BFn Notes

What does President Donald Trump stand holding a Bible in front of a burnt Church for?

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, (Psalms 2:1-2)

As COVID19 engulfs the world as a pandemic brining social and political change it is useful to look back through history to past plagues and what their relevance to history and the Bible is. ... More

Eclipse over India and China, Trump becomes a prophet of culture, and many bow the knee, but will they bow to Christ in Submission?

22 June 2019 Eclipse over India and China

All over the world there are many lives that simply don't matter: those children working to provide material for cosmetics, the children dying mining cobalt to make batteries for mobile phones, laptops and electric cars. Those who starve, never being noted. Those in unmarked graves. Those born to drug addicted parents, those suffering addictions that nobody cares to dry out. Those who are born, live and die, never being noted by God. ... More

Someone not familiar with the Bible asked if it had prophesied flight. The Bible is a modern book in the sense that it is still relevant, not just for moral principles, but in that it seems to have pre-figured much of modern technology. ... More

Why do some CEOs support protest resulting in destruction and looting of their own stores and some of the American media seem to support protest and riot? It does make dramatic advertising and news stories, so money for them, but there is more. Many now seem to think protest does something. The recent George Floyd protests want to change police brutality, by anger. Does it change anything? If if does change something, is it good, just and right? What should a Christian think?

We are in the era of pride and the proud. In the past pride was known as a sin, but now pride is thought a part of self esteem, a 'good' thing. Events now are reducing pride, but soon the arrogancy of the proud shall cease- entirely. ... More

The opening of churches and places of worship is in dispute in America and at the same time it is reported over 40 became sick in a single Baptist church service in Germany.

When the political world is in turmoil, often there are signs also the natural world. In Revelation political upheaval is called an earthquake, the most notable being the dramatic world-changing earthquake of the French Revolution which followed years of signs and strange weather from a massive volcanic eruption in Iceland in 1783-4. The political earthquake occurring now, however, is dispersed, in diverse places. There are a string of earthquakes in divers places.

It is Mother's Day and the wind left open notes from the Bible to a page this morning where I had written “I am a Jealous God.. Honour thy Father and Mother.” I was reading also “Cursed be he that sets light by his Father or Mother.” Deut 27:16. Why and how do we honour?