Saturday, May 3, 2025

PT-1 "Being Loyal to the Truth" (2 John 7-8)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/3/2025 10:23 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                         Focus:  PT-1 “Being Loyal To The Truth”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                           Reference:  2 John 7-8

 

            Message of the verses:  7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.”

 

            As I look at verse seven I can see that the problems that we have in our world today, problems with deceivers has not changed much from the time when sin first entered our universe.  I can’t explain how it was that someone who was created by God and was perfect became a sinner when sin had not even been defined then, but Lucifer who became Satan who was perfectly made by God turned his back on God and tried to usurp power over God.  I believe this is explained in two of the prophets, Ezekiel, and Isaiah and the explanation can be summed up in five “I will’s.”   

 

“The 5 ‘I Wills’ of Satan” Compiled by Rev. George F. Parsons Let us consider the five "I WILLS" of Lucifer as found in Isaiah 14:1314: 1)

 

"I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN." Lucifer wanted to mount up or scale to the heavens. He desired to occupy the highest heavens:  to probe, and to penetrate the kingdom of the infinite God. He wanted to have a very HIGH position!

 

2) "I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD." Lucifer’s position and service before God’s throne was not enough. He wanted a throne from which he could exercise final authority and make decisions pertaining to the angelic host ("the stars of God"). He wanted to rule over all the angels. God had made him an exalted angel, but Lucifer wanted to be exalted even more. (He was not content to shine as the "morning star";  he wanted to shine as the star of stars--with a brilliance that would far outshine all the other stars (even as the sun’s brightness makes all the other stars fade away so that you cannot even see them during daylight hours).

 

3) "I WILL SIT ALSO UPON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION." He desired to sit or be enthroned in the highest place having all the angelic assemblies in submission to him. He wanted to be the center of attention. He wanted to be IDOLIZED by all.

 

4) "I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS." "Clouds" are often used in the Bible to speak of the glory of God (see Matthew 24:30; Acts 1:9; Rev. 1:7). Lucifer coveted God’s glory for his own.  He failed to acknowledge that his glory and beauty all came from and was dependent upon God. In his sinful pride, Lucifer wanted a glory that would impress and dazzle all creatures.

 

 5) "I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH." He wanted to be EQUAL with God and to take God’s place as Possessor and Ruler of all. He wanted to become a completely independent creature, responsible to no one.”

 

            The following comes from Ezekiel 28:11-19 and it too speaks of Satan.

 

            11 Again the word of the LORD came to me saying, 12  "Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, "You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 “You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in you. On the day that you were created They were prepared. 14 “You were the anointed cherub who covers, And I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 “You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you. 16 “By the abundance of your trade You were internally filled with violence, And you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire. 17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you. 18 “By the multitude of your iniquities, In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you. 19 “All who know you among the peoples Are appalled at you; You have become

terrified And you will cease to be forever."’"

 

            Lord willing I will continue looking at the verses from 2 John 7-8 further in tomorrow evening’s Spiritual Diary.  Look at these verses from both Isaiah and Ezekiel and it will help explain how sin entered into the universe, and then in the 3rd chapter of Genesis we see because Adam and Eve sinned and this is how it entered into the human race.  From that moment in Genesis 3 we get the background of how all of these cults began and are still going on today.  In the seven year tribulation period, which takes place soon after the rapture it will come to a climax with the return of Jesus Christ from heaven to end it.

 

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