times and seasons
Times and Seasons, God is a God of Order
God is a God of order.
There are orderly seasons: spring, summer, fall, winter.
You might say that things don’t seem too orderly due to all the chaotic weather. That is not from the Lord. That is from HAARP and weather modification and weather warfare and because creation fell at the same time Adam fell.
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
We have to be careful not to blame or credit God with things done by human manipulation.
Why would they do that? Why would there be human manipulation of the weather? Well, there are several reasons. Take one. Money. If an investor is invested in the commodities market which deals in part with the foodstuffs of the world and knows ahead of time whether or not crops will be destroyed by a human generated storm, an investor could make a lot of money. That applies also to oil. If there is a lot of hoopla about global warming in order to scare the public and move them away from oil to ineffective green energy, those invested in green energy stocks stand to make a lot of money. Or those who want to buy (or is a better word “steal”?) real estate (after fires are started by arson) can swoop in and buy prime land at rock bottom prices.
Along the same vein of serving mammon, when there are humanly generated pandemics, those invested in the pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical therapeutics for the pandemic stand to make a lot of money. And while we are on the topic, when there are wars generated for the military industrial complex, those who are invested in the industries of destruction stand to make a lot of money … at least until the last Ukrainian is killed and then maybe they will have to move elsewhere and start another war.
And if you would say that that is not something you should care about because it has nothing to do with Biblical topics, my Bible reads this .
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
When was mankind released from these responsibilities? I do not know that having dominion ever changed and those who seek to destroy the earth have placed themselves under the category of beasts, not sons of God. Those who operate in the sin nature, and not as new creations in Christ, operate like beasts and there is more than one reference in the Bible indicating that.
II Peter 2:12 [Peter speaking] But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Luke 13:32 And he [Jesus] said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
Matthew 12:34 [Jesus speaking] O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew 3:7 [John the Baptist speaking] But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke 3:7 [John the Baptist speaking] Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Titus 1:12 [Paul writing to Titus] One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Jesus said of those who were not yet regenerated in the new birth that they were of their father the devil.
John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
47 He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Should sons of God permit children of the devil and beasts to run the world? They all have the ability and choice to turn to the Lord, but until they do, should they be in charge? God is not keeping them out of his kingdom. They have not yet chosen to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and are instruments of destruction until they do.
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
All these have not yet been regenerated, have not yet had the new birth, are not yet transferred from the dominion of satan’s kingdom into the kingdom of light, into the kingdom of God, into the kingdom of his dear Son.
II Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Colossians 1:17 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Jesus spoke in parables on the earth. He said “he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
The disciples did not always understand what was being said.
John 16:17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
John 16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
Jesus could not totally explain things because he had a job to do which was go to the cross. While no one else perhaps understood what was happening, Jesus and satan knew what was going on. They were battling over the souls of men and a kingdom. In today’s language, they were were duking it out on the earth. Jesus had come back to reclaim what was lost in the Fall. Satan knew that. From the time of the garden, the devil/satan/serpent knew that some day there would be a seed of the woman who would crush his head but he didn’t know who it was or how it would happen.
Genesis 3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
When the star appeared, and the Magi looked for the Christ child, Herod, inspired by satan, sought to kill all the baby boys two years old and under because there was to be a baby that fulfilled the prophecy of the coming Messiah.
Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Jesus never fully explained what he was doing on the earth, except in parables. He spoke in parables because the cross was the way the final Lamb, Jesus, was slain for the sins of mankind. Satan would not have permitted the cross because the authority of Adam, given to Adam from God at creation, transferred to satan at Adam’s Fall, was taken back by Jesus at the cross through Jesus’s death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.
Revelation 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
If that had been truly understood ahead of time, satan would never have permitted that which caused his defeat.
I Corinthians 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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Times and Seasons
Matthew 25:28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
I Corinthians 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
I Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Judges 7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
4 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
7 And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
A blog post can only introduce a topic but not cover it in depth. For more study on various topics, click here for links to various Christian ministries.
Depending on the ministry, there may be online church services, YouTube videos, podcasts, radio programs, books, teaching, or more. You have to seek out what they have.