Jesus gave one preeminent sign that he is the Messiah (Matthew 12:39; Luke 11:29-30). How many who profess to be Christians believe the sign Jesus gave, or understand its significance for not only the generation of the first century, but for our day today? How many even know what the sign is? The answers may shock you.
In this message, we continue exploring the theme of Jesus as the prophesied Messiah, and how he fulfilled and will in the future fulfill the Bible’s Messianic prophecies.
People of various descriptions, shades of opinion and backgrounds have sought to predict the future, but are nearly always wrong. The Bible warns us about how not to go about trying to inquire into the future, and also how we may understand it.
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Billions of people down through history have lived, going about their mundane activities blind to and ignorant of the real purpose of their existence. And then they died. Human philosophical and religious ideas have failed utterly to fill the void, and so if they think about it at all, people are left simply to wonder, what is the purpose of human existence.
The festivals that God’s Word commands to be kept all have deep spiritual significance. And their significance from the standpoint of time is not only historical, but also contemporary and prophetic. In understanding the meaning of God’s festivals lies the key to understanding what few people have been privileged to know, and that is, not only why we exist, but how the purpose of our existence is being and will be fulfilled.
When we put the outline of prophetic events depicted by the commanded festivals of God, together with detailed prophecies of the Bible we get a very clear picture of the flow of God’s plan and how he is going to bring it to fruition in a step by step process.
The message presented here by Rod Reynolds focuses on the prophetic significance the fall festivals God commands to be kept.
Every one of the festivals of God have significance not only for us as individuals in our spiritual journey towards God’s kingdom, but also prophetic significance in terms of God’s plan of salvation for mankind, and how that plan is to be accomplished in a step-by-step fashion.
The day of Atonement has to do not only with the removal of sin, but also the removal of the chief instigator of sin, the enemy of God and of mankind, Satan the devil. Rod Reynolds relates how the Bible reveals Satan as God’s enemy, and our enemy, and how he will ultimately be defeated and removed, once and for all.
Many people assume that this is God’s world, that God is fully in control, and that all that happens in the world is in accordance with God’s will. But the reality of the situation is not quite that straightforward or simple.
If this is God’s world why is there so much violence, so much poverty, so much sickness, so much evil of every kind and description? If this is God’s world why aren’t the problems that have plagued it for thousands of years solved?
Whose world is it that we’re living in? Is it really God’s world?
Listen as Rod Reynolds discusses the answers to these questions from the pages of the Bible.