"A throne will be established in lovingkindness, and One will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent (dynasty, family) of David; judging and seeking justice and being prompt to do righteousness." (Isaiah 16:5, Amplified Bible)
This is, "The Word of God." This is coming. Nothing in the heavenlies, nor Hell can stop this, though throughout history many have made the attempt to do so. With each passing generation of human beings, the attempts get more bizarre, more subtle, and more deceptive.
The America we are witnessing is the America which is reaping what it has sown. The Second War Generation, touted as "The Greatest Generation," which I personally think is an affront to my Grandparents Generation, came back from war and were probably so worn out that they produced the generation which manifested in the 1960s. The year the oldest "baby boomers" graduated from high school there was no Bible reading nor Prayer of Jesus in their classrooms. "God is not mocked."
I read an article recently which says that after the June, 1963 Supreme Court ruling, making both prayer and Bible reading in the state school system illegal, the Wall Street Journal wrote, "that atheism is now 'the one belief to which the state's power will extend its protection.'" Justice Potter Stewart, the lone dissenting vote, later said of the decision, "It led not to true neutrality with respect to religion, but to the establishment of a religion of secularism." When the militant atheist, Madalyn Murray, took her case against school prayer all the way to the Supreme Court, "not a single Christian organization filed a brief in support of school prayer." There is a lot of talk on "Christian Television" of "sowing and reaping," but not in regard to America's national sins.
I feel so small in comparison to the world system, but our Lord Jesus Christ is not "small." Today's text reveals just another example of the declarations of the Living Triune God that no matter what a nation does, no matter the prejudice of ethnic groups, the lies, the deceptions, the childish behavior to which the most intelligent and "discerning" among us can fall prey, I repeat the ancient decree, "Christus Victor." The Shed Blood, the Death, the Resurrection, the Ascension, "looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Savior Jesus Christ," is, "that Blessed Hope," Who keeps me going from day to day, "in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation." Make no mistake: "A Throne will be established in lovingkindness. And One will sit on it...," Jesus, the Christ.
Father, in Jesus' Name, I say again with the song writer of old, "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does it's successive journey run. His Kingdom stretch from shore to shore til moons shall wax ans wane no more." Amen.
This is, "The Word of God." This is coming. Nothing in the heavenlies, nor Hell can stop this, though throughout history many have made the attempt to do so. With each passing generation of human beings, the attempts get more bizarre, more subtle, and more deceptive.
The America we are witnessing is the America which is reaping what it has sown. The Second War Generation, touted as "The Greatest Generation," which I personally think is an affront to my Grandparents Generation, came back from war and were probably so worn out that they produced the generation which manifested in the 1960s. The year the oldest "baby boomers" graduated from high school there was no Bible reading nor Prayer of Jesus in their classrooms. "God is not mocked."
I read an article recently which says that after the June, 1963 Supreme Court ruling, making both prayer and Bible reading in the state school system illegal, the Wall Street Journal wrote, "that atheism is now 'the one belief to which the state's power will extend its protection.'" Justice Potter Stewart, the lone dissenting vote, later said of the decision, "It led not to true neutrality with respect to religion, but to the establishment of a religion of secularism." When the militant atheist, Madalyn Murray, took her case against school prayer all the way to the Supreme Court, "not a single Christian organization filed a brief in support of school prayer." There is a lot of talk on "Christian Television" of "sowing and reaping," but not in regard to America's national sins.
I feel so small in comparison to the world system, but our Lord Jesus Christ is not "small." Today's text reveals just another example of the declarations of the Living Triune God that no matter what a nation does, no matter the prejudice of ethnic groups, the lies, the deceptions, the childish behavior to which the most intelligent and "discerning" among us can fall prey, I repeat the ancient decree, "Christus Victor." The Shed Blood, the Death, the Resurrection, the Ascension, "looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Savior Jesus Christ," is, "that Blessed Hope," Who keeps me going from day to day, "in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation." Make no mistake: "A Throne will be established in lovingkindness. And One will sit on it...," Jesus, the Christ.
Father, in Jesus' Name, I say again with the song writer of old, "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does it's successive journey run. His Kingdom stretch from shore to shore til moons shall wax ans wane no more." Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
