John Wesley on the 1746 earthquake in Lima Peru
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Reading about an earthquake that leveled Lima Peru in 1746 in sermon by John Wesley - humbling! But biblical principles are clearer in this sermon than in the “new spirituality” that permeates our land. Lord have mercy on us. Will be addressing some of these things in messages tonight and Sunday. End Times Pt 5 End Times Spiritual Deception
Overlooking Nazareth, Mount Gilboa, Mount Tabor, sights Jesus would have grown up with.
The wind was howling on the top of the cliff. Jesus would have grown up seeing this view, perhaps out on the ridge meditating at times. Imagine all the stories in the Bible from Deborah & Barak in Judges 4 around Mount Tabor or Saul and Jonathan in 1 Sam 31 when they fell slain on Mt Gilboa. The Bible would have happened right in His backyard.
And here we are! Though Nazareth would not be the sprawling city of 140 thousand as it is today but in reality a village of perhaps 20 families.
Imagine Jesus coming to Nazareth, as Luke 4 records, going into the synagogue and quoting Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, ….
HE STOPS here mid sentence and says this is fulfilled.
They then realizing the implications of his claiming to be the Messiah, they are offended that this man, a son of Joseph, would claim such a thing and they try to throw him off the cliff that NAzareth is built upon but he escapes.
Here we are!
