Thursday, September 2nd 2021
We want to be led by God, but we must also show Him that we want to be led. "For the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will shut your path." (Isaiah 52:12) We must move at God's pace, not as we want to. Our step must be firm.
Revelation 13:7-10
In verse 1, we are told of what Daniel had seen for the future. God is coming to give revelation to His people so that they may have knowledge of what will happen in the future.
Revelation 1:1
God shows to whom He reveals and why He reveals. "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to children. (Matthew 11: 25) "All things have been given to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father except the Son and the one to whom the Son wishes to reveal him." (Matthew 11:27) "And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:18) No one can overthrow His Church because He cares for it. God wants His people to have deep trust. God came to Abraham because He had something to give him. "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? (Genesis 18:17) Abraham was an elect.
Genesis 12:1-3
In His calling, God already tells him what he will be. Before he did the thing, God had already blessed Abraham. Abraham had not yet done anything. Abraham's blessing was already assured. Today everywhere on earth people still talk about Abraham. God cannot make a mistake in His choice.
Abraham had done nothing. God called and made the promise without waiting for works. Abraham was conditioned to live as God wanted him to because it was in him. Under the oak tree of Mamre, Abraham went before the 3 men in a hurry. He gave his best.
Galatians 3:6-16
"You believe that there is one God, you do well; the demons also believe it, and they tremble." (James 2:19) "As the body without a soul is dead, so faith without works is dead." (James 2:26) This is not just any faith!
They said to him, "Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, "If you were children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham. (John 8:39) God always speaks spiritually. For you, God cannot be wrong. "Hoping against hope, he believed" (Romans 4:18) "He did not doubt through unbelief about God's promise, but was strengthened by faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what he promises he can also fulfill." (Romans 4:20-21) We do not receive because we do not believe! God's faith can bring you to the impossible. With his eyes, Abraham saw that his body was worn out, but he did not consider this.
"In you all nations will be blessed", God announces from Genesis the things that must be accomplished. "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: she shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise her heel. (Genesis 3:15) Throughout the Word, mankind was guarded by this until the seed of the woman came. If God had destroyed everything in the days of Noah, then the whole Word could not be fulfilled ... God trusts only in Himself, order God is the Word. God trusts in his Word. It is the Word of God that makes history.
When God spoke to Abraham, God already saw the law and the divine Grace. Christ is the seed of Abraham!
Galatians 3:26-29
Revelation 13:1-2
This Word was written hundreds and thousands of years ago. Even Daniel saw it in a dream. The fourth beast was frightening. Everything that was in the others was in the fourth beast. "The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will exist on the earth, different from all kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, treading it down and breaking it up." (Daniel 7: 23) Daniel was afraid of this fourth beast, I don't think he would have liked to live in that time.
Revelation 13:6-8
We start to find everything around us as normal. We are in this time of the fourth beast. We are in this dreadful time. As sons of God, let's look at this empire we find ourselves in. We need a spiritual look, not a carnal one.
Worship is acceptance, appreciation, you are in the thing. We don't have to defend the dirt. When it is not of God, it is not of God. We don't have to justify evil.
Revelation 13:1-4
They were so in awe of the beast that they worshiped Satan.
Revelation 12:1-9
You cannot praise God and be in awe of the beast.
Revelation 13:8
This time is the time of exploits: technology, health, ... We are weighed down with all these things but where is our faith?
Revelation 13:4
She has demonstrated her power, man is in awe. Do not be deceived by all that you see, God is capable. Just a tsunami can destroy all these technologies. Just a wind can blow away all the technologies. God is still in control. Darkness is upon the earth but upon you the Lord shines. "Arise, be enlightened, for your light is coming, and the glory of the LORD is rising upon you. Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and darkness the people; but upon thee shall the LORD arise, upon thee shall his glory appear." (Isaiah 60: 1-2)
The serpent seduced Eve but it says "He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up and sealed the entrance over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be fulfilled." (Revelation 20:2-3)
All will worship him except those whose names have been written in the Lamb's book of life.