Exodus 13. Pilar of cloud and fire

Exodus 13:21 NIV
By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

Exodus 13. Exodus oute

Exodus 13:17 NIV
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”

God can read their mind. The route to red sea was pkanned by God.

Exodus 13:18 NIV
So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.

Day and night God guided them.

Exodus 13:21 NIV
By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

Be awaken. God is working

Mark 4:39 NIV
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

2014 Malaysia
1,  2 Mas planes crashed
2,  worst flood for last 30 years
3,  bibles seized

Mark 4:38 NIV
Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

Jesus was in the boat together with the disciples. So if Jesus is here we should be safe. Enjoy cruising. But when storm strike font know what to do.

1,  discernment

See with spiritual eyes on the current issues
1,  bibles sized
2,  freedom of religious

Discern. Recognize. See.
Conviction.

2,  arise with tough faith

Mark 4:40 NIV
He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”

Spiritual rhythm.

Roman 8, 36

Romans 8:37 NIV
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

3, silent the devil voice

Jesus calm  the Storm with authority.

Mark 4:39 NIV
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

As 2013,  Malaysia Christian population about 10%   minority.

Light of the world.

Child and father. Your son is you.

Failure is the stepping stone to the greater success.

5,  divine

Mark 4:41 NIV
They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

Passover

That day went through the bible college Malaysia course structure. For both degree and master programs,  passover was one of the  subject.

Why passover is so important.

What is passover

Exodus 12:12 NIV
“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord .

3 things happened
1,  firstborn  was killed
2,  judgement to God's of Egypt
3,  declare the Lordship

What Jews do on the night of passover

Exodus 10. Pre Exodus plagues

Why God perform do many plagues?

Exodus 10:2 NIV
that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord .”

So in total how many plagues God did?

1. Stuff become snake
2,  Nile river become blood
3,  Frogs
4,  Gnats
5,  Flies
6,  Livestock
7,  Boils
8,  Hail
9,  Locust
10. Darkness  for 3 days
11,  Firstborn killed

After the passover,  Pharoah finally ask Moses  to go.

Exodus 12:31 NIV
During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested.

Content

Philippians 4:11 NIV
I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.

I think the opposite of content is greedy.

Story of content.
One day a king went to his garden and only find everything withered and dying. He asked the oak tree that  stood near the gate  what the trouble was. The oak said it was tired of life and determine to die because it was not tall and beautiful like the pine tree. The pine was troubled because it could not bear grapes like the grapevine. The grapevine was determine to throw it's life away because it could not stand erect and produce fruit as larger as peaches.

The fear factor

Luke 1:17 NIV
And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Do not be afraid.

Luke 1:13 NIV
But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.

Luke 1:30 NIV
But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.

Matthew 1:20 NIV
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

What trigger fear?
1. Unexpected
Jesus the second Adam.

Dark room.

Fear. False experience  appearing real.

Psalm 118:6 NIV
The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?

2,  uncertainty

Ephesians 1:11 NIV
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,

3 unknown

Death

Luke 2:10 NIV
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.

John 8:32 NIV
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Isaiah 43. 2.

Isaiah 43:2 NIV
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.

God will never remove obstacles. But he will assist in passing through it.

Genesis.15. Abraham faith

Genesis 15:2 NIV
But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord , what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

At one hand Abraham was childless,  then God promised him the offspring as many as stars.

Genesis 15:5 NIV
He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

If this happen today, I must said God you are crazy. I am 100 years old now and going to have the children as many as stars. You kidding me God.

The Sarai tempted Abraham by giving him Hagar. I would believe Abraham also did not have 100% faith at time.

Genesis 16:3 NIV
So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

Ten years of waiting. Tested Abraham faith with God promise.

Genesis 16:2 NIV
so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Genesis 1. Jesus

Genesis 1:26 NIV
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Heard this from Dr Charles Stanley.

LET US - God is not alone when he creating the the mankind.

Jesus  was there with him.

John 1:2 NIV
He was with God in the beginning.

Jesus was there all the time. Then the question why He never appear until VIRGIN MARY.

2 Chronicles14. King Asa

2 Chronicles 14:11 NIV
Then Asa called to the Lord his God and said, “ Lord , there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this vast army. Lord , you are our God; do not let mere mortals prevail against you.”

2 Chronicles 14:12 NIV
The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

Ezekiel 41. Upward

Ezekiel 41:7 NIV
The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.

We should never be content to rest in the mist of the valley  when the summit of Mount tabor awaits us.

Aspire  to a higher ,  a nobler,  and a fuller life. Upward to heaven. Nearer to God.

Genesis 1 and 2. Design

Things work well when they function according to the design.

Genesis 1:1 NIV
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God. The designer of the heaven and earth.

Heavens. Plural. There are more than one heaven ?

Genesis 2:20 NIV
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

Eve  was design as helper to Adam.

Psalm 139:14 NIV
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

1 Corinthians 11:3 NIV
But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 2:10 NIV
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

By God's  design,  I am the head of the family.
By God's  design,  I am wonderful 
By God's design,  I am fearful
By God's design,  I am faithful
By God's design,  I am obedient
By God's design,  I am eternal
By God's design,  i am good
By God design,  I am life
By God's design , I am multiply
By God's design,  I am prosper
By God's design,  I am going through persecution
By God's design, but am bearing fruit

Deuteronomy 11. Mountain and valley

Deuteronomy 11:11 NIV
But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.

Land of mountain and valley. Up and down.

If life were always smooth and level,  the boring sameness would weigh us down. By  Cowman

God never said that this is the  land,  zit back and relax.

This is very encouraging. Life will never be easy all  the time. God make sure we are not bore to death.

Miracle giver

Gospel OF LUKE

Luke 1:28 NIV
The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

Luke 1:31 NIV
You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.

Jesus  did not preach in synagogu8e  but walk around in the market place to share the story and teaching.

Favor of God.

Why God choose Mary?
1,  she trusted God. Conviction
2,  faith beyond fear
3,  faith take risk.

Genesis 41. Seven.cows

Genesis 41:26-27 NIV
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream. The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.

Seven is the completion.

End time. 4 thousands years BC  and 2 thousands  Post BC  and one thousands years in hell. Total 7 thousands years.

Genesis 40. Joseph interpret dream

Genesis 40:9-11 NIV
So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.”

Joseph  interpret the dream.

Genesis 40:12-13 NIV
“This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.

Genesis 39, Joseph

Genesis 39:2 NIV
The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.

God was with Joseph  and whatever he did  will success. Even IN Prison Also he was blessed.

Genesis 39:23 NIV
The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

Genesis 38, Judah

This chapter a bit messy. Brother slept with brother wife. Father slept with daughter  in law.

Genesis 38:9-10 NIV
But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord ’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.

Why God consider Onan as wicked?  You are suppose to sleep with your btot b we wife  after he pass away?

Genesis 38:15-16 NIV
When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.

Judah slept with his daughter in law thought that she was a prostitute. So prostitution exist back then. Is prostitution not wicked?  Why God did not punish Judah?

Genesis 37, Joseph sold

Genesis 37:7 NIV
We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

Joseph got 2 dreams where his brothers  bow to him. Second dream basically world bow to him.

Genesis 37:9 NIV
Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Then the next moment he was sold to Egypt. Imagine  putting yourself in Joseph shoes. I dreamt about everyone bow down to me then the actually  happen I have sold to foreign country as slave. It is contracdic. What would you fell? Strange right?

Genesis 37:28 NIV
So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

Genesis 35. Israel

Genesis 35:10 NIV
God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel. ” So he named him Israel.

This is second time Israel appeared. First time when Jacob wrestle with God.

Genesis 32:28 NIV
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

Genesis 32. Man and angels

Genesis 32:24 NIV
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.

創世記 32:24 只剩下雅各一人，有一個人來和他摔跤，直到黎明。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Here a man appeared and wrestled with Jacob. This happened when Jacob begged for blessing from God.

Genesis 32:1 NIV
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

創世記 32:1 雅各仍舊行路，神的使者遇見他。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

The angels of God met Jacob with he left Laban before meeting Esau.

When Abraham was blesses by God,  he met 3 men.

Genesis 18:1-2 NIV
The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Genesis 32. Jacob begged God for blessing

Genesis 32:24 NIV
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.

Genesis 32:26-28 NIV
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”   The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.   Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

Genesis 32. Jacob felt guilty

Genesis 32:7 NIV
In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.

Jacob so stressed when he wanted to meet Esau. Because he took away Esau blessing from Isaac.

Genesis 27:36 NIV
Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob ? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”

Genesis 27, Jacob wealth

Genesis 27:19 NIV
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

Jacob took Esau  blessing from his father Isaac. Then Jacob was blessed by Isaac

Genesis 28:1-2 NIV
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman. Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Jacob did not get anything from Isaac. Instead Jacob built his wealth while he was with Laban  by the time he left Laban he already wealthy.

The gift that Jacob have Esau already a lot  consider at that time.

Genesis 32:14-15 NIV
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Genesis 31. God said to Jacob

Genesis 31:3 NIV
Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

In those day God speak directly to them.

God I am a sinner,  forgive my sin. Speak to me God.

Palace of justice day

PSA 100:4 NIV
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

Searching for word for today. 27th Nov 2014.

Key words
Thanksgiving
Praise

Genesis 28, a tenth

Genesis 28:22 NIV
and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”

Tithe,  a tenth or 10% of your income.

These money were given by God to me and not belong to me. I am only a custodian  of it.

Cultural theology

Psalm 119:66-67 NIV
Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I trust your commands. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.

Acts  1 and 2

Acts 1:8 NIV
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Chapter 3,  problem and trouble of church
Church of Antioch? Iran and Iraq?

Christianity pattern
1,  Start at middle  east
2,  Western Europe
3,  America
4,  Asia

CMS,  Collaborative Mission Services

How Satan attacked  church?

Amazing  Grace by John Newton

3 reasons why gospel is critical
1,  gospel is free
2,  Jesus  Christ  is the only way
3,  demand moral change

Heart of Christian  mission
1,  not only believer but be the deciples and preach the gospel.

Persecution,  get together and pray.

Without bleeding the church failed to be blessed.

Grace to be disgrace.

Chapter  5. Moral corruption

Acts 5:3 NIV
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?

Joshua chapter 6. Act of deceive

Book. Hot tub  Christian.

Hard land of Muslim and Hindu.

Thailand. 70  millions. Only 0.1% Christian ? Why  ?

East Malaysia.

In Africa. Saying,  one million miles but one inch  depth 

Satan attacked Disctraction

Acts 6,

Summary
1,  pray. radical challenge
2, 
3,  best to mission

10 % go to mission. Moravian  Christian.

Genesis 26, God bless Isaac

Genesis 26:12 NIV
Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him.

Because of Abraham God bless Isaac.

Genesis 26, why God bless Abraham

Genesis 26:4-5 NIV
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,  because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”

As simple  as tbat - obey. Obedient.

Genesis 11, Abraham

Genesis 11:10, 26 NIV
This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

Genesis 11:26 NIV
After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Abraham was from Shem bloodline. Who is Shem?  Noah children.

Genesis 9:18 NIV
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

Genesis 8:4 NIV
and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 23, Sarah buried

Genesis 23:19 NIV
Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:4, 19 NIV
“I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my wife "

Why Abraham said he is the foreigner to place which is Hebron? Where is Abraham originated?

Genesis 22:19 NIV
Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.

So at that time he actually stay at Beersheba.

Genesis 24, Isaac wife

Genesis 24:4 NIV
but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Abraham was living at Canaan land at that time. I thought that is the promise land?  Why He Said Go To His Country? Where later his servant set for Aram Naharaim,  which is at Mesopotamia.

Genesis 24:4, 10 NIV
but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.”   Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim and made his way to the town of Nahor.

Genesis 24, praise the Lord

Genesis 24:26-27 NIV
Then the man bowed down and worshiped the Lord , saying, “Praise be to the Lord , the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Not only Abraham is faithful  even his servant is very faithful. He immediately praise the Lord  after successful find the wife for Isaac.

Genesis 24, God blessed Abraham

Genesis 24:34-35 NIV
So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant. The Lord has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Not only blessed but blessed abundantly.

Who is Abraham ?
1. Obey God.
2,  chosen by God

Genesis 22, only son

Genesis 22:2 NIV
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

Abraham only son Isaac.
God only son Jesus.

Genesis 22:6 NIV
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,

Wood on his son Isaac.
Jesus  carried the cross.

Genesis 22:18 NIV
and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”

Jesus is the descendent of Abraham. Through Jesus all nations on earth will be blessed and saved.

Genesis 21, opened eyes

Genesis 21:19 NIV
Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

Jesus also said this those who have ears listen and have eyes to see.

Many  time for the same thing different people might see differently.

Mark 8:18 NIV
Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?

Genesis 21, obey

Genesis 21:4 NIV
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.

God Covenant  with Abraham for circumcise  and Abraham obey it.

Genesis 17:12 NIV
For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.

Genesis 20, conscience

Our God is the God of reasonable. So long as you are innocent,  He will not punish you.

King Abimelek  was inform  by Abraham. That Sarah bis his sister and took her as his wife. But God come into his dream to inform him about this.

Who Is This King Abimelek?  Why God like him so much ?

Genesis 20:6 NIV
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 19, Lot and his daughter

Not sure why this was allowed? Both the older and younger did the same

Genesis 19:33 NIV
That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

Who is Moabites  and Ammonite?

Genesis 19:37 NIV
The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab ; he is the father of the Moabites of today.

Genesis 19:38 NIV
The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi ; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.

Later in Numbers  and Deut there will be more on Moabites and Ammonites.

Numbers 25:1-3 NIV
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the Lord ’s anger burned against them.

Genesis 19, don't look back

A very clear instructions was given -don't look back.

Genesis 19:17 NIV
As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

Man  curiosity sometime can be the killer!
Genesis 19:26 NIV
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19, Sodom

The word Sodomised  were derived from here.

Genesis 19:4-5 NIV
Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

Man wickedness were total wiped out during Noah  time. Now during Abraham time another small scale.

IF THE CITY WAS WICKED,  GOD CAN TAKE THE DOWN.

Similarly apply to man. if we are wicked God can destroyed us as well. But why there are still so many wicked in this world?

Do Sodomised  or homosexual is wicked from  the eyes of God. This is very clear.

How Sodom was destroyed?

Genesis 19:24 NIV
Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.

Genesis 18, negotiate

Genesis 18:24 NIV
What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?

Abraham negotiated with God for Sodom. From 50,  40, 20  and lastly 10.

Genesis 18:32 NIV
Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

Can I negotiate with God?  But what to negotiate?

Apostle. Cheras

Acts 1:8 NIV
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Jesus wanted everyone to be saved and repentance
2 Peter 3:9 NIV
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

God loved the world
John 3:16 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

You can do better then Jesus.
John 14:12 NIV
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

God provide. Why you worry.

Stingy  Christian  - force to givev 10%
More than10% - faithful chtistian
50%;- sharing Christian
More than 50% - sacrifice  Christian

You are unique. UNIQUE.

Shy. Scared. Silent.
Bold. Outspoken. Confident
Friendly. Lovely. Caring. Kind.

11 steps
PQRSTUVWXYZ
1. P,  pray
2, Q  quiet
3, R.  Reveal
4, S,  Shine
5,  T,  touch
6,  U,  unveil
7,  V,  validate
8,  W,  word of God
9,  X,  execute
10,  Y,  yes to Jesus
11,  Z,  zeal

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Christian values

Philippians 4:8-9 NIV
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Christian values
1,  true
2,  noble
3,  right
4,  pure
5,  lovely
6,  admirable
7,  excellent and praiseworthy

ACTION. Put it in practice.

Genesis 17. Covenant and Circumcised

God covenant with Abraham

Father of many nations
Genesis 17:4 NIV
“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Not very sure why father of many nations?

King family
Genesis 17:6 NIV
I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

King David and King Solomon.

Abraham God
Genesis 17:7 NIV
I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Canaan land
Genesis 17:8 NIV
The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

Rules of circumcised

Male only
Genesis 17:10 NIV
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

8th years old
Genesis 17:12 NIV
For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.

Everybody in the house whole
Genesis 17:13 NIV
Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:24 NIV
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

Genesis 15. God promise land

Genesis 15:18 NIV
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—

Wadi of Egypt  is in Egypt  and Ephrata river basically in Iraq. So is the promise land span from Iraq to Egypt ?

Genesis 15. 400 years slaves

God foretold Abraham on the slavery of Jewish in Egypt where Moses brought them out later

Genesis 15:13 NIV
Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.

Genesis 16, Ishmael

Hagar  run away and sympathy  by the Lord and was blessed.

Genesis 16:10 NIV
The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

Genesis 16:11 NIV
The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael,  for the Lord has heard of your misery.

I remember Ishmael  become the other half brother is Christian.

Need to Google.

God actually plan for Ishmael to be someone rebelled. Why?

Genesis 16:12 NIV
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Genesis 16, Hagar

Genesis 16:2 NIV
so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Sarai  actually told Abraham  to sleep with  Hagar and hope to get a child. When the thing happened as plan Sarai cannot take it and blame Abraham.

Genesis 16:5 NIV
Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

Genesis 12. Jesus foretold

Genesis 12:2-3 NIV
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.    I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

In Genesis 12, God already planned for Jesus to come as savior - all people on earth will be blessed through you.

Genesis 11, Tower of Babel

Genesis 11:4 NIV
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Here not understand why they wanted to built the tower. What it mean otherwise they will be scattered ?

Genesis 11:7 NIV
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

創世記 11:7 我們下去，在那裡變亂他們的口音，使他們的言語，彼此不通。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Notice 'let us' not let Me. So God sent angels down to confused them ?

Book of Jubilee,  from wiki,  God did tumbled down the tower with strong wind. It also mentioned the height of the tower about 8000 ft  or 3 times of Burj  Khalifa,  the world tallest building now. So we are far behind the tower of babel. 

Bible did not mentioned the name of the tower. Also did not mentioned the tower was tumble down. 

Genesis 11, language

Genesis 11:1 NIV
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

How Adam  and Eve speak?  Eve actually  spoken to the serpent.

Genesis 3:2 NIV
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,

Adam spoken to God.

Genesis 3:10 NIV
He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

Eve  also spoken to God.

Genesis 3:13 NIV
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Genesis 6, 120 years old

Genesis 6:3 NIV
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

After the falling angel got married to man, God make man only live 120 days.

Genesis 6:1 NIV
When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 9, vegetarian and meat eater

Genesis 9:3 NIV
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

From this moment onwards man eat meat.

During Adam time,  man are vegetarian.

Genesis 2:16 NIV
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

Genesis 8, Ararat

Genesis 8:4 NIV
and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8, multiply

This is the second time God Talk About Multiply.

To Adam  and Eve
Genesis 1:28 NIV
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Noah was like another new beginning and God talk about the multiplying again.

Genesis 9:1 NIV
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:7 NIV
As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

Genesis 8, God promise post flood

Genesis 8:21 NIV
The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

God promised  never flood the earth like this again.

Genesis 9:13 NIV
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 8, 4 seasons

Genesis 8:22 NIV
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

First-time in the bible mentioned about 4 seasons  -summer and winter.

Watched somewhere about the planet X,  it cross the earth and magnetic  field actually causing the earth axis to be twisted. That created 4 session.

Genesis 8, 150 days post flood

Genesis 7:24 NIV
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:3 NIV
The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

150  days ,  flooded the earth
150 days, water receded

Genesis 7, Flood. All mankind perished

Genesis 7:21 NIV
Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

All mankind perished.

Genesis 7:24 NIV
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

150 days

Genesis 7, 600 years

6Genesis 7:11 NIV
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

I remember  Discover Ministry link this to end time. 600th  year as year of the floodgates from heaven open and the mankind of whole earth perish.

4000 years prior Jesus  and 2000 post Jesus  is 6000 years.

So as long as for the years we are there. Then now the 17th day of the 2nd month. When is this 2  and 17?  2017? 2170? 2270?

Genesis 7, animals in ark

Genesis 7:2 NIV
Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,

Genesis 7:3 NIV
and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

7 pairs of clean animal
1 pair of unclean animal
7 pairs of birds

Why God still keep the unclean animals?

What is unclean animal?  The one that I knew is pig. What Else ?

From Wiki

2 criteria to categories the animal as unclean  - Ruminate and cloves hoof

Ruminate  basically mean chew again. Animals such as cow, goat etc they chew the  grass again and again from stomach before fully digested. 

Clover hoof mean hoof split into 2. 

Pig did not fulfill the above 2 criteria  hence consider as unclean. 

I am yet to see the real different between goat and pig hoof? 

Genesis 6. God regretted

Genesis 6:6 NIV
The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

Genesis 6:7 NIV
So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

Why God regretted?

Genesis 6:2-3 NIV
the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

This was the time where God limit the man age  to 120 years old. This was the first punishment.

The the second is to wipe up all creatures.

Genesis 6. Noah the Ark

God did not just  tell Noah build the ark. But gave a details plan how big and the design of the ark  similar thing also happen when the temple was built by Solomon.

Genesis 6:14-16 NIV
So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.  Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

Genesis 6. Nephilim

Genesis 6:4 NIV
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Try to see what is Chinese word for it. But can't find a good word.

創世記 6:4 那時候有偉人在地上，後來神的兒子們，和人的女子們交合生子，那就是上古英武有名的人。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Sometimes when you watch the Hollywood movies,  these old movies,  you can see some giant in the movies. These are real as per bible and they are the Nephilim. 

Google will be able to see some pictures. 

This also link to the stories of David and Goliath. 

Genesis 5, Enoch

Enoch was rapture to heaven.

Genesis 5:24 NIV
Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

As compare to other, Enoch only live on earth for 1/3 of years of others.

Genesis 5:23 NIV
Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

Before Enoch was rapture he spent 300 years with God.

Genesis 5:22 NIV
After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Enoch became father when he was 65,  he live only 365  years and 300 years was with God.

Genesis 5:21 NIV
When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

Enoch is in which generation from Adam?
1. Adam
2. Seth
3. Enosh
4. Kenan
5. Mahalalel
6. Jared
7. Enoch

Enoch  Seventh Adam

Genesis 4. Multiply

It was mentioned twice in Genesis 4. First-time is Cain,  second time was Seth.

Genesis 4:1 NIV
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”

Genesis 4:25 NIV
Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Back at Genesis 1,  God told man to multiply.

Genesis 1:28 NIV
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis 4. Jubal and Tubal-Cain

Genesis 4:21 NIV
His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.

Genesis 4:22 NIV
Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.

Below website actually argue  that man at that time were very intelligent than now. This is due to their perfect built.

They  already know how to built musical instrument  and make some tool with bronze and iron.

https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/cain/cains-wife-who-was-she/

Genesis 4, Cain

Genesis 4:1 NIV
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”

Cain was the first children of Adam and Eve.

Genesis 4:2 NIV
Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

God favor Abel.
Genesis 4:4 NIV
And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

Before  Cain  kill Abel,  God actually gave warning to Cain.

Genesis 4:7 NIV
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

Angry. jealousy. Can lead to killing.
Genesis 4:8 NIV
Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 4:17 NIV
Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.

Below website elaborate in long who is Cain's  wife? Also mentioned was the close relation marriage of that time and now. After Moses law,  the close relation marriage was prohibited.

https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/cain/cains-wife-who-was-she/

Genesis 3. The fall

Serpent - God describe them as crafty. Chinese got a good word 狡猾. Aldo notice here the serpent spoken to the woman  but not Adam. Why?  Woman are easily been tricked with food?

Genesis 3:1 NIV
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

創世記 3:1 耶和華神所造的，惟有蛇比田野一切的活物更狡猾。蛇對女人說：神豈是真說：不許你們吃園中所有樹上的果子嗎？ (分享自Android快速聖經)

When God put them in the garden He already warn them not to eat the forbidden fruit. 

Genesis 2:17 NIV
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Genesis 3:6 NIV
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

4 things attract woman :-
1,  good for food
2, pleasing eyes
3,  gaining wisdom
4,  share with husband

Adam  trusted the wife just like that - he ate it  - without questioning?

Adam  blame God  put the woman there and cause him to be  sinned.

Genesis 3:12 NIV
The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Woman blame the serpent.

Genesis 3:13 NIV
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

God punish or cursed the serpent  together with the woman.

Genesis 3:15 NIV
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Enmity  - hostility.

創世記 3:15 我又要叫你和女人彼此為仇，你的後裔和女人的後裔，也彼此為仇，女人的後裔要傷你的頭，你要傷他的腳跟。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Any research said snake like to bite woman? Read again realize that it is - he will crush your head not she.

Genesis 2. Woman was created

Genesis 2:18 NIV
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

God actually don't want Adam to be alone. Here very interesting God actually look for helper  for Adam. So woman is the helper to man.

Genesis 2:20 NIV
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

God get all the animals to the Eden thought that they could be the helper  to Adam. But later discover it is not.

Genesis 2:21 NIV
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.

Genesis 2:22 NIV
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Genesis 2:23 NIV
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Genesis 2:25 NIV
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

創世記 2:25 當時夫妻二人，赤身露體，並不羞恥。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Here God call the woman the wife to  Adam.

Genesis 2. Garden of Eden

Where is farden of Eden

Genesis 2:8 NIV
Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

Genesis 2:10 NIV
A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

Genesis 2. Four rivers

Genesis 2:11 NIV
The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:13 NIV
The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.

Genesis 2:14 NIV
The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Matthew 25. Watch

Matthew 25:13 NIV
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

After Jesus talking about the end time in Matthew 24,  he gave this parable  about the vurgin and brudgeroom and the message is watch.

Genesis 2. God created man

Genesis 2:7 NIV
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

創世記 2:7 耶和華神用地上的塵土造人，將生氣吹在他鼻孔裡，他就成了有靈的活人，名叫亞當。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Genesis 1. Heaven and earth

Day 1. Light

Genesis 1:3 NIV
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Day 2. Water

Genesis 1:6 NIV
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”

Day 3. Land

Genesis 1:9 NIV
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

Day 4. Sun, moon  and stars

Genesis 1:16 NIV
God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

Day 5. Creatures

Genesis 1:20 NIV
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”

Day  6. Man

Genesis 1:26 NIV
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Day 7. Rest

Genesis 2:2 NIV
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Discerning beyond here and now

Psalm 119:28 NIV
My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

Psalm 119:33 NIV
Teach me, Lord , the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end.

Discerning. Distinguished

Numbers 13:17-18 NIV
When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, “Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country. See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.

Numbers 13:33 NIV
We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

Genesis 6:4 NIV
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

1,  should not be fear

Numbers 13:33 NIV
We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

What if. Irrational fear. Not trusting God.

Here and now.

2,  fear is ordinary but faith is extraordinary

Numbers 13:31 NIV
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

Irrational fear.
We have God who is awesome.
God divine destiny  in your life.

Cindy Jacob.
http://soaringeagleglobalmissions.org/2014/03/20/prophecies-about-malaysia-by-cindy-jacob/

Luke 21 and Matt. 24

1. False prophet

Luke 21:8 NIV
He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.

Matthew 24:5 NIV
For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.

2. Wars

Luke 21:9 NIV
When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.”

Matthew 24:6 NIV
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

3. Earthquake

Luke 21:11 NIV
There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

Matthew 24:7 NIV
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

4. Persecution

Luke 21:12 NIV
“But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

Matthew 24:9 NIV
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

Matthew 24 and Revelation 6

1. False Messiah

Matthew 24:4-5 NIV
Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.  For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.

Revelation 6:2 NIV
White horse and crown
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

2. Wars

Matthew 24:6 NIV
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Revelation 6:4 NIV
Red horse
Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

3. Famine and earthquake - inflation

Matthew 24:7 NIV
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Revelation 6:6 NIV
Black Horse.  Inflation
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”

Pretribulation
Matthew 24:8 NIV
All these are the beginning of birth pains.

4. Famine and earthquake
Matthew 24:7 NIV
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Revelation 6:8 NIV
Pale horse. Death
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

5. Persecution
Matthew 24:9 NIV
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

Revelation 6:9 NIV
Persecution
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

6. Black sun and stars fall

Matthew 24:29 NIV
“Immediately after the distress of those days    “ ‘the sun will be darkened,    and the moon will not give its light;    the stars will fall from the sky,    and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’

Revelation 6:12 NIV
6th seal. Black sun
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

Revelation 6:13 NIV
Stars fell
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

7. Heaven. Rapture

Matthew 24:40-41 NIV
Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.  Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

Revelation 8:1 NIV
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Revelation 21. New heaven and new earth

Revelation 21:1 NIV
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

Revelation 20. Judgement day

Satan locked for1000 years
Revelation 20:1-3 NIV
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

Revelation 20:5 NIV
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.

Satan release after 1000 years
Revelation 20:7 NIV
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison

Satan put in hell forever
Revelation 20:10 NIV
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Book of life
Revelation 20:12 NIV
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.

Revelation 20:14-15 NIV
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 19. Great tribulation. White horse

Revelation 19:11 NIV
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war.

Revelation 18. Great tribulation. Fall of Babylon

Revelation 18:21 NIV
Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.

Midnight of our soul

5Acts 16:25 NIV
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Psalm 119:62 NIV
At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws.

Midnight.
Dark night of our soul.
Lonelyness

Isaiah 30:29 NIV
And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the Rock of Israel.

Acts 16:26 NIV
Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.

Acts 16:27 NIV
The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.

Acts 16:28 NIV
But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!”

Acts 16:29-30 NIV
The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 16:31 NIV
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

Acts 16:33 NIV
At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized.

Process of journey. From point A to point B.

Paul were serving God but still have to suffer the beaten up and jail. IT take faith for Paul to proceed.

With faith dominating,  fear and doubt will be subsided. Faith come by hearing.   God word.

Philippians 4:6 NIV
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Revelation 17. Great tribulation. Prostitute

World prostitute

Revelation 17:1 NIV
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.

Revelation 17:3-4 NIV
Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.

Seven heads. Seven kings

Revelation 17:9-10 NIV
“This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while.

Ten horns. Ten kings

Revelation 17:12 NIV
“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast.

Waters. Worlds

Revelation 17:15 NIV
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.

Woman. City

Revelation 17:18 NIV
The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 6. Four horses

1. White Horse  - peace. world keader

Revelation 6:2 NIV
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

2, red horse. War

Revelation 6:4 NIV
Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

3,  black horse. Inflation

Revelation 6:5 NIV
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.

4,  pale horse. Dealth

Revelation 6:8 NIV
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Revelation. 16. Great tribulation. Seven bowls

1st Bowl. Sores

Revelation 16:2 NIV
The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

2nd bowl. Sea blood

Revelation 16:3 NIV
The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.

3rd bowl. River blood

Revelation 16:3 NIV
The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.

4th bowl. Sun scorch

Revelation 16:8 NIV
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.

5th bowl. Beast kingdom plunged

Revelation 16:10 NIV
The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony

6th bowl. Ephrata river dried up

Revelation 16:12 NIV
The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.

Revelation 16:16 NIV
Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

7th bowl. Done

Revelation 16:17 NIV
The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

Revelation .8, 9, 10 seven trumpet

1st trumpet. Hail, fire and blood = meteorite on green

Revelation 8:7 NIV
The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

2nd trumpet. Mountain ablaze = meteorite in sea

Revelation 8:8 NIV
The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,

3rd trumpet.   meteorite on river

Revelation 8:10 NIV
The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—

4th trumpet. Sun,  moon,  star were strike

Revelation 8:12 NIV
The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

5th trumpet. Abyss. Locust.

Revelation 9:1-5 NIV
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.

6th trumpet. Ephrata angel kind 1/3 mankind

Revelation 9:13-15 NIV
The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

7th trumpet. Not available

Revelation 10:4 NIV
And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.”

Revelation 6. Seven seals

1st seal - white horse,  bow and crown

Revelation 6:2 NIV
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

2nd seal - red horse,  make people kill each other

Revelation 6:4 NIV
Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

3rd seal - inflation

Revelation 6:6 NIV
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”

4th seal - pale horse,  Death

Revelation 6:8 NIV
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

5th seal - Man killed of Word of God

Revelation 6:9 NIV
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

6th seal - earthquake.  Black sun and red moon

Revelation 6:12 NIV
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

Revelation 6:13 NIV
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

Revelation 6:14 NIV
The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

Revelation 6:15 NIV
Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Chapter 6 stop at 6th seal.

7th seal - heaven

Revelation 8:1 NIV
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Revelation 5. Heaven. Scroll with 7 seals

Revelation 5:1 NIV
Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.

Then John saw only Jesus can open the seals.

Revelation 5:5 NIV
Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Why the lamb have 7 horns and 7 eyes?

Revelation 5:6 NIV
Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

Seven spirits:-
1,  spirit of Lord
2,  spirit of wisdom
3,  spirit of understanding
4,  spirit of counsel
5,  spirit of might
6,  spirit of knowledge
7,  spirit of fear of Lord

Isaiah 11:2 NIV
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord —

Revelation 4 - heaven. 24 elders and 4 creatures

02 major thing John Saw IN Heaven
1,  24 elders
2,  4 creatures

Revelation 4:4 NIV
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.

Revelation 4:7 NIV
The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.

Revelation 4:8 NIV
Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’  who was, and is, and is to come.”

So far yet to find out what is the 24 elders and the 4 creatures mean.

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There is no clear conclusion. First there is an argument that if the elders are angels or man?  Then why 24?

Revelation overview

Book 1 to 3 - seven churches
Book 4 to 5 - heaven
Book 6 to 10 - tribulation
Book 11 to 13 - mid tribulation
Book 14 to 15 - heaven
Book 16 to 19 -  great tribulation
Book 20 - millennium
Book 21 to 22 - eternity

Kingdom church - step to the kingdom

Jesus started preaching

Matthew 4:17 NIV
From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

Jesus repeat what John the Baptist preached.

Heaven or kingdom come to the earth.

Beautitue
Matthew 5:10 NIV
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 12:31 NIV
But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

Lord prayer
Matthew 6:10 NIV
your kingdom come,    your will be done,    on earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 16:19 NIV
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be  bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be  loosed in heaven.”

Power of focus - Jesus wanted Peter to focus on Jesus.

Matthew 16:15 NIV
“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

Dominion.

Genesis
God wanted Adam to rule the world bit failed.

Jesus is the second Adam that fulfill God's will.

John 3:5 NIV
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.

2,  Jesus unfold your revelation

Authoritative prayer

Exodus 3:8 NIV
So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Revelation 1, 2, 3 - Seven churches

Revelation 1:20 NIV
The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels  of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Physically all the seven churches are located in Turkey.

Character of the seven churches.

1,  Ephesus - forsaken the first love

Revelation 2:4 NIV
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.

Revelation 2:5 NIV
Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

2,  Smyma - persecution

Revelation 2:10 NIV
Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.

3,  Pergamum - Balaam teaching -idols food and sexual immorality

Revelation 2:14 NIV
Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:16 NIV
Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

4,  Thyatira - false prophet

Revelation 2:20 NIV
Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.

5,  Sardis - sleeping church

Revelation 3:2 NIV
Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.

6,  Philadelphia - endure patiently

Revelation 3:10 NIV
Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.

7,  Laodicea - lukewarm

Revelation 3:16 NIV
So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Day 40. What's next

Matthew 9:6 NIV
But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.”

He is definitely stretch your faith. But He rarely require impossible.

Ask, listen and then immediately obey.

Stay away from people who destroying words in your life.

Surround yourself with people who will strengthen your faith.

Day 38, what will you wear

Philippians 2:3 NIV
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,

Only those who are true servants will be dressed in this gown on the day of Marriage of the Lamb.

My heart is as Your heart, Lord.

Day 39, thy will be done

Matthew 6:10 NIV
your kingdom come,    your will be done,    on earth as it is in heaven.

The crown that are presented in heaven are earned here in the earth.

I am a Victor in Jesus. I have already conquered the divorce. It has no power over me. I am whole and free.

Day 37, the laying on of hands

Luke 4:40 NIV
At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them.

There are many ways Jesus perform the healing. How Jesus heal here is by laying hand on the person.

Find someone to lay hand and pray. One thing that Freeda pointed out that this person must have high spiritually integrity such as pastor or someeone with great faith.

Mark 16:18 NIV
they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

Last,  we must receive the healing.