Have to admit I feel abandoned right now. My dad, grandmother, and my wife (the love of my life) have all passed away in the last 3 months. My heart is shattered and I feel God has left me. All I think about is how much I wish God would take me home, so I can be with Him and see my wife again.
I'm sorry to hear that my friend. Truly. I know what it's like to have only a HOLE where your heart once was. It's like a nasty contradiction of being FILLED WITH A VOID. However, whilst I don't know you, or your loved ones, I'm sure they'd be PROUD AS CAN BE if they see you trying to get through life, and making the most of it. Stay strong my friend.
I love this, a great lesson to remember in the coming days. I was just studying about Joseph and thinking about how long he was in prison, God used it for so much good and Joseph recognized that I think. Instead of giving up, he kept serving the Lord throughout.
Felt this was just yesterday. I was so miserable for no reason. I had to pray God would just show me the smallest hint of light at the end of the tunnel. I was so sad, ya’ll. Hope this video helps whoever feels that way now. 😞
Sooo many People dissapoint God by never watching Atheist-Channels. Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here. Limiting yourself is bad enough, but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only those that share your Religion? Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word? I think so. So why? Why do you avoid Atheist-Channels and ignore their valid Questions and/or valid Criticism? What are you waiting for? Learn more and more! IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
As much as I tend to love Piper’s answers, this was kinda whiffed. For a better more concrete answer I recommend the sermon form Paul Washer “God is creating weakness in your life”.
At 18, after many years of chronic debilitating pain and health issues, there are times when I have felt like God has abandoned me. Yet, more and more each day I feel that He is all the more near. I know that His judgements are right, and out of faithfulness He has afflicted me. (Psalm 119:75) Many of my questions regarding suffering and the purposes of God have not been answered, and they likely will not be until Heaven. But I remember a quote from C.S. Lewis's book, Till We Have Faces: 'I know now, Lord, why You utter no answer. You are Yourself the answer. Before Your face, questions die away. What other answer would suffice?' Indeed, before His face, questions fade away. Hold fast to your faith, even if you do not feel He is near. He is between us and the edge the whole time. Steady onwards.
I love this. I left a good paying job that was toxic and took a leap into the unknown. I was so anxious and God took care of my worries. I’m working a job that takes care of the bills comfortably that I truly enjoy and It all starts with faith in His plan. Thank you
Ive given all of me and my everything to God. Ive followed him, loved him, honored him, obeyed him and etc for a long time but it all blew on my face. God suddenly stiked me and my family all the way down and I was begging God but God was just watching and absolutely didnt care. I grew up as a Christian and its all I know but ever since God abandoned me, I didnt know what to do. I dont know what to do. Maybe God is shaking christians before the tribulation to truly know who belongs to Christ. Everything changed even the world changed and its presence changed right when the year 2020 came. I'd say lets try God once more. Lets try one last time to go back to God.
Very sweet and very true. Lets be careful with ourselves, not to be led away from our beloved Lord by the things of this world. If we go seeking for pleasure in anything other than Christ, we are forsaking the fountain of living water and well be left thirsty and desolate. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you!! Thank you pastor John for opening the Word of truth for us!! God bless you all in Christ!
@@BrianHathcock Brian, God is the most forgiving creator, He knows we are weak, if you sincerely Repent and turn away from your sin He is faithful and will forgive you, by His Grace, what a Glorious God He Is
@@re-joyce4806 Even if I've been doing it for years? I keep asking for forgiveness and for help to repent, but then I choose to sin again. That cycle keeps repeating. I feel like I'm just spitting on Christ by living this way.
@@BrianHathcock God is faithful, and He, for Christ's sake, forgives us all our sins. He calles us to repentance. Have you confessed your sin to the LORD? Do you with all your heart desire to fosake all sin and please Christ? If its yes, then of course He will take you back!!
Aw I needed this so bad and it is so…both good and bad to know that others struggle with this too. But knowing it’s ME and not God is SO helpful. Because I can trust He is always there and will be there in the end. I remember that first sweetness with Jesus. Where I would run to pray to just spend time in His presence. I know He will hold me fast.
1corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. Our hope in God or revelation of God should not be on the things of this life only. Now, the scriptures says that the heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to the children of men.psalms 115:16 Most of the the issues we have here on earth are based on either the actions or inactions of men. Now, God has made certain provisions and behind those provisions, he has hidden solutions to different problems. Now anybody that understands and patiently follow those provisions or principles will arrive at an answer . Take prayer for instance we are not meant to only pray we are meant to persevere in prayers but apart from prayers, there are other things like righteousness. Many people don't do righteousness, but it is the fervent prayers of a righteous man that avails much. James 5 :16. Now most principles of God are enshrined in the scriptures. So, like how long do you spend with the Scriptures?
John 3:16 read it and repeat it read it and repeat it again and again for GOD so loved the world that he gave his only forgotten son whoever believes in him shall not parish but have eternal life Believe in your heart believe it in your heart
❤️ Praying you will become a part of Christ’s family. ❤️ Congratulations that your heart is warming towards Him, Mikael. Thanks for sharing your prayer request.
@@mikaeljokic8867 Cry out to Jesus Christ for deliverance.. I had a bad spirit in me for many years.. Listen to psalms or read psalms in the Bible. Say in the name of Jesus leave me.. Do that everyday.. You have to be sober or it wont work as fast.. You have to change for Jesus,show him your trying your best.. Dont ever give up..
God please I need Your help. I don’t know what else to do. I’m so stuck. If You don’t help me Lord what do I do? I have nobody else to turn to apart from You. Please Lord please help me I beg You
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE BE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! The Lord is with us always. I was just in a season where I felt like the Lord left me and I was doomed and bound to die. I felt like this because I’ve never had a supernatural encounter with God and I’ve never seen any big sign or wonder. From this I’ve started to lose faith and began to mourn because I felt alone and dead. But, I then decided to put my trust in the Lord and God saved me. He showed me that I must have faith in him no matter what, even if I feel and see nothing. Faith in God is NOT a feeling but a decision. God reminded me that the generation we are in now demands a sign so that they may believe but will get nothing because of their unbelief and faithlessness. We must believe ALWAYS even if we see no sign because the Lord our God is with us always even till the end of the age. He will be with us for eternity if we trust him and accept him. In John 20:29, Jesus says "…Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."
I've been so much into faith, I'm abandoned totally by God, and today I have no hope, I'm single, lonely and feel unwanted... I've had sadness because of following a religious life and abandoned from Seminary and now thinking of finding nothing in life, it's painful and I give up totally
Feel the same way. I’ve abandoned so much to live a Christian life. Yet now I don’t feel like I’m worthy to live the Christian life and I don’t fit in with other believers. I’m single with zero prospects on the horizon as I don’t feel worthy of the women at my church, who may want someone with a stronger faith then me. It feels like I’m stuck in a spiritual purgatory and no one understands me.
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE BE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! The Lord is with us always. I was just in a season where I felt like the Lord left me and I was doomed and bound to die. I felt like this because I’ve never had a supernatural encounter with God and I’ve never seen any big sign or wonder. From this I’ve started to lose faith and began to mourn because I felt alone and dead. But, I then decided to put my trust in the Lord and God saved me. He showed me that I must have faith in him no matter what, even if I feel and see nothing. Faith in God is NOT a feeling but a decision. God reminded me that the generation we are in now demands a sign so that they may believe but will get nothing because of their unbelief and faithlessness. We must believe ALWAYS even if we see no sign because the Lord our God is with us always even till the end of the age. He will be with us for eternity if we trust him and accept him. In John 20:29, Jesus says "…Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."
Hi Michael James 1 verse 21 says we should receive with meekness the implanted words of God which is able to SAVE OUR SOUL (the seat of reasoning and emotions). Faith comes by hearing the words of God. Romans 10 verse 17. In addition to our prayers, you need to take on the Bible study therapy. It works everytime! Get a notebook and biro, be intentional about it. Ask God to teach you His words. IT IS THE TRUTH THAT SETS US FREE (FROM US). May God help us🙏
I’ve had two head thrashing experiences with God, one was when after I went back to an old sin, I felt fine for about 8 minutes, until the most gut wrenching horrible feeling of loneliness I’ve ever felt in my left. It was supernatural, it was unreal. The emotional pain and detachment and loneliness I felt was the absolute worse pain of my life. I wept bitterly until I cried myself to sleep, I woke up and prayed, and prayed, and felt no answer for a time, until I heard a video similar to this, and I prayed that prayer, and I felt a wave of relief, for at the time I feared for my soul. I don’t know if god really did abandon me, or if he did for just a while as a message, or still hasn’t returned to me, but this is my story.
What happened to you was godly sorrow that leads to repentance. I believe God let you go through that as a just recompense of reward for disobedience, destroying your flesh so that your soul may be saved. Do not fear, it's a sign that he loves you oh so much. Keep seeking him deeper. How are things with the Lord now?
@@akinoluolusina I've back slid horribly. I saw this and forgot i wrote it it. I barley christian anymore, I still believe but wallow in sin, i have a small desire to be godly, but fleshly desires are too much.
@@oldnosey4961 Well, there are times and seasons with God. And I think for you to see this and we are replying you now shows a door of mercy has been open for you. So I will think it's time you turn a new leaf..... only this time you must seek truth.... and must be willing to fight and take back that which the enemy had taken away from you. But I think you will need someone to help you....more like someone that you will be accountable to...... someone who will give you practical steps on how to be restored, and teach you truth daily. Someone you can open up to and he is able to offer godly counsel and all.
Perfect timing for me! And perfectly articulated (as always) by Piper. Thank you so much of how since God is omnipresent, it is *i* who is spiritually dull and Queen hung the Holy Spirit when I feel He is far away from me. 😌
My exact season and I am soo grateful to God for what He is doing to my life. My eyes are now open spiritually and my fellowship deeper than ever. Help me God to forever live for you.
I feel that God has abandoned me. I feel that so thoroughly yet when I listen to that emotion, I know it's wrong. I know it's all wrong and empty. I feel empty when I listen to that emotion. But when I trust in God. I trust in Eternity. God watch over me
I still feel abandoned by God. Haven’t had a job in almost 2 years. I apply for all I can think of, and nobody responds back to me. Going to college was such a waste of my time. If I knew my life would be the way it is today, I would have never gone. Last job I had was in my degree field, and I was lied on. Why would God let someone lie on me and ruin my career?
I’m sorry you are going through such a rough time. I still don’t understand why some people have a harder time than others. But I pray God will open doors for you so you can find your way. 🙏
I'm so sorry man. I also had trouble finding a job. After 2 years I quit the search and started my own thing (engineer by education). It's still a struggle, but strongly felt lead to go down this path. I can't describe how much I lean on Him through this every single day. Whether you realize it or not, God is totally working in you. I didn't realize it when I was at your stage, but looking back He definately was...big time! It sounds crazy, but you're in a great spot. Study scripture, and I mean really study it, and the truth will emerge.
I have learned that God has given us free will. God allows bad choices from others and ourselves for the sake of allowing human choice in general. However, God also makes promises to us that cannot be altered no matter what our bad choices are. That's grace. And grace will always bear fruit. Your fruit is coming, just remain faithful.
My family is non-believing, I am not married, though my heart so desires-and because I keep Christian standards, no one wants to be with me. I have ptsd from past abuse and just feel so, so abandoned. Each day is a struggle and I pray God give me hope!
I pray for Joy for you, that you will experience God in a whole new way. I pray God opens your eyes and see truth.... and sets you free from every lies, wrong mindset of the devil...be free in Jesus name.
This has been my experience basically me entire 5 years as a professing Christian. I'm burnt out from it and have been dwindling downward for the last couple years. I'm bitter towards God. Even in the midst of fighting sin, it hasn't gotten better. I've stepped out and tried forming a relationship with my dad and it blew up in my face, I've radically thrown down idols all while trying to fill the spots with reasonable things or God himself and it didnt happen. The world has been hard these last couple years. Moving out on my own and being lonely, the blowout with my dad, going to a job I hate and with coworkers who think I'm an idiot. I DO NOT like myself. No seeming prospects of being married (overweight, socially awkward, emotionally deformed). I have NOTHING going for me. The world is hard to face and God is nowhere to be found. I have resorted to video games and food for distraction and self medication, because it gets my mind off of the reality or my situation most times in this world and with God. I still occasionally go go church and try to go more consistently, I'll read a couple chapters of the Bible here and there, but there's nothing I can do. I'm stuck, my only hope is for God to deliver me from this while I wrestle with being bitter and angry towards him and myself and this world. I'm basically done, if God doesn't come and get me I'm screwed.
Hey brother, I know exactly how you feel... The world hates me, I'm socially awkward, I'll never find a girl who wants to be with me, my parents were terrible... My life is in a tailspin no matter how hard I try.. I just wanted to reach out to you and see how you're doing.. I really felt what you wrote.. people treat me like garbage and destroy me any chance they get, I don't hate them but I hate being around people. Let me know how your world is going, sometimes it helps to talk to somebody who can feel your pain because they're going through it as well.
Wait. YOURE the same person who argued w me hours earlier about gods perfect justice. Whoa. Brother I hope you can find some counseling... or some kind of help. Best wishes
Oh my goodness his is me … it’s awful . It feels like God doesn’t want anything to do with me anymore … and it feels so sad .. I feel like I’m not important to God anymore …
I think it more a sense of disappointment. I felt it now for more than 50 years, and I'm tired of bullies in schools, family, and work places getting away with their actions...
Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. These place says that God has appointed a day which God will judge the world, the second passage will receive judgment according to their deeds.
I just feel like He is gone. Not because of a job, sickness, marriage struggles, etc but its like He took His Spirit away from me. There is no longer much of a desire to pray, read His Word, share the gospel, conviction. Jesus saved me out of religion and the last year its like He has been gone. I don't know if its because I was afraid to confess Him, denied my salvation(I thought I had been saved, this happened right before I was about to pastor a church that He saved me, so i battled back in forth if this was salvation or if I was already saved), began to look for Life in other things and now it feels as if all of my belief(not trust in Christ through the gospel) is gone.
Hi Aaron, how are you doing now? Are you still feeling this way? I also feel this way. I've been majorly struggling in the past couple months believing that God has left me because I keep backsliding into sin. I'm scared to read the word because of condemnation, I'm scared to pray because of unanswered prayers, I feel no resistance to sin, and I have no motivation to do anything. I don't know what to do, I don't think there's even anything I CAN do.
@@agentmikster44 Jesus has slowly drew me back to Him. He never left. He was here the whole time. Read Isaiah 57:14-19 and Isaiah 43:1. Don't trust your feelings, trust the Lord Jesus Christ and His gospel. He paid for all your sins on the cross. He was buried. He rose again the third day. Trust this.
@@hopefullcompatriot5394 keep looking to Jesus. Don't force it but trust Him, avide in Him. Listen to to worship music about Him, read the book of John, pray. He is there with you if your truly saved(I say that with grace and in truth) and it you are than He has redeemed you, He has called you by your name, you are His! Isaiah 43:1 Don't follow feelings, walk by faith.
For those who feel that God has abandoned them. There are Four things I want to share now, and anybody who feels God has abandoned him is likely going through one of these Four things. Please go through these four things carefully. (1) The issues of sin. (2) Withdrawal of sovereign presence (3) the night period (4)oppositions Let's take them one after the other. (1) The issues of sin. Saul was a powerful King of Israel, but according to the scriptures he disobeyed God and it came to a point that the spirit of God left him, and God no longer answered him, not through prophets, not through Urim etc.1sam28:6 What causes this is, when someone constantly disobeys God, the conviction and prompting of the holy spirit, a time may come when those convictions dwindles. Like someone talking to you and you refuse to answer after awhile the person may stop talking. If you are here and you were used to disobeying the prompting of the holy Spirit either to pray, read the Bible or do any other thing, or you were outrightly living in sin, Repent, ask for forgiveness, ask for mercy and the God of mercy will help you. (2)Withdrawal of sovereign presence. When a child is born, the mother pampers and care for the child almost constantly. But as the child grows the mother will not carry the child all around as she used to do. If she does that the child will not learn to survive without the mother, and he will not be able to learn what he needs to learn. After awhile the mother will take the child and abandon him in school with a stranger called teacher and other strange children. Take note of that word abandon. But that abandonment is not forgetfulness. It's for the good of the child for the purpose of learning and it's for a period whether Long or short. The children of Israel left Egypt under the sovereign protection of God but soon they hit the wilderness, just as many people hit the wilderness of life in their work with God. Now, did God abandon the children of Israel in the wilderness? The answer is no. But did go through difficult moments? The answer is yes. There was even a time they felt God had abandoned them that they demanded for a golden calf; I pray we don't make the same mistake. Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the Rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. What to do this period is to trust he is with you, though you don't see him, don't give up because it's through faith and patience that we obtain the promise. HEB 6:12 (3) The night period The night period is almost like the wilderness period, the scripture says that weeping may endure for a night but that Joy comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5 The night period may come through the loss of a love one, lost of job, struggles and troubles here and there, you can't even understand certain things etc. When you notice these things, it's likely the night period. There always a temptation to question God during this period. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.psalm 23:4 He did not stop you from walking through the valley of the shadow of death, but even in that valley he is with you, he does not abandon you. What normally helps people in the night period is the light they have accumulated. And by light I'm talking about the word of God which is a lamp and a light, Psalm 119:105 without this you may not be able to go through the dark period successfully. (4) Oppositions: Oppositions include the hindrances, tests, temptations, exams that one needs to scale through to enter into the next level. It's not sometimes funny and one may be tempted to ask "where is God?". He is there watching what you will do. Where you are during this periods listed about matters a lot. The people around you also matter. *Because if you don't have light and you are passing through the night period, you can share with the light of others around you. *If God has withdrawn his sovereign presence and he is not talking to you directly, you don't feel him, at least you have the presence of godly people around you. Prayer matters a lot when one is facing Oppositions, but if you cannot pray during this period, Others may help you in prayers. The summary of all what I have written is that don't give up on God, I don't think he has abandoned you, he doesn't abandon his own.
I am living in hell in my job now. I can’t leave because I need the money. The stress is killing me; it’s literally deteriorating my health and god feels so far. I don’t see a way out😔
In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears. Psalms 18:6 NIV bible.com/bible/111/psa.18.6-7.NIV
I sincerely hope that by now things have been resolved. If not, don't give up Monica. I believe that God is a good God. I believe that God is full of mercy, grace, compassion and His love endures forever. It is my sincere prayer that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit will comfort you and give you peace as well as a solution to what's troubling you at work. It was Jesus Who said that in this life we will have trouble, but to be of good cheer for He has overcome the world! I'm also reminded that apart from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit that we have no good thing! I'm also reminded that God doesn't willingly grieve humanity. He's not a sadist, i.e., He doesn't enjoy seeing us suffer. After all, Jesus Who was fully man and fully God when He walked this earth KNOWS first hand about pain and suffering. I'm also reminded that if we abandon the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to whom can we go? Whom can we turn to? The world? Keep talking to Jesus; no matter how bad things seem. Talk with clergy, family and friends. Keep praying, fasting and reading the Word of God. The book of Psalms is of great comfort to me! Take care and God bless!
He does abandon us and is blessing some people and torturing others who don’t deserve it. I just gave up because 20 years of not prospering or having any testimoney I’m done. Too much persecution to be playing those games.
I'm not convinced with this argument. As long as I suffer on the inside, due to the stupidity that takes place on the outside, I'm full certain that God has left me. In fact, I'm pretty sure he doesn't care about me.
The Wicked versus The Wise (Daniel 12:10) GENERAL CONTRASTS between The Wicked and The Wise in ANY AGE The Wicked The Wise NO FEAR of God (Psalms 36:1) The FEAR of the Lord (Psalms 111:10) Man's UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (Deuteronomy 6:25; Isaiah 64:6) God's RIGHTEOUSNESS (Isaiah 45:24; II Corinthians 5:21) End is DEATH (Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 16:25) End is LIFE (Proverbs 13:14; Proverbs 15:4) SPECIFIC CONTRASTS between The Wicked and The Wise in "THE TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 8:17; Daniel 12:4,9) The Wicked The Wise NO UNDERSTANDING "the Signs of the Times" (Matthew 16:2-3) "SHALL UNDERSTAND" "the Time of the End" (Daniel 12:4,10) "Covenant with DEATH" (Isaiah 28:15) "Eternal LIFE" (I John 1:2) "given to Him (Antichrist) ... by reason of TRANSGRESSION" (Daniel 8:12) "shall instruct many" & "turn many unto RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Daniel 11:33; Daniel 12:3) "TRODDEN DOWN" by the Covenant Breaker (Isaiah 28:18; Daniel 9:27) "OVERCAME him (the Beast)" (Revelation 12:11; Revelation 15:2) "hide ... from the WRATH OF THE LAMB" & "shall drink of the wine of the WRATH OF GOD" (Revelation 6:16; Revelation 14:9-11) shall rule the nations & "shall be PRIESTS OF GOD ... and shall REIGN WITH HIM (CHRIST)" (Revelation 2:26-27; Revelation 20:4,6) Counting The Days until "The End of the Days" (Daniel 12:11-13) Daniel is told that "the wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:10) the counting of the days from "the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away" (Daniel 12:11) until "the end of the days" (Daniel 12:13), i.e. the relationship between Daniel's 70th week and Israel's Fall Feasts Daniel's 70th week is divided into two equal halves consisting of 1260 days each (Revelation 11:3; Revelation 12:6) There is a 30-day midpoint interval called "the midst of the week" during which time Antichrist breaks his covenant with israel by causing "the sacrifice and the oblation to cease" (Daniel 9:27) and with the help of "his arms" (apostate Israel), he "shall place the abomination that maketh desolate" (Daniel 11:31 cf. Daniel 8:12) Then will follow "the Great Tribulation" (the 2nd half of the 70th week), which was spoken of by the Lord (Matthew 24:15-22) and the prophets (Daniel 12:1 cf. Jeremiah 30:4-7) "The midst of the week" (30 days) plus "the Great Tribulation" (1260 days) combine for a total of 1290 days (Daniel 12:11) An additional 45 days yields a final total of 1335 days (Daniel 12:12) During this 45-day period between the end of the reign of the False Christ and the beginning of the reign of the True Christ will occur the prophetic fulfillments of Israel's Fall Feasts The period of 2300 days covering the times of the "daily sacrifice" and the "transgression of desolation" (Daniel 8:13-14) is explained via the Lord's parable of the "fig tree" (Matthew 24:32-33 cf. Matthew 24:1-2) Israel's history is figuratively represented by three fruit trees: NATIONALLY, she is pictured as a "VINE" brought "out of Egypt" which "filled the land" (Psalms 80:8-9) SPIRITUALLY, she is pictured as an "OLIVE tree" (Romans 11:17,24) of which "the Gentiles have been made partakers" (Romans 15:27) RELIGIOUSLY, she is pictured as a "FIG tree" under which Nathanael was sitting (John 1:48-50) - Nathanael, "an Israelite indeed, in whom is NO guile" (John 1:47) stood in contrast to Israel's RELIGIOUS "hypocrites" (Matthew 23:13-15,23,25,27,29) from whom the Lord (during his three year earthly ministry) "sought fruit thereon, and found NONE" (Luke 13:6-7) The 1st half of the 70th week will comprise the rebuilding of the Temple (220 days) and the subsequent offering of the "daily sacrifice" (1040 days) The "transgression of desolation" will stand during the reign of the False Christ for the duration of the 2nd half of the 70th week (1260 days) Taken together - the time of the "daily sacrifice" (1040 days) and the time of the "transgression of desolation" (1260 days) combine for a total of 2300 days (Daniel 8:13-14) Daniel is given to understand that he will "rest" (in a grave outside of Israel) and will "stand in thy lot" (land inheritance in israel) "at the end of the days" (Daniel 12:13) and so is told "to go thy way" till "the time of the end" (Daniel 12:9)Sealing of The Book until "The Time of the End" (Daniel 12:4-9) Daniel is told to "SHUT UP the words, and SEAL the Book, even to the TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 12:4) Daniel was repeatedly told that his prophecies concerned "the TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 8:17; Daniel 11:35,40), i.e. "the LAST END of the indignation: for the TIME APPOINTED shall be THE END" (Daniel 8:19) John was given the exact opposite command: "SEAL NOT the sayings of the prophecy of this Book: for the TIME IS AT HAND" (Revelation 22:10) The reason for the different instructions is that the apostle was physically transported by the Spirit of the Lord to the TIME of the DAY OF THE LORD and, so refers to himself as "your brother, and companion in TRIBULATION" (Revelation 1:9-10), whereas the prophet was specifically told: "Go thy way Daniel, for the words are CLOSED UP and SEALED TILL the TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 12:9) At "the TIME OF THE END ... many shall run to and fro: and knowledge shall be increased" (Daniel 12:4) The Hebrew word "shuwt" translated "run to and fro" is very closely related to the Hebrew word "suwt" translated "turn aside", i.e. a negative expression as in: "turn aside to lies" (Psalms 40:4) "I hate the work of them that turn aside: it shall NOT cleave to Me" (Psalms 101:3) This apostasy is all the more acute for our text ends with the words, "knowledge shall be increased" (Daniel 12:4) This "KNOWLEDGE" is in reference to what "the WISE shall UNDERSTAND" and that which "NONE of the WICKED shall UNDERSTAND" (Daniel 12:10) It's "KNOWLEDGE" of the "SURE WORD of PROPHECY ... that SHINETH in a DARK PLACE (Tribulation), UNTIL the DAY DAWN (Millenium)" (II Peter 1:19) The "MYSTERY (SECRET) of God ... declared to His servants the PROPHETS" (Revelation 10:7 cf. Revelation 11:15) has the testimony of "Daniel the PROPHET" (Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14) who spoke "by the Holy Spirit" (II Peter 1:20-21) that God's "INTERPRETATION thereof is SURE" (Daniel 2:44-45 cf. Daniel 2:26-28) "The Man clothed in linen" occupies the central place "UPON the waters of the river" (Daniel 12:6) flanked by the "other two" - "one on THIS SIDE of the river and the other on THAT SIDE of the bank of the river" (Daniel 12:5) "The Man clothed in linen" is "the CERTAIN MAN clothed in linen" Whom Daniel saw earlier in vision (Daniel 10:5-6) and is the SAME PERSON Whom John saw in his opening vision (Revelation 1:12-16) and Who identified Himself as the Lord (Revelation 1:17-18) As the One Who occupies the central place ("in the MIDDLE") BETWEEN the "other two" - He is asked the question, "How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?" (Daniel 12:6) "The Man clothed in linen" answers with hands "HELD UP" to Heaven - indicative of the DIVINE swearing of an OATH (Deuteronomy 32:39-43; Revelation 10:5-7) The answer is very specific (three and a half TIMES), i.e. three and a half YEARS - a "time" being reckoned as a "YEAR" (Daniel 4:16,23,25,32) The time of three and a half years specifies the length of time that is alotted for when "he (Antichrist) shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people (faithful Israel)" (Daniel 12:7) during which time "he (Antichrist) shall speak GREAT (BLASPHEMOUS) words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints (faithful Israel) of the Most High" (Daniel 7:25; Revelation 13:5-7) This TIME will most certainly be WHEN "... for the children of thy (Daniel's) people ... there shall be a TIME OF TROUBLE, such as NEVER SINCE there was a nation EVEN TO THAT SAME TIME ..." (Daniel 12:1), which is why the Lord reassures His own that "for the elect's sake" that TIME shall be mercifully BRIEF (Matthew 24:21-22) Daniel's response to the Lord's answer concerning "HOW LONG shall it be to the end of these wonders?" (Daniel 12:6) was "I heard, but UNDERSTOOD NOT" (Daniel 12:8) and is again told by the Lord to "Go thy way, for the WORDS are CLOSED UP and SEALED TILL THE TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 12:9) In his response, Daniel is like other of his brethren "the PROPHETS" who "searched diligently" (I Peter 1:10) concerning "WHAT MANNER OF TIME the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify" (I Peter 1:11) and "unto whom it was revealed, that NOT UNTO THEMSELVES, BUT UNTO US they did minister the things" (I Peter 1:12) Israel's FINAL "SALVATION" spoken of by "the PROPHETS" (I Peter 1:10 cf. Jeremiah 16:14-15) was purchased by "the SUFFERINGS of Christ" at His FIRST ADVENT (I Peter 1:11 cf. Isaiah 53:6-10) and will be manifested by His "GLORY that shall follow" at His SECOND ADVENT (I Peter 1:11 cf. Zechariah 8:20-23) This FINAL "SALVATION" spoken of by "the PROPHETS" (I Peter 1:10) will occur in "the LAST DAYS" also called "the LATTER DAYS": JACOB'S BLESSING of "his sons", i.e. "the 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL" (Genesis 49:1,28) BALAAM'S FINAL PROPHECY concerning "a STAR OUT OF JACOB" (Numbers 24:14-19) The SONG OF MOSES sung by the TRIBULATION OVERCOMERS (Revelation 15:2-3 cf. Deuteronomy 31:19-22,28-30; Deuteronomy 32:42-45) The Lord bidding Daniel to "Go thy way" (Daniel 12:9) strongly suggests that Daniel will NOT SEE his beloved Jerusalem (Daniel 6:10; Daniel 9:16) UNTIL his RESURRECTION when he will "STAND in his lot AT THE END OF THE DAYS" (Daniel 12:13) The Wicked versus The Wise (Daniel 12:10)
I don't just feel abandoned by God i feel outright rejected. I struggled alone in isolation from friends in the faith who could encourage me and help. I wrestled with habitual sin for 2 years or so by myself fighting and winning some and losing. I didn't understand the holy spirit and his role in my life and feel like he's left for God. To feel like I'll never get to feel His presence ever again it's internally unbearable
I have struggled with addiction to pornography, alcohol & cigarettes ever since I thought I was delivered from meth. I haven’t wished to smoke meth again for a few months after around 10 years of addiction. Drinking, smoking and pornography have lingered on. This night I felt a strong urge to throw away my drink and tear my cigarettes and throw it all away I prayed and thanked him and said it was the last time. I went to my room to read the Bible and the verse I read I felt was personally attacking me, specifically the verses speaking about blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and began to feel evil as if I was a demon. I’m so lost and terrified I’m not sure if I’m doomed or this is some sort of lesson. Please pray for me because this isn’t the first time I’ve felt inherently evil even at church this feeling comes over me and what begins as a release of sin suddenly disappears and I’m overcome with evil
Relate so much to what you wrote. God bless you in peace & grace. Can I share my testimony? Learning it is not always demons. We can have soul wounds/strongholds. Have more to share and hope you are still here 💕
@@alexlegaspy2641 2 Cor 10:4 is the scripture I'm praying the Holy Spirit reveals to you. After I got delivered (from spirits) there was still soul wounds & lies I believed in my mind from complex PTSD (self hate, unworthiness, past regret, unforgiveness). What a process! There is a reason that the Lord says that deliverance is the children's bread. He is a good Father (even when I did not have a good earthly one) and when I truly surrendered and trusted Him, that is when true healing was and by the Holy Spirit we can meditate on the meat of His Word. Renewing my mind from the lies. He came to give life abundantly. Praying for you! I hear your heart.
I don't know if I've been deserted or if I ever had God in the first place. I've always struggled alot with sin. I keep trying to follow Jesus but I always fail. I've prayed for God to save me so many times. I think the problem was always my heart. I almost feels like my heart and mind are two separate things. I want God in my mind but my heart is the complete opposite. But through that it seemed like God had bigger plans for me and I would truly know him one day. But for some reason all the sudden my mind a Is also becoming evil. I do t know what I did to cause this but I feel like I'm becoming more and more sinful by the minute. I don't want to like sinning but I feel like I can't even control my thoughts and feelings anymore. I feel like I'm slipping further and further away from God. I did read a verse that said some are destined for disobedience. I feel like I'm just a weed in the garden only created to pulled up and thrown in the fire. I've prayed about this but I know God looks at the heart and my hearts desires are evil. I don't even know Tha you should trust what I'm saying because I don't want to be a stumbling block. My heart almost feels happy about my sin. It'd disgusting and horrible. I hate it
Hello Lukas, how do you do? You are probably having a demonic problem. Now what you need to do is to get rid of those demonic influences and thoughts from your mind. I hope you have given your life to Christ? Now you are going to pray against demonic influences in your life, take authority in the name of Jesus and rebuke their influences from your mind. Another thing you are going to do is that you are going to feed yourself aggressively with the scriptures. Read the Bible without stopping and the word of God which is powerful will weaken and break demonic influences and sin in your life. I will like to hear from you
You need to read the bible. Romans chapters 7-8 talks about what your going through. Once you've accepted Christ you must feed your soul with Gods word! It's impairative that you grow in Christ or you will live in defeat instead of grace, Mercy and truth.
I delight in God, I trust in God. There is no hidden or practiced sin. ..definitely that I’m aware of, as the heart is deceitful who can know it-and “if God You O God kept a record of sins who could stand?” Having said that I believe my heart to be devoted to God and nothing could cause me to abandon that devotion and determination to serve Him and chase after Him, yet there are dark circumstances in my life that I’ve pleaded in prayer to be delivered from (beyond my control) and God has not answered the prayer. My peace, my sense of assurance of salvation is under constant attack. It is the darkest most frightening experience I’ve ever endured. It feels hellish to sit in the place I’m in, yet God has seemed quiet to my pleas and prayers. If we ask anything in the Name of Jesus according to the will of God, it will be answered. I don’t know what I’ve done wrong that there is no answer.
I was feeling abandoned my mom came home today sick, with a lump. It could be cancer and I don’t know why he would let this happen. I know I don’t deserve Gods goodness and love and maybe I deserve a punishment like this but it really hurts.
I'm sorry you are going through this. I'll pray for you and your mom. I've been around cancer stuff for years now. There are lessons of love in it. Always look for what God is teaching you in this time, even leading up to finding out. Lean into Him with constant prayer. Read the Bible so your mind is constantly being formed to good things in grief and fear. Depression is ok to feel. It is ok to cry. And hug your mom all the time, even if it feels awkward.
What about "those who fall away"? and "God can leave a man and man not know it". I've experienced both, yet years before, l experienced the fullness of JOY overflowing and a substantial degree of the revelation of the Gospel. I trusted in that He Who had begun a good work in me would bring it to completion, the guarantee of the Holy Spirit as a down payment for ultimate salvation and that He would keep that which I had entrusted Him with; my soul.
@@LR354- Separated from His LIFE, His LOVE, His JOY. Waiting, hoping, wondering WHY so much can be given to someone and then taken away and turned back over to the darkness. PUZZLING since we are supposed to be MORE than CONQUERORS through Him Who Loved us and gave Himself for us. Thanks for asking.
@@heatherambassadorforjesusc5072 I started waking up around 5 years old wandering what I'd done to be sent here. The idea of being stuck in this body for 60 to 70 years was very depressing. By that same time I received telepathic communications from the spiritual rulers of this realm and they made sure I knew how they do things here. It wasn't pleasant! They have absolute dominion over our souls. Later, after crying in desperation, I found out that Jesus had authority over them. Thank God! He took me out of the hole of overwhelming despair I was in and gave me first HOPE, then I received WISDOM and then JOY overflowing. He taught me much about human history and development, the influences of the spiritual world upon our cultures and the great importance of lining up with God's plan of evolution as opposed to His enemy's. I felt As if God was preparing many of us to be His ambassadors at that time (early 60's). As this was taking place, persecution became more prevalent in my life affecting my family healthwise, financially and the infiltration of enemy agents into our lives. By 12 years of age they had managed to smother my ability to respond to the Spirit and my conscience was put to sleep. I felt as if l had been brainwashed! Now at 70 I'm vaguely remembering these things after decades of total forgetfulness. This should never be the life's outcome of a born again believer more so a recipient of divine visitations. More than conquerors should not get conquered!
I am so angry at God, yet I loved Him. I am so violently angry at my physical problems, having to wear glasses, not being a good-looking guy. I am so angry GOD has abandoned me. I am totally to blame for this. I had Jesus. Jesus once loved me like I was the only One. I was blasphemously angry and ungrateful, and idolatrous and yet, no matter how much I cursed and ranted against Jesus, all He did was love me, and take me back every time I repented. I renounced Him, against His Spirits plea not to, and I felt Him leave, and cannot get Him back. He's not answering y prayers.
You're not. God loves you. He is merciful and forgiving. If he told Peter to forgive someone 70 x 7 then how much more will He forgive us. Prayers for you. Don't go by your feelings go by the word of God. His truth.
No!! We were born in corruption so how can we be blamed or held accountable for our corrupt actions? GOD needs to save us But I feel miserable!.. Where are you God!!?. Where!??
@@rammingspeed5217 if you really want to find God, read his words in the Bible, that is where you will find him. In Jeremiah 29:13 and John 3:16 there is a message for you, read it.
I got married at 30, never been with anyone before. I found out my sperm are DOA. I can't have children. God abandoned me years ago. I believe in him more than ever but I believe mostly in his endless hatred for me. He knew me before I knew myself and he hated what he saw.
My mom's been suffering from tb meningitis since 7 months and the hospital bills are piling up. Father left us when we were small with second marriage. Was the inflicted pain of growing up in difficulties not enough? Feels like God has abandoned my family and prayer being ignored.
I am 42 years old, and for the first 41 years of my life, the earth/world/nature/spirituality felt the exact same. However, in the last year or two, I have been getting VERY strange feelings. 1.) It feels like God no longer has his hands on the wheel. 2.) I also (sometimes) get this INTENSE and PROFOUNDLY POWERFUL feeling from nature. I went into the forest at night-time in the summer, and that "nature at night time feeling" was SO INTENSE it literally frightened me. I don't frighten easily, either. I did mushrooms once, 20 years ago, and it was EERILY SIMILAR. Perhaps it's just me, I don't know, but I just get the sense that God has lost his patience with the world. Frankly, I don't blame him.
That’s some kind of God. Meanwhile ., people currently having more near death experiences than people actually dying., stating they saw Jesus and god loves everyone so much... huh. Big huh
If we feel that God is distant from us it's not because He has abandoned us, but that we've turned away from him. "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil." John 3:19
@@HearGodsWord Case in Point: I saw your comments and all i could feel was Sorry and all i could say was Oh buddy... i mean, you dont even have the mental capcity to inform yourself about Criticism that your Religion gets, let alone question it by yourself. You MUST shut-out all non-internale thoughts cause it would sensory-overload you, yes?
If God can help us stop sinning or committing certain sins, then why do we still do so? It's not our fault that God is all powerful and all knowing and soveriegn, and yet He won't do anything to help! If God alone is the origin and starting point of a person recieving any kind of HELP, and that person is not recieving HELP, then that's God's fault obviously. I know it's painful and it seems wrong, but that's just the way it is... God is absent in my life.
Pray for me. I'm afraid that God has given me over to a reprobate mind. I keep sinning, then asking for forgiveness, then sinning again. For years. Am I no longer saved? Will God take me back for the millionth time, or did I persist too long in sin, and He gave me over to a debased mind? I think it's in Romans 1. I'm very afraid.
If you are saved, sin doesn’t have dominion over you (Romans 6:14). I’ve struggled with sin for 6 years now. Been saved 9 years. Don’t doubt your salvation indefinitely or it will cause you to want to sin more, I’ve been there, done that. Look to Jesus, pray to Him (Hebrews 12:1-2). Mortify your sinful choices too: (Romans 8:12-13, Colossians 3:5-11)
@@BrianHathcock God knows your heart, He made an everlasting covenant with you. Read 1 John 1, the entire first chapter. As far as wether He will forgive you, I believe yea, but you can NEVER EVER rely on your “feelings”. You need to commit to sanctification & prayer. I’ve been through nightmares too Brian.
There's condemnation in Christ Jesus. We are going to sin till he returns for us. That's why we need him. He'll never leave you or forsake you. He knows your heart. Don't be afraid
Sooo many People dissapoint God by never watching Atheist-Channels. Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here. Limiting yourself is bad enough, but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only those that share your Religion? Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word? I think so. So why? Why do you avoid Atheist-Channels and ignore their valid Questions and/or valid Criticism? What are you waiting for? Learn more and more! IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the Rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.
2022-02-14 ... Valentines Day "Thank you" for this video. My Christian faith has been devastated by my wife Katherine's abandoning our sacred Marriage. God the Father is all powerful, has miraculously intervened in the past to Resurrect the marriage. But not today, not for the past SEVEN weeks of forced separation. Agony. Bitter isolation. I too have been faithful, and tried extraordinary hard to be a Wonderful Christian Husband to the Katherine that I adore and cherish. I hav we asked The Lord, tonight included, to simply end my life, the pain is too great, and gone on for 18 months. Dear Lord Jesus Christ ... WHY WHY WHY are you silent, distant, apparently content to watch me dread every night, sleepless for hours? Christ has ALL POWER but apparently refuses to Resurrect Kathie and I's marriage. Please, please, Lord Jesus, do this "soon", before I lose ALL hope. .
Our feelings can be very deceiving, trust only in God, His faithfulness, His Love, His Grace towards us, I struggle at times too ,its a battle, Im forever grateful for Gods reassurance 🙏
What about people who suffer from human trafficking? Is god helping them while they are used for the pleasure of sick monsters? What about people who were raped, tortured, murdered and more? People who have incurable diseases? Where was God when some innocent kid died from an agonizing illness? Where was God when the bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Where was God when people committed suicide and burned to death in 9/11?
Watching due to the sin of the world he doesn't cause it to happen the world is ruled by Satan and sin but he still is there due to the fact that Satan is ruling God is waiting till his ordained time to put a stop to it and judge don't fall and become an atheist God is there
Where was God when you lied to other people? Where was God when you stole from other people? Where was God when you used his name in vain? Where was God when you committed adultery in your heart when lusting over another person? ...where was God when you disobeyed him and broke his law? If God were to exact justice or prevent something right then and there. We would all be in Hell right now. His holding back is his mercy, and he has given us all an allotted time on this earth. What will you do with his Son who died for sinners and their sins? Will you believe him and follow him? Or will you not? That's a big part of what the time is for.
@@othersteeve1048 what about people who don’t do these things?... are you without sin? Are you perfect? When’s the last time you read all the promises of forgiveness in the Bible?... do you even have a point?.....( nope)
@@Yet333 These are examples. Every human being sins thousands of times a day in thought and deed. God is perfect. The bar is perfection. We don't even get off the ground. The point is, if God is going to punish sin, he isnt going to stop at the human traffickers, murderers, etc. He is gonna punish even the most "good" people for their sin. Thankfully God doesn't do that. Sure he does case by case but we cant even comprehend his and what he is accomplishing behind the curtains so to speak. Thankfully he sent Jesus to die for sinners and their sin so that God's justice can be fulfilled and he can offer grace and salvation to sinners without violating his character.
Sooo many People dissapoint God by never watching Atheist-Channels. Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here. Limiting yourself is bad enough, but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only those that share your Religion? Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word?
Sooo many People dissapoint God by never watching Atheist-Channels. Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here. Limiting yourself is bad enough, but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only those that share your Religion? Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word? I think so. So why? Why do you avoid Atheist-Channels and ignore their valid Questions and/or valid Criticism? What are you waiting for? Learn more and more! IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
If the unborn knew they had a 35% chance of being murdered before they see the light of day don’t you think they’d feel abandoned and hopeless? And they get no reassurance from Piper. Piper, mistaking bravado for pride, thinks abortion is preferable, given the choice.
@@haroldseah306 Sooo many People dissapoint God by never watching Atheist-Channels. Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here. Limiting yourself is bad enough, but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only those that share your Religion? Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word? IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
Sooo many People dissapoint God by never watching Atheist-Channels. Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here. Limiting yourself is bad enough, but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only those that share your Religion? Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word? I think so. So why? Why do you avoid Atheist-Channels and ignore their valid Questions and/or valid Criticism? What are you waiting for? Learn more and more! IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
Its all lies.. God binds our hands up with his Laws and expected moral behaviour before sending the wolves to tear us up.. if we defend ourselves we are condemned by him, yet he will no defend us
Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
So basically you're saying it's up to us to save ourselves and fight for our own sanctification and self righteousness .. Christ is incapable of saving us, his words are lies and we must save ourselves
I’m sorry I have to call you on your bs. Sinful attitudes are often because he abandon us and allowed a con man to steal our inheritance. I live in my car and have for three years. Not helping me and he is not with me. Why doesn’t God fight for us like satan does?
No God has not abandoned you God is within you and will always be within you it's up to you to tap into it the god that is within the God is without in the demon so live from within stay away from negative energy even if it's your family members your blood pressure will be lowered if you get rid of the evilness in your life it might be your son or daughter if they give off negative energy in their evil you need to leave them alone
Isaiah 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Have to admit I feel abandoned right now. My dad, grandmother, and my wife (the love of my life) have all passed away in the last 3 months. My heart is shattered and I feel God has left me. All I think about is how much I wish God would take me home, so I can be with Him and see my wife again.
Praying for you, I'm so sorry for your loss
May god give you the strength to go on until you can reunite to them
I'm sorry to hear that my friend. Truly.
I know what it's like to have only a HOLE where your heart once was. It's like a nasty contradiction of being FILLED WITH A VOID.
However, whilst I don't know you, or your loved ones, I'm sure they'd be PROUD AS CAN BE if they see you trying to get through life, and making the most of it.
Stay strong my friend.
So sorry for your loss. That is a lot to deal with in such a small time frame. I hope you are doing better today.
I understand. How are you now?
I love this, a great lesson to remember in the coming days. I was just studying about Joseph and thinking about how long he was in prison, God used it for so much good and Joseph recognized that I think. Instead of giving up, he kept serving the Lord throughout.
Felt this was just yesterday. I was so miserable for no reason. I had to pray God would just show me the smallest hint of light at the end of the tunnel. I was so sad, ya’ll. Hope this video helps whoever feels that way now. 😞
Sooo many People dissapoint God by
never watching Atheist-Channels.
Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here.
Limiting yourself is bad enough,
but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only
those that share your Religion?
Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word?
I think so.
So why? Why do you avoid Atheist-Channels and ignore their valid Questions
and/or valid Criticism?
What are you waiting for? Learn more and more!
IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do
and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
As much as I tend to love Piper’s answers, this was kinda whiffed. For a better more concrete answer I recommend the sermon form Paul Washer “God is creating weakness in your life”.
@@kenim I’ve heard that sermon. It’s really good. 🥰
Life is miserable for a believer
Same , I hope you feel better,💙
At 18, after many years of chronic debilitating pain and health issues, there are times when I have felt like God has abandoned me. Yet, more and more each day I feel that He is all the more near. I know that His judgements are right, and out of faithfulness He has afflicted me. (Psalm 119:75) Many of my questions regarding suffering and the purposes of God have not been answered, and they likely will not be until Heaven. But I remember a quote from C.S. Lewis's book, Till We Have Faces: 'I know now, Lord, why You utter no answer. You are Yourself the answer. Before Your face, questions die away. What other answer would suffice?' Indeed, before His face, questions fade away. Hold fast to your faith, even if you do not feel He is near. He is between us and the edge the whole time. Steady onwards.
I love this. I left a good paying job that was toxic and took a leap into the unknown. I was so anxious and God took care of my worries. I’m working a job that takes care of the bills comfortably that I truly enjoy and It all starts with faith in His plan. Thank you
ur courageous
This message was for me. Thank you Jesus💙
What about all the valid questions that atheist channel bring up though? Wanna ignore it?
Ive given all of me and my everything to God. Ive followed him, loved him, honored him, obeyed him and etc for a long time but it all blew on my face. God suddenly stiked me and my family all the way down and I was begging God but God was just watching and absolutely didnt care. I grew up as a Christian and its all I know but ever since God abandoned me, I didnt know what to do. I dont know what to do. Maybe God is shaking christians before the tribulation to truly know who belongs to Christ. Everything changed even the world changed and its presence changed right when the year 2020 came. I'd say lets try God once more. Lets try one last time to go back to God.
I feel cut off. He was very angry with me. I don’t know if he cut me off or chastening me. I don’t know. 😭
Very sweet and very true. Lets be careful with ourselves, not to be led away from our beloved Lord by the things of this world. If we go seeking for pleasure in anything other than Christ, we are forsaking the fountain of living water and well be left thirsty and desolate. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you!! Thank you pastor John for opening the Word of truth for us!! God bless you all in Christ!
🙏🏽 Amen
I've been in sin. Will God take me back yet again?
@@BrianHathcock Brian, God is the most forgiving creator, He knows we are weak, if you sincerely Repent and turn away from your sin He is faithful and will forgive you, by His Grace, what a Glorious God He Is
@@re-joyce4806 Even if I've been doing it for years? I keep asking for forgiveness and for help to repent, but then I choose to sin again. That cycle keeps repeating. I feel like I'm just spitting on Christ by living this way.
@@BrianHathcock God is faithful, and He, for Christ's sake, forgives us all our sins. He calles us to repentance. Have you confessed your sin to the LORD? Do you with all your heart desire to fosake all sin and please Christ? If its yes, then of course He will take you back!!
Aw I needed this so bad and it is so…both good and bad to know that others struggle with this too. But knowing it’s ME and not God is SO helpful. Because I can trust He is always there and will be there in the end. I remember that first sweetness with Jesus. Where I would run to pray to just spend time in His presence. I know He will hold me fast.
All I know is that the bad people enjoy a good life here while the good ones don't.
1corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Our hope in God or revelation of God should not be on the things of this life only.
Now, the scriptures says that the heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to the children of men.psalms 115:16
Most of the the issues we have here on earth are based on either the actions or inactions of men.
Now, God has made certain provisions and behind those provisions, he has hidden solutions to different problems. Now anybody that understands and patiently follow those provisions or principles will arrive at an answer .
Take prayer for instance we are not meant to only pray we are meant to persevere in prayers but apart from prayers, there are other things like righteousness. Many people don't do righteousness, but it is the fervent prayers of a righteous man that avails much. James 5 :16.
Now most principles of God are enshrined in the scriptures.
So, like how long do you spend with the Scriptures?
Please pray that God saves me and fills me with His Holy Spirit
Thanks
John 3:16 read it and repeat it read it and repeat it again and again for GOD so loved the world that he gave his only forgotten son whoever believes in him shall not parish but have eternal life
Believe in your heart believe it in your heart
🙏🙏
❤️ Praying you will become a part of Christ’s family. ❤️ Congratulations that your heart is warming towards Him, Mikael. Thanks for sharing your prayer request.
I need deliverance from demons
@@mikaeljokic8867 Cry out to Jesus Christ for deliverance.. I had a bad spirit in me for many years.. Listen to psalms or read psalms in the Bible. Say in the name of Jesus leave me.. Do that everyday.. You have to be sober or it wont work as fast.. You have to change for Jesus,show him your trying your best.. Dont ever give up..
God please I need Your help. I don’t know what else to do. I’m so stuck. If You don’t help me Lord what do I do? I have nobody else to turn to apart from You. Please Lord please help me I beg You
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE BE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! The Lord is with us always. I was just in a season where I felt like the Lord left me and I was doomed and bound to die. I felt like this because I’ve never had a supernatural encounter with God and I’ve never seen any big sign or wonder. From this I’ve started to lose faith and began to mourn because I felt alone and dead. But, I then decided to put my trust in the Lord and God saved me. He showed me that I must have faith in him no matter what, even if I feel and see nothing. Faith in God is NOT a feeling but a decision. God reminded me that the generation we are in now demands a sign so that they may believe but will get nothing because of their unbelief and faithlessness. We must believe ALWAYS even if we see no sign because the Lord our God is with us always even till the end of the age. He will be with us for eternity if we trust him and accept him. In John 20:29, Jesus says "…Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."
Bless you, beloved. ❤
I've been so much into faith, I'm abandoned totally by God, and today I have no hope, I'm single, lonely and feel unwanted... I've had sadness because of following a religious life and abandoned from Seminary and now thinking of finding nothing in life, it's painful and I give up totally
I feel the same.. let me know if you find any answers/ relief
Feel the same way. I’ve abandoned so much to live a Christian life. Yet now I don’t feel like I’m worthy to live the Christian life and I don’t fit in with other believers. I’m single with zero prospects on the horizon as I don’t feel worthy of the women at my church, who may want someone with a stronger faith then me. It feels like I’m stuck in a spiritual purgatory and no one understands me.
I feel similarly. How are you all doing?
Keep praying ❤
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE BE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! The Lord is with us always. I was just in a season where I felt like the Lord left me and I was doomed and bound to die. I felt like this because I’ve never had a supernatural encounter with God and I’ve never seen any big sign or wonder. From this I’ve started to lose faith and began to mourn because I felt alone and dead. But, I then decided to put my trust in the Lord and God saved me. He showed me that I must have faith in him no matter what, even if I feel and see nothing. Faith in God is NOT a feeling but a decision. God reminded me that the generation we are in now demands a sign so that they may believe but will get nothing because of their unbelief and faithlessness. We must believe ALWAYS even if we see no sign because the Lord our God is with us always even till the end of the age. He will be with us for eternity if we trust him and accept him. In John 20:29, Jesus says "…Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."
Thank you and God bless Yall 😄🙏💓 I really needed to hear this to be reminded that God will never leave me or forsake me, 🙋🙏💓 Amen 🙏
Please pray for me that my faith may not fail if it is not a burden
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Hi Michael James 1 verse 21 says we should receive with meekness the implanted words of God which is able to SAVE OUR SOUL (the seat of reasoning and emotions).
Faith comes by hearing the words of God. Romans 10 verse 17.
In addition to our prayers, you need to take on the Bible study therapy. It works everytime! Get a notebook and biro, be intentional about it. Ask God to teach you His words.
IT IS THE TRUTH THAT SETS US FREE (FROM US).
May God help us🙏
I’ve had two head thrashing experiences with God, one was when after I went back to an old sin, I felt fine for about 8 minutes, until the most gut wrenching horrible feeling of loneliness I’ve ever felt in my left. It was supernatural, it was unreal. The emotional pain and detachment and loneliness I felt was the absolute worse pain of my life. I wept bitterly until I cried myself to sleep, I woke up and prayed, and prayed, and felt no answer for a time, until I heard a video similar to this, and I prayed that prayer, and I felt a wave of relief, for at the time I feared for my soul. I don’t know if god really did abandon me, or if he did for just a while as a message, or still hasn’t returned to me, but this is my story.
Just keep hanging in there bro🙏
What happened to you was godly sorrow that leads to repentance. I believe God let you go through that as a just recompense of reward for disobedience, destroying your flesh so that your soul may be saved. Do not fear, it's a sign that he loves you oh so much. Keep seeking him deeper. How are things with the Lord now?
@@akinoluolusina I've back slid horribly. I saw this and forgot i wrote it it. I barley christian anymore, I still believe but wallow in sin, i have a small desire to be godly, but fleshly desires are too much.
@@oldnosey4961 Well, there are times and seasons with God.
And I think for you to see this and we are replying you now shows a door of mercy has been open for you.
So I will think it's time you turn a new leaf..... only this time you must seek truth.... and must be willing to fight and take back that which the enemy had taken away from you.
But I think you will need someone to help you....more like someone that you will be accountable to...... someone who will give you practical steps on how to be restored, and teach you truth daily. Someone you can open up to and he is able to offer godly counsel and all.
I feel abandoned my grandma died 2 months ago since then I've had mental issues and been depressed I've prayed so much and he won't help me
I will pray for you
@@ch36799 thanks bro :)
Perfect timing for me! And perfectly articulated (as always) by Piper. Thank you so much of how since God is omnipresent, it is *i* who is spiritually dull and Queen hung the Holy Spirit when I feel He is far away from me. 😌
"And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." - Philippians 1:6
My exact season and I am soo grateful to God for what He is doing to my life. My eyes are now open spiritually and my fellowship deeper than ever. Help me God to forever live for you.
I feel that God has abandoned me.
I feel that so thoroughly yet when I listen to that emotion, I know it's wrong.
I know it's all wrong and empty. I feel empty when I listen to that emotion.
But when I trust in God. I trust in Eternity.
God watch over me
For a human manifestation of the Triune God to say, father, why have you forsaken me really profoundly scares me in so many ways.
I still feel abandoned by God. Haven’t had a job in almost 2 years. I apply for all I can think of, and nobody responds back to me. Going to college was such a waste of my time. If I knew my life would be the way it is today, I would have never gone. Last job I had was in my degree field, and I was lied on. Why would God let someone lie on me and ruin my career?
I’m sorry you are going through such a rough time. I still don’t understand why some people have a harder time than others. But I pray God will open doors for you so you can find your way. 🙏
@@pippa212 Thanks
I'm so sorry man. I also had trouble finding a job. After 2 years I quit the search and started my own thing (engineer by education). It's still a struggle, but strongly felt lead to go down this path. I can't describe how much I lean on Him through this every single day.
Whether you realize it or not, God is totally working in you. I didn't realize it when I was at your stage, but looking back He definately was...big time! It sounds crazy, but you're in a great spot. Study scripture, and I mean really study it, and the truth will emerge.
@@erikknudsen4034 Thank you
I have learned that God has given us free will. God allows bad choices from others and ourselves for the sake of allowing human choice in general. However, God also makes promises to us that cannot be altered no matter what our bad choices are. That's grace. And grace will always bear fruit. Your fruit is coming, just remain faithful.
My family is non-believing, I am not married, though my heart so desires-and because I keep Christian standards, no one wants to be with me. I have ptsd from past abuse and just feel so, so abandoned. Each day is a struggle and I pray God give me hope!
YOU BECOME MY WIFE!!.. OR ELSE!!!
I pray for Joy for you, that you will experience God in a whole new way.
I pray God opens your eyes and see truth.... and sets you free from every lies, wrong mindset of the devil...be free in Jesus name.
This has been my experience basically me entire 5 years as a professing Christian. I'm burnt out from it and have been dwindling downward for the last couple years. I'm bitter towards God. Even in the midst of fighting sin, it hasn't gotten better. I've stepped out and tried forming a relationship with my dad and it blew up in my face, I've radically thrown down idols all while trying to fill the spots with reasonable things or God himself and it didnt happen. The world has been hard these last couple years. Moving out on my own and being lonely, the blowout with my dad, going to a job I hate and with coworkers who think I'm an idiot. I DO NOT like myself. No seeming prospects of being married (overweight, socially awkward, emotionally deformed). I have NOTHING going for me. The world is hard to face and God is nowhere to be found. I have resorted to video games and food for distraction and self medication, because it gets my mind off of the reality or my situation most times in this world and with God. I still occasionally go go church and try to go more consistently, I'll read a couple chapters of the Bible here and there, but there's nothing I can do. I'm stuck, my only hope is for God to deliver me from this while I wrestle with being bitter and angry towards him and myself and this world. I'm basically done, if God doesn't come and get me I'm screwed.
Hey brother, I know exactly how you feel... The world hates me, I'm socially awkward, I'll never find a girl who wants to be with me, my parents were terrible... My life is in a tailspin no matter how hard I try.. I just wanted to reach out to you and see how you're doing.. I really felt what you wrote.. people treat me like garbage and destroy me any chance they get, I don't hate them but I hate being around people. Let me know how your world is going, sometimes it helps to talk to somebody who can feel your pain because they're going through it as well.
You're not the only one
Wait. YOURE the same person who argued w me hours earlier about gods perfect justice.
Whoa. Brother I hope you can find some counseling... or some kind of help. Best wishes
@othersteeve1048
Has anything changed?
Oh my goodness his is me … it’s awful . It feels like God doesn’t want anything to do with me anymore … and it feels so sad .. I feel like I’m not important to God anymore …
I think it more a sense of disappointment. I felt it now for more than 50 years, and I'm tired of bullies in schools, family, and work places getting away with their actions...
Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
These place says that God has appointed a day which God will judge the world, the second passage will receive judgment according to their deeds.
I just feel like He is gone. Not because of a job, sickness, marriage struggles, etc but its like He took His Spirit away from me. There is no longer much of a desire to pray, read His Word, share the gospel, conviction. Jesus saved me out of religion and the last year its like He has been gone. I don't know if its because I was afraid to confess Him, denied my salvation(I thought I had been saved, this happened right before I was about to pastor a church that He saved me, so i battled back in forth if this was salvation or if I was already saved), began to look for Life in other things and now it feels as if all of my belief(not trust in Christ through the gospel) is gone.
Hi Aaron, how are you doing now? Are you still feeling this way?
I also feel this way. I've been majorly struggling in the past couple months believing that God has left me because I keep backsliding into sin. I'm scared to read the word because of condemnation, I'm scared to pray because of unanswered prayers, I feel no resistance to sin, and I have no motivation to do anything. I don't know what to do, I don't think there's even anything I CAN do.
@@agentmikster44 Jesus has slowly drew me back to Him. He never left. He was here the whole time.
Read Isaiah 57:14-19 and Isaiah 43:1.
Don't trust your feelings, trust the Lord Jesus Christ and His gospel. He paid for all your sins on the cross. He was buried. He rose again the third day.
Trust this.
Feeling same way
@@hopefullcompatriot5394 keep looking to Jesus. Don't force it but trust Him, avide in Him. Listen to to worship music about Him, read the book of John, pray. He is there with you if your truly saved(I say that with grace and in truth) and it you are than He has redeemed you, He has called you by your name, you are His! Isaiah 43:1
Don't follow feelings, walk by faith.
@@aaronboles3806 thank you
For those who feel that God has abandoned them.
There are Four things I want to share now, and anybody who feels God has abandoned him is likely going through one of these Four things. Please go through these four things carefully.
(1) The issues of sin. (2) Withdrawal of sovereign presence (3) the night period (4)oppositions
Let's take them one after the other.
(1) The issues of sin.
Saul was a powerful King of Israel, but according to the scriptures he disobeyed God and it came to a point that the spirit of God left him, and God no longer answered him, not through prophets, not through Urim etc.1sam28:6
What causes this is, when someone constantly disobeys God, the conviction and prompting of the holy spirit, a time may come when those convictions dwindles. Like someone talking to you and you refuse to answer after awhile the person may stop talking.
If you are here and you were used to disobeying the prompting of the holy Spirit either to pray, read the Bible or do any other thing, or you were outrightly living in sin, Repent, ask for forgiveness, ask for mercy and the God of mercy will help you.
(2)Withdrawal of sovereign presence.
When a child is born, the mother pampers and care for the child almost constantly. But as the child grows the mother will not carry the child all around as she used to do. If she does that the child will not learn to survive without the mother, and he will not be able to learn what he needs to learn.
After awhile the mother will take the child and abandon him in school with a stranger called teacher and other strange children.
Take note of that word abandon. But that abandonment is not forgetfulness. It's for the good of the child for the purpose of learning and it's for a period whether Long or short.
The children of Israel left Egypt under the sovereign protection of God but soon they hit the wilderness, just as many people hit the wilderness of life in their work with God.
Now, did God abandon the children of Israel in the wilderness? The answer is no.
But did go through difficult moments? The answer is yes.
There was even a time they felt God had abandoned them that they demanded for a golden calf; I pray we don't make the same mistake.
Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the Rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
Nor shall the flame scorch you.
What to do this period is to trust he is with you, though you don't see him, don't give up because it's through faith and patience that we obtain the promise. HEB 6:12
(3) The night period
The night period is almost like the wilderness period, the scripture says that weeping may endure for a night but that Joy comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5
The night period may come through the loss of a love one, lost of job, struggles and troubles here and there, you can't even understand certain things etc. When you notice these things, it's likely the night period.
There always a temptation to question God during this period.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.psalm 23:4
He did not stop you from walking through the valley of the shadow of death, but even in that valley he is with you, he does not abandon you.
What normally helps people in the night period is the light they have accumulated.
And by light I'm talking about the word of God which is a lamp and a light, Psalm 119:105 without this you may not be able to go through the dark period successfully.
(4) Oppositions:
Oppositions include the hindrances, tests, temptations, exams that one needs to scale through to enter into the next level.
It's not sometimes funny and one may be tempted to ask "where is God?".
He is there watching what you will do.
Where you are during this periods listed about matters a lot.
The people around you also matter.
*Because if you don't have light and you are passing through the night period, you can share with the light of others around you.
*If God has withdrawn his sovereign presence and he is not talking to you directly, you don't feel him, at least you have the presence of godly people around you.
Prayer matters a lot when one is facing Oppositions, but if you cannot pray during this period, Others may help you in prayers.
The summary of all what I have written is that don't give up on God, I don't think he has abandoned you, he doesn't abandon his own.
Please pray for me and my family, car was just repossessed, struggling hard right now
Thank you both so much.
I am living in hell in my job now. I can’t leave because I need the money. The stress is killing me; it’s literally deteriorating my health and god feels so far. I don’t see a way out😔
In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.
Psalms 18:6 NIV
bible.com/bible/111/psa.18.6-7.NIV
I sincerely hope that by now things have been resolved. If not, don't give up Monica. I believe that God is a good God. I believe that God is full of mercy, grace, compassion and His love endures forever. It is my sincere prayer that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit will comfort you and give you peace as well as a solution to what's troubling you at work.
It was Jesus Who said that in this life we will have trouble, but to be of good cheer for He has overcome the world! I'm also reminded that apart from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit that we have no good thing! I'm also reminded that God doesn't willingly grieve humanity. He's not a sadist, i.e., He doesn't enjoy seeing us suffer. After all, Jesus Who was fully man and fully God when He walked this earth KNOWS first hand about pain and suffering.
I'm also reminded that if we abandon the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to whom can we go? Whom can we turn to? The world? Keep talking to Jesus; no matter how bad things seem. Talk with clergy, family and friends. Keep praying, fasting and reading the Word of God. The book of Psalms is of great comfort to me! Take care and God bless!
You're not alone. Me too
i had a job like that before i had my stroke no job is worth ur health
He has abandoned me. So tired of starting my life over and over and over again. Had enough. This world sucks anyway. Satan's playground..
it sucks beyond belief
He does abandon us and is blessing some people and torturing others who don’t deserve it. I just gave up because 20 years of not prospering or having any testimoney I’m done. Too much persecution to be playing those games.
I'm not convinced with this argument. As long as I suffer on the inside, due to the stupidity that takes place on the outside, I'm full certain that God has left me. In fact, I'm pretty sure he doesn't care about me.
The Wicked versus The Wise (Daniel 12:10)
GENERAL CONTRASTS between The Wicked and The Wise in ANY AGE
The Wicked
The Wise
NO FEAR of God
(Psalms 36:1)
The FEAR of the Lord
(Psalms 111:10)
Man's UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
(Deuteronomy 6:25; Isaiah 64:6)
God's RIGHTEOUSNESS
(Isaiah 45:24; II Corinthians 5:21)
End is DEATH
(Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 16:25)
End is LIFE
(Proverbs 13:14; Proverbs 15:4)
SPECIFIC CONTRASTS between The Wicked and The Wise in
"THE TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 8:17; Daniel 12:4,9)
The Wicked
The Wise
NO UNDERSTANDING
"the Signs of the Times"
(Matthew 16:2-3)
"SHALL UNDERSTAND"
"the Time of the End"
(Daniel 12:4,10)
"Covenant with DEATH"
(Isaiah 28:15)
"Eternal LIFE"
(I John 1:2)
"given to Him (Antichrist) ...
by reason of TRANSGRESSION"
(Daniel 8:12)
"shall instruct many" &
"turn many unto RIGHTEOUSNESS"
(Daniel 11:33; Daniel 12:3)
"TRODDEN DOWN" by the Covenant Breaker
(Isaiah 28:18; Daniel 9:27)
"OVERCAME him (the Beast)"
(Revelation 12:11; Revelation 15:2)
"hide ... from the WRATH OF THE LAMB" &
"shall drink of the wine of the WRATH OF GOD"
(Revelation 6:16; Revelation 14:9-11)
shall rule the nations & "shall be PRIESTS OF GOD ... and shall REIGN WITH HIM (CHRIST)"
(Revelation 2:26-27; Revelation 20:4,6)
Counting The Days until "The End of the Days" (Daniel 12:11-13)
Daniel is told that "the wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:10) the counting of the days from "the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away" (Daniel 12:11) until "the end of the days" (Daniel 12:13), i.e. the relationship between Daniel's 70th week and Israel's Fall Feasts
Daniel's 70th week is divided into two equal halves consisting of 1260 days each (Revelation 11:3; Revelation 12:6)
There is a 30-day midpoint interval called "the midst of the week" during which time Antichrist breaks his covenant with israel by causing "the sacrifice and the oblation to cease" (Daniel 9:27) and with the help of "his arms" (apostate Israel), he "shall place the abomination that maketh desolate" (Daniel 11:31 cf. Daniel 8:12)
Then will follow "the Great Tribulation" (the 2nd half of the 70th week), which was spoken of by the Lord (Matthew 24:15-22) and the prophets (Daniel 12:1 cf. Jeremiah 30:4-7)
"The midst of the week" (30 days) plus "the Great Tribulation" (1260 days) combine for a total of 1290 days (Daniel 12:11)
An additional 45 days yields a final total of 1335 days (Daniel 12:12)
During this 45-day period between the end of the reign of the False Christ and the beginning of the reign of the True Christ will occur the prophetic fulfillments of Israel's Fall Feasts
The period of 2300 days covering the times of the "daily sacrifice" and the "transgression of desolation" (Daniel 8:13-14) is explained via the Lord's parable of the "fig tree" (Matthew 24:32-33 cf. Matthew 24:1-2)
Israel's history is figuratively represented by three fruit trees:
NATIONALLY, she is pictured as a "VINE" brought "out of Egypt" which "filled the land" (Psalms 80:8-9)
SPIRITUALLY, she is pictured as an "OLIVE tree" (Romans 11:17,24) of which "the Gentiles have been made partakers" (Romans 15:27)
RELIGIOUSLY, she is pictured as a "FIG tree" under which Nathanael was sitting (John 1:48-50) - Nathanael, "an Israelite indeed, in whom is NO guile" (John 1:47) stood in contrast to Israel's RELIGIOUS "hypocrites" (Matthew 23:13-15,23,25,27,29) from whom the Lord (during his three year earthly ministry) "sought fruit thereon, and found NONE" (Luke 13:6-7)
The 1st half of the 70th week will comprise the rebuilding of the Temple (220 days) and the subsequent offering of the "daily sacrifice" (1040 days)
The "transgression of desolation" will stand during the reign of the False Christ for the duration of the 2nd half of the 70th week (1260 days)
Taken together - the time of the "daily sacrifice" (1040 days) and the time of the "transgression of desolation" (1260 days) combine for a total of 2300 days (Daniel 8:13-14)
Daniel is given to understand that he will "rest" (in a grave outside of Israel) and will "stand in thy lot" (land inheritance in israel) "at the end of the days" (Daniel 12:13) and so is told "to go thy way" till "the time of the end" (Daniel 12:9)Sealing of The Book until "The Time of the End" (Daniel 12:4-9)
Daniel is told to "SHUT UP the words, and SEAL the Book, even to the TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 12:4)
Daniel was repeatedly told that his prophecies concerned "the TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 8:17; Daniel 11:35,40), i.e. "the LAST END of the indignation: for the TIME APPOINTED shall be THE END" (Daniel 8:19)
John was given the exact opposite command: "SEAL NOT the sayings of the prophecy of this Book: for the TIME IS AT HAND" (Revelation 22:10)
The reason for the different instructions is that the apostle was physically transported by the Spirit of the Lord to the TIME of the DAY OF THE LORD and, so refers to himself as "your brother, and companion in TRIBULATION" (Revelation 1:9-10), whereas the prophet was specifically told: "Go thy way Daniel, for the words are CLOSED UP and SEALED TILL the TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 12:9)
At "the TIME OF THE END ... many shall run to and fro: and knowledge shall be increased" (Daniel 12:4)
The Hebrew word "shuwt" translated "run to and fro" is very closely related to the Hebrew word "suwt" translated "turn aside", i.e. a negative expression as in:
"turn aside to lies" (Psalms 40:4)
"I hate the work of them that turn aside: it shall NOT cleave to Me" (Psalms 101:3)
This apostasy is all the more acute for our text ends with the words, "knowledge shall be increased" (Daniel 12:4)
This "KNOWLEDGE" is in reference to what "the WISE shall UNDERSTAND" and that which "NONE of the WICKED shall UNDERSTAND" (Daniel 12:10)
It's "KNOWLEDGE" of the "SURE WORD of PROPHECY ... that SHINETH in a DARK PLACE (Tribulation), UNTIL the DAY DAWN (Millenium)" (II Peter 1:19)
The "MYSTERY (SECRET) of God ... declared to His servants the PROPHETS" (Revelation 10:7 cf. Revelation 11:15) has the testimony of "Daniel the PROPHET" (Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14) who spoke "by the Holy Spirit" (II Peter 1:20-21) that God's "INTERPRETATION thereof is SURE" (Daniel 2:44-45 cf. Daniel 2:26-28)
"The Man clothed in linen" occupies the central place "UPON the waters of the river" (Daniel 12:6) flanked by the "other two" - "one on THIS SIDE of the river and the other on THAT SIDE of the bank of the river" (Daniel 12:5)
"The Man clothed in linen" is "the CERTAIN MAN clothed in linen" Whom Daniel saw earlier in vision (Daniel 10:5-6) and is the SAME PERSON Whom John saw in his opening vision (Revelation 1:12-16) and Who identified Himself as the Lord (Revelation 1:17-18)
As the One Who occupies the central place ("in the MIDDLE") BETWEEN the "other two" - He is asked the question, "How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?" (Daniel 12:6)
"The Man clothed in linen" answers with hands "HELD UP" to Heaven - indicative of the DIVINE swearing of an OATH (Deuteronomy 32:39-43; Revelation 10:5-7)
The answer is very specific (three and a half TIMES), i.e. three and a half YEARS - a "time" being reckoned as a "YEAR" (Daniel 4:16,23,25,32)
The time of three and a half years specifies the length of time that is alotted for when "he (Antichrist) shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people (faithful Israel)" (Daniel 12:7) during which time "he (Antichrist) shall speak GREAT (BLASPHEMOUS) words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints (faithful Israel) of the Most High" (Daniel 7:25; Revelation 13:5-7)
This TIME will most certainly be WHEN "... for the children of thy (Daniel's) people ... there shall be a TIME OF TROUBLE, such as NEVER SINCE there was a nation EVEN TO THAT SAME TIME ..."
(Daniel 12:1), which is why the Lord reassures His own that "for the elect's sake" that TIME shall be mercifully BRIEF (Matthew 24:21-22)
Daniel's response to the Lord's answer concerning "HOW LONG shall it be to the end of these wonders?" (Daniel 12:6) was "I heard, but UNDERSTOOD NOT" (Daniel 12:8) and is again told by the Lord to "Go thy way, for the WORDS are CLOSED UP and SEALED TILL THE TIME OF THE END" (Daniel 12:9)
In his response, Daniel is like other of his brethren "the PROPHETS" who "searched diligently" (I Peter 1:10) concerning "WHAT MANNER OF TIME the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify" (I Peter 1:11) and "unto whom it was revealed, that NOT UNTO THEMSELVES, BUT UNTO US they did minister the things" (I Peter 1:12)
Israel's FINAL "SALVATION" spoken of by "the PROPHETS" (I Peter 1:10 cf. Jeremiah 16:14-15) was purchased by "the SUFFERINGS of Christ" at His FIRST ADVENT (I Peter 1:11 cf. Isaiah 53:6-10) and will be manifested by His "GLORY that shall follow" at His SECOND ADVENT (I Peter 1:11 cf.
Zechariah 8:20-23)
This FINAL "SALVATION" spoken of by "the PROPHETS" (I Peter 1:10) will occur in "the LAST DAYS" also called "the LATTER DAYS":
JACOB'S BLESSING of "his sons", i.e. "the 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL" (Genesis 49:1,28)
BALAAM'S FINAL PROPHECY concerning "a STAR OUT OF JACOB" (Numbers 24:14-19)
The SONG OF MOSES sung by the TRIBULATION OVERCOMERS (Revelation 15:2-3 cf. Deuteronomy 31:19-22,28-30; Deuteronomy 32:42-45)
The Lord bidding Daniel to "Go thy way" (Daniel 12:9) strongly suggests that Daniel will NOT SEE his beloved Jerusalem (Daniel 6:10; Daniel 9:16) UNTIL his RESURRECTION when he will "STAND in his lot AT THE END OF THE DAYS" (Daniel 12:13)
The Wicked versus The Wise (Daniel 12:10)
I don't just feel abandoned by God i feel outright rejected. I struggled alone in isolation from friends in the faith who could encourage me and help. I wrestled with habitual sin for 2 years or so by myself fighting and winning some and losing. I didn't understand the holy spirit and his role in my life and feel like he's left for God. To feel like I'll never get to feel His presence ever again it's internally unbearable
How are you now, Aaron? ❤
I have struggled with addiction to pornography, alcohol & cigarettes ever since I thought I was delivered from meth. I haven’t wished to smoke meth again for a few months after around 10 years of addiction. Drinking, smoking and pornography have lingered on. This night I felt a strong urge to throw away my drink and tear my cigarettes and throw it all away I prayed and thanked him and said it was the last time. I went to my room to read the Bible and the verse I read I felt was personally attacking me, specifically the verses speaking about blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and began to feel evil as if I was a demon. I’m so lost and terrified I’m not sure if I’m doomed or this is some sort of lesson. Please pray for me because this isn’t the first time I’ve felt inherently evil even at church this feeling comes over me and what begins as a release of sin suddenly disappears and I’m overcome with evil
Relate so much to what you wrote. God bless you in peace & grace. Can I share my testimony? Learning it is not always demons. We can have soul wounds/strongholds. Have more to share and hope you are still here 💕
@@iBi_uBu yes I more than welcome your testimony brother.
@@alexlegaspy2641 2 Cor 10:4 is the scripture I'm praying the Holy Spirit reveals to you. After I got delivered (from spirits) there was still soul wounds & lies I believed in my mind from complex PTSD (self hate, unworthiness, past regret, unforgiveness). What a process! There is a reason that the Lord says that deliverance is the children's bread. He is a good Father (even when I did not have a good earthly one) and when I truly surrendered and trusted Him, that is when true healing was and by the Holy Spirit we can meditate on the meat of His Word. Renewing my mind from the lies. He came to give life abundantly. Praying for you! I hear your heart.
I don't know if I've been deserted or if I ever had God in the first place. I've always struggled alot with sin. I keep trying to follow Jesus but I always fail. I've prayed for God to save me so many times. I think the problem was always my heart. I almost feels like my heart and mind are two separate things. I want God in my mind but my heart is the complete opposite. But through that it seemed like God had bigger plans for me and I would truly know him one day. But for some reason all the sudden my mind a
Is also becoming evil. I do t know what I did to cause this but I feel like I'm becoming more and more sinful by the minute. I don't want to like sinning but I feel like I can't even control my thoughts and feelings anymore. I feel like I'm slipping further and further away from God. I did read a verse that said some are destined for disobedience. I feel like I'm just a weed in the garden only created to pulled up and thrown in the fire. I've prayed about this but I know God looks at the heart and my hearts desires are evil. I don't even know Tha you should trust what I'm saying because I don't want to be a stumbling block. My heart almost feels happy about my sin. It'd disgusting and horrible. I hate it
Hello Lukas, how do you do?
You are probably having a demonic problem.
Now what you need to do is to get rid of those demonic influences and thoughts from your mind.
I hope you have given your life to Christ?
Now you are going to pray against demonic influences in your life, take authority in the name of Jesus and rebuke their influences from your mind.
Another thing you are going to do is that you are going to feed yourself aggressively with the scriptures. Read the Bible without stopping and the word of God which is powerful will weaken and break demonic influences and sin in your life.
I will like to hear from you
You need to read the bible. Romans chapters 7-8 talks about what your going through. Once you've accepted Christ you must feed your soul with Gods word! It's impairative that you grow in Christ or you will live in defeat instead of grace, Mercy and truth.
It's a fight to stay in a state of GRACE in order to do our tasks for Him and keep His Love alive in us.
So its up to us to save ourselves? Isn't that stealing the glory from Christ? And professing your own self righteousness?
@@mysty0
Not at all. We live by GRACE, but our enemies are out to tempt us and cause us to fall.
Please pray rhat god saves me and fills me with the holy spirit
I delight in God, I trust in God. There is no hidden or practiced sin. ..definitely that I’m aware of, as the heart is deceitful who can know it-and “if God You O God kept a record of sins who could stand?”
Having said that I believe my heart to be devoted to God and nothing could cause me to abandon that devotion and determination to serve Him and chase after Him, yet there are dark circumstances in my life that I’ve pleaded in prayer to be delivered from (beyond my control) and God has not answered the prayer. My peace, my sense of assurance of salvation is under constant attack. It is the darkest most frightening experience I’ve ever endured. It feels hellish to sit in the place I’m in, yet God has seemed quiet to my pleas and prayers.
If we ask anything in the Name of Jesus according to the will of God, it will be answered.
I don’t know what I’ve done wrong that there is no answer.
Thank You!
I was feeling abandoned my mom came home today sick, with a lump. It could be cancer and I don’t know why he would let this happen. I know I don’t deserve Gods goodness and love and maybe I deserve a punishment like this but it really hurts.
I'm sorry you are going through this. I'll pray for you and your mom. I've been around cancer stuff for years now. There are lessons of love in it. Always look for what God is teaching you in this time, even leading up to finding out. Lean into Him with constant prayer. Read the Bible so your mind is constantly being formed to good things in grief and fear. Depression is ok to feel. It is ok to cry. And hug your mom all the time, even if it feels awkward.
What about "those who fall away"? and "God can leave a man and man not know it".
I've experienced both, yet years before, l experienced the fullness of JOY overflowing and a substantial degree of the revelation of the Gospel. I trusted in that He Who had begun a good work in me would bring it to completion, the guarantee of the Holy Spirit as a down payment for ultimate salvation and that He would keep that which I had entrusted Him with; my soul.
@aguerra1381
How are you now?
@@LR354-
Separated from His LIFE, His LOVE, His JOY. Waiting, hoping, wondering WHY so much can be given to someone and then taken away and turned back over to the darkness. PUZZLING since we are supposed to be MORE than CONQUERORS through Him Who Loved us and gave Himself for us.
Thanks for asking.
@@aguerra1381may I ask what happened?
@@heatherambassadorforjesusc5072
I started waking up around 5 years old wandering what I'd done to be sent here. The idea of being stuck in this body for 60 to 70 years was very depressing. By that same time I received telepathic communications from the spiritual rulers of this realm and they made sure I knew how they do things here. It wasn't pleasant! They have absolute dominion over our souls. Later, after crying in desperation, I found out that Jesus had authority over them. Thank God! He took me out of the hole of overwhelming despair I was in and gave me first HOPE, then I received WISDOM and then JOY overflowing. He taught me much about human history and development, the influences of the spiritual world upon our cultures and the great importance of lining up with God's plan of evolution as opposed to His enemy's. I felt As if God was preparing many of us to be His ambassadors at that time (early 60's). As this was taking place, persecution became more prevalent in my life affecting my family healthwise, financially and the infiltration of enemy agents into our lives. By 12 years of age they had managed to smother my ability to respond to the Spirit and my conscience was put to sleep. I felt as if l had been brainwashed! Now at 70 I'm vaguely remembering these things after decades of total forgetfulness. This should never be the life's outcome of a born again believer more so a recipient of divine visitations. More than conquerors should not get conquered!
@@heatherambassadorforjesusc5072
I've responded twice to your question. U tube won't allow posting it. Some things are not allowed to be known.
I feel abandoned. i feel lonely and that other people are just here to beat me.
I am so angry at God, yet I loved Him.
I am so violently angry at my physical problems, having to wear glasses, not being a good-looking guy.
I am so angry GOD has abandoned me.
I am totally to blame for this.
I had Jesus. Jesus once loved me like I was the only One.
I was blasphemously angry and ungrateful, and idolatrous and yet, no matter how much I cursed and ranted against Jesus, all He did was love me, and take me back every time I repented.
I renounced Him, against His Spirits plea not to, and I felt Him leave, and cannot get Him back. He's not answering y prayers.
Ephesians 4:30
I feel abandoned right now. I'm scared
I have gave into sin once again.. this time worse than ever I truly feel as if I am abandoned
You're not. God loves you. He is merciful and forgiving. If he told Peter to forgive someone 70 x 7 then how much more will He forgive us. Prayers for you. Don't go by your feelings go by the word of God. His truth.
Explained as a no win no answer.
Classic
Maybe one day God will have mercy on me....
Right now, beloved you can receive His mercy. At this very moment He's here. longing for you to come.
"deserted" = "forsaken."
god ruined my life years ago and left me for dead!!!
Amen ❤️🛐✝️🙏
The question is: Have we abandoned God?
Accurate.
No!!
We were born in corruption so how can we be blamed or held accountable for our corrupt actions?
GOD needs to save us
But I feel miserable!.. Where are you God!!?.
Where!??
@@rammingspeed5217 if you really want to find God, read his words in the Bible, that is where you will find him. In Jeremiah 29:13 and John 3:16 there is a message for you, read it.
Jesus never deserts us
Does Jesuseven exist?
I got married at 30, never been with anyone before. I found out my sperm are DOA. I can't have children. God abandoned me years ago. I believe in him more than ever but I believe mostly in his endless hatred for me. He knew me before I knew myself and he hated what he saw.
God doesn't hate you. He created you and loves you! He knew you and chose you before you were born. Turn to Him and ask him to show you his love...
HE DID ALL FOR YOU! HE GAVE ALL. HE SUFFERED FOR ALL (1 John 2:1-2!) THOUGH MANY WILL NEVER KNOW THIS GRACE; THEY TURN AWAY.
I feel like He has.. 😭
Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Same..
My mom's been suffering from tb meningitis since 7 months and the hospital bills are piling up. Father left us when we were small with second marriage. Was the inflicted pain of growing up in difficulties not enough? Feels like God has abandoned my family and prayer being ignored.
I am 42 years old, and for the first 41 years of my life, the earth/world/nature/spirituality felt the exact same.
However, in the last year or two, I have been getting VERY strange feelings.
1.) It feels like God no longer has his hands on the wheel.
2.) I also (sometimes) get this INTENSE and PROFOUNDLY POWERFUL feeling from nature. I went into the forest at night-time in the summer, and that "nature at night time feeling" was SO INTENSE it literally frightened me. I don't frighten easily, either. I did mushrooms once, 20 years ago, and it was EERILY SIMILAR.
Perhaps it's just me, I don't know, but I just get the sense that God has lost his patience with the world. Frankly, I don't blame him.
That’s some kind of God.
Meanwhile ., people currently having more near death experiences than people actually dying., stating they saw Jesus and god loves everyone so much... huh. Big huh
@@Yet333 Well said.
Yes.. . He's abandoned all of us
If we feel that God is distant from us it's not because He has abandoned us, but that we've turned away from him.
"This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil." John 3:19
Oh buddy... oh buddy...
Doubt we're buddies.
@@HearGodsWord What a Boomer-Answer. From a Boomer-Textbook, even
@@HearGodsWord Case in Point: I saw your comments and all i could feel was Sorry and all i could say was Oh buddy... i mean, you dont even have the mental capcity to inform yourself about Criticism that your Religion gets, let alone question it by yourself. You MUST shut-out all non-internale thoughts cause it would sensory-overload you, yes?
@@nenmaster5218 what?
If God can help us stop sinning or committing certain sins, then why do we still do so? It's not our fault that God is all powerful and all knowing and soveriegn, and yet He won't do anything to help! If God alone is the origin and starting point of a person recieving any kind of HELP, and that person is not recieving HELP, then that's God's fault obviously. I know it's painful and it seems wrong, but that's just the way it is...
God is absent in my life.
Pray for me. I'm afraid that God has given me over to a reprobate mind. I keep sinning, then asking for forgiveness, then sinning again. For years. Am I no longer saved? Will God take me back for the millionth time, or did I persist too long in sin, and He gave me over to a debased mind? I think it's in Romans 1. I'm very afraid.
If you are saved, sin doesn’t have dominion over you (Romans 6:14). I’ve struggled with sin for 6 years now. Been saved 9 years.
Don’t doubt your salvation indefinitely or it will cause you to want to sin more, I’ve been there, done that. Look to Jesus, pray to Him (Hebrews 12:1-2).
Mortify your sinful choices too: (Romans 8:12-13, Colossians 3:5-11)
@@cork8843 Do you truly think that He will forgive me yet again? I'm in tears over this.
@@BrianHathcock God knows your heart, He made an everlasting covenant with you. Read 1 John 1, the entire first chapter.
As far as wether He will forgive you, I believe yea, but you can NEVER EVER rely on your “feelings”. You need to commit to sanctification & prayer. I’ve been through nightmares too Brian.
@@BrianHathcock are you saved?
There's condemnation in Christ Jesus. We are going to sin till he returns for us. That's why we need him. He'll never leave you or forsake you. He knows your heart. Don't be afraid
thank you
The message seems to be: "Just deal with it."
Finding god without faith is demonic 👿,
By the fact that Jesus spoke the words he said he could not have been truly forsaken but that God had hidden himself
Sooo many People dissapoint God by
never watching Atheist-Channels.
Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here.
Limiting yourself is bad enough,
but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only
those that share your Religion?
Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word?
I think so.
So why? Why do you avoid Atheist-Channels and ignore their valid Questions
and/or valid Criticism?
What are you waiting for? Learn more and more!
IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do
and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
God abandoned me, nothing feels right anymore
what happened
The Lord has turned a blind eye on me, he wont even answer any of my prayers. [Lamentations 3:8 reference]
Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the Rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
Nor shall the flame scorch you.
2022-02-14 ... Valentines Day
"Thank you" for this video.
My Christian faith has been devastated by my wife Katherine's abandoning our sacred Marriage.
God the Father is all powerful, has miraculously intervened in the past to Resurrect the marriage. But not today, not for the past SEVEN weeks of forced separation. Agony. Bitter isolation.
I too have been faithful, and tried extraordinary hard to be a Wonderful Christian Husband to the Katherine that I adore and cherish.
I hav we asked The Lord, tonight included, to simply end my life, the pain is too great, and gone on for 18 months.
Dear Lord Jesus Christ ... WHY WHY WHY are you silent, distant, apparently content to watch me dread every night, sleepless for hours?
Christ has ALL POWER but apparently refuses to Resurrect Kathie and I's marriage.
Please, please, Lord Jesus, do this "soon", before I lose ALL hope.
.
How you holding up now?
Are you saying we need to go by FAITH not feelings?????
Pretty much
Our feelings can be very deceiving, trust only in God, His faithfulness, His Love, His Grace towards us, I struggle at times too ,its a battle, Im forever grateful for Gods reassurance 🙏
@@re-joyce4806 thank you for reply and encourage words, 🙂🙏♥️
Thank you
God doesn't feel distant. He is distant. You're either born lucky or not. That's it. God created this horrible place and doesn't care
Amen
maybe God will love us in the next life
Amém 🙏🏻
What about people who suffer from human trafficking? Is god helping them while they are used for the pleasure of sick monsters? What about people who were raped, tortured, murdered and more? People who have incurable diseases? Where was God when some innocent kid died from an agonizing illness? Where was God when the bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Where was God when people committed suicide and burned to death in 9/11?
Watching due to the sin of the world he doesn't cause it to happen the world is ruled by Satan and sin but he still is there due to the fact that Satan is ruling God is waiting till his ordained time to put a stop to it and judge don't fall and become an atheist God is there
Where was God when you lied to other people?
Where was God when you stole from other people?
Where was God when you used his name in vain?
Where was God when you committed adultery in your heart when lusting over another person?
...where was God when you disobeyed him and broke his law?
If God were to exact justice or prevent something right then and there. We would all be in Hell right now. His holding back is his mercy, and he has given us all an allotted time on this earth. What will you do with his Son who died for sinners and their sins? Will you believe him and follow him? Or will you not? That's a big part of what the time is for.
@@hopefullcompatriot5394 what an awesome god. What a crock of 💩
@@othersteeve1048 what about people who don’t do these things?... are you without sin? Are you perfect? When’s the last time you read all the promises of forgiveness in the Bible?... do you even have a point?.....( nope)
@@Yet333 These are examples. Every human being sins thousands of times a day in thought and deed. God is perfect. The bar is perfection. We don't even get off the ground. The point is, if God is going to punish sin, he isnt going to stop at the human traffickers, murderers, etc. He is gonna punish even the most "good" people for their sin. Thankfully God doesn't do that. Sure he does case by case but we cant even comprehend his and what he is accomplishing behind the curtains so to speak. Thankfully he sent Jesus to die for sinners and their sin so that God's justice can be fulfilled and he can offer grace and salvation to sinners without violating his character.
The Piece I Give Is A Gift The World Cannot Give John 14:27
Sooo many People dissapoint God by
never watching Atheist-Channels.
Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here.
Limiting yourself is bad enough,
but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only
those that share your Religion?
Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word?
I’ve 100% been abandoned
So are you telling me that once his experienced presence goes distant it will never come back to the way it was before your sin??? I WANNA GO BACK!
Sooo many People dissapoint God by
never watching Atheist-Channels.
Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here.
Limiting yourself is bad enough,
but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only
those that share your Religion?
Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word?
I think so.
So why? Why do you avoid Atheist-Channels and ignore their valid Questions
and/or valid Criticism?
What are you waiting for? Learn more and more!
IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do
and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
@@slevinchannel7589 who hurt you?
The Gospel of Jesus Christ
The Character of God
The Holiness of God
Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, and You cannot look on wickedness with favor. Habakkuk 1:13
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. Isaiah 59:2
The Justice of God
For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; the upright will behold His face. Psalm 11:7
But the LORD of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness. Isaiah 5:16
God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day. If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready. Psalm 7:11-12
The Depravity & Condemnation of Man
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23
For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment Isaiah 64:6
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ACCURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO PERFORM THEM. Galatians 3:10
The Great Dilemma
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. Proverbs 17:15
Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly? Genesis 18:25
God’s Action
While maintaining His holiness and justice, the Bible also affirms that God is love, and that in love He has responded to the plight of man.
Motivated by Love
God is love. By this the love of God is manifested in us, that God sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:8-10
The Cross of Christ
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3:23-26
The Resurrection
He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification. Romans 4:25
Man’s Response
Repentance begins with a recognition and confession that what God says about us is true that we have sinned.
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against You, You only, I have sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when You speak and blameless when You judge. Psalm 51:3-4
A genuine recognition of our sinfulness and guilt will also lead to genuine sorrow, shame and even hatred for what we have done.
For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. Romans 7:15
Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from this body of death? Romans 7:24
Apparent sincerity of confession alone is never definite evidence of genuine repentance. It must be accompanied by a turning away from sin.
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil. Isaiah 1:16
therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Matthew 3:10
Faith Defined
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. Romans 4:21
Faith Based on The Promises of God
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved Acts 16:31
Example of a Believer
worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh Philippians 3:3
The Basis of Genuine Assurance
True conversion: A true Christian is a new creation and will live a life that reflects God’s radical work of re-creation in his/her life. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17
You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? Matthew 7:16
Assurance is based upon self-examination in the light of Scripture. Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you unless indeed you fail the test? 2 Corinthians 13:5
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:13
Test of Biblical Assurance
1 John 1:5-7 (Walking in the Light), 1 John 1:8-10 (Confession of Sin), 1 John 2:3-4 (Obedience), 1 John 2:9-11 (Love for the Brethren), 1 John 2:15-17 (Hatred for the World), 1 John 2:24-25 (Perseverance in Doctrine), 1 John 3:10 (Righteousness), 1 John 4:13 (Spirit’s Testimony), Hebrews 12:5-8 (Discipline)
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If the unborn knew they had a 35% chance of being murdered before they see the light of day don’t you think they’d feel abandoned and hopeless? And they get no reassurance from Piper. Piper, mistaking bravado for pride, thinks abortion is preferable, given the choice.
Oh? Really? Where does he says that?
I don’t think Piper has ever said that
You're still confused then Hank.
@@haroldseah306 Sooo many People dissapoint God by
never watching Atheist-Channels.
Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here.
Limiting yourself is bad enough,
but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only
those that share your Religion?
Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word?
IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do
and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
God totally forgot me since 2022 I've been struggling
Yes!!
I need this. Oh Lord please speak again?
Sooo many People dissapoint God by
never watching Atheist-Channels.
Indeed, they avoid them like the 'Deviiiiil!!!', which is just embarassing, to be all frank here.
Limiting yourself is bad enough,
but surrounding yourself with Yes-Sayers? Surrounding yourself ONLY with 1 kind of people and only
those that share your Religion?
Yeeeeah, i think that's called this thing that all Experts ever warn of... uhm... 'Echo-Chamber'? Is that the word?
I think so.
So why? Why do you avoid Atheist-Channels and ignore their valid Questions
and/or valid Criticism?
What are you waiting for? Learn more and more!
IF your a Christian, limiting yourself so you never watch Atheist-Channel is the worst thing you can do
and even old Texts say 'Only a Fool of a Man drinks his Water from just 1 Fountain' (which talks about Knowledge).
I doubt he was ever there to begin with. Never saw any indication.
Doesn’t mean he’s not present
@@jordanpryor4771 Nor does it mean he is present. How would you find out anyway?
The blind cannot see.
@@HearGodsWord I'm blind though. We most likely see the same things.
@@2ndPigeon from the previous conversation we had it doesn't seem like we do.
Its all lies.. God binds our hands up with his Laws and expected moral behaviour before sending the wolves to tear us up.. if we defend ourselves we are condemned by him, yet he will no defend us
for·sak·en
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adjective
abandoned or deserted.
Hello Ana👋...
So you blame people for lack of faith etc instead of think God maybe drawing them to him or some other purpose you cannot think of.
Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
So basically you're saying it's up to us to save ourselves and fight for our own sanctification and self righteousness .. Christ is incapable of saving us, his words are lies and we must save ourselves
he put us in this hell. he hates us
I’m sorry I have to call you on your bs. Sinful attitudes are often because he abandon us and allowed a con man to steal our inheritance. I live in my car and have for three years. Not helping me and he is not with me. Why doesn’t God fight for us like satan does?
No God has not abandoned you God is within you and will always be within you it's up to you to tap into it the god that is within the God is without in the demon so live from within stay away from negative energy even if it's your family members your blood pressure will be lowered if you get rid of the evilness in your life it might be your son or daughter if they give off negative energy in their evil you need to leave them alone
Isaiah 55:12
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Upto me?!
No!!.. Nope!!
I was born in corruption.. Blind.. Unaware..
How csn the BURDEN fall on me?
No real answers just going around in circles next get to the point.
Lmao
God does abandoning you
XD
Can ppl stop speaking in a vocal fry? It is too hard to listen to