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Genesis 47:27 \u00a0 <\/span>Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years. And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, \u201cIf now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt, but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place.\u201d He answered, \u201cI will do as you have said.\u201d And he said, \u201cSwear to me\u201d; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.<\/p>\n Death is not far from any of us. In the blink of an eye an accident, sickness, lightning strike, or murderous hands we are all in the sight line of death. It does not matter if we give it thought or not, it is still there, one second, one breath, or 50 years or a hundred million breaths. No one knows God’s allowed time for their life, and yet, we live as though death is something that happens to others or those of much older age.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t know how often I have heard someone say they hope they are good enough to go to heaven when they die. It does not matter if you tell them about Jesus Chris, belief, faith, forgiveness, trust, reliance, and hope are the only way to eternal assurance.\u00a0 <\/span>They will still fall back into being good enough for heaven though.\u00a0 <\/span>These are Satan\u2019s lies and are an assurance into eternal hell. Let no one be led astray with this thinking, be warned, \u201cIt is not by good works a person is saved but through belief, faith, reliance, trust, and hope in Jesus Christ alone.\u201d If we knew how close death\u2019s door was before us, would we think about this differently?\u00a0 <\/span>Would there be a sense of urgency? Would there be repentance and a search for salvation? Here today and gone tomorrow happen more frequently than we want to think about. Choosing to deny the need for Jesus Christ and believing you can be good enough on your own and rejecting how close death is to you, may give you comfort but rest assured it is false and your eternal destiny is Hell.\u00a0 <\/span>God\u2019s Word is clear just as His promises of heaven and hell are clear.\u00a0 <\/span>Do not let another minute go by without humble surrender, trust, faith, hope, and reliance on Jesus Christ for your eternal salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Genesis 47:27 \u00a0 Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years. And when … Continue reading “39.m. “And when the time drew near that Israel must die””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[609,16230,2798,1059,16225,4936,5118,7504,651,446],"class_list":["post-156491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-bowed","tag-bury","tag-die","tag-egypt","tag-goshen","tag-israel","tag-jacob","tag-joseph","tag-oath","tag-time"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156571,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156491\/revisions\/156571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}