Sunday, September 17, 2017

What is going on?

Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. Psalm 110; Luke 20:41-42

I subscribe to news programs like operamini, twitter, utube, RationalWiki: what is going on? etc.

On social media apps like facebook, kakao talks I often get bits and pieces of so called news that is going on around the world.

But what is the meaning of all that are going in this world 'really'? And why do all these happen? And where will they lead to?

After having gone to a foreign land Daniel as an exile got confused and asked a question similar to this, and after much prayer he received an answer from the Lord who in effect said  in Daniel 12 about the end time events such as deliverance of the righteous, resurrection to occur, and in the interim till the end time people going here and there to increase knowledge. vs. 1-4

In today's Bible reader passage Jesus quoted David who centuries before had overheard and recorded the conversation between God the Father and (pre-incarnate) Jesus.

As prophesied, Jesus did come, offered himself on a tree as an atoning sacrifice for men, rose again, and now remain seated at the right  hand of God.

In the meantime, quoting David, Jesus gives us in a summary form the history lesson according to the meaning of the things that are to happen, that is, the Lord God working through all means in his sleeves (men like evangelists, missionaries, pastors, etc., nature like windstorms, thunders, moon, stars, etc.) to make Jesus' enemies a footstool for Jesus' feet. And Jesus is the ruler of all.

A footstool is something on which you put your feet to rest, as you are seated in a chair at a king's throne room.

Image result for king footstool throne room

The revelation as elucidated by the poor country Rabbi from Nazareth keeps modern men from getting confused/confounded/dumbfounded/alarmed/agitated owing to all the 'crazy' things that are going on like war of rhetoric between trump and kim-jung-un, natural or other man-made disasters reported instantly over the internet.

** Further Bible reading: Olivet discourse (Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21)

** Hymn song to sing: He lives (Sing to the Lord 262)


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