Micah
This book tells us of Messiah's first and second comings and how the times will be when He returns.
Let's focus on The Second Coming.
(5:10-15) He will destroy and break down all the cities of the World, and Israel will be counted among all the Nations of the World.
(2:2-13) He will call all His people into one fold of sheep and rebuild the cities of the Earth in righteousness and peace (4:3-5).
(4:2) Then all the Nations will stream into Jerusalem to learn of the Lord and His ways--this is what God planned from the beginning; to give Israel His Law and everyone else seeing how good it is to follow and come to learn for themselves.
This book contains one of Christendom's favorite verses: (6:8) "You mortals, the Lord has told you what is good. This is what the Lord requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to live humbly with your God."
When we live our lives in alignment with His Law and His ways, then we reap the natural consequences of all the bounty of the Earth. This is what He's always wanted us to have--what is for our good is what brings glory to Him, for that is His design.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Friday, May 18, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
New Heaven And Earth
Isaiah 65: 17-25
These verses describe what the New Heavetn and New Earth will be like:
Rejoicing and gladness, extremely long lives, being able to enjoy your own accomplishments for an extended length of time and never having to give them up for someone else to benefit from; no more sin, no evil or harm in God's whole government.
66: 4
I will bring on them what they dread; because I called but they didn't answer, I spoke but they refused to listen. They did what I consider evil. They chose to do their own thing.
66: 22-24
The New Heaven and New Earth I am about to make will continue in My presence, declares the Lord. So your decendants and your name will also continue in My presence. From one month to the next and from one week to the next all people will come to worship Me, declares the Lord.
Then they will go out and look at the corpses of those who have rebelled against Me. The worms that eat them will not die. The fire that consumes them will not go out. All humanity will be disgusted by them.
These last two chapters in the book of Isaiah describe the final state of all Creation, the New Heaven and the New Earth. This is as far into the future the Bible goes.
And it is a veritable Heaven On Earth! No one will die, whatever someone does or achieves, they will be able to enjoy it for a very long extended time, and there will be no crime, no sickness, no mishaps to mar the perfect existance God has planned for us.
But those who refuse to accept what God offers or admit their need of Him will suffer intermidably just as the righteous ones who have accepted His righteousness will have pleasure intermidably.
Our Eternities will then be set, for good or bad, with no possible changes. Today is when we have the choices, to be able to choose God and His ways or to choose our own way in life. Now is the time we can turn to God from whatever has had first place in our lives. Today is the day of Salvation.
Jesus is God the Father's Lamb of God, the sacrificial Lamb that God allowed to be sacrificed for human sins. My sins. Your sins. Individually.
He is our Personal Savior, taking our death upon Himself for each of us.
So ask yourself: "Did Jesus take My Place in death?"
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
These verses describe what the New Heavetn and New Earth will be like:
Rejoicing and gladness, extremely long lives, being able to enjoy your own accomplishments for an extended length of time and never having to give them up for someone else to benefit from; no more sin, no evil or harm in God's whole government.
66: 4
I will bring on them what they dread; because I called but they didn't answer, I spoke but they refused to listen. They did what I consider evil. They chose to do their own thing.
66: 22-24
The New Heaven and New Earth I am about to make will continue in My presence, declares the Lord. So your decendants and your name will also continue in My presence. From one month to the next and from one week to the next all people will come to worship Me, declares the Lord.
Then they will go out and look at the corpses of those who have rebelled against Me. The worms that eat them will not die. The fire that consumes them will not go out. All humanity will be disgusted by them.
These last two chapters in the book of Isaiah describe the final state of all Creation, the New Heaven and the New Earth. This is as far into the future the Bible goes.
And it is a veritable Heaven On Earth! No one will die, whatever someone does or achieves, they will be able to enjoy it for a very long extended time, and there will be no crime, no sickness, no mishaps to mar the perfect existance God has planned for us.
But those who refuse to accept what God offers or admit their need of Him will suffer intermidably just as the righteous ones who have accepted His righteousness will have pleasure intermidably.
Our Eternities will then be set, for good or bad, with no possible changes. Today is when we have the choices, to be able to choose God and His ways or to choose our own way in life. Now is the time we can turn to God from whatever has had first place in our lives. Today is the day of Salvation.
Jesus is God the Father's Lamb of God, the sacrificial Lamb that God allowed to be sacrificed for human sins. My sins. Your sins. Individually.
He is our Personal Savior, taking our death upon Himself for each of us.
So ask yourself: "Did Jesus take My Place in death?"
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Strengthened With Power
Ephesians 3:16
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.
This is my prayer today, that I would be “strengthened with power,” to get done what I need to do today and each day to “turn this corner” in my life that I’ve been looking at for so long, and has finally arrived!
It’s still a pretty blind corner, I can’t see more than a step or two ahead, but my trust in God is growing mightily and I’m not afraid, just excited.
This will be a whole new segment of life for me, very different from any of my past, and a dream come true, in a sense.
I am looking forward to all the wonderful and interesting people and events that may come my way, and doing what I can each day to do my part in letting it all come to pass.
Rejoice with me in the joy of the Lord in this new path.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.
This is my prayer today, that I would be “strengthened with power,” to get done what I need to do today and each day to “turn this corner” in my life that I’ve been looking at for so long, and has finally arrived!
It’s still a pretty blind corner, I can’t see more than a step or two ahead, but my trust in God is growing mightily and I’m not afraid, just excited.
This will be a whole new segment of life for me, very different from any of my past, and a dream come true, in a sense.
I am looking forward to all the wonderful and interesting people and events that may come my way, and doing what I can each day to do my part in letting it all come to pass.
Rejoice with me in the joy of the Lord in this new path.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Silver Trumpets
Numbers 10: 2, 10
Make yourselves two trumpets of silver ... and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.
And also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts....
Leviticus 23 tells us that one of the "appointed feasts" is the Feast of Trumpets, to be observed on the first day of the seventh month, in the fall; following the Day of Pentecost in the Summer; and just preceding the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, on the 10th day and the 15th day of the same 7th month (see Leviticus 23).
I Thessalonians 4: 16-17
For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
We know from the book of Acts that the Feast of Pentecost refers to the Church of Christ, which God formed by sending His Holy Spirit to indwell each member.
So the next "event" on God's calendar of Feasts will be that Feast of Trumpets, to call out this Church He formed, to be "raptured" (the word means, "called-out").
And in close succession are the last two feasts of the liturgical year, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, or Booths.
My understanding is that Jesus, having returned to this Earth, will scour it of all that has harmed it, conducting the Battle of Armageddon and cleansing it of everyone and everything the World of Men has perpetrated upon it.
So the Day of Atonement is King Jesus cleansing the whole environment of His Kingdom, and we who have returned with Him will build temporary "tabernacles" or "booths" for shelter while we rebuild the cities of the World.
O my Father, thank You for giving me a little understanding of what You have revealed in Your Word; Your order of events is unfolding and playing out before my very eyes and ears.
Thank You for for telling us in Your Word what to expect, and for Your faithfulness to Your promises.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Make yourselves two trumpets of silver ... and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.
And also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts....
Leviticus 23 tells us that one of the "appointed feasts" is the Feast of Trumpets, to be observed on the first day of the seventh month, in the fall; following the Day of Pentecost in the Summer; and just preceding the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, on the 10th day and the 15th day of the same 7th month (see Leviticus 23).
I Thessalonians 4: 16-17
For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
We know from the book of Acts that the Feast of Pentecost refers to the Church of Christ, which God formed by sending His Holy Spirit to indwell each member.
So the next "event" on God's calendar of Feasts will be that Feast of Trumpets, to call out this Church He formed, to be "raptured" (the word means, "called-out").
And in close succession are the last two feasts of the liturgical year, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, or Booths.
My understanding is that Jesus, having returned to this Earth, will scour it of all that has harmed it, conducting the Battle of Armageddon and cleansing it of everyone and everything the World of Men has perpetrated upon it.
So the Day of Atonement is King Jesus cleansing the whole environment of His Kingdom, and we who have returned with Him will build temporary "tabernacles" or "booths" for shelter while we rebuild the cities of the World.
O my Father, thank You for giving me a little understanding of what You have revealed in Your Word; Your order of events is unfolding and playing out before my very eyes and ears.
Thank You for for telling us in Your Word what to expect, and for Your faithfulness to Your promises.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Monday, May 14, 2018
Fear Of The Lord
Proverbs 9: 10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
O my Father, You are all and fill all; You are the aether that fills the empty reaches of deep space, and You are all the oceans and seas that cover the Earth.
What You have revealed to us of Yourself is like one tiny little drip of a droplet of water! We approach that drop and observe to study it, and we enter into it, farther and wider and deeper, and never come to the end of it!
So I am in awe of You, El Shaddai, the Almighty God, Creator of the Universe!
You steer the stars and guide the planets in their courses, yet count the very hairs on my head!
I know that the tiny details of my life, of every life of every person, every thing You have made, are all pieces of the Puzzle; You fit us all together perfectly.
All the little details build into the big things, and the big things all fit together into Your Great Plan of the Ages!
It's exciting to watch the outworking of Your Plan in the World today, proof of Your faithfulness to the Truth, Your Word.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
O my Father, You are all and fill all; You are the aether that fills the empty reaches of deep space, and You are all the oceans and seas that cover the Earth.
What You have revealed to us of Yourself is like one tiny little drip of a droplet of water! We approach that drop and observe to study it, and we enter into it, farther and wider and deeper, and never come to the end of it!
So I am in awe of You, El Shaddai, the Almighty God, Creator of the Universe!
You steer the stars and guide the planets in their courses, yet count the very hairs on my head!
I know that the tiny details of my life, of every life of every person, every thing You have made, are all pieces of the Puzzle; You fit us all together perfectly.
All the little details build into the big things, and the big things all fit together into Your Great Plan of the Ages!
It's exciting to watch the outworking of Your Plan in the World today, proof of Your faithfulness to the Truth, Your Word.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Sunday, May 13, 2018
The Blessing Of God
Numbers 6: 24-26
The Lord bless you, and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine on you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance on you,
And give you peace.
This is God's blessing upon all of us, each one of us. May we take it to heart and live its Truth.
O my Father, You alone are worthy to receive all praise, for all glory is Yours alone. You are the One Who has done all things, and You will accomplish Your whole counsel.
You will perform all Your plans to execute Your Plan of the Ages, Your Grand Master Plan, into which all the plans You have for each one of us fit in perfectly.
And all things are working out just as You have intended, to accomplish Your purposes for which You made it all.
And You take great pleasure in all You have made.
O Father, Your Love is unmeasurable! You ARE Love!
You have loved me with an everlasting Love, the quality of which is not seen in this World.
You have blessed me, You keep me; Your face shines upon me, You are gracious to me; You lift up Your countenance upon me, and Your peace fills the days of my life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
The Lord bless you, and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine on you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance on you,
And give you peace.
This is God's blessing upon all of us, each one of us. May we take it to heart and live its Truth.
O my Father, You alone are worthy to receive all praise, for all glory is Yours alone. You are the One Who has done all things, and You will accomplish Your whole counsel.
You will perform all Your plans to execute Your Plan of the Ages, Your Grand Master Plan, into which all the plans You have for each one of us fit in perfectly.
And all things are working out just as You have intended, to accomplish Your purposes for which You made it all.
And You take great pleasure in all You have made.
O Father, Your Love is unmeasurable! You ARE Love!
You have loved me with an everlasting Love, the quality of which is not seen in this World.
You have blessed me, You keep me; Your face shines upon me, You are gracious to me; You lift up Your countenance upon me, and Your peace fills the days of my life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Learn From The Ant
Proverbs 6: 6-8
Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which having no chief, officer, or ruler, prepares her food in the summer, and gathers her provision in the harvest.
This little worker is so industrious. She (yes, God knew these little laborers were female) has no accountability, yet she still works so hard, gathering her resources while they can be had, and using them in very profitable ways in a timely manner, to sustain her life and prosperity, wasting no time whatever the season.
O Father, help me to learn how to use my minutes each day to do something toward each of the goals You have given me, to accomplish every feat, use every resource, to prepare me and sustain me in the fulfillment of Your purpose for me and my life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which having no chief, officer, or ruler, prepares her food in the summer, and gathers her provision in the harvest.
This little worker is so industrious. She (yes, God knew these little laborers were female) has no accountability, yet she still works so hard, gathering her resources while they can be had, and using them in very profitable ways in a timely manner, to sustain her life and prosperity, wasting no time whatever the season.
O Father, help me to learn how to use my minutes each day to do something toward each of the goals You have given me, to accomplish every feat, use every resource, to prepare me and sustain me in the fulfillment of Your purpose for me and my life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
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