you let go of the anger? How do you trust again? God says to forgive, but it’s been so hard to do. I want to forgive, so we can get on with our lives.

Pat Robertson’s Counseling Secret

(Listen to Pat Robertson’s NON-Christian counsel)

Pat Robertson: All right, here’s the secret. And this is the secret. Stop talking about the cheating. He cheated on you. Well, he’s a man. Okay. So, what you do is begin to focus on why you married him in the first place, on what he does good. Does he provide a home for you to live in? Does he provide food for you to eat? Does he provide clothes for you to wear? Is he nice to the children? Do you have a happy family? Does he take the kids to sporting events? Does he go out and watch their little league games? Does he share with you stuff that’s going on? And is he handsome? Or is he, you know, what is he? … And I recommend that you reach out and touch him. Touch his face. Touch his face. Hold his hand. Look into his eyes. Talk to him … Give him honor instead of trying to worry about it. But recognize also, like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. And what you want to do is to make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.

The Truth

Regarding Ivy personally, Ivy needs to forgive the wicked adulterer for Ivy’s sake!  As surprising as it may seem, if Ivy doesn’t forgive him, her sins won’t be forgiven (Mt. 6:14,15). Also, as horribly bad as his wicked abominations were against her, Ivy’s sins against God were 500,000 times worse, according to Jesus (Mt. 18:21-35)! Forgiving others who sin against you is a salvation issue and nothing less, even though unforgiveness is minimized in our apostate day.

Ivy’s adulterous husband is definitely on the road to hell, since no adulterer will inherit God’s kingdom (1 Cor. 6:9,10; Eph. 5:5-7; Rev. 21:8). That husband needs to get radical to get saved from hell and freed from his sin addictions. He needs to repent and commit his life to JESUS to serve him unashamedly in this wicked world. Until he crucifies his flesh, including lust, he will remain a child of the devil, even if he was previously saved. There is NO once saved always saved, as Pat Robertson teaches elsewhere. If he becomes a Christian, he will be set free from his sin addictions and can live holy in the fear of God. His wicked adulterous behavior has nothing to do with being a male, as Pat Robertson says. Any male (or female) who gets saved is freed from his/her sin addictions (Rom. 6:22). Slavery to sin is broken by the supernatural power in Jesus’ blood. Just going to church by itself is useless for this. One must receive God’s word by acting on it to get the desired results.

Pat Robertson gave worthless counsel that any dark and dead atheistic counselor could give! Nothing he said was related to Scripture! Pat Robertson’s massive popularity, in spite of his dangerous deviation from Scripture, reflects our super dark apostate day that we live in.  People apparently love his once saved always saved teaching, ecumenical compromise with Catholicism and horrific marriage related counsel, even related to divorce. Folks, remember:

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1)

Ivy can help him and her own marriage, but not the way Pat Robertson recommends since the husband needs spiritual help. The Bible is the only reliable source to consult for such answers, but one must put it into practice to benefit by it (Lk. 8:21). Ivy should also pray regarding all these things, but her husband needs to pray too and draw near to God by getting the sin out of his life.

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Swallowed By A Hippo

Imagine what it would be like to be suddenly swallowed by a 4,000 pound wild animal in the water — a Hippo!  It almost seems hard to believe that anyone would survive, but it happened to Paul Templer (the hippo guy) 17 years ago. This is how he describes his shocking encounter:

“There was no transition at all, no sense of approaching danger,” he recalled of the mauling. “It was as if I had suddenly gone blind and deaf.”paul templer A 27-year-old river guide at the time, Templer had a group of tourists and apprentice tour guides just a half mile from Victoria Falls when the 4,000-pound hippo attacked the kayakers …. “I was aware that my legs were surrounded by water, but my top half was almost dry,” he recalled. “I seemed to be trapped in something slimy. There was a terrible, sulphurous smell, like rotten eggs, and a tremendous pressure against my chest. My arms were trapped but I managed to free one hand and felt around – my palm passed through the wiry bristles of the hippo’s snout. hippoIt was only then that I realized I was underwater, trapped up to my waist in his mouth….” ( http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/man-swallowed-hippo-lives-tale-article-1.1335235?print )

Jonah in The Great Fish

Paul Templer’s testimony of being swallowed by a hippo has some similarities to Jonah in the fish. This is what happened to Jonah:

But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights. From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. He said: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry.” (Jonah 1:17-2:1,2)

The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you brought my life up from the pit, O LORD my God. When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple. Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs. (Jonah 2:5-8)

In Jonah’s case, the fish spit him out and he went to Ninevah to deliver God’s message. In Paul Templer’s case, besides his other wounds, he lost an arm!  They were both in a watery situation which seemed like sure death, yet they survived. It wasn’t their time to die. Their life wasn’t over yet.

BTW, Jonah set the record straight for those who have ears to hear. He said, “Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs” (Jonah 2:8).  Popular heretics of our day contradict that truth of God and say grace can’t be forfeited and once a son always a son. The truth is God won’t spare anyone who turns to unbelief. Such teachers are commonly called eternal security teachers and more dangerous than a hippo in the natural because they are destroying souls!

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Frustrating Witnessing Encounters

[A Sower Reports] … Thank you again for the tracts. Today was a very frustrating day as we dealt with two mockers. When I told “Doc”, an ex-Mormon,  he was mocking God, he replied, “Yes, I am mocking God.” He then went on to talk about the council of Nicea, how the book of Judas wasn’t allowed into the canon of Scripture and his belief in the Norse god, Odin and Valhalla. We also encountered a young man that admitted that he had fallen away and knew he needed to repent. I prayed with him and encouraged him to repent and live a holy life. (I forgot to give him a tract! Please pray for Matthew.) Once we left Matthew, my two friends talked about how they didn’t believe Matthew was EVER saved because you can’t fall from grace. We encounter so many people that think they are saved when they are living lives inconsistent with their profession of faith and I believe one of the reasons for this is the belief in OSAS [once saved always saved]. Although I prefer to witness with a partner, I think I may need to  go on my own. It is so difficult to even talk about this with other Christians because OSAS [once saved always saved] is so ingrained, especially here in the South. Well, please pray for me that I will be bold in both witnessing and sharing the truth about OSAS…. I pray for Evangelical Outreach and look forward to… every Sunday.

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[Bible Comment] You are a blessing, not only to the people you are witnessing to but to others who observe your godly sacrifice for souls! Out on the streets one will encounter many different kinds of people, as you know.  There are many ex-cultists who remain unsaved. Mormonism is still apparently doing a hurting to Doc as he thinks other books are equal to the ones in the Bible — typical for Mormons. Matthew, the backslider, is proof that the Christian life is not an easy slide into heaven. There are MANY spiritual casualties in this battle for souls. What makes it even harder for a backslider in our day are the many eternal security proponents around. Their false version of grace is a DEADLY snare to all, including themselves! To even be around such people is a strain for Christians, especially when evangelizing. You are better off not being around such heretics, mockers (based on Gal. 6:8,9) and their Scriptural distortions, even if you have to go alone.  I too have made the mistake of evangelizing with once saved always saved advocates in the past. That won’t happen again! The truth is they need evangelized too. Your ability to Scripturally refute OSAS will improve with practice. It’s just like driving a car. Since you already have, “The Believer’s Conditional Security” and it answers their Scriptural distortions, become acquainted with its contents. Remember to use the Subject and Scripture indexes in the back of the book. May God bless you and give you many souls. You are a wise person (Prov. 11:30). Keep sowing God’s word. It won’t return void (Isa. 55:11). Mt. 10:32,33.

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Vultures Eat Body In 45 To 50 Minutes

Sudden destruction comes in various forms, but recently for one woman who fell off a cliff, her body was afterwards consumed by Griffon Vultures in just 45 to 50 minutes!

The body of a woman who died after falling off a cliff in France was devoured by vultures in just 45 minutes, before rescue workers were able to reach the body. The 52-year-old woman was hiking with two friends in the French Pyrenees on April 14 when she fell off a cliff and plunged more than 980 feet to her death, according to France’s TF1. The woman’s body was eaten by vultures in minutes. “There were only bones, clothes and shoes left on the ground,” Major Didier Pericou told The Times of London.griffon vultures “They took 45 to 50 minutes to eat the body.” Adding, “When we first went out in the helicopter looking for the body, we saw numerous vultures without realizing what they were doing.” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/woman-eaten-by-vultures-cliff_n_3224746.html?view=print&comm_ref=false)

Similar To Jezebel

If you know how Jezebel died there are striking similarities to the woman who was quickly eaten by vultures. In fulfillment of a prophecy, Jezebel’s end came in a swift and violent manner:

“Throw her [Jezebel] down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot. Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh. (2 Ki 9:33-36)

Soon after Jezebel died, dogs ate her flesh leaving only her skull, feet and hands!

Birds Gorged Themselves on Their Flesh

At the end of this age and during the defeat of the antichrist and false prophet, meat eating birds will gorge themselves on the flesh of dead humans and horses:

And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.” (Rev 19:17,18)

But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.  The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. (Rev 19:20,21)

NOTE: The Greek word translated birds in Rev. 19:17 and 19:21 is found one other time in the New Testament, that is, in Rev. 18:2. In that verse it is identified with unclean birds. If we compare that to Lev. 11:13 and Deut. 14:12, vultures are listed as unclean or detestable birds. God can do a quick clean up of human flesh through vultures, dogs or any way he wants. What happened to the mountain climber, who got devoured by vultures will be repeated again with meat eating birds, in fulfillment of Bible prophecy! Do you have rest for your soul?

[Picture -- Reuters: Enrique Calvo. Woman's body eaten by vultures after fall from cliff: Griffon vulture.]

 

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Why Isn’t The Biblical Message Clearer

[Bible Comment] My question is this: If what Jesus said was so important as to our very salvation in the bible, why is it that he is not here right now to clear it up once and for all. The bible says that God is the Father. If I as a father said something very important to my son or daughter I would not leave it up to chance, after my death. If I had the power I would come back after my death and dramatically prove my words and not just leave it up to misinterpretation as all are now reading the bible today and making their own ideas of what the bible really says. A truly loving God would not leave us all to our own devices but would come back dramatically NOW and once and for all state the truth  about our purpose in life and salvation. The authors of the old testament speak as if God is speaking himself: ie: Thus Saith the Lord or God shouted down from heaven. Why does not God shout down from heaven NOW so that ALL can be convinced rather than just leave it up to us all to misinterpret the bible on our own.

[Bible Answer] None of the issues you (or any atheist) can cite will change God’s perfect way of doing things. A basic fact about the loving God of the Bible is that we must seek him with all of our heart to find him (Jer. 29:13). Many aren’t willing to pay that price and therefore make the fatal mistake of relying on some teacher to declare to them the Biblical message. Most of the popular teachers in our day, which are allegedly representing Christianity, are not from God!  (We are in an apostasy.) False prophets and false teachers are not declaring God’s truth (with the sometimes disturbing verses), but instead tend to focus on accommodating their audience! They are blind leaders of the blind (Mt. 15:14). They comprise a long list of smiley friendly seemingly harmless people who will hold your hand, take your money and lead you to hell. Joel Osteen, the prosperity teachers, eternal security teachers, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Catholics, Seventh Day Adventists, Messianic Jews, etc. are just some of the main ones, but there are others!  God’s ways and thoughts are NOT like our flawed thoughts and ways (Isa. 55:8,9).  His ways are much better and they consider eternity and the spiritual. Your finite rationale, questioning and blaming God for man’s misunderstandings are therefore flawed for various reasons!

  • It is impossible for any finite being to understand the infinite invisible God, apart from Scripture.
  • To consider all of the Bible on any subject is essential to understand what is the correct interpretation and what are the false interpretations. If one does a careful, tedious, time-consuming personal study, his understanding will sky-rocket, IF he puts into practice the truth he learns along the way.
  • Without the Spirit of God to personally teach us (John 14:26), one will surely get a wrong interpretation about salvation and other things. Hence, salvation itself (when one’s body becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit) is required. Until then a spiritual veil is over one’s heart hiding the truth (2 Cor. 3:14-16).
  • God doesn’t shout down from heaven his eternal truths for all to hear because he set this salvation system up differently. He opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble (1 Pet. 5:5). He hides truth from the wise and prudent and reveals it to babes (Mt. 11:25). It is through the preaching of the gospel that people believe on Jesus and get saved (1 Cor. 1:21 cf. Rom. 10:17).

Jesus has the words of eternal life (John 6:68). Various salvation truths from the Lord are very simple and clear, such as Mt. 7:21; Luke 8:21; John 3:16; Mt. 10:22; Mark 1:15; Luke 18:13,14; John 15:1-6; Luke 13:3; Mt. 25:46; Rev. 2:10,11; etc. All of these verses must harmonize to assure the correct interpretation, which doesn’t exist when a false understanding is present.

Seek the spiritual hidden treasure in the field and pearl of great price and pay the cost to get it for your own good. Be assured that JESUS is the greatest treasure one could ever have. He is our only spiritual preparation for our own inevitable death. Without him there will be no rest for your soul and peace with God here, plus a fiery eternity beyond the grave. JESUS IS ALIVE and one day you and I both (along with all others) will bow before him and confess him as Lord (Phil. 2:11), regardless if you believe it now or not. Remember 1 Cor. 6:9-11.

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The Locust Plague – 17 Year Cicada

God does control and uses insects such as the locust for various reasons. In Moses’ day, one of the great plagues against the Pharaoh was with locusts:

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow. They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields. 17 year cicadasThey will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians–something neither your fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh. (Exo 10:3-6)

Locusts have been a dread to farmers and others who have crops, fruit trees, etc. The Bible says, He [God] gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust. (Psa 78:46) God sometimes uses them as a judgment, as in Exodus and in the days of Joel:

What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten. Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips. (Joel 1:4,5)

Just living in our cursed age brings many sorrows and sighs, even for the righteous. For those of us living in the NE part of the USA, the 17 year cicadas (locust-like insects) may soon be coming out of the ground and with them their devastating effects on certain types of vegetation.  17 year cicadasIf you are of that number, when the millions of cicadas come out of the ground, remember it was even worse for Pharaoh in the days of Moses!

[BTW, one day there will be no more sorrow and sighing for the redeemed (Isa. 35:10), but plenty of weeping and gnashing of teeth for the wicked dead (Mt. 13:41,42)! Do you know Jesus?]

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