If you look at all the glittering lights, glamor and gaudiness of modern lifestyles or culture, the untrained eye could be led to think “we sure have come a long way”. The world measures progress by all of this and more: that is, who has has the best toys. Another yardstick is – who is more technologically savvy or proficient.

We have become so advanced in an electronic age that we see companies pushing the envelope to compete with each other. They spend billions of dollars on Super Bowl commercial ads which range from race car driver Danica Patrick, shedding her clothes year and yea, to promote an internet hosting site called Godaddy.com to a large dog seemingly burying a cat and paying off a witness with Doritos chips to say “You didn’t see nutthin”, supposedly written by the dog.

This is where the culture is in 2012. We have a so-called sophisticated society simmering in a soup of what Scripture says is “Darkness”! How can it be darkness, when we are so “enlightened” today?! Well, consider this verse “…And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil”…. (John 3:19 ESV)

The basic truth of the matter is that the “light” of the world is completely different and opposite to the Light Who came into the world over 2000 years ago! The thirst for knowledge and reason has led many to an age of Enlightenment for centuries now, but the end result of all of that is deception by the angel of light – Satan! The god of this world has so blinded so many it is now critical that we do all we can to rescue this and the next generation from the oblivion they face. This oblivion is an eternity separated from God because our kids and their kids have followed a system of education and “leadership” which turned their hearts from the One True God and Light – Jesus Christ.

Just last May, in a case which stunned America, San Antonio, Texas judge Fred Biery handed down a ruling which banned student-led benediction or invocation from graduation exercises. This is unconstitutional in itself, as the Supreme Court has allowed this freedom, as long as students lead it and not teachers.

Just last week, Cranston High School in Westerly, Rhode Island, one of the few religious towns in Rhode Island, was forced to take down a prayer banner because an atheist named Jessisca Ahlquist and the ACLU forced the matter in liberal courts there. Not just that. now Ahlquist and the ACLU want the school district to pay over $173,000 in court costs due to assuage the “pain” they suffered from having to see that banner!!! If there is any justice in America, a judge will award her no more than $1 in damages!

Men and women love the darkness. They meet in secret to have illicit affairs and trysts. They have their slimy secret societies…………….TO READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE, CLICK HERE

When Old Testament (or pre-Calvary) saints died, they went directly to Paradise. Christ called it “Abraham’s bosom” which is a place of Comfort and Rest for those who died in Faith. They obviously did not have a chance to believe in and accept Jesus as Lord of their lives, because He was not crucified on the Cross yet. Jesus’ death on the Cross made atonement for every believer from Adam until the end of time.

Several passages in the Bible describe what Heaven is like. The goal of this message is not to look into every passage on heaven but to give the flavor of the Eternal City. But I must tease with this verse from Isaiah 35:5 NASB “A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it”. 

Wow! This is an important verse because it prophesied over 700 years before Christ, just who is going to be a resident of the eternal city of God. From here on out, the Bible describes the City, which both Abraham and John the Apostle were allowed to see, according to the Word of God.

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