Acts 1:6-8
6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” NKJV
May 21,2012 is coming! So is May 22nd, so what? Harold Camping and his Family Radio disciples apparently are unaware of this passage of scripture. People all over are witnesses of Camping's prediction, instead of being witnesses of Messiah and His authority and power.
#1 No one knows the times and seasons. For years, there have been those "know-it-alls" who set a date for Messiah's return, all of them have been wrong. I wish they would stop trying to date his return and focus on Messiah Himself. Makes you wonder why Harold Camping is up to this again.
#2 The second thing Yeshua (Jesus) says is about receiving the power of Holy Spirit. We could use a whole lot more of the Spirit's power in our world and a lot less silliness. Predicting Messiah's return is vanity.
#3 We are commanded to be witnesses of the Messiah after being filled with the Holy Spirit. This means we are to speak under His control and anointing, not out of the flesh. Someone has said, to be filled with the Spirit isn't like a cup being filled with water; that doesn't accomplish anything. To be filled with the Spirit is like a sail on a sail boat being filled with wind; it is moved in a direction.
Let us focus on Messiah and ask to be filled anew with His Spirit so that we can be His witnesses in power, wherever He directs us.
3 comments:
Interesting side note: Both the disciples and the Messiah confirm that Israel will be restored. So much for the church replacing Israel.
If Camping's calculation was any good, Jehovah's Witnesses would have latched onto it. They haven't, so it's not.
We could use a whole lot more of the Spirit's power in our world and a lot less silliness.
And I'm emphatically with you on this, if not on everything. We could.
Well said. I agree completely. I'm also with you on the church not replacing Israel.
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