The judgment we all face.
Act 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Act 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you
Sins are recorded but they can be BLOTTED out. Just as they can be blotted out, they can also be left to remain. If they're not blotted out then the person must account for them and as we well know, a person has no righteousness in which to save themselves. We are only saved by the grace of our Savior through His sacrifice, by His forgiveness there is no other way. We can try to blot out our own sins but it'll never happen. We can even try to blot out another's sins, but that won't happen either. The record made of our sins can only be blotted out by Jesus Christ.
Psa 51:1 ...Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
David wanted his transgressions to be blotted out.
Psa 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Isa 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
And then we have verses about NOT blotting sins out.
Neh 4:5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
Jer 18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Again we are drawn to the Day of Atonement, why? Because the blotting out of sin, the cleansing of the record of sin is typified in that Day of Atonement. Jesus is our High Priest in heaven and as such He has the work of a High Priest to undertake. That work is has been shown to us through the earthly sanctuary services. Why else would we be told Jesus is our High Priest? Why?
Heb 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Heb 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Maybe it feels as if I'm repeating the same things over and over and I probably am. It's just so incredibly important for us to realize all this as factual, not some man-made concoction. Jesus our prophet, our priest, and our king. Right now our Savior has the role of our high priest and as such we will be judged by a record of our acts, a record of our choices, whether or not we have our Savior as our Advocate, whether or not we've chosen Him as our great Sacrifice, to cover our sins, and be our Righteousness.
As every day passes by we are ONE day closer to our Savior's return. We are one day closer to all probation closing. These are FACTS. We have to know that the signs of time and those signs only reveal the ever deepening deception, the ever widening acceptance of evil as good, the unsteadiness of our very earth all are wake up calls - calls to snap out of the stupor we've fallen into. Every single day we are confronted by evil, it surrounds us in so much and it threatens to consume us. Only our Savior can protect us, only our Savior can keep us from that evil. The world needs to realize but it won't, those who emphasize the truth are ridiculed and rejected.
Just recently in the news there was an article about a woman who is going to run for president of the U.S.- Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. The article was about her quitting her church, why? Because her church holds the belief that the Papacy is the beast of Revelation, that Catholicism is of the devil. The VERY thing we've been studying and have proven through prophecy and history to be true! This fact is brought into the public's eye, right there into the public's spotlight and the fact along with it- that the potential presidential candidate QUIT her church rather than be associated with a church that holds an unpopular belief. She doesn't want to lose the Catholic vote come race time and why? Because there are millions of Catholics, millions of potential votes she'd alienate from herself. Do you see it? Do you understand that a wake up call has been given and just how many will believe it? How many will turn from their belief it apostasy? How many will turn into apostasy? A cry has gone out for those willing to acknowledge it. In the article about this it was mentioned that the belief about the Catholic church as the beast dates back to Martin Luther and the Protestant reformation. Our history proves that it goes back that far and further but the more common knowledge of it didn't begin to come to light until the Bible was allowed to be read by more than just the Catholic church. We know for a fact it had a great resurgence when knowledge was increased in the very late 1700 early 1800's. We've studied this, and it isn't a coincidence!!!!!!!! You can shrug all this off as if it were, but we are asking for truth! We are asking for enlightenment! We are watching! We are praying! We must not close our eyes just because it's more comfortable to do so!
Please God help us! Help us as we continue to study Your truths! Please…please Lord we want our names in Your Book of Life, never to be stricken from it, never!!!! We acknowledge Jesus as our Prophet, our Priest, our King, our Righteousness!
By Your love, Your grace always!
Amen.
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