Season Three Episode Ten April 30, 2024
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In Episode Ten / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share two old-time revival songs: Not By Might and Sanctuary. The homegrown song we share this week is, Playing in Dady’s Throne Room. Our Bible study this week delves into Romans 10:9-10 looking at the core of Paul’s preaching which explains how we get everything set right and become children of God. Robert reads another essay from the first in a series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) Robert reads Essay # 13 Jump. The text of this essay will be posted the day after the release of this episode at www.itookarighturn.com All of Robert’s more than thirty books are available through Amazon. We also invite everyone to visit our online art store, The Pair a Docs Shop where we offer our original paintings, prints and merchandise.
An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens April 29, 2024
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Faith grows out of the most difficult of circumstances, not the easiest.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens April 28, 2024
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God can use our lives to show others it is never too late to change our lives.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens April 27, 2024
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The devil isn’t afraid of people who go to church, he is afraid of people who are the Church. This is an excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens. This and all his books are available from Amazon in paperback or kindle at Amazon
An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens April 26, 2024
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This is not an impersonal universe, it was created by a personal God who rules and cares for all of it, including us.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens April 24, 2024
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We can run from Him, but we can’t hide from God.
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Is America Under Judgement? April 24, 2024
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The essay was read as a part of Season Three Episode Nine of the podcast: I Took A Right Turn
All that follows I will preface with, “I believe.” I am not attempting to establish theology for anyone or to declare that anyone who does not agree with me is a heretic. I am merely sharing my beliefs, grounded in study and prayer, since my opinion has been solicited on this topic more than once.
Many Christians today bring every conversation back to, “Do you think these are the last days?”
This may be based on a personal reading of the Book of Revelation in the Bible. It could be based on the broadcast sermons and teachings of any number of professional End Times preachers who have built their careers pointing to an apocalypse around the corner.
The signs of the times are always easy to read, they just aren’t so easy to interpret. Nero was the Antichrist as was Diocletian, King James II, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. False Prophets have equally abounded from the Pope to Martin Luther, from Henry VIII to Rasputin to Jim Jones.
Is the End coming? Most certainly. Can we know when it is coming? Most certainly not. Since it is impossible to know when the end is coming, I cannot believe that God would want us wasting any of the precious time He gives us speculating as to when it will arrive instead of being His witnesses to the world.
Since it is anti-biblical to believe we can know the date of the End, it is obviously not a Godly use of our time to try and figure it out anyway. What can we know? Just as we can look at the clouds and know when a storm is coming or smell the wind and know when a rain is on the way, so too we can look at the present state of our nation and know the time of the season. If we use the analogy of a year’s cycle it is obviously fall headed for the winter. It has been fall headed for the winter since the crucifixion of Christ: the fulcrum of History.
Some may ask, “Why has fall lasted so long?” The problem is we really don’t know how long the previous winter and spring were.
The belief that the Bible tells us that there were approximately X number of thousand years before Christ and there will be X number of years after Christ equaling 7,000 years as a week in God’s time as taught by some popular TV preachers is based on a tissue of strung together scriptures and cherry-picked verses. Equally, the belief that the time from Adam and Christ is discernible from the Biblical text is based on the erroneous belief that the Bible is presented as a linear historical document.
While I believe that the Bible contains real History and that it is literally true, I do not believe that it presents a year for year time-line type of presentation. The Old Testament is above all a spiritual History of how God chose one people and eventually one person to bring forth the Chosen One: Jesus Christ, the Messiah of the Jews and the Savior of man. I do not believe that by counting the lives of everyone mentioned in Old Testament genealogies it’s possible to know how many years elapsed between “Let there be light” and the birth, death, or resurrection of Christ.
Most of the names mentioned in the many Old Testament genealogies have no age associated with them so the would-be Biblical time liner has to make a guess. Also, when you compare the genealogies there are obvious overlaps, repetitions, and omissions. Compare the New Testament genealogies of Christ found in Luke and in Matthew and you will see the problem with genealogies as linear History.[1] Now multiply that by all the genealogies in the Old Testament and you will begin to see the problem with this method of calculating time.
The people who tell us that the Old Testament gives us an accurate count of the years between the beginning and the beginning of the end are the same ones who tell us that they can figure out from the book of Revelation when the end of time will come. They do this in spite of the fact that Christ Himself tells us in Matthew, “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”[2] Then to make the point again it was one of the last things He told us before ascending to Heaven in Acts, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.”[3]
Since we cannot know the day or the hour, the times or the seasons how godly can it be to spend so much time trying to figure it out? So much for trying to figure out when THE end is since it can’t be done. However, I felt I had to deal with that before I moved on to the real subject of this column: whether or not America is under judgment.
I believe that is a topic that can be discerned by anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. I am not talking about the end of the United States. It is and will be called by the same name, waving the same flag. I will let you judge if it is the same country we grew up in.
Looking at the spiritual History of the Old Testament as a guide we see that Judah the southern kingdom of the Jews, the believing remnant that carried on the covenant after the apostatized Kingdom of Israel had been carried off into exile was finally delivered into the hands of its enemies because they had sacrificed their children to pagan gods and walked in the ways of the world.[4] Since 1972 when a case based on a lie was used by an activist Supreme Court[5] to invent a constitutional right to abort babies over 60 million Americans have been deprived of the most fundamental right of all: Life.[6]
And even though this abomination has been overturned nationally it is still going on all over the country and the abortion pill is available everywhere without a prescription.
God does not condemn societies because of the sin within them because the same sins are in all peoples at all times. Rather God condemns societies for the sins they condone. Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities of the plains were not destroyed because they were filled with more evil than the Canaanites that God eventually sent the Israelites to destroy. No, these cities were consumed by fire and brimstone because they gloried in what others did in shame.
Stroll down the streets of San Francisco. Flip the dial from the Modern Family to Two and a Half Men from The Jersey Shore to Glee and it seems Jerry Springer has defined the new America. On cable and satellite hard core porn fills the overnight hours while state after state legalizes pot on their way to legalizing everything. God was thrown out of school. Then He was banned from every public space and activity. The government has taken over the numbers racket, calling it a lottery as they plunder the poorest amongst us by selling them false hope where winning is less likely than being struck with lightning.
What is the judgment of God on nations that have moved out from under His blessing by rejecting His guidance? He casts them down from the heights their former obedience had achieved. In the near future we may become the tail instead of the head as our leaders continue to wag the dog.
Alexis de Tocqueville one of the most astute observers of America said in the early 1800’s “America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Now survey the current state of America for yourself. Don’t accept the opinion of someone else. Make up your own mind.
Is America good? The answer to that will provide the answer to the question posed in this essay “Is America under Judgment?” For if we are not good what are we? And what is the result of that?
If you decide for yourself that America is under judgment does that mean you should run for the nearest exit or hide in a fallout shelter?
Remember God has told those who follow Him, “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.”
Don’t run and hide. Instead run to the nearest rooftop and proclaim Jesus as Lord. Share your witness everywhere and every way with everyone you can for it will only be through a renewal of the heart that we will come to the heart of the problem.
Keep the Faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.
The essay is a part of the book Faith by Dr. Robert Owens
[1] ThoughtCo https://www.thoughtco.com/genealogy-of-jesus-700161 1-25-19
[2] Bible Hub https://biblehub.com/niv/matthew/24-36.htm 1-25-19
[3] Bible Gateway https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%201:7&version=NKJV 1-25-19
[4] Bible Gateway https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2021:5-13&version=NKJV 1-25-19
[5] @4 Years http://www.pregnantpause.org/abort/lies.htm 1-25-19
[6] Life News https://www.lifenews.com/2018/01/18/60069971-abortions-in-america-since-roe-v-wade-in-1973/ 1-25-19
Season Three Episode Nine April 23, 2024
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In Episode Nine / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share an old Civil War song that expresses the truth of the Gospel and a call to action, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, two old revival songs: I Went to the Enemy’s Camp and I Know it Was the Blood. The homegrown song we share this week is entitled, Come on People. Our Bible study this week delves into Matthew 24:26; Acts 1:7-8; and II Kings 21:10-12 looking at how God deals with nations. Robert reads another essay from the first in a series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) Robert reads Essay # 13Is America Under Judgement. The text of this essay will be posted the day after the release of this episode at www.itookarighturn.com All of Robert’s more than thirty books are available through Amazon. We also invite everyone to visit our online art store, The Pair a Docs Shop where we offer our original paintings, prints and merchandise.
An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens April 20, 2024
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We never know enough until we know that only God knows everything.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens April 19, 2024
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Our humble hearts draw better maps to the future than our proud minds.
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Dr. Robert Owens Chronicles the History of the Future 