SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/10/2023 7:52 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Deliverance of Believers to
Tribulation”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 24:9
Message of the verse: “Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of My name.”
In today’s SD we begin to look at the fourth birth
pain of the end times and it will be sever persecution of believers by the
evil, ungodly world. Now I know that
what we are looking at has to do with the tribulation period, but as I look at
what is going on in Israel today as Israel defends is land that God has given
to them, that many nations around the world, and many peoples in these nations
are lining up against Israel. God says
in Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless those who bless
you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of
the earth will be blessed.’” God is
speaking to Abram who is the father of the people of Israel, and this goes for
Israel for all time, so don’t do anything against a child of Israel just
because of who he is, for God will curse people and nations who do this.
John MacArthur writes “Paradidomi (will deliver) has the basic
meaning of giving over and was often used in a technical sense for arrest by
the police of military (see Matt. 4:12).
After being taken into custody believers will suffer extreme tribulation. Many will be murdered, and all will be hated
by all nations on account of My name. In
his parallel passage, Mark reports that Jesus said, “They will deliver you to
the courts, and you will be flogged in the synagogues, and you will stand
before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them” (Mark
13:9). The courts probably represent
Gentile authority and the synagogues obviously represent Jewish authority,
indicating that persecution will come from both groups. Being identified with Christ’s name will cost
believers their freedom, their rights, their respect, and often their lives.”
Now
after the church is raptured there will be people who will be saved, many, many
people will be saved. In the nation of
Israel there will be 144,000 Jewish evangelists, 12,000 from each tribe to give
out the gospel message. There will be
two witnesses who will also give you the gospel message, and there will come a
time when even angels get into the act of spreading the gospel message during the
tribulation period. Now we have talked
about the two witnesses in earlier SD’s and I have mentioned that my thoughts
are that they will be Moses and Elijah as neither of them finished their
ministry while on earth. These two men
will be witnesses for three and a half years (Rev. 11:3). Now during that time period they will be
supernaturally protected, but when that time is over the following will happen
to them as seen in the 11th chapter of Revelation. “7 When they have finished their testimony,
the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome
them and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of
the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their
Lord was crucified. 9 Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations
will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not
permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. 10 And those who dwell on the
earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to
one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
11 But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into
them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were
watching them. 12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them,
"Come up here." Then they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their
enemies watched them. 13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a
tenth of the city fell; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and
gave glory to the God of heaven.”
Lord willing we will finish this section in the next
SD.
12/10/2023 8:18 AM
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