Such blessed hope!!

❤️ Revelation 21:4

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

**”…for the former things are passed away.” How about that?! Praise God!!! 🙌

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May we be grateful…

… for our good health.

We have lost 3 people we are close to in the past couple of weeks. As I was making funeral food for one luncheon today it hit me. Am I TRULY grateful for my health? Yes I feel I am. The question I need to remember every day though is am I appreciating that good health enough to use it to glorify God in anyway I am able too?

I also pray that when and if I do fall ill I can glorify Him and not be miserable. I pray I can be grateful to the end for all the things He has done for me and especially what He has done for all of us through Christ Jesus! 🙌

One day we will be no more here! Hallelujah!

❤️ 1 Timothy 6:12

12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

❤️ James 4:14-18

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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“ O death, where is thy sting?”

❤️ 1 Corinthians 15:55-57

55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

** “BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD CHRIST JESUS“** 🙌

Amen and Amen! Have another blessed day in the Lord knowing that He has the victory over the “sting” of death for us! Little ole us! Praise God through Jesus Christ 🙏🏻❤️

Apples of Gold

April 19

Material blessing is no indication of God’s acceptance. Many cults are indeed wealthy beyond the dreams of most Americans, but wealth is, in and of itself, no sign of God’s blessing. On the contrary, David wrote that he had “seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree” (Psalm 37:35).

❤️ 1 Timothy 6:17 “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.”

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Apples of Gold

April 18

Christ said that He will say to false prophets, “I never knew you!” There is no hint that any of those to whom He refers in Matthew 7:21–23 had once been saved and then lost their salvation, which surely must be the case if the “falling away” doctrine is correct. Why didn’t the Lord say that they’d fallen from grace, rather than that they’d never been His—or at least include some people in that category? In fact, He makes no such statement.

❤️ Matthew 7:22-23 “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

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Apples of Gold

April 17

Sin leaves marks on us. Consider the alcoholic, who, after years of heavy drinking, gives his life to the Lord. Do all the wrinkles and marks of a hard life suddenly smooth out? Of course not. Paul tells us that we are to live our Christian lives by “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before” (Philippians 3:13). How can we expect to make any progress if we are continually spending all our time agonizing over the things of the past? May God lift our hearts and our eyes that we might learn to look less at ourselves and more at Him (2 Corinthians 3:18).

❤️ Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

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Apples Of Gold

April 16

We are not told that Joseph or David, for example, needed deep emotional healing in the areas of identity and rejection. They found their comfort and joy in the Lord, forgot themselves, and became God’s channels of blessing to others. And to those who say that this is too harsh for the average Christian to live up to, it is what the Lord requires, and we have His promise that He will bear our burdens and give us His comfort and strength. The Scripture does not say, “Rejoice in the Lord, unless you are too depressed or have been rejected and need deep emotional healing to deal with it”! It says, “Rejoice in the Lord always…and the joy of the Lord is your strength”!

❤️ 1 Samuel 30:6 “And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.”

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Today’s Update

The Scapegoat Is Satan

[TBC: In Seventh-day Adventism, of the lambs sacrificed on the Day of Atonement, there was “The Lamb of God” along with “the Scapegoat.” They identify the Lord as “The Lamb of God,” and Satan as “the Scapegoat.” In John 1:29 and 1:36, however, John the Baptist clearly identifies Jesus as fulfilling both roles. This is a very serious point where the plain statement of Scripture must be recognized and the false teaching repented of.]

The Scapegoat is Satan?

“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up” (Jn. 3:14).

Moreover, when Paul referred to the old covenant holy days, which include the Day of Atonement services, he collectively called them a “shadow”. In context, the shadow is of Christ and not Satan (Col. 2:16, 17). In fact, Hebrews includes the Law and all the sacrifices—including the scapegoat sacrifice—as “a shadow of the good things to come” (Heb. 10:1).

Importantly, the atonement of Christ carries such a vast load of truth that one sacrifice was inadequate to picture it. Therefore, the Old Testament used many sacrifices and symbols to point forward to Christ. The key truth of the Day of Atonement sacrifices and the two goats is that Christ not only died for our sins (first goat) but also carried them away, (scapegoat) never to be seen again (Ps. 103:12; Is. 44:22; Heb. 8:12; Ps. 51:9; Jer. 50:20; Rom. 8:33; Heb. 10:17-18).

—Dale Ratzlaff (1936-2024, founder of Life Assurance Ministries and Proclamation! Magazine Seventh-day Adventist pastor for 13 years. He and his wife Carolyn left the Adventist church in 1981 when he realized he could no longer teach the investigative judgment with a clear conscience)

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