Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

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Lion’s, Tigers and Bears! Oh My!

As with any journey through life we have a starting point, which causes changes in our lives that forces us into a new an exciting adventure into the unknown.

For some it was a movie such as I am Legend, Zombieland, The Road and the lists go on. Watching these movies one felt a feeling a dread creeping in as we realize this World is fragile and can’t continue down the same path. But it’s only Hollywood magic and make believe, Right? Or is it? Despite our logical minds telling us this was only imagination, our heart and soul cried out “What if the message is true? What then?

Others eschewing movies tried to find solace in books. Again we were inundated with Titles such as On the Beach by Nevile Shute, The Stand by Steven King or The Last Man by Mary Shelley and again that ever persistent dread flooded our souls. Even our papers wouldn’t leave us alone as news of a new virus running rampant or the Soviet Union threatening nuclear retaliation for assisting in Ukraine.

One final refuge that had always brought peace to our soul, Church, presented itself. Kneeling at the end of the sermon so eloquently orated we find ourselves crying out to God as the prophet Habakkuk did so many years ago.

O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear! Even cry out unto thee of violence and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Habakkuk 1:2-4

For even here the unknown future offered up doom and gloom with nary a life jacket to help us from drowning into the sea of despair and fear gripping our soul threatening to pull us down into the very depths of Hell called depression.

We’ve been told that given the right question any answer could be found on the Information Super Highway. So we google “the End of the World” and our heart sank into the pit of our stomach. We found that there was over 8 billion websites (more than one for every man, woman boy or girl in the world) all claiming to have the answers we were searching for. Valiantly we trudged into the fray reading several sites, and in the end we find ourselves more confused and afraid than when we first started.

The Bible and other Books, prophets, spirit guides for all we know one used a Magic 8 Ball to give their viewpoint. Those we read expounded their views with complete authority claiming themselves right and all others to be frauds. Even sites claiming the same source material had very few points agreeing with each other. Is this the way God wants us to live in fear of the present and dread of the unknown future?

God says NO!

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own Matthew 6:33, 34

Human’s have always feared that which they don’t know or understand. So how will God teach us about our future and soothe the nagging fears eating away at us?

Whom shall he teach knowledge? And who shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Isaiah 28:9, 10

Using this principle I created a Non-Traditional Timeline that has doused the flaming fear I had of End Times. Many like me were fat from the milk of the word, not able to accept the deep doctrines of the Bible. For this reason I’ll walk through my Timeline at a slow but steady pace trying to connect each event to the previous ones. My prayer is that this Timeline will help to quench the flames of fear from your life as it did mine own.

This walk through will be fraught with Fire, Famine, Death and Destruction which will threaten our very sanity, but if we persevere to the end we’ll find Grace, Life, Hope and Love even in the midst of the coming chaos.

This week please spend time with God in prayer asking only to hear His voice and His guidance in the coming weeks.

Father,

I’ve spent years studying your Word under many different

teachers and when I read your Word I hear the voices of these teachers

instructing me into what you meant. Lord, please silence these voices

and allow my heart and mind to hear your voice telling me what

you truly mean. For it is you my heart desires above all else to know you

and to be like your Son is my greatest wish. I ask this in Jesus’, Holy

Name,

Amen

Published by Luther Davis

I'm a 50+ year old country boy raised in southeast Georgia. My dad said "rich people go to school, poor people go to work," I became an electrician in the U.S. Navy. After retiring, I spent 16 years as a construction electrician in North Carolina and Virginia. Across the many sites I worked I had the privilege of defending God and His Word from the mainstream to the exotic, the uneducated to the scholar and back again. With no formal education but a love of God's Word, I self educated myself with each new concept I encountered. As a seeker of truth, I researched each topic using writings from the earliest church fathers to current biblical scholars across denominational lines. I was raised in a evangelical fundamental denomination with a rigid and inflexible view of biblical interpretation. The more I learned I abandoned some of the ideas of my youth. Today I'm back in "God's country" married, working as a security guard. Yet the love I have for God's Word has created a wise man out of a country bumpkin. My only claim to notoriety came I was placed on the "do not call" list of an evangelical cult. Seems they didn't like a nobody using their bible to show them God's truth uncovering their own deceptions and lies.

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