Simply teaching the Bible, simply

The world is more ready than ever to do away with cash and use electronic payment – compulsory under Antichrist’s regime. We are familiar with having a digital thermometer pointed at our hand or head; also to the idea of ‘track and trace’. How long before all of these are combined into an implant, in the right hand or forehead, to track and trace, take our temperature, be used as currency – it would be easier and safer and would prevent almost all fraud! Yet the Bible says all this – regardless how practical and good it sounds – will usher in a system where all the world will be required to worship Antichrist. Those who do forfeit their chance of eternity with God, leaving just one other option.

1 Corinthians 13 is considered the chapter on Love in the NT, yet 1 John 4 should be considered a contender!

John also makes that point that no one has seen God (v12). This echoes what we read in John 1:18: “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him”.

Yet in Genesis 18:20-33, Abraham has a face to face conversation with God. In Genesis 32:24-30, Jacob not only sees God face to face, he wrestles with Him all night. In Exodus 24:9-11 Moses and the elders of Israel go up the mount, see God, and eat and drink in His presence! Later, Moses specifically asks God if he can see Him, God obliges on the condition that Moses can only see the ‘after glow’ of God’s presence as He passes by. Later, Joshua, Gideon, Samson’s parents and others see God, and their lives are spared. So how do we reconcile this issue?

The key is found in John chapter 4, verse 24. There we read: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth”  As a spirit being, God does not have a physical body. Physical objects are part of this order of things; ‘In the beginning (time), God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)’ (Gen 1:1). Before this, there was no time, no space and no matter. All three came into existence when God began His work of creation. It is therefore impossible for us, in this present order of things to see a God who ‘inhabits eternity’.

There will come a time when we will see Him…

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”  (1 John 3:2)

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” (1 Cor 13:12)