SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
5/19/2015 9:56 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Power of the Two Witnesses
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Revelation
11:5-6
Message of the
verses: “5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire flows
out of their mouth and devours their enemies; so if anyone wants to harm them,
he must be killed in this way. 6 These have the power to shut up the sky, so
that rain will not fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have
power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with
every plague, as often as
they desire.”
As we look at what we have been looking at thus far in
the book of Revelation, as far as the judgments that have come upon the earth
and also the fact that rulers of the earth will be able to kill people for not
following them, but being committed to the Word of God and to the Christ of the
Word and along comes these two witnesses who have been given great power from the
Lord, power that is defined in these two verses and there will be nothing that
the rulers of this world including the Antichrist can do to stop them from
using this power “as often as they desire.”
Now
we have stated that the things that these two witnesses’ have as far as their
powers are similar to what Moses and Elijah had while on the earth and whether
or not it is Moses and Elijah we do know that they have these similar
powers.
These two men will be like Noah before the flood and
Moses before the judgment came upon Egypt, they will be fearless in proclaiming
the Word of God and as Noah and Moses God will protect them in order that His
Word will be proclaimed by them. All the
people of the world will be able to see these two men doing what they do for
the cause of Christ. Years before the
modern technology that we possess today people probably wondered how this could
be possible, but we now can see almost immediately what goes on around the
world, especially in the Middle East.
Now it is because of what they are proclaiming they will
be hated by many people in the world, so much so that when they are finally
killed people will send presents to each other, something we will look at later
on.
John MacArthur writes “Those who wish to harm the two
preachers ‘must be killed in this way’ because God does not want their preaching
stopped until their ministry is complete and will judge with death those who
try to halt it.” What way will they be
killed? “Fire will flow out of their
mouth and devour their enemies.”
There is one good thing that these two witness will do as
they proclaim the Word of God, one among many, and that is that the
environmentalists of the world will be few and far between, for when the world
sees the miracles that these two men do they will realize that it is God is
giving them the power for they will tell the world this. The environmentalists will also be few and
far between as they see the world being destroyed by the Lord and when these
two men begin to preach they will also stop the rain from following on the
earth for three and a half years and not
only that but they will have the power to turn water into blood.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: One of the things
that these two witnesses teach me is that God will protect people who are
serving Him for as long as He wants their ministry to go on. Sometimes missionaries are killed at a young
age giving out the Gospel, but God was done with their ministry as far as what
He wanted them to do while on this earth.
I cannot help but think of those men killed in South America in the
1950’s while ministering to a very ruthless tribe, but even today we see God’s
purpose for that as their ministry is still going on in spite of their death
which I am sure many thought was not timely.
These are some of the things that are hard to understand and to cope
with, but impossible without faith.
My Steps of Faith for Today: To love the Lord with all of my heart, soul,
mind and strength, to fear the Lord, and to live in the love of Christ.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “To buy Food” (Gen. 41:57).
Today’s Bible
question: “Herod intended to keep Peter
in prison until after what holy day?”
Answer in our next SD.
5/19/2015 10:23 AM
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