Most “Christians” think that God has already appointed/predestinated the date and time of their death. Is that really true?
It’s a very popular/common expression “If I die today/tomorrow, it was God’s will”. But is that really true?
Is the death, and time, and manner of death, already decided by God?
And is every death the will of God?
Especially the death of every Christian?
What does the bible really say about this?
Verses commonly used:
Psalm 139:16 in NIV: “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
“all the days ordained”: could also be “the days (the life) that were formed for me”.
KJV: “Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”
Darby: Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all my members were written; during many days were they fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
NASB95: Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
Point is: It’s a very difficult verse to translate and it could very easily be saying only that God has appointed life for him. Not necessarily an exact number of days. Other verses must be used to ensure correct understanding.
Job 14:1-5 Only means that we are not immoral. That all mankind dies unless we are alive when Jesus returns. Even if it sounds like it is teaching that God has determined a specific length of time, we must consider the entire bible before making our final conclusion. All verses must be considered to get the correct result of true understanding.
Ecclesiastes 3 “A time to be born, and a time to die” only means that these events occur. “A time” does not refer to a specific date. In no way can this verse be used to teach appointed time. It’s twisting of scripture.
Now let’s examine some other scriptures:
1 Kings 17:17-24 Elijah raised the dead.
If the boy had died on the date that God had determined, then Elijah’s rising of the boy would had been reversing God’s decision.
2 Kings 20:1-7 King Hezekiah. There’s no mention of judgment being related to his sickness and death. It seems that it was just normal deadly sickness.
But God granted him 15 more years because of his request.
His date of death had not been predetermined.
God was able to make his death early or later dependent upon the actions and the requests of Hezekiah and not upon predestination.
When David commanded the murder of Bathsheba’s husband, that wasn’t the plan of God. David was punished for it. This shows that the manner of death and the date of date of the man wasn’t predetermined or decided by God.
Leviticus 10:1-2 When the 2 sons of Aaron the Priest, when God killed them because of them offering unclean fire on the altar, it wasn’t predetermined before the foundation of the world that they would sin and then be killed for it. They could had lived much longer except for their own foolish actions.
Deuteronomy 30:14-18 Obedience to God's law increases length of years. Therefore God has not already predetermined the length of our years and the date and cause of our death unless we are allotted special appointment destiny.
Bible says “do not murder”, yet people are murdered every day. Is it God’s will, and God’s plan in predestination for the manner of death of murder and the date of murder, every day for thousands of murderers to break that commandment? Of course not!
Acts 4:32 to 5:10 The woman and man killed by God for lying about withholding the money from the sale of their house, their date and method of death had not been predetermined by God. They could had lived much longer except for their own foolish actions.
Vitamins, diet, eating healthy, exercise choices, free will to live longer.
Bad choices of poor diet and no exercise is your own choice and results in an earlier death because of your own fault. You can’t rightfully claim that it was God’s will, or that it was your time to die.
Lung cancer from smoking wasn’t planned by God and the date of such death is not God’s plan or his will.
Of course, God can and does sometimes protect people from death, thereby delaying their death, as in my situation the other day in the tornado.
And He also does sometimes kill people as punishment or end their life out of mercy. All 3 of these situations occur in the bible. He does sometimes determine if a person will live or die that day, or that year, or that decade. But we can’t truly and accurately prove that God has an appointed predetermined date & manner of death for every person or every Christian.
Of course, He knows when and how it will happen because He saw the end from the beginning, and that might be written in one of his books/scrolls. But that’s not the same as having been chosen by God, or the will of God for the person to have died that day, in that way.
So Job 14 and Psalm 139 could actually be referring only to what was written because of what God knew, having seen the end from the beginning, but not necessarily his will or his absolute plan.
The phrase “Only God can judge me” can be translated “leave me alone and let me sin in peace.”
“If I die today or tomorrow, it’s God’s will” is a very carnal, worldly, sinful phrase used by people in the same context/purpose as people who say “Only God can judge me”. It means that they don’t want to be told what to do. It means that they are going to do it their way, not God’s way and they don’t care what logic or truth that you have shared with them. It shows the spirit of rebellion, lawlessness and stubbornness.
Masks and gloves for the coming new extremely dangerous epidemic:
It’s childish and foolish to live freely without any restrictions or precautions in the midst of a pandemic. Other people’s blood will be on your own hands because of foolish lack of responsibility, wisdom, caution, care and love.
People who are already currently infected with a very serious disease and walking around inside public buildings without a mask, are irresponsible and should be arrested and thrown in prison for murder.
Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/jan-14-2023-appointed-date-of-death-if-i-die-tomorrow-gods-will
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