BREAKING: World Health Organization declares coronavirus “global pandemic.” Tells world leaders: “Wake up. Get ready.” 10x more deadly than the flu. Chancellor warns 70% of Germany could become infected. Global markets falling. Israeli cases continue to climb. Here’s the latest. #PleasePray — Joel C. Rosenberg’s Blog

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Stephen Nielsen

(Washington, D.C.) — Panic is wrong. We need to stay calm. We need to turn to the Scriptures and prayer and trust the Lord to protect us. We would do well to start with Psalm 57:1, which a Christian leader in France just sent me. “Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me.…
BREAKING: World Health Organization declares coronavirus “global pandemic.” Tells world leaders: “Wake up. Get ready.” 10x more deadly than the flu. Chancellor warns 70% of Germany could become infected. Global markets falling. Israeli cases continue to climb. Here’s the latest. #PleasePray — Joel C. Rosenberg’s Blog

The Bema Seat of Christ: Its Time and Place

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Stephen Nielsen

This is the subject I am writing on at this time. It is a subject many don’t like to think about, but is so important.

Studying Bible Prophecy

In the last post on this subject I wrote about what the Bema is—a place where Christians will be judged according to their works. In this post I will continue with this discussion, focusing on the time, the place, and the subjects of the Bema.

THE TIME OF THE BEMA

Most agree that the time of the Bema will be immediately after the Rapture and will occur at the same instant that we see Him and are transformed. This is substantiated in the following verses:

In 1 Corinthians 4:5, the term “until the Lord comes,” indicates when the Bema will be—at His coming.

In 2 Timothy 4:8, we see that the Bema will be “on that day.”

In 1 Peter 5:4, the term is, “when the chief Shepherd [Christ] appears.”

Besides the above references, there is also proof of the aforementioned time in Revelation 4:4. Here we see in John’s…

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Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Stephen Nielsen

This is a Reblog from my Prayer blog. I thought it would have relevance to this personal blog. We always have to pay attention to our heart, whether there is sin in the heart.

Prayer A to Z

Jesus said to His disciples in Matthew 5:27-30,

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

In this passage from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, He indicates that the Pharisees and Sadducees had reduced the…

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