The Last Days

Isaiah 2:2

In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
My good friend Ernest James Smith let me borrow a DVD the other day so that I could listen to a couple of lectures on the 70AD theory. I won’t mention who it was because I don’t think the lecturer did really well. He started out with a strong positive voice but ended up mumbling his way through what could have been a really great lesson, had he stuck to his original instructions to his students that it’s important to know who is speaking to whom in the scriptures. This person mentioned the last days. What he said about them is not important. But when he spoke about the last days he said we were in the last days. No explanation was given as to how he arrived at this important conclusion.
So I asked myself “When did the Last Days start and if they ended, when did they end and if they didn’t end how do they affect us today? I also wanted to know. “The last days of what?” In other words if we are or were in the last days they had to be “The last days of something.” Following you will find some scriptures where “The last days” appear.
Isaiah 2:2
In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established
1. Hosea 3:5 They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.
Hosea 3:4-5 (in Context) Hosea 3 (Whole Chapter)
2. Micah 4:1
[The Mountain of the LORD ] In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established Micah 4:1-3 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
3. Acts 2:17
"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
4. 2Timothy 3:1
[Godlessness in the Last Days ] But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 Timothy 3:1-3 (in Context) 2 Timothy 3 (Whole Chapter)
5. James 5:3
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
James 5:2-4 (in Context) James 5 (Whole Chapter)
6. 2 Peter 3:3
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
2 Peter 3:2-4 (in Context) 2 Peter 3 (Whole Chapter)

The OT passages are quite obviously messianic prophecies and I have already dealt with that in a previous blog where I make the statement that Jesus came to fulfill the law and the prophets.

So if the OT prophecies were already fulfilled then they were already in “the last days.”
There is something else that I feel is overlooked when reading the scriptures “what is the passage saying?”

Acts 2:17 " In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.” What is this scripture saying about the last days? It’s saying “In the last days.” Not at the start of the last days. The last days have already started because God says “in the last days.”
So the people living around the time that Jesus came to fulfill the prophets were living in the last days. But how do we know when they started.
To understand this we need to know "the last days of what?"
It isn’t hard to work it out. If you open your bible to the last book of the OT Malachi and turn to chapter 4

Malachi 4 is the last thing that God, through his prophets, says to the Israelites. For 400 years God is silent.

He doesn’t use the phrase “The Last Days” but God talks to them about the great and terrible day of the Lord.
Verse 1. “The day is coming” and “the day which is coming”
Verse 3. “On the day that I do this.”
Verse 5. “Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord”
Now I’ll grant you this that this doesn't speak of the Last days but it sounds like a countdown to me.

So I believe that the last days started when God stopped communicating with the Israelites

Luke 21:22 “For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled…”

Now look at that passage. Doesn’t it say that that these are the DAYS of vengeance?” And doesn’t it also say “all things which are written may be fulfilled?” So if everything which is written was going to be fulfilled. Don't you think that they would be the last days?

More importantly God says that “These are the days of vengeance.” God is coming to make the Israelites pay.
Yes as bad as that sounds, the time is up for the Israelites.
God warned them in Malachi and in Daniel 9:24 "For your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end for sins etc..."
I believe God is telling the people in Malachi that it's time to end their sinful ways. Why? Because he's had enough of their sinful dis respective ways.

The destruction of Jerusalem was the ultimate end.
And I believe that the destruction of Jerusalem was the end of "the last days"

But what about the "Last Days" that our preacher, minister, priest etc.. tell us we are living in?

Well all I am going to say about that is that sometimes I'm right.
Next time
Terry

When will our Premier keep his promise of water?

You know it's a funny thing politics, it makes one feel all powerful alongside the feeling of impending doom.

So as soon as a party is elected, instead of running the state, they plan for the next election so that they have a better chance of holding on to power.

Now, it's my naive opinion that if the Pollies did what they said they were going to do then we the public, the voters would vote them back in again. It makes sense. The Pollie says "We will, when we are elected, feed the hungry and abolish all child poverty and create full employment. Blah, blah, blah..." Now just suppose that by some sort of incredible and yet unbelievable miracle, we believed this Pollie and when he takes up the government role he takes the bull by the horns and within the second year of being in office the government accomplishes it's goal of having full employment, no child is living in poverty and the soup kitchen lines are no longer used.

Would you vote for them at the end of their term to re-govern us? I would and I wouldn't care if they were Lib. Lab, Greens, Democrats or National party. They would get my vote because they did what they said they were going to do

So why do Pollies believe that we the public, the voters are so stupid that they will promise anything to get into power?

Here's a question. Why can't Pollies answer a question with a yes or a no? They have been pulled up by radio and TV announcers on numerous occasions and they still arrogantly refuse t answer with a yes or a no. Why? because they believe that's what we want. Isn't it about time we put them in their place? Correct me if I'm wrong but don't they work for us?

It's my opinion that Pollies lie because they think that they need to. It's their belief that we expect them to lie or to promise us things that they know are unattainable.

They also believe that we will accept those lies. Why do they believe that will accept their lies?

Because, dear reader, that's just what we do. We set out to the polling booth believing nothing that the pollies have promised us.

Our mind set is that Polititions are going to lie to us. Now that is a very sorry state to be in.

If we don't expect our Polititions to tell us the truth or if we don't believe the spiel they are spinning us, why don't we take them to task over it. After all they are in our employ not the other way round. Polititions work for us. And when they lie about projects real or imaginary they are telling us that they have no respect for us.

You may or may not be familiar with the problem we are having with the river Murray.

Well let me fill you in with what I think about this situation:

a. While John Howard was Prime Minister does anyone remember the 10 million dollars he was given to solve the Murray problem. Where is the $10 million? If it's spent where is the water that he promised. It never arrived.

b. Just recently it was recorded in the Sunday Mail that our Premier Mike Rann had just negotiated with the water holders up river for them to release 175 Gl of water down the river. Then last week we hear one of the water protection minsters has negotiated a sweet deal with the Water Retainers in NSW and in Vic and that sweet deal is that 175 Gl of water will be sent down the river and into the lower lakes. That's a guaranteed 175 Gl into the lower lakes.

Now, Premier Rann says that he's negotiated a set deal and the Water Protection Minister has negotiated a sweet deal then we should be getting 175 gl + 175 gl + the excess water which the minister said was to guarantee the 175 gl that is to flow into the lower lakes I calculate that to be 350+gl of water coming down the Murray.

Well I say where is the water? They say it takes months for the water to flow through the Murray Darling basin. but does anyone remember how long ago the floods came to Southern Queensland and NSW? Well it must be at least 6 months. So where is the water?

Who is holding all that flood water?

While our Pollies play politics with our lives someone up river is hoarding water and our state government don't really care about the water in the Murray. They are so short sighted and because it doesn't concern them. That's right it doesn't concern the Pollies because when they retire after only working 9 years in government they will retire with a hefty pension and a superannuation that will see them set up for life and able to buy the water that will not be flowing down the river but will have to be bought from an overseas profiteer for exorbitant prices that you and I on a pension won't be able to afford. That's right the desalination plant or rather one of the many will be financed by overseas investors.

Anyway back to the water from the Murray.

The Murray is in very poor condition. The people who live and make a living on the Murray know what's happening but are they heard? The pollies come down in their droves when there is a photo opportunity (take note of how many times you see Mike Rann near the river if there's

a camera nearby) and they do the lie bit and tell us what they think we want to hear then they leave and, believe me they don't give the river another thought.

Our pollies think more about a bike race than they do about being responsible government. They think more about getting their pictures in the press than they do about creating a state that we are not selling to overseas business.

I believe that we have more clout with the government that we have ever had before. We can clog heir email in boxes with emails about our concerns. And it doesn't take long for a reply either. I know I've done it.

The future of Prophecy

Welcome back to the blog.

Well I'm sitting here in front of this screen trying to decide what to say this week. Well, not really what to say but how to say it.

I was going to recap my last entry but that would be a waste of time because you should read it rather than me re-opinion it. (That's not a real word i just made it up)

Malachi Is the last book in the OT and in it we read how God is fed up with the priests for the sloppy way they treat God. 2:1ff

Why don't you take a minute or two and read the whole of Malachi it's only 4 chapters long and only has 3 pages. OK I'll wait for you.

Malachi was written about 400BC and if you have read it you probably got the idea that it is God's final message to Israel. He's telling them to cleanup their act or else. Chapter 4:6 contains the or else. verse 6 ...or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.

1. Or else

2. I will come

There is no third option. God says mend your ways or I will come.

But it would seem that God wanted to play fair. It seems that he wanted to warn them and warn them and warn them. He was going to give them every chance to change their ways. Remember that God had been doing this since he brought the nation into being. So he says in Malachi 4:5 "See I will send you the Prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes." then he tells them "He (Elijah) will turn the hearts..." etc.

But isn't Elijah with God 2 Kings 2:11,12. Yes but not dead. The OT records show Elijah as having been taken up to God but it says nowhere that he died.

I want you to note that in Malachi God is angry at the priests and if you read through the NT Jesus doesn't call the common people vipers and all those other things. Jesus is angry with the spiritual leaders. Who are the ones who oppose Jesus' teaching and healing? Not the common people but the leaders and teachers and priests.

In the last part of Malachi ch 4; God says "I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes"

Now if Elijah didn't come then we are still waiting for that day aren't we. Well Israel is anyway. I say Elijah did come. Matt 17:10-13 and it's clear in verse 12 where Jesus says "But I tell you Elijah has already come..." then the disciples understood that Jesus was talking about John the Baptizer. But maybe you need more proof. Matt 11:13-15 says that if you accept it he is the Elijah who was to come. Who was this person? John the baptizer..

This passage is also proof that the Law and the Prophets have been fulfilled. Matt 11:13 says clearly "For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

Are you one of the Christians who still believe that Jesus is still coming ie. in his second coming?

Why is Jesus coming back a second time?

Just one more thing:

Luke 21:22 Jesus is speaking to his disciples when he says in verse 20 " When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies.

It didn't read "when those in the future...

He said When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies you will know that its desolation is near. Then verse 22 says clearly "For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written"

So where does that leave us now?

Do you still say that prophecy isn't fulfilled?

Next time I'm going to write about the last days. Just how long were the last days

Did Jesus come only to the Jews

Some more on why I think that Jesus came in AD70

Jesus is quite clear when He tells his disciples in Matt 5:17 - 20 that he didn't come to abolish the law and the prophets. No, he says I have come to fulfill the law and the prophets.

A little explanation for those who don't know. (those who do know can put your feet up for a minute or two.)

The Old Testament was never written for the Gentiles (People who were not Jews. People like you and me) Therefore it was written for the Jews. We were never commanded to follow the Law. The Law was given to Jews by God through Moses. This is the Law that Jesus came to fulfill. The one we know as containing the 10 commandments. It wasn't only the 10 commandments that were contained in th law. There were laws about how sacrifices, laws about how to treat non Jews in your home There were laws on almost everything but none of them were written for us, the gentiles. Now what some people forget is that the New Testament isn't a part of the Old Testament. One person tried to tell me that it was an extension of the Old Testament. Well it isn't an extension of the Old Testament although some of it's writings such as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were written concerning the time of the OT but they were not written in the time of the OT they were probably written sometime after but before the fall of Jerusalem in AD70.

Confused yet?

I hope I've made it clear that the OT laws were written for the Jews and only for the Jews. Now Jesus mentions the Law and the Prophets.

So what were the prophets that Jesus says he came to fulfill.

I don't have the space here or the time to go into all the prophets but I' try to explain them as well and as unconfusing (if there is such a word) as possible

The Prophets were men and women sent by God to warn the Jews of impending calamities, or Judgments that were coming on them. God also used Prophets to correct peoples behaviours. In other words they were God's messengers to the Jews. Not to the Gentiles (You and I) Daniel was a prophet if you get the chance to read Daniel it's a very interesting book

Jesus said that he had come to fulfill the law and the prophets.

So what is the difference between abolishing the law and the prophets and

fulfilling the law and the prophets?

What would Jesus do to abolish the law and the prophets? Well I really don't know because he didn't abolish them. He could have passed a law stating that the law was now abolished and so too the prophets. You see I don't know how he would do it because he didn't do it. He said I haven't come to abolish the law but to fulfill it so too the prophets.

Now what do you do to fulfill the law and the prophets?

What does fulfill mean? My Funk and Wagnalls says that to fulfill means to bring about the accomplishment of something. With out making you think that I know more than I do the Greek word used in this particular passage means quite simply to "fill up" or to "make full" that's all it means.

So, Jesus was going to bring about the accomplishment of the law and the prophets.

Jesus also says in Matt: 5'18 "I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the law until everything is accomplished".

I have heard it said by those who say that the law is still to be abolished that Matt 5:18 proves that Jesus didn't accomplish all that he had planned to do because Matt 5 says that it wouldn't be accomplished until heaven and earth had passed away.

But is that what it's saying?

It sounds to me like he's emphasizing the importance and the completeness of what he has come to do. He is saying also that it will be completely fulfilled or nothing will be done. He 's saying that he would not take the slightest stroke of a pen and not the smallest letter will be taken away until everything is accomplished.

So Jesus is saying quite clearly here that the law would not change in the smallest way until all of it had been fulfilled. Or as Matt 5 puts it until everything is accomplished.

I've labored that point a bit.

But there is one more scripture that I'd like to look at Matt 15:24 Jesus says here "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel. (Jews)"

If Jesus had said "I was sent to the lost sheep of Israel" it could have had a different meaning but he say's. "I was sent ONLY to the lost sheep of Israel" And that word "Only' makes it exclusive.

It means he wasn't sent to the Gentiles.

I'll leave it there and take it up again next week

Terry

The Seventy of Sevens from the book of Daniel

Did you know that I am a Preterit? (that's right not a Preterist))
Well, according to those who like to put names on everything, I am a card carrying Preterit

I think that we feel a lot safer or maybe even superior if we can put things into tiny boxes. We can say, “There, I’ve categorized that, I know where it belongs.”
So anyway I’m a Preterit apparently because I believe (presently) that Jesus came to judge people in AD70 among other things.
So I’m going to try to explain why I believe this in a few short or not too short blogs.

I’m not going to do much in the way of discussion.

I believe that we need to look at some important things which are found in Daniel and the first one that I'd like to look at is:
What the “Seventy of Sevens” were. (Daniel 9:20ff)

Daniel was a prophet and he knew his scriptures Dan9:2.

He knew that the end of the captivity was at hand.

The captivity had lasted 70 years (Jer 25) so this gives us a starting date.

There are three dates given (536 BC 457 BC and 444 BC) the principle one being 457 BC.
Dan 9:25 “
Read the rest of Daniel 9.
Ok now what are the Seventy of Sevens? The accepted explanation is 7 times 70 years and if you calculate that you will see it comes to 490 years.

The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given in 457 BC.

If we subtract 457 years (that's the date we start)

from 490 (thats the seventy of sevens)

We arrive at the figure of 33.

When was the anointed one cut off? 33

or to be a little clearer when did Jesus die on the cross? 33AD
Pretty accurate wasn’t it.

Next week I'll do a little more on the weeks and some about the end times

Ok more next week.

I'm damaged

I had one comment on my last blog but I got a few by email. I don't intend to argue the point because what I write is my opinion and what you write is your opinion but I thank those who took the time make a comment.

I do read the comments and sometimes I read things which make me re look at what I have written.

But, so far, nothing has made me change my views

My week!

I don't know if you will be interested in this next bit but last week I think it was Tuesday or maybe Wednesday, I felt a twinge (interesting word "Twinge" I wonder where it came from and even more intriguing is where is it going to go?)

Anyway I was out the front of my unit watering the new trees that my landlord had planted for me (I told him that I would water them) when I felt that terrible "twinge" down the right side of my back.

Well I won't say that I wasn't a little concerned because I was. And by Friday I'd decided that I needed to see a Dr. Well I couldn't see any around my area so I grabbed my hat and decided to walk to my Dr. in Salisbury, after all it's only one bus stop to Salisbury. By the time I got there I could hardly walk and the spasms in my back were really strong and frequent. Some one said to me later that that's what labour is like and I wondered why a political party would have spasms in the back. I'll have to think about that later.

The Dr.sent me to have my back xrayed at Bensons (No not the cigarette company) Come on people concentrate, focus ok?

I was led into a little cubicle where I was told to take off all my clothes but I could leave my underwear on. Have you noticed that one always has to take ones clothes off no matter what one is having x rayed? I wonder if Michalangelo told his clients to take all their clothes off because he couldn't see what he was painting? Mmm that's not a bad line is it? Anyway they had those white gowns that only a contortionist is able to tie up provided they don't have spasms in the lower back. There was a sign in the cubical which, by the way, had suddenly got a lot smaller, and the sign said remove all jewelry, watches, keys etc.. Well now I got my jewelery off but then I reread the notice and it said DO NOT leave valuables in the cubicle. So leaving them in my trouser pocket meant carrying my trousers with me. So I thought Ok, do not leave the valuables in the cubical, where then was I to leave the valuables? l asked the x-ray operator she said you need to bring them with you . How? How does one, with a back going into never ending spasms, try to hold jewelery, a watch and various coins and paper money and walk into a room in front of a girl who is younger than my daughter and try to look dignified. How does one hold the gaping back of the "gown" together while using both hands to hold all your worldly goods. Those gowns are designed to fall open while one is holding them together with two hands. Or whenever one is bending over or in some other position which one doesn't want to be seen in. Well I got into the x ray room. Dumped all my valuable on to the x ray table, removed my glasses and put them with my valuables on the end of the x ray table right where my feet could kick them into kingdom come when another spasm caused my body to straighten out. You see they tell you not to leave them but they don't give you anywhere to put them when you are laying almost naked on a cold stainless steel table. Why can't they have a table in the room where all our worldly goods can be placed.

I now know what it's like to be a corpse just before the Goroner starts his/her work. The x ray table is just a cold stainless steel slab with little grooves on it, I think the grooves are where the body fluids drain away when the Coroner is doing his / her Coroner work thingy.

Then the torture starts. Why is it that the part that hurts the most or the position which is most likely to start another spasm, is the position they want you to hold the most? And why is it that the only film that they can't get a good picture of is the position which causes the most discomfort?

The x ray operator was very understanding she got all the pictures she needed and then she told me that I could get dressed. Well I didn't think about that did I? I'm in a very tiny box about 1 foot by 1 foot and about 5 foot high, I'm not exaggerating. It had shrunk since I was in there last. that was about 15 minutes before. I had my valuables with me and I found that I was unable to manouver my body without a spasm taking me by surprise and straightening me out thus jamming me in to a corner. Eventually I was able to get dressed.

Then I realized I still had my shoes to put on.

I'm going to make a bold statement at this point I don't believe that it is possible to put on a firmly fitting shoe with one hand while your back is constantly trying to straighten your body out. I say again "It's impossible".

Every time I had the shoe in the right position, my body flipped it off my foot and dumped it into an inaccessible space in the 1 foot square room.

But all good thing need to come to an end and I eventually got my shoes on. But the powers that rule the X-ray cubicles had not finished with me yet. You see I couldn't do up my laces on my snuggly fitting sneakers so, I had to swallow what little pride I had left at that time and I had to call on the nice lady who was younger than my daughter and she did my laces up like I was a little schoolboy who hadn't learned to do his shoe laces up.

But I'm not going to bore you anymore. My back is still bad. I'm still getting straightened out every now and then.

And it's painful

I can now empathize with those who suffer from chronic back pain.

See ya

Terry

Listening or hearing

Hi People

Did you notice that you can listen to the music I have written and recorded for your pleasure. Well I don't sing on them but Sharon Engel and David Mardisich do. Just click on the link on the title page up the top of this whole thing. I hope you enjoy it.

I haven't tended to my Blog since I don't when "I'm stuck in Folsom prison and time keep rollin' on". Sorry about that I just started typing then those words popped into my head. They must have been hiding in their for a long time because I used to play that song in my early days of playing in a band.

Anyway here I am (Woops nearly broke into a song again)

I'm here and ready to share with you some of my thoughts on.... ... Taaa taaa taaa

"Listening or Hearing"

I was on facebook this morning and I did one of those silly test that one tends to do when on facebook. It was one about "What Beatles song are you. When you answer all the questions it tells you what Beatles song you are. Then it goes on to tell you what kind of person you are, I don't believe it usually but this one said that "I rely on religion". Well that got me thinking and I realized that I don't rely on religion. I used to rely on Christianity.

Do I rely on Christianity now. Well the answer to that is No. Let me hear a Politician say that.

If you have been reading my blogs then you will know that I ask a lot of questions and I expect answers. You will know that I have moved away from my early beliefs into something quite different.

Well nothing has changed. I still ask questions.

I have added to my repert... report... List of things that I do. I have taken to doing what Sienfeld says he does in his stand up comedy routine. Now don't get me started on the comedy of Sienfeld. He has redefined comedy. His definition of comedy is that it's not funny.

Anyway I digress. Sienfeld says he does observational comedy. In other words he observes people and situations and then he presents it as comedy. I don't think he's funny but a lot of people do so....

I've taken to observing what religious people say. It is my opinion (remember the title of my blog? These are only my opinions) that religious (and a lot of nonreligious) people don't listen to what they are saying nor are they listening to what their preachers, priests, ministers etc. are saying either. How do I know this? Because I've been there.

So what do I mean?

Every Sunday or Saturday morning if you are an Adventist. And every Wednesday or Thursday evening you will see congregations of people listening intently to what the person at the front of the room is telling them. But are they listening? I say No! Yes they are listening but NO! they are not hearing. They may be able to quote everything that the person down the front had said but that doesn't mean they heard him or her. I believe there is a difference between listening and hearing. My Funk and Wagnalls' defines listening as 1 To make conscious use of the sense of hearing; be attentive in order to hear. then it defines hear as to perceive by means of the ear. I wonder what perceive means; Perceive means; to become aware of something through the senses such as hearing.... Too many times I've seen congregations fall apart or go along a path that they didn't want to walk because they listened but they did not hear.

We all need to learn to ask. What's behind the words. How many of us have heard the politician speak to us and we know that they are saying all the right things but we also know that they are not telling us something. And if you listen carefully you can read between the lines. They don't want us to know so they don't actually lie they just weave the truth or forget to tell us that bit. When you are buying a car and you ask the salesman. "Has it been in an accident"? If the Salesman says "no, not an accident" then you might ask him another question such as well if it wasn't an accident what would you call it. Then you have him on the ropes.

We do it everyday all day without knowing that we do it. We check things when they don't ring true Yet when it comes to religion we suspend our natural instinct for hearing the truth and we believe anything. That may be a little harsh but I'm going to share with you some things that may make you listen to the man/woman down the front in a different way I hope as they tell you what they want you to know this week.

This is what I've learned since I started listening,. I'm not sure whether to dot point it or not. So I'll just start and see what happens.

A good friend of mine believes prayer works in healing people. Yet the record shows that he has never seen any one healed in the nearly thirty five years that I've known him. He has prayed for me constantly for the last sixteen years for God to heal the Parkinsons Syndrome that I have. I still have Parkinsons'. He has been praying for a revival for about ten years and still no revival and still he continues on. Let's look at this in a different light for a minute. Let's swap God for a Doctor.

A very powerful Doctor who had the power to heal immediately, has come to Adelaide. Let's say that my friend went up to him during one of his very successful book signing tours and said to him. "I have a friend who has believed in your power to heal him as I have done for the last thirty-five years but for the last sixteen years he has had Parkinsons' please will you heal him?" The Doctor turns away from him and continues to sign books and ignores him. How long will my good friend stand near this Doctor who ignores him. How long would you stand there?

Ok that might be one incident. But what if he said to the Doctor. "I know that you do great things because I read one of your books which said you can do great things. I have another friend who is sick please heal her" And once again the Doctor doesn't acknowledge him. Then others start saying "Yes I have been asking this Doctor to heal me and my family and he doesn't even answer us. I have never seen him heal anyone although I have heard people say that he helped them find a band-aid in a cupboard when they cut their finger. So he must be great." How long would you keep asking the Doctor before 1. You realized that he was a fraud and couldn't do the things he claimed he could or 2. Realized that you had made a mistake when reading the book?

I suppose you might last a week and then you would slowly drift away.

Why then do we insist on saying God will do it in his own time at his own rate. If it's his will?

That my friend is not a God of love or of compassion. It isn't the God that I read of in the Bible. Didn't Jesus say that God is the loving Father?

What kind of father would you be if you had the power to heal your son and / or daughter but you made your sons and daughters wait for years while you took your time to heal them. And that was if you felt like it. Don't you think it's time we stopped making excuses for God? God doesn't need us to make excuses he wants us to listen I believe he is shouting at us to take our blinkers off and see the truth.

God put man on this earth to look after it. Not to run to him every time we want something. He set the world in motion. He set the natural laws in motion..

Ok that's enough for today. Why don't you check in again for more exciting tales of those who

"listen and those who hear"

If you want to comment then please do.

Terry