Title: Stand Up and Raise Your Head
Contents
A. Preface
1. ‘Tuk-tuk-tuk-duk… ’ → ‘God bless you’ (signal that James Jim Stocktail received from the Vietnam POW camp)
2. Conditions for maintaining self-value (meaning self-existence)
1) Correct understanding of facts
2) Correct understanding of the limitations of one's abilities
3) Correct understanding of time: (1) Kronos (God's time) (2) Kairos (the time given to me as I know it)
4) Correct understanding of prophecy (the Word of God)
B. Body
1. Doomsday prophecies and lessons 40 years later
1) Correct understanding of the signs (verse 25)
2) If you are proud, you will not accept prophecies and signs.
3) ‘memoria Dei’ (Remember God): 「The Seed of Hope」 (Henry Nauwen)
4) A sign (prophecy) is to kneel before God's clear will. 5) God separates righteousness from injustice through great events.
2. Meaning of ‘lift up your head’ → To bring you closer to the Lord
1) London citizens being bombed: (1) The cause of the bombardment → The discussion concluded that there was no resentment and no hope (2) Journalists → Let's look at it positively and write articles of hope → Gather at church with Bibles, pray Shown on the first page (3) 'England has hope' → Victory in World War II
2) The world that was discovered and destroyed a few decades ago: Lessons from 6.25
3) ‘In a heart that is not empty there is no sound of life’ (Jean-Claude Piguet)
3. Hell is a place no one can meet
1) No people 2) No events → Boredom, fear, suffering: An empty vacuum is hell
C. Conclusion
1. A nation that has grown and developed with hardship
2. Read God’s Signs ‘Rise Up, Lift Up Your Head’
1) The present warning of the history of suffering
2) Accept the warnings religiously
3) Raise your head and aim for a bright future.