Why We Can Rely on God

I'm glad that our heavenly Father is so dependable. Even though we don't get every single thing our hearts desire and evil seems to rule the planet, our Lord is still in control.

That's why we can rejoice in Psalms 146:5 and 6 (BBE) which says, "Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:"

God always keeps his promises. After the flood, we read what he said in Genesis 9:12 and 13 (BBE). "And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations: I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth."

Bible prophecy is another way God proves his reliability. One great example is when Daniel translated the King of Babylon's dream. Daniel 2:31-35 (BBE) reads, "You, O King, were looking, and a great image was there. This image, which was very great, and whose glory was very bright, was placed before you: its form sent fear into the heart. As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass, Its legs of iron, its feet were in part of iron and in part of potter's earth. While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits."

History reveals the answer to the first four  metals in the image. The gold was Babylon, the silver was Persia, the brawn's was Greece and the legs were Rome. I believe the feet of Iron and clay are the nations of this world. Christ is the stone which will bring to nothing all the powers of this wicked world.

The prophesies of Christ's coming also show that only one person could fulfil all of them. Matthew's gospel is filled with these. As just one example, Christ's birth fulfilled Isaiah 7:14 (BBE). "For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel."

If the Lord doesn't return by Saturday, I hope to post about men being sons of their fathers.