(#1 5985) From Now to Eternity - Rhema & Kairos

NOTE: I WILL BE UPLOADING MY BLOG POSTS ON A WEEKLY BASIS EVERY SHABBAT (FRIDAY 7PM). FIRST POSTED ON 1 JULY 2018.

Shalom Aleichem and welcome to the Issachar B7D Fellowship!

This is the first of my Shabbat YouTube blog posts and I am so happy to be with you here today. I have named my YouTube blog “From Now to Eternity,” because I believe that the time has come to proclaim God’s living word, His Rhema, in this, His Kairos or appointed time. I pray that this will be an ongoing journal to equip and encourage all of you who are tuning in, all whom the Lord calls, to keep the faith until He returns to bring us all back to eternity.

Now, in my welcome video, I said that God has an urgent word for His people today so that, like the men of Issachar, we understand the times and know what we should do. What He wants to speak to us is apparent in the Bible when we consider it through the perspective of the 7 Days of Creation.

Let us now try and unpack this a bit more, starting with the words, God has an urgent word for His people today.

Here, we need to understand the concept of Rhema and Kairos.

Rhema literally means an “utterance”, God speaking to us. This is different from Logos, which refers to God’s written word that became flesh in Jesus. So whereas Logos is in a sense eternal, Rhema is very specific, at a particular point in time. Often, we experience God’s Rhema when the Holy Spirit prompts or convicts our hearts during our Quiet Times. So for instance, we may have read a Bible passage many times before, but one day the words from the passage suddenly “jumps” at us. That is Rhema, God speaking to us at that particular point in time. When God speaks, we are always touched and transformed in some way, because we know that God’s word never returns to Him empty (Isa 55:11).

Kairos meanwhile refers to that opportune time, usually for some form of action to take place. As we will see in our later sessions, it is that appointed or we could even use sacred (set apart) time. This is very different from Chronos or linear, historical time. So for instance, when God released His Rhema to you, that particular time was His Kairos - His opportune, appointed and even sacred or set apart - time for Him to release His word to you. In a sense, we could say that God acted at that point in time to speak to you, because we know that God’s word brings about change and transformation in our lives. Often, it also leads us into action as we respond to His Rhema.

So, let us summarise this - first, we are talking about God’s word, not my word, not my theories, theology, doctrine or perspective. It is not one among many. We are talking about what God is saying. Next, it is what God is saying to us today, not at any particular point in time, not the eternal word of God but what He wants to speak to us today.

So the key message here is that God wants to speak, to say something that is specific to us, at this particular point in history. That is what Rhema and Kairos is all about.

The Question is - do we believe?

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Annual Introduction - AM 5985 (22 September 2025 - 11 September 2026)

Shalom Aleichem and welcome to the Issachar B7D Fellowship!

Jews celebrate the Feast of Trumpets at sunset today by blowing the Shofar to mark the beginning of a Jewish New Year. We are another year closer to the end of the Sixth Millennium before Yeshua returns to usher in His Millennial Sabbath Rule as symbolized by the Seventh Day of the original Creation account. Until then, we pray for the day when Israel will celebrate this Feast recognizing Yeshua as their promised Messiah who will return at the Last Trumpet.  

This year marks my seventh annual introduction since 2019. I think all of us agree that the world is getting darker, where order has given way to chaos, logic to madness, where wrong is now right and right is now wrong, and everything just seems to be totally upside down. And the darkness is not just out there. To be honest, this has been a dark season in my (Stephen’s) life, both professionally and personally. Even now, I struggle to pen down this short introduction, to be faithful and authentic in what is said.

But through all this, there is a quiet assurance and peace within me that God is in control. He always is. He is the God who never fails. His word and His will always come to pass. In Isaiah 55:10-11, God reminds us that “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” God’s Rhema as shared here does not depend on me, but on Him alone. It is His word. 

And I also know that God will never fail in my own life, regardless of how bleak it seems right now in my eyes. I am reminded to “be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified … for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you” (Deut 31:6). When I was fifteen, a brother who had prayed for me before I left Malaysia for studies in Singapore received a vision of someone walking down a flight of stairs into darkness, but he was accompanied by a Man who held a book and a shepherd’s staff. I was immediately reminded of Psalm 23, that “though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” It has been over forty years since that vision was given to me, and the journey has not been easy to say the least. But I want to declare like the Psalmist, “my flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Ps 73:26). 

This year’s introduction is not about the signs of the times around us. It is dedicated to those who are currently in a dark place, who are struggling and in despair, where there seems to be no light and hope ahead. You are not alone. You are not abandoned. You belong to a God who never fails. There will come the appointed day when love, peace and joy will rule in our lives. 

God bless you and God bless Israel,

Stephen & Wei Ling Lim

Song credit - Yamma Ensemble (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnkb7...)

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Bible through the 7 Days of Creation in Brief

lom Aleichem and welcome to the Issachar B7D Fellowship!

For those of you who follow my Shabbat blog, you will know that I have spent the past fifty Shabbats unpacking how God has an urgent word for His people today so that, like the men of Issachar, we understand the times and know what we should do. As we journeyed through the Bible together, we discovered how what God wants to speak to us is apparent in His Word when considered through the perspective of the 7 Days of Creation. My prayer is that you have been richly blessed for spending your precious time with me as the Holy Spirit illuminates your mind and convicts your heart of what is to come and how we are to respond in obedience to Him.

For those of you who are new to my blog, I pray that you will be stirred in your heart to discover God's truth for yourself by journeying through these short Shabbat sessions (numbered #1-50), most of which are just 5-8 minutes long. However, if you are hard-pressed for time or you want to have an overview first to discern if this is truly of God before delving into it in detail, you can view this 40-minute video instead. I encourage you to pray for God's protection and for the Holy Spirit to guide you into all truth. And for those who have journeyed with me, you can also view this video as a refresher of sorts to be able to see the entire picture in one sitting.

I look forward to seeing you all again in the Jewish New Year, as we faithfully prepare and await for our Lord's soon return.

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