Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

The caution of expediency verses the fearlessness of faith
Oct 5th, 2008
CommentaryMorning Meditation
Categories: Today's Headlines;Book Study

Elijah and the Secret of His Power - Chapter 6, by F.B. Meyer

When Elijah told Obadiah to tell his master that Elijah was waiting for Ahab, the astonished courtier was incredulous. He knew how irritated and incensed Ahab had been, and that his anger was at white heat still. It seemed madness for the prophet to expose himself to its flames. Indeed, he thought either that the prophet did not know the way in which the king had sought for him or that the Spirit of the Lord would carry him off before they could meet. It never occurred to him that Elijah dare meet the king if he really know how matters stood. And even supposing that Obadiah himself were foolhardy enough to confront the king, surely God would prevent him from stepping into the lion's lair. In any case, Obadiah wished to have nothing to do with it. He was more anxious for himself than for the work of God or the wishes of Elijah. Twice over he repeated the words, "He shall slay me" (1 Kings 18:9,12). And it was only when Elijah appealed to God as the witness of his solemn oath and assured Obadiah that he would surely show himself to Ahab before the sun went down that he reluctantly went to meet Ahab and told him. How unable he was to form a true conception of the fearlessness of Elijah!

And what was the source of that fearlessness? Surely it is unfolded to us in the words of Elijah's sublime asseveration: "As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand" (2 Kings 3:14). God was more real to Elijah than Ahab. He was a courtier in the throneroom of the King of kings. How could he be afraid of a man that should die, and of the son of man that should become as the grass of the mower's scythe withered by the noontide heat? The fear of God had made him impervious to all other fear. Faith sees the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire. Faith can hear the tread of twelve legions of angels marshaling for its defense. Faith can detect the outlines of those Almighty hands which hide the children of God in their hollow. And so, with unblanched face and undismayed heart, God's Elijahs go on to do His commands, though their way is blocked by as many devils as there are tiles upon the housetops. The Obadiahs assert that they will never dare to carry their proposals through, but they live to see their predictions falsified and their mean suggestions shamed.

A World Government and a world Church
Oct 5th, 2008
Weekly CommentaryArt Sadlier
Categories: Commentary;One World Church;World Government

Scripture tells us that the last days of this age will be dominated by a World government working hand in hand with a World church. Scripture tells us that these two entities will appear at the beginning of the tribulation period. The fact that these two entities are now hovering in the wings and are about to make an appearance indicates the lateness of the hour in which we now live.

The current financial meltdown has stimulated renewed calls for a new currency to replace the dollar as the worlds trading currency. China, Europe and a group of mid-east oil producing nations are calling for a new world currency. UN secretary General is stressing the need for global leadership in the light on the financial crisis facing the world. European financial leaders are preparing for a proposed global summit on the economic crisis.

It is obvious that a global agency will need to regulate and supervise this new financial

order in place of the US. The stage is being set for a world government which will manage this new world economy. The whole concept has been worked over for years, all that awaits is God’s time table. Paul said, “And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time”. 2 Thess. 2:6. That indicates, as we said earlier, this world government with its world leader will not be revealed until the church is raptured. Again I say, events indicate that the hour is very late, the trumpet is soon to sound.

The second entity that will dominate in the last days is the world church (Rev. 17).

For over fifty years the mainline churches have been promoting ecumenism, the coming together of all the denominations into common effort to promote a social agenda. Along with that we have witnessed the efforts of the Catholic church to bring protestants back into a union with Rome. Evangelicals have stood aloof from ecumenism until the last few decades. Two men who call themselves evangelicals, Rick Warren and Bill Hybels are subtly leading a vast host of evangelicals into a program that will make the church a vehicle for global government. Rick Warren has boldly introduced a Peace initiative, in a plan to bring one billion religious people to cooperate in solving many of the worlds problems. He says that there some global giants that he is set to tackle, they are poverty, hiv/aids, climate change, human rights and selfish leadership. As a new evangelical, Warren wants to avoid the issue of sin, its to devisive, it divides, whereas focusing on these social problems brings people together. That’s where new evangelicalism takes a fatal wrong turn. The purpose of the gospel is not to unite people nor to solve social problems but to preach against sin and to bring conviction on sinners with the purpose of bringing them to reconciliation with God.

In 1995 Bill Hybels introduced the Global Leadership Summit, it was to be an annual leadership conference to train leaders for church, ministry, and for other leaders to develop their skills. The 2007 summit was hosted in 224 cities and in 32 countries and with leaders from 108,000 churches. Some of the main speakers were men who are backers of global religion. Men like U2 lead singer Bono along with Tony Blair, men who are also aggressively promoting global religion. Along with these men there are a host of other speakers who represent the secular business world with there secular methods.

New Evangelicalism has swept over much of the evangelical church with its goal of social change, through the social gospel. The problem is that the cost has been the sacrifice of the true gospel. Turning the church into a vehicle for building the world church, the harlot church of Revelation 17. Most tragic of all is that multitudes of evangelicals do not have the foggiest notion of what is going on. The call of the hour is, “Come out of her my people”. God’s program for apostasy is separation! - Art Sadlier