Aloha Dearest Family,
I have been studying the Bible for over 40 years now, and
it’s amazing what I have learned. Throughout the years I can say without a
doubt, that if you want to know God, you’ve got to come to His Word. The Bible
doesn’t just say that there IS a God, but shows you His heart and soul and His
great love He has for mankind. He had His Word written so that we may know Him
and His ways.
In my years of study, here is what I have found:
God’s brilliance and planning when He created the earth
is nothing short of breathtaking. He created all life with incredible
precision. He created plants, animals and man to reproduce “after its own kind”
so that life could be perpetuated throughout the ages. Even after man’s
disobedience to God, He still showed His perfect plan for man to be redeemed by
promising to send a redeemer. His only begotten Son.
God always stays true to His promises, for He is not a
man that He should lie.
"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son
of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he
spoken, and shall he not make it good?" (Number 23:19)
Since God had made a
promise that He would someday send a redeemer, He made a way for the line of
Adam to continue – through Noah. God saved Noah and his family and preserved
mankind and through Noah, the world would once again be repopulated.
To ensure that God remained true to His promise, He chose
a man out of all tribes of the earth to bless. Abraham and his descendants
would be a people that would be the example to all other nations, that God was
mighty with abundant blessings to those who follow and obey Him. God also gave
the children of Israel laws and precepts that would keep them alive and
prospering for generations. This law would also point the way to the coming
Messiah.
The Old
Testament shows us constant examples of the failures of His people, Israel. And
even though they were worthy of punishment, time and time again, God showed His
mercy toward His people by sending deliverers and prophets to try and bring
them back. God saved them from utter destruction many, many times even though Israel
continually turned their backs on their own God.
Nothing can demonstrate the amazing love God has for
mankind more than sending His own son to be the payment for man’s sins.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
Because of the
finished work of His son, God was able to bring many more sons and daughters
into His family. The born-again ones are true children of God Almighty and we
can call Him Daddy. As God’s children, we are brought into the family
business of bringing more sons and daughters into the household. It is not hard
to do when we tell people how good our Heavenly Father is.
In the age to
come, God will demonstrate His justice by punishing the ungodly and destroying
all evil. The final day of reckoning has come. God has foretold of this day for
6,000 years and there will be no excuses for anyone who chooses NOT to believe.
After
the ungodly are destroyed, God will once again establish paradise on earth
where there is no more death, tears or sorrow.
“And
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for
the former things are passed away.”
(Revelation 21:4)
This little sharing cannot fully capture the full essence and magnificence of God, but what He has revealed to us is wonderful. The story of our wonderful God as written in the pages of the Bible, shows us a God of order, faithfulness and mercy. But most of all Love. The Father’s love cannot be fathomed and His wisdom and knowledge are beyond comprehension.
Love Always, Ray
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