On Prophecy: Volume I

IN TODAY'S NEWSLETTER... 
 

• Featured Article: On Prophecy: Volume I 
• God Comes from Edom? 
• What is Hamas? – Hal Lindsey 
• Are We on The Verge of The Most Significant UFO Disclosure Ever? 
• Daily Jot: The Farm Chronicles: Matchbox America 
• Daily Devotion: Investing in God’s Work 

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On Prophecy: Volume I – Pete Garcia - https://www.rev310.net/post/on-prophecy-volume-i
 
“Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions.” Carl von Clausewitz
 
It was in the early 1990s that the concepts of Military Revolution and a Revolution in Military Affairs were brought back into the forefront of discussion amongst military theorists. These two concepts are, fluid and difficult to define accurately at times because they attempt to codify the ever-changing character of warfare. Whatever their ideological shortcomings, these two, however, serve a point to be a finer point in distinguishing the unchanging nature of war (why we fight), and its ever-changing character of war (how we fight).
 
Between the two, the Military Revolution (MR) concept pointed toward the rapid change(s) in the way wars were fought (advancing technology plus changes in tactics and doctrine). These rapid changes often occurred with devastating results until the battlefield could be equalized when the enemy adapted either similar weapons or tactics. In terms of geopolitics, MR was/is applied at the swiftness with which drastic political changes occurred, such as the large-scale departure from monarchial empires in the 19th century, to the communist and Islamic revolutions of the 20th. 
 
A Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) on the other hand, often speaks to a more subtle, but still significant, paradigm shift, in how wars are fought. This is usually the second and third-order effects brought about by developments in certain technologies that expand the depth and scope of battlefield capabilities. These changes usually go on to fundamentally change the character of warfare (e.g., reorganizing an Army, airpower to space power, etc.). As the old saying goes, you ride a military revolution; you guide a revolution in military affairs.
 
Along those lines of addressing change (whether suddenly or subtly), the United States Department of Defense (DOD), along with her varied sister intelligence agencies, have long prided themselves in planning for virtually every contingency, in every domain, known to man. These domains include the traditional ones of land, sea, and air, as well as newer (or revisited) domains of cyber, subterranean, urban, and space. The rapid, 20th-century advancements in technology, have also extended into the weaponization of non-corporeal aspects of our existence as well. This includes weaponizing information (propaganda, deep fakes, and disinformation campaigns), global surveillance, as well as encrypting communication, and digitizing currency.
 
This last part brings us close to the subject at hand.
 
Intangibles
 
Despite the DOD’s expansive appetite for spreading Pax Americana around the world, there is one domain that has seemingly remained elusive to our modern US Government. In fact, it has become one of, if not, the largest blind spot our national defense has, and it is in regards to religion. This is not to say the Department of Defense refuses to acknowledge its existence. Rather, it simply ignores the obvious, and looks for ulterior, and often, more inconvenient motivations for why people and groups do what they do.
 
Religious ideology has simply become too politically charged an issue these days to address objectively, even by a supposed unbiased and impartial government. Even after being mired down in an unwinnable and global “war on terror” for the past twenty years, our government has refused to call Islam what it truly is- an ideological time bomb set to erupt any time our true adversary chooses to pull the trigger. It promotes violence as a means to an end and is filled with an army of non-uniformed, stateless soldiers absolutely committed to our absolute destruction (i.e., Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, etc.).
 
Even after 9/11, Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom, the US government (depending on the administration) is more often than not, loathe to actually call these wars against a radicalized ideology. Instead, they often attempt to placate it by calling it a “religion of peace,” and then blame any radicalization by its adherents, victims of westernization, free-market capitalism, YouTube videos, or any other contrived (or real) social injustice. This, even after its warriors themselves, claim to be fighting for Islamic domination.
 
The truth is, religious ideologies, are almost always, the sine qua non (for out which, there is not) causation for why people groups do what they do. Even so-called non-religious belief systems, such as Atheism, end up becoming systems of faith. These almost always end up in some form of militancy, demanding their views become the accepted and dominant views in their cities, nations, or regions. Atheism, for example, was the ideological foundation upon which Marxism (later Fascism and Communism) was founded upon. Its primary tenet replaced God with government, and those governments, almost without fail, handed over that godlike power to an individual who ended up ruling as a tyrannical despot (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.) In the wake of its red tide, hundreds of millions lay dead.
 
Godless regimes were not alone in these power-hungry endeavors, organized religion also shares some of the burdens. Roman Catholicism, at the height of the Dark - Middle Ages, attempted to superficially impose its version of the kingdom of God over the nations it held in its sway. Tens of millions of Christians, Jews, Arabs, and non-converts were tortured and killed in the unbiblical Crusades and Inquisitions.
 
Similarly, Islam attempted its many caliphates over the centuries (e.g., Rashidun, Sasanian, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Ottoman empires). These empires were built by violently converting former Christian and pagan nations (e.g., Syria, Turkey, Bosnia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.) into Muslim nations under the pain of death. For them then (and even now), the non-Muslim world was divided into three sections- the dar al-Islam (house of Islam), the dar al-harb (house of war), and the dar al-sulh (house of treaty). Those nations who were not already Islamized (house of Islam), were either in the house of war (where Islamists waged war against), or the house of treaty (where non-converts had to protect and pay tribute to Islamists). Again, none of this is a secret to anyone, but nobody wants to address it not only as a present issue but the issue. Instead, they dismiss the deaths of hundreds of millions of Jews, Christians, and pagans as an antiquated historical footnote.
 
The in-depth discussion of the aforementioned belief systems, exceed the scope and intent of this brief, so their mentions will only be in relation to the primary subject- Bible Prophecy. However, there are three reasons why religious ideologies (especially Biblical Christianity) have become elusive no-go zones for western governments, and those will only be discussed here summarily. Those reasons are political correctness, hermeneutical confusion, and secular humanism.
 
Political correctness (i.e., Cultural Marxism) and human secularism (atheism, agnosticism, nihilism, etc.) have been mainstays in western governments since at least the 1950s. Paradoxically, the rise of these largely atheistic philosophies began to occur at the same time we were engaged in a bitter Cold War against an atheist superpower. These two (political correctness and human secularism) have been increasingly effective tools in silencing any objective discussion on the subjects of the supremacy of Jesus Christ’s divine claims as the King of kings, and Lord of Lords, and to the Holy Bible. It has been so effective in fact, one would be hard-pressed these days to find any official military and/or government literature concerning the strategic geopolitical implications discussed in Bible prophecy. It is almost as if, from a military perspective, Bible prophecy is a non-factor.
 
The insurgence of hermeneutical confusion (hermeneutics being how one interprets the Bible) on the other hand, has been a particularly insidious one. First creeping into seminaries of the late 1800s, religious liberalism has taken many forms, but its chief objective has only ever been to undermine biblical doctrines like inerrancy and eschatology. Academically, this confusion came in the name of higher (meaning and authority) and lower criticism (the physical documents themself). Whereas human secularism and political correctness almost always attack Christianity from without, religious liberalism has been the enemy in the gates since day one.
 
The intent of this article then is to discuss the five major geopolitical events clearly outlined in the Bible. Whether the “top brass” at the Pentagon finds these topics relevant or not is irrelevant; these events are destined to happen. When they do, they will have massive, military/ economic/ political ramifications not just to the United States, but to the global order as well. Each of these topics will be arranged into the five distinctive categories- what, who, when, where, and why. These events will be discussed purely in a strategic and logistical manner:
 
1. The Rapture of the Church
 
2. The War of Gog-Magog
 
3. The Four Horsemen (Seal Judgments 1-4)
 
4. The Kings of the East
 
5. The Armageddon Campaign

 


 
God Comes from Edom? – Bill Perkins – www.compass.org
 
Buried in the short book of Habakkuk is a most interesting prophecy.
 
God comes from Teman,
 
And the Holy One from Mount Paran. His splendor covers the heavens, and the earth is full of His praise. Hab.3:3
 
This prophecy continues with references to the Messiah’s (2nd) Coming just after all the earth’s mountains collapse—a clear reference to the Day of the Lord, the 70th Week of Daniel, the Time of Jacob's Trouble, the 7 years of Tribulation.
 
What’s fascinating is the reference to God coming from “Teman.” Teman was the capital of Edom, which is today in the southwest part of Jordan. "Seir" refers to a mountainous area in southwest Edom. What’s that about? Why is God coming from Edom?
 
The next line in the verse has the “Holy One” from Mount Paran, a reference to the place where God moved to from Mt. Sinai and the Israelites could see His glory from a distance.
 
He said, “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran,… Deut. 33:2
 
So Habakkuk recorded a God-inspired vision of the last days regarding the Lord arriving after the Tribulation to defeat Satan and set up His kingdom for 1000 years of peace—what we call the Millennial Reign of Christ.
 
But why is the Lord coming from Edom and the mountains of Seir? What’s that all about?
 
Isaiah sheds a little light on this:
 
Who is this who comes from Edom, with garments of glowing colors from Bozrah, this One who is majestic in His apparel, marching in the greatness of His strength?… Is. 63:1a
 
Isaiah, like Habakkuk, says at the end of the Tribulation God comes from Edom—but more specifically from “Bozrah.”
 
The last clue we’re given is the meaning of the word “Teman” in Habakkuk 3:3: It means “South, as being on the right hand of a person facing east.”
 
So if you face Edom from Israel looking east, on the right side or south of Edom is Bozrah and the mountains of Seir. And guess what is located in the middle of those mountains—the empty city today known as Petra, Jordan.
 
Petra, of course, means “rock” and is located in the rugged mountains southeast of the Dead Sea and near Israel’s eastern border.
 
Petra was the capital city of the Nabateans. This nation seems to have come out of thin air, living for a couple hundred years around the time of Christ on the earth. Then, just as mysteriously, they disappear with no trace of what happened or where they went.
 
The Nabateans were known for their carvings into sandstone. The area where Petra was/is located is full of sandstone mountains. They would artistically begin carving straight into the soft rock in the high sandstone walls.
 
Today you can see houses that had several rooms carved deep into the sandstone walls. They even carved graves, tombs, water channels and mangers into these walls.
 
After carving all this for 200+ years, it left the area today dotted with thousands of caves. It’s been estimated that when fully excavated, the city could hold up to 5 million people.
 
So let’s tie all this together…
 
Matthew 24 and Mark 13 describe an event at the middle of the 7 years of Tribulation when the Jews must flee for their lives.
 
They are warned that when they see the “abomination of desolation” standing in their Temple, that’s the sign to run or be killed.
 
Apparently, based on Zech. 13:8-9, two-thirds of the Jews will be killed on that terrible day as they flee the city from the hand of the Antichrist.
 
But one-third do make it out of Jerusalem alive and flee to the “mountains” where they will spend 3 1/2 years protected from the Antichrist.
 
Much like God provided water and food to the Israelites who wandered in the desert for 40 years after the Egyptian Exodus, God will similarly provide for the surviving Jews who heeded Biblical warnings to flee when they saw the Abomination of Desolation.
 
Isaiah again fills in some details about the area to which they fled:
 
Enter the rock and hide in the dust… Is. 2:10
 
Men will go into caves of the rocks and into holes of the ground… Is. 2:19    
 
In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs… Is. 2:21    
 
This further confirms that the holes, caves and large caverns that we see today in Petra are where the Jews end up living for the last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation, protected and provided for by God.
 
It’s during this time when they have come with nothing but the clothes on their backs, that they lose their pride, repent, and begin understanding their Biblical roots.
 
At the end of the Tribulation, the Antichrist brings the armies of the world to GATHER in the Valley of Armageddon in order to march against the Jews in Petra, to wipe out the rest of Israel. It's the last act of a desperate Satanic force.
 
With the armies of the world marching south from Jerusalem, the coming doom is easily seen by the Jews high in the mountains of Petra. So Israel cries out to their Lord like never before.
 
It’s at that time that the Lord returns to the Jews and reveals Himself.
 
“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.” Zech. 12:10
 
It will be both a sad and joyful day for the Jews holed up in Petra. They will be absolutely brokenhearted to learn that Jesus came as their Messiah and they crucified Him.
 
But it will be joyous as Jesus then goes from Petra/Bozrah/Edom to wipe out the oncoming armies of Satan with the breath of His mouth (2Thes.2:8).
 
Therefore, Habakkuk is basically saying that just as God came down to His people at Sinai to establish His covenant with them, He will also come to liberate His people and reaffirm His covenant with them by coming from Edom to destroy Satan's armies!
 



 
What is Hamas? – Hal Lindsey – www.hallindsey.com
 
A surprising number of American organizations and politicians have come out against Israel in the recent fighting. They almost always say they are standing with Palestinians, not Hamas. But that’s like coming out against the United States in World War II, claiming you only support Germans, not Nazis.
 
Hamas runs Gaza. In the month of May, Hamas fired more than 4,000 missiles into Israel from Gaza. But Israel did not return fire with an all-out assault on the Palestinians of Gaza. They struck military targets. And, yes, they struck them hard. In a matter of days, Israel substantially degraded Hamas’s ability to wage their war of terror. For that, millions now blame Israel.
 
What is Hamas? Why have Canada, the European Union, Israel, Japan, and the United States designated Hamas a terrorist organization? Why have other nations, such as Australia, New Zealand, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom, designated Hamas’s military wing a terrorist organization? And remember, it was their military wing firing rockets at Israeli children.
 
These nations designated Hamas a terror group because terror is the organization’s chief tactic, and violence is its mode of operation. Hamas’s violence goes back to its very beginning. The preamble to their charter says, “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it.”
 
The eradication of Israel is their goal. They don’t just want to win a military victory over Israel or carve out a Palestinian state. Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish people. Genocide is their aim and reason. How could you describe Hamas as anything but a terror group?
 
In Article 32 of their charter, they say that the Jew’s “scheme has been laid out in the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion.’” The protocols are a hoax first published in Russia in 1903. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, the protocols began to be taught in German schools. But it was proven false early on. For one thing, you can trace much of the source material to known works of fiction. But for Hamas and its supporters, anything against Jews must be true.
 
The Hamas charter depicts Jews using old stereotypes. Article 22 blames the Jews for World Wars I and II, as well as the French and communist revolutions. This illustrates yet again that their hatred is not for Israel alone, but for Jews generally. Article 7 says, “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’”
 
Hamas stands firmly against a negotiated peace in the Middle East. Article 13 says, “So-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement... Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam... There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.”
 
Article 11 says, “The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [meaning ‘Holy Possession’] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No one can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it.”
 
Hamas stands for unending violence, war, and terror. To those Americans who have placed themselves in solidarity with Hamas, I have to ask, “Are you for peace or for never-ending jihad?”
 

 


 
Are We on The Verge of The Most Significant UFO Disclosure Ever? - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/are-we-on-the-verge-of-the-most-significant-ufo-disclosure-ever/
 
In June, U.S. intelligence agencies are expected to deliver a blockbuster report about the existence of UFOs to Congress. Needless to say, we have never seen anything like this before in U.S. history. In the old days, government entities would go to great lengths to try to marginalize anyone that spoke up too loudly about UFOs. In fact, anyone that was too effective in sharing the truth about UFOs would likely get a visit from shadowy government agents. But now everything has changed. In this day and age, current members of Congress such as U.S. Senator Marco Rubio openly talk about UFOs on television. Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid just had an article about UFOs published by the New York Times, and even Barack Obama is publicly answering questions about their existence.
 
So why has there been such a dramatic shift?
 
Have our intelligence agencies finally come to the conclusion that the American people are ready to handle the truth?
 
At this point, the corporate media is running stories about UFOs almost every single day, and many of those articles are about the much anticipated report that is expected to be released next month…
 
U.S. intelligence agencies are expected to deliver a report on “unidentified aerial phenomena” to Congress next month, sparking renewed interest and speculation into how the government has handled sightings of mysterious flying objects — and if there’s any worldly explanation for them.
 
The unclassified report, compiled by the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense, aims to make public what the Pentagon knows about unidentified flying objects and data analyzed from such encounters.
 
Needless to say, I do not expect our intelligence agencies to reveal everything that they know about UFOs in this report.
 
In fact, I anticipate that there will only be a small amount of new information.
 
But the fact that our intelligence agencies will publicly acknowledge the existence of UFOs in this report still makes it the most significant UFO disclosure ever.
 
This would have never, ever happened in the old days. Something has changed, and it appears that a concerted effort is being made to prepare us for something.
 
Of course at this point it would be laughable to try to totally deny that something is going on up there. As I have discussed previously, UFO reports from private citizens were way up in 2019, and then they were way up again in 2020.
 
But it isn’t just private citizens that are having such encounters.
 
U.S. military personnel have been seeing UFOs on a regular basis, and accounts of these encounters have made headlines all over the globe.
 
Earlier this month, video of a UFO floating in the air above the USS Omaha in July 2019 caused quite a sensation. Well, now a new video has been released that shows “as many as 14 UFOs” swarming the Omaha during that incident…
 
Video showing an unidentified flying object splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego two years ago appears to have been corroborated by military radar which shows as many as 14 UFOs swarming a Navy combat ship while traveling at speeds of more than 160mph.
 
In the footage that was just released, U.S. Navy personnel are seen observing the UFOs using two different radar systems…
 
Sailors aboard the Omaha observed the objects and measured their speed using two different radar systems.
 
One of the objects flew as fast as 138 knots – which is more than 158 miles an hour.
 
‘Holy s***. They’re going fast,’ one of the sailors is heard in the video saying.
 
Are we supposed to just disregard such testimony?
 
These days, even 60 Minutes is talking about UFOs. Earlier this month, 60 Minutes aired an extended report about UFOs, and one of the individuals that they interviewed was former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves…
 
Former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves calls whatever is out there a security risk. He told us his F/A-18F squadron began seeing UAPs hovering over restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach in 2014 when they updated their jet’s radar, making it possible to zero in with infrared targeting cameras.
 
According to Graves, at that time his squadron began encountering UFOs “every day for at least a couple of years”…
 
Ryan Graves: Every day. Every day for at least a couple years.
 
Bill Whitaker: Wait a minute, every day for a couple of years?
 
Ryan Graves: Uh-huh.
 
This is not some nut from the Internet.
 
This is a highly trained U.S. Navy fighter pilot that we are talking about.
 
Over and over again, highly credible voices have come forward with eyewitness testimony that simply cannot be denied.
 
Clearly something very unusual is happening in our skies, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio believes that we will finally get some answers when the report is released next month…
 
We’re gonna find out when we get that report. You know, there’s a stigma on Capitol Hill. I mean, some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic and some kinda, you know, giggle when you bring it up. But I don’t think we can allow the stigma to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question.
 
Personally, I am not nearly as optimistic.
 
For example, I don’t think that there will be a single word in the report about what has really been going on in Dulce, New Mexico.
 
But I do believe that our intelligence agencies will finally publicly admit that UFOs actually exist, and that is a giant step.
 
Despite all of our advanced technology, there are so many things in this world that our best experts simply cannot explain. For instance, at one time scientists insisted that coelacanths went extinct 420 million years ago, but it turns out that they are still around today…
 
Several shark hunters stumbled upon a previously unknown population of coelacanths, a 420-million-year-old ‘fossil fish’ that was once thought to be extinct.
 
The discovery was made in the southwestern part of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
 
The remarkable find, first outlined by Mongabay News, stems from the result that the shark hunters were using gillnets looking for the sharks, only to turn up the ancient fish.
 
We like to think that we have all the answers, but we don’t.
 
The truth is that our knowledge is extremely limited, and we should be willing to be honest about our limitations.
 
As for UFOs, it should be okay to admit that there is quite a bit that we don’t know about them yet.
 
But at this point it is exceedingly clear that the UFO phenomenon is very real, and I believe that the stage is being set for a deception of epic proportions.
 
Many around the world will be quite eager to embrace our new “alien friends”, but that would be a horrible, horrible mistake.

 


 
Daily Jot: The Farm Chronicles: Matchbox America – Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com
 
I hate to admit it, but my best friend Sonny and I didn’t stop playing with our Matchbox cars until we were about 12 years old. I’m sure many of my classmates who are reading this are saying to themselves, “I knew it,” while also knowing deep down inside there were some things that they held on to way too long as well. Joking aside, those Matchbox cars gave us an outlet in the long winter months of the Ohio snowbelt and allowed us to act out many slices of Americana that gave us assurance of well-being, a sense of adventure, entrepreneurship, and identification with what it meant to be an American. Every economic and civil community was represented in our collection of Matchbox cars.
 
The Mattel website gives a brief history of Matchbox cars: “In 1952, an English engineer named Jack Odell was faced with a problem when his young daughter told him that kids were only allowed to bring a toy to school if it was small enough to fit inside of a—you guessed it—match box. Tapping into his experience making die-cast car parts (and not wanting to disappoint his daughter), Jack scaled down the realistic details of a life-size steamroller into a toy that fit into the palm of his daughter’s hand—and, of course, a match box. The rest is history. Matchbox soon became one of the most popular die-cast car brands on the planet, and we continue to uphold the highest standards for making realistic vehicles that give kids the freedom to explore the world and discover their independence.”
 
The Matchbox mission is to “to give kids the freedom to explore the world through play. For nearly 70 years, Matchbox has inspired generations of kids to unleash their imaginations and get behind the wheel of the real-world vehicles they see every day. With a Matchbox in their hand, kids can drive their own adventure.” And that’s what it was for Sonny and me, and even my cousin Steve. We would sit for hours doing construction, rescuing people, putting out fires, working the fields, pretending to be wealthy, and tending to the horses. We didn’t have video games. So we had to entertain ourselves in other ways. Matchbox helped us hone our business skills as we traded cars between us—usually ending up with what we originally had sooner or later. When Hot Wheels came out, we used the plastic track to build roadways and race courses.
 
Our rooms were transformed into microcosms of America. My 1967 Hot Wheels Custom Camaro was the fastest. It was never beat. While doing some spring cleaning, my wife came across my old Matchbox collection. I just had to get them out and reminisce a bit about a simpler time and all the fun we had. Each car carries with it a certain memory. The last time I played with them, Sonny and I were in his room and he looked at me and said, “Do you want to do this anymore?” I replied, “I think we are getting a little too old for it.” We put them away. 1 Corinthians 13:11 says, “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Sometimes, we hang on to those things that we did as a child a little longer because they might inform what we become as adults.

 


 
Daily Devotion: Investing in God’s Work - by Greg Laurie – www.harvest.org
 
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. —Matthew 6:21
 
https://harvest.org/resources/devotion/investing-in-gods-work/ - Listen
 
It’s amazing to me that people don’t think twice about giving a 10 percent tip to a restaurant server (which they should at the very minimum), yet they’ll balk at giving any percentage of their income to the Lord.
 
To me that’s an indication there’s something wrong spiritually. You can tell a lot about someone’s so-called spirituality by their giving—or lack thereof. It reveals their real value system because Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21 NKJV).
 
Some Christians say that tithing is an Old Testament principle, that we’re under the New Covenant and therefore don’t have to tithe. But we should give a minimum of 10 percent to the Lord. Your tithes, by the way, should go to your church. Then above that are offerings.
 
Here’s the good news: everything you give means that you’re investing in God’s work. You’re giving to God, which will result in fruit to your account.
 
And what does God promise? Malachi 3:10 says, “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,’ says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, ‘I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!’” (NLT).
 
That sounds to me like God promises to provide for us when we are faithful with what He gives us. However, it doesn’t mean that we give to get. Rather, we give because we have received. And as we’re faithful in this, God promises to bless us.
 
I’ve applied this principle in my life for as long as I’ve been a Christian and have found it to be true. And if you’ll apply it in your life, you’ll find that it’s true as well.

 


 
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 "On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand, All other ground is sinking sand."
 
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 YBIC-Randy