The Handwriting Is On the Wall (2010)

Your Perception is Your Reality
John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)
Given 22-Sep-10; 42 minutes

A perception is how we affix significance to what we look at. With a distorted perception, we will not accept reality; our perception becomes our reality.

Examining God's Claim

John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)
Given 23-Sep-10; 25 minutes

God Almighty owns everything; we live here at His privilege. We give thanks when we return a portion of what he has lavishly given us.

Do You Recognize This Man? (Part Six)

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Given 23-Sep-10; 77 minutes

Jesus shared many happy feasts with His disciples and attended banquets and celebrations, much to the chagrin of the self-righteous Pharisees.

The Lord Gives

Clyde Finklea
Given 23-Sep-10; 22 minutes

Jonathan was a friend to David, loving David as he would his own life, giving David his robe, armor, and weapon, jeopardizing his own life.

We Can Make It!

John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)
Given 23-Sep-10; 72 minutes

A disciple cannot escape the kind of persecution directed against his teacher. In the wake of this kind of abuse, people can succumb to depression.

Called To Be Saints

David C. Grabbe
Given 24-Sep-10; 18 minutes

Becoming holy is our full-time vocation as we live in the world. Unfortunately, Satan and the world have often established outposts or beachheads in our mind.

Heavenly Citizenship (Part One)

Martin G. Collins
Given 24-Sep-10; 68 minutes

As citizens of the Kingdom of God, we are strangers, foreigners, aliens, or pilgrims to the world, but full-fledged citizens of God's Kingdom.

God's Terroir

Bill Onisick
Given 25-Sep-10; 19 minutes

Those who submit to God's pruning and cultivating will yield abundant fruit even though the surface conditions may not look the best.

The March Toward Globalism (Part One)

The End-Time System Is Forming
John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)
Given 25-Sep-10; 77 minutes

The cat has been let out of the bag in terms of plans to establish a New World Order, possibly the precursor or foundation for the Beast of Revelation.

Salvation

James Beaubelle
Given 26-Sep-10; 22 minutes

God has been painstakingly building the salvation process. We must seek to become a steward of God's life saving Word, rightly dividing and applying it.

Whatever Became of Sin?

Defining Deviancy Down
David F. Maas
Given 26-Sep-10; 33 minutes

Jesus Christ did not preach collective salvation and did not remove the responsibility from any of us for overcoming or qualifying for His kingdom.

A Contrast of Kings

Nimrod and Melchizedek
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Given 26-Sep-10; 35 minutes

We currently have no preparation for our future roles as kings and priests, but God desires to fill thousands of leadership positions in the Millennium.

Exhort One Another Daily

Ronny H. Graham
Given 27-Sep-10; 14 minutes

We need to encourage and exhort one another to stand firm, realizing that the spiritual roller coaster ride will not last forever.

Going on to Perfection

John O. Reid
Given 27-Sep-10; 35 minutes

We are bombarded by technology, competing for our attention, causing us to drift from our spiritual quest. God expects us to continue to mature spiritually.

Teaching the Good News of the Promise

Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)
Given 27-Sep-10; 40 minutes

We must teach God's ways to our offspring, orienting them to the way of give rather than get, admonishing them to purify themselves from the ways of the world.

How to Avoid Compromise

Gilbert Boyer
Given 28-Sep-10; 20 minutes

Compromise with God's standards will lead to an erosion of faith and truth. We endanger ourselves through not wanting to make waves in the name of a false 'unity.'

Heavenly Citizenship (Part Two)

Martin G. Collins
Given 28-Sep-10; 78 minutes

We have an obligation to respond to our calling, no longer living on a passport, but having a birth certificate in our heavenly kingdom.

Is This the Life You Want?

Kim Myers
Given 29-Sep-10; 19 minutes

Society has lured our young people into financial and sexual debacles, drugs and alcohol, having traded their potential firstfruit status for corrosive sins.

A People Being Prepared to Pass the Rope

Mark Schindler
Given 29-Sep-10; 41 minutes

We are students in a spiritual academy, something like the Citadel, learning to be leaders, learning to pass the rope to save our fellow passengers.

Thankfulness for Righteous Judgment

Martin G. Collins
Given 30-Sep-10; 17 minutes

Hoarding gold and silver will be of little value in the midst of God's wrath. God is not interested in our wealth, but in our submission to Him.

John 7:37 Examined (Part One)

The Last Day of the Feast and the Last Great Day
John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)
Given 30-Sep-10; 75 minutes

The Eighth Day (or Last Great Day) is a separate festival from the Feast of Tabernacles, which can only derive its significance in the New Testament.

We Shall Be Like a Tree

Mike Ford
Given 30-Sep-10; 16 minutes

In Genesis and Revelation the tree of life figures prominently as a way of life, prefiguring our destiny of bearing fruit and living eternally.

John 7:37 Examined (Part Two)

John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)
Given 30-Sep-10; 52 minutes

All of the events in John 8-10 occurred on the Eighth Day. Christ was crucified in 31 AD, and the postponement rules of the Hebrew calendar are accurate.