SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/29/2016 9:34 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Lord will Visibly Appear
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 14:3-7
Message of the verses: “3 Then the LORD will go forth and fight
against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. 4 In that day His feet will stand on the Mount
of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be
split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that
half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the
south. 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the
mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the
earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD, my God, will
come, and all the holy ones with Him! 6 In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will
dwindle. 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the LORD, neither day
nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.”
I want to
begin this SD by looking at Acts 1:9-12 “9 And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were
looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And as they
were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside
them. 11 They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking
into the sky? This Jesus,
who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as
you have watched Him go into heaven." 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is
near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.” Ok the reason that we look at this section
from Acts chapter one is because actually what Zechariah wrote before this
event will happen a long time after the event in Acts chapter one. Now when we look at Revelation chapter 19 we
will also see the return of Jesus to planet earth. These two angels told the disciples of Jesus
that He would return in the same way that He left, and that is that His foot
will set down on the Mount of Olives and once it sets down there the mountain
will split to form a valley as Zechariah tells us in this passage. I have mentioned that when Israel was looking
for oil in this very district that the geologists found out that there was a
great fault found under the Mount of Olives and they said there could be an
earthquake there at anytime, but we know that it will happen when the foot of
Jesus touches down there at the end of the Tribulation period.
Let us look
at a couple of more sections now, first Isaiah 29:6 which says “From the LORD
of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, With whirlwind and
tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.”
Now Revelation 19:18-19 “18 so
that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh
of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the
flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, and small and great." 19 And I
saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war
against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.” When Jesus returns the armies who were doing
battle against each other will then turn their arms against the Lord Jesus
Christ as seen in this section from Revelation.
Dr. Wiersbe
points out that “The Lord is a man of war” sang the Jews after they were
delivered from Egypt (Ex. 1 5:3), but this aspect of Christ’s character and
ministry is ignored, if not opposed, by people today. In their quest for world peace, some
denominations have removed the ‘militant songs’ from their hymnals, so that a
new generation is growing up knowing nothing about ‘fighting the good fight of
faith’ or worshiping a Savior who will one day meet the nations of the world in
battle (Rev. 19:11-21).” These people
who are doing this miss what the Bible teaches when it teaches about the attributes
of God of which they were all seen at the cross of Christ.
Dr. Wiersbe
concludes this section by writing “Our God has been long-suffering toward the
nations, but one day He will meet them in battle and triumph over them.”
One of the
problems of living in a country where you can worship in freedom is that you,
at times do not rely on the Lord to help you get through difficult situations
like situations that happen to people who have lived in countries where being a
believer in Jesus Christ could cost you your life. Our nation is at the cross-roads of becoming like
those nations where naming the name of Jesus could cost you your freedom and
eventually your life. My prayer is that
God will have mercy on us, and that if He does that all believers will live
like they are thankful for His mercy and live for the Lord in ways that they
have not for too long of a time.
9/29/2016 9:59 PM
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