SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/30/2023 9:47 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-6 “The
Riches of Poverty”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matt. 19:26-29
Message of the verses: “26 And looking at them
Jesus said to them, "With people this is impossible, but with God all
things are possible." 27 Then Peter said to Him, "Behold, we have
left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?" 28 And
Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in
the regeneration
when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon
twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 “And everyone who has
left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for
My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.”
The
following is what God promised long ago for His Messiah, the Lord’s Anointed,
as He will receive all the nations as His inheritance and have the very ends of
the earth as His possessions. “8 ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely
give the nations as Your inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as
Your possession. 9 ‘You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter
them like earthenware’’” (Psalm 2:8-9). Macarthur writes “Then the Son of Man will sit on
His glorious throne, as King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev. 19:16). This is a reference to the prophecy of Daniel
7:13-14, where God, ‘the Ancient of Days,’ gives the kingdom to the Son of
Man. Jesus is affirming the reality that
He will rule in the coming kingdom.”
It
is at this time, the time of the Millennial Kingdom, the kingdom promised to
the Jews that the redeemed of all ages will also reign with Him. “‘Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the
greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to
the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an
everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him’” (Daniel
7:27). There are some other verses that
we can look at that go along with Dan. 7:27 “Or do you not know that the saints
will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to
constitute the smallest law courts? (1 Cor. 6:2) “Then I saw
thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw
the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus
and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or
his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand;
and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years” (Rev.
20:4). MacArthur
goes on to write “The nation of Israel will be restored, and sharing Christ’s
rule over her will be the Twelve apostles, who also shall sit on twelve
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthias, who took Judas’s place among the apostles shortly before
Pentecost (Acts 1:26), will join the other eleven of the twelve thrones (cf.
Dan. 7:22 and Isa. 1:26).” Let us look
now at these two verses. 22 until the
Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the
Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the
kingdom” (Dan. 7:22). “"Then I will
restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning;
After that you will be called the city of righteousness, A faithful city’”
(Isa. 1:26).
I
believe that I have mentioned something about what is called the amillennialism
in earlier SD’s and what they believe is that there is no millennial kingdom at
all. Now I have my own theories as to
what this got started, and I believe that one of the reasons for this group of believers believe that there is no
millennial kingdom is that they do not like the Jews. These people think that because the Jews
sinned by not believing in their Messiah that they have lost their chance at
having a kingdom. I remember a sermon
that I heard from John MacArthur who was talking about one time when he was in
Jerusalem that there were some amillennialists there talking about there would
not be a millennial kingdom for the Jews.
Now you have to think about this for a moment as here is a group of amillennialists
saying that God was done with the Jews and a few years before this that God had
given the Jews their promised land back to them as Ezekiel had predicted which
happened in 1948 and they were saying that God is done with the Jews??? I don’t
think so. Now we have been talking about
the twelve thrones and the twelve tribes and so what do these amillennialists
have to say about that? MacArthur writes
“One such writer made no attempt to discern Jesus’ meaning but simply
commented, ‘Now we have to wonder what our Lord meant by the twelve tribes of
Israel.’” Yes I suppose they do have to
wonder, but don’t wonder too long because God knows where the people are who
belong to each of the twelve tribes of Israel, and one more thing is that they
seem to forget that Jesus is Jewish as He came from the tribe of Judah through
the bloodline of King Davie.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: When the plain sense of Scripture makes
sense, seek no other sense.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Listening to our guest speaker last night he
was talking about how to pray for unbelievers and right before going there I was
talking to a friend of mine that I have known longer that I have known my wife
and ever since I became a believer I have prayed for he and his wife to come to
know the Lord. No coincidence to me that
I have made arrangements to see him and his wife the week after Easter. No coincidence that in our Sunday school
class we are taking a course on evangelism using the gospel of John. Please pray for me and for the salvation of
Troy and Charlotte.
3/30/2023 10:42 AM
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