SPIRITUAL DIARY for 08-02-2005
My Worship Time Focus: The Lord Jesus
Christ Reigning
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Revelations 11:15
Message
of the verse: “15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there
arose loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the
kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and
ever.’”
First is seen in this verse is that the seventh angel
sounds his trumpet and then there is heard voices from heaven talking about the
Lord Jesus Christ reigning forever and ever.
At first this may seem like a strange place in this book for this to be
heard, after all the battle for the earth has not yet been fought and Christ is
still in heaven seated at the right hand of the Father. However when this seventh angel sounded then
it will signal the start of the last set of judgments, the vial or bowl
judgments and at the end of these judgments the wrath of God will be finished
and the Lord Jesus Christ will return to earth and set up His Kingdom on earth
that will last for 1000 years.
Another thing to think about is that Jesus Christ has
always ruled this earth and when He returned to Heaven after being resurrected
from the dead after His death on the cross to pay for the sins of the world His
Father gave Him His inheritance as spoken of in Psalm 2:4-9: “4 He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them. 5 Then He will speak to them in His anger And
terrify them in His fury: 6 “But as for
Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain." 7 “I will surely tell of the decree of the
LORD: He said to Me, ‘Thou art My Son, Today I have begotten Thee. 8 ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the
nations as Thine inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Thy
possession. 9 ‘Thou shalt break them
with a rod of iron, Thou shalt shatter them like earthenware.’"
Spiritual meaning for my life
today: It is a great comfort for me
to KNOW that the Lord Jesus Christ is in control of all the things that are
going on hear on planet earth, and that some day soon He will return to the
clouds of the air to receive His Church and take us all to heaven where we will
live with Him forever and ever. There
are many things going on hear on earth that make some think that God is not in
control of the things that are going on here on planet earth, but there is the
issue of sin and how it has taken its toll on how the things on earth are
happening, however it makes me have more confidence that Jesus Christ is ruling
for only He can take these seemingly bad things and make them work out for
God’s glory and my good.
The Word
of God was a comfort to my heart as I read it this afternoon.
My Steps of Faith Today:
Continue to live my life in the power of the Holy Spirit knowing that
God is the One who is in control of all the seemingly bad things that are
happening to my wife and me at this time due to our financial problems.
Memory
verses for the week: 1Thes. 4:3-6
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that
is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to
possesses his own vessel in sanctification and honor; not in lustful passion,
like the Gentiles who do not know God; and that no man transgress and defraud
his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things,
just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.
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