I didn't really plan this but this 3rd entry seems like a continuation of my previous 2 posts
My initial post was as Sharing about "Seizing your divine moment"... followed by "Don't miss that opportunity" from a devotional that i read...And now recently i feel inspired to share something which happened to me last weekend...
15But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,1 Peter 3:15
The day started in my bunk on a saturday morning in camp, when i got a call that i needed to stand in as a duty officer for the camp as the previous CDO did not turn up and i was the last resort replacement...at the start i was thinking whats the odds of this happening as i was supposedly already manning in camp... but i just decided to continue and do it...and as the day past... i started to recall that maybe God has a purpose and plan for me being on duty that very day...I was praying in the office, for an opportunity that i can just seize...
...and slowly the afternooon past... and by night a second duty clerk came to change shift... when he came into the office we just started some small chat and i somehow that small chat started to become a pretty deep discussion abt the Faith that i believed in and even had some new insights of certain End times topics which i wld share later through our discussion.
It all started with the usual questions of what i plan to do after I ORD?...and it was where it led me to share my testimony of how i became so devoted to Christ which led me one day choosing to go to a bible college after i ORD...he then started asking a lot of questions ...which led to me to share a whole bunch of topics...like abt spiritual gifts,why there is a Creator,questions abt a Greater Being that sets the laws and morals of the world and also abt Faith...
I can tell this guy that i just met was an intellectual guy who wld probably succeed in the world we live in. Someone who have a drive to succeed in this secular world, who aims to earn a lot of money in the future. I guess there was a curiosity in him which led him to ask a lot of questions pertaining to Christianity... one of it was abt what he heard abt the End times...
So I just shared some of my 2 cents thoughts to it, one of it was relating to a speculation of barcodes and 666 which i once heard abt of...where it states that the mark of the beast wld have the number 666, and that in all barcodes they have that number too. And that was predicted in Revelations too, that one day people would have such mark implanted in their right hands and foreheads, and one need such a mark to buy or sell things.
"16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e] That number is 666." Revelation 13:16-18
The scary things about this is...such implantation are already happening in the world, and now its almost going into this cashless society where everything is by scanning of cards? Ez-link? Cash cards? and soon everyone in the world wld have such a barcode which will be implanted in one's hand or forehead?
For full reference to the link that both of us found on the inet while having that conversation....(Do read this is quite mind blowing)
http://www.av1611.org/666/barcode.html
Look at any barcode you have....will you think twice wld you think twice that it will be the mark of the beast to come?
Although all this are just speculations... the coincidences of all these seems to fit to well...and i believe somehow just from those conversations abt the End times, led to us referring to the Bible where i believed had led him to be convince that maybe what the bible all says really is the TRUTH. At the end of the day, I cld sense that he was kinda convinced by it,which led him to want to read a bit of the book of revelations from the bible that was in front of me at that point of time.
Well i dunno if this guy i met that day wld stumble across this post... but i do pray that the long conversation I had abt the Faith i believed in wld have watered a seed that was already planted in his heart years ago when he last step into a church. Although he was still very skeptical then, somehow... i'm praying that what was shared to him that night wld have moved in his heart and soon one day acknowledge that there really is a Greater Being out there who cares and LOVE us and all he needs is to received and accept the GRACE that is given freely to him.
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