SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/27/2023 9:06 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The
Response”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matt. 24:16-20
Message of the verses: “16 then those who
are in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17 “Whoever is on the housetop must
not go down to get the things out that are in his house. 18 “Whoever is in the
field must not turn back to get his cloak. 19 “But woe to those who are
pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 "But pray
that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.”
All the things mentioned in this section happen
right after the abomination of desolation that we spoke about in earlier SD’s. It is my belief that that event takes place
in the middle of the tribulation period, and that is why the last part of the
tribulation period is called “The Great Tribulation” as most of the horrors
will happen in that time period. So
Jesus tells those who are alive at that time to flee to the mountains, and do
it in a great hurry as death will come if they don’t get out of Jerusalem. Now I have heard that the place that the
children of Israel will run to is Petra, a place that is in the mountains and
well defended. I am sure that there will
be other places where they will flee to as Israel is full of caves and other
places to hide.
The
rebuilt Tribulation Temple is in Jerusalem and because of that, which is where
the abomination of desolation will take place that is why our Lord is telling
these to leave Jerusalem which would be where this will happen. Antichrist has begun to show his true colors
and that is the hatred of the Jewish people and that is because he will be
empowered by Satan who has always hated the Jews because they are the people that
Jesus came through, and if he could destroy them then the end time events that
are written in the Bible will not be able to happen, but although this will be
the bloodiest time period in the history of the world it will happen just as prophesied,
and our Lord is prophesying this right here in Matthew 24-25 in His own Words.
MacArthur
writes the following which has similar thing said in it that I just went
over: “Since God first called and made
His eternal covenant with Abraham, Satan has sought to destroy God’s chosen
people, the Jews, and their God-ordained nation of Israel. To have destroyed the Jews would have been to
destroy God’s redemptive plan for mankind, because ‘salvation is from the Jews’
(John 4:22). To have eliminated the Jews
before Jesus was born would have broken the line of promise and thwarted the
birth and therefore the redemptive ministry of the Messiah, who had to be a
descendant of Abraham and of David.
Having failed at that, however, Satan still seeks to destroy individual
Jews in order to prevent Christ’s ultimate redemption of them and to destroy
Israel as a nation in order to prevent its restoration under His divine
rule. It must be added that God has
allowed Satan some success in his attacks on Jews. Because of their covenant
violation, unbelief, and apostasy, Satan has sometimes actually acted as God’s
executioner to punish them.
“Because
they will refuse to worship him and especially because they belong to God, the
Antichrist will also unleash exceptional fury against those who come to believe
in Jesus during the last days. As
already noted, those nearest Jerusalem will be in the severest and most
immediate danger.
“Phuego (flee) is related to the English
term fugitive, a person who takes
flight in order to escape danger. The
only hope will be to run for safety, symbolized in the exhortation to flee Judea
as quickly as possible and take refuge in the mountains.”
In my next SD I will talk about why all of those who
are fleeing will not make it as I will look at a quote from the book of
Zechariah.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: God has a plan as seen in His plan for the
nation of Israel, and God’s plan will take place as I have seen in my studies
of Zechariah, the book I am teaching in our small Sunday school class. End result is that I am to trust the Lord.
My Steps of Faith for Today: God has a plan for my life too, and I am to
trust Him to work out that plan for me no matter how difficult it is from time
to time.
12/27/2023 9:32 AM
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