Is the World Going Out of Control or Is God Losing Control?

Is the World Going out of Control or is God Losing Control?

A scriptural perspective to the Wuhan Coronavirus

Khen Lim | March 8 2020

After the many faith articles I have written in the past number of years and the sermons I have done, I know a very difficult one to tackle when I see it. The Wuhan Coronavirus – also known as COVID-19 – that is plaguing the world is a worrisome problem. Talking about it with fellow Christians can be even more problematic due to the contradictory attitudes towards the coronavirus. Meanwhile, fatalities show no signs of waning and it’s hard to know when it will all end.

The More Things Change, the More We Realise God Doesn't (Part 2 of 2)

The More Things Change, the More We Realise God Doesn’t (Part 2 of 2)

The Christian strategy against liberalism, political correctness and every change that is destroying the world

Khen Lim

Image source: IFL Science

No bright horizons

The world isn’t just an unhappy place but it is also doomed for destruction. Unless something miraculous happens that would turn it around, we have no way out. And even as we lay the blame squarely at the feet of liberals and corrupt politicians, perhaps we may be partly held accountable too because all these decades, many of us had placed so much importance on prosperity and growth that we ourselves ignored the changes that have shifted our social and cultural perceptions. Some of us might have thought they were harmless. Some might have even believed that these changes would never last.

The Restoration of Israel (Part Three/Final)

Perspectives from the Poetic and Prophetical Books of the Old Testament (Part Three/Final)

Khen Lim

Those that still await fulfilment

With the pre-Tribulation dispensationalist view, modern Israel is prophetically central to the grand scheme of things. It plays a significant role in fulfilling biblical prophecy but we still must be vigilant over the use of prophetic verses that recent events may vindicate and those that must await fulfilment at some point in the future. To that end, we must identify that there are actually two occurrences of eschatological regatherings. Both straddle the Tribulation; one before and the other after the wrathful event as shown in the illustration below (Fruchtenbaum 1982).

The Restoration of Israel (Part One)

Perspectives from the Poetic and Prophetic Books of the Old Testament (Part One)

Khen Lim




Jerusalem in Early 20th Century (Image source: en.wikipedia.org)

Introduction

The New York Daily News on July 17 2015 reported a case of a Tennessean father being charged for assault but there is a twist. Unhappy that a relative of his had “solicited his two young children” and escape jail time with just three years of supervised probation, he waited for his opportunity to “kick his butt” but only after more humiliation by the alleged sex offender who winked and smiled at him on the street the day after he discovered he could walk away a free man.

The father told the local newspaper, “I did it for my daughters. Would I go to jail for my daughters? You’re…right I would. It’s not right. This guy abused my daughters, and he gets probation?” (Golgowski 2015)

The Political Crucible of the New Testament

The Importance of the Second Temple Judaism to Understanding the New Testament

By Khen Lim

Introduction

In this story, we discover that a village was rapidly flooding as the nearby river breaks its bunds. Water was flowing into the village so quickly that many people resorted to either beating a hasty retreat to higher lands or remaining put where they climbed trees or worked themselves to the roofs. One of them was a person who decided to go into prayer and asked God to save him from being drowned. In other words, he was looking for a miracle.

As he perched himself on the rooftop of a house, the flood level slowly rose. Time was running out but he remained faithful, trusting that God would answer him. Out of the blue, a boat arrived at his rooftop and as others began to board, he decided against it. He recognised the person manning the boat and recalled how he disliked his behaviour and detested the way he conducted himself. So he waved the boat away, confident that the boat wasn’t sent by God.

Twenty minutes later, the flood level was now past the top of the window frames. In less than two hours, it would reach the roofline. Around the corner, another boat already with passengers arrived. There was still room for him to climb onboard but he found the boat dirty and felt uncomfortable with some of the passengers. He recognised them from the village up the hillock, a community he found unfriendly to him. So even though there was one seat ready for him to take, he refused the offer.

Another boat would come by and he would find something else wrong with it. Yet another would come and there would be yet another reason not to go with them. Inevitably there was nowhere to run. The flood engulfed all the rooftops in the village and since he couldn’t swim, he drowned.