Update of activities from February 21-28

February 21, we continued on our study on the book of Revelation and we discuss about the Seven Seals in chapter 6:1-8:5. It is all about the Four Horseman in the first four seals then the fifth which is the souls under the altar and the sixth seal which depicts judgments for the Roman Empire. And on the seventh chapter was an interlude on which purpose is to permit the sealing of the saints in order that they will be able to endure the trials and tribulations set for in chapter six. And finally the seventh seal which serves as a transition of things to follow in the next vision. We got a lot of discussions about this seals because of the different use of denominations and good thing that we have a study like this for us to be ready whenever someone ask us about this.

February 22, in our midweek service, we studied two chapters of psalms. The first one was taught by brother Rody and he entitled Psalm 133 as "Blessings in Unity" and bro. Robert taught Psalm 134 which he entitled "The Will of God".

February 23, I preached in the radio program about "Right God and Right Savior". This lesson discusses about the need to follow the true God and not the idols that man created and we have the right Savior and that is not Buddha or Allah or anyone who claims to be the savior like we have here in the Philippines who is saying that he is the appointed Son of God and he is the savior name Apollo Quiboloy. You can find his name in the internet and you can see how foolish of him to take the position of Jesus.


February 25, I went to Palca to visit the brethren. The purpose of the visitation is to go to the brethren who are no longer attending the worships and studies. Together with me is a faithful brother at Palca which is bro. Lino. We first visited the house of bro. Mac and Milton Lamigo. They are still young aging 22 and 18 respectively. We tried to encourage them to continue on serving the Lord. The reason of bro. Mac that he is not attending the services is because he was very discourage that he even went to Manila to find a job, but unluckily haven't found anything and went back home empty handed. We shared to him God's word as source of encouragement. Next is the house of sister Pacing Quines, who is a faithful sister but his grandsons who are also baptized in the Lord's church is her problem. They went back to the works of the world and really hard for our dear sister to discipline them. We talk to her grandsons to give them the effects of what they are doing, not just physically but also spiritually.

The third house we went to was the house of bro. Mark and Vincent Quines who were both baptized in 2007. They are brothers and really sincere in serving the Lord when they first started to be christians but after few months, never saw them again. They told me that for the last 3 months, Mark was working in Manila and Vincent was at Palca but busy in the field. I reminded them about the teaching of Christ that we need to seek first His kingdom and also that we might gain that whole world but lost our own soul, it is all useless.

And finally, we went to the house of sister Krizzele who was once a student of my wife Joy in the children class. She was baptized last 2009, but also not as faithful as her mother and sister. Together with his family, we tried to encourage her to come to the church and read to her passages about staying faithful.

February 26, in our Lord's day here at Tuguegarao, bro. Jun taught in our bible study about "Satan's plan for you" and bro. Rody preached about "When Calamity and Disaster Strikes". Two good lessons and very encouraging that whatever happens we need to hold on to our faith and never surrender to the works of the tempter.

In the afternoon, at Palca, I preached to them about "Bad things". I focus on sharing to them why bad things happen to good people like Job, the sick man in John 5, the blind man at John 9 and Lazarus at John 11.

From those brethren whom we visited, only one of them came and that was sister Krizzele. It is really hard to invite young people especially when are are man. Next Saturday, I will again visit other brethren who are often attending services. Hope and pray that my labor will be helpful to them and someday they will realized what is more important in this world.

February 28, in our bible study, we discuss about Revelation 8:6-11:19 which are the "Seven Trumpets". We didn't finish it all because we got many discussion about to what it really means. And we all concluded that the trumpets symbolize warning. Lord willing, next Tuesday, we will continue on it.