SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
10/25/2005
My Worship Time Focus: The End of Babylon
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Revelation 19:22-24
Message of the verse: “22
Never again will the sound of music be heard there—no more harps, songs,
flutes, or trumpets. There will be no industry of any kind, and no more milling
of grain. 23 Her nights will be dark, without a single
lamp. There will be no happy voices of brides and grooms. This will happen
because her merchants, who were the greatest in the world, deceived the nations
with her sorceries. 24 In her streets the blood of the prophets was
spilled. She was the one who slaughtered God’s people all over the world.”
The
destruction or the judgment of Babylon will happen near the end of the
tribulation period and some of these things that are written in these three
verses are things that happen in a normal society, but what ever normality
there was in the world at this time will be gone, and the end will not be far
off.
Verses 22
& 23 do speak of normal everyday things that happen in a society, and for
sure God’s people have done them ever since the world began, but it was not
these things that were done that was sinful, it was the hearts of the people
who did them that were utterly sinful, and therefore when God judges Babylon
these things will not be seen in her streets anymore.
Verse 24
tells of sinful things that her people have done and they will be judged for
these things. These people have killed
the prophets of God and the people of God
because they hated God, for Jesus said that this would happen, and also
said that it happened before He came to earth so what we are talking about here
is a system that has been in operation since Genesis 10 & 11. This system has always been anti God and it
will culminate with Antichrist as it head and will be destroyed and never again
be seen, because shortly after it’s destruction the King of Kings and Lord of
Lords will return to planet earth and destroy all the evilness that He finds
when He returns. Praise the Lord!!
Spiritual meaning for my life: I think that 1 John 2:15 & 16 describe
the systems of Babylon very well, for John warns his readers that they are not
to love this world system, and the things that are a part of this world system
are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, and
these surely describe what Babylon was all about.
As a
believer in Jesus Christ, and having an old nature, I am pulled to this system,
and that must be why John warned believers about this. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthian 10:13 that there
is not temptation taken you but such as is common to man, and the lust of the
flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life are all sins that are common
to man, but Paul goes on to say that God is faithful who will not suffer you to
be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation find a way for you
to escape that you may be able to hold up under it. God is and always has been and always be
faithful to me.
The Word of God has brought encouragement and conviction to
my heart as I read and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: I want to believe, understand
and put into practice the things in 1 Corinthians 10:13 today and everyday.
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