My friends, how
often do we claim the name of Jesus the Christ and yet our lifestyle makes a
different claim? Or how many stand and preach the word yet live a secret life
of idol worship and other sin? Almighty God, in times past has set forth Israel
as a warning. Before our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ came in the flesh
Israel stood in the name of the Lord. We need to only look at the troubles of
Israel when they turned their back to God, look at their scattering throughout
the world for centuries.
Look and see how
Almighty God dealt with a false people and a false priesthood. Israel said they
belonged to the Lord, Israel said they were Abraham’s descendents and yet the
Lord said that he did not recognize them. Is it different today through Jesus the
Christ?
21 Not every one that says to me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that does the will
of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. 22 Many
will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in Your name,
and cast out devils in Your name, and done many miracles in Your name? 23 And
then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work
iniquity.
Jesus is Lord. I
send this warning; as priests, as a people, as a nation, as nations on the
earth, as governments that rule nations, to all who claim the Lord, we must
understand the transgressions, we must learn from ancient Israel who is there
as a guide so that those who claim the Lord do not make the same mistakes. Read
and understand that Almighty God will cast us off if we do not continue in His
commandments. Understand and then repent, ask for mercy and forgiveness before
it is too late.
1 Let there be a trumpet in your throat like an
eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant,
and have violated my law. 2 They shall call upon me: O my God, we,
Israel, know you. 3 Israel has cast off the thing that is good, the
enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have reigned, but not by me: they
have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have
made idols to themselves that they might perish.
11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin:
altars are become to him unto sin. 12 I shall write to him my
manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign. 13 They shall
offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will
not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their
sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14 And Israel has forgotten his
Maker, and has built temples: and Juda has built many fenced cities: and I will
send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.
1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an
inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. 2 Have
mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusts in you. And in the
shadow of your wings will I hope, until iniquity pass away. 3 I
will cry to God the most High; to God who has done good to me. 4 He
has sent from heaven and delivered me: he has made them a reproach that trod
upon me. God has sent his mercy and his truth, 5 and he has
delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons
of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 6 Be
exalted, O God, above the heavens, and your glory above all the earth. 7 They
prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit
before my face, and they are fallen into it. 8 My heart is ready, O
God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and rehearse a psalm. 9 Arise,
O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early. 10 I will
give praise to you, O Lord, among the people: I will sing a psalm to you among
the nations. 11 For your mercy is magnified even to the heavens:
and your truth unto the clouds. 12 Be exalted, O God, above the
heavens: and your glory above all the earth.
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Many Blessings!
In Christ,
+William
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