Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Scripture On These Last Days
2 Timothy 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
The Book of Common Prayer Greatness of past and spiritually dead modernity
Look to The Book of Common Prayer (first written 1549)
"Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from Thy Ways like lost sheep, We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, We have offended against Thy Holy Laws, We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, And we have done those things which we ought not to have done, And there is no health in us: But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders."
How utterly far removed and detached from this pure-hearted confession is the modern so-called Christian (and the entire Christian church), who has not even a vestigial reminiscent fear of God remaining in his heart.
From Robert Alan Balaicius' book Does God Repent
http://stm.christogenea.org/
"Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from Thy Ways like lost sheep, We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, We have offended against Thy Holy Laws, We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, And we have done those things which we ought not to have done, And there is no health in us: But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders."
How utterly far removed and detached from this pure-hearted confession is the modern so-called Christian (and the entire Christian church), who has not even a vestigial reminiscent fear of God remaining in his heart.
From Robert Alan Balaicius' book Does God Repent
http://stm.christogenea.org/
God Does Not Repent
Arthur Wallis, in his God's Chosen Fast, wrote:
“God has inflexible laws in dealing with men. Sin is visited with judgment, but repentance with mercy. God has declared Himself on this point in the plainest of terms: “If at anytime I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.” (Jer. 18:7-9)
“This repentance of God, therefore, does not imply any caprice on His part, but is wholly keeping with His intentions declared beforehand. Because man repents in respect to sin, God repents in respect to judgment. Strictly speaking, then, it is not God that really changes, but man, Man's change of heart makes it morally possible for God to behave differently toward him, yet acting consistently with His holy character and principles. … So far as His declared intentions are concerned, we may say that God repented, for these were conditional; but as far as His character and principles are concerned, 'God is not a man...that He should repent' (Numbers 23:19). (pp.54.55)
Excerpt from Robert Alan Balaicius Does God Repent...“God has inflexible laws in dealing with men. Sin is visited with judgment, but repentance with mercy. God has declared Himself on this point in the plainest of terms: “If at anytime I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.” (Jer. 18:7-9)
“This repentance of God, therefore, does not imply any caprice on His part, but is wholly keeping with His intentions declared beforehand. Because man repents in respect to sin, God repents in respect to judgment. Strictly speaking, then, it is not God that really changes, but man, Man's change of heart makes it morally possible for God to behave differently toward him, yet acting consistently with His holy character and principles. … So far as His declared intentions are concerned, we may say that God repented, for these were conditional; but as far as His character and principles are concerned, 'God is not a man...that He should repent' (Numbers 23:19). (pp.54.55)
http://sacredtruthministries.com/books/%E2%80%94-does-god-repent-can-god-change-his-mind
On the nature of YHVH in Arthur Wallis' God's Chosen Fast.
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