DAY 808 - Big Disaster Is Coming (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Revelation 8:6-13

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Bible Study

     Terrible disasters come after prayers of God's suffering people. God answers people's prayers and disasters come, why? 

Let's take a look at what Bishop N.T. Wright says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :

     The fire cast upon the earth, following the prayers of God's suffering people (8.3-5), begins the long process of catastrophic events which are meant to function as warnings to the 'earth-dwellers' (verse 13).  There is nothing wrong with being an earth-dweller.  But the point John is making, again and again, is that there are many who have lived on earth as though there were no heaven, or as though, if heaven there be, it was irrelevant.  His whole book is about the re-establishment of the rule of heaven on earth itself. As with all radical regime changes, those who profit from the present one will need dire warnings if they are to realize the seriousness of their plight.  
     
N.T. Wright. Revelation for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.77-79.

      There are more and more natural disasters happened in recent years. Do you think the time as described by John has started? What has that to do with you?   

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Big disaster is coming

    What I got from Jesus today is a warning that that kind of big disaster is coming soon. Or, it has come already in some places on earth. It is just we don't care because we are not in those places!

    How can we as Christians receive this kind of warning more seriously so that we can live our lives to be more Christlike and lead more people to repent, enter into His holy Kingdom and be more Christlike. To "re-establish the rule of heaven on earth".

    Have you been working on that? Or, do you not aware of the coming disasters that you have become lazy, powerless and lifeless? 

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be more alert of the coming disaster so that we can be prepared and to help more people to be prepared. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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