An Untold Story

Almost four decades ago, my mum went for an abortion and I did not get to have another younger siblings, forty years later, they cite reasons such as we were living on a tight budget and there are also fines imposed by the late Prime Minister “2 child population policy” to prevent an “population explosion”

Four decades later, me and my parents are still coming to grips with that decision, it had affected us , physically , mentally, emotional, spiritually.

Almost like a generation curse, I was also involved in another abortion, almost two decades ago.

I got involved in an affair and it ended with an unwanted pregnancy’s and as I listened to the details of the operation, I was completely taken aback and aghast that I have aided in the murder of an unborn child.

Almost two decades ago, I was in tears as I flew from Singapore to Los Angeles, shortly after than, I received Christ’s Salvation , that took place on a wooden cross, for me, at a little Church at Big Pine Key, Key West, Florida.

A child is the joint effort between a male and a female, for consenting married adults , it is a labor of love , for crime actions involving rapes , it may involved a child growing up without a father figure.

So, a child is an act of love or lust, depending on how the sexual intercourse took place.

And God had already set life to begin inside the womb.

The act of the abortion will take a toll on both men and women,

Abortion is not healthcare. It tears the baby out of the womb and the woman undergoes trauma.

Women are often physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually scarred because of the abortion,

My mental and emotional and spiritual wounds are healing and still being redeemed by the Lord.

And because He redeems our life, I am released of guilt, shame, condemnation, when we repent.

 He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious lovingkindness].

2 Corinthians 5:21 AMPC

A wise couple continually reminds me, parenting is not for the faint-hearted. I agree and it is so true for me today.

I hope you would choose life and not death.

The unborn have no voice, we are their voice and protectors.

Adrian Tan K S, 27th June 2022/ 28th Sivan 5782.

The blood forgives.

Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.

[In fact] under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.

Hebrews 9:22 AMPC

There is Forgiveness from sin

There is Release from guilt

There is Absorption of punishment

Can a sacrifice of a chicken, forgive sin?

Can an explosive strap extremist, forgive sin?

Can the yearly ritual of goats and calf, forgive sin?

The answer is no,

Before the passover,

And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them and said, “Each of you drink from it,

for this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many.

Mark my words—I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new with you in my Father’s Kingdom.” 

Matthew 26:27-29 NLT

His body was whipped on behalf of us for our healing

His blood that was shredded is a new covenant of love and forgiveness,

The once and final sacrifice that is the atonement for our sin.

He is the perfect sacrificial Lamb of god

He became our Passover.

He provides the way, the truth and the life.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 

where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. 

Hebrews 6:19

He is our hope!

Only by dying on the cross, can the Resurrection power of God can be manifested, and three days and three nights later, He rose again, so that all who believe in Him, may have eternal life.

 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 

None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. 

Hebrews 8:10-13

The Bible says, I will be merciful and I will remember your lawless deeds no more!

There is forgiveness in the blood of Jesus and there is redemption!

 

 Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 

For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean,  sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without  spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 

And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 

Hebrews 9:11-15

It is a once and for all offering and sacrifice, it cleanse you and you enter into a new covenant with God.

It is the power of the indestructible life, found in the indestructible presence in the blood.

And you and I can be partakers in it, when we enter into a new covenant.

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 

And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 

they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 

Mark 16:15-18 NKJV 

There is power in the blood of Jesus!

 

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”  Amen.  

Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV

There is assurance in the blood of Jesus.

I hope you are blessed.

 

Of Wars and Earthquakes

24 Jesus departed from the temple area and was going on His way when His disciples came up to Him to call His attention to the buildings of the temple and point them out to Him.

² But He answered them, Do you see all these? Truly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.

³ While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age?

⁴ Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].

⁵ For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray.

⁶ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

⁷ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place;

⁸ All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].

⁹ Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.

¹⁰ And then many will be offended and repelled and will begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.

¹¹ And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error.

¹² And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,

¹³ But he who endures to the end will be saved.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end. 

Matthew 24:1-14 AMPC

Just do a quick comparison on the world events and you would sense that wars, rumours of wars, earthquakes are increasing.

If there is any urgency at all, it should be now.

Because world events seem to point that we are living towards the end of the age of grace already.

Everything seems to be pointing towards the end times.

Matthew 24 was written for the Jewish audience, but it is also applicable for us.

https://www.rt.com/usa/425890-hawaii-earthquake-volcano-eruption/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-hopes-trump-exiting-nuclear-deal-may-lead-to-iran-regime-change-1.6054152

We need to be aware of the times, watch and pray, not withdraw from the world but engage it, so that we may be part of the end times harvest of souls.

1 life to live, let’s make it count for Jesus.

 

Perilous Times and Perilous Men

But understand this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].

² For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money andaroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant andcontemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.

³ [They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled andfierce, haters of good.

⁴ [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.

⁵ For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject andare strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].

⁶ For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate silly and weak-natured and spiritually dwarfed women, loaded down with [the burden of their] sins [and easily] swayed and led away by various evil desires and seductive impulses.

⁷ [These weak women will listen to anybody who will teach them]; they are forever inquiring and getting information, but are never able to arrive at a recognition and knowledge of the Truth. 

2 Timothy 3:1-7

Verse 1-4 – straightforward, self explanatory

Verse 5- It is actually referring to Christians!

Verse 6- Sexual predators preying on weak-natured women

Verse 7- forever learning about ism and comparing religions

And from such people turn away!

Save our souls and hearts.

Prepare your oil (Episode 1)

25 Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

² Five of them were foolish (thoughtless, without forethought) and five were wise (sensible, intelligent, and prudent).

³ For when the foolish took their lamps, they did not take any [extra] oil with them;

⁴ But the wise took flasks of oil along with them [also] with their lamps.

⁵ While the bridegroom lingered and was slow in coming, they all began nodding their heads, and they fell asleep.

⁶ But at midnight there was a shout, Behold, the bridegroom! Go out to meet him!

⁷ Then all those virgins got up and put their own lamps in order.

⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.

⁹ But the wise replied, There will not be enough for us and for you; go instead to the dealers and buy for yourselves.

¹⁰ But while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were prepared went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut.

¹¹ Later the other virgins also came and said, Lord, Lord, open [the door] to us!

¹² But He replied, I solemnly declare to you, I do not know you [I am not acquainted with you].

¹³ Watch therefore [give strict attention and be cautious and active], for you know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man will come. Matthew 25:1-13 

This is a parable for the End Times and it is applicable for Christians and Believers.

I use the terms for Christians and Believers because in a cultural context in Singapore, we called a Believer a “Christian by name only” if he/she does not exhibit the qualities and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

In a Jewish wedding, a Covenant is made a year before the actual wedding, the Bridegroom will go and prepare a place in his father’s house for a place to stay after their marriage.

The bride price is paid

And the bride is set apart.

The bride would not know the time of the bridegroom return, usually after midnight.

The bridesmaid, signifying us, would be awaiting the arrival of the bridegroom, to receive his bride and go to the 7 days wedding feast, since this takes place at or after midnight, the bridesmaid need to prepare their oil lamps.

Each one would carry one oil lamp and extra supply of oil.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105 AMPC

There was no street lamps or city lights back then in Israel.

20 My son, keep your father’s [God-given] commandment and forsake not the law of [God] your mother [taught you].

²¹ Bind them continually upon your heart and tie them about your neck.

²² When you go, they [the words of your parents’ God] shall lead you; when you sleep, they shall keep you; and when you waken, they shall talk with you.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the whole teaching [of the law] is light, and reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

²⁴ To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a loose woman.

²⁵ Lust not after her beauty in your heart, neither let her capture you with her eyelids.

²⁶ For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress stalks and snares [as with a hook] the precious life [of a man].

²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?

²⁸ Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned?

²⁹ So he who cohabits with his neighbor’s wife [will be tortured with evil consequences and just retribution]; he who touches her shall not be innocent or go unpunished. Proverbs 6:20-29 AMPC 

The context in the wise and foolish virgins is that they are not defiled. They have not commit adultery, naturally and spiritually.

It speaks of the Christians in-name-only and the true believers.

It is a sobering thought and statistics, it is a 50-50 equation.

Five are wise, walking circumspectly, knowing the times, living a life of sanctification and consecration.

Five are foolish or double-minded. They did not pay the price to get extra oil for their lamp.

The spirit of man [that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God] is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts. Proverbs 20:27 AMPC

Isaiah 55:1-2 speaks of buying wine and milk without money and price.

So how do we pay for the olive oil?

May I suggest, only at Gethsemane.

Not my will, but Yours be done.

When we bend our will.

To obey God, often described as painful.

Olives become olive oil.

For Jesus, it was so hard pressing, that the whole weight of our Salvation was upon Him, drops of sweat like blood appeared on his forehead. (Luke 22:44)

For 50% of us, it would properly be some agony and many tears.

This is the part that separates the oil out of the many olives.

The price of oil is more expensive than olives.

Why? Because of the process of pain that it went through.

Because of the crushing that it went through

Because of the weight it went through

And the filtration process before it becomes olive oil

Gethsemane.

Jesus was set like a flint on his mission. (Isaiah 50:7)

TO BE CONTINUE

Current Affairs Summary

Why would North Korea test fires missile in November 2017 if there is no intention to use them? This is a ruse, the pretence of peace while harbouring an evil motive, this is a ruse almost straight from a book on war

If North Korea intends to attack Seoul, Kim would properly attack in May -June 2018 before, during or after the South Korea elections.

South Korea’s elections are properly set in 13th June 2018.

May-June 2018 is a risky time for both Koreas, one spark may be all it takes for NROK to launch what they have tested, on Seoul, as an act of vengeance and defiance. Maybe even jealously or after being cornered by economic sanctions.

They are still technically at war after 27th July 1953. that means it is still a war zone after 65 years.

That means if you were born in 1953 and forcibly separated with your family, you would be 65 years of age in 2018…

The DMZ at the 38th Parallel(Latitude) is an armistice, it is like a tit-for -tat between the 2 Asians countries. I believe if you are standing near the DMZ, you would see the contrast and feel a different spiritual atmosphere, one of freedom, one of oppression.

If and when they do reconcile, hundreds and thousands of Koreans families would be reunited, either in joy or in mourning.

 

Once the sparks of war is lighted, China would and might bear it’s aggression and “Chinese face value” over Taiwan, South China Seas and the disputed islands. It is already starting sea trials for it’s carrier.

Philippines would properly align more with China to protect themselves.

Australia and New Zealand would be looking out for such foreign affairs with great interest, because they would eventually realise, no man is an island, no matter how big their land size may be.

Migrations would also pose a serious threat in Europe.

Hungary and Spain looks like they stands alone and vigilant.

Hungary are not strangers to being oppressed by another empire from another Country.

Singapore would also properly be pushed out of her comfort zone, she have to be friends with both USA and China.

The elections soon in Malaysia would also determine relationship with South East Asia.

The storm is just ahead on the horizon.

And we cannot afford to be asleep.

The Middle East is Prophecy unfolding and History repeating itself. Damascus is prophesied in Isaiah 17:1-2 to ceased from being a City! What an audacious statement to make! It is the City where Saul met The Resurrected Jesus on the road to Damascus.

If Iran get their nuclear ICBMs, they would not hesitate to use it on Saudi Arabia and Egypt. 1 ICBM on Aswan Dam would crippled the entire land of Egypt as written in Ezekiel 29:10

2018 looks like war is imminent, more and more conflicts would takes place, from South China Sea, to the Middle East, the starting of civilisation.

The nuclear clock is ticking.

There is an awakening, have you felt it?

We don’t really have a lot of time left.

To Be Continue.

Don’t be lazy

I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

And, behold, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles were covering its face, and its stone wall was broken down.

Then I beheld and considered it well; I looked and received instruction.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

Proverbs 24:30-34 AMPC

Enough’s said.

Vines

I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit]. You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you]. Remain in Me, and I [will remain] in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you [bear fruit, producing evidence of your faith] unless you remain in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him bears much fruit, for [otherwise] apart from Me [that is, cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. 

John 15:1-5

Usually , this Scriptures comes with pictures of grapes and vines,

We don,t have grapes in Singapore, so this is a visual aide to learning, sort of photo.

On 21st Wednesday , , September 2016 , a Teacher friend reminded me on a few things, which spoke right into my heart ;

“In the past, I had made my status , my god,

I had made money , my god,

in fact, for people from Special Forces, they had made themselves to be gods.

High , mighty and lofty , and in severe need of pruning for the soul, spirit , ego .

We are works in progress.

Our identity need to come from God.

I am a child of God.

Love by The Father.

My Source and my strength.

In whom I live and I breathe.

We go thru a process of pruning,

To get rid of things that holds us down.

To prune away things that we put our security in,

Because, only God, is the real security.

He is ever-present and our source of help.

 

You need to let go of what once hold you down, and lean on, trust in Jesus.

Only Jesus, and nothing else.

Tan Kok Siang

22nd September 2016

 

 

 

 

 

Writings on the sand.

 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. ³ Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, ⁴ they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. ⁵ Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?”  ⁶ This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. 

⁷ So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” ⁸ And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. ¹⁰ When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her,  “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.”

And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and  sin no more.”

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” 

John 8:2-12 NKJV

Jesus stood in the line of hurling rocks and defended a woman.

He was truly a defender of the fatherless, hurting and the marginalized.

A hurling rock can kill, it is still happening today in Israel and Gaza Strip.

And Jesus did not had a helmet or protective face shield on Him in those days.

I am turning forty this year. The older I get, the more aware of the failings of my own heart, eyes, and flesh.

Whatever Jesus wrote on the ground, I would like to acquire of it from Him in Eternity.

I love the fact that Jesus does not condemn us and He forgives us continually, and tells us ” Go and sin no more.”

Thank you Jesus , for all that You have done for us. May we not be quick to condemn but quick to love.

Tan Kok Siang

13th March 2016.

 

A scarlet rope.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace. Hebrews 11:30-31

Rahab by faith or by fear, hid the two spies on a roof and hidden them with stalks of orderly flax. In the account from Joshua 1.

After the Jericho’s men pursued them on the road to Jordan (Joshua 1 V 7)

Rahab pleaded with the two unnamed spies to spare her family. ( V 12 -13 )

Then she let them down by a rope through a window. ( V 15 )

Her house was on the city wall, she dwelt on the wall, plying her trade, it was also an unsafe place to be, in the event of an attack, the walls are the first to be rained on by artillery, such as flaming arrows.

Even if the rope was scarlet, it did not matter, it was not conspicuous because they fled at night and went to the mountains for three days. (V 16 )

There was a binding agreement, Rahab need to tie the scarlet rope in the window. It would properly have to go up to the roof top beams, the whole family would be able to see it.

The Israelite soldiers upon identifying this particular house, would spare her entire family when they attacked the city of Jericho after the walls were flattened!

Joshua personally gave an order(Joshua 6:22) for the two spies to bring Rahab and her family to safety, and left them outside the camp of Israel.

Rahab’s name is mentioned in Hebrews 11! She is justified by faith through her works! (James 2:25)

And not only that, she was in the lineage that gave birth to David!

Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David the king. Matthew 1:5-6

Boaz was a type of our Kinsman – Redeemer , Naomi symbolize Israel, Ruth symbolize Gentile bride(us!)

And twenty eight generation after David, Jesus Christ was born! Hallelujah ! (Ruth 4:21-22, Matthew 1:17)

Can you see the amazing rope of connection from The Old Testament to The New Testament?!

Rahab by faith, saved her entire family, spoken of by Joshua, a type and forerunner of Jesus Christ.

The scarlet rope came from the top of a window to the ground.

And is present through the ages till Christ is born! It speaks of safety, a binding agreement not easily broken!

This is a long story of redemption, justification by faith!For all of us!

Jesus Christ is our red rope, from The Old Testament to The New Testament! Hallelujah!

He saves completely!