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Msg#1642 Armageddon

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The one word from Biblical Eschatology most know in all the world is “Armageddon.” Christians dare not be ignorant of its significance. It is a Hebrew word from our Greek New Testament. Justly so, because it brings an end to the “times of the Gentiles” (Luke 21:24), and installs the Throne of David in the city of Jerusalem (Psalm 2). Transliterated from Hebrew, Armageddon is the mountain (Hebrew rh – har) at Megiddo, the place of crowds. It is a place where the seventh and final vial full of the wrath of God is poured out on the Gentile nations (Rev 16:12-17). A place where all the kings and armies of the world gather themselves together to annihilate Israel (Isa 34:1-2, Jer 25:31-33, Ezek 39:24-24, Joel 3:9-16, Obd 1:15-16, Zeph 3:8), Zech 12:9). A place where the KING of kings and LORD of lords comes riding in to save his chosen and elect nation, Israel (Rev 19:11-19, Isa 24:21-23, 26:20-21, 63:1-3, 66:15, Joel 2:1-2, Zech 14:3-4). The Roman Church and their Protestant Reformers do not believe in the restoration of Israel, so they cannot begin to understand this Battle of Armageddon. In fact they end up riding with the great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns (Rev 12:3, 17:3). That Roman/Protestant Church is called the evil woman (Prov 6:24), Jezebel (Rev 2:20), and the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17:5). Her robed “Clergy” are not just woefully ignorant of this Battle of Armageddon, they are diabolically involved. Armageddon is not the end of the world, it is the end of Gentile kings ruling in God's Holy City, Jerusalem. If a Christian is going to rightly divide the word of truth, they need to know some things about the Second Advent of Christ. Even so come Lord Jesus.

An Essay for week #42 Oct 16, 2016

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Msg#1641 The Tribulation

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The disciples were eager for Christ to set up his kingdom but before that comes he said, “Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matt24:21). Understanding Biblical prophecy of the last days hangs on the acceptance of the fact that the dispensation of grace that we live in must end before the dispensation of the Millennial Kingdom can begin. And before the Kingdom, God will judge the nations of the Earth and pour out his wrath in a seven year tribulation period. That seven year period involves the twelve tribes of Israel, it doesn't involve the Church. “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel” is then given to the 144 thousand, the church has been raptured. This is a time when God fulfills promises to Israel, and theologians can't force fit it into the church. Charles Hodge, a noted Presbyterian theologian who wrote 2,400 pages of Systematic Theology, said of the Second Advent of Christ, “This is a very comprehensive and very difficult subject.” He goes on to say that he has no qualifications to write about such a difficult subject. Presbyterian doctrine is that they are the new elect of God and that he is forever done with the twelve tribes of Israel. Discerning God's dispensations makes the “very difficult” very straight forward. The seven year tribulation period does not involve the Church. Fleeing from Jerusalem when the abomination of desolation is seen, enduring to the end, and refusing the mark of the beast are things written to tribulation period saints, and they are different from Church-age saints. Pursuing Biblical prophecy properly can open up a lot of Bible truths, but only when one rightly divides the Word of truth.

An Essay for week #41 Oct 9, 2016

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Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In my Bible the servants of God do not pray the mercy, grace, or salvation of God on their enemies. Some of David's imprecatory psalms (et. al. 109, 69, 70) are almost embarrassingly counter to Christ's command, “Love your enemies.” He prayed, “Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness” (Ps 69:27). We face some bitter enemies of the cross of Christ. Some are leaders of our nation and we need not shy away from such vitriol. Look at what Nehemiah prayed for those who opposed the work of God: “Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity” (Neh 4:4). When the leaders of a country are leading into paths of unrighteousness, they are deserving of God's judgment. When the whole country is following they will soon be as deserving. “LORD God judge our leaders and bring them down in their confusion. Father have mercy on this mislead nation and forgive her vile trespasses. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, your Only Begotten Son, our Saviour, and for his names sake I ask. Amen, and amen.” Pray for America. There are no solutions coming from this Clinton/Trump election.

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms writes:

New York's 27 Members of Congress consist of 18 Democrats and nine Republicans. Four New York Members of Congress – Reps. Steve Israel (D-NY3), Charles Rangel (D-NY13), Chris Gibson (R-NY19), and Richard Hanna (R-NY22) – are not seeking re-election. Notable New York congressional races are occurring in New York's First, 19th, 22nd, and 24th Districts.

Please pray for New York State, one of the most progressive, liberal, and socialistic states of the Union.

Pastor Ed Rice GSBaptistChurch.com

Msg#1638 An Ark in the House

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amos chapter one through four is God's notice of pending judgment and notification that it had already begun. “Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel” (Amos 4:11b-12). God's lamentation and woe occupy the next two chapters but in chapter seven Amos prays, “O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small…. O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small” (7:2,5). From sending the grasshopper to devour, and then sending a consuming fire, the Bible records God's response to Amos' prayer, “The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD…. The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD” (7:3,6). Dare we pray any less? In America disease, famine, and pestilence have begun, drought, fire, and flood are in the news. She thinks it's because we are burning coal! And the whole of our leadership are reprobate and come to confusion.

O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall America arise? for he is small…. O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall America arise? for he is small.

Awake America writes: (http://www.awakeamericaonline.org) :

“What Is a Constitutional Republic? This is a form of government in which a country's people and their chosen representatives are bound by the tenets of their constitution. The concept of our republic and our representative government is based upon Exodus 18:21, 25…. Our government, a republic in standing, chose to allow citizen voters to elect legislators to represent them.”

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms writes: “The House of Representatives is composed of 247 Republicans and 186 Democrats, with two seats vacant. Members of the House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms. All 435 seats will be filled this fall, and the Republican Party is expected to retain control of the House.”

It is not to late for America. Pray for God's mercy.

Pastor Ed Rice GSBaptistChurch.com

Msg#1639 Angels All Around Me

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Christians tend to fuss and fret when politicians, circumstances, and/or friends turn against them. A stand for righteousness does that. In similar circumstances Elisha's servant cried out, “Alas, my master! How shall we do?” (2Kings 6:15). At IBPF Pastor Calibretta pointed out that the servant needed to know, and we need reminded, that, “They that be with us are more than they that be with them” (Vr. 16). There is an army of Satan around us. We wrestle not with flesh and blood, and Satan's “got the whole world in his hand.” He hates what God loves: Israel, marriage, children (they call them embryos), law and order, Christians, and whatsoever things are honest. He is the enemy of God, and born-again believers are the servants of God. Roll-play the servant. A servant is one who works to make another a success. Just as Gehazi, Elisha's previous servant was sent to tell commander Naaman how to be healed of leprosy, Christ's servants are sent to be ministers of reconciliation (2Cor 5:17-19). The normal progression is believer, to disciple, to servant, to friend of God, but the foremost roll is that of a servant. So that his servant would recognize their advantage, Elisha asked God to open his eyes. So that the enemy would do his beck and call, Elisha asked God to close theirs. If you, as his servant are going to see the angels all around you, you must turn to 2Kings 6; he wrote it down for our learning. It would behoove all of us to fret and stew about our circumstances a little less and recall that we have his enemies out numbered and out gunned. They are indeed in blindness and confusion of face. There has never been a better time to be a minster of reconciliation.

An Essay for week #39 Sep 25, 2016

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Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Msg#1637 Day 9-11 and Peace of Jerusalem, What The Bible Says, puts prayer tip#4 very succinctly:

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD” (1Sam 7:5). In June 2014 the 221^st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA considered banning the word “Israel” from its prayers. Instead they settled on promoting an antisemitic divide between the ancient land and the modern state. Their despise of God's chosen people, Israel, stems from their deep seated Covenant Theology. Covenant Theology, which originated in the Roman Church and resonates in every Protestant denomination, contends that God replaced the Jewish people with the church. They contend that NOW Christians, not Jews, not Hebrews, not the twelve tribes of Israel, are the chosen and elect people. They suppose that Jews rejected Messiah, and thus God rejected Jews. Bible believers need to take particular note that John Calvin's misrepresentation of election is more diabolical than ripping the “whosoevers” out of the Bible, it is intent on ripping God's chosen and elect people, Israel, out of the world. The propensity of our leaders to turn their backs on Israel, to call them occupiers, to side with antisemitic movements, and to support a Palestinian state, comes from 240 years of church pulpits sounding out their diabolical Replacement Theology. The Protestant churches still use the Roman's allegorical methods to deny the millennial reign of Christ, deny a seven year tribulation, deny Jerusalem as God's holy city and Zion as the place we are marching to, deny the pre-tribulational rapture, and to call the Revelation of Jesus Christ “Allegorical Literature.” Bible believers need to know God's dispensational teachings and sway their friends and relatives from the apostate Protestant Denominations, and then “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee…. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem” (Psalm 122).

An Essay for week #37 Sep 11, 2016

An important part of praying for America is praying that God would wake up congregations of women led apostate Protestant Churches. Let's pray as if her life depends on it.

Msg#1637 Day 9-11 and Peace of Jerusalem

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What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD” (1Sam 7:5). In June 2014 the 221^st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA considered banning the word “Israel” from its prayers. Instead they settled on promoting an antisemitic divide between the ancient land and the modern state. Their despise of God's chosen people, Israel, stems from their deep seated Covenant Theology. Covenant Theology, which originated in the Roman Church and resonates in every Protestant denomination, contends that God replaced the Jewish people with the church. They contend that NOW Christians, not Jews, not Hebrews, not the twelve tribes of Israel, are the chosen and elect people. They suppose that Jews rejected Messiah, and thus God rejected Jews. Bible believers need to take particular note that John Calvin's misrepresentation of election is more diabolical than ripping the “whosoevers” out of the Bible, it is intent on ripping God's chosen and elect people, Israel, out of the world. The propensity of our leaders to turn their backs on Israel, to call them occupiers, to side with antisemitic movements, and to support a Palestinian state, comes from 240 years of church pulpits sounding out their diabolical Replacement Theology. The Protestant churches still use the Roman's allegorical methods to deny the millennial reign of Christ, deny a seven year tribulation, deny Jerusalem as God's holy city and Zion as the place we are marching to, deny the pre-tribulational rapture, and to call the Revelation of Jesus Christ “Allegorical Literature.” Bible believers need to know God's dispensational teachings and sway their friends and relatives from the apostate Protestant Denominations, and then “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee…. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem” (Psalm 122).

An Essay for week #37 Sep 11, 2016

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Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

When Ezra the ready scribe who came out of Israel's Babylonian captivity, saw that “the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands, yea, the hand of the princes and rulers have been chief in this trespass” (9:2), he rent his garment, plucked off hair, and sat down astonied. In the USA Christians have seen our leaders and media promote sodomites, transvestites, and now transsexuals to give them a revered place in our society! Ezra arose up from his heaviness, fell upon his knees and spread his hands unto the LORD his God and said, “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens” (vr. 6). Apostate churches, having installed woman pastors in rebellion to God's word, are now installing these sexual deviants and boasting of their diversity. Bible believers are a remnant, not a majority: marching on a capital or into voting booths will not remedy our sin. We need to sit astonied until the evening sacrifice and then fall on our knees and spread out our hands unto the LORD our God. “He only is my rock and my salvation.”

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms writes,

Both Houses of Congress are controlled by the Republican Party. The United States Senate is currently composed of 54 Republicans, 44 Democrats, and two independents who caucus with the Democrats. U.S. Senators are elected to six-year terms. In each even-numbered year, elections to roughly one-third of the 100 Senate seats are held. This year, elections will be held for 24 Republican-held Senate seats and 10 Democrat-held seats. The fight for control of the Senate is expected to be hotly contested, and high-profile races are occurring in three nearby states. In Ohio, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) is being challenged by Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland; in Pennsylvania, first-term Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) faces Democratic operative Kati McGinty; and in New Hampshire, first-term Sen. Kelly Ayotte faces incumbent Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan.

We may not be able to vote on these but we can certainly pray about each one of them. Let us fall on our knees and spread out our hands unto the LORD our God.
Pastor Ed Rice

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