God's Plan for Man and Planet Earth

Elton Yutzy

Description

The author has been studying the prophetic scriptures for over forty years. He postulates that the prophets not only give us a telescopic view into the future (ages to come Ephesians 2:7) but also a telescopic view into ages past (Ephesians 3:5,9). God is the only one who truly knows the end from the beginning thus his word is the only reliable source for studying the beginning of creation to the new heaven and new earth. You will find his thoughts on the beginning of life and other issues facing the church today plus God’s plan for Israel, the church, the gentiles, the new Jerusalem and the future age both challenging and thought provoking for liberal and conservative students of the bible.

Sujets

• God
• Human
• Planet

Informations

• Publié par: Toplink Publishing, LLC
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781948779647
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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GOD’S Plan for Man and Planet Earth
Elton Yutzy


Copyright © 2018 by Elton Yutzy.
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Contents
Credits
About the author
Introduction
Chapter 1 : Before the Beginning
Chapter 2 : The Beginning of the Ages
Chapter 3 : Creation Week: The Present Age Begins
Chapter 4 : Man’s body, God’s Temple
Chapter 5 : The Garden of Eden
Chapter 6 : The Creation of Eve
Chapter 7 : God’s Plan for Man
Chapter 8 : The Fall of Man and the Curse
Chapter 9 : The Effects of the Curse
Chapter 10 : Conscience: God’s Moral Compass for Humanity
Chapter 11 : Sons of God
Chapter 12 : Effects of the Flood on Creation
Chapter 13 : Rainbow Covenant
Chapter 14 : Tower of Babel
Chapter 15 : The Calling of Abraham
Chapter 16 : The Blessing of Abram
Chapter 17 : Predestination versus Free Will
Chapter 18 : Calvinism versus Arminianism
Chapter 19 : Israel – God’s Wife
Chapter 20 : Idolatry – The Root of Sin
Chapter 21 : The Times of the Gentiles
Chapter 22 : Daniel’s 70 Weeks
Chapter 23 : The Church Age
Chapter 24 : The Destruction of the Temple Prophesied
Chapter 25 : Let no one deceive you
Chapter 26 : The Gospel of the Kingdom
Chapter 27 : The Abomination of Desolation
Chapter 28 : Armageddon
Chapter 29 : The Times and Seasons of His Return
Chapter 30 : Anti-Semitism, God’s tool to bring Israel back to their land
Chapter 31 : The Church And The Tribulation
Chapter 32 : From Tribulation to Peace and Prosperity
Chapter 33 : The Sheep and Goat Nations
Chapter 34 : The Kingdom Age
Chapter 35 : The First Resurrection
Chapter 36 : The Wedding
Chapter 37 : Characteristics of the Kingdom
Chapter 38 : The Millennial Temple
Chapter 39 : The Glory of the Lord Returns
Chapter 40 : Reigning with Christ
Chapter 41 : The Kingdom Economy
Chapter 42 : Kingdom Justice – ruling with a rod of iron
Chapter 43 : Travel in the Kingdom
Chapter 44 : The Final War Between Good and Evil
Chapter 45 : The Judgment of the Wicked Dead
Chapter 46 : Predestination - By Decree or By Default
Chapter 47 : Hell – Where Is It?
Chapter 48 : The New Heaven and New Earth
Chapter 49 : The New Jerusalem
Chapter 50 : The Inheritance – Our Incentive to Work
Conclusion: Admonition to Christians


Credits
T his book is the product of over 50 years of reading and studying. So many people and authors have contributed to my growth and understanding of the Bible that it is impossible for me to remember them. But in the final analysis I came to the conclusion the bible is the best commentary – and the only inspired commentary - on the Bible and can only be understood when accompanied by the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth (John 16:13; 1 Cor. 2:10-14). Thanks be to God for making His truth known and giving us His Holy Spirit to guide us i n it.
I do want to give a great big thank you to my loving and understanding wife for her support during my ministry and especially while writing this book. I spent over thirty days alone away from home working on the book while she stayed at home keeping things in order and supporting me with her pra yers.
A special thank you to Ray and Regina Pettry for allowing me to use their home in West Virginia while working on the book. There was no internet access available there and the cell phone did not work. It afforded me a quit setting to be alone with God working on the book.
Thanks to my friend Brian LeCrone, owner of LeCrone Communications, ( http://lecronecom.com/ ) for designing the book c over.
For any questions or comments regarding the book visit http://eltonyutzy.com or email me at revelton@gmail .com
Yours in Ch rist,
Elton Y utzy


About the author
T he author graduated from Cedarville College (now Cedarville University) majoring in Biblical Studies. He spent the last forty years in the ministry pastoring at the Maranatha Community Fellowship church. He also was very active in the community. He wrote weekly articles for local newspapers for 20 years. He served as chairman of the Plain City church Fellowship for 12 years; He helped start the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity and served on the board several years. He served as volunteer chaplain for Loving care Hospice for 15 years. He has volunteered and served in the Kairos Prison Ministries since 2001 and is presently serving on the Kairos Prison Ministry local advisory board for the London Correctional Institution. He served as lead pastor of Maranatha Community Fellowship for over 30 years until he chose to semi-retire in 2009. In 2017, he retired from the church and presently stays involved in the Kairos prison ministry and teaching college bible classes in prison as his health per mits.
The author’s varied ministerial experience exposed him to many different pastors and community leaders with varied religious beliefs and doctrines; liberals and conservatives; Calvinists and Arminians; evolutionists and creationists. He has read many authors and read many commentaries seeking the meaning of the biblical text and how it relates to the issues facing the church in our day.
There are so many people, authors, pastors, preachers, and events that have contributed in one way or another to his understanding of the scriptures, it is impossible to recognize them all. But the one person and event that had the most influence, apart from the Holy Spirit, was his father’s words to the pastor of his church. One of the authors siblings had done something the church’s pastor thought crossed the line regarding the church’s standards. At the end of the conversation that took place at our house, the author overheard the pastor implore his dad to make his sons follow the church’s standards. His dad replied, regarding the church’s standards, “You show me where it says it in the Bible and I will tell them, otherwise they can make up their own minds.” That phrase – show me where it says it in the Bible – became the author’s lifelong modus operandi in developing his f aith.
The most important person and guide to helping someone understand the Holy Scriptures is the Holy Spirit. Jesus promised he would sent his Spirit to guide us into all truth (John 16:13). The apostle Paul, who had the best religious education one could achieve in his day, could not understand the spiritual meaning of the scriptures he was taught until his conversion and filling of the Holy Spirit. Immediately he began to preach that Jesus, whose followers he was persecuting for preaching a false doctrine, indeed was the Son of God as he claimed to be (Acts 9:19-20). When filled with the Holy Spirit, Paul immediately understood the spiritual meaning of the script ures
Paul stated it very clearly in his letter to the Corinthians that apart from the Holy Spirit no one can understand the thoughts of God and the meaning of the inspired words recorded in the B ible.
“ It is written, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has known what God has prepared for those who love him. But God has shown it to us through his Spirit. The Spirit understands all things. He understands even the deep things of God. Who can know the thoughts of another person? Only a person’s own spirit can know them. In the same way, only the Spirit of God knows God’s thoughts. We have not received the spirit of the world. We have received the Spirit who is from God. The Spirit helps us understand what God has freely given us. That is what we speak about. We don’t use words taught to us by people. We use words taught to us by the Holy Spirit. We use the words of the Spirit to teach the truths of the Spirit ” (1 Corinthians 2:9–13, NIrV).
The last sentence in verse 13 – We use the words of the Spirit to teach the truths of the Spirit – means the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual. He is the one who guides us into the meaning of the Truth (John 1 6:13).
This is the method the author relied on in his study and in the writing of this book. He believes if the Holy Spirit can inspire fisherman, sheepherders, tax collectors and guerilla fighters, etc. into writing the scriptures, the Holy Spirit can guide the honest seeker today into understanding the meaning of the inspired script ures.
The greatest hindrance to our understanding the scriptures is the childlike faith we have in accepting as true what our parents and church leaders taught us. We all should want to believe our elders. This is how tradition is passed on from generation to generation. When someone chooses not to believe what he is taught, he is classified as a rebel. Imagine what the reformers (Martin Luther, Menno Simons, Zwingli, Wycliffe, etc.) went through and endured when they did not conform to the established church doctrine. Where would the church be today were it not for the reformers who risked their very lives in standing up against the established doctrines of the ch urch?
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