Will the Dead be Resurrected?

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Are the Deceased Dead or Alive?: Here is the question: Do the dead come back to give us counsel? God's Word says: "As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: s...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: True Story

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: True Story: Having read that many people die without hope in the resurrection, I pray nightly for the Lord to be with all those who are dying, to com...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: The Soul that Sins will Die

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: The Soul that Sins will Die: The soul that sins will die. The living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. Their love, hatred and envy die with t...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Seeing Grandma's Ghost - True Story

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Seeing Grandma's Ghost - True Story: "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God..." 1 John 4:1 [RSV] When Adam and ...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: The Ultimate Sacrifice

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: The Ultimate Sacrifice: On the cross, Jesus' love for us was so great, that He would rather die than see us die in our sins

The Ultimate Sacrifice

On the cross, Jesus' love for us was so great, that He would rather die than see us die in our sins

Conquering Life's Mountains

Our sliding on the unstable slopes of Life has bruised us all.  Jesus, by holding on, was more than bruised - He died rather than let go His hold and let us perish.

Hulda Crooks, Conquering Lifes Mountains, p 87, Published by The Quiet Hour Inc, Redlands, Calif.

You shall Not Murder

They cherished the most bitter hatred against other peoples, and even hated their own countrymen who did not conform to their ideas.  In all this they were violating the law, "you shall not murder."

The spirit of hatred and revenge originated with Satan.  Whoever cherishes malice or unkindness is cherishing the same spirit, and it's fruit is death!

God has shown how high a value He places upon every person, and He gives no liberty to speak contempt of another.  We shall see faults and weaknesses in those about us, but God claims every person as His own.  Even the most degraded are to be treated with respect and tenderness.

 God will hold us accountable for even one word spoken in contempt of one person for whom Christ has died.


based on Thoughts from The Mount of Blessing, pp 56-57, eg white

God will wipe away all tears

God will wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there will be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither will there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  Revelation 21:4.

No wonder Jesus' Second Coming is called "the Blessed Hope"!

Medicines Can Kill

I have just completed reading Medicines That Kill: The Truth about the Hidden Epidemic.
By James L Marcum*, MD., Tyndale  House Publishers, 2013

I can tell you it is fascinating!  And easy to understand.

Part 1: The Problem, is that medicines can kill. (pages i - 124)
Part 2: The Solution, is a Bible-based / God-based remedy for many of our ills. (pages 125 - 221)

Book has four Appendix for reference.

*Dr James L Marcum - Cardiologist
USA Today's QForma database named Dr Marcum one of the nation's most influential physicians.

Where Everyone will be Perfect

When God created the Earth everything was absolutely perfect.  There were no flaws in anything.  There was no sin.  No troubles, no pain, no death.

Then Adam and Eve willfully sinned. There was no need to sin - they just decided not to trust God.

Since then the world has been in turmoil and trouble that grows worse by the year.

.  But  Soon Jesus will come and put an end to wars, starvation, pain, surgeries, disease, death, accidents and all the world's troubles!

When Jesus comes He will take us to Gloryland, His home, which is Heaven where everything and everyone is perfect.

 And there will be no more sadness nor sin nor pain nor death.  Revelation 21:4-5.
Sin will not rise the second time. Nahum 1:9.

How we long to see Jesus and go Home with Him!

Dm

Dear People

Dear People!  If you only knew and understood God's love for you - you would love Him dearly and trust Him. You would follow and obey Him.  

God loves you so much. He died for your sins.  Jesus Christ took sin's penalty on Himself - the penalty of eternal death.  But Jesus' heavenly Father resurrected Him!

Jesus died so you could spend eternity with Him in Paradise.

Love Him. Trust Him. Today - Now! - Always!

O, Joyous Day! - Perfect in Mind and Body

When the Lord Jesus Christ returns (His coming is soon), He will take His faithful followers back to Heaven with Him.

  Oh, joyous Day! Sin and sadness gone forever!  No more pain or death! No more crying or disappointments! No more hospitals or surgeries!

Everything and every saved person will be beautiful and perfect in mind and body!

  And God Himself will live with us!!!
Read:
 Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, Revelation 1:7, Revelation 21:3-5
in the New Testament of the Holy Bible - the Holy Scriptures

True Story

Having read that many people die without hope in the resurrection, I pray nightly for the Lord to be with all those who are dying, to comfort them and their families, and to save them all in His Kingdom.  

Years ago I awoke with the impression that my California friend, actor James Stewart, was dying.  I prayed for the Lord to be very near to James, and for him to ask and receive forgiveness of his sins.

An hour later I felt peace that James was safe and fell back asleep.  The next morning I learned James had died during the night.  Though sad I believe Jimmy Stewart will be resurrected at Jesus’ Second Coming.

This all reminds me how important  each of us to God. How much He cares about each one of us!

Salvation - The Father Suffered Too

The Father Himself suffered with the Son; for “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.” 

Man, with his human, finite judgment, cannot safely question the wisdom of God.  Hence it is unbecoming for him to criticize the plan of salvation. 

 Before the theme of redemption, let man lay his wisdom in the dust, and accept the plans of Him whose wisdom is infinite.

The death of Christ upon the cross made sure the destruction of him [the devil] who has the power of death, who was the originator of sin. 

Signs of the Times, December 30, 1889, e g white

The Soul that Sins will Die

The soul that sins will die.

The living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. Their love, hatred and envy die with them.

The dead have no work, wishes, knowledge nor understanding - for they are dead.

The dead praise not the Lord. He breathes his last and is buried; in that same day his thoughts die also.

The dead will never arise to haunt, and will never return to his house. They will never know if their children are honored, or if they fail or face disaster. They do not know about it, because they are dead!


REFERENCES
The above quotes are from these Bible texts:
 Ezekiel 18:4/
Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10/
Psalm 115:17; 146:4/
Job 7:9,10; 14:21

Spirits of Devils

Quotes from the Ellen G. White book, Early Writings, p 262

I saw that the saints must have a thorough understanding of present truth, which they will be obliged to maintain from the Scriptures. They must understand the state of the dead; for the spirits of devils will yet appear to them, professing to be loved relatives or friends who will declare to them unscriptural doctrines.

The spirits of devils will do all in their power to excite sympathy and will work miracles before them to confirm what they declare. The people of God must be prepared to withstand these spirits [demons] with the Bible truth that the dead know not anything, and that they who thus appear are the spirits of devils.

We must examine well the foundation of our hope: for we shall have to give a reason for it from the Scriptures.

For the living know that they will die but the dead know not anything. Ecclesiastes 9:5

The Truth About Grandma!

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God..." 1 John 4:1 [RSV]

As a Christian I fully believe in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Hebrew word for “Trinity” is Elohim, and in Genesis 1:26 is translated "Us." God is interested in everything that affects us, for the Trinity deeply loves each one of us.

When Adam and Eve believed Satan’s first lie, "you will never die," (Genesis 3:4, 5), the world was cast into sin and confusion that grows worse every year. Satan lied in direct opposition to God's truth - "if you eat it [a sin] you will die" (Genesis 2:17). Since that first lie almost everyone believes that when you die you keep on living.

It was this teaching and the popular 1960's television comedy, Bewitched, that almost caused my spiritual ruin. Bewitched piqued interest in other schoolgirls, and at slumber parties we would attempt levitation and seances.

We did not know the Bible truth that would protect us from danger. “The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing.” (See: Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 and 10; Psalm 115:17; Psalm 146:4; Job 7:9-10; Job 14:21; and Isaiah 8:19-20.)

On May 21, 1963 at 10:15 p.m. I sensed something "bad" in the house. Trying to alert my parents to danger by shaking their bed; I was confused when they did not respond. Crawling back into bed, I was startled when Grandma, who lived three hours away, walked through my bedroom door. She was filmy-white. Slowly she glided towards me.

"Grandma, why are you here?" I asked innocently. Never speaking she came to me, her face changing into a demonic glare while gesturing to choke me. "Jesus help me!" I screamed, while throwing the covers over my head. Moments later the ghost was gone. The clock read 10:25 p.m. I cried out to Mom in the next room, she came immediately.

The next morning the nursing home called with the news that this same grandmother had died the night before at 10:20 p.m.

"Grandma was in my room last night,” I told the family, “she was see-through white." Mom was unnerved, but said, “Such things are impossible. Grandma is in Heaven. When people die they go to Heaven."

For years I wondered what Grandma had wanted from me. Was she really trying to kill me, or just wanted me to follow her to heaven? These thoughts haunted me for years.

In 1975 SDA pastor Dr. Charles Felton explained to me, "the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything," Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10. He explained it was the devil whom I had seen - the devil had been confusing me and wanting me to follow him (the devil.)

I was so happy to finally know the truth about "Grandma!"

COMFORT for the Sorrowing

Not now, but in the coming years,
It will be in the better land,
We’ll read the meaning of our tears,
And there we will understand.

We’ll catch the broken thread again,
And finish what here we began;
Heaven will the mysteries explain,
And then, ah then, we will understand.

Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for God does hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way, still sing and praise,
For in Heaven we will understand.
By Julius L. Tucker, in Comfort for the Sorrowing


We are on the verge of entering the Home that the Master referred to when He said, “Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God believe also in Me. In My Father’s kingdom are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you…. I will come again and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there you may be also."  John 14:1-3.

Are the Deceased Dead or Alive?

Here is the question: Do the dead come back to give us counsel?

God's Word says: "As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more. He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him anymore." Job 7:9-10. After studying this subject with a certain woman, she exclaimed: "Then who is it that appears in my bedroom and talks to me, if it is not my dead husband?"

Here is the dilemma. If what we have read from the Bible is true, and it is, then who gives the messages in the darkened room? Who is masquerading in the disguise of those loved and lost? Who is so perfectly impersonating the voice and appearance of a loved one taken by death?

God tells us who these powers are! The Bible identifies these powers or beings, that parade as the dead, as fallen angels who were cast out of Heaven with Satan. See Revelation 12:9-10. Keep in mind that angels are not the spirits of the dead. Angels existed long before this world was created and before a person ever died. Job 38:7.

I realize that it may be difficult to grasp the idea that evil angels can actually work miracles. But this fact is the key to understanding the psychic phenomena with which we are bombarded today. Remember: the supernatural, the miraculous, does not necessarily come from God! When that fact is fully established in your mind, you are safe guarded from many deceptions.

"For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles." Revelation 16:14. "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." 2 Corinthians 11:13-14.

Now we see that it is possible for a fallen angel to be disguised as a dead loved one. According to the Bible these spirits, which come to us and claim to be loved ones taken by death are not dead people, they are not living people, and they are not people at all! They are fallen angels masquerading in the form of loved ones!

Friend, your Bible makes it very clear that humanity's only hope of living again is the first Resurrection, not at death or in death. Loved ones torn from us by death will be reunited with us again on Resurrection morning.

"Behold, I show you a mystery...in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.... For the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.... This mortal must put on immortality." 1 Corinthians 15:51-55.

“For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ will rise first: then we which are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so will we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.