SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/15/2015
10:12 PM
My Worship Time Focus: A Cleansed
People
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Joel
3:20-21a
Message of the
verses: “20 But Judah will be
inhabited forever And Jerusalem for all generations. 21 And I will avenge their
blood which I have not avenged.”
As I begin this Spiritual Diary I am thinking about when
I first began to study the book of Genesis back in very late 2005 and one of
the things you learn when you study Genesis is the “firsts” that you find in
the first book of the Bible. Things like
the first sin, and the first time God is called by one of His names, the first
sacrifice, things like that. As you
progress through the Bible and study the Old Testament you find that God seems
to slowly add things in His Word to show us His plans, for instance we see in
Genesis 3:15 that God says that His Messiah will come, now He does not use that
word “Messiah” but for sure He is speaking of Him. As we progress through the Scriptures we see
the line of the Messiah and then when we get to the New Testament we see that
Jesus Christ was born exactly in that line for He says that He is not only the
root of David, but also the offspring of David.
Now we see in verse 20 of Joel chapter three that God says that Judah
will be inhabited forever and also Jerusalem for all generations. We know from 2 Peter 3:10 that someday the
earth as we know it will be, for lack of a better term, “un-created” and a new
heaven and earth and a new Jerusalem will be created by God for all true
believers to dwell in. The progression of
God’s plan continues. God does not give
man all of the answers as to what will happen right away, but gradually gives
them to man as His Word goes on. Genesis
is the things that come first, and Revelation is the things that will come last
as Revelation completes what will happen.
The Millennial kingdom will be headed up by the Lord Jesus
Christ as He sits on David’s throne in Jerusalem. Satan, the Antichrist, and the false prophet,
along with all sinners will be thrown into the lake of fire and the kingdom
will begin with all believers. The earth
will be re-done as we have been talking about and so this will make for a
perfect environment as there is no sinners to pollute things when the kingdom
begins, the people will all be cleansed, living in a perfect environment. Zechariah
13:1 says “"In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David
and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.” We next look to Ezekiel to describe this
cleansing: “24 “For I will take you from
the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. 25
"Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will
cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 “Moreover, I
will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove
the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 “I will
put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be
careful to observe My ordinances.” What
a wonderful promise to receive.
Dr. Wiersbe concludes:
“Under Old Testament Law, the Jews could cleanse that which was defiled
by using water, fire, or blood. The
priests were washed with water and sprinkled with blood when they were
installed in office. (Lev. 8-9), and the
healed lepers were likewise washed with water and sprinkled with blood (Lev.
14). The priests had to wash their hands
and feet and keep ceremonially clean as they served in the tabernacle (Ex.
30:17-21). If anything became defiled,
it had to be purified with ‘the water of sprinkling’ (Num. 19). Zechariah used this Old Testament truth to
teach about the permanent internal cleansing that would come when the people
saw their Messiah and trusted Him (Zech. 12:10). They would experience a new birth and become
a new people for the Lord.”
This is one of several goals that I have as I do my
Spiritual Diaries and put them onto my blogs, that people would be convicted by
the Holy Spirit so that their hearts would be opened to the Gospel and have their
hearts cleansed from all of their sin because of what Jesus Christ did for them
on the cross. There are also other
goals that I have too.
8/15/2015 10:37 PM
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