Revelation (Program #44) -The Beast Out of the Sea (4)

In the Old Testament book of Daniel in chapter two, King Nebuchadnezzar has a great dream, a vision. Daniel who has been imprisoned is the only one able to interpret this dream. In this dream, there was a great image representing all the kingdoms of the earth. And a great stone ultimately smashes the image. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth, the Bible says.  Included in the image in Daniel two are all the worldly powers consummating with the Antichrist and his soon-to-be kingdom. The stone is Christ, crushing and replacing the worldly kingdoms with the kingdom of God. This is the view from Daniel chapter two.

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Proverbs (Program #3) – The Detailed Precepts for Man To Live a Proper Human Life (1)

Whenever we come to God’s word, whether to a deeply spiritual book such as Ephesians or to a book with easy to understand, ethical and moral precepts such as Proverbs, the kind of person that we are will have much to do with what we take away from our reading of the Bible. In fact, the Bible itself tells us that the words of Scripture can be spirit and life to us as we see in John 6, “The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life”. But the same New Testament also provides a strong word of caution in 2 Corinthians 3, “Who has made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life”. Spirit and life or dead letter, the Bible can be either. And the determining factor as to which we will experience has everything to do with us and how we approach this word of God.

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Revelation (Program #43) -The Beast Out of the Sea (3)

“And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads…” Antichrist, the beast out of the sea in Revelation 13:1.

For the third day in a row on life study of the Bible, again today we’re going to be putting the microscope on this evil man who we all believe will soon arrive and be exposed on the world scene.

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Proverbs (Program #2) – The Principles for Man to Live a Proper Human Life

Many people love the book of Proverbs because the truth conveyed in these short, easy to understand, poetic utterances matches their ethical approach to the Bible and the Christian life itself.  Fearing God is a good example. There are numerous passages in Proverbs that extol the benefit of fearing God. The question is not then, “Should we fear God?” Of course we should and even we must. But we fear God not simply out of duty or instruction but because our reverence to Him issues in a deeper and more genuine experience and love for Him. The difference may seem subtle but in actuality, the difference is profound and life-changing.

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Revelation (Program #42) -The Beast Out of the Sea (2)

Matthew chapter 24 says in verse 15, “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand)..”

This event, more than any other signals the final three-and-a-half years of human history.  It will also mark the identity of the Antichrist who will set himself up as God in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. We will look today at this remarkable man who will deceive the whole world on our life study of the Bible..

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Proverbs (Program #1) – An Introductory Word

It’s probably safe to say that the book of Proverbs would be a favorite of a large percentage of Bible readers in all cultures. Written primarily by the legendary King Solomon, the possessor of great wisdom, it’s a book that’s easy to read and to study and to admire the marvelous examples of human wisdom and godly principles that are the main contents of this book. But while it is a book that may help us to live a better life to improve our character, and even to learn the valuable principles that reflect various aspects and attributes of God, there is also a profound danger with such a book. And that danger is that it can be a book that we can apply by our own strength and our own individual pursuit of human perfection. Why is that a danger, you ask? The answer to that can only be found by studying not only the Old Testament books such as Proverbs and Job but studying the entire Bible itself and being brought into the divine revelation. And that divine revelation shows us in that in God’s ultimate economy, wisdom like everything else, becomes the very Person of Christ Himself.

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Psalms (Program #42) – The Consummate Praise

Over the course of his nearly 70 years of ministry, Witness Lee conducted three in depth studies of the book of Psalms. His first study took place in 1954, he came back to the book again in 1969, and his final study, this life study, that he gave near the end of his life, in 1993. Although all three studies bear similarity for certain each got progressively deeper and higher, unveiling more of God’s central line, His eternal economy. As we come to the final program in the life study of the Psalms, I thought it is appropriate to quote a short portion from his second study of the Psalms called “Christ and the Church revealed and typified in the Psalms” – more…

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Revelation (Program #41) -The Beast Out of the Sea (1)

Revelation chapter 13 tells us a day is coming when the great dragon, Satan, will be cast out of heaven. And he will stand on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea; and out of the sea, a beast will come up.

Who is this beast? As those who love the Lord Jesus and His coming, the Bible tells us clearly how to know the identity of this beast, the Antichrist.

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Psalms (Program #41) – The Expressions of the Saints Before Jehovah in Different Directions and Final Prayers of David

As we had been carefully considering the book of Psalms for these past 40 programs it has become very clear that the Psalms are difficult to categorize.  Though they are all poetic, and most often lofty in their language. The thoughts and sentiment expressed are widely varied. At times they express the most common of human concepts, at other times they touched the height of God’s divine thought and frequently they revealed Christ in type, in shadow, and in prophecy with striking details and clarity. But at the end what we find are not dramatic revelations or high points but rather the earnest and heart felt prayers of men who bored once striking characteristics and that was their nearness and closeness to God and their deep love and care for the things of God.

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Revelation (Program #40) – The Woman and the Man-Child

“And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon underneath her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; And she was with child, and she cried out, travailing in birth and being in pain to bring forth. And another sign was seen in heaven; and behold, there was a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.” Bible interpretation and specifically the interpretation of this woman, this man-child and the dragon in Revelation 12, that’s our topic on today’s life study.

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