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The Bright Lion Podcast: EP 15 - End Times We Can’t Ignore
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Welcome to Season 2 of The Bright Lion Podcast, hosted by SSG Bright where bold conversations, powerful stories, and lionhearted leadership ignite the spirit of courage, community, and purpose.Today’s episode: End Times We Can’t Ignore, We’re diving...
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The Amazing Adventures of Queenie is filled with beautiful rhymes on each page and will certainly brighten up any reading experience. The story follows Queenie, a lovely dog who likes to do all the things dogs like to do, including going to the beach, playing in the snow, and her favorite thing to do is fetch a tennis ball. This wonderful story is written by doctors Nova. Brian Bright will be a superb addition to any child bookshelf. So stop on by and by with Good day everyone and welcome back to the Bright Line Podcast. I'm your host, SSG Bright. And first and foremost I'd like to give all praises to the Father, honor, glory and worship to the Most High, our God who we can depend on in the face of difficulties, our God who has a moral compass that can help us to endure to the end, our God that we turn to when we have no Father and we do so by the way of the chief priest, our Redeemer, our mediator, our advocator in which the world leisurely calls Jesus Christ. Amen. I'll praise. Our topic today is signs of the end times we just can't ignore. I believe that there is nothing new under the sun. And so to project my certainty that this could be possibly hold true, my assumption is that in the Bible the preacher King Solomon, the son of King David, David had written, he said that I, the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. So therefore no one is going to be wiser than him later. And no one was wiser than him before. King Solomon made some mistakes of course, but the book in the Book of Ecclesiastes was written later in the years, you know, Solomon wrote their late in the years. So in Ecclesiastes chapter 1 verse 13 through 16, verse 13. And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven. And he's saying that he gave his mind to search all things on the earth, animals, human behaviors. So continue on this sword travail had God given to the Son of man to be exercised therewith. So well this is saying that we all have that soul searching nature tendency to want to try and figure out what's going on. What's going on? Can we figure out what's going on? What's going on? So verse 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. So the king is saying he has had a greater life of seeing things than anyone else. He had the most riches, the most women, the most glory, the most friends, the most enemies. Sound like a so called black man to me. Let's save in the richest lol. So continue on. And behold, all is vanity and vexation of the spirit. So he said that I have seen everything on the sun and it's meaningless, worthless and vexation of the spirit, which means like an irritation as a result of life struggles or disappointments. So verse 15 that which is crooked cannot be made straight. You know, some things in life were inherently flawed or beyond human ability to fix. Continue. And that which is wanting cannot be numbered. It's saying everybody wants something, it cannot be numbered. Many people are just unsatisfied. Suggest that some things are inherently flawed or beyond our ability to fix, implying a limit to human power and wisdom. Verse 16 I commune with my own heart saying low, low means look in the book in the Strong's H2009 I am come to great estate and have gotten more wisdom than all they have had before me in Jerusalem. He's saying that he's done it. He came up, he got the juice. Continue. Yay. My heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. Verse 17. And I gave my heart to no wisdom and to know madness and folly. So King Solomon says he gave his mind over to learn the evil and the good. Not that he was doing evil, but he learned evil. He wanted to, you know, set his mind to know, you know, what he was talking about. So if you want to like set your mind to know or perceive a little bit about everything, that's what you do. Continue. And I perceive that this also is vexation of Spirit. Verse 18. For for much wisdom is Much grief. It's much grief. It's going to be really. It's going to really make you feel low and sad. So the more you know, the more you can see what others are not willing to do to put the work in, to be able to see for themselves continue. And he that increases knowledge increases sorrow. So the more. So the more knowledge you have, the more sorry you have because you have no one to relate to. You are going up high, but you want the people to come with you. But you realize that everybody's not willing to put in that work mentally to get where you're going. Okay, so let's jump back to Ecclesiastics, chapter 1, verse 9, verse 9. The thing that had been is that which shall be. That means whatever happened then, that is going to happen in the future. Continuing, it says, and that which is done is that which shall be done. And there is no new thing under the sun, so everything that was done back then is going to be done. You see that all the Bible scriptures line up with each other in the book of Isaiah, chapter 49, verse 9 to 10. Remember the former things of old, for I am God and there is no none else. Verse 10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times to things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. But everyone else says, forget about the past, forget about history. Our attention span is too short. History is boring. This world, this world, the people in this world is, is just about moving forward, pushing forward. Forget about what happened in ancient times with our forefathers and mothers, and let's find a new section to follow. But God says, remember the former days are old and you can't override that. That's not the model of the Lord. So what is brand new? What is new in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 1, verse 10, it says, is, is there only. Is there anything whereof it may be said? See, this is new. So it's talking about new in the world. Is there anything in the 21st century you can say, hey, that's new? We're not talking about cars, guns, ocean liners, medicines, health, skyscrapers. No, we talk about human behavior, the simple things, the fundamental things of life. Can we say. And attitude is new. Can we say jealousy is new? Can we say envy, hatred, racism is new. Can we say any of that is new? No, none of that is new. So now you're seeing adultery, false teachers, racial idolatry, low unemployment, rich versus poor, gross deception, racist against racist, nations against nations, These things has happened before now and later it's important again as we speak. So there are things in the Bible that are historically ancient that that is meant for back then and not now. Currently you can set them side by side now mirroring the same things in the, in the workings, you know, the same thing that's going on in our modern day life right now. So in the book of Romans, chapter 15, verse 4, for whatsoever things were written a four time were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. A four time means they came in the old times. In the Old Testament there are things in it that are for or not fulfilled yet called prophecies. And that means to for sale to or to tell. You know, it's trying to warn you, trying to tell you about something that's going to happen and that you need to avoid, continue on that through patience and confidence. Other scriptures might have hope. So through the Scriptures we supposed to have patience, comforts. What did the Father call the Holy spirit in chapter 4 John chapter 14, verse 26? He called it the comforter. Why? Because he. He said it's going to bring things to your remembrance that I once said to you. Think about it. When in the book of John was talking about. Was talking. Let's see. When in the Book of John that was around taking place around 26 to 36 AD and that was the time when the Messiah walked on the earth and there was no New Testament. That's why the Lord Jesus is always speaking through the Old Testament. That's why in Matthew chapter 5 verse 17 he said think not, think not that I come to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfill. So what did he fulfill? Well number one, he fulfilled his first coming to be crucified on the so called cross to include dying and shedding his blood for his people. Number two, second day he fulfilled. He fulfilled rebuking. No, the third thing he fulfilled is his prop. Prophetic ministry. The fourth thing he fulfilled is he fulfilling. He fulfilled everything he taught while he was here on earth. And that's what he fulfilled. It's all over the Old Testament that he has come back and punished the inhabitants of the earth. So how can he had fulfilled the whole Old Testament if it's written all over the Old Testament that he has to judge the earth? That's. That would be a contradiction, wouldn't it? So if you read Psalms chapter 40, verse 7 and if you need, if you read Hebrews chapter 10 verse 17, Hebrews 10:7 both says for look, I come in the volume of the book. That's the complete book for us. It is written of me. So it's saying when he came on earth and he was having these disagreements with the Israelites around him, didn't want to try to kill him and everything because they couldn't identify who he was. They didn't know that he was the son of God was to come. And they didn't understand the volume of the book. They understood carnally things, but they didn't understand the spiritual lining the book in which indeed the Spirit is of the spirit of prophecy. Until this day we have the same issues. You have men who have teach and preach the corner. Oh yeah, they can go real deep, so deep with the corner stuff. But when it comes to the spiritual layers of the Bible, they cannot do it. And at the end of the scripture, that comfort that's talking about in Romans 15:4, that through patient comfort, scripture we might have hope. So do not forsake the Old Testament. The New Testament did not come to destroy the Old Testament. Just stop that nonsense. So if you read Acts 24, 14, Acts 26, 22, Acts 28, you're going to see where Paul said that he taught out of the law and the prophets from sun up to sundown. He said, I too believe in the law and the prophets and I too teach out of it. He says, I believe in every single word. And look, there was no New Testament when he was talking about the Old Testament, which included the law and the prophets, the apocrypha. So how can you teach, preach the kingdom without the words of the prophets? Because the kingdom is all over the Old Testament. We, we don't want to end up being blind leaders of the blind and fall into a ditch. But one thing is for sure and one thing for certain that the Lord has already called the ending. He already said who? He's going to say we're just not 100 sure, but we are the hopeful elect. We have hope in the scriptures that we are the ones that he's talking about to be saved in the future because he has a remnant that's going to be saved. They're not going to take the mark of the beast. They're not, they're going to overcome the beast. They're not going to be pulled by every which way doctrine. North, south, east, west, like this, like that. They're going to be firm, they're not going to be a stiffening. They're going to stand up for the name of the Lord and the testimony of who your mom and Daddy called Jesus Christ. So now we, through calmness and relief of the scriptures, we may have enough ambition for us to have to wait on the Lord. But you say, why do we have to wait? Why do we have to wait on the Lord? Well, because there are prophecies which is the future that we are waiting to come to pass. There are things that he promised us that we want to see happen. God does things and time measured and wait. There's perfect timing with it, the amount of it and that's going to come and how much of it is going to come. Now the comforter is the Holy Spirit because it's been put there to remind you. If you don't have nothing to remind you on what the scripture says on how to act, behave in the heat of the moment by the Spirit, then you will make the wrong moves then, then now and you will know you won't be able to be saved. You know, and whatever situation you got coming up in the book of revelations, in chapter 19, verse 10, the John, this John here is the Revelator. He's falling at the feet of an angel and he said, and I failed on his feet to worship him. And the angel says, see you do it not. I am your fellow servant and your brothers, brothers, brothers, brothers, brothers, my brother that have made the testimony of Yeshua, Yeshua worship. He said. So reading is fundamental. So to get to the word of the Lord in the Bible is hard work. It's laborious and some people may say boring, but on a contract, on the contrary, people who never in their life read the original 1611 KJV King James Bible or even know that there were over 200 books that were half burnt and taken out of the Bible. If you cut out the Torah and the prophets, you cut out the Christian Scriptures because they work hand in hand. He, Jesus, Yeshua comes in the volume of the book, Psalm 40 and 7, Hebrews 10 and 7. But you, but you know, people are quick to, want to, want to marginalize that and take it, the 12 verses of the Gospel and take the Epispos, the epistles and letters. And you see, people are quick to go into and point out all these books like, you know, they like to point out Jasper, the book of Jasper, the book of Jubilees, the book of Enoch, because they're more interesting to read not knowing that some of these books were created and rewritten and tampered with, putting, putting and mixing a little bit of truth with lies by the Pharisees and they were hypocrites and legal. And legalistic. So these guys was the opponents of Jesus. Now in the last days, there's going to be famine. A famine. Not the obvious kind. Famine of words in the Book of Amos, chapter 8 verses. Verse 11. Verse 11. The time is surely coming, says the Lord. When I was sin of famine on the land. Not a phantom famine of bread or water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. Verse 12. People will stagger from sea to sea and wonderful border to border, searching for the word of the Lord. But they will not find it. Verse 13. Beautiful girls and strong young men will grow faint in that day, thirsting for the Lord's word. Verse 14. And those who swear by the shame for our idols of Samaria, who take oaths in the name of the God of Dan and make vows in the name of the God of Bathsheba, they will all fall, never to rise again. And people won't understand what's going on. What's going on because they won't understand in the book of Isaiah, chapter 33, verse 6, verse 6. And wisdom and knowledge shall be your stability of your times. So when everybody's going loose, left, right, rumors of wars, famines in other countries, martial law, concentration camps, murder, wild beasts running loose on the streets, adverse weather, monsoons, tsunamis in places that don't normally happen, like infestations from people, infestations of locusts, screw, screw worms, love bugs, bedbugs, insects like barnacles feeding off you. And you'll be just a scratching and squatting while everything will be going to hell. But some of you may be stable because of wisdom and knowledge, while everybody else will be in panic mode. And it goes on to say that your wisdom, knowledge, stability will be your strength of salvation. If you want to be saying, I'm being the strong, I'm being strong in the Lord, I'm doing everything you said you have to study. Anything else is obsolete. It's not an option in Ecclesiasticus, in the apocrypha, verse chapter 39, verse 1. But he that giveth his mind to the law of the Most High and his and is occupied in the meditation thereof, will seek out the wisdom of all the anxious and be occupied in prophecy. So saying prophecy is how you're going to get out of here to be occupied and, and meditate in the Bible that has a lot of codes in it, the Bible that, that we have to reveal. So in the Bible, stewardship is the concept of being a responsible caretaker of God's creation, including time, talents, health and resources. Recognize that all things ultimately belongs to God. And finally, the Bible Scripture shows us in many places that God uses rain, or lack of rain to communicate his blessings or curses. God controlling the weather to reveal his majestic and direct human affairs as seen in the flood in Genesis and in the parting of the Red Sea. He causes the snow to fall, the clouds to form, and the lightning the flash, the weather. The weather events are frequently, frequently depicted as miraculous or as active judgment. God gives human being dominion over the earth, not to exploit it. In Genesis chapter 8, verse 21 to 22, God promises that seed, time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not succeed as long as the earth remains. But this is the promised tie to the earth remaining in its created form. Well, we thank you for tuning in for today's discussion. Let us have an ear to hear and understand the sign size of the end times that we can't ignore. Let's keep the conversation going with your friends and family about what's on your mind. Share this episode and just just let's talk about it and uncover some of the hidden truths in our lives. Listen SSG until next time. Shalom.