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Why Did God Give Us Biblical Prophecy?

Here’s your weekly word of biblical encouragement from Bibles.net! Enjoy this short video devotional or read its contents below, adapted from a message by Pastor Britt Merrick.

The video above will help us avoid a mistake when reading biblical prophecy.

Bible prophecy was never given by God so that we can just ooh and ah and oogle about the possibilities of the future.

It is given by God to form our moral and ethical approach to life today as Christians, as people of God, so that if we see that in the future, God’s purpose is that he has witnesses and a witnessing church then we must ask ourselves, “Are we a witnessing church?”

We can’t just say, “Oh, someday there’ll be two witnesses. We’ll leave it to Mo [Moses] and Eli.”

We can’t just say that maybe at this point in history or in the future, the church will be a witnessing church.

We must ask, “Are we—are you—a witnessing people?”

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Britt Merrick

The Bibles.net Weekly Word gives you weekly encouragement through a carefully chosen portion of a Bible-based message preached by a faithful Bible teacher. This content was adapted from the message, “God’s Purposes Prevail and His People Are Vindicated” on Revelation 11, by permission of Reality Church in Carpinteria, CA, and Pastor Britt Merrick.

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