WHY DOES GOD...

[th1b.taylor]

Those three periods in the title represent a good number of other words but often they go somewhat like "ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME? I make a request for this string of the Moderators, I, loving to preach and to teach, allow God to speak through me, know, for a certainty this string will make one great Bible Study but I also know, through the Father, some needing this lesson will not read a Bible study and so it is I ask that it not be moved.

This question includes a multitude of veins and some of them run in the most dastardly of subjects. The range runs from a young child asking about bullying through all manor of rape and includes why Hitler and the Nazis were allowed to murder, rape and perform horrible experiments on the Jews and the Slavics.

Let's begin with:
2 Kings 6:17
Verse Concepts
Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see " And the LORD opened the servant's eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Joshua 5:13-15
Verse Concepts
Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?" He said, "No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, "What has my lord to say to his servant?" The captain of the LORD'S host said to Joshua, "Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.

1 Samuel 17:45
Verse Concepts
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.

1 Kings 22:19
Verse Concepts
Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.

Isaiah 34:2
Verse Concepts
For the LORD'S indignation is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter.

Revelation 9:16
Verse Concepts
The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.

God is grooming every one of us, lost or saved, to be a strong people. Just as scripture teaches "For many are called but few are chosen." God's Army is "not" a collection of weak kneed sissies, no, indeed! God called this old man when I was a self serving, self anointed, self proclaiming Atheist. But mark my word, my trial, though I had been raped by more than one Homosexual Pervert and though I was raised by three Alcoholic Parents, mom, father and dad, my Stepfather, my trial had just begun that I might be tempered as steel into the service of the Master.

Today there are, certainly, not as many Jewish Believers as there would have been had the Father never turned the minions of Satan loose on them but, at the same time there is a growing number of Completed Jewish People following the teaching of Jesus, some of it through Brother Saul, the man Jesus, later renamed Paul. Through the centuries, God has never quenched Antisemitism and as a result, entire family lineages of Jewish Peoples have been erased.

All of these circumstances lend themselves to a multitude of uses and misuses. One thing, the one thing God desires is what this lost world calls nut like me! I can care less what people like Jim Jones and the Waco Wacko teach, liars abound but the Word of God, first recorded in script by Moses and completed nearly 2000 years ago has stood the test of examination and the test of time and has been proven.

Feel tested? Have you ever considered that God loves you and that is why you are being tested? God is sllowing Satan to drive you away from himself and into God's waiting Arms.

 

[Michael74]

Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’ Isaiah 41:10 NKJV

 

[LovethroughDove]

Bill, I was going through something major this week and the Lord gave me this scripture. (for me) and I needed it.

Luke 22:31-32 "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."

The revelation from this scripture he put on my heart, was that the devil wants "Me". Why? Cause I matter. You matter Bill!

 

[th1b.taylor]

Bill, I was going through something major this week and the Lord gave me this scripture. (for me) and I needed it.

Luke 22:31-32 "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."

The revelation from this scripture he put on my heart, was that the devil wants "Me". Why? Cause I matter. You matter Bill!

Thank you but for my LORD I would matter to no one. Paul Edgar Heinen, found on the November, 1966 Panel of the Wall I will never visit was closer to me than my brothers or sisters and had he not died that night, I might never have known God because I was so busy keeping Him out of my life.

A finer human being has never walked the face of this planet, save Jesus, and a huge part of Bill Taylor died that night, with him. But had I not been tested, and that one nearly killed me inside, I would not be the man I became. These tests God allows are so important to us and when they strike, we just want to roll over and die.

Even after God spoke to me, in that soft, still, small voice, I was angry, I beat a nice but small in stature man nearly to death because I was so drunk I stumbled over an upright Fifty-five Gallon Drum and he put his hands on me to help me to my feet, I was an animal in grief.

But from that day, until January 1, 1990 God kept a hand on my shoulder and He built a new man I am not ashamed of. And there are millions of drunks in Juke Joints all over the world every Friday and Saturday Night that need to know what God will do with a drug using, pot smoking, needle injecting, drunk Blues singing Cowboy. God stands at the door to our hearts, if there is one, and knocks, asking us to let Him comfort us and so few will answer that door.

 

[Brother Mike]

Thank you but for my LORD I would matter to no one. Paul Edgar Heinen, found on the November, 1966 Panel of the Wall I will never visit was closer to me than my brothers or sisters and had he not died that night, I might never have known God because I was so busy keeping Him out of my life.

A finer human being has never walked the face of this planet, save Jesus, and a huge part of Bill Taylor died that night, with him. But had I not been tested, and that one nearly killed me inside, I would not be the man I became. These tests God allows are so important to us and when they strike, we just want to roll over and die.

Even after God spoke to me, in that soft, still, small voice, I was angry, I beat a nice but small in stature man nearly to death because I was so drunk I stumbled over an upright Fifty-five Gallon Drum and he put his hands on me to help me to my feet, I was an animal in grief.

But from that day, until January 1, 1990 God kept a hand on my shoulder and He built a new man I am not ashamed of. And there are millions of drunks in Juke Joints all over the world every Friday and Saturday Night that need to know what God will do with a drug using, pot smoking, needle injecting, drunk Blues singing Cowboy. God stands at the door to our hearts, if there is one, and knocks, asking us to let Him comfort us and so few will answer that door.

Why does God Allow?

2 years as a new believer and I had to answer this for someone who was repeatedly rapped by his step Father. It was something on his heart against God, though He was a Christian, but never had that question answered about his childhood. He asked me, and You just don't give pat answer to these questions, you have to hear from God himself as to why, and God must supply the scripture to back what He told you.
We have to many unlearned believers hurting people with answers that just come to the top of their head though religious garbage. A question like this needs answered from the Lord Himself.

I think believers need to understand that When God spoke his word, it created spiritual laws that God will not break, bypass or violate. The Word of God is perfect, solid, and never changes. What's true in Genesis is just as true in Revelation, and it all must line up perfectly, no contradictions. Understanding spiritual laws, and what God set fourth brings us out of the dark as to the why of many things, and enables us to have faith to operate in victory mode. It was Jesus that said you will know the truth, and the truth will Make you free.

It answers the question about Job, and the why Job had for 30 some chapters. God said it was man that chooses to be blessed or cursed, that never has changed. When we understand the Word never changes for anyone, and respects nobody, then light comes, and revelation on how the Earth is governed and the spiritual laws that uphold all things, even the air we breath.

When we understand why things work, and How God operates, then we understand that Satan himself also can not violate what God said. Satan has no devices that transcend the Power of the spoken word and that puts us in a really awesome position if we just take sides with the Father.

Mike.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Why does God Allow?

2 years as a new believer and I had to answer this for someone who was repeatedly rapped by his step Father. It was something on his heart against God, though He was a Christian, but never had that question answered about his childhood. He asked me, and You just don't give pat answer to these questions, you have to hear from God himself as to why, and God must supply the scripture to back what He told you.
We have to many unlearned believers hurting people with answers that just come to the top of their head though religious garbage. A question like this needs answered from the Lord Himself.

I think believers need to understand that When God spoke his word, it created spiritual laws that God will not break, bypass or violate. The Word of God is perfect, solid, and never changes. What's true in Genesis is just as true in Revelation, and it all must line up perfectly, no contradictions. Understanding spiritual laws, and what God set fourth brings us out of the dark as to the why of many things, and enables us to have faith to operate in victory mode. It was Jesus that said you will know the truth, and the truth will Make you free.

It answers the question about Job, and the why Job had for 30 some chapters. God said it was man that chooses to be blessed or cursed, that never has changed. When we understand the Word never changes for anyone, and respects nobody, then light comes, and revelation on how the Earth is governed and the spiritual laws that uphold all things, even the air we breath.

When we understand why things work, and How God operates, then we understand that Satan himself also can not violate what God said. Satan has no devices that transcend the Power of the spoken word and that puts us in a really awesome position if we just take sides with the Father.

Mike.

First, let me thank the Mods for not moving this subject but leaving it where anyone, even the un-knowledgeable, can pour out their feelings without feeling they need to be Bible Scholars.

Mike, fantastic, helpful words of knowledge. Because of what you have enumerated with this post, I understood, in November of '66 that God was but because of the Life Events that had transpired during my early years, I could not follow Him.

I was, like so many I come across, too dirty to ever go to Heaven and not at all certain I could follow a god (small g intended) that inflicted such pain on me. I had a very corkscrewed view of what God had seen recorded in the Scriptures He left for us, that happens when we pull our information from a multitude of sources and the Bible is not viewed as trumping all else.

I am very glad I did not need to answer this question as an Infant Christian. May God bless you and yours.

 

[Brother Mike]

First, let me thank the Mods for not moving this subject but leaving it where anyone, even the un-knowledgeable, can pour out their feelings without feeling they need to be Bible Scholars.

Mike, fantastic, helpful words of knowledge. Because of what you have enumerated with this post, I understood, in November of '66 that God was but because of the Life Events that had transpired during my early years, I could not follow Him.

I was, like so many I come across, too dirty to ever go to Heaven and not at all certain I could follow a god (small g intended) that inflicted such pain on me. I had a very corkscrewed view of what God had seen recorded in the Scriptures He left for us, that happens when we pull our information from a multitude of sources and the Bible is not viewed as trumping all else.

I am very glad I did not need to answer this question as an Infant Christian. May God bless you and yours.

Amen, God is Master at taking us from where we been, had endured, to spit and polish a creature made for his purpose.

My case of the boy who prayed to God everyday to keep his step father from raping him, wanted to know where God was at. Hard question, and you don't just answer those question saying it's better now, right? You have to hear from the Lord directly, as He knows.

The Lord told me it's not that He did not want to answer this little boys prayer, but He could not. The Lord then said His Grandma did pray, and the Lord answered that.

For the unbelieving husband is set apart (separated, withdrawn from heathen contamination, and affiliated with the Christian people) by union with his consecrated (set-apart) wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart and separated through union with her consecrated husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean (unblessed heathen, outside the Christian covenant), but as it is they are prepared for God [pure and clean].
(1Co 7:14)

Deu_30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

For a child to pray and have authority over the Devil and his Kingdom, would make that child also responsible before God, and the accusations of the devil for their own Salvation. God does not turn that type of authority over to a child, nor holds the child responsible. It takes the believing guardian who has a right over the child to go to God.

The step father died suddenly of a heart attack. When I explained to this man how this worked, and what the Lord said, the burden lifted of blaming God. He said that's right, my Grandma did start praying, and my Step Father just dropped dead.

So before people start accusing our great and merciful Father and asking why God allowed, they should be asking instead of How that all works, and what can I do in the future to not be in that position again. It's pride that says God was not there, and did nothing, when God has promised so many wonderful things in His Word. A Word He will never violate, and keep on our behalf. God will darken the sun and shake every mountain for one believer who is standing on His word if that is what it takes to perform what God had said.

 

[th1b.taylor]

AMEN! Often I must step back and pray before there are any words for my fingers to type or my mouth to speak to a person. Prayer was and is the most powerful instrument any Believer holds in their Arsenal.

 

[Brother Mike]

AMEN! Often I must step back and pray before there are any words for my fingers to type or my mouth to speak to a person. Prayer was and is the most powerful instrument any Believer holds in their Arsenal.

Prayer is very powerful and I have looked at the possibility that people don't actually get born again until we pray for them to remove that vial off their heart. It might not be like that, but family begats family.

I know one guy and his story, it seemed like he had it bad from a child, to seriel Killer. The molestation he went through as a kid all the way to him killing people and then put to death. To me it seemed like the guy never had a chance, and i asked the Lord about it. The Lord said, "Nobody ever came to me about him the whole time He was growing up, not once."

I am not sure what all that means with every aspect of the Word and how people are saved, but someone standing in prayer for this guy, I fully believe would have changed the outcome of his life.

Mike.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Prayer is very powerful and I have looked at the possibility that people don't actually get born again until we pray for them to remove that vial off their heart. It might not be like that, but family begats family.

I know one guy and his story, it seemed like he had it bad from a child, to seriel Killer. The molestation he went through as a kid all the way to him killing people and then put to death. To me it seemed like the guy never had a chance, and i asked the Lord about it. The Lord said, "Nobody ever came to me about him the whole time He was growing up, not once."

I am not sure what all that means with every aspect of the Word and how people are saved, but someone standing in prayer for this guy, I fully believe would have changed the outcome of his life.

Mike.

Over the past 25+ years I have witnessed the working of God through Prayers and I trust that I will never cease to be amazed. I stand, proclaiming that if the Christian World would fall on their face with me in heart felt prayer for Barry Obama... God wold be witnessed transforming him. Sadly though, people pray Form and Formula Prayers that lack any heart at all.

And God does not want empty Form Prayers. God wants heart to heart conversations, Fellowship with the Saved!