Aug. 11, 2014
MY FRIENDS, HOWEVER YOU DEFINE ARMAGEDDON, JUST STAY AWAKE!!!
My friends Satan wants us to believe it’s all too complicated. All of our lives ARMAGEDDON has been the mystery word along with the boogy man that scholars have tried to explain, the boogy man we know is a myth, but ARMAGEDDON, God’s Word tells us, this is where the final battle will be fought between the forces of good and evil.
“BEHOLD, I AM COMING AS A THIEF. BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES, AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE WALK NAKED AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME. And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.
Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.
Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.” Revelation 16:15-19 (NKJV)
listening to all the commentators, politicians and soothsayers after the President’s speech last night the whole idea from everyone who had an opinion, was to put fear into the listeners but “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
In addition, a child of God must “Set our minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” [and not what’s going on in the Middle East] Colossians 3:2 (ESV) for if you are a part of a body of believers you are looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.
If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for [all of His Children who believe and endure until the end]. Heb. 11:10-16 (NIV)
My friends ARMAGEDDON is not a myth because it is in God’s Word, but the “secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. Deut. 29:29 (NIV)
“The battle of Armageddon will be fought. AND THAT DAY MUST FIND NONE OF US SLEEPING. WIDE AWAKE WE MUST BE, as wise virgins having oil in our vessels with our lamps. The power of the Holy Ghost must be upon us and the Captain of the Lord’s host will stand at the head of the angels of heaven to direct the battle.” (E. G. White selected messages book 3, page 426)
If there is only one thing that you take away from this devotional today I want it to be the quote “AND THAT DAY MUST FIND NONE OF US SLEEPING. WIDE AWAKE WE MUST BE with full body armor on, even when we are asleep, for Satan must not gain the victory even over our dreams.
Time move’s on as we still try and decide whether we want to get the I phone 6 or wait to see what the reviews say before we purchase. My friends the reviews are in from God’s word and “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.” Rev.1:3 (NIV)
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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