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Hold On to God’s Hand :: By Dennis Huebshman

Published on: by RR10

There are so many negative actions taking place in this world that sometimes it’s hard just to take the next step. There are wars and rumors of wars, changes in weather patterns, pestilences, earthquakes in various places, and just plain evil worldwide. Hate for anything pertaining to our Lord and Savior is everywhere. All the “abomination” groups are offended that we don’t accept their lifestyles, so we are labeled as “haters.” They don’t realize we love them for their immortal souls but don’t have to accept what our Father said we aren’t to participate in. As an example, Jesus loved all the religious leaders, but He did not like their policies and actions, and did not fail to tell them so. (ESV – all emphasis is mine)

It is very obvious that we are rapidly heading for a major change above and beyond all that we’ve seen so far. Up until about ten years or so ago, there were issues of crime, hate and a certain amount of mayhem, but not to the degree that we are presently seeing.

Open satanic worship was something unheard of. That was an activity kept behind closed doors, rarely out in the open. Now, we have “churches of Satan” in numerous places around the United States. We even have them in the East Texas Area. There are false prophets in pulpits of some previously Bible-based evangelical churches, just as Jesus, Paul, John, and others said there would be near the end of this age. They “preach” ear-tickling messages to make the congregation feel good; it’s just not Biblical. Their goal is not to save souls but to keep seats and collection plates full.

All the so-called “gender identity” issues, drag queen activities including “story time for kids,” and parents being threatened to lose their children if they don’t allow them to participate in this garbage are rapidly gaining ground. It has almost become epidemic. In some countries, parents actually face jail time if they refuse, and there are some states here that are trying to implement such laws right now.

Once the tribulation/wrath starts, the whole wide world will go through a time such as never seen before. Our Father has warned us in several places of His Holy Word that the world population will suffer a tremendous number of deaths. In Zechariah 13:8, we’re told that two-thirds of the Jewish population that are here will be killed. Only one-third will remain, and we’re told all of them will finally believe that Jesus is their true Messiah.

For all true believers right now, we are promised we will not enter that awful time period (1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 and Revelation 3:10). Yes, we face harassment and some persecution right now, but when the Trumpet of God sounds, and there is a shout from an archangel, we won’t be here for the antichrist’s appearance. Our Rapture takes place before he can come out (2 Thessalonians 2).

In the meantime, we need to stay close to our Savior and Heavenly Father through prayer and reading His word daily. In the United States, we are still free to do so, mostly without fear. In some areas of the world, there are people who are being martyred just for possessing a Bible, or declaring they have become a Christian. This even applies to their children.

If we have Jesus as our Savior, we have the Holy Spirit within us. We need to know and believe that the word of the Father is righteous and true, and hold on to the hope this gives. We need to “Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand.”

This happens to be the title of a well-known Christian Hymn written by Jennie Bain Wilson around 1904. As with Fanny Crosby, Ms. Wilson was handicapped. She survived typhoid fever as a child, but it left her spine damaged, and she was bound to a wheelchair. As with Ms. Crosby, she wrote many hymns while she was on this earth. This featured hymn is an inspiration for everyone.

1.) Time is filled with swift transition; naught of earth unmoved can stand. Build your hopes on things eternal; hold to God’s unchanging hand.

Ref.) Hold to His hand, God’s unchanging hand. Hold to His hand, God’s unchanging hand. Build your hopes on things eternal; hold to God’s unchanging hand.

2.) Trust in Him who will not leave you, whatever years may bring. If by earthly friends forsaken, still more closely to Him cling. (ref)

3.) Covet not this world’s vain riches that so rapidly decay. Seek to gain the heavenly treasures; they will never pass away. (ref)

4.) When your journey is completed, if to God you have been true, fair and bright the Home in Glory, your enraptured soul will view. (ref)

One theme of this song is the phrase “Unchanging Hand.” Our Father does not change, and He is the same today as He has always been and always will be. We know God cannot lie, as given in Titus 1:2. Through His Word, we see He has always loved His creation, even though we have sometimes disappointed Him.

For all who will receive and accept His Son Jesus as their Savior, He has promised us eternity in Heaven with Him. The steps are simple as “ABC.” Admit we are sinners, as we all are (Romans 3:23). Believe Jesus is truly the Son of God and that His pure, sinless blood sacrifice will take away our sins when we become a part of His precious flock. Finally, Call out to the Savior to forgive you and be your Savior forever. This is found in Romans 10:9-13.

There is another side, and it applies to all who refuse to receive and accept Jesus. There are those who believe there are many ways to be saved other than through Jesus. That’s one of Satan’s biggest lies. There are those who say they believe in God, and that’s all they have to do. That’s another of the evil one’s lies.

John 14:6 sets the record straight for all who will accept it. “Jesus said to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.” There’s a period after this as no other conditions exist.

Also, it’s a free-will choice that will not be forced on anyone by the Father. All who truly call out to be saved will be accepted.

Someone has said that they know they cannot live a “perfect life” and will be condemned for that. God has promised that we can be forgiven of all our sins when we confess them to Him and ask His forgiveness. That’s 1 John 1:8-10. He knows we will never be perfect in this human form, and as long as Jesus is in our hearts, we are His.

Please remember, throughout the history of this earth, from the Garden of Eden to today, there has been only one “human” that lived a fully sinless life. That “human” shed His blood on a cruel cross so you and I could be seen as worthy to the Father. Not by anything we could do but by what Jesus did for us as a free gift. All who reject Jesus will answer for every sin they will ever commit on this earth. That will be at the White Throne Judgment of Revelation 20:11-15.

Those are the only two paths to eternity. Life in Heaven with our Savior, or condemnation in hell with Satan and his demons. No other option is available, no matter what any false prophet may tell you.

For now, in these uncertain times, put your faith in our Savior, and definitely “Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand!”

Hope to see you at Home soon!

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Famine Coming :: By Terry James

Published on: by RR10

Recently I wrote an article which I gave the title” Are you hungry yet?” It was about the many evils we are witnessing as stage-setting for fulfillment of prophecy – the signals of the coming Apocalypse –the Tribulation, etc.

All of that examination I hoped elicited stimulation of the believer’s Spiritual appetite for the moment we all sit down together at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. I.e., I hope it made you, the reader who is a believer, look forward with great anticipation to that magnificent Banquet – as do I.

Our Appearance before our Lord and Savior in the clouds of Glory could be in the very next moment, and we will then find ourselves before the BEMA –the Judgment Seat of Christ.

With the Rewards Presented by Christ to God’s children for the work we did in His Holy Name while in life here on earth, we will then accompany our Bridegroom and Lord of all lords in a most exhilarating Mission. We will go with the King of all kings to put an end to Armageddon and the wickedness that has, by that time, completely engulfed Planet Earth.

There will then take place the greatest of all banquets on a supernaturally refurbished planet. We will sit down at the Marriage Supper in honor of Jesus Christ, the Son of God Who died for us and resurrected so that we could be redeemed from sin, thus to be the Heavenly Father’s and His Intimate Family for all of eternity.

This great Promise from God’s Word is contrasted in that Word by what will first take place. The great famine that is already in view will eventuate in being just the opposite of the Blessed Marriage Supper Filling, which will satisfy every need and will satiate every hunger forever.

Every person, individually and collectively, who turns their back on God and his Righteous Rx for living will experience famine. This is a principle understood through God’s archetype people/nation, Israel. The following describes what happens to a people who become anti-God in comportment, instead going their own way, adhering to doing what is right in their own eyes.

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again” (Amos 8:11-14).

The prophetic pronouncement above did indeed take place on God’s chosen people. They have refused to hear God’s Word and have suffered –are still suffering to this day— a Spiritual famine. And we know they suffered immensely a literal famine in the holocaust through starvation and every sort of atrocity, as they are prophetically scheduled to again suffer during that last 7 years before Christ’s Return. They have a disease that has blinded them to their true Messiah and his Love for them. This we see in Romans chapter 11.

But it is not only a spiritual famine that is coming for those who reject God’s Call and prescription for life on His planet. There is coming a famine of the literal sort. And, according to Jesus’ own Words, it will be the worst of famines. It will be the worse time in all of human history. The hunger it will produce will be deadly, but that hunger will be only part of the Tribulation that God-rejecters will suffer.

That hunger is symbolically described as the third horseman and his black steed found in Revelation chapter 6.

The spiritual famine is already underway. Dr. David Jeremiah reported in his morning broadcast the other day that 52% of evangelical Christians no longer believe the Bible is inerrant. So it is not hard to extrapolate by/from that astonishing statistic the degree that anti-Bible attacks are occurring and that will soon be underway by the unbelieving world.

As Dr. Jeremiah said, questioning spiritual authority is in vogue; heritage is being lost. He said that Mark Twain, even in his day, said, “The Bible is a book praised, but rarely read.”

So mankind is well down the broad way of Biblical famine that leads to hunger, starvation, and, ultimately, eternal separation from the Creator-God Who has moved heaven and hell to bring them the only Truth that can provide Sustenance that Assures Eternal Life.

Again, the best proof I can think of that shows specifically where the world is at present in that regard is this matter of Pride Month.

The entire world is caught up at the moment –in this month of June 2023—in activity that can only be described as like in the days of Lot. Those with the loudest media voices declare through the trans-sexual and homosexual rants that God doesn’t have the right to declare the gender or deportment of His human creation.

This nation is guilty to the maximum extent in this wickedness. That is, America is, as I see it, at the very heart of this Sodom-like festival on a global scale. America is leading the way in pride, fully showing out in total anti-God, back-turning as never before.

Again, David Jeremiah reminded that spiritual appetite for God’s Word has been greatly damaged on this fallen sphere. Mankind has thus lost the moral compass meant to keep humanity from starvation, both spiritual and literal.

The Bible is now being called hate speech by even governmental auspices and court systems here in the United States. Atheists now have stickers they place on Bibles in hotels and other places that proclaim: “Caution, this book is hazardous to your health.”

But God is not mocked, as Paul proclaims.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7-8).

The horseman of the Apocalypse are about to mount their terrifying steeds. These will go forth to put an end to the mockery of the God of heaven and His Beloved Son Jesus Christ.

You don’t want to be a part of this increasing spiritual famine, nor the coming literal famine which the Blackhorse of Revelation chapter 6 will bring. Here is how to be kept from that horrendous time of judgment and Wrath and instead sit down at the Marriage Supper to be filled with all of God’s Righteousness and be within God’s Family Forever.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).