Genesis 15:16 “And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
“Ready, Set, GO…” Signs!
HIS timetables all measure
perfectly…always.
No move supersedes what
HE’s surely ordained.
Still we pray without doubt
that HIS timing meets ours
Yet such set intersections
obey only GOD.
Even evil indeed is by HIS
hands constrained!
HIS planning cannot by
another be changed.
Still it thinks that it can
go outside of GOD’s plans.
But such thoughts fail complete both defeated and banned!
For whenever the fullness of
Time meets HIS line…
then GOD’s sovereign designs begin to be drawn.
Not before or penned after,
not slower nor faster…
so trust just in YAHWEH
WHOSE hands hold your times!
As HIServant telling the truth of our LORD WHO holds and controls every moment of Time,
Whitney
Devotional: Luke 12:40: “You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
What’s of interest to me as I’m sharing today…is that GOD has times and seasons for everything.
Even the “season” of the iniquity of the Amorites wasn’t complete in Genesis 15:16.
So there are 7 dispensations of Time to consider:
This is taken from GracethroughFaith.com. My point is that GOD is all about order and precision.
The antichrist is all about chaos and destruction and death while pretending to bring order out of it.
So here are the Dispensations.
“1) Innocence: Between the Creation and the Fall of Man in the Garden GOD interacted freely and personally with Adam and Eve during this period.
Then they broke the only rule HE had given them (Genesis 3:11-13) and were expelled from the Garden. Sin entered the world.
2) Conscience: Between the Fall and the Flood
GOD allowed man’s conscience to govern his behavior without Divine interference.
Because of the sin nature passed down from mankind’s first parents, the result was that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
…and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5).
GOD pronounced judgment upon the world and destroyed all but 8 members of the human race in the Great Flood.
3) Human Government … From the Flood to Abraham
After the flood, GOD told Noah to go forth and replenish the Earth (Genesis 9:7).
Noah’s descendants disobeyed GOD’s commandment, setting about instead to build a great city and tower from which to study the stars (Genesis 11:4).
GOD confused man’s language, causing them to stop building the tower, and scattered them through out the world (Genesis 11:8-9).
4) Promise: From Abraham to Moses GOD promised Abraham a homeland for his descendants (Genesis 17:8) and a son for him and Sarah (Genesis 17:15-16).
But they grew tired of waiting and produced a son on their own, who they named Ishmael (Genesis 16:1-2.15).
When GOD’s promised son Isaac was born, Ishmael was sent away (Genesis 21:8-13)
…causing enmity between the Jews (descendants of Isaac) and Arabs (descendants of Ishmael) that continues to this day.
After Mohammed, a likely descendant of Ishmael’s, founded Islam this enmity took on religious significance and became even more intense.
5) Law: From Moses to Jesus GOD gave Moses the 10 Commandments and promised the Jews a life of peace
and plenty in a Kingdom of their own if they obeyed (Exodus 19:5, Exodus 20:1-17).
After repeated periods of disobedience which included rejecting their Messiah KING,
GOD withdrew HIS offer of the Kingdom and expelled them from their land. (Matt. 21:43, Luke 19:41-44).
6) Grace: From Pentecost to the Rapture—the Church Age no longer requiring righteousness THROUGH works,
GOD granted a righteousness by grace through faith in the completed work of CHRIST to all who accept, whether Jew or Gentile (Romans 3:21-24).
Most will not accept and will be punished through eternity.
Note: It’s important to realize that Grace didn’t replace Law, it just interrupted it.
Law has another 7 years to run, called Daniel’s 70th Week (Daniel 9:24-27), which fills the time between the Rapture and the 2nd Coming.
During this time all the nations to which Israel has been scattered will be
completely destroyed and Israel will be disciplined in preparation for receiving the Kingdom (Jeremiah 30:4-11).
7) The Kingdom: The 1000 Year Reign of CHRIST that begins with the 2nd Coming
This time Israel will accept the Kingdom offer (Zechariah 12:10, Zechariah 14:8-9).
Satan will be bound (Rev. 20:2), all unbelievers will be expelled from the planet (Matt. 25:41-46), and GOD will once again dwell in the midst of HIS people. (Ezek. 43:6-7).
You’d think the world could finally live in a manner pleasing to GOD. But we can’t.
Eventually, with the exception of Israel, the world will rebel against GOD and HIS people. GOD will send fire to consume them all (Rev. 20:7-10).”
My purpose isn’t to discuss nor debate semantics as this has been studied extensively.
Point being: A day is as a thousand years and the 6,000 year mark is rapidly approaching.
Point being: Are we actively and honestly studying and taking GOD at HIS WORD…or being more so involved with the things of the temporary world?
Let us hold then our bibles open, studying with constant prayer to warn all those around us.
For! When HE comes for us, there won’t be any time left to “get right with GOD”.
So be zealous and humble and as Isaiah 66:2 reminds us, “trembling at HIS WORD”TODAY…ever being ready and set to GOD with GOD!
Amen and amen.
2CJC 