A Presidential Sendoff
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
by:Darrell G. Young
Dec. 6, 2018
As one of millions who watched intently the memorial services of former US President George H. W. Bush, I could not help but be awestruck by the awesome grand celebratory “sendoff” from this life that he received.
But as I watched the auspicious sendoff off of President Bush, I also reflected on the lack of pomp and circumstance that most people that pass from this life to the afterlife are accorded, usually because the world finds in them no particular significance of importance.
Albeit, I imagined that even the most glamorous “glory of a worldly memorial” pales in comparison to the wondrous grandeur of the majestic reception in Heaven that is accorded to every single Saint of God when he is received by the Almighty Lord himself, in Heaven!
Thursday, December 6, 2018
A Date Which Lives in Infamy
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
by: Darrell G. Young
December 7, 2018
Today, Dec. 7 is the 77th anniversary of the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor. An underlying aim in World War II was the extermination of Western Bible-based Christian societies.
America’s remarkable victory by its greatest generation helped to preserve “Christian civilization” in the West, as Winston Churchill adeptly pointed out as being at risk in 1940.
Yet, today, modern western political philosophy and a compromising church are relinquishing the Judeo-Christian roots of America to the real enemy of Freedom; Satan!
As the echoes of “remember Pearl Harbor” are observed on this day of reflection, I would echo a more resolute caution to all Americans, “Remember the God of your Fathers.”
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
by: Darrell G. Young
December 7, 2018
Today, Dec. 7 is the 77th anniversary of the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor. An underlying aim in World War II was the extermination of Western Bible-based Christian societies.
America’s remarkable victory by its greatest generation helped to preserve “Christian civilization” in the West, as Winston Churchill adeptly pointed out as being at risk in 1940.
Yet, today, modern western political philosophy and a compromising church are relinquishing the Judeo-Christian roots of America to the real enemy of Freedom; Satan!
As the echoes of “remember Pearl Harbor” are observed on this day of reflection, I would echo a more resolute caution to all Americans, “Remember the God of your Fathers.”
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Critical Cultural Moments
by: Darrell G. Young
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
September 26, 2018
The US Senate Judiciary hearing tomorrow morning (Sept. 27) concerning the confirmation of another conservative Judge (2nd by President Trump) to the US Supreme Court is indeed a “Cultural Moment.” It is a pivotal moment in the decades long “Cultural War” that has ravaged our country!
At the root of this cultural war is a supernatural battle between the forces of our traditional, conservative Judeo-Christian society and the forces of a progressive movement that promotes Humanism, Secularism and Socialism, and is virulently anti-God and anti-Christian!
The epic Judicial showdown battle we are witnessing these days revolves around the following issues; Abortion, Gay Marriage and the superstructure of a society built upon the Constitution as designed by our Founders, who established a Republic built upon rights that can only be given us by our Creator!
I firmly believe our “ National Cultural Moment” is being forced upon our people and our leaders by Almighty God; either to “Soften” America’s heart toward God, or to “Harden” our minds and hearts against God!
Just as in the case where God sent Moses to confront Pharaoh to “Let his People Go,” that “event” lead Egypt and Pharaoh to “Harden” their hearts against God’s warnings! Thereafter, God began to bring his judgments against Egypt.
America today, like ancient Egypt, is in the process of being “Confronted” by Almighty God with just such a critical “Cultural Decision.”
by: Darrell G. Young
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
September 26, 2018
The US Senate Judiciary hearing tomorrow morning (Sept. 27) concerning the confirmation of another conservative Judge (2nd by President Trump) to the US Supreme Court is indeed a “Cultural Moment.” It is a pivotal moment in the decades long “Cultural War” that has ravaged our country!
At the root of this cultural war is a supernatural battle between the forces of our traditional, conservative Judeo-Christian society and the forces of a progressive movement that promotes Humanism, Secularism and Socialism, and is virulently anti-God and anti-Christian!
The epic Judicial showdown battle we are witnessing these days revolves around the following issues; Abortion, Gay Marriage and the superstructure of a society built upon the Constitution as designed by our Founders, who established a Republic built upon rights that can only be given us by our Creator!
I firmly believe our “ National Cultural Moment” is being forced upon our people and our leaders by Almighty God; either to “Soften” America’s heart toward God, or to “Harden” our minds and hearts against God!
Just as in the case where God sent Moses to confront Pharaoh to “Let his People Go,” that “event” lead Egypt and Pharaoh to “Harden” their hearts against God’s warnings! Thereafter, God began to bring his judgments against Egypt.
America today, like ancient Egypt, is in the process of being “Confronted” by Almighty God with just such a critical “Cultural Decision.”
Thursday, August 23, 2018
This I Know
This, I Know
Many years ago when I was in college, our psychology class had an in depth debate about the distinction between knowledge and wisdom. Most opinions surmised that knowledge and wisdom are interrelated. The concluding summations offered that knowledge was absolutely essential for wisdom to be possessed.
But the conclusion of our discussions seemed to assert that wisdom could never be attained by the lesser educated. While I highly recommend education and the accumulation of knowledge, I don't think we can simply discount the "common sense" that seems to be either imparted by a Creator, or accumulated by personal experience, even by those who have never had the opportunity for higher education.
Perhaps you are familiar with Socrates famous quote: "The only true knowledge is in knowing you know nothing."
Over the years, and after accumulating a lifetime of experience and knowledge, my own personal observation has come to be this: "The greatest knowledge is coming to the point of acknowledging to myself that the vast amount of knowledge to be known, will never be known by me, and I surely do now know it."
Knowing you know nothing can be very disconcerting. It can make you feel downright ignorant. But even in my state of not knowing much, "This I Know.
There is a God who "KNOWS EVERYTHING"!
And when I need to Know something, I can ask him, and if I need Wisdom, he can provide that too! So the distinctions between knowledge and Wisdom, and knowing the difference begins with Knowing God!........ This, I Know!
I John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things!
Darrell G. Young
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
August 23, 2018
Many years ago when I was in college, our psychology class had an in depth debate about the distinction between knowledge and wisdom. Most opinions surmised that knowledge and wisdom are interrelated. The concluding summations offered that knowledge was absolutely essential for wisdom to be possessed.
But the conclusion of our discussions seemed to assert that wisdom could never be attained by the lesser educated. While I highly recommend education and the accumulation of knowledge, I don't think we can simply discount the "common sense" that seems to be either imparted by a Creator, or accumulated by personal experience, even by those who have never had the opportunity for higher education.
Perhaps you are familiar with Socrates famous quote: "The only true knowledge is in knowing you know nothing."
Over the years, and after accumulating a lifetime of experience and knowledge, my own personal observation has come to be this: "The greatest knowledge is coming to the point of acknowledging to myself that the vast amount of knowledge to be known, will never be known by me, and I surely do now know it."
Knowing you know nothing can be very disconcerting. It can make you feel downright ignorant. But even in my state of not knowing much, "This I Know.
There is a God who "KNOWS EVERYTHING"!
And when I need to Know something, I can ask him, and if I need Wisdom, he can provide that too! So the distinctions between knowledge and Wisdom, and knowing the difference begins with Knowing God!........ This, I Know!
I John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things!
Darrell G. Young
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
August 23, 2018
Monday, August 13, 2018
An Unimaginable Heaven
Have you ever wondered what Heaven will be like? It is only natural for us mortals to try to imagine what the paradise of God's Heaven must be like. But every time I try to imagine the glorious wonders of Heaven, I come away mentally frustrated, because the concept of the Biblical Heaven is too overwhelming for the human mind to comprehend. ("Heaven is literally out-of-this World")
Recently, in preparing for sermons on Heaven and Hell, I spent a great deal of time studying and researching through the Bible on the subject of Heaven. We all aspire to go to Heaven someday. Oddly enough, it seems we all have our own ideas of what Heaven is like.
It seems that there is lot of scriptures concerning Hell, but when you diligently search for information on Heaven, there just isn't much detail, outside of Revelation chapters 20 and 21. There we can read about crystal clear rivers, gold streets, and numerous precious gems that make up the structure of the holy city of God. These verses are fascinating to contemplate, but they tend to leave you dreaming for more imagery of Heaven!
As I continued studying the scriptures on Heaven, I eventually found that there simply wasn't a ton of information on what Heaven is actually like. The more I studied, the more my mind and the Spirit returned me to one single verse that Paul had imparted to early Christians at Corinth.
1 Cor 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Then, it the struck me like a bolt of lightning out of the blue! God does not want us to be overly preoccupied with the "THINGS" of Heaven, but focused on "HIM." God wants us to LOVE him, more than the things that he has prepared for those that LOVE HIM!
Darrell G. Young
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
August 13, 2018
Have you ever wondered what Heaven will be like? It is only natural for us mortals to try to imagine what the paradise of God's Heaven must be like. But every time I try to imagine the glorious wonders of Heaven, I come away mentally frustrated, because the concept of the Biblical Heaven is too overwhelming for the human mind to comprehend. ("Heaven is literally out-of-this World")
Recently, in preparing for sermons on Heaven and Hell, I spent a great deal of time studying and researching through the Bible on the subject of Heaven. We all aspire to go to Heaven someday. Oddly enough, it seems we all have our own ideas of what Heaven is like.
It seems that there is lot of scriptures concerning Hell, but when you diligently search for information on Heaven, there just isn't much detail, outside of Revelation chapters 20 and 21. There we can read about crystal clear rivers, gold streets, and numerous precious gems that make up the structure of the holy city of God. These verses are fascinating to contemplate, but they tend to leave you dreaming for more imagery of Heaven!
As I continued studying the scriptures on Heaven, I eventually found that there simply wasn't a ton of information on what Heaven is actually like. The more I studied, the more my mind and the Spirit returned me to one single verse that Paul had imparted to early Christians at Corinth.
1 Cor 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Then, it the struck me like a bolt of lightning out of the blue! God does not want us to be overly preoccupied with the "THINGS" of Heaven, but focused on "HIM." God wants us to LOVE him, more than the things that he has prepared for those that LOVE HIM!
Darrell G. Young
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
August 13, 2018
Thursday, July 5, 2018
The Reality of Hell
by: Darrell G. Young
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
The belief in a literal Hell is totally out of vogue in today’s modern world, both philosophically and theologically. Recently, Pope Francis suggested that there is no such place as Hell. Also, a careful review of many Modern Bible translations reveal that the word Hell has been all but expunged, in favor of a more modest Purgatory type of holding place for the departed dead. We no longer hear the old fashioned “Hell fire” sermons either! Whatever happened to Hell? Is it a real place or not? This is after-all a very serious matter! Its more than just life and death; "its eternal life and eternal death"!
Well, Jesus talked a lot about Hell during his brief ministry on this Earth. He was quite adamant and descriptive of the reality of that place too! But by far the most convincing detail, for me at least, of the evidence of a literal fire and burning brimstone torment place called Sheol / Hades / Hell is the following:
“If there really is no such place as Hell, then the Almighty & all-knowing God really bungled it when he sent his only begotten Son to this world to die a horrible an ignominious death to save people from perishing in Hell; if there was no such place as Hell to be saved from!”
As for me, I think that God knew best, when he sent Jesus on his first mission to this world! Therefore, I have chosen to bank on the Biblical fact that there is a Hell to be shunned, and also (thank God) a Heaven to be gained!
by: Darrell G. Young
Focus on Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
The belief in a literal Hell is totally out of vogue in today’s modern world, both philosophically and theologically. Recently, Pope Francis suggested that there is no such place as Hell. Also, a careful review of many Modern Bible translations reveal that the word Hell has been all but expunged, in favor of a more modest Purgatory type of holding place for the departed dead. We no longer hear the old fashioned “Hell fire” sermons either! Whatever happened to Hell? Is it a real place or not? This is after-all a very serious matter! Its more than just life and death; "its eternal life and eternal death"!
Well, Jesus talked a lot about Hell during his brief ministry on this Earth. He was quite adamant and descriptive of the reality of that place too! But by far the most convincing detail, for me at least, of the evidence of a literal fire and burning brimstone torment place called Sheol / Hades / Hell is the following:
“If there really is no such place as Hell, then the Almighty & all-knowing God really bungled it when he sent his only begotten Son to this world to die a horrible an ignominious death to save people from perishing in Hell; if there was no such place as Hell to be saved from!”
As for me, I think that God knew best, when he sent Jesus on his first mission to this world! Therefore, I have chosen to bank on the Biblical fact that there is a Hell to be shunned, and also (thank God) a Heaven to be gained!
How can a Loving God Send anyone to Hell?
by: Darrell G. Young
Focus On Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
How can a Loving God Send anyone to Hell? We hear this challenging question to God's very nature all the time. But in reality, this very question in and of itself is a subtle trick question, designed to challenge God's very nature and authority.
A better question appropriately asked would be as follows, “If God is LOVE, then why do some people go to hell? Our modern pop culture defines a “loving God” as a completely non-confrontational being who tolerates anything we want to do. But that is not the biblical reality about God as revealed in the Bible. Logic would suggest that, If God is love, then He cannot be at the same time unloving.
The first fallacy in this question is, “Is the idea of allowing people to go to hell an unloving act on God’s part.” If we humans decide that God is wrong to allow unrepentant sinners to pay their penalty for sin, then we claim that we are more loving than God is.
The 2nd fallacy presented by this trick question concerns the word “Send,” which denotes an action only on the part of the sender. This understanding of the word send cannot be applied because God has given human beings freedom to make their own life choices. We all have a choice and each makes his own life decisions.
The way this question is worded implies that, if anyone goes to hell, it is the result of God’s unilateral action alone, & the person being sent to hell is just a passive victim, with no options!
But God has given us options! It is called Grace! God gave us the freedom to choose how we respond to Him. To give us no option but obedience would be a violation of our free will. God loves everyone, but he will never force anyone to love him back. True Love is only love when it is totally voluntary, and freely returned. Therefore, we cannot love God unless we have the option of not loving Him.
God is not some bloodthirsty evil tyrant seeking to Send as many people as he possibly can to Hell. In fact, God loves us so much he has done everything in the world he can possibly do to prevent anyone from ever going to Hell. He became one of us, and paid the ultimate price of Love, by allowing evil to crucify him on a Cross in the greatest act of Love ever demonstrated in this world! And he did it, so that nobody need ever be SENT to Hell.
So, why would a Loving God Send anybody to Hell? The truth is; He doesn't; those who go to Hell reject his Love and Seal their own destination to that awful place!
by: Darrell G. Young
Focus On Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry
How can a Loving God Send anyone to Hell? We hear this challenging question to God's very nature all the time. But in reality, this very question in and of itself is a subtle trick question, designed to challenge God's very nature and authority.
A better question appropriately asked would be as follows, “If God is LOVE, then why do some people go to hell? Our modern pop culture defines a “loving God” as a completely non-confrontational being who tolerates anything we want to do. But that is not the biblical reality about God as revealed in the Bible. Logic would suggest that, If God is love, then He cannot be at the same time unloving.
The first fallacy in this question is, “Is the idea of allowing people to go to hell an unloving act on God’s part.” If we humans decide that God is wrong to allow unrepentant sinners to pay their penalty for sin, then we claim that we are more loving than God is.
The 2nd fallacy presented by this trick question concerns the word “Send,” which denotes an action only on the part of the sender. This understanding of the word send cannot be applied because God has given human beings freedom to make their own life choices. We all have a choice and each makes his own life decisions.
The way this question is worded implies that, if anyone goes to hell, it is the result of God’s unilateral action alone, & the person being sent to hell is just a passive victim, with no options!
But God has given us options! It is called Grace! God gave us the freedom to choose how we respond to Him. To give us no option but obedience would be a violation of our free will. God loves everyone, but he will never force anyone to love him back. True Love is only love when it is totally voluntary, and freely returned. Therefore, we cannot love God unless we have the option of not loving Him.
God is not some bloodthirsty evil tyrant seeking to Send as many people as he possibly can to Hell. In fact, God loves us so much he has done everything in the world he can possibly do to prevent anyone from ever going to Hell. He became one of us, and paid the ultimate price of Love, by allowing evil to crucify him on a Cross in the greatest act of Love ever demonstrated in this world! And he did it, so that nobody need ever be SENT to Hell.
So, why would a Loving God Send anybody to Hell? The truth is; He doesn't; those who go to Hell reject his Love and Seal their own destination to that awful place!
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