SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/4/2013
8:13 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Lord Will Restore the Nation PT-5
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Isaiah
27:12-13
Message of the
verses: We look at the final
sub-section under this main section in today’s SD. What we are looking at is different blessings
that will come in the kingdom age that the people of Isaiah’s day could look
forward to and also people in our own age can look forward too because it is
still in the future. Lord willing we
will begin to look at the seventh chapter of Daniel in our next SD, and then
after we finish that chapter we will come right back to Isaiah.
The Holly and Happy Feast (Isaiah 27:12-13): “12 In that day the LORD will start His threshing from
the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be
gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. 13 It will come about also in that day that a great
trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and
who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD in the
holy mountain at Jerusalem.”
Dr. Wiersbe begins his commentary on this section by
writing: “The camp of Israel was
directed by the blowing of trumpets (Num. 10).
The Feast of Trumpets took place on the first day of the seventh month
and prepared Israel for the annual Day of Atonement (Lev. 23:23-32). But the Day of Atonement prepared them for
the Feast of Tabernacles, which is a picture of the joy of the future kingdom
(Lev.23:23-32).”
Israel looks forward to this trumpet to call them into
the kingdom blessings and the Church looks forward to the trumpet that will be
blown to bring the Church, the Bride of Christ to the clouds above the earth
and then into heaven where we will be with the Lord forever. What a day that will be! It was a very long time ago that I read a
book in which the authors explained the rapture through the OT feasts. When I first picked the book up I wondered
how this could be, but once I read it then it all began to make sense to
me. Like I said it has been a while but
it seems to me that the feasts of trumpets which comes after the harvest in
Israel was the one that signified the rapture of the church.
When Jesus’ disciples as Him to teach them to pray He
spoke what is commonly known as the “Lord’s Prayer” and in that prayer He
prayed “thy kingdom come,” and so this would be a good thing to pray about each
day.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I truly believe that the things that Isaiah is talking
about will someday take place, and the things that the other authors wrote
about concerning the end times, and the “Day of the Lord” will also take place
just as it is written. I don’t want to
get my roots too far into the soil of this world so that I don’t look forward
to these things to take place.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to trust the Lord for the meeting
that I believe He will set up with this person that I have not seen for 38
years, who means very much to me. Not
only am I to pray “Thy Kingdom come,” but in this case “Thy will be done!”
Memory verses for the
week: Review 2 Peter 1:1-2
1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ,
To those who have received a faith of the same kind as
ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Pilate” (John 19:22).
Tomorrow’s Bible
Question: “Jacob’s well was near what
city in Samaria?”
Answer in our next SD.
9/4/2013 8:39 AM
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