SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/11/2023 9:20 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: “Intro to Matt. 23:37-39”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
23:37-37
Message of the verses: “37 "O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to
her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers
her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. 38 “Behold, your house is being left to you
desolate! 39 “For I say to you, from now on you shall not see Me until
you say, ‘BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!’"”
I am beginning the very last section in the 23rd
chapter of Matthew, a chapter that has been very meaningful to me, especially
because of what is now going on in the country of Israel at this time. I began
this chapter on September 22nd as it has taken a while to go over
the very important things in this chapter.
It is also the last chapter in John MacArthur’s third commentary on the
gospel of Matthew. I listen to his
sermons and read his commentaries to help prepare me to write my Spiritual
Diaries that go onto my blogs. I have to
say that I am really looking forward to the next two chapters of Matthew as
they go along with Revelation chapters six through nineteen which speaks of
what is called the Tribulation period, a seven year period which will happen
shortly after the rapture of the church and will end with the return of the
Lord Jesus Christ to planet earth to set up what is called the Millennial
Kingdom. The church age ends at the
rapture and all those who were a part of the church, that is those who have
accepted Jesus Christ as their savior and Lord will come back with the Lord to
planet earth and help in working in the Millennial kingdom.
In
the 12th chapter of the book of Genesis we see the special call that
God gave to Abraham, whose name then was Abram, but God changed it to Abraham,
and like Warren Wiersbe that will be the name that we go by when studying
Abraham’s life. The Jews have been God’s
special people, and Christians who truly loves God cannot help loving the
Jewish people. He will have deep concern
for their plight in our day and a heavy burden for their salvation in Christ,
who is their Messiah. This is even truer
in light of what is going on in Israel today as they are fighting for their
life against a satanic terrorist group headed up by Iran.
John
MacArthur writes the following which was written in 1988, “Throughout all the
centuries of their oppression, including attempts to exterminate them, as in the
Nazi holocaust, they have survived and been divinely preserved in their racial
identity. Although they have been scattered
to every part of the world, have become citizens in countless different
countries, have intermarried with Gentiles, and even have differing opinions
among themselves as to who a real Jew is, they continue as a distinct people.” With that quotation I will end this rather
short SD because it is the weekend and my SD’s are usually shorter on the
weekends because of other studies that I do, mostly going over my Sunday school
lesson that I am teaching on Sunday mornings.
11/11/2023 9:41 AM
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