The Faithful Christian a blog of The Lighthouse Ministries

There are so many signs that tell us we are living in the last days of earth's history. Not only do we have the main Bible signs , and the 6000 year timeline plan of God , we also have the apostle Paul's description of the last days in 2 Timothy 3. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 .....'This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.' Would you agree that we are living in "perilous times"? I believe we are. But how can we be in the last days when so many people around the world are living normal happy lives, without a care in the world? ... Matthew 24:37-

Isaiah 1-2 How God Sees Sin   1.  God sees the PERVASIVENESS of our sin.   In  Isaiah 1:1-8 , Isaiah the prophet describes a vision he has concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  In verses 2-4 God makes various statements about Israel that I believe prophetically refer to all of us, “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me, The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly!  They have forsaken the  Lord , they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. We need to hear these words as spoken to us.  God is revealing to us who we are.  Like the doctor who examines his patient, God is examining us, and he not only sees our sin, he sees the pervasiveness of our sin.  Listen again to what he says in v. 5b-6 “The whole head is sick, and th