Many people in their 50’s and 60’s are getting ready for retirement. And many of these are trying to decide just how will they spend those years. “Shall I take up golfing, or maybe fishing, or some other hobby?”
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Others are considering finding some minor occupation. Maybe becoming a gardener or a big-box-store greeter. Just some little job merely to keep one’s self busy!
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Many have saved enough money over the years to travel. And there are countless wonderful places to visit, enough to keep traveling for years!
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Still others plan to spend their remaining years with family and friends.
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And then there are those who plan to become snow-birds, going down south during the winter months, and then going back north for the summer months.
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And then there are others who simply want to putter around the house, doing various little projects and perhaps watch some TV and go to a movie or restaurant several times a week.
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Now these are just some of the typical ways that people wish to spend their declining years.
So, what do all these scenarios seem to have in common? What bottom line do they all seem to share? Just what fatal flaw is there, here?
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You see, all these various retirement plans seem to have one common denominator. They all appear to be based on the idea that there is no eternal life. They all are seemingly in denial that there is a Heavenly battle to win, and a Hell to shun.
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Oh no, to work at a job, if it is to meet one’s basic needs is absolutely necessary! Or to take the spouse on a vacation from time to time can be refreshing, if done in moderation. Or to have a little hobby on the side can be rewarding, as long as it doesn’t become an all-consuming lust.
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But to immerse oneself in such a leisurely lifestyle, while this world is in the midst of the great heated battle for the souls of all Mankind!? Does that make sense!?
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Now of course, the people of the world don’t believe that such a spiritual battle is going on. And so, why not spend one’s last few years on earth, trying to find and enjoy life’s last pleasures? That only makes sense for unbelievers!
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But such faithless lifestyles have nothing to do with biblical Christianity!
Listen to the Apostle, Paul…“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:” 2nd Timothy 4:6-9
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Does this declaration by Paul sound as though he was looking forward to a nice long and relaxing retirement?
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Can you imagine Paul moving to a retirement golf resort for aging evangelists? Can you just picture Paul and Peter and John as a threesome, playing eighteen holes? Well, why not? Because everybody knows what these three men were all about! Everybody knows that these three men had no other desire than to run the Christian Race, and fight that Good Christian Fight, and win that Heavenly prize!
No, these three men each worked tirelessly to consecrate their lives in such a way, that the world might see Jesus in them!
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These three men each knew the importance of redeeming the time they had yet remaining here on earth. And these three men strove to preach the Gospel to any and every last person who had ears to hear!
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Yes, Paul, Peter and John knew the importance and value of eternal life. They knew that this present life is merely as a tiny “vapor, which appears for a moment and then vanishes away”! (James 4:14)
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If they were looking for any sort of leisurely retirement, it would have to be beyond the grave!
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But while they had any breath in them in this life, it would be used to preach the Gospel to whoever would listen!
And none of these three men counted themselves to have “already attained, either were already made perfect”. Philippians 3:12
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No, each of these men would merely, “press on toward the mark for the prize, of that high (and holy) calling of God, in Christ Jesus”. They knew that they needed a much deeper baptism, and a much greater resurrected lifestyle! (see Philippians 3:7-15)
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And so dear Pilgrim, let’s look to such men as these for our examples and role-models. Let’s not look to the people of the world (nor the church) for examples!
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Let’s continue to fan into flames the gift of grace within us! Let’s keep ascending that upward pathway, walking as strangers and pilgrims away from this selfish world, and onward to the Celestial Courts of the Heavenly City of God!
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By so-doing, we will enjoy a rich reward throughout the ceaseless ages to come!
EDITOR’S NOTE: Having said all these things, it must also be said that there are many retirees who can possibly combine their new lifestyle or hobby while continuing to study and contemplate God’s Word and continually praying without ceasing.
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These questions should be a matter of earnest prayer and soul-searching.
Well, as just stated, the Lord has created a constellation which shows a woman fleeing. It is called the Revelation 12 Woman Constellation, also known as Ursa Major or The Big Dipper. So if we explore this constellation in the light of the Bible, there can be a wealth of information discovered on this very topic. So come along and dig into this study. And after reading about this heavenly revelation, you just might find yourself fleeing to the mountains. And maybe, just maybe, there are some much better mountains to flee to, than the ones in the above photo of Palestine! Mountains in which you can hide, where tracking devices and black helicopters are useless against you!
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good…
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
When Eve, “the mother of all living”, was approached by Lucifer, she decided that she should be like God. (See Genesis 3:20)
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Yes, Lucifer, the fallen rebel angel, tempted her by saying, “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:5
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And so, through her one act of selfish defiance against God’s only command, “Thou shalt not eat of it”, mankind was thrust into the grand drama of the ages: a world which became a sort of giant fishbowl, in which the onlooking universe could witness and comprehend the selfish wares and the ways, and the tragic results of living in a selfish world.
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Yes, it’s hard to deny this world’s evil, which seems so well orchestrated, could just be happenstance! No, it’s difficult to simply look at this tragic world, and disbelieve that unseen spirit-beings do not exist! The evidence to the contrary is just too overwhelming!
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And so, after mankind’s fall from grace, a new government was born, based on a new concept, “selfishness”, in direct contradiction to the government of unselfish love which Heaven was and is.
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And so, as a result of mankind’s fall, Lucifer was given the office of being “the god of this world”, his very own kingdom, howbeit a kingdom in which mankind was permitted to live however they wanted to live. (See 2nd Corinthians 4:4)
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And yet, from the days of ancient Babylon and forward, God made sure that this new antichrist world-order would unfold itself in such a way as to reveal the various aspects of sin. And in doing this, the onlooking universe would finally comprehend the evil character of that ancient rebel, Lucifer, now called Satan and The Devil.
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And the Book of Revelation encapsulates all this antichrist world-order, by presenting a symbolic beast which is in the image of a great red dragon. The great red dragon, having seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns, symbolized Satan (see Revelation 20:2).
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And the beast likewise had seven heads and ten horns (see Revelation 12:3 & 13:1). In other words, this multifaceted beast was created in the very image and likeness of Satan. And this beast is revealed to be comprised of various kings and kingdoms.
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And it is the belief of this website, that this antichrist beast represents the kings and kingdoms of this antichrist world: Satan’s antichrist world-system. And the seven heads represent the seven kingdoms and kings which have ruled over this world-system since the long centuries following the great flood of Noah’s day. Beginning with Babylon, then Medo-Persia, then Grecia, then civil Rome, spiritual Rome, and finally Atheism, the 6th head, and apostate Protestantism, the 7th head.
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Now, all this information can be quite confusing for any newcomer to this website.
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But for lack of time, let’s simply focus on the last two heads, Atheism and apostate Protestantism, which are the two current heads now ruling over much of the world. As a matter of fact, let’s just focus on the 6th head, “Atheism”. We are currently living in a world in which Atheism is a dominate force over much of the world’s unsaved populace. It is the ideology, or religion, that Mankind, though merely made from dust, is the supreme ruler and overlord of the world. There is no God, but man himself…or herself. Humans are the highest level of existence according to atheism.
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And of course, looking back at Eve’s desire to be a god (“Ye shall be as gods…” Genesis 3:5), we can see how this desire is right now being manifest amongst those who consider themselves to be the highest order of life…atheists.
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Like never before, we are witnessing an incredible rise in selfishness and “narcissism” among the general populace. And because the average person can now make their voice to be loudly heard via the Internet, it is nothing short of amazing to behold the level of self-absorbed narcissism currently on display!
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And let’s not forget that the number “6” is the number mankind, who were created on the 6th day. And so, it only makes sense that this 6th head of the antichrist beast should manifest itself in pride, self-exaltation, and utter self-obsessed narcissism!
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Just watch and listen to a multitude of deluded beings obsess over themselves in various ways on the social media. Be amazed as they proudly thrust their own self-exalting philosophies and opinions over the Internet!
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And like a ship lost at sea, without a guide-map nor a compass, they are now beginning, to even deny the most basic and fundamental truths of life, replacing them with nonsensical notions which would have been mocked and derided just a few short years ago! And even the human rulers and thought-leaders promoting atheism, the 6th head of the antichrist beast, are now beginning to demand that the entire world’s populace must bow down and accept, as reality, these obvious lies!
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Of course, stepping back, we realize this current wave of secular self-exalting madness is being driven by the same “Deceiver-In-Chief”, who caused Eve to desire self-exaltation. The Bible reveals him as, “the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan…the god of this world” system. (Revelation 20:2 & 2nd Corinthians 4:4)
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Yes, we must remember that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12 And as the mass-insanity increases, Satan is even causing unsaved individuals to engage in self-mutilation, thinking that they can change their gender by so-doing! Even parents are forcing their own children to go through these unthinkable “medical” procedures, hoping to receive praise from others. This mass-insanity is all very satanic in origin!
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY!”
Proverbs 25:25
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Well, the very Good News is, that God has provided a way of escape from all this current pandemic madness! Yes, the door of the Ark of Salvation is still open for any and every man, women, and child who wishes to escape this doomed planet, before the great flood of evil finally destroys the entire planet. And before that door forever closes, God’s people are currently pleading with mankind to come aboard and be saved by the blood of the Lamb who gave Himself to be the all-atoning sacrifice of that Hill called Calvary.
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“A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH!”
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And the Bible promises…“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” Revelation 21:1
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Yes, there will soon be a “New Heaven and a New Earth” to replace this present doomed world-system. And it will be a wonderful place, a “Promised Land…a land flowing with milk and honey”, in which we will be forever happy, forever humble, and forever young! (See various verses from Exodus)
Isa 24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
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Throughout history, Bible has remained an unmovable rock in the midst of a fickle and changeable world. Never has God needed to apologize, change His mind, or correct His infallible Word of Truth. Historians have repeatedly had to change their account of history as new discoveries revealed the veracity of the Bible account. No apologies. Just a quiet reversal of their former stance against the Bible’s proven accuracy concerning history.
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Now, history is just one area in which the Bible has proven itself to be the unapologetic and unmovable Rock.
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Listen to Scripture…Pro_5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.” This scripture is speaking of much more than a mere adulterous woman. It is speaking, not only of the world-loving church community, but also of the world itself!
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Just look at society today! Confusion abounds. No longer anchored to the Bible, society is now drifting away from even the most basic and fundamental truths of life! People have nothing to hold onto, and as a result are being cast away from the very fundamental principles of life. Men claiming to be women. Women claiming to be men. Children, even toddlers being encouraged to mutilate their bodies by sin-sick parents, lost in the darkness of depravity!
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Truly this world is a planet of confusion! The Bible’s name for this world is Babylon, meaning “the City of Confusion”!
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e they had yet remaining here on earth. And these three men strove to preach the Gospel to any and every last person who had ears to hear!
were looking for any sort of leisurely retirement, it would have to be beyond the grave! 
already made perfect”. Philippians 3:12
EDITOR’S NOTE: Having said all these things, it must also be said that there are many retirees who can possibly combine their new lifestyle or hobby while continuing to study and contemplate God’s Word and continually praying without ceasing. 
TODAY’S PRAYER…
TOMORROW:
