SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/5/2015
12:16 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Introduction to Revelation Seven
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: Revelation chapter Seven
Message of the
verses: I would like to quote the
last verse in Revelation chapter six at this time: “17
for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to
stand?"” In this last verse of
chapter six we see that there is a question that is asked and in that question
John wants to know “who is able to stand?”
This question relates to who could possibly stand after all of the seal
judgments had just taken place. We will
look at who will be able to stand as we study the 7th chapter of
Revelation, for in that chapter we have a look at the famous 144,000 thousand
Jewish Evangelists whom God will call to give out the gospel during the
Tribulation Period. So far we have only
looked at the judgments that have occurred, but now we will look at the
evangelism that will take place in this time period. We will see this pattern of having a period
of peace between the times when the next set of judgments will take place, and
in this case the next set will be the trumpet judgments, and at the end of the
trumpet judgments there will be a period of peace before God unleashes the bowl
judgments.
There has been many things written about these 144,000
people that we find here and also in chapter fourteen, things that are not
true. The Jehovah Wittiness began their
cult by saying that only 144,000 people would join it, but then after they
surpassed that number they had to make up some new rules. I have mentioned in earlier SD’s that there
are many believers today who do not believe that the promises of God to the
nation of Israel will ever be fulfilled and thus the promises were translated
to the church by God. This is a total
lie that I believe is from Satan for all we have to do is look at the people
who now live in the nation of Israel as it was founded in May of 1948 just as
Ezekiel said that it would come back again.
Ezekiel even went so far as to say that this new nation would be one
nation by talking about two sticks “15 The word of the LORD came again to me
saying, 16 "And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on
it, ’For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another
stick and write on it, ’For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of
Israel, his companions.’ 17 "Then join them for yourself one to another
into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 18 “When the sons of
your people speak to you saying, ’Will you not declare to us what you mean by
these?’ 19 say to them, ’Thus says the
Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand
of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with
it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in
My hand."’ 20 “The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before
their eyes. 21 “Say to them, ’Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take
the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will
gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; 22 and I will
make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will
be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer
be divided into two kingdoms. 23 “They will no longer defile themselves with
their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their
transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which
they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will
be their God.” The people who fought to
make Israel a nation again wondered if there should be two nations or one and
they were told about this passage in Ezekiel and so they named it Israel just
as the Lord foretold that it would be through Ezekiel. The nation of Israel was formed in one day as
the President of the Untied States, Harry S. Truman agonized over whether or
not to recognize it as a nation, but finally did because he believed in the
Bible. Isaiah wrote the following: “Isa 66:8 “Who has heard such a thing? Who
has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought
forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.” Now with the question of who these 144,000
people are can be answered by saying that Israel is not back in their land, and
we know that even though who belongs to what tribe is not really known by man,
the truth is that God knows who belongs to what tribe and He will be the One
who calls these men to serve Him as evangelists during the Tribulation Period.
At this time I want to quote a paragraph
from my blog dated May, 18, 2005 “In chapter seven there are two people groups
described, one of them is the 144,000 Jews, and then we have an unnumbered
group of Gentiles. The judgments of the
last chapter are over for a short time in order for God to begin the work of
evangelizing, and this will be begin by these 144,000 Jews.”
Now
as we have done in the past I will take more than on Spiritual Diary to
introduce a chapter from the book of Revelation, so we will look at this
introduction more fully in our next SD.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am
thankful that the Bible tells us the truth, and that it also tells us what will
become of the people on planet earth and what will eventually happen to planet
earth along with the rest of the universe.
When we look at Genesis we see the beginning and then when we look at
Revelation we will see that will happen in the end.
My
prayer is that all who read this will have had a wonderful celebration of Resurrection
Sunday. Remember Christ is Risen, “He
has risen Indeed.”
My Steps of Faith for Today: To love the Lord with all of my heart, soul,
mind, and strength, and to live in and better know the love Christ has for me.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew
5:10).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said ‘Why hath Satan
filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Spirit’?”
Answer in our next SD.
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