Zion Church Online Bulletin

Week No. 12 | 19 Mar 2023 Lord's Day Service

LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Elder Steve Yoon
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 56
Responsive Reading:
19. Psalm 84
19. 诗篇 84
Prayer by Elder Sung Han Chung
Scripture Reading:
Song of Songs 2:8-14
雅 歌 2:8-14
Choir Anthem
Arise! Come with Me!
(Pyungkang 4000 Choir)
Sermon by Rev Abraham Park
The news of Spring’s arrival with sprouting buds
Hymn 402
Offering Prayer by Elder Sung Han Chung
Offering Song:
The King of Love my Shepherd is
(Pyungkang 4000 Choir)
Announcements by Elder Steve Yoon
*Hymn 6
*Benediction by Rev Hong Bong Joon

*Congregation Standing

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Let us continue to pray for the growth and revival of our church and for the work of evangelism and missions.
  • Please refer to the following for our service times:

    • Lord’s Day (Sunday) service @ 10:45 am*
    • Lord’s Day Bible study at 1:30 pm
    • Wednesday service @ 7:40 pm*
    • Saturday Dawn service @ 6:00 am

    *Also broadcasted live on YouTube for Lord’s Day & Wed Services: http://live.zionchurch.sg

  • The Precept for 2023: “A Church that strives toward the Consummation of Redemptive History by following the path of Abraham’s faith” (Gen 18:18-19; 26:5; Gal 3:7-9; Col 1:25; Tit 2:14)

    “一个跟随亚伯拉罕信心的道路,努力完成救赎历史的教会”
    (创 18:18-19;26:5;加 3:7-9;西 1:25;多 2:14)

  • The season of Lent has started from 22 Feb-6 Apr, let us use this time to prepare through prayer and repentance to reflect on our relationship with God, and take steps to draw closer to Him.
  • There will be Passion Week Special Services in the month of April:

    Dawn services with Rev. Abraham Park’s messages: Apr 3 (Mon) – 7 (Fri) at 6:00 am
    Evening services: Apr 3 (Mon) – 6 (Thu) at 7:40 pm
    Good Friday service: Apr 7 (Fri) at 10:45 am

  • 2023 HORA Conference will be held on July 1-4, 2023 in Chicago, IL, at Loyola University. Please see Pastor or Evangelist asap if you are interested in attending.
  • Those who wish to be baptized on the Resurrection Lord’s Day, please see Pastor Sam.
  • There will be no Bible study today.
  • Book 7 of the History of Redemption book series: “The Ten Commandments, the Eternal Covenant for All Generations” has arrived! Purchase your copy at $35 with EJoyce.

SERVICE DUTIES

Prayer (Wed 22 Mar) Deacon Louis Loy
Presider (Sun 26 Mar) Elder Ridwan Dinata
Basket Bearers (Sun 26 Mar) Elder Tan Pau Soon, Elder Steve Yoon

OFFERING & TITHE

Via Internet Banking

You can give an offering electronically by transferring to the following account:

Please make sure to indicate your name, type of offering and the date info under the memo/remarks sections when initiating the transfer. Please indicate your offerings’ purpose especially for TITHES (to be listed as TH).
Note: Any online offerings without indications of whether for tithing, thanksgiving, building, mission, etc will be recorded as regular offerings.
Thank you for your assistance.

1. For regular, tithes, thanksgiving, special, and missions offerings ONLY
OCBC Bank Account: ZION CHURCH
Account Number: 621835867001
PayNow UEN #: T00SS0141D
Swift: OCBCSGSGXXX
Bank Address: CHULIA STREET, 63, OCBC CENTRE, FLOOR 10, SINGAPORE

NOTE: Please specify Name, Purpose and Date (ddmmmyy) of the offering in the MEMO or Bill Reference Number section. See Example 1.

2. For Building Offerings ONLY
DBS Bank Account: ZION CHURCH
Account#: 047-903777-2

NOTE: Please specify Name, Purpose and Date (ddmmmyy) of the offering in the MEMO or Bill Reference Number section. See Example 2.

3. Offering toward Missions Offering or Book Drive to support broadcasts of the History of Redemption Series globally, can be made in the following ways to HORA Ministries:

1) Direct bank transfer to:

DBS (Development Bank of Singapore)
Account Holder: LI JIA TSUEY or CAI XIAO FEN ERICA
Account Number: 271-310151-9 (Account Type: Multi Currency Account)
Currency Type: All currencies accepted (US$, S$, etc)
Address of Beneficiary Bank: 12 Marina Boulevard, DBS Asia Central, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982
Country: Singapore
SWIFT Address/Code: DBSSSGSG

2) PayNow to HORA Ministries via NRIC S7638942Z

3) Indicating “Book Drive” or “Missions” on the offering envelopes.

Use the following acronyms to indicate Purpose (offering type):

    • RO = Regular Offering
    • TH = Tithes
    • TG = Thanksgiving
    • SP = Special Offering
    • MO = Missions Offering
    • BO = Building Offering

Example 1:
JohnDoe TH 05APR20
SamMiller TG 05Mar20
JaneSmith RO 03May20

Example 2:
JohnDoe BO 05APR20

By Mail

You may mail your offering cheques to Zion Church to below address:
“Finance Department”.
2 Gambas Crescent, Nordcom 2 Tower 2 #10-13. Siangapore 757044.

By ATM

You may transfer via ATM:
BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO SPECIFY TYPE OF OFFERING if you use this option.
Please inform any Finance Team member if want your offering to be recorded.

  • Eldress May Ling
  • Deaconess Leh Tieng
  • Elder Steve

Living Manna

Sermon Summary
The Beast of the End Times

Scripture: Daniel 8:5-14

In Daniel 7, God showed Daniel a vision of 4 beasts, representing the 4 empires or governing powers that will govern and rule over the world in the flow of history. This already happened. However, the prophecy goes further to speak about the end times.

The ram with 2 horns represents Mede and Persia. One is greater and one is small, the great Mede is broken and Persia takes control and rules. Later Greece under Alexander the Great were known as the goat people, and Greece destroys Persia. And Greece is represented by the goat. Though in history this prophecy was about Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. But it is also referring to the nations that will rule over this world in the end times. The last horn that comes out represents Antichrist (Daniel 8:17, 19, 23-24).

What do they (beasts) do?

1. It moves about swiftly (Daniel 8:5)

Satan will roam about swiftly to accuse the people, to lure, and deceive and lead people to sin, then he will accuse him. He will move so fast that before we know it, we are already committing that sin (Job 1:7). So, we need to keep our hearts just like how God told Adam to keep and tend the Garden of Eden.

2. Wrathfulness is Satan’s trick

We need to get rid of wrath in our hearts and let the gentleness of Jesus Christ come in. In Daniel 8:6 The goat is destroying the ram and rushed at him. Greece destroyed Persia. Now in the end times, the beast will try to destroy the church.

That is why be angry yet do not sin (Ephesians 4:26-27). Let us not let the devil come in through our weakness in anger management, wrath, or our complaining hearts. The anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God (James 1:20).

3. Struck the ram and shattered his 2 horns. Satan will be enraged, roaring like a lion, seeking to destroy (Daniel 8:7)

Satan will destroy secular or religious, whatever gets in his way. His eventual purpose is to magnify himself, but God’s people will in the end glorify and magnify the Lord. The beast will try to take the place where the throne of God needs to be.

The throne of God needs to be:
(i) In your heart. The devil’s purpose wants to sit in your heart.
(ii) In the church. The beast wants to be the centre of that church.
So we need to be on the alert (1 Peter 5:8).

4. He hurled the ram to the ground and trampled on him (Daniel 8:7)

The beast will be given authority in the last 3.5 years to trample on the church, on the people of God. People favour the beast and boast about him. Later, the horn comes out with the mouth, it has got logic and theories. Therefore, we need to have the right understanding of the Word of God so as not to be deceived.

5. The large horn was broken and out came 4 horns

Daniel 8:8 shows Satan will divide and tear up the world, the church, and families.
This beast is now growing. The horns grow in number. Initially, Satan walks and roams around, then sits on the throne in the Holy Place, then starts breaking things up and tearing things down. God separates us to make us holy. But Satan tears us up and destroys our families and churches. So, we need to learn to be forgiving and harmonious.

6. Out of the 4 horns came a very small horn

Daniel 8:9 foreshadows the antichrist. We need to evangelize and transmit our faith down generations both vertically and horizontally. But Satan is also good at evangelizing and passing down his teaching. The work of the antichrist is to make everyone antichrist. Eventually, he will take the Holy Place and destroy and make us fall.

7. It grew exceedingly great towards the south, east and the beautiful land

The beast will invade even the spiritual and holy Jerusalem in the end times. Literally, the beautiful land is referring to Jerusalem. Spiritually, it is the church. So we need to pray for God’s protection.

8. The horn grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the hosts to fall to the earth

After Satan enters the Holy Place and the beautiful land, he causes 1/3 of the stars to fall down to ‘the earth’. Stars represent people of faith (Daniel 8:10). Those who are on this earth will receive the mark of the beast. ‘The Earth’ here is talking about spiritual levels of faith. (Revelation 8:7; 12:4 )

9. It removed regular sacrifice from him for 2300 evenings and mornings (Daniel 8:11)

Satan will cause worship to come to an end and put a stop to regular sacrifice. We can think about that in 2 ways:

(i) In the end, there will be persecution, to the point churches will not be able to have worship services regularly.
(ii) Individual level: You are unable to worship even when you are in church because the forces of Satan is working so powerfully in your life. that you cannot concentrate, and sometimes you cannot even come to church.

10. It will exalt himself to stand against God and perish in the end (Revelation 19:20-21; 20:1-3)

The beast will perform signs. Those who do not have the discerning spirit to distinguish what is the Word of righteousness will be deceived. The beast stands against God in its arrogance, but it will perish in the end.

Conclusion

In order for us to overcome the beast, we need to become true saints, true Christians of the end times but it will not be easy (Revelation 3:18-22).

Jesus gave instructions to the 7 churches of the end times to be refined as pure gold, and the refining process is difficult because it consists of a lot of training and trials. Those whom God loves He disciplines them into repentance and makes them zealous. We must also put on white garments which is the righteous acts of the saints. We need to buy eye salve to spiritually discern and see.

Jesus says don’t open your door to Satan but open to Jesus, so He can come in to dine with us. If Jesus is dining with us, Satan cannot come in. Jesus invites us to sit with Him on His throne. Satan wants to sit on God’s throne.

We spoke of a beast with horns. But the Lamb also has the 7 horns, this speaks of the 7 spirits of God. We need the leading and guiding of the 7 spirits of God to be protected from the horns of the beasts (Revelation 5:6).

AMEN!

Pastor Samuel Kim

2023-03-19T03:56:41+00:00
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