Truly with the evidence available not a single person should not believe in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Name another Savior whose ministry and death were predicted hundreds of years before it occurred to the letter. Seriously, tell me how we can read about the prediction of Christ's ministry and death and still deny Him?
I'll tell you HOW- people choose not to believe, and they refuse truth.
Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Darkness comprehends it not.
In our society you've most likely heard about the strange turn of events in recent history that call this generation- the generation of the offended. Over the last several years (this year being 2022) more and more people have grown to be offended at everything. Many call this the age of enlightenment and that enlightenment has brought out the racist, sexist, homophobic, etc, etc who are now offended, others say the uprising of evil has caused their offense. This world has inevitably changed and not for the better.
The thing is, too many people are living with the misguided belief this world CAN get better.
This world is going to be swallowed up by evil until is it all around any who are truly God's. Satan is trying to take as many people with him as he can and he's pulling out all the stops. Satan is twisting the good to make it seem evil and taking evil and making that seem good. And the light will shine in all the darkness, but the darkness won't comprehend it because the darkness wishes to remain darkness. The blind want to remain blind because to admit they are in need of a Savior, to admit that all around them is a world geared towards fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, is to admit they are guilty. To have to give up self-satisfaction is something we are LOATHED to do! Living a life that gives us all the comfort we can eke out of it is the goal the majority long for and why wouldn't we? Who purposefully wants to be deprived of any comfort? Our minds rebel at the very thought.
The truth shines a light into the darkness of this world, and darkness does not comprehend it, darkness does not want to comprehend.
The truth is found in our Lord and Savior, the reality of His existence, the reality of the reason for His existence, the reality of the salvation He offers, the reality of our need of forgiveness, the reality of eternal life found only in Him.
The hour of judgment is come… we have to decide, we have to choose, we have to live in the light of our Savior, not in the darkness that is the only other alternative.
Please Lord… please, we would be yours! Save us from the darkness, save us from self, please… please keep us from all evil!
All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever!!!!!!!
AMEN!
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CHAPTER XV. BABYLON IS FALLEN Pt 1
Following the first message of Revelation 14 (verses 6, 7) is another, containing a simple brief statement. It is not framed like a warning; it declares no particular duty. It is only the statement of a fact, but important to be considered, as are all the declarations of the word of God. It is as follows:--
"And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." Rev. 14:8.
There are two things that are often taken for granted, both of which must be noticed, namely:
1. That Babylon is the Catholic, or Roman, Church and that only.
2. That her fall means her overthrow, or destruction.
The first of these propositions is not altogether true, as will be seen in due time; the last is altogether wrong.
Nobody supposes that Babylon, whatever it means, will be entirely destroyed and the world move on as it did before. That will be a grand catastrophe which will affect the whole world, as may be seen in Revelation 18.
In that chapter is another announcement of the fall of Babylon, showing its connection with other facts and events, as follows:
1. An angel announces that Babylon is fallen, the same as Rev. 14:8.
2. He announces also that she has become the habitation of demons, and the hold of foul spirits, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. This is additional to the statement of Rev. 14:8.
3. Another voice says: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
4. It is said that in one day shall her plagues come--death, and mourning, and famine--and she shall be utterly burned with fire.
Reversing these events, we find that when this announcement is made Babylon is yet to be destroyed. And before her destruction, God's people are called out of her. And before they are called out of her, she becomes the habitation of demons. And before she becomes the habitation of demons, her fall takes place. Thus it is positively shown that her fall is before her destruction; doubtless it leads to her destruction finally. We are therefore forced to the conclusion that the fall referred to in Rev. 14:8, is a moral fall; it has reference to a change of condition in the sight of Heaven.
For the immediate cause of her fall we are left to draw our conclusion from the context. Her connection with the world is stated; also that, instead of being the light of the world, she has been guilty of misleading the world. Through her the world has been led to lightly regard its responsibility to God, and to indulge a false hope.
But, doubtless, that which has led to this fatal state was the rejection of the proclamation of the everlasting gospel, as made known in the preaching of the hour of judgment come.
This message being the gospel, to reject it must bring the frown of God, as certainly as did the rejection of the gospel in the days of Christ. Or if not, why not? Is not that always of importance which the word of God calls the everlasting gospel? But the question may be raised, This message being founded on time could the people surely know that the time had arrived when it should be given? To answer this we must return to the prophecy of Daniel, where the time is revealed.
To be continued…
(From Eden to Eden-A Historic and Prophetic Study. By J. H. Waggoner. 1890.)
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