BIBLE EVENTS
Time is something we all at one point or another begin to think about. When we were children time was not something we slowed down to think about unless we were in a torturous situation. There is a saying, “time flies when you are having fun“, but I have added to it that “time crawls when you are being tortured“.
In the reality time does not stop for anyone, but God. Therefore, time makes us all older by the second regardless of our living complaints. I imagine now as you, the reader, could quickly pull up a memory of when you were younger running free with no care in the world.
Time in us is different than the “Time in the Bible“. One of the hardest things for us not to do is pulling the Bible into our time and boxing it up inside the walls of our thinking; “…one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:8) As we read the Bible we place ourselves into the scene believing all of this happened all at once when some of it happened later. We have to have an open mind to God’s time is not our time.
The “…one day…thousand years…thousand years as one day” came from apostle Peter explaining that in the last days people will try to pull God into their personal timing from a sinful heart making fun of and ridiculing about where is God with all His promises. People will purposely and willingly choose to ignore the “Time in the Bible” for their own lustful times of temporary pleasures of the earth. We have to be careful not to be pulled into it.
“Time in the Bible” will continually unfold before our eyes no matter how much we try to speed it up, slow it down, or constrain it. “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” (2 Cor. 13:8) Time is like truth. We can nothing against it, but only for it. We can work with it while we have breathe or we can blindly fight against it to our own demise.
In Luke 21:25, 26 reads, “25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. ”
We read scriptures like these trying to see the time in which it will happen ignoring the present state of our soul. We have some of these things happening in our present day with some people seeing the “Time in the Bible” or ignoring the signs of the times. God’s time is truth made evident in the earth and in people right before our eyes. We cannot squeeze His time into ours. It will happen, but when it is the right time. We just have to be presently ready.
People are having heart attacks more and more today. We haven’t as of yet seen the “…signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…“. Distress of nations and the perplexity of governments over those nations we see every day. The “…sea and the waves roaring…” have occurred over the years what we would call a tsunami that came from “…earthquakes in divers places” (Mtt. 24:7).
It is crucial for all of mankind to look to God in His Bible for the times of the saving of our souls because the times of the earth will only bring fear, stress, and despair causing the hearts of people to fail. We have become good at reading the sky for the weather that is approaching, but giving up on seeing the “Time in the Bible” has dulled our spiritual senses of God’s words being fulfilled right before our eyes (Mtt. 16:3).
Temptations (Satan/Evil) has us looking and keeping us occupied in our phones, TV, and in the internet burying our senses into the natural fleshly things so much so our spirit never truly sees what is coming. People are going to places offered by technology seeing what they want to see not realizing the dulling of their spirit’s ability to see God’s truth unfolding in the “Time in the Bible“. Our time is being spent by someone else and it is time we can never get back.
You know the part where Jesus said, “…the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” in Matthew 11:12? The people in the Old Testament could not see the prophets and servants of God for the heavenly sent purpose they were. They killed heaven’s messengers, thus “…heaven suffereth violence…“. The heavenly sent messengers suffered violence for their timely message from God. God would bless the people and they would build cities in the prosperous and blessed times God gave them. These people who were selfish and desirous of power would trick and force their ideas on the good people God in these towns and cities, thus “…violent take it by force“. We see in our time today the trickery and now the forcing on us is being attempted.
They selfishly saw the time for themselves forsaking the warnings of the “Time in the Bible“. The people of God back then like the people of God today are playing music before the Lord trying to put a dance of worship for the lost soul to be set free, but they don’t have time or find it not necessary. The people of God are singing the songs to prick the heart with the reception of a cold shoulder and no tear of conviction flowing down the cheek. The conscience of mankind is being seared by a philosophical hot iron so slowly liken unto the slow boiling of the frog story in a pot unrealizing to the frog it is being cooked over time.
The seasons, the times, and the purpose of the Bible is happening right in front of us and we cannot afford to keep trying to cram the “Time in the Bible” into our mold. We need to accept we are inside the “Time in the Bible” and things will happen no matter what we do. They are trying again with the suffering violence on heaven’s people while trying to take over the places God’s people have built for their families even with force. Power, greed, and lust has taken over the majority of leaders in the world.
Remember, “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” (2 Cor. 13:8). All of us are subject to the choice of what we do with our time. People can be in time flowing with truth focused on doing the pleasing things before God or they can be trying to fight upstream against truth with the results of having their conscience seared with a hot iron (1 Tim. 4:2) ever learning, but never able to come to the truth (2 Tim. 3:7) dying in sins. Giving God your time keeps good common sense and wisdom about you. Fighting God with your time brings crazy thinking and wild selfish fleshly actions to satisfy temporary lusts that will want more.
God is outside time patiently waiting with mercy and grace following mankind for the perfect “Time in the Bible” to apply His warnings to mankind and the earth. Don’t be fooled by the ticking time on your clock to be the same as God’s unlimited time of a thousand years is a day and a day is a thousand years with God. The time of the perilous times (2 Tim. 3) the Bible speaks of is here and now.
TIME IN THE BIBLE GOD’S WORD
Mankind has tried to force time to be in their favor trying to make things happen just for them with no success. There is another time mankind has tried to change with God. The first thing mankind wanted to change was how long he lived, which has not really changed to this day. Death strikes at different ages no matter the health of the body. Eternal life, fountain of youth, a tower to heaven, and other attempts to reach a status of eternal life without God. We do not master time, but time is the master of us with God’s mercy falling upon us at periodical times.
The second thing mankind wanted to change was God’s word. Just like trying to make time work for us God’s word was another target people tried to control for their benefit. Eve and Adam wanted to change their earthly status to an equal status with God believing the evil fruit of death in disobedience to God would achieve that goal ignoring the words of warning that the outcome would be death. God’s word is not time with a beginning and an end. To change God’s word is to accept the evil horrors of death, disease, and sin.
Satan and the angels wanted the same thing to change their status to be equal and even higher than God by mixing lies with truth. The angels were not inside time and this left them eternally damned when they sinned, whereas mankind was inside time and sin could be paid off with time by God using His perfect “Time in the Bible” for a child to be born to unfold salvation.
Time and truth cannot be stopped by mankind. Truth is synchronized by God’s time. God came to earth by the designated “Time in the Bible” He wanted to appear before mankind bringing an escape route by which mankind could choose to go through back to eternity with Him. God loves and time is His mercy window for us to change.
As always some of mankind try to fight time and truth along with attempting to convince others like Satan did to the angels to rebel. Mankind has fought the messengers of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and His people today. Mankind has chosen beatings, jail, and death to try to shut up, shut down, and remove the truth of God. Mankind is in denial of the “Time in the Bible” and the “Truth in the Bible“. It is a “I want what I want and it is not God” attitude.
Mankind is telling the people the events in the Bible will not happen just to believe in them and not God. We will take care of you. It is up to us to save ourselves. Mankind is telling the people the way of salvation is open to everyone’s idea of salvation. It doesn’t matter. God is love and no one goes to an eternal hell burning in fire. It doesn’t exist, they say. Denial does not stop time or truth from happening.
It is happening right now before us every day. The Lord is coming back to the earth and who will He find faithful to His truth and His purpose? Who will be for the truth and those against the truth will only make it more the truth because nothing can stop the truth. What is truth?
MATTHEW
God started the plan of salvation in one place, but there has been an attempt to reject it, divide it, and water it down. It is all about change. You can’t change time or the truth. That one place of salvation is not in Matthew 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” This would be the Matthew’s plan of salvation creating followers of Matthew. Be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and you are saved. Any religions pop up in your mind?
MARK
That one place of salvation is not in Mark 16:16 “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Just believe, be baptized no specific way mentioned, and you will be saved. This would be the Mark’s plan of salvation creating followers of Mark. Any philosophies you’ve heard of like this?
LUKE
That one place of salvation is not in Luke 24:47 “And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” The preaching of repentance and remission of sins would be the plan of salvation. If you just attend church hearing the preaching of repentance and remission of sins you will be saved. This would be Luke’s plan of salvation creating followers of Luke. Can you think of anyone who just goes to church thinking that is all there is to it to being saved?
JOHN
That one place of salvation is not in the gospel of John because John did not end his biography of the life of Jesus with a plan of salvation. Therefore, those who believe all are saved could say John did not lay out any salvation and we can believe whatever we want for it doesn’t matter. This would be John’s plan of salvation creating followers of John.
MIXED IDEAS OF MAN
Mankind has made themselves saved according the Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The religions of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; religions of believe and be baptized any ole way; religions of attend church listening to preaching; and religions of believe whatever you want it all counts for the same thing. Is that really the truth of God?
Time cannot be changed and truth cannot be changed. People can only create an illusion of things being different. Time and truth can only be twisted with a sales pitch of smooth talking words of mankind, but in true reality not changing one thing. We cannot stop a storm, but Jesus did (Luke 8:24). We cannot move time forward or backwards, but God can (Is. 38:7, 8).
Whether we say it or not people are the same back then as they are today only with a technology difference. I was a Matthew 28:19 follower only being taught that way. What are you? Did you know people were claiming to be other types of followers and this happened in the Bible? People were claiming their salvation as followers of Paul or of Apollos. Paul asked them, “Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?” (Acts 19, 1 Cor. 1:13)
Was Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John trying to divide Jesus Christ up into different branches of religions? Was Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John claiming the crucifixion in their own personal way? What was your steps of salvation? Was your water baptism in the name of Matthew 28:19 and Mark 16:16?
None of these four men divided the plan of salvation of Jesus Christ. They were providing the life and times of Jesus Christ and not the plan of salvation as so many people in mankind has twisted into their ideas of salvation. God does not change and Jesus does not change, which would include the plan of salvation did not change. Time and truth cannot be changed. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Hebrews 13:8)
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John do not have all three elements of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These three elements are essential and without them it is not a complete following of God’s plan of salvation. These gospel writers were sending off all readers on a generality of what things were to happen later without specific details because this was the life and times of Jesus, not the birth of the church.
The one plan of salvation from God includes the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. God’s plan of salvation parallels what happen to Jesus for us to follow as His plan of salvation. We are to die, be buried, and resurrected in the name of Jesus to perfectly parallel the three essential ingredients of God’s salvation.
TRUTH OF SALVATION
This is the first place in God’s word the plan of salvation was preached and it contains more details to what the gospel writers pointed towards. You will see each one of their writings fulfilled in this scripture as God had intended.
“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” (Acts 2:38). Do you see all three elements are preached in one location? Repentance, water baptism, remission of sins, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost parallels the death, the burial, and the resurrection. This book is not the biography of Jesus Christ like the gospels, but about us the church and the unchanging plan of salvation.
“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you’ (Gospel Mark said this) ‘in the name‘ (Gospel of Matthew said this) ’of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins‘ (Gospel Luke said this) ‘, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” (Jesus said this).
This totally completes the born again of the water and of the Spirit Jesus told Nicodemus that must be done to enter heaven (Jn. 3). Matthew is where people misunderstand the scripture. Jesus is a name and not a title like father, son, and holy ghost. Jesus came in his Father’s name (Jn. 5:43). The angel told them what the son’s name should be (Mtt. 1:20, 21; Luke 1:30, 31). The Holy Ghost is sent to us in Jesus name (Jn. 14:26). Jesus Christ is One with God and in salvation making us one through Jesus to God.
I am of Matthew 28:19. I am of Mark 16:16. I am of Luke 24:47. I am of John. Is Christ divided? Were any of these crucified for you? Jesus was the only one who died for our sins. Jesus was the only one who was buried in a tomb. Jesus was the only one who was resurrected. If you are a follower of Matthew the Father and the Holy Ghost cannot be killed, buried, or resurrected. There is no blood in a spirit, but in the man Jesus there was blood. Col. 2:9 “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.“
The only plan of salvation God intended for us to follow had the three elements of what Jesus went through providing us the way, the truth, and the life by which we can be with God. We don’t have to physically die, be buried, and pulled out of the ground because Jesus did that. We are to repent, which is a choice of death to sin in our lives. Our repentance is death to sin. We are to be baptized in water like a burial in Jesus name, which has the power of the blood to wash away our sins for the blood is inside Jesus’s name. We are to then receive the gift of the Holy Ghost with the power of resurrection with a sign only given by God that we received it with speaking a praise to God language we did not fleshly learn (Acts 2:4, 6-11).
Jesus Christ is not divided by Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. Matthew pointed out baptism in the name and Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not a name, but a title. Jesus is a name. Mark pointed out believing and water baptism was the right direction to go to start the process. Luke pointed out the preaching of Peter with the repentance and remissions of sins was the right direction to go without naming specifics because they were in the book of Acts. John pointed out at the end of book don’t worry about others just follow Jesus is the right direction to go.
Signs of the times the Bible speaks about are here. We cannot change time, but we can do the right thing by God inside time while we have breathe. Signs of the Bible truth is unfolding all around us. We been distracted and preoccupied missing the plan God has for the saving of our soul.
I feel it is like the ark in Noah’s day with the people of the earth doing and saying crazy sinful things. The ark’s door is closer to the moment of being closed. Once closed, no one else can get in when the full wrath falls. Every day we must make God first and live our every moments in Jesus for no one knows the day nor the hour Jesus is returning to the earth except God just like in the days of Noah it will be with Jesus second coming (Mtt. 24:35-37).
Where in the scriptures of the Bible did it stop and change repentance, water baptism in Jesus name for the remission of sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost? The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John pointed towards Acts 2:38. Christ is not divided and the scriptures are not divided. God is One with His Word.
Remember, “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” (2 Cor. 13:8). You and I cannot change what is coming. We cannot change time and we cannot change what God has put in place for us. He loves you. He died for you. He resurrected opening a door for you.
Luke 21:27 “And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” Will Jesus see repentance, his name of baptism on you, and the power of the gift of the Holy Ghost glowing in you? Your time and my time is only secure in God. May God bless you.