This is one of my favorite songs of the new age worship music.
I finally set and done the research on the words and was blown away here is what I discovered.
Days of Restoration
"These are the days of Elijah declaring the word of the Lord. And these are the days of your servant Moses, righteousness being restored.
In Acts 3 we see that Peter addressed the men of Israel to repent so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
Repent in the Hebrew means to turn or even better to return.
In essence, Peter was telling people who should have known better- they had the Word, the heritage and traditions- and yet they needed to return so that times of refreshing could come.
We all have wandered off of the one true path and to get the refreshing promised we need to get back on that path , the path to God through his Son Jesus Christ.
One body one mind and one accord.
ZEPH3:9 For then I will restore to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one accord.
Hos 6:1-2 Come let us return to the Lord; for he has torn , but he will heal us;He has stricken , but he will bind us up. After two days He will revive us;on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in his sight.
My friends we are in that third day we as followers of Jesus , the only begotten Son of God need to return to our childlike faith and put our trust in him.
We need to suit up in the heavenly Armour and take our sword of truth{THE BIBLE]and reclaim this land for the Lord.
Declaring the Word of the Lord
Elijah came to all people and said."How long will you falter between the two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him;but if Baal, follow him.[1Kings 18:12]
For all you bible readers you know the story Elijah with boldness called out the other God of Israel and proved him false and then slaughtered them.
Turning the hearts of the children.
We as Judeo Christian parents need to take back our children and teach them that the BIBLE is God's word no matter what public education tells them.
By man's law we may have to tolerate other religions but we don't have to accept them or give into them.
Most Christian's set back in the pews and remain silent while Islam and other false beliefs take over.
What is worse than that is people who say they are believers of the Christian faith are pushing for all kind of Ungodly things which from my past posts you should know them by now.
We need to rise up with the boldness of Elijah and stand our ground so that we won't be wiped out!
Prepare the Way.
Elijah had come and gone, John the Baptist came in the "Spirit of Elijah".
It is our job and duty and a command of God get the people ready for the "SECOND COMING" of the Messiah.
John did not act like or look like what they expected and I am sure I or anybody else will be looked at funny.
Before Restoration can be realized, through repentance and a willingness to return to the "ancient paths"[Jer 18:15]
So in closing I will leave you one thought:IF the Spirit of Elijah is present, then the spirit of his nemesis is as well. That would be Jezebel and according to scripture, Jezebel lived in the "white house.{1Ki. 22 :39]
Before the restoration will come there will be famine, trial and tribulations.
So heed these thought and consider what this election could bring though it is prophesied to happen, people just need to be ready.
20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that is] an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 20:2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 20:3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 20:4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. 20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? 20:7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, [that] shall ye receive. 20:8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them [their] hire, beginning from the last unto the first. 20:9 And when they came that [were hired] about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. 20:10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. 20:11 And when they had received [it], they murmured against the goodman of the house, 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought [but] one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? 20:14 Take [that] thine [is], and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. Matt 20 1-16
hours are as follows. sunrise till 9:00am
9:ooam till 12:00pm
12:00 till 3:00pm
3:00 till 7:00pm
Imagine being able to clock in at 2:00 pm and work one hour and be paid the same as the ones who worked all day.
God will give his salvation that way.
The harvest is getting ready to start!
I was reading this parable last night and the Holy Spirit spoke and said that we are in the eleventh hour.
Whether you accepted Christ 80 years ago or just now, and then he comes back you are guaranteed salvation.
People who accepted years ago usually don't accept the new way of worship and the youth don't want to worship the older ways.
As long as it is worship to Jesus Christ it is worship.
Don't wait till the harvest comes[ the rapture]
because you will miss it.
The only thing left after the harvest Will be the tares and the weeds and we know what happens to them.
Time is counting down it is time to come to the Cross and accept what Jesus did and not be left behind.
Most teachers of the Bible say that Gen chp1 is a prefaces or a overview and chapter two is a more in detail .
Some say that chapter one is the creation of the nations and chapter two is the creation of the Jewish race which would bring forth Christ.
I have heard it taught that Adam's first wife was Lilith and because she would not submit to Adam [for she was created at the same time as Adam] she was banished from the garden and some Jewish sects still wear amulets to protect their newborns from her spirit which is called a succubus.
She is blamed for bringing young boys dreams which cause nocturnal emissions which there is a law against in the Bible.
The number of God's depend on whether you believe in the Trinity as the Catholic church teaches it or as some believe that God and Jesus are separate individuals.
Childbearing is not sinful I have read that the punishment for Eve's sin was that instead of a twice a year cycle it became every month.
Some have taught that in the beginning people were supposed to speak life into existence the same way God did.
For all the pain that childbearing brings the first sound of crying wipes it away [or so I have been told]
God created the earth and told man to partake of everything the God planted a garden and placed Adam in it and said except for the TREE OF LIFE.
On research and just plain believing I have come to the conclusion that Jerusalem was and is the Garden of Eden.
When God told Adam that he would surely die it was a spiritual death not a physical one.
If I drank poison I might die then or I might die later.
Man was destined to live forever.
God did not say when God just said he would.
It has been said that when the Hebrew text were written they had no punctuation or chapter or verses that is why I study with different people who have access to those manuscripts and learn from them.
A lot of the answers to the so- called contradictions can be found in Jewish traditions.
The Bible talks of the mystery hid in God.
It all boils down to faith.
People build entire doctrines on verse that they interpret their way.
My doctrine is
JESUS LIVED!
JESUS DIED!
JESUS AROSE!
JESUS TOOK AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD TO BRING US BACK TO THE FATHER!
The contradictions to me is because some people don't look past the word's on paper.
There are a lot of hidden nuggets that you have to pull out.
The Bible is not just a book it is a story of salvation and grace and God had his plans made from before the foundation of the world.
There is a lot of violence and bad things that happen but that just shows how much God hates sin and how holy God is.
This was the way that it was dealt with before the sacrifice of the Son which paid for all sins.
Without the acceptance of the cross and the resurrection those who don't accept will be dealt with the same way on judgment day.
I came across these expert from a Christian newsletter that I got years ago and I still had it , her is a excerpt from it.
It was call Creation versus Evolution You be the Judge.
Given the fact that, according to the Bible, Adam was created on the sixth day of our planet's existence, we can determine a Biblically-based, approximate age for the earth by looking at the chronological details of the human race. This of course assumes that the Genesis account is accurate, that the six days of creation described in Genesis were literal 24-hour periods, and that there were no ambiguous chronological gaps.
The genealogies listed in Genesis chapters five and eleven provide the age at which Adam and his descendants each begot the next generation in a successive ancestral line from Adam to Abraham. By determining where Abraham fits into history chronologically and by adding up the ages provided in Genesis chapters five and eleven, it becomes apparent that the Bible teaches the earth to be about 6,000 years old, give or take a few hundred years.
What about the popular age of about 4.6 billion years accepted by most scientists today and taught in the vast majority of our academic institutions? This age is primarily derived from two dating techniques: radiometric dating and the geologic timescale. Scientists who advocate the younger age of about 6,000 years insist that radiometric dating is flawed in that it is founded upon a series of faulty assumptions while the geologic timescale is flawed in that it employs circular reasoning Moreover, they point to the debunking of old-earth myths, like the popular misconception that it takes long periods of time for stratification, fossilization and the formation of diamonds, coal, oil, stalactites, stalagmites, etc, to occur. Finally, young-earth advocates present positive evidence for a young age for the earth in place of the old-earth evidences which they debunk. Young-earth scientists acknowledge that they are in the minority today but insist that their ranks will swell over time as more and more scientists reexamine the evidence and take a closer look at the currently accepted old-earth paradigm.
Ultimately, the age of the earth cannot be proven. Whether 6,000 years or 4.6 billion years -- both viewpoints (and everything in between) rests on faith and assumptions. Those who hold to 4.6 billion years trust that methods such as radiometric dating are reliable, and that nothing has occurred in history that may have disrupted the normal decay of radio-isotopes. Those who hold to 6,000 years trust that the Bible is true, and that other factors explain the "apparent" age of the earth, such as the global flood, or God creating the universe in a state that "appears" to give it an very long age. As an example, God created Adam and Eve as fully-grown adult human beings. If a doctor were to have examined Adam and Eve on the day of their creation, the doctor would have estimated their age at 20 years (or whatever age they appeared to be) - when, in fact, Adam and Eve were less than one day old. Whatever the case, there is always good reason to trust the Word of God over the words of atheistic scientists with an evolutionary agenda.
Tons of stuff could have happened between Gen.1-1 and Gen.1-2 who knows ,that is not the faith aspect of it.
I know my kids love me ,I don't need proof everyday.
Can you see the wind?
can you see or feel gravity?
I could go on and on ,but I am getting ready to go to God's house and "PRAISE THE LORD !"
Some questions were put on my blog in reference to the Bible being acurate [it is as far as I am concerned]
The Bible is not a book of history , but a book of faith.
No man could know all the answers because he would be God.
I have researched some and will try to answer the ones I can.
Question: "Why are there two different Creation accounts in Genesis chapters 1-2?"
Answer: Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth..." Later, in Genesis 2:4, it seems that a second, different story of Creation begins. A common misinterpretation is that these two passages are supposed to describe the same creation event but disagree as to the order in which things were created and thereby contradict one another. According to this view, Genesis 1 claims that God created land, then vegetation, then animals, then man, while Genesis 2 claims that God created land, then man, then plants, then animals. In actual fact, while Genesis 1 describes the "Six Days of Creation" (and a seventh day of rest), Genesis 2 covers only one day of that "Creation Week," the sixth day, and there is no contradiction (as we will see).
We will begin with a verse-by-verse examination of the first five verses of the Genesis 2 account (italicized) and finish with a broad overview of the rest of the chapter. As the Genesis 1 passage actually ends in the third verse of the second chapter, we will begin the Genesis 2 account in the fourth verse. We use the New American Standard Bible (NASB) throughout as it is generally recognized as the best formal equivalent (i.e. literal) translation of the text.
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and heaven (v.4). The Hebrew word here translated "account" is "Toledot." It occurs a dozen more times throughout Genesis (5:1, 6:9, 10:1, 32, 11:10, 11:27, 25:12, 13, 19, 36:1, 9 and 37:2) and dozens more times throughout the Old Testament at large, always in reference to human lineage (without exception). The word "day" here refers to an unspecified length of time (e.g. "back in my great-grandfather's day"), rather than to a 24-hour period (e.g. "it will take three days to finish") or to the daylight hours (e.g. "it gets hot during the day"). So, a straightforward reading of the fourth verse would be: "what follows is the human lineage of the heavens and earth in the era that God created them." It does not specify a first day or a second or an eighth day, all of which could apply or none at all.
Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground (v.5). The Hebrew word here translated "field" is "Sadeh." It refers to a smaller piece of land or to a cultivated field. The word "earth" is "Erets.". It refers to a larger piece of land or to the planet as a whole. This is an important distinction, one which we see not only here but elsewhere in Genesis (23:13, for example) and throughout the Old Testament (Leviticus 25:2-3, for example). While the vegetation of Genesis 1:11-12 was of the general sort, the vegetation of Genesis 2:5, 8-9 is of a very specific kind. The "shrubs of the sadeh" and the "plants of the sadeh," refer to agriculture, sadeh meaning a cultivated field.
Notice that there was no agriculture yet because "God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground." In view here are two of the four things necessary for agriculture (man to cultivate the ground and rain, the other two being nutritious dirt and sunlight). Not only did the author plainly state that he was referring specifically to the agricultural plants of a cultivated field, it is further implied by his reference to the two things necessary for agriculture which were at that point still lacking. Moreover, it is rather obvious that he did not mean plants in general as that would be the same as saying that there were no jungles or forests or prairies anywhere because man had not cultivated the ground, which is a ridiculous thought. No, the vegetation here described is that of horticulture. It is husbandry.
But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground (v.6). Notice that land and water (in the form of mist) already existed at this point. It just hadn't rained yet. Genesis 2 is not an account of the creation of land and water; that had already happened in Genesis 1.
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (v.7). Here in presenting the "human lineage of the heavens and earth in the era that they were created," the author steps back in the temporal sequence to the sixth day, when God first made man, an appropriate place to start. We see this same literary device -- this stepping back in a temporal sequence for the purpose of greater detail -- elsewhere in the Bible as well. Consider 1 Kings 6-7. In chapter six we read about the construction of Solomon's temple. It is completed by the last verse of the chapter, verse 38: "In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its plans. So he was seven years in building it." Then, in the first verse of the next chapter the author moves on to describe the construction of Solomon's palace: "Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house." In the 12th verse, the author finishes with the palace. Then, in the 13th verse of the 7th chapter, he goes back to the beginning of the construction of the temple, thereby stepping back into the temporal sequence which he had completed in the 6th chapter before ever going on to describe the construction of the palace in the 7th.
In the same way, the author of Genesis presents the creation of man on the sixth day in the first chapter. Then, in the second chapter, he goes back to the sixth day to present greater detail for the purpose of the Toledoth which starts in 2:4 (and which lasts all the way up 'til 5:1, where the next Toledoth begins).
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed (v.8). Here we have the creation of agriculture with the very first garden, created by God for man. This is where man gets his start in husbandry, and we've been tending fields ever since (except of course during that brief stint in the ark). For the sake of brevity we will not expound each of the remaining verses individually. We will paint the rest of the chapter in broad strokes.
Verses 9-14 describe the Garden of Eden and a river which ran through it. The river split into four smaller rivers, each of which ran through a different pre-diluvial territory. Apparently the post-diluvians named some of their rivers and lands after these pre-diluvian ones, similar to how the early American colonists named their cities and states after the ones they left behind (New York, named after the English city of York; New Jersey, named after the Island of Jersey in the English Channel; New Orleans, named after the French city of Orleans, etc).
Verse 15-17 return to the Garden and include the warning against eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In verse 18 we read of God's decision to create a woman for His man, a decision which He no doubt made long before He ever created the first man. The decision is here presented as a lead in to what happens next...
In verses 19-20, God sits Adam down and creates all of the "beasts of the sadeh" and the "birds of the sky" out of the dirt in front of him for him to name. First let's note that, according to the ancient mindset, by naming something you take owner ship of it. So this was a sort of ceremony whereby Adam received these creatures (and by extension, the rest of creation) from God as his own. Second, notice that God didn't recreate every kind of animal for Adam to name, just a select few: the "beasts of the sadeh," (what we would call the beasts of burden -- those who would help man in his agricultural activities) and the "birds of the air" (no doubt for their stunning majesty... as if God was saying to Adam, "You think those beasts of burden are impressive, check these out!"). So Adam wasn't sitting there for weeks naming thousands of animals. Third, consider the fact that God had initially created all of these creatures before He ever made Adam, so Adam didn't get to see God create them. By creating a garden and recreating a few representatives of the animal kingdom right in front of Adam, God was thereby able to show him that He was the Creator of everything (lest some usurper -- i.e. the Devil -- come along later and try to make that claim for himself). Fourth and finally, this exercise was not doubt didactic. Perhaps by it God was able to teach Adam some an important lesson about the uniqueness, beauty and peculiar worth of the gift which he was about to receive... his wife.
Finally, in verses 21-25 God places the priceless jewel in the crown of his creation: He creates woman out of man. And the rest, as they say, is history
