One Christmas Eve in snowy Goodrich, Michigan, I insisted on staying up until midnight. I had heard and believed that animals could speak as humans do during that dark hour. It was a type of miracle that was an extension of the Nativity birth. I was about eight years old and sincerely wanted to speak with the rabbits we kept in cages out behind our house. My mother wanted nothing to do with this. She made me go to bed at my normal time because Santa was waiting to come!

The irony, believing in Santa but not the animals having the ability to speak. Both are fairy tales.

To the world, the story of the virgin birth of Jesus, His life, death and resurrection are a myth. The Bible to the world is a book of fictional or at best, somewhat historical tales. Yet we believers truly and sincerely believe the Bible. To us it is holy and contains the oracles of God.

Why? Why do we believe?

Because our lives have been changed with a touch from The Lord, through reading and applying Scripture to our lives, answered prayers, from witnessing great miracles, even others being resurrected from death.

During my journey with God I have had to stop and ask myself, “Do I really believe this part of Scripture?”

Did Noah and his family really survive a worldwide flood in an ark which he himself built? (Genesis 6:14-18)

Was Jonah actually swallowed by a whale? (Jonah 1-2)

Could Paradise or the Bosom of Abraham have actually existed prior to Heaven being opened to believers? (Luke 16)

I had to remove areas of unbelief until I believed the whole Word of God.

We must all do this. We must believe Scripture as a whole, because it is whole and cannot be broken. (John 10:35)

The world wants us to deny our Godly heritage, our Word, a gift of God by eroding and whitewashing truths from it little by little. The world wants us to believe that God is not able to do what He says He has done.

But God has done these great things, and He will do many more.

Knowledge of the glory of God will fill the Earth just as waters cover the sea. (Habakkuk 2:14)

The Word of God is divine. Lord Jesus is the Word. Lord Jesus is God. He cannot be stopped, neither can His Word. All things are in His hands. All things are His. (Psalm 24:1)

Lord Jesus is coming again. He will come for His bride. He will come in judgment upon the world. He will come on a white horse with fire in His eyes. (Revelation 19:11-16)

And what is His Name given at His return?

“His Name is called The Word of God.” (Revelation 19:13)

Listen not to the world which denies Him and His return. This is a lie from out of the deep hearts of iniquity. (Psalm 64:6) But even this will not stop Him.

Nothing can stop the return of Lord Jesus. Not even the burning of Bibles. (J. Davidson/The Federalist)

Believe upon The Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. (Acts 16:31)

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Just before my father passed away I asked him about his baptism, recently revealed to me. As a youth, he’d been baptized in a Baptist church. He admitted, he had. Though he’d not attended church frequently, I knew that Dad belonged to The Lord, and I placed him in the hands of Lord Jesus. Today I know that Dad is in Heaven.

How can you get to Heaven?

There is only one way:

“‘You know the way where I am going,’ Lord Jesus said to His disciples.”

“Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?’”

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.’” (John 14:4-6)

God the Father is in Heaven and Lord Jesus sits at His right hand. (Mark 16:19)

He who believes upon the Name of The Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. (Acts 2:21)

Saved? From what?

From eternal death, from hell, from fiery flames, from the worm that doesn’t stop. From horrors. (Mark 9:42-48 Luke 16:19-31)

To believe and be saved is to be saved for God, to God and have eternal life in Heaven, where God’s throne is. Also present are believers who have gone before, angels, and Holy Spirit.

There is a heavenly city, full of dwelling places, a place prepared for believers. Lord Jesus prepared Heaven for His people. (John 14:2-3)

Free of sin, shame, pain, and death.

It is where all babies, both the born and unborn, and the children who have died now live. (Matthew 19:14)

Heaven is free of marriage, we are to be as the angels, joined only to God. (Matthew 22:23-30)

Before He came to Earth, believers in the true living God did not go to Heaven. They went to Abraham’s Bosom, also called Paradise. (Luke 23:43) It was a resting place for the faithful to God in the center of the earth (Matthew 12:40) until Lord Jesus came, preached (1Peter 3:18-19) and through the atonement (the wiping away of sin) of His Blood, made them one with Him. (John 17:20-21, 24)

Upon a believer’s death, angels carried his spirit to Abraham’s Bosom. Abraham’s Bosom was visible from Hell. Even a voice could be carried across the great chasm between the two places. There were cool waters where Abraham lived and fires of agony in Hell. (Luke 16:19-31)

In the Old Testament, Exodus 3:6, God spoke to Moses: “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”

These patriarchs were yet alive, though dead in the flesh!

Lord Jesus echoed those Words, the Truth about life after death: “But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” (Matthew 22:31-32)

When Lord Jesus rose from the dead, Holy Spirit did the work. (Romans 8:11)

When Lord Jesus ascended to Heaven, Holy Spirit did the work. (Acts 1:2)

No longer are angels necessary to carry believers’ spirits to a resting place. (Luke 16:22) We have the Blood of Lord Jesus upon us, giving us access to Heaven and we have Holy Spirit within us, Who will carry us to Heaven, just as He carried Lord Jesus. (Romans 8:11)

After Lord Jesus rose from the grave, He ascended to Heaven. Those in Abraham’s Bosom, Paradise, went to Heaven with The Lord.(Ephesians 4:8-10) Abraham’s Bosom is closed. Something better was given to these saints.

When we go to Heaven, it will be as simple as closing our eyes on earth and in seconds, we’ll be with the Lord, where there is something much better waiting for us. (2Corinthians 5:8-9)

There is no other way to Heaven. And there is no other Jesus who will get you through the gate. The Jesus of Islam is false, and is seen as a prophet only. The Jesus of the occult is false and is just another idol. All other ways, methods and means are not true. The true Lord Jesus lives! (Matthew 27:52-53 1Corinthians 15:3-9)

The gates of Hell are yet open for those who choose not to name Jesus as Lord. (Revelation 1:18)

God wants you in Heaven. He loves you. This is why He sent Lord Jesus, so that we might be where He is, in Heaven.

Where will you choose to be?

LOOK UP!

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