1John 5:11-13 - And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
The Bible is the Word of God. God cannot lie. It is truth. The Bible is God’s word for us, that we would know Him, and believe in Him, learn what His promises are for those who do believe in Him, to learn how to trust Him, and I think in these days the most important thing is that we know what is said about the return of Christ. There are prophecies that have come true. There are still more to come to pass. This is why it is important to have some understanding of this Book.
While we see an unsettling world suddenly stopped dead in its tracks by a coronavirus and now unrest via protests and riots, we know it’s all political. As a friend (maybe even more than one) has said repeatedly, nothing that happens in life doesn’t first go through God’s hands. God not only owns the cattle on a thousand hills (meaning everything belongs to Him), but He has knit us together in our mothers’ wombs, knows the number of hairs on our heads and even the number of our days. So, He is in complete control whether it be good or bad. Why? He wants us to totally trust in He who can accomplish all He has set out to do.
He created this world and all that is in it. He continues to bring the sun up in the morning, cause it to set at night and the same with the moon. The seasons come and go by His power. The birds come and go also! All nature is ruled by God.
Animals and people are born, live and die, at His will. He allows disease. He allows storms and destruction. Why does He allow bad? Because of Adam and Eve’s disobedience in the Garden, which I’ve said many times. We can pray against such things but it is ultimately His will that prevails.
All God has ever wanted is for mankind to believe, trust and give their lives to Him. Might sound like a puppet master but He is not. Because He is God, Creator, Sustainer of all things, He knows what we need. He offers us nothing but the best, spiritually, in this life and the one to come for each of His believers. Our souls live on after we die. For some the outcome is eternal life. For many others it is eternal death. Make no mistake, we will experience one or the other depending on how our hearts have changed toward Him. It is not simply acknowledging in one’s head, repeating a prayer, but being changed in one’s heart. You know when this happens!! You are changed.
Eternal death is just that. It comes because one chooses to reject God. Rejecting is not taking Him seriously. One can believe in God and still not receive Him, which is rejection. It’s never having that heart change. The life "hereafter" for these is one that one so wishes would end but never will. The description in God’s Word is not pretty with words like fire and gnashing of teeth. Here’s a good description. While it refers to a rich man it can be anyone; however, sometimes when one does not sense a need for God because life is good, he could be described as rich (in the world):
There are prophecies in the Bible that have come true. The greatest are all the words describing Jesus hundreds of years before He was born. Those words in Isaiah 53 describe His whole life, birth to death, and that occurred. Other words came true. There are still more that speak of the end of the world and the return of Christ. They should not be scoffed. We are nearer today to His return than ever before. The Bible describes the days we are living in. Hearts need to change. Hearts need to be warned. These words can be ignored but some day the truth will be known. Eternal life or eternal death? Jesus is the only way.
John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
