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All the world will hate God’s people. Because it is God’s hatred for what the world holds as “highly valued” which divides the world and God. Godless and ungodly people aspire to gain what they cannot keep. God continually calls for all people to lay aside those aspirations and search earnestly after His Riches.
We are created. He is the creator. But the world will hold God in contempt because He does not recognize the royalty of man’s foolish lies.
By His Grace.
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Some speak lies, and sincerely believe them to have substance. Some speak trivia, and consider themselves intelligent. Some refuse to speak, lest they be shown for the fool they are. And some speak judgments against everyone who speaks, so as to build themselves into something they are not. Yet some speak about what is True, and that from God’s perspective. Of all the speaking, or non-speaking, that’s going on there is One who judges our words. And I am constantly put into mind that to speak the truth according the the Living God (that is as a testimony to His Righteousness) he who speaks will not be found at fault for his words.
Men will use their tongues as whips, lashing others into oblivion. But God will judge our words. Wouldn’t it be wise to strive to make your speech Eternally oriented? We can rest assured that if we speak that which belongs to God we will not fall into fault before Him.
By His Grace.
Something interesting is appearing before me. I posted an article regarding Glenn Beck being a part of the drama which will unfold as God raises up His two witnesses (as told in the book of Revelation). I’ve watched a thread develop in which some speculate the issue. All of us will ponder the advent of this prophecy. And we are all correct to do so. But something very interesting has presented itself in this thread.
It’s a human condition to try to identify a mystery by using the information we have at our disposal first. We learn this from children’s games; “I spy with my little eye” and such other games. But as we become adults we often try to find more information before we make guesses about things of such importance. Why would Americans look to Americans as the source of God’s two witnesses? Or even look to Obama as the anti-christ? The world is a very large place. But we look to what we know first, don’t we.
Such a narrow field of candidates leaves a rather wide margin for the billions of “others” on this planet. And it’s very likely that these two people are not Americans at all. Consider one passage in that scripture regarding these two witnesses: “They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.” Look how the Lord describes them. He is using heavenly terms which indicate that they “STAND” before the Lord of Heaven. They are not your every day average American. They are Holy men. Holy in the sense of God’s standards. To ascribe this kind of Holiness to Glenn Beck or any other average American is a bit on the nonsense side. These two men will be of a very special breed. It is God, Himself, who has appointed His two witnesses.
Another issue regarding these two men has to do with the wickedness of man. I got a feeling that if modern man met Elijah or Moses they would be sunk to their knees with the focus of God these men owned. Remember how Elijah put to death the prophets of baal with the sword? Blood was not unfamiliar to Elijah. I don’t think he would fit into your local garden party crowd. And consider Moses. A man of firm conviction regarding obedience to God’s law. How would the average group of modern men react to such a man in their Sunday morning service?
I think Americans (and thus many other modern people) miss the entire message of Holiness God is speaking. It would be wise to discontinue speculation regarding these men if we are going to use our own frame of wickedness to pick them ourselves.
By His Grace.
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