SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus:
You don’t know what you got until it is gone.
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Revelations 11:14
Message of the verse: “The second woe is past; behold, the third
woe is coming quickly.”
In verses thirteen there is an
earthquake, which was discussed in the previous SD, and now in verse fourteen
we are told that this was the second woe and the third woe is coming
quickly. The third woe will be another
set of seven judgments called the bowl or vial judgments, but in the mean time
John will explain some things that will happen in the middle of the tribulation
period.
I want to go back to explain some
things from the previous verses that were describing the death of these two
wittiness that is seemingly spoken about in Psalm 79:1-3. “1 ¶ (A Psalm of Asaph.) O God, the nations have
invaded Thine inheritance; They have defiled Thy holy temple; They have laid
Jerusalem in ruins. 2 They have given the dead bodies of Thy
servants for food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Thy godly ones to
the beasts of the earth. 3 They have poured out their blood like water
round about Jerusalem; And there was no one to bury them.” It is possible that these verses were
speaking of the many who have, in the past, and in the future, who will have
died in the great city of Jerusalem, but it does seem that this surely could be
looking ahead to when God’s to wittiness die during the end of the first half
of the tribulation period. The old
saying “you don’t know what you got until it is gone” will come into to play
for those people in Jerusalem when these two prophets are killed and then taken
up into heaven, for they have protected the city of Jerusalem and the nation of
Israel, and now that they are gone Jerusalem will be given into the hands of
Antichrist and he will go into the Temple to desecrate it just as Daniel wrote
about in the book he wrote.
Spiritual meaning for my life
today: In doing this study on this
section it gives good consul to me to be thankful for the things that God has
entrusted me with for someday they may be gone and I will miss them for not all
things that I have will I be able to keep.
The Word
of God was convicting to my heart as I read it this morning.
My Steps of Faith Today:
After listening to the sermon that Pastor Greg gave yesterday I have
been convicted to display more self-control in my life in areas like my
devotions, praying with my wife, my diet and exercise programs, and also not to
depend on trying to find out when our money will be returned to us by making
phone calls so that I can feel better about this whole issue, but to trust the
Lord in all of this for He has promised to take care of us each day of our
lives, and like those prophets who will come to earth during the tribulation
period and then die after their ministry if finished, I too have a ministry to
finish and I would pray that I will be like Paul when he faced certain death
and said that “I finished the fight, I kept the faith,
and there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to
all who have loved His appearing.”
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 posses 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 thing, just as we also told you
and solemnly warned you.
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