Hello, John and Doves,Oops! I forgot a Scripture reference at the end of this post at the first go-round. Here is my corrected post.~Blessings,Mike__________________________________________________________________________Michael Colunga (11 July 2013)
"One of the signs of the end times is..."
Hello, John and Doves,One of the signs of the end times is...“...[I]n the days before the flood,
people were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage,
up to the day Noah entered the ark...”
There are four distinct levels of meaning of this passageregarding the phrase, "marrying and giving in marriage."P'shat (simple): Biblical, God-ordained, heterosexual marriage[Genesis 2:24], accompanied by a society wheredivorce was rampant to the point of being ordinary.Remez (hint): Buying and selling of stocks, companies--the whole stock market thing. [Revelation 18:1-3]D'rash (seek): Alternative unions that imitate marriage,and thereby give silent assent that Biblical,heterosexual marriage is the ideal.Sod (hidden): Divorcing one's heart from one religionand cleaving to another--often over viewsabout sins like homosexuality. [2 Timothy 4:3]__________________________________________________________________________________________And yet, for anyone who does seek after the things of God,
we know that He goes out of His way to meet us just where we are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHuTZxSqOe0
For it is written,8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.__________________________~Blessings,Mike