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Book in Review
from His Grace Magazine
by His Grace
Page 8 His Grace Magazine! February 2022
Where do we go from Here?
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How Tomorrow's Prophecies Foreshadow today's Problems
Book by: Dr. David Jeremiah
Written by: Lynne Wood
Where do we go from here? That is a very good question; it's the title of Dr. David Jeremiah's book. He said he has never written a prophecy book like this one, and I would have to agree. This book is so interesting and informative. If you like anything to do with prophecy, you will enjoy reading this book.
There are ten chapters, each one pertains to things that are actually happening today and halfway through each chapter he talks about where we go from here with what the Bible tells us. In chapter one, he talks about a cultural prophecy - Socialism. It's hard to believe that in 2020, 40 percent of Americans view socialism as good and 47 percent of millennials feel the same way; hard to understand why.
Venezuela was the wealthiest nation in South America, then oil prices crashed in the 1980's and again in the 1990's. In 1998, they elected Hugo Chavez as their President. Once in power, he started to use the same rules as the Soviet Union, China and Cuba and he turned the country to socialism. Eventually, the government owns everything. Today, people are fleeing in record numbers trying to get into the United States. Now socialist views are being talked about in the United States. Where do we go from here: We must remain true to the truth. Resolve to follow Christ, not just admire Him. Jesus said, "If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." (John 15:19). So to keep going when talk of socialism seems to be increasing, we have to decide to give everything we are and have to God because He is in control of our lives, not the government. We must also remember that if a government tries to make us give up our biblical beliefs, then it is our responsibility to speak up.
In this book, he also talks about the falling away; many
Christians are leaving their faith and falling away from
Jesus. So many pastors, musicians and ordinary people are turning their backs on
Jesus for something different.
The Bible mentions this: "Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of
Christ had come. Let now one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition." (2 Thess. 2:1-3). As children of God, we shouldn't worry when we see certain things happening in our world today. These things must happen before Christ returns. When we follow Jesus, we must walk in the light, as we know where we are going, He has prepared the way. Jesus will return and bring us to live with Him forever. "And behold, I am coming quickly and my reward is with Me, to give everyone according to his work. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last." (Revelation 22:12-13).
