EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/13/2025 9:10 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 Intro
to Jude 4-7
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference:
Jude 4-7
Message of the verses: “4 For certain
persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for
this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into
licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5 Now I desire
to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after
saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did
not believe. 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned
their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the
judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around
them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went
after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment
of eternal fire.”
I
have been writing about some of the things that Satan did to really mess up
this world that we live in, and yet, despite Satan’s apparent victories, his
days are numbered. God Himself promises
that the truth will ultimately prevail.
Let us now look at 2 Thessalonians 2:5-17 to shed some light on
this: “5
Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these
things? 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be
revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now
restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will
be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to
an end by the appearance of His coming; 9 that is, the one whose coming
is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false
wonders, 10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish,
because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11
For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will
believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not
believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. 13 But we should always
give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has
chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the
Spirit and faith in the truth. 14 It was for this He called you through our
gospel, that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 So then,
brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether
by word of mouth or by letter from us.
16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has
loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, 17 comfort and strengthen your hearts in every
good work and word.” There is a lot packed into these verses from
2 Thessalonians, as we can see Paul first talks again about the rapture, and
then he writes about the Antichrist who will be the ruler of the one world
government that will take place during the Tribulation period. During this time there will be an un-holy
trinity made up of Satan, Antichrist, and the false prophet who will rule the
world for the last half of the tribulation period made up of three and a half
years. Satan will have his day in the
sun so to speak, but at the end all three will be cast into hell, giving them
what they deserve. Now after this is
over Christ will rule the world for 1000 years, and then at the end of that
1000 years Satan will be let out and come to earth to deceive the people and there
will be a short war, and then all who are with him will be cast into eternal
flames, and then Christ’s eternal kingdom will begin which will last forever
and ever. Now let me make one more point
here and that is that before His eternal kingdom begins there will be what’s
call a “Great White Throne Judgment,” and all unbelievers will be there from
the time that man was created until the end of the Millennial Kingdom. All will have a chance to speak, but all will
be guilty and then all will be cast into hell, for up unto that time the only
one in hell would have been Satan, as the rest would have been in what the
Bible calls Abram’s bosom, as Christ talks about this place in Luke 16:22 where
we read “"Now the poor man died and was
carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the
rich man also died and was buried.” Christ told this story in Luke’s
gospel and that is where all of the dead were before Christ died on the cross,
for after that all who were believers went to heaven, and all unbelievers
stayed there awaiting their judgment which I just mentioned will be at the “Great
White Throne Judgment.” Now after that judgment the earth and all the planets and stars will be
burned up and then there will be a new heaven and a new earth and a New
Jerusalem where the redeemed will spend eternity.
Ok
it looks like I will have to finish this section in the next SD, as it seemed
to me that perhaps someone needs to read what I just wrote, I hope so.
7/13/2025 9:38 PM
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