I love each and every one’s of Pastor JD’s Bible Prophecy Updates and of course I also LOVED this one!!! Very good and very accurate. I’ve been commenting and warning for the past few days on videos about the Age of Aquarius because the New Agers etc seem to be very excited about this event…
I love what Pastor JD said about Noah. I wondered a few days ago where in the Bible God has also acted as a Restrainer (The Holy Spirit) and it was right there in the book of Genesis:
NOAH
Genesis 6:3 " And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man (…)" (KJV)
Strive - H1777 - diy n
- to judge, contend, plead
- (Qal)
1. to act as judge, minister judgment
2. to plead a cause
3. to execute judgment, requite, vindicate
4. to govern
5. to contend, strive - (Niphal) to be at strife, quarrel
דִּין dîyn, deen; or (Genesis 6:3) דּוּן dûwn; a primitive root; to rule; by implication to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law):—contend contend execute (judgment) judge minister judgment plead (the cause) at strife strive.
Genesis 6:8: " But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord."
Genesis 6:9: " These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God"
Genesis 6:12: " And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh,[c] for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
Genesis 7:1: " “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation."
Genesis 7:11: " on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights"
Genesis 7:16: " And the Lord shut him in"
Genesis 7: 17,18: " The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
Genesis 7:19: " And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered."
Genesis 7:20: " The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits[d] deep"
Genesis 7:24: " And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days"
Genesis 8:1-3 " But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained , 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually."
WHO IS THE RESTRAINER ? By WHOM was the rain from the heavens RESTRAINED ?
Genesis 8:3 " But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained , 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually."
There’s a connection between “My Spirit shall not always strive with man” and the Holy Spirit being the Restrainer
Extra article which I found after looking the above up in the Bible, and it made me happy because it basically confirmed what I read earlier that day :
The Restrainer – Israel My Glory :
These considerations prompt a question. Does the Bible reveal that God has had a restrainer restraining the spirit of lawlessness during history? Two passages indicate that He has.
First, in Genesis 6:3 God said, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man.” He thereby signified that His Spirit strove with lawless mankind in the days before the Noachic flood (vv. 5, 11–13). The word translated “strive” means “to govern.” It “embodies the idea of government, in whatever realm.”9 This indicates that the Holy Spirit has one of the same functions as government—the restraint of lawlessness (Rom. 13:3–6; 1 Pet. 2:13–14).
Thus the Holy Spirit’s restraint of lawlessness has been a significant factor in the administration of God’s rule over the world. The possessive pronoun “my” implies that the Spirit was God’s appointed restrainer. God’s declaration that His “Spirit shall not always strive with man” implies the Spirit’s restraint is temporary and that God has sovereign authority to remove it at the appropriate time.