Since she has, she clearly needs to go — and that can only be the start of rooting out the antisemitic radicalism infesting the school.
Note that the “protesters” have only grown worse these last few days: They’re now openly pro-Hamas, and telling campus Jews that they’ll be next.

We cannot allow another 1930s Germany here in America.

I have reason to believe the silence in heaven that comes after the Lamb opens the seventh seal is the Time of Jacob’s Distress, as mentioned in the Olivet Discourse.

“When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” - Revelation 8:1, NASB1995

“And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able.” - 1 Enoch 5:108

The twelve hours in Enoch’s parable equates the the seventy years of exile between Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus the Great. If twelve hours equals seventy years, then silence in heaven for about half an hour equates to about three years.

This could possibly point to the tribulation (1290 days). Several times in Enoch’s parable, the Lord remained silent while the sheep were slaughtered by wild beasts.

“And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with them and they did not save them out of the hand of the beasts.” - 1 Enoch 5:111

So much is packed into that one tiny verse, “There was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” This is the time of Jacob’s trouble. This is the time that two-thirds of Judah and Jerusalem are killed and the remaining third is refined. Daniel 12:1 refers to this as the time Michael stands still and no longer holds back the lawless one that Paul mentioned in 2 Thessalonians, the false messiah.

Buechler said protesters had called for violence, expressed support for terrorism, and claimed they were members of Hamas, according to the Jerusalem Post. He also said protesters had expressed desires for future acts of violence to mirror the Oct. 7 attacks from Hamas against Israel.




Democratic Party leaders need to step forward and actively and forcefully start condemning attacks against any race or religion.

Time for some historic martyrs- I was reading John Calvin's letters last night and came across them- if Calvin had never wrote his letters to them perhaps we'd never know about them.

The 5 young men had just finished studying in Geneva- and were still willing to return to France which had a king very hostile to Protestants.

They were no doubt warned and spent the last few days in Geneva- possibly with Calvin.

Just as he touchingly signed his letters I'm sure he said to them on leaving "Adieu Adieu my brothers"

When the martyrs went to France they were transferred from dungeon to dungeon for 12 months (no doubt having their blessed memories of Geneva keeping them company) before having their execution ordered.

No doubt when John Calvin entered heaven himself he saw the martyrs and got to say "Bonjour Bonjour my brothers"

EREV PESACH (First Night of Passover)

Tonight is April 22nd, The First night of Passover. It must have been a night like this about 3500 years ago that thousands of lambs were sacrificed, and their blood placed on the doorposts of those houses. This was done per instructions via Moses, and Moses received these instructions directly from God.

That night would be the night of all nights. A night to remember. Freedom from slavery was at the door. God himself would pay a visit to the Egyptians, a visit of death. Death to the firstborn of Egypt. A debt would be collected. Lives would be demanded. Yet there would be a substitute.
Or rather, substitutes. Those were the lambs and goats that were sacrificed. Their blood on the doorposts of the houses in Goshen would be a reminder that "blood was already shed in this house." That household was obedient to the instructions. That household was redeemed by the blood of that lamb. So, on to the next house. Would that household be obedient?

That Passover night a cry went out in all the land of Egypt. Judgment was dished out to Pharaoh's household and all the Egyptians. Were there Egyptians who put blood on their doorposts? Perhaps a few since a "mixed multitude" left Egypt in the morning. There were some Egyptians who placed their trust in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel.

The final plague gave the death blow to Egypt. Egypt was defeated and humiliated, and God's people were set free, free from the bondage of slavery, free to follow a new master, a master who would love them and who would, someday, give up his own life for them.

About 1500 years later, another scene was taking place on a night like this, the first night of Passover. Our Messiah was in a large room and was gathered with his disciples. It would be the final Passover supper with them. They would have roasted lamb with bitter herbs and a sweet mixture of fruit and nuts with honey. Unleavened bread of course was there along with wine. The Unleavened bread spoke of Yeshua the Bread of Life. All participated, all but one, the betrayer, Y'hudah, a man from Kariot, who learned nothing from the Master, who placed more importance in pocket change than a change of heart.

The bread was broken to symbolize Messiah's body which would soon be broken and torn apart by Roman fists and a flagellum. Wine was drunk to symbolize the blood of Messiah which would be spilled. The blood that brought back memories of the blood of lambs and goats 1500 years before on the first Passover night in Egypt. Yeshua would be those Passover lambs. As the Passover lambs were the substitutes for death back then, Yeshua would be the one and only Passover lamb to be our substitute in death. He would take the curse of sin and death upon himself, and by His sacrifice, we would gain eternal life.

Is the Passover Lamb part of your life? Have you invited the Passover Lamb to live inside you? If not, Passover would be the perfect time for such an invitation.

Happy Passover.

If you have never celebrated Passover, it's not too late.

Would like prayer for a certain potential issue coming up, The Lord knows the details. Thank you.

Emily, a female student at Pennbrook Middle School and a friend of the victim, told the school board last Thursday that she was “second on his hit list” and recounted that she had begged for help from school officials numerous times before the attack.
Here again is a double standard, promoting all of these woke policies above the rights others.

Hello guys and gals. This is an article by ProPublica, an open-access, non-profit news (ProPublica copyright info, Creative Commons license) agency that covers current events. The Bureau of Land Management made a math mistake which could lead to $400M in money taxpayers must shell out to clean up the mess made by oil companies, specifically sealing up old oil wells. Article link: Oil Companies Must Set Aside More Money to Plug Wells, a New Rule Says. But It Won’t Be Enough.


Here is a summary of the ProPublica article on the math error. ProPublica has very lax copyright regulations:

In an article published on April 22, 2024 by ProPublica's Mark Olalde and Capital & Main's Nick Bowlin, the authors report on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalizing a new rule that requires oil and gas companies to set aside more money as bonds to guarantee they plug old wells on federal land. However, the authors find that the new rule does not go far enough in ensuring taxpayers are protected from industry cleanup costs, as the BLM underestimated plugging costs by $400 million due to a math error.

The rule also does not address the shriveling market for surety policies, which are used as bonds and becoming increasingly difficult for oil companies to obtain. Despite these concerns, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and environmental groups praised the changes, while some critics argue that the shortfall between plugging costs and available funds is in the tens of billions.

Saw a massive UFO at dawn
Why is this thread in a forum that is open only to Christians? From the description of its high speed and short duration, the 'UFO' appears to have been a meteoric fireball caused by a piece of interplanetary rock entering and burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. These fireballs are well known natural phenomena and are of no religious significance.

From A.W. Pink's "Eternal Punishment"​

​

The Destiny of the Wicked​

There is deep need for us to approach this solemn subject impartially and dispassionately. Let writer and reader cry earnestly to God that all prejudices and preconceptions may be removed from our minds. It ill becomes us to sit at the feet of Infinite Wisdom determined to hold fast to our foregone conclusions! Nothing can be more insulting to God than to presume to examine His Word, professing a desire to learn His mind, when we have already settled to our own satisfaction what it will say. Someone has said that we ought to bring our minds to the Scriptures as blank paper is brought to the printing press, that it may receive only the impress of the type. May such grace be vouchsafed to us all, that we may ever present our minds to the Holy Spirit’s teaching, that only the impress may be left which God has designed. May our only desire be to hear, “What saith the Lord?”

A. The Certainty of Their Judgment​

It is written, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Heb 9:27). This is one of the many verses that refute the errors of the Annihilationists, who make the judgment of the sinner to be, itself, death. But here, death and judgment are clearly distinguished: the one follows the other. The fact of a future judgment for sinners is established by numerous passages. In Ecclesiastes 11:9 we read, “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.” Again, in Ecclesiastes 12:14 we are told, “For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” The New Testament witnesses to the same truth: “He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained” (Act 17:31). The judgment itself is described in Revelation 20:11-15.

Of the certainty of this coming judgment we are left in no doubt: “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished” (2Pe 2:9). It will be impossible for the sinner to evade it. Escape there will be none: “How can ye escape the damnation of hell?” (Mat 23:33). Resistance, individually or collectively, will be futile: “Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished” (Pro 11:21). No confederacy of His foes shall hinder God from taking vengeance upon them.

B. Death Seals the Sinner’s Fate​

1. “Proof texts” explained​

Scripture teaches plainly that man’s opportunity for salvation is limited to the period of his earthly life. If he dies unsaved, his fate is sealed inexorably.17 There are two passages in the New Testament most generally relied upon by those who affirm that there is for the lost a hope beyond death. These are both found in the First Epistle of Peter. A brief notice then shall be taken of them.

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing” (3:18-20). But these verses make no reference whatever to any preaching heard by those who had already passed out of this life. They simply tell us that the Spirit of God preached through Noah, while the ark was being built, to those who were disobedient; and because they refused to respond to that preaching, they are now “spirits in prison.” It was not Christ Himself Who “preached,” but the Holy Spirit, as is plain from the opening words of verse 19: “By which also”—the “by which” points back to “the Spirit” at the end of verse 18. That the Holy Spirit did address Himself to the antedeluvians18 we know from Genesis 6:3, “my Spirit shall not always strive with man.” The Spirit strove through Noah’s preaching. That Noah was a “preacher,” we learn from 2 Peter 2:5.

The second passage is found in 1 Peter 4:6, “For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead.” But this need not detain us. The gospel was preached, not as now being
preached, or will again be preached to them. That such passages as these are appealed to only serves to show how untenable and impossible is the contention they are supposed to support.

That death seals the doom of the lost, we may prove negatively by the fact—and this is conclusive of itself—that we have not a single instance described in either the Old Testament or the New of a sinner being saved after death. Nor is there a single passage that holds out any promise of this in the future. But there are passages that contain positive teaching to the contrary. Several of these are now submitted.

2. What the whole Bible says​

We turn first to Proverbs 29:1: “He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” This is so explicit19 and unequivocal, it needs no words of ours either to expound or enforce it. Once the rebellious sinner is “cut off,” he is “without remedy.” Nothing could be clearer: at death his doom is sealed.

Again, in Matthew 9:6 we read, “But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.” Why did not the Lord simply say, “The Son of Man hath power to forgive sins,” and then stop? That would have been sufficient reply to His critics. The only reason that we can suggest why the Saviour should have added the qualifying words, “The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins,” was because He would give us to understand that after a sinner leaves the “earth,” the Son of Man (Christ in His mediatorial20 character) has not the “power” (or “authority,” as [the original Greek] exousia really means) to forgive sins!

A similar instance to the above is found in John 12:25: “He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” Notice that the antithesis would be complete without the restricting words “in this world”: “He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life shall keep it unto life eternal.” Again, we say, that the only reason we can see why Christ added the qualifying clause, “He that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal,” was in order to show that destiny is fixed once we leave this world.

In 2 Corinthians 5:10, which speaks of believers, we have another example of this careful employment of qualifying language: “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body.” The saints are to be dealt with not merely according to what they have done, but that they may receive “the things done in the body.” What they have done after they left the body and prior to the resurrection is not taken into account.

In John 8:21, it is recorded how that Christ said to His enemies, “I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.” Observe carefully the order of the last two clauses. Once they died in their sins, it was impossible for them to go to heaven. The solemn force of this verse comes out even more clearly if we contrast with it John 13:36: “Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.” Mark the absence of the qualifying “now” in John 8:21. To Peter it was said, as to a representative saint, “Thou shalt follow me [to heaven] afterwards”; but to the wicked, Christ declared, “Whither I go, ye cannot come”!

God Vindicated​

In what has been before us, we learn how the character and throne of God will be vindicated. What can be too severe a judgment upon those who have despised so great a Being as the Almighty? If he that is guilty of treason against an earthly government deserves to lose his life, what punishment can be great enough for one who has preferred his own pleasure before the will and glory of a God Who is infinitely good? To despise infinite excellence merits infinite misery. God has commanded the sinner to repent; He has courted him with overtures of grace; He has bountifully supplied his every need; and He has presented before him the Son of His love, His choicest treasure—and yet men persist in their wicked course! No possible ground, then, will the sinner have to appeal against the sentence of the Judge of all the earth, seeing that He not only tendered mercy toward him, but also bore with him in so much patience when He might justly have smitten him down upon the first crime he ever committed and removed him to hell upon the first refusal of His proffered grace.

That God shall punish every rebel against Himself is required by the very perfections of His high sovereignty. It is but meet32 that He should display His governmental supremacy. The creature has dared to assert its independency, the subject has risen up in arms against his King; therefore, the right of God’s throne must be vindicated—“I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them” (Exo 18:11). When Pharaoh dared to pit himself against Jehovah, God manifested His authority by destroying him at the Red Sea. Another king He turned into a beast, to make him know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men (Dan 4:25). So, when the history of this world is wound up, God will make a full and final manifestation of His sovereign majesty. Though He now endures (not “loves”) with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; it is that in the coming Day He may “shew his wrath” and “make his power known” (Rom 9:22).

B. Mankind’s Folly Exposed​

What has been before us serves to expose the folly and madness of the greater part of mankind, in that for the sake of present momentary gratification, they run the serious risk of enduring all these eternal torments. They prefer a small pleasure, or a little wealth, or a little earthly honor and fame (which lasts but “for a season”) to an escape from the Lake of Fire. If it be true that the torments of hell are everlasting, what will it profit a man if he “gain the whole world, and lose his own soul” (Mat 16:26)? How mad men are who hear and read of these things and pretend to believe them, who are alive but a little while, a few short years at most—and yet who are careless about what becomes of themselves in the next world, where there is neither change nor end! How mad are they who hear that if they go on in sin, they shall be eternally miserable; and yet are not moved, but hear it with as much indifference as if they were not concerned in the matter at all! And yet for all they know to the contrary, they may be in fiery torments before another week is at an end!

How sad to note that this unconcern is shared by the great majority of our fellows. Age makes little difference. The young are occupied with pleasures, the middle-aged with worldly advancement, the aged with their attainments or lack of them. With the first it is the lust of the flesh, with the second it is the lust of the eyes, with the third it is the pride of life (1Jo 2:16)—which banishes from their minds all serious thoughts of the life to come. “The heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead” (Ecc 9:3). O the blinding power of sin! O the deceitfulness of riches! O the perversity of the human heart! Nothing so reveals these things as the incredible sight of men and women enjoying themselves and being at rest, while they are suspended over the eternal burning by the frail thread of mortality, which may be snapped at any moment!

​

Rise of the 'AI god'

Navigating the growing Artificial Intelligence conundrum from a Christian perspective.

Is an "AI god" on horizon? There are a growing number of adherents in this evolving AI religion.

Click on the link and read but be prepared for a surprise towards the end of this essay.

Please pray for my mother who's very sick. She's been dealing with skin problems for a while now(many years) and the doctors just aren't able to figure out what's wrong. She has a psoriasis/eczema rash that just keeps spreading all over her body and they turn into nasty sores, and usually the sores heal up with treatment, but they're having a hard time healing now and it's starting to make her physically sick. She's going to the doctor tomorrow, but I don't really have much faith in doctors at this point. Please pray for her total body healing, for these sores to heal up and the rashes to go away. Please pray for any infection to leave her body and for her to start feeling better.

Thank you all so much

The US has far-right issues just as Germany does (German far-right leader in court charged with using 1940s German slogan). Here is the article link: Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order


Short summary of the open-access article by The Guardian (<20% in length, for fair usage reasons):

The Guardian article by Jason Wilson, published on March 19, 2024 reveals new information about the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), a secretive far-right men-only organization with an emphasis on Christian nationalism (and racism). The group's origins date back to the latter half of 2020, and documents obtained by The Guardian indicate that its founders sought inspiration from the Afrikaner-Broederbond, a white men-only group in apartheid-era South Africa.

Boise State University Professor and Claremont thinktank scholar Scott Yenor is believed to have played a central role in SACR's activities. He reportedly coordinated with other initiatives, including an open letter on "Christian marriage." The documents also suggest that SACR members may be preparing for violent struggle against the current leadership.

SACR's rules place a high value on secrecy, and potential members are vetted carefully with questions about Christian nationalism, the Trump presidency, and their role in the household. The organization values influence, capability, or wealth in its members.

This thread is to monitor which parties are to undermine confidence in elections and, just as importantly,create potential problems post election.

A crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states is creating a shadow war for the 2024 election

Hello folks. This is an article by ProPublica, an open-access, non-profit news (ProPublica copyright info, Creative Commons license) agency that covers current events. US soldiers may face investigations by military attorneys after committing crimes: Soldiers Charged With Violent Crimes Will Now Face More Scrutiny Before They Can Simply Leave the Army


Here is a summary of the ProPublica article on soldiers charged with crimes. ProPublica has very lax copyright regulations:

The ProPublica article by Vianna Davila, published on April 19, 2024, reports that the U.S. Army will no longer allow military commanders to decide on their own whether soldiers accused of certain serious crimes can leave the service instead of facing a court-martial. This change comes in response to an investigation by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, and Military Times that exposed how hundreds of soldiers charged with violent crimes were administratively discharged rather than going to trial.

Under the new rule, military commanders will no longer have sole authority to grant a soldier's request for a discharge in lieu of court-martial (Chapter 10) in cases involving sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, kidnapping, and murder. Instead, the newly created Office of Special Trial Counsel, a group of military attorneys who specialize in handling cases involving violent crimes, must also approve such decisions. Without the attorneys' approval, charges against a soldier cannot be dismissed.

Colorado organizers fail to gather enough signatures to put anti-abortion measure on the ballot​

The group needed to collect 124,238 signatures by the April 18 deadline. Faye Barnhart, co-sponsor of the measure, told CBS News that the group had collected "tens of thousands of signatures," but fell short.

In a press release, the Colorado Life Initiative blamed abortion opponents they deemed "ProLife In Name Only" — even calling them "PLINOs"

['Are the PLINOs in the room with us right now?']

An abortion rights group, Coloradans for Reproductive Freedom, appears to have been more successful in its signature collection efforts. It hopes to put a constitutional amendment enshrining the right to an abortion on the ballot and submitted 230,000 signatures to the secretary of state's office on Thursday. The group's signatures must now be validated by the secretary of state.

Hi Everyone,


I am happy to say I am officially back in the Orthodox Church. I did my lifetime confession last week and also had my first communion in many years Wednesday night. After not having communion for several decades, I had it twice in one week which is amazing.

My wife is going to be baptized this Saturday on Lazarus Saturday which is even more amazing. She has been on her own journey. She was immediately drawn to the church after I brought her for the first time - a year ago.

It is strange to think I am actually Orthodox again which is really cool. I spent most of my life away from the church but still interested in it. Some of my "Orthodox Wanderer" posts are kind of embarrassing but that was where I was at.

I feel a slight difference after the communion. I feel the same but a couple times I noticed that I had check myself. I was getting mad about an unexpected dental issue and I had to pause. I am Orthodox now. I just can't let my tempter flair like I used to.

Will post more later.


Prodigal 7

The Holy Spirit has been very longsuffering in my life but I know he left rightfully so. I’ve resisted him all my life and I never listened..as a result I committed some serious and evil sins and I’ve destroyed my life. I’m trying to go back to god but I know I’m the past I deliberately purposely blasphemed the Holy Spirit by spitefully never listening- I did so with the intent in my heart. I was still an unbeliever that was never saved because I had no saving faith it was professing faith. I don’t know how ti cope with the fact that I can’t go to heaven- I’m trying to turn from my ways but I know that I’ve seared my conscience because I was impetinent in my sins and these sins are orettt hard to commit against conviction- I had to use my will to pursue these sins going against my conscience and the Holy Spirit. I can’t repent from the heart and I desperately need regeneration however I can’t repent and I can’t come back to god. I committed the one sin he doesn’t forgive. I refused to let the Holy Spirit work within me and now I’m lost forever.


Edit- I self examined and found that I have a seared conscience

If every country in the world
wanted to abolish the death penalty
at the same time.

Would you support that idea?

"I've been up since 1 o'clock in the morning," Driscoll, the senior and founding pastor of Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, told attendees at the Stronger Men's Conference, which was held April 12 and 13 at the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield, Missouri.

"The reason I'm hoarse is I have been praying and my heart is very burdened for you. And I want to be very careful with this and it's not what I want to say, but the Jezebel spirit has already been here."

"The Jezebel Spirit opened our event. This is a rebuke and a correction of no one. This is an observation. Before the word of God was open, there was a platform,” he continued.

“It was a high place. On it was a pole, an Asherah, the same thing that's used in a strip club for women who have the Jezebel spirit to seduce men.

"In front of that was a man, who ripped his shirt off like a woman does in front of a pole at a strip club."

According to Newsweek, Driscoll noted that the man “ascended” the pole before “he swallowed a sword and Jesus cried.”
At that moment, John Lindell, lead pastor of the James River Church in Missouri, who organized the Stronger Men's Conference, can be heard calling Driscoll’s name and saying he was “out of line.”

"Okay, Pastor John, I'll receive that," Driscoll said before going off-stage. "Thank you."
As Lindell went up on stage after Driscoll left, attendees started to boo loudly and many could be heard chanting "bring him back!"

Continued below.

Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden, a Catholic, is battling a high unfavorability rating among his fellow Catholics, according to survey data released by the Pew Research Center.

According to the data, neither Biden nor his Republican rival, former president Donald Trump, are viewed favorably by a majority of Catholics surveyed, but Biden is the more unpopular of the two.

The findings were part of a presentation on “Religion and Politics Ahead of the U.S. Elections” by Pew’s associate director of research, Greg Smith, at the 2024 annual conference of the Religion News Association, which concluded over the weekend.

Included in the data provided by Smith, Pew’s late February survey of 12,000 U.S. adults found that only 35% of Catholics hold a favorable view of Biden while 64% have an unfavorable view of the incumbent president.

Continued below.

Super serious for a place to stay and work issues thanks

“Would a sit-in that disrupts a trial or access to a federal courthouse qualify [as illegal obstruction]?” Gorsuch asked Biden’s solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar. “Would a heckler at today’s audience qualify or a heckler at the State of the Union address? Would pulling a fire alarm before a vote qualify for 20 years in federal prison?”
Progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) used the fire alarm stunt before a key spending vote last Sept. 30 and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge carrying negligible penalties, but he bragged about not being charged for obstructing House proceedings even though that’s what he had obviously done when the alarm forced an evacuation.

Bowman BRAGGED about not being charged. The double standard is clear, and the violations of our Constitution need to stop.

I read Isaiah 12 for my quiet time with the Lord the morning of May 21, 2011. I learned that “That Day” refers to both the Day of our Salvation (deliverance) and to the Day of Judgment when Jesus Christ comes to judge the earth and its inhabitants. Here we see Christ Jesus as the Savior and deliverer, following the time of judgment.

The Lord had been angry with his people, but now his anger was turned away from them, and so he comforted them with his salvation (deliverance). This speaks, I believe, of both physical and spiritual deliverance (salvation). So, “That Day” has both a negative and a positive aspect to it. On one end, they were under God’s wrath in divine judgment and on the other end, he delivered them from his wrath, and he restored them to himself, both physically and spiritually.

Before we trust in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, we are under God’s wrath in divine judgment. We are separate from God, without hope, and bound in slavery to sin. So, Jesus Christ died on that cross, taking our sins upon himself, putting sin to death with him, so that, by faith in him, we might be delivered from slavery to sin and be free to walk in his holiness.

I believe that at the end of time that God/Jesus will judge not only unbelievers, but he will judge (discipline) his adulterous and idolatrous church, but not to destroy her, but to save her out of her adulterous and idolatrous ways, and to deliver her out of her short-sightedness due to her giving way to deception and falling prey to the ways of this sinful world. At this time of judgment (divine discipline), I believe, he will revive his church, and from his revived church the gospel will go forth so that many will be saved.

In That Day

An Original Work / May 21, 2011
Based off Isaiah 12

In that day you will say:
“I will praise You, Lord.
I know You were angry;
anger’s turned away.
God is my salvation;
I’ll trust; not afraid.
The Lord, the Lord, my strength;
the Lord, Lord, my song;
He is my salvation;
Lord, my comforter.”
With joy you’ll draw water
from salvation’s wells.

In that day you will say:
“Give thanks to the Lord.
Call on His holy name;
make Him known today.
Proclaim: He’s exalted.
Tell what He has done.
Sing, for He is glorious;
make this known to all.
Shout aloud; sing for joy,
people of Zion;
Great is the Holy One,
who among us dwells.”

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