Good morning, blog readers, from sunny and cool (52 degrees) where, on my morning walk, I saw: 41 robins, 39 grackles, 12 blackbirds, 8 doves, 5 geese, 4 deer, 2 crows, 2 finches and a bunny! Thank You, Jesus!
Lately, if you’ve been watching the news and weather, you have heard about the wildfires in Canada. According to FOX NEWS.com, “Canadian wildfires are continuing to pour smoke along the East Coast of the United States, including the New Your City area, which Wednesday afternoon, appeared red like it was on the planet Mars. Canadian officials have reached out to other countries to help fight the more than 400 fires across the country that have displaced 20,000 people.”
In addition to the headline about the Canadian fires, I saw this headline from yesterday’s Washington Post: “Images and video show Hawaii’s “Kilauea volcano erupting again.”
In the article, Kasha Patel reported: “Hawaii’s second-largest volcano began erupting Wednesday morning, displaying a dynamic fiery show after three months of inactivity. The action at the Kilauea volcano is confined within a closed area of the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, but officials are closely monitoring activity for potential hazards to the region. Past activity at the volcano has consumed houses and sent ash clouds high into the sky.”
After I read these two headlines of volcanic activity, out of curiosity and my love of Bible prophecy, I decided to look up the word “fire” in my “Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and found it was used 26 different times in the Book of Revelation (1:14, 2:18, 3:18, 4:5, 8:5, 7, 8, 9:17 (2), 9:18, 10:1,11:5,13:13,14:10,18,15:2,16:8,17:16,18:8,19:12, 20, 20:9,10,14,15 and 21:8. And, all in regards to a form of judgment, including the Judge Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ.
As I have said before, Jesus will either be your Savior or Judge. My prayer is that He is or will soon be, even today, your Savior by agreeing with God you are a sinner who needs a Savior Who is Jesus (Romans 3:23, 24) and believe He died on a cross for your sins, was buried and raised from the dead (I Corinthians 15:1-4) to forgive all your sins and give you eternal life (John 3:16).
And, if you are a believer in Jesus, keep watching, waiting, working, witnessing for, walking with and worshiping Jesus until He comes. Blessings with love and prayers, Doug (6/8/23)