Friday Reading: 2 Peter 1 19-21
Key Verse: 2 Peter 1 20
20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of its own private interpretation.
Devotion:
Many people will try to tell you about the day that the earth is going to end, the sun explode, melt us or whatever. All of this is conjecture on their part because they have come to this conclusion on their own. They will try to back it up with some very excellent theories, science, politics and all manner of things; some will even use the bible to try and back up their claims. But what we need to do is to remember what Christ had told the disciples – I don’t even know the time, only God The Father knows.
There are a lot of prophecies in our bibles that we can look out for and then know that times are getting closer, but when it comes down to predicting a year or date, this can only be in man’s own head! There have been a fair few articles going around about all manner of things that will happen in 2015 because 4 complete lunar eclipses will happen during that year – a fairly rare occurrence. But I see nothing in my bible that tells me that Christ is going to return when this happens. Whilst it may be true that some remarkable things have happened during the previous alignment of lunar eclipses and the Passover, this does not prove anything other than that man can think up extraordinary things in his excitement to predict the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Prophecies have never come forward because man wanted it. Prophecies have never come forward because earthly events happened at particular times. Prophecies come from God when He alone uses men of God to show or warn others about an event that is going to happen. My bible tells me that we should be ready for Christ’s second coming at all times. It tells me that that date is not known and will not be known by any man. How can man therefore come up with a date for something that Christ has already told us is going to be at an unknown time?
God does not want us to sit around and do nothing until the day before He comes back! He wants us to be ready all the time!
Points to Ponder:
Do you leave things until the day before they need to be done?
Are you leaving God’s work until the day before?
Key Verse: 2 Peter 1 20
20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of its own private interpretation.
Devotion:
Many people will try to tell you about the day that the earth is going to end, the sun explode, melt us or whatever. All of this is conjecture on their part because they have come to this conclusion on their own. They will try to back it up with some very excellent theories, science, politics and all manner of things; some will even use the bible to try and back up their claims. But what we need to do is to remember what Christ had told the disciples – I don’t even know the time, only God The Father knows.
There are a lot of prophecies in our bibles that we can look out for and then know that times are getting closer, but when it comes down to predicting a year or date, this can only be in man’s own head! There have been a fair few articles going around about all manner of things that will happen in 2015 because 4 complete lunar eclipses will happen during that year – a fairly rare occurrence. But I see nothing in my bible that tells me that Christ is going to return when this happens. Whilst it may be true that some remarkable things have happened during the previous alignment of lunar eclipses and the Passover, this does not prove anything other than that man can think up extraordinary things in his excitement to predict the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Prophecies have never come forward because man wanted it. Prophecies have never come forward because earthly events happened at particular times. Prophecies come from God when He alone uses men of God to show or warn others about an event that is going to happen. My bible tells me that we should be ready for Christ’s second coming at all times. It tells me that that date is not known and will not be known by any man. How can man therefore come up with a date for something that Christ has already told us is going to be at an unknown time?
God does not want us to sit around and do nothing until the day before He comes back! He wants us to be ready all the time!
Points to Ponder:
Do you leave things until the day before they need to be done?
Are you leaving God’s work until the day before?