SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/2/2016
6:21 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Nation
Purged
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Micah
5:10-15
Message of
the verses: “10 "It will be in that day," declares the LORD,
"That I will cut off your horses from among you And destroy your chariots.
11 “I will also cut off the cities of your land And tear down all your
fortifications. 12 “I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you will have
fortune-tellers no more.
13 “I will cut off your carved images And your sacred pillars from among you,
So that you will no longer bow down To the work of your hands. 14 “I will root
out your Asherim from among you And destroy your cities. 15 “And I will execute
vengeance in anger and wrath On the nations which have not obeyed.’”
John MacArthur sums up what we see in these verses
at the end of a note from his study Bible when he writes “All forms of
self-reliance in war and idolatrous worship will be removed so that the nation
must rely solely on Christ their King for deliverance and worship Him alone.” Keep in mind that this section is still
speaking about the end times, the times during the tribulation period as we
have been mentioning through this fifth chapter of Micah’s prophecy.
People living since May of 1948 have seen Israel go
back to their land, and this in and of itself should be a sign to them that the
Lord was the One behind bringing them back to their land as He has promised in
many places that he would do. Israel
sinned and broke the law of God and that is why they were removed from their
land. The problem is that many in the
revised state of Israel will be practicing the same sins when they get back to
their land and it is my belief that even though Israel now has great weapons of
mass destruction that when Antichrist makes a covenant with them as promised in
the 9th chapter of Daniel that they will lay down their weapons and
thus be very venerable and finally they will put their trust in the Lord to
protect them and He will do this as we have seen in our study of
Revelation. Not only will their weapons
be taken from them but also their idols as described here and also in Zachariah
13:2 “"It will come about in that day," declares the LORD of hosts,
"that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will
no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean
spirit from the land.”
Dr. Wiersbe writes “God has not cast aside His
people (Rom. 11:1); for today there is a believing remnant of Jews in the
church. One day God will gather the
unbelieving Jewish nation to their land, cause them to experience suffering,
and then reveal Himself to them and give birth to a new nation. The prophets saw that day and tried to convey
its message to the people of their day, but they wouldn’t listen.
“Christians today look for Jesus to return to gather
His people to Himself (1 Thess. 4:13-18) and establish His righteousness
kingdom. Peter assures us that , ‘the
day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;’ and then, in light of this
fact, he asks, ‘Therefore…what manner of persons ought you to be in holy
conduct and godliness?’ (2 Peter 3:10,
11 NKJV). Future hope ought to produce
present holiness.
“Are we ready for His return?”
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