Tag: righteous

End Times

Posted on by Olaf

Most of us prefer beginnings to endings – the starting of a new chapter, the first day of your holiday or the birth of a child. And yet, we all know these things will end because our experience of life is linear. Scientists suggest that the world began with the ‘big bang’ and many fear that it will end with a big bang either from an asteroid or a nuclear one of our own making. The world will not end because of over population, disease, wars or even global warming. These may well be accompanying signs as you can read in the book that is all about beginnings and endings, the Bible which is God’s Word to us.

RIGHTEOUSNESS from above

Posted on by Olaf

Isaiah spoke of a righteousness that was high above the heavens and prophesied that it would be poured down upon the earth:  ‘You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down.  Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the Lord, have created it’ – Isaiah 45:8.  Although he told of a virgin being with child and of a suffering servant-leader, just how we could be declared righteous was unclear.  Over 700 years later, revelation comes with the person of Christ Jesus as to how we can be righteous, now.

Do you see personal righteousness as a lofty ideal beyond the bright blue skies or as a ‘now reality’?