JUDGMENT TO COME

Newsletter 260 V September 11, 2011

2 Corinthians 5:6-16 King James Version

Satan and his host of fallen angels are making a proverbial last stand. The Bible tells us that he is like a raging lion seeking whom he might devour, Recall when he tempted our Lord, pointing out the nations of the world, that he suggested that if Jesus would just worship him, he would turn the whole world over to Him. To be able to do that, he would have had to have the entire physical world under his control. You can not give away, that which is not yours.

That world, under Satan’s power, became such a vile place that there was little hope for any faith to survive. When it had come to that, God destroyed it using the great flood, saving only Noah and his immediate family to make a new start.

Satan then led them to build the Tower of Babel, but he was defeated yet again. When he tried to take over the Spiritual world, God defeated his goal by dividing the people into nations and scattering them abroad.

Our Lord had created that world (John 1:3), and it was perfect. Satan could only corrupt it. But, let us take a look at today’s world. It certainly is not perfect. On the purely physical side a hurricane destroyed a big portion of New Orleans. Many came to Texas and stayed. Their homes were gone. Just this year alone, An earthquake and tsunami, and now a typhoon have battered Japan, Haiti suffered an earthquake; a monstrous tornado destroyed a huge swath out of Joplin, and multiple tornadoes destroyed the south-east, now a hurricane has sped up the east coast accompanied by massive flooding and an earthquake. At the present after months of record breaking heat and drought, Texas is fighting massive outbreaks of raging fire everywhere, Its cattle are dying.. These are all physical. Satan, knowing that his end is looming is making a great struggle to destroy all that he can, and to financially destroy all that survive throughout the world. You could not pay me enough to live in California where so many earthquakes are considered to be “normal.” A really big one is expected, at any time.

Still, there is safety for the faithful. The church, which is Spiritual, is our refuge, and it shall safely survive it all. Because the church is Spiritual, Satan can not destroy it from the world. We are in the world, but need not to be of the world..

IN THE WORLD, BUT NOT OF IT.

We have a physical body, but we shall leave it behind, for Christians are basically spiritual beings, “born of the water and of the spirit.” We have “put on Christ.” Satan can not destroy Christ, or His.

6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

A SEPARATION IS COMING

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

CHRIST DIED FOR ALL MEN

If he died for all, then all were lost, whether they knew it or not. The greatest needed thing on earth is not physical, it is spiritual. Food, clothing, shelter, money, transportation, and all the contents of our homes. None of these things can go to heaven. The world’s Museums are filled with the wealth of past empires, because. they could not take it with them. It is for this reason that when I pray for the sick, I also try to remember to pray for their Spiritual well being as well, for that is why our Lord came to dwell among us.

15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.


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READ THE BIBLE THROUGH AGAIN IN 2011
SEPTEMBER

11th. Sunday – Isaiah 27, 28, 2 Corinthians 11:1-15, Psalm 106:40-48
12th. Monday – Isaiah 29, 30, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33, Psalm 107:1-9
13th. Tuesday – Isaiah 31, 32, 33, 2 Corinthians 12, Proverbs 22:17-29
14th. Wednesday - Isaiah 34, 35, 36, 2 Corinthians 13, Psalm 107:10-22
15th. Thursday - Isaiah 37, 38, Galatians 1, Psalm 107:23-32
16th. Friday – Isaiah 39, 40, Galatians 2, Psalm 107:33-43
17th. Saturday - Isaiah 41, 42, Galatians 3:1-14, Proverbs 23:1-9
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