March 9, 2023

I saw another angel  . . . having the everlasting gospel to preach . . . to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people—saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgement has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.” Revelation 14:6-7

In chapters 2 & 3 of Revelation, angel means messenger. The messengers that Jesus addressed in the churches were regular people like us. The everlasting gospel is the unchanging, all-encompassing message of salvation from the only true God, Him who made . . .  His identity as the Creator is essential to understand if we are to grasp His rightful ownership of everything and the fact that He is the only Source of life.

The most urgent need in the world—by far!—is consecrated effort for the salvation of souls. Jesus desires, by the power of His Holy Spirit, to so strengthen His followers that through them the world would be embraced with an atmosphere of grace. When His people commit to fully surrender themselves to Him, honoring His word and walking before Him in humility and faithfulness, He will put into effect through them His eternal purpose. He will use men, women, and children to be His light shining forth in the world, calling out a people whose willingness to be true to His commandments will distinguish them as agents for righteousness.

Many of today’s seminaries for the training of ministers propagate a manmade system of study called “theistic evolution.” This teaching is based on a premise that it took God eons and much trial and error to create. Basically it says, “Evolution is true and God was behind it.” This teaching not only exalts the theories of man while diminishing the awesome creative power and glory of Almighty God, but it introduces death upon death long before the entrance of sin through the disobedience of man, a total reversal of the order of events. A single false notion injected into “biblical” training undermines multiple truths that are essential in knowing exactly who it is we worship.

For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ. Philippians 1:8-10