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The Everlasting Gospel, Babylon, and the Mark of the Beast

Revelation Chapter 14

“And I saw another Angel fly in the midst of Heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them who dwell on the Earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue” (Revelation 14:1).

This Angel referenced here as “another” Angel is the first of the three Angels whose messages are recorded here in Chapter 14 of Revelation and which comes after the entrance of the Antichrist onto the scene in chapter 13. Following the appearance of these three Angels and their announcements, the Bowl, or Vial, judgments commence. These judgments are the most severe and come at the very end of the seven-year tribulation period just prior to the Second Coming.

The first Angel preaches the everlasting Gospel to all those that dwell on the Earth. The wording suggest that everyone alive at the time will hear what this Angel proclaims. This is the first recorded time that an Angel preaches the Gospel. The Lord has entrusted the Gospel to the redeemed from the time of the inception of the church, as beneficiaries of His Mercy and Grace, to bring the Gospel to a lost and dying world. Having an Angel come at the very end of the Age of Grace is significant indeed. The message the first Angel brings is brought as a command and shows that at this point, time is short.

“Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give Glory to Him; for the hour of His Judgment is come: and worship Him who made Heaven, and Earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water” (Revelation 14:7).

The Antichrist makes great claims after he is empowered by Satan and does many signs and wonders that deceive those who have not believed the Gospel. This Angel is proclaiming just who the Creator of Heaven and Earth is, and calling all those on Earth to fear Him and give Him Glory.

“And there followed another Angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication” (Revelation 14:8).

Babylon was where the first organized rebellion against the Lord occurred with the Tower of Babel. The Lord, in judgment, confused their languages and they were scattered across the Earth. The Antichrist is now leading the final rebellion against God, and final judgment is coming. Babylon was where organized rebellion began, and the message of this Angel is that Babylon, being the place of the last rebellion against the Lord, will fall.

“And the third Angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in their forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wrath of God….and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone  in the presence of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb” (Revelation 14:9,10a,c).

The third Angel warns all those that dwell on the Earth to not follow the Antichrist or receive his mark (see Revelation 13:16-18).  The Angel goes on to proclaim the end for all those that do not heed this message. They will go the way of perdition and will reap the wrath of God and will suffer eternal punishment .

“And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name” (Revelation 14:11).

Nobody alive at the time of the Great Tribulation will be able to say that the Lord did not warn them of the perilous times in which they lived. Those serving the Antichrist and receiving the mark of his name will be eternally condemned. These three Angels proclaim the everlasting Gospel, the judgment coming on a rebellious world, and the individual responsibility each and every person has. Everyone will give an account of themselves to God (Romans 14:12). As has been mentioned, the Vial Judgment follow these announcements by the three Angels and are the most severe. We are living in the last days just prior to God’s final judgment on this world and the Lord offers all those alive today a choice.

“…I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live…. ”  (Deuteronomy 30:19b).

The Lord has offered those that pass through this world a choice, forgiveness for sin and the gift of Eternal Life in His presence or eternal damnation. The fool says in their heart that there is no God, or that there is any other God other than the Lord, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. The hour of His judgment comes. The redeemed of the Lord will rejoice at this time having placed their faith in the One Who loves us and calls us to the safety of a Salvation provided for us by His Mercy and Grace.

“And after these things (the Tribulation period) I heard a great voice of much people in Heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and Glory, and Honour, and Power, unto the Lord our God” (Revelation 19:1 commentary mine).

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This World Is Not Our Home

“In My Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there you be also” (John 14:2,3).

The Lord made this promise to His Disciples just before His death. They had been with Him for some three and a half years and He was about to go by way of Calvary. This promise, although I’m sure encouraging to the Apostles, was a promise to return for His church at the end of the age, just prior to the judgment that would befall a world that had rejected Him.

After the Lord’s departure, The Apostle Paul would also encourage and reassure us in His epistle to the Thessalonians. He said that the Lord has not appointed those that are His own to rath (to go through the end-times Great Tribulation). The Lord, Himself, will descend from Heaven and we will meet Him in the air. The church has been awaiting this blessed event since the time of Christ’s first Advent. It’s called the “Blessed Hope.” It’s a sure hope because, as our introductory verse tells us, the Lord Himself made us this promise.

We are in the end times right now and prophetically nothing must take place prior to the Rapture of the church. What we are experiencing in the world today with lawlessness abounding and everyone doing what seems right in their own eyes with little regard for the ways of God, causes those that are truly watching for His coming to look for His soon return.

“For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 3:20).

Though things may be getting darker in our troubled world, we know that the Bible foretold just how things would be just prior to the Lord’s return, and as we look around us we see the coming fulfillment of all that was prophesied for these last days. The world is not our home and we are homesick for our Heavenly home. We are awaiting the day when our Father tells His Son that the hour has come. That will be the day! The day we have been waiting for when we shall see the One that loved us and died for us that we might be with Him forever.

“And so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians  4:17b).

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The Proper Object of Faith

“I do not frustrate the Grace of God: for if Righteousness come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain”  (Galatians 2:21).

Righteousness is afforded to us by faith. It is given to us freely as we come by faith in Christ and His sacrificial death at Calvary. We have no righteousness within ourselves. It is an imputed Righteousness we receive by God’s Mercy and Grace through faith in Christ crucified. Christ’s death on Calvary paid the sin debt owed to God and opened the way for relationship with God.

Our faith in His finished work at Calvary enables the Holy Spirit to come and live within us. He is present to help us and mold us into Christ’s image. Regarding our daily living, He will bring us the victory we seek over the world, the flesh, and the Devil as we place, and keep, our faith in Christ and Him crucified.

Paul wrote the Epistle to the Galatians, and our introductory verse regarding frustrating the Grace of God was his warning to Believers in the Galatian church. His reference to the Law spoke of the Law of Moses. The Galatians were being tempted to include obedience to the Law as necessary to their walk with the Lord. If they were to do this they would be apostatizing. We are called to faith in a finished work. Self effort in any form is a denial of our faith. This was a serious problem facing the church at the time, and it is a problem the church faces today.

Jesus fulfilled the Law completely in His life and ministry here. We fulfill the Law by our faith in His finished work. This is done through the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives as we keep our faith in Christ and His sacrificial death on the Cross. This is the only way. We cannot, by our Christian disciplines, find the victory we seek in our Christian walk.

The Apostle is telling the Galatians, and us, that should we add the Law, or any law we might make up, to our faith then “Christ is dead in vain.” In other words, as Paul explained in chapter 4, “Christ will profit you nothing!” If our faith does not remain anchored in Christ and the victory He afforded us at Calvary, then we cannot take advantage of the victoriuos living that Christ provided for us.

The Apostle Paul showed us that we are not to build again those things that faith in Christ destroyed, meaning adherence to the Law. Should we do this then we are a transgressor. As Romans Chapter 6 tells us: We are dead to the Law having died with Christ and having been raised with Him to “Newness of Life.” Our faith in Christ affords us all the blessings and promises of God. The following are Paul’s words on the subject.

“For if I build again the things which I destroyed (return to attempting to keep the Law), I make myself a transgressor. For I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God (can only be done by faith in Christ)” (Galatians 2:18,19 commentary mine).

The Apostle then shows us how Romans 6:3-5 had found place in his life and how we should live it out in our own lives. We’ll close with the Apostle’s powerful testimony.

“I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live (Newness of Life); yet not I (not by my power), but Christ lives in me: and the Life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God (faith in Christ and Him crucified), Who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20 commentary mine).

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That They Which See Not Might See

“And Jesus passed by, and saw a man which was blind from birth” (John 9:1).

This is the only recorded incident of a man, born blind, who was healed by the Lord in the time of His earthly ministry. His Disciples asked if sin on the part of his parents, or him, was the cause of his blindness. Jesus told them that the cause was not sin on the part of either. The Lord healed this man and, in doing so, showed the Lord’s work in this man’s life in healing him physically, and as we shall see, spiritually.

“And (Jesus) said unto him, go wash in the pool of Siloam. He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing” (John 9:7).

After the man was healed, he testified of his healing to his neighbors, and when they questioned if it was indeed him who was blind, he told them that he was the very same man born blind and that Jesus had healed him. At this point, some in the crowd that had gathered brought him to the Pharisees because this miracle took place on a Sabbath Day. The Pharisees questioned the man repeatedly regarding his healing, doubting that he had been blind, or that a healing had taken place.

The man stood firm in his testimony that he had been healed. In answering them, he questioned how they could not know who this  Jesus was considering that the healing of a man born blind had never been seen before.  This angered the Pharisees greatly and they reviled him for his testimony and cast him out of the Temple. The result of being cast out would result in the man being excommunicated from the Temple. Jesus heard that the Pharisees had cast him out and found him. Jesus asked him if he believed on the Son of God and the man asked, Who is He Lord? Jesus revealed Himself to this man as the Son of God and the awaited Messiah and the man believed and worshipped Him.

This is a beautiful story of one man’s healing and redemption, but it is also a picture of mankind’s condition and our great need of a spiritual “healing.” We are blind spiritually from birth and will remain that way until we meet the Master. Jesus will wash away our sin with His  Precious Blood shed for us at Calvary. This is the only way we can see. We are blind to the judgment of God before the Lord saves us and restores what was lost in the Fall in the Garden so that we can see. We must, as this man did, confess the Lord Jesus as the Son of God and Savior of the world. Once we do this, our spiritual blindness will be healed and we will be made whole. Those who claim they see without the Lord will remain spiritually blind and suffer the judgment that comes on all those that reject Him.

“And Jesus said, for judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and they which see might be made blind” (John 9:39).

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Naked to the Judgment of God

“And the eyes of them both (Adam & Eve) were opened (they realized their guilt), and they knew that they were naked (self- consciousness as opposed to God-consciousness prior to their fall); and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons (an attempt to cover their sin)” (Genesis 3:7 commentary mine).

Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leaves in an attempt to cover their nakedness. They had walked in God-consciousness prior to their fall, but after disobeying God in their partaking of the Tree of Good and Evil, they now were aware of their nakedness and the much lower state of self consciousness was the result of their sin. They tried to cover their nakedness with fig leaves, but when they heard the voice of the Lord in the Garden, they hid themselves. They now realized that the fig leaves did not cover their nakedness. In sinning against the Lord, they had died spiritually. They were naked to the judgment of God. All that have come after them have this fallen nature. All are dead spiritually.

Many today are trying to live good moral lives without knowing the Lord. Whether they realize it or not, they are trying to cover the nakedness that is the result of our fallen nature with morality. We all want to live good moral lives, but that alone will not make our lives acceptable to the Lord. We cannot trust in the idea that as long as the good in our lives out ways the bad, that that is our way to gain acceptance and favor with the Lord.

Others are living their lives by comparing themselves with those around them who they believe are not living as morally good lives as they are. This is called relative righteousness, and those they compare themselves to, as should be obvious, are those they feel superior to. They are resting in the fact that they are a step above whoever they are comparing themselves to, and for that reason, their lives will be good enough to be rewarded when they pass from this life.

The last group of those trying in some way to gain favor with God are the religious. They have placed their faith in the doing of religion. Religion is man attempting to be found acceptable by God by what he does. They believe that their religious practices, sacraments, and following the dictates of their church, will gain them favor with God. They may be sincere in their efforts, or may be being religious to sooth their conscience, but the doing of religion will not find them favor with the Lord.

Those in the groups we have mentioned are trying to cover their nakedness before God by one of these ways, or some combination of them. So what did Adam and Eve find out after realizing that their fig leaves were not enough to cover their nakedness? The Lord covered them with skins of an animal, showing them, and us, that we cannot cover our nakedness by what we do. The Lord was showing them that an innocent victim must shed their blood to cover the sin that resulted in their nakedness. The Lord was pointing ahead to the great sacrifice of His Son on the Cross. Our answer is not found in ourselves, but found at Calvary. We come in repentance for our sins and place our faith in Christ and Him crucified, and we are born spiritually and receive Christ’s righteousness as our covering. Our nakedness for His righteousness! He took our sin upon Himself on the Cross.

“For He (God the Father) has made Him (Christ) to be sin (the sin-offering) for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him (Christ)” (2 Corinthians 5:21 commentary mine).

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The Third Day

A First-Person Fictional Narrative

“And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve Disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the Chief Priests and unto the Scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify Him: and the third day He shall rise again” (Matthew 20:17-19).

I live in Jerusalem and witnessed the crucifixion of the one that some said was the Messiah. I heard that he told his followers that he would be in the grave for three days and three nights and would rise on the third day. I don’t know if he actually said that, but those that told me about it were sure that he had. Will he really rise from the dead? It seems impossible! He did say many wonderful things while He was here. And all the healings! I wonder if he really was the Messiah? The one everyone has been waiting for.

There are many here who think he was an imposter, including the religious leadership. I do wonder about their motives though. No one has ever done what this man has done. All those wonderful works! They witnessed it all yet they had Him crucified. Did they actually believe that he was the long-awaited Messiah? Did they feel threatened by Him? Their hatred for Him seemed to be so wrong and their treatment of Him so evil and unfair. Two more days.

I was there at the crucifixion and have never seen anything as awful as that. The man didn’t even look like a man. They had beaten him so badly that he was unrecognizable. Those standing around the scene at the crucifixion fell into one of three groups. There were the mockers telling Him to come down from the Cross if God was with him. And then there were those that just stared with astonishment at what was happening. They had never seen a crucifixion like this! The man was so physically abused! And so hated by the religious leaders of Israel. It was shocking to observe.

There was a third group present and they represented some of his disciples, his followers, and his mother. I cannot even imagine the sorrow they felt and the feeling of helplessness in being unable to stop what was happening. This good man was being crucified for no crime whatsoever and they stood there aghast at the sight. This group believed that he was the promised Messiah.

It’s now Saturday and groups of people are gathering throughout Jerusalem talking about the terrible events that had taken place. They talked about how they had heard that he promised to rise again on the third day. His disciples were nowhere to be found. As I walked down the Via Dolorosa there was great sadness and sorrow among all those walking along that way. It just seemed to hang in the air. Everyone knew that something quite terrible had taken place in Jerusalem. This was the very way that the soldiers had led the man down to his crucifixion. They spoke of him being so weak from the beatings that he was unable to carry his cross. All those that gathered along the way talked about all the good he had done. One more day.

It’s the third day and there is a rumor spreading throughout Jerusalem that the tomb is empty and that he had indeed risen from the dead. Someone said that they had spoken to some of his followers and they said that the rumor was indeed true. There was an account of a woman, who they said had actually seen him and had spoken with him. Incredible news! Amazing things are happening in Jerusalem on this day. It seems that the sadness that hung over the city for the last three days has lifted. It has been replaced with a sense of great wonder.

I remember times in the past when I had journeyed many miles to hear this man speak. His words were like no other man’s. I was in need of healing and the man touched me and I was healed. Just being in his presence was something you would never forget. I have decided that He was in fact the Messiah and I am on my way to join His followers. It’s the third day and he has risen indeed!

“Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher….and they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher. And they entered in and found not the body of the Lord Jesus……behold two men stood by them in shining garments. And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they (the Angels) said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen…..” (Luke 24:1-6).

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Watch and Pray

“Watch and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:36).

In this verse, Jesus is teaching on the coming Great Tribulation which will happen in the not to distant future. The Great Tribulation will be God’s final judgment on a world that has rejected Him and His loving offer of Salvation through Calvary. His Mercy and Grace have called out to a lost and dying world from the time of Adam and Eve in the Garden. Most of mankind has rejected the Lord and gone their own way. The Great Tribulation will bring God’s judgment and will result in the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

As Christians, we are admonished to watch and pray. The signs of His soon return are all around us. It seems like the world, in general, has chosen its own way with the inevitable result being the confusion and lawlessness that we see going on around us. Romans Chapter 1 tells us about the downward spiral that comes when people, and nations, do not honor and seek after the Lord and His way. The result is given to us in the twenty-eighth verse.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things that are not convenient (not fitting)” (Romans 1:28).

I heard one prophecy teacher say that it seems like recently there was an evil released in this world that has not been here before and that that evil is increasing. I agree! Much of what’s going on today defies logical thinking. This is a sign that things are heading toward the judgment the Lord spoke about regarding the evil that pervades our world, and that which has increased greatly, and that which holds lost souls in bondage. Satan knows his time is short. We must watch and pray.

The Lord Jesus, in our introductory verse, is also speaking of the Rapture of the church when He talked about escaping “all these things that shall come to pass.” The Rapture will happen prior to the Great Tribulation. Christians, alive at the time, will be “caught up” (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17) to be with the Lord. The Lord warned us not to be deceived by false teachings and by what may be going on around us. This is a particularly important warning for the times we live in today. We must pray for discernment and judge everything we hear by the Word of God. The Apostle Paul warned us about the dangerous, evil times, that will come upon the world in the last days.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come…” (The Apostle Paul – 2 Timothy 3:1a).

We are living in the last days. We must heed what the Lord said about being “accounted worthy.” Faith in Christ and Him crucified is the criteria, the only criteria, that will cause the Lord to account us worthy. It is what He accomplished on the Cross, and our faith anchored in His sacrificial death, that will make us ready for the Rapture. The Lord is telling us that the Great Tribulation is a decided future event and that all those that harken to His voice and come His way, will be saved. If death comes prior to the Rapture, we can know that we will immediately come into His presence upon passing, and if we are alive at the time of the Rapture, we will be caught up to be with the Lord prior to the judgment that is coming on a world that has rejected the love He has shown us in the gift of His Son.

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).

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The Path That Leads to the Lord

“Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips” (Hosea 14:2).

How do we approach the Lord? What must we do to gain favor with the Lord? We are told in our introductory verse how the Lord wants us to approach Him. It is not by what we do, but by our words. We are to come in repentance and faith. 

“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved” (Romans 10:9).

Salvation is not something that we must strive for our whole life not knowing if we have gained it by the time we pass from this life. Salvation is a free gift offered to us when we come in repentance and faith in Christ’s sacrificial death at Calvary. It cost God greatly in the death of His Son that we might be forgiven and counted among the redeemed. We can know that we are saved. The Apostle John made it clear in his first Epistle.

“These things have I written unto you who believe on the Name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have Eternal Life, and that you may believe on the Name of the Son of God” (1 John 5:13)

The Lord will always forgive, and receive, all those who come to Him in repentance and faith. Our introductory verse comes from the chapter in the book of Hosea that called for Israel to return to the Lord after falling into deep sin, and points to Israel’s restoration at the coming time of the Lord’s Second Coming. All Israel will be saved at that time.

We are to take with us words when we approach the Lord. Our repentance and our confession of faith in Christ crucified opens the way to God and brings us Salvation. We turn to Him in faith and He will “take away all iniquity.” Our sins will be forgiven and forgotten by the Lord.

“As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. (Psalm 103:12)

When we come to the Lord with the words that will result in our Salvation, we come away in awe of such a great God. The Lord has been so gracious to us in forgiving us and giving us a blessed future in His presence. His Mercy and Grace in our lives will result in our thankfulness and love for the Lord who loved us and died on the cross that we might be forgiven and brought into relationship with our Redeemer God. We then live the life we have been given with worship, praise, and thankfulness for all the Lord has done for us. Let us offer the “calves of our lips” in praise for all the Lord has done for us. It truly is amazing Grace.

“Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and into His Courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His Name” (Psalm 100:4).

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The Lord Blesses His People

“The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace”  (Psalm 29:11).

The voice of the Lord comes forth loud and clear throughout the history of mankind. His voice is heard through His Word, the Bible. From the beginning, the Lord has made His voice heard offering strength and peace to all those who will acknowledge Him and harken to the Mercy and Grace He has offered down through the centuries of man’s existence.

His promise to those who will hear His voice, and respond, is a message of His strength in their lives through the redemption He offers by way of the Cross. Christ crucified is a clear message to all mankind that we cannot, in ourselves, have the strength needed to lift ourselves up from our fallen nature. Mankind, as a whole, stands defenseless, and unable to better ourselves in any way. The Lord, in His love for us, has offered us a way, the only way, to gain the strength to live a life pleasing to the Lord.

His promise is of “Newness of life” within us to give us victory in the life we have been given. We have an incredible opportunity to be partakers of the divine nature by faith in His Son’s sacrificial death at Calvary. We are lost and undone before a Holy God in our fallen nature. His mercy and Grace offers us a lifeline. He offers forgiveness of our sins and Newness of life in Him. It’s free to all those who take hold of the extended hand He offers. Jesus died that we might live. Our sin put Him on the Cross.

Having come to the Lord in repentance and faith, we have peace with God. Before that we were at enmity with the Lord living a life that was in opposition to the ways of the Lord. His peace is evident to us the moment we come to Him realizing our great need. His voice rings out each day, harkening all those who hear, that they might come to the Father who loves them and has sent His Son as proof of that love and as payment for our sins. We have peace with God all due to Calvary.

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1).

Along with having peace with God, He offers us the Peace of God. That peace comes to us as we rest in the finished work of Calvary. Jesus paid the full price for both our sins and this “Newness of Life” He offers. We are saved by placing our faith in Christ crucified, and we are to walk out our lives in the same way. This is the way, the only way, to have the peace of God in our lives. We will not have this peace if we are striving in our own strength to live out our Christian lives. We rest in the Salvation He provides and the Holy Spirit will work in us to make us more Christlike.

“And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and mind through Jesus Christ” (Philippians 4:7).

The Lord in His great love for us has provided everything for our redemption. Our first parents lost their way and fell from their high state of walking with the Lord. The Lord offers to redeem us and bring us into an Eternal close relationship with Him through His strength, the life of God, in our lives which will result in both peace with God, and the peace of God. The Lord blesses His people. We can live in His very Presence knowing that He leads and guides us in all we do and will bring us into an Eternal Life with Him as sons and daughters of God. We have much to be thankful for. The following verse from Jeremiah says it all:

“I (the Lord) have loved you with everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness” (Jeremiah 31:3).

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Here I Am, Lord – Tom Quinn Ministries – tqministries.com 2026

“And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where are you? (Genesis 3:9)

“And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that you have done? (Genesis 3:13)

Adam and Eve had disobeyed the Lord and sinned against Him. They both made excuses for their sin. Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent. Actually, they were both blaming the Lord. Adam blaming Him because He had given him Eve, and Eve blamed the Lord for creating the serpent. This is something that most of the world is doing today. Blaming God for their troubles.

It’s interesting, and sad, that both Adam and Eve did not make things right with the Lord in their initial response to the Lord when He confronted them with their sin. They placed blame elsewhere and did not admit their guilt and seek forgiveness from the Lord for disobeying Him and sinning against Him. The Lord, in His love for them, responded to their sin by showing them how they could be forgiven and how fellowship with Him could be restored.

The Lord is asking all those that are alive today the same two questions. The Bible says that “all have sinned.” We have a fallen nature due to the sin of our first parents. The question is, How will we answer the Lord regarding our sin? Will we make excuses as our first parents did? Will we avoid answering the question by staying as far away from the Lord as possible? Many live their lives by not addressing the initial question. Where are you the Lord asks? Adam and Eve hid themselves from the Lord after they sinned. Many are doing just that today. The Bible says the following about this:

“For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” (John 3:20).

The “light” is Christ, and the message of the Gospel is clear. We must admit to the Lord that we are lost and in need of a Savior – where we are? And we must seek forgiveness for our sins – what is this that you have done? The Lord is gracious and long suffering, but He will also judge this world for their sin. We can hide ourselves from the Lord and the truth, or we can come forward, so to speak, and admit to the Lord where we are and what we have done. We will either answer to Him now, or stand before Him at the Great White Throne Judgment where all those that have not sought His mercy and Grace will be judged for their sin. The choice is ours and we have the time that the Lord has graciously given to us in this life to make that decision.

We will never regret choosing to make the Lord our Savior. If you ask all those that have come to the Lord about this, they would say that their only regret is that they did not come to the Lord sooner. Where are we before we acknowledge the Lord as He calls out to us asking “Where are you” and “What is this that you have done?” We are all lost sinners in need of a Savior. As has been said, we can either answer to the Lord now, or stand before Him to be judged in our own righteousness when we die. The latter will result in eternal separation from the Lord.

Just as the Lord reached down to Adam and Eve to offer forgiveness and restoration to them, He reaches down to all of us in His Mercy and Grace today. All of us who have received of the Lord could say the following:

I was lost and undone, without God or His Son, when He reached down His hand for me. (When the Savior Reached Down For Me – G.E. Wright 1921)

Always Remember,

God Loves You!

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