Post by ResLight on Mar 25, 2014 20:26:05 GMT -5
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it remains until the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay. -- Habakkuk 2:3, RLIV.
While we, in our short-sightedness, may think that certain events prophesied should take place according some time schedule that we have come up with, the fulfillment of prophesies will take place at the time appointed by God, not by us. Nevertheless, because we set up our own expectations for when prophecies should be fulfilled, it may appear that that God is delaying the fulfillment. No, this would not be the proper way to view the matter; rather, we should acknowledge that what we considered to be the proper time for fulfillment was not the "appointed time" as set by God.
Yesterday, I received the April issue of "The Berean News", and noticed something that Jon Larsen wrote in an article entitled, "Valley of Dry Bones, Ezekiel 37":
How amazing!! Surely we do have one of the greatest proofs of the veracity of scripture in the very fact that there is a nation of Israel in the promised land once again!
We should not, however, think that the nation of Israel, as it is now, is God's Kingdom, although I am sure that the restoration of Israel at present is part of the work of God's Kingdom. But the very fact that the nation of Israel exists gives assurance of the fulfillment of future promises, and that eventually God's Kingdom will fill the whole earth, throwing the deceiver into the abyss so as to bring its blessings of peace, knowledge and truth to all. -- Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 2:2-4; 11:5-9; Revelation 20:3.
See:
Can These Bone Live?
While we, in our short-sightedness, may think that certain events prophesied should take place according some time schedule that we have come up with, the fulfillment of prophesies will take place at the time appointed by God, not by us. Nevertheless, because we set up our own expectations for when prophecies should be fulfilled, it may appear that that God is delaying the fulfillment. No, this would not be the proper way to view the matter; rather, we should acknowledge that what we considered to be the proper time for fulfillment was not the "appointed time" as set by God.
Yesterday, I received the April issue of "The Berean News", and noticed something that Jon Larsen wrote in an article entitled, "Valley of Dry Bones, Ezekiel 37":
Just consider, a mere hunred years ago, only those diligently searching scripture could have ever conceived of the idea that Isral would ever again have become a nation in its own land. Just a mere hundred years ago, the vast, vast majority of those then living in 1914l, would have simply scoffed at the notion that ther could ever again be a nation of Israel, but not students of the Bible. It was the just living by faith, who pointed at scriptures like Ezekiel 37 and proclaimed that indeed ther would again be a nation of Israel. History has proven those believers absolutely correct! Against overwhelming odds and intense opposition, Israel again beame a nation in 1948.
How amazing!! Surely we do have one of the greatest proofs of the veracity of scripture in the very fact that there is a nation of Israel in the promised land once again!
We should not, however, think that the nation of Israel, as it is now, is God's Kingdom, although I am sure that the restoration of Israel at present is part of the work of God's Kingdom. But the very fact that the nation of Israel exists gives assurance of the fulfillment of future promises, and that eventually God's Kingdom will fill the whole earth, throwing the deceiver into the abyss so as to bring its blessings of peace, knowledge and truth to all. -- Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 2:2-4; 11:5-9; Revelation 20:3.
See:
Can These Bone Live?
