Yesterday was wonderful. My Dart bus driver
got me to my Bible Study class early.
The luncheon afterward was delicious and the fellowship fun. My faithful husband picked me up after
the luncheon and gave me a ride home.
And on top of that I decided that, for now, I’m a premillennialist.
You
may wonder what a premillennialist is.
Premillennialists believe Jesus will return to the earth before the
millennium. (The millennium is the
1000 years that Jesus will reign on earth with His saints. This is before the destruction of the
current heaven and earth and the replacement with a new heaven and a new
earth.) During this 1000 years satan is bound and kept imprisoned. But everything isn’t perfect yet, even
though the believers will be like Jesus. There are still evil people on the
earth who do bad things. Jesus and
His saints will judge these people and keep the peace.
After
the 1000 years satan is released and proceeds to deceive the nations once
again. He will organize the people
who have hardened their hearts toward God to fight against God. These nations are given the names Gog
and Magog. Of course satan is
defeated and thrown into the lake of burning sulfur. Evil is destroyed and God exalts Jesus.
To
me it is incomprehensible that satan and the wicked don’t understand that God
has given them every chance to turn to Him. They must block out all thoughts that God is loving and kind
yet just. He is a holy God who will
not look on sin. Sin will be
destroyed.
My
conclusion is that this thinking is similar to the twisted confused thinking of
the Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the Philippians who held Gracia and Martin Burnham
hostage for 376 days. Gracia relates in her book, “In the Presence of
My Enemies,” how one of their captors was asked why they were holding hostages
and extorting money. He said it
was because the government had taken away some land. He was asked what would you do if your land was given back
to you? He said we would take more
land. Muslims will take over the
world he said. That is the plan he said.
The thinking of the terrorists is the exact thinking
of satan. The same thing will happen to the terrorists as it will to satan. Some day satan will be
thrown into the lake of fire. The
end!
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