Chronicles of a Watchman by Dr. James P. Norman Jr.

      1.  QUESTION OF EXISTENCE: WHY AM I ALIVE? JEREMIAH: "Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?"Jeremiah 20:18 (TEV) Love comes from God... for God IS love . God showed how much he loved us by sending His only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him."1 John 4:7-9 (NLT) "Long before God laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, and settled on us as the focus of His love , to be made whole and holy by His love."Ephesians 1:4 (Msg) GOD SAYS:  "I have loved you with an everlasting love!"Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV) 2.  QUESTION OF SIGNIFICANCE: DOES MY LIFE MATTER? DAVID: "I remember how short my life is. Why did you create us? For nothing?"Psalm 89:47 (NCV) JOB: "Why should I work so hard for nothing?"Job 9:29 (GW) SOLOMON: "Laughing and having fun is crazy. What good does it do?"Ecclesiastes 2:2 (CEV) HE CARES...

THE BIBLE, YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER As a bible teacher, I read the bible like it was a daily newspaper of current events. Mark 13:14 Holy Scripture- Great Inspired Tribulation 14: Jesus picked up the inspired apocalyptic language of Daniel’s prophecy. Apparently Jesus pointed to the Roman destruction of the Jewish temple in A.D 10 and beyond that to the second coming, showing scripture is opened to renewed understanding and fulfillment for different generations. God has new things to reveal from his word. Last things, great tribulation-the phrase abomination that causes desolation comes verbatim from Dan. 9:27; 11:31;12:11. Abomination is a term that describes sacrilege such as the profaning of a holy place. Many believe Daniel’s prophecy had immediate reference to the unclean sacrifices in the Jerusalem temple by the Romans in A.D 10 Romans 1:28-32 28-Intellectual Nature- Turning to Abominations Abomination (depraved) normally descr...

We have seen that all mankind are sinners, and that the transgression of our first parents, so far as respect to the human race, was the first sin.  We have still to consider the connection between Adam's sin the depravity, guilt, and condemnation of the race. Scriptures teach that the transgression of our first parents as progenitors meant that future generations or their posterity are sinners.  So that Adam's sin was charged to every member of the human race of which he was the germ and head (Romans 5:16 - the judgement came of one [offence] unto condemnation).  It is because of Adam's sin that we are born depraved and subject to God's penal inflictions.  Two questions demand answers, first, how can we be responsible for a depraved nature, which we did not personally and consciously originate, and secondly, how can God justly charge to our account the sin of the first "Daddy" of the human race?  The scriptures intimate the true answer to the problem when t...