Sunday, April 05, 2026
What can we be grateful to God for this Easter?
What can we be grateful to God for this Easter?
(A question to all of us at SIBKL Good Friday service watching from a Cell Group)
As I reflect there are many things I can be grateful to God for; the privilege of a western medical education, supportive parents, adequate financial provision, and a good-knitted, loving family that I grew up in.
In some poorer countries there are thousands of kids more talented, harder-working, more deserving and more compassionate than any of us; yet they know nothing but a hard-life on the streets, toiling the land, poverty and wars. Some were even orphaned or abandoned as a child and left to beg on the streets.
Many of us were born in Malaysia during an era of rising prosperity and development; skipped the two world wars; the Japanese occupation that our parents had to endure as well as the communist insurgency in Malaya. Our forefathers had to endure significant hardship to carve out an existence in a land we now call home, having fled extreme poverty in their homeland. We are reaping the harvest of what they sowed with sweat and labor.
I am grateful I was born in Malaysia as a Chinese where I can receive the gospel and worship Jesus openly, and spoilt for choices of as to which church should have my presence. Yet we sometimes distance ourselves from God when life doesn’t go our way and backslide; while many believers in other countries yearn to openly worship Him but only do so in secrecy as it may cost them their lives.
I was lucky to enter the job market at a time when I could ponder which well-paying, high security profession deserved me, while today’s graduates are finding it difficult to find a meaningful job that can nurture and develop them in the long term.
I can be grateful that I was born in a relative war-free country from my birth till now, with economic growth since I started work, increasing life expectancy and overall quality of life.
The Seven Deaths
i. Death of the High Priest System
The Pastors took turns to share on the seven deaths that occurred when Jesus died on the cross. The High Priest System is dead declared Ps Miranda (Hebrews 7:22-23) as she blew out the first of the seven candles on the Menorah. We now have direct access to God as about forty (40) of us peculiar people, of a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9) gathered in front of a home TV screen to watch the live telecast.
ii. Death of the Old Covenant & iii. Death of the external law & regulations
And because of Jesus death, the old covenant which none of us can ever keep, is now obsolete (Hebrews 8:13). Thank God, I now no longer need to struggle with the sin in “my flesh” and be the wretched man that Paul described in Romans 7:24. Instead I die to self (flesh) and let God’s laws renew my mind and be inscribed in my heart. I am now finding that if I allow His Word to work deep enough in me, my desires will come to be in line with His desires naturally. There are a lot of things I do not desire as I used to. What was a pleasure a few years back has become a burden. That’s inner transformation! It’s the power of the cross. I need not be bound by external laws and regulations (Hebrews 8:10), nor debate whether the Beatitudes or the Mosaic Laws are the more impossible ideals to strive for. It is all happening internally, auto-update mode as the I more read His word and know His mind better!
iv. Death of the Physical Tabernacle
Ps Sean shared that we do not need to go to a phone booth, a church or any man-made structure to access our Creator (Hebrews 9:11). We have spiritual wi-fi and God is just a breath or a whisper away. The signal and transmission is always excellent and better than 5G or 6G in speed. In fact our prayers to God happens at "galaxial" speed. Surely now we have no excuse not to communicate with our Abba Father. He desires our intimacy. He is the Almighty, yet very personal and His love for us is unconditional and rooted by his nature as a father and not by our deeds.
vi. Death of the Veil & Holy of Holies Restrictions.
“The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning “ (Hebrews 9:8).
The tabernacle is long gone! When Jesus breathed his last breath, the temple veil “tore” and we were restored to God and the Holy Spirit now not only lives in us, but revealing the deep treasures of God. We are no more restricted from the hidden treasures in the Holy of Holies – the deep things of God, the mind of God as we are now divinely reconciled to Him!
1 Corinthians 10:2 reads, “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God”. God’s wisdom and riches are so deep and wide that they are inexhaustible. The original root word of revealed” in Greek is apokaluptó - apokalýptō and kalýptō – meaning not only to reveal but to unveil.
v. Death of the Sacrificial System & vii. Death of Jesus Christ
The Chinese emperor's yearly animal sacrifice to Shangdi (皇天上帝, "Imperial Heavenly Ruler") performed by the emperor himself at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, a practice that continued until the fall of the last dynasty in 1911. , historically known as the Border Sacrifice or Feng Shan (封禪), bears notable ritualistic similarities to ancient Jewish (Israelite) sacrificial customs, particularly the burnt offerings described in the Old Testament.
Had the emperor known that Jesus died on the cross once-and-for all for all our sins, this ritual would have ended earlier than 1911 when the Qing Dynasty was overthrown. There is simply no need for the ancient sacrificial system be it in Israel or China anymore as Jesus has done it for us. "It is finished" (John 19:30).
Our sins is finished, our shame is finished, death is finished! This I am forever grateful to the Lord. Amen!
Happy Easter!
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Thursday, March 05, 2026
US-Israel war on Iran
It has been nearly a week since the U.S and Israelis attacked Iran. Again it was on a Saturday when Wall Street is closed. They killed the Iranian supreme leader and 40 others. We are in the stage of the red horse in the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. This coincides with the year of the fire horse in the Chinese Lunar calendar.
I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.
5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d] and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. (Revelations 6: 1-7)
The black horse follows the red horse. This signifies famine. The Strait of Hormuz channels 20% of global oil. Yes the oil is mainly destined for Asia but the exporting nations (Gulf States) are all U.S puppets who channel their oil sold in petrodollar back to the U.S stock market. So with Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz it is not hard to envisage a global recession. Plus the debt-ridden Americans can ill afford a prolonged war. If the petrodollar falls then the domino effect on the US stock market and economy. Be prepared for a global recession as early as early next year!
Furthermore Iran is bombing the oil facilities of the Gulf States to cripple their economies and bombing their desalination plants making living unbearable. Iran’s missiles are all hidden in the mountainous regions while the Gulf states are flat deserts – a sitting duck for Iran to bomb. This will have a ripple effect on the global economy.
REGIME CHANGE?
Will it lead to a regime change? I really don’t know. The Islamic regime has been persecuting Christians in Iran for decades. We all pray for the persecuted church and that there will be religious freedom in Iran and the Gulf states.
We know there are several events that need to take place before Jesus returns. Jesus predicted the destruction of the temple and it happened 40 years after His death when the Romans destroyed the second temple in 70 AD.
Then in 1948 Israel became a nation again just as the Bible said it would. The Jews had no army, no land and no government and became a nation. This is God!
The Bible also says the third temple will be built before Jesus returns. There will be relative peace before it is built and before the anti-Christ desolates the temple. But note there is a difference between Jews and Zionism. The Zionist is controlled by the Illuminati -Baal spirit.
The "abomination of desolation" refers to a prophetic, blasphemous act where the Antichrist desecrates a holy temple in Jerusalem, marking a period of intense tribulation. Mentioned in Daniel and by Jesus (Matthew 24:15), this event involves the Antichrist breaking a covenant, setting up an idol, and demanding worship .
PEACE
Based on biblical prophecy and eschatological interpretations, a period of relative peace in Israel is expected to immediately precede the "abomination of desolation," which occurs at the midpoint of a seven-year Tribulation. This era is characterized by a "false peace" brokered by a global leader (often identified as the Antichrist).
“and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will come against a tranquil people who dwell securely — all of them living without walls or bars or gates.’”
For Israel to feel that it is safe it must get rid of its biggest threat in the region– which is Iran. Ezekiel 38:11 suggest there will be a relative peace when Israel will be a “land of unwalled villages” meaning they don’t feel threatened. How could this be?
Well, perhaps Trump’s Board of Peace will broker a truce that we know won’t last. Or there is a regime change in Iran to a regime that is not hostile to Israel. Possible? Yes. Likely? No.
Coz the end times coalition by "Gog of the land of Magog" attacking Israel includes Iran as described in Ezekiel 38-39.
Key nations/regions identified in the text include Magog, Meshech, Tubal, Persia, Cush, Put, Gomer, and Beth-togarmah. Scholars generally interpret these ancient locations as modern-day regions, including Turkey (Meshech, Tubal), Iran (Persia), and parts of Russia, Central Asia, and North Africa.
Ezekiel 38:1-6:
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.
The Bible prophetic timeline is being unfolded. All we can do is to stick close to Jesus and be ready for His return.
