The Age of Aquarius seems to have ushered in an age of pagan superstition. According to old statistics in my file, in the U.S. alone there are estimated 2, 000 newspapers that regularly carry astrological columns, 10, 000 full-time and 175, 000 part-time

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• The Age of Aquarius seems to have ushered in an
  age of pagan superstition. According to old
  statistics in my file, in the U.S. alone there
  are estimated 2, 000 newspapers that regularly
  carry astrological columns, 10, 000 full-time and
  175, 000 part-time astrologers. About ten million
  Americans seriously believe in Astrology, we are
  told.
• Man has a preoccupation in wanting to know the
  future. Modern Astrology is simply defined as,
  "Type of divination that consists in forecasting
  earthly and human events by means of observing
  and interpreting the fixed stars, the Sun, the
  Moon, and the Planets" (Encyclopaedia
  Britannica).

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• The Bibles treatment of time
• 1. Past Phili. 3 13.
• 2. Present 2 Cor. 6 2.
• 3. Future Phili. 3 13.

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• Some misuse 2 Peter 3 8
• 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
  thing, that one day is with the Lord as a
  thousand years, and a thousand years as one day
  (2 Pet. 3).
• God is not restricted by time, this is what Peter
  is saying (see vs. 3-7).

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• God is aware of earths time
• 4 But when the fulness of the time was come,
  God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made
  under the law (Gal. 4, cp. Gen. 1, 1 5, 6, 13,
  19, 23, 31).

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• Man is to be aware of the time
• 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is
  high time to awake out of sleep for now is our
  salvation nearer than when we believed (Rom. 13).

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• Some misuse time
• 1. Dwell on past Phili. 3 13, cf. v. 4.
• 2. Some ignore present Heb. 3 12-15.
• 3. Pre-occupied with future Luke 12 16-21.

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• Out of all available time, man spends most of his
  energies on the past and future, wasting the
  present. The present is perhaps the greater
  means of effecting the future.

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• Man wants to control the future

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow
we will go into such a city, and continue there a
year, and buy and sell, and get gain 14 Whereas
ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what
is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth
for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we
shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye
rejoice in your boastings all such rejoicing is
evil (Jas. 4).
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• God knows the future
• 5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal,
  and compare me, that we may be like?.... 9
  Remember the former things of old for I am God,
  and there is none else I am God, and there is
  none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the
  beginning, and from ancient times the things that
  are not yet done (Isa. 46).

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• God alone knows the future
• 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this
  life, all the days of his vain life which he
  spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man
  what shall be after him under the sun? (Eccl. 6,
  10 14).

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Revelation 4
The Control Room of the Universe
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What He saw, What Was and What Was to Come

• The vision of the Son of Man was what he saw (ch.
  1). But there will be much more to see and write
  about.
• The letters to the churches was what was. This
  scene in heaven is also what was. But soon, with
  the opening of the first seal, he will be writing
  about the things that were to come.

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• 2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a
  loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and
  to loose the seals thereof? 3 And no man in
  heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth,
  was able to open the book, neither to look
  thereon..5 And one of the elders saith unto me,
  Weep not behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda,
  the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the
  book, and to loose the seven seals thereof (Rev.
  5).

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• History can reveal regarding the future
• 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which
  shall be and that which is done is that which
  shall be done and there is no new thing under
  the sun (Eccl. 1, see vs. 4-8).

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• Widsoms teaching regarding the future
• 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and
  lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all
  thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
  paths (Prov. 3, cp. I Pet. 3 12).

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• Wisdoms teaching regarding the future
• 3 Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy
  thoughts shall be established (Prov. 16).
• As a child opens its heart to a tender parent,
  so do thou show to God thy desires and
  intentions, trusting to his care and providence
  (Pulpit Commentary, Vol. 9, pg. 309).

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• Wisdoms teaching regarding the future
• 24 Man's goings are of the LORD how can a man
  then understand his own way? (Prov. 20).
• The proverb says that the steps of a great and
  powerful man depend, as their final cause, upon
  the Lord he conditions and controls results.

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• Wisdoms teaching regarding the future
• Man has free-will, and is responsible for his
  actions, but God foreknows them and holds the
  thread that connects them together (Pulpit
  Commentary, Vol. 9, pg. 388, regarding Prov. 20
  24).

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• Wisdoms teaching regarding the future
• 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days,
  and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a
  flower, and is cut down he fleeth also as a
  shadow, and continueth not (Job 14).

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• Wisdoms teaching regarding the future
• 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow
  for the morrow shall take thought for the things
  of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
  thereof (Matt. 6).

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• Suggestions regarding the future
• Consider prevailing facts (Acts 18 21).
• Establish priorities (Matt. 6 33).
• Stay flexible (cp. Acts 18 21).
• Focus on each day and present time (Matt. 6
  34).

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Death, Biblically Viewed

• Luke 16 19-31

Great fixed gulf
Abrahams bosom

Tartarus
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Death, Biblically Viewed

• Luke 16 19-31

Great fixed gulf
J
Abrahams bosom
U

D
G
M
E
Tartarus
N
T
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Death, Biblically Viewed

• Luke 16 19-31

Heaven
Great fixed gulf
J
Abrahams bosom
U

D
G
M
E
Hell
Tartarus
N
T
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• Conclusion
• 22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing
  better, than that a man should rejoice in his own
  works for that is his portion for who shall
  bring him to see what shall be after him? (Eccl.
  3).

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