Religion is a awful issue and it can wreak havoc on all those who request to observe Jesus Christ and who have been established totally free from spiritual chains and restrictive legalistic sinful shackles.
These persons have been less than powerful persecution. To which people am I referring? In my studying and examine of the reserve of Revelation it turns into so crystal clear that these text were initially dealt with to disciples of Jesus Christ all about the Center East around the 12 months 95 to 96 A.D. They were the target of almost every kind of assault, and questions could possibly have crept into their hearts and minds.
Wherever is the righteousness of a holy God? Does He not treatment about what the persecuted types at the near of the very first century? Why are we acquiring to endure and experience all this suffering and suffering which will come throughout our paths?
In my research of this section of the Word of God I have arrived at Chapter 16 of the ebook of Revelation. Do make time to read through it meticulously and prayerfully.
This is a fearsome and amazing Chapter which can bring us into the fact of the existence of the Judgment of God.
We browse of ugly and unpleasant sores breaking out upon the individuals who had the mark of the beast, and it is as if God is expressing, now this belongs to you. You recognized all that was of the beast, and this belongs to you as well. You ran right after him and bowed down to him and worshipped him. This is what you have sown. This is your harvest.
However, our God is a God who is gradual to anger, but there does come that working day when He acts and functions decisively and we want be in no doubt as to the methods in He will act.
It is the picture of horrible distressing sores, like open up working ulcers.
It is like a tattoo which has gone incorrect. Individuals who experienced been given the mark from the beast what ever that may well be, but we know it is to be a actual physical mark, and we see it here erupting, and these who been given that mark, and ran after the beast, now get something even worse.
See this plainly as well. The Men and women of God are not impacted by this. People who refused to bow down, and those people who refused to compromise, are guarded from all this.
In verses 3 and 4, we browse of the pollution of the seas and the rivers. The waters of the seas turn out to be like congealed blood and everything dies. This is the close! This is the remaining judgment. There is a finality sounded when we browse these phrases.
In Ezekiel 47, there is a prophecy about the Dead Sea getting new h2o, and currently being capable to guidance all type of life, with fish in the drinking water and with trees encompassing it, and fruits from fertile land.
In Revelation, each and every other sea and drinking water dies!
Is God expressing to us, “I can reverse just about anything”?
The waters of the globe come to be useless, and the waters of Israel produce everyday living and fish and food stuff.
The non secular lesson for those who are disciples of Jesus Christ is that we are not to let that which is intended to flow, cease flowing, or it will congeal, and develop into stagnant, till there is no religious everyday living.
How several people today have been identified as to provide, and a little something happens, and they foolishly cease serving, and the lifestyle they experienced, and the opportunity they experienced, dries up and evaporates and congeals.
If you cease ministering in the electricity of the Holy Spirit, and if a gentleman ceases to serve in the way Jesus wished that person to serve, then that which was daily life and health and fitness and power and blessing, can develop into death.
That which was really refreshing others ceases to flow, and that life clogs up and congeals.
Be so really watchful. If Jesus Christ has anointed you with the Holy Spirit and if He has baptised you in the Holy Spirit let that non secular daily life flow and under no circumstances sit again and give in or give up, lest it dries up and congeals!
