SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 07/15/2005
My Worship Time Focus: Announced beforehand by God’s prophets
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Revelations 10:5-7
Message of the verse: “5 Then the mighty angel standing on the sea
and on the land lifted his right hand to heaven. 6 And he swore an oath in the name of the one
who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth
and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it. He said, ‘God will wait
no longer. (NKJV) 7 But when the seventh angel blows his
trumpet, God’s mysterious plan will be fulfilled. It will happen just as he
announced it to his servants the prophets.”
(NLT)
Dr. Wiersbe
points out that this section of Revelations is the middle of the tribulation
period and when the seventh angel blows his trumpet the last half of the
tribulation period will begin and the judgments that will take place then will
be even worse that those of the first half of the period. There is kind of a laul at this point as far
as the judgments are concerned and while this is going on this Angel, who is
believed to be the Lord Jesus Christ swears by and oath in the Name of the God
of creation that God will wait no longer and that the things that will soon be
fulfilled have been announced by the prophets of old. One of the earlier judgments saw those who
have been murdered for their faith in heaven asking God how long it will be
before He judges those who had murdered them, and the answer to that question
is found in Peter’s writings where he writes, “9 The
Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient
toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” Actually the whole chapter of 2Peter 3 is a
good reference to answer those martyrs questions.
I want to
focus in on the word “mysterious” of “mystery” as to how it is used in
Scripture. This word is not used in the
same way one uses mystery in our English language where it means that the
outcome is not know. The word as used in
the Bible means that God’s people know what is going on but those of the world
system do not have a clue as to what is going on. Jesus spoke of God blinding the eyes of some
of the Jewish leaders when He was on earth, and it seems that they were blinded
so that they could not understand these mysteries that were spoken of by the
prophets.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: It seems to me that some of what is spoken of
in this section is about being patient and be willing to wait for God’s perfect
timing, and this is what I have been trying to do when it comes to our
investments with Andrew and also the money that Tim owes me. God has a plan in all of this and it seems to
me that part of that plan is to understand how He would want us to use these
funds if the do indeed come in, but it also seems to me that God is saying to
me that He is in control and I am to exercise my faith in this situation to
make it stronger so that throughout all of this I will become more like my Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
The Word of God has given me a challenge today as I studied
it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: Continue to trust the Lord
for His plans are perfect.
Memory verse for the week:
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable,
whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good
repute, if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise, dwell on
these things.
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