'Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins'

Come out of her my people.

Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 

Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 

Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 

Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities

Come out of her my people.

The plagues will fall make no mistake about it, they will fall. And when those plagues fall everyone will have had their fate decided by THEMSELVES. No one decides if you are saved or not saved.  God is not picking and choosing, God is not flipping a coin. Everyone decides for themselves. NO one will be able to say in all truthfulness that they were treated unfairly and are undeserving of the plagues, they are undeserving of eternal death. People might lie to themselves and believe they have been misunderstood but GOD knows the hearts of everyone.

We need to surrender ourselves to God and His will, holding nothing back. We need our sins to be revealed ALL of them, so we may repent of them and seek forgiveness.

These truths spoken of in God's word are for OUR edification. We must LEARN from them.

COME OUT OF HER, BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS!

There WILL be a people who belong to GOD and they WILL come out of all the evil in this world that is trying so desperately to snare as many as possible.

More on this tomorrow by the grace and mercy of our LORD as HE WILLS.

In HIS LOVE ALWAYS and FOREVER!

Amen

This world will NOT get any easier for Christ followers

Could we live without any laws?  Could even two people live together without having agreed upon ways of behavior?  No.  Every society has it's laws whether they are called laws or not, they exist. There are standards, there are rules, there are the ways of things that must be adhered to in every single relationship.  Put just two people together to live with each other for a year and see how long it takes for them to have agreed upon behaviors assigned. 

To live means to have to engage in activities of living.  You don't live unless you engage in the activities of living in one way or another. There are many people kept alive today by people using artificial means to enact those activities of living that they cannot do for themselves.

The necessary activities of living- eating, drinking, sleeping, elimination.

We eat, drink, sleep, eliminate waste from our body or we die.

When we get together with others to live we all have our own ways of doing these things.  How awful it would be if there were two people living together where one insisted upon being awake and active to the point of keeping the other  from sleeping when they desired to sleep.  What if one ate all the food for the day without allowing the other any? What if one used up all the water for the day? What if one decided they could eliminate their waste anywhere they desired?  Would this result in a happy living environment? Absolutely not. I'm talking about a situation where people are unable to NOT live together.

As soon as people start living with each other their behaviors have to be amended to an agreed upon way of life.   When this happens rules are formed, spoken or unspoken.

Throughout our world every society has formed their own rules.  Where a society form rules that are in opposition to another's often there is a push to get the societies to form basic rules of humanity. We have the united nations in our world that is supposed to be a worldwide rule maker deeming what is and what isn't an acceptable society.  We go to war to correct societies that live in opposition to those universal rules. We want everyone alive to have the right to a peaceful way of living. We desire worldwide peace, there is a fight for this elusive thing.

We live in such great opposition to one another on grand scales- country wide scales and individual- much smaller scales.  There will NEVER be worldwide peace as long as we are flawed human beings prone to non-peaceful acts. And as soon as someone tries to FORCE peace they are committing an action contrary to peace.

People who believe that the world will one day straighten itself out are deluding themselves. The natures of flesh we are born with prevents world wide peace.

It is OVERCOMING those natural flesh tendencies through JESUS CHRIST that is necessary.

We can't overcome them on our own, but with Christ we can. We must put ourselves in HIS hands daily, hourly, minutely, unendingly.  We must recognize our eternal, infinite need of HIM to be our righteousness. 

We are NOT called to take our evil flesh natures and call them good.

I am NOT called to take my selfishness and justify it so I can continue being selfish. I am not called to excuse away my selfishness or any other sinful way in myself, but I am called to confess it and forsake it on a daily, hourly, infinite basis.  When I succumb to my flesh nature I must CONFESS and once again forsake. And if this seems like an endless cycle of sin, confess, forsake, sin, confess, forsake that's because it has to be until my Savior seals me as His. Forever we are dependent upon our Savior. Forever we must live fighting the WAR against sinning without calling sin good and therefore giving up the war.  There is NO easy way out of this, not one single easy way out.  It's a FIGHT, your life is a FIGHT.

If people get together and decide they no longer want to fight against certain sins, that is their right, I can't stop them. If whole societies get together and make a universal sin no longer sin, I can't stop them.  Just because they've done that doesn't mean that sin no longer exists. It just means the majority of the world has accepted the sin as being good and they no longer will fight against it. They will label themselves enlightened and pat themselves on the back.  We were warned this would happen. Sin would be call good and good things sin.

No, I can't stop writing about this yet, it's heavy on my heart.  People want me to call evil good, and if I don't, I'm the evil one.  This is what it has come to and I cannot call evil good.

EVERY single one of us fights our personal propensity towards various sinning, some of us have a multitude of flesh weaknesses. We can sin in our minds without ever sinning outwardly and it is STILL sin! We all have our battles to wage, there isn't a single person alive who does not.  My battle might be easy to you, and yours easy to me.  But we ALL have the battles to war with over that which would keep us from accepting Christ as our Redeemer. 

Your battle might be in the newspaper headlines, mine  hidden where no one can see.  Mine might be in the headlines, while yours remains unseen. 

Satan wants us all equally and will fight for us in our personal ways. He has a personal battle plan for every individual.  Some people are easily won, others will never be won and I PRAY to GOD I am NEVER won by SATAN so that he determines my eternal death.  I pray I cling to Christ MY RIGHTEOUSNESS, never putting any hope or trust in my own filthy rag righteousness.

Isa_64:6  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags

I have been wrong about many things in my life, many, many things. I must confess I have called various sins good and even tried to get others to do so and I can only beg for forgiveness.  Please….my Savior forgive me!

Christ followers everywhere, be prepared to continue to live in a world where more and more evil will be called good and you will be called hateful because you refuse to call evil good. 

This world will NOT get easier for Christ followers.

May we only ever follow Christ's TRUTHS and love HIM first and foremost, loving God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit- these three Gods must be loved first and then through their love we can LOVE ALL OTHERS, all while hating sin.

All in the name of Jesus Christ my Lord, my Savior! My Redeemer! My Hope!

Amen.

Will you be known as a truth hater?

We ALL have the right to CHOOSE our beliefs. NO ONE can choose our beliefs for us.

Christians- if you truly are a Christ follower-  know that this is NOT our world. Jesus did NOT tell us that we will be able to make THIS world ours. Jesus did NOT tell us that will we be able to get the whole world's population to accept Him. In fact we are told FEW will find the way to Him.

Mat 7:13  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Mat 7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

As Christians - as true Christ followers- we KNOW that our Savior would have us LOVE ALL others.  NO THIS DOES NOT MEAN WE ACCEPT THE SIN OF OTHERS. Those are totally two different things-  accepting sin and love.  If a person believes we must accept their sins to love them, then they do NOT know what love is!

Most parents comprehend this reality, not that it means they accept it on a broader level. Very few parents can say they've always accepted every single thing their child has done and never thought them wrong in any way. Most children will behave in ways we call 'acting out'.  They act out to get attention, they act out to see how far they can go with things, they act out doing things that parents will considered UNACCEPTABLE and then they are reprimanded for that acting out to guide them to the acceptable way to behave.  What parent in their right mind would allow their child to write on the walls with permanent marker throughout their house anywhere they choose to do so? Wouldn't the parent find it UNACCEPTABLE and therefore the parent is not accepting that act of their child, the child was in the wrong.   When that parent did not accept that wrong act of their child did they STOP loving their child? NO!

You can LOVE a person without accepting their actions. 

Now, if that child yelled at their parent and said they didn't love them anymore because they didn't accept their writing on the walls, furniture, and everything else in the house, would it be true?  NO!  Could the child believe it to be true? YES. The child can choose to believe whatever they want, but it won't make it true.

The truth is we all have our own beliefs and sometimes two or more people believe the same thing, sometimes whole groups believe the same thing. Everyone believes their own particular beliefs are the truth and therefore if another believes differently they aren't believing in the truth.

Jesus did NOT tell anyone to try and FORCE the truth on others.  Jesus wants us to be willing to voice the truth as we are Spirit led to do so and let others believe it or not believe it.  As Christians we are to voice the truth, our beliefs, and leave it to the Holy Spirit to convict the hearts of others.

What truth are we to voice- the GOSPEL. What is the gospel- the GOOD NEWS of SALVATION IN JESUS CHRIST.  The GOOD NEWS.

We will NOT as Christians - as TRUE Christ followers- be on the side of the majority. We will NOT be on the popular path.

HOWEVER- as we live in this world of rapid decay into sin so pronounced it will be as it was in the days of Noah- Gen_6:5  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.   -  we must NEVER stop loving others as God would have us love them, NEVER. We must be willing to lay down our lives for the worst of sinners, not abuse them. If we are caught up in any profession that would have us SIN, or ACCEPT SIN, then obviously God would have us in another profession because the WORLD is owned by Satan and the majority of the WORLD will accept sin. And if God doesn't want us in another profession He may want us in another location where we are NOT called to ACCEPT sin.  It's a frightening thing to find your life turned upside down, to be called to forsake all for Christ in a very literal way.

If I have to agree to accept SIN before I can love the one sinning (by their standard) then I will keep loving the one sinning, while NOT accepting sin. If that means I can't make it perfectly clear I believe a sin is being committed even as I love the sinner, if I am compelled to silence and serving and that is being taken as a silent assent to accepting the sin the sinner is committing then I will have to be thought of as one who doesn't not love. God will KNOW the truth. God will know my love is real- it's HIS love. And if the sinner who accuses me of NOT loving them because I oppose their sin wants to believe that, I cannot stop them. I cannot compel them to accept my very real love of them while not accepting the sin. 

If I post a sign saying I'm against THIEVERY based on my BIBLICAL belief that stealing is wrong, a thief might take exception to that sign and say I hate them and that hate is itself a crime. They might say I have to accept their thieving ways to accept them.  I could NOT do that! I may still serve them as my SAVIOR would have me do if they NEED my help, but in that serving is NOT acceptance, and will never be acceptance to their thieving ways.  If that thief says I must write upon a sign for them that thieving is good and right, and serve them in this way- I CANNOT.  They are not in any real life threatening need- they don't need food, clothes, or shelter from me, they don't need my aid in any way for them to keep their life- something I would NOT withhold from them. They are desirous of my services to promote their thieving, and that is wrong.  If the LAW of the land becomes such that I HAVE to serve them in their sin, then I need to change professions because I’m sure not going to be able to change a world run by Satan and Satan's many, many, many followers. 

The world is SATAN'S.

I am GOD'S.

I have to be willing to LOSE ALL, and that's a LITERAL ALL, not figurative. I have to be willing to LOSE ALL if that's what I am called to do in my walk with God. I cannot cling to a single worldly thing, not even my own life, if I am called by God to relinquish it in service to HIM - in LOVING HIM and LOVING OTHERS- in that order and no other.

Many people have decided that evil is good and good is evil, and as the majority accept this and are completely and utterly convinced of its truth, they will see those who understand that evil is evil and good is good as being hateful people, haters. And the chief of HATERS will be the GOD of the haters.  A better GOD will be one who accepts evil is good and good is evil, and it is that GOD, that FALSE God they will cling to and hold up as a standard high, and they will call that false God the God of LOVE, they will make that false God the God of the majority, they will make those FALSE Christians appear as TRUE Christians, while the others will be a minority of truth haters.

Satan has done His work very well making it all but impossible for any one to believe the real truth. There will be a few that find the real truth, and I PRAY that I am among those few, and I pray any who are reading this are among the few as well. I pray all those I know and love are among the few, I pray that ALL will find the WAY, the TRUTH, the LIFE in JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, OUR SAVIOR NOW AND FOREVER! AMEN! 

LOVE your enemies!

What does it mean to choose God?  I'll tell you what it doesn't mean first.

It doesn't mean you are superior to any other human being in existence.

You don't have the upper hand over any one.

You are NOT more important than the person people would label the worst of sinners.

Your secret, silent sins are just as deadly as the most blatant of sins committed for all the world to see.

You do NOT get to judge a single person's eternal life!

What it does mean to choose God, is…

You are a SERVANT to all! You don't get to pick and choose who to serve, you don't get to interview  people to determine if they are worthy of your service. You do get to choose how YOU act.

You do get to choose how YOU participate with those around you.

You do get to choose whether or not you commit sin.

Our SAVIOR taught us to love ALL.

Did our SAVIOR love those He said this too--

Mat_23:37  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Mat 16:11  How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

Mat 16:12  Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Did Jesus LOVE these people?

Luk_6:27  But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you

Jesus LOVED His enemies! 

Jesus did NOT rouse people to kill those who were against Him.

Jesus did NOT inspire hatred of others!

Jesus did NOT take the worst of sinners and tell us to shame and berate them!

Jesus did NOT tell us to ridicule and abuse anyone!

Jesus did NOT tell us to judge another's eternal life!

Jesus did NOT ask us to point our fingers and label others for all to see!

Jesus LOVES people!

Jesus did NOT tell us to love sin in any way.

Jesus told us to love the sinner.

Jesus us told US not to sin.

We are responsible for our OWN actions not the sins of another unless we encourage them in sin.

When we love others that doesn't mean we have to sin or participate in sin to show that love. 

If people want us to do something that goes against our principles and we refuse does that mean we don't love them?

NO!

It means we are an individual just as they are and we choose to BELIEVE differently than they do. 

We should not be FORCED to do anything and we should not FORCE anyone to do anything. When we are FORCED to do something it is wrong. 

I can LOVE someone WITHOUT approving of their actions.

I CAN LOVE without participating in sin to show I love.

If someone asks me to participate in sin to prove my love for them, then they are in the wrong.

If someone wants to force me to participate in something I CONSIDER SIN, it is WRONG.

I will NOT force anyone to accept Christ as their Savior! I will NOT force anyone to believe in GOD!  I will NOT force anyone to believe in MY BELIEFS.  I will not force them to say something is sin.  I WILL NOT FORCE anyone. And I shouldn't be forced either.

More on this tomorrow…

By the GRACE of GOD!

In the name of MY SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!

Amen. 

With my mind I will serve the Lord- I choose this

1Sa 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. 

1Sa 2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 

1Sa 2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

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This is truth!  There is NONE holy as the LORD! Yet men would set themselves up  in God's place having the arrogance to believe they control their own fate. By the grace of GOD we live and the lives we live are in His hands.  Truly mighty men are broken at the will of God. And yes, those who stumble are strengthened by God. 

This is truth--

Pro_16:18  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Pro_29:23  A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Dan_4:37  Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Pro_16:18  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Rom 11:20  Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear

Some might say that none of this matters, that God doesn't control anything and that's their right, we all have the right to CHOOSE what we believe.  I believe in GOD the Father, GOD the Son, GOD the Holy Spirit. I believe they all had a part in my creation and my redemption. I believe my GOD had given me instructions for living. First and foremost relying upon HIM for all things is necessary! FOR ALL THINGS, not some things. I can't dare to delegate what I want to rely upon God for and what I don't! I have to rely upon HIM FOR ALL THINGS.

He is ALL things, He has to be. I can't step out in FAITH and have that faith in myself, my faith needs to be in GOD.

If God WILLS this must be our greatest desire, that in all things HIS WILL is done!

All who believe they KNOW better than God will be in for a VERY rude awakening, very rude! None know better than God, such pride, such arrogant belief is a self-absorbed trait.  And being self consumed is evil in all its terrible glory.

Selfishness, self-centeredness, self -  evil.

People have claimed socialism is completely wrong, that the idea of people living in a society of fairness- of all being equal in giving and taken and such is wrong and when it's FORCED it is wrong. But honestly do we believe that a democracy that allows for people to accumulate great wealth while others suffer in poverty is better?  No, I'm not a socialist. I am a CHRIST FOLLOWER, a GOD BELIEVER. I believe in GOD, GOD is my leader, my KING! I am a creature, created by my GOD and I will live under HIS rule, HIS guidance. He would have me give all I can of myself to help others- is that socialist and wrong? NO! God would have me give of my self- not be self obsessed. 

Only through GOD can I be what He wills me to be. With my MIND I will serve the LORD!

All by HIS WILL! All in  HIS LOVE!

All by HIS MERCY, HIS GRACE!

Amen!

Murmurers, complainers... walking after their own lusts

'Walking after their own lusts…'

We are CONSUMED by walking after our own lusts.

Don't mistake the word lust solely for sexual desires. People lust after many, many things. Being self consumed seems to be the flesh nature we are taught to nurture.  Giving into the wants of self is taught to be acceptable, and normal. We use that word a lot. Normal. It's normal to want this, it's normal to want that, it's normal so that makes it acceptable.  Yet who decided what is normal? Without guidance we are at the mercy of believing we know what is best for ourselves and with each of us individuals having differing opinions on what is best how can we ever truly know what is ultimately the best. The best turns out to be what a majority decides which doesn't necessarily make it truly the best, it only makes it a majority desire, a majority lust.

Again we come back to the fact of WHO we choose to believe in, who we choose to follow. Do we believe in a Creator? Do we choose to follow the outline for living given to us by our Creator? Or do we choose to follow our own outlines, or the outlines others like us have made?  Who do we choose to follow?

You might say you follow the laws of the society you belong to and that's a good thing or you'd be in jail. But on a more personal level where society's laws fall short, what do you follow, what moral principles do you adhere to? 

Are you consumed by walking after your own lusts? 

God has given us guidelines in His word. We know the truth. Do we have to like these truths? They will WAR against our FLESH nature, the part of us that is inclined to sin. The thing is, do we serve the flesh with our mind? Or do we serve the Lord with our mind? Do we choose to serve self or God? We make that choice and we make it all the time.  We face daily choices, daily temptations, daily trials and we have to choose who we will follow. We can CHOOSE to follow our own lusts, we can, and we most likely will because of our flesh nature that wars against our spiritual nature. We need to choose to follow God with our minds and seek forgiveness for the times we don't follow His will but our lusts. We must NOT willfully, recklessly, thoughtlessly embrace the lust warring against us.

Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

This is truth--  read this--

Jud 1:14  And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

Jud 1:15  To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Jud 1:16  These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

That is truth also.

We must not choose to walk after our own lusts. We must be mindful that we have these lusts within us and give ourselves to our Savior, asking for His help, His forgiveness, His saving ability because we truly are helpless to do anything but constantly choose to follow Him, constantly choose to serve Him, and to follow His will NOT our lusts.

Please Father, please we would be YOURS always!

In YOU, in Christ Jesus our LORD now and forever!

Amen.

If you believe- Evil Spirits Exist

If you believe in Jesus Christ you believe- EVIL SPIRITS EXIST.

This is truth. A truth we love to ignore or regulate to a fictional context such as books, movies, and tv shows. We don't want to think of them as a REALITY. Just when do we suppose their reality was done away with? Some might say when people became enlightened. They might say when people stopped believing in witchcraft - witches and sorceries. When science came into fashion over superstition.  Yet, our SAVIOR believed and believes in evil spirits. The very Savior we claim to love knew the reality of evil spirits.  The Apostles knew that evil spirits were real as well- they dealt with them, casting them out of the people they were possessing. 

Now read the following--

Act 19:13  Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

Act 19:14  And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

Act 19:15  And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?

The evil spirit used the man's voice to speak and ANSWERED those trying to get it to release the man it was possessing.  The EVIL spirit ANSWERED!  The evil spirit told them it KNEW JESUS, it KNEW PAUL as forces that had the POWER of GOD to command it to obey.  The evil spirit did NOT know these pretenders who dared to use the name of Jesus, a name they did NOT believe in as their Savior.  This evil spirit using the man it possessed ATTACKED all of those pretenders- SEVEN sons of a CHIEF of the PRIESTS of the Jews. 

Act 19:16  And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

One man against SEVEN men!  One man possessed by an EVIL SPIRIT. 

This all happened after Jesus died, was raised from the grave and went to heaven. This all happened while the apostles lived and were spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Act 19:17  And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

What had happened to the seven sons of the chief priests of the Jews was spread far and wide. People witnessed their attack, they witnessed their lying to the evil spirit who KNEW they weren't coming to it in the name of the SAVIOR, in the power of the Savior.  They also knew that the true witnesses of the Savior were able to cast out evil spirits. They realized the TRUTH of the WAY being spread by the Apostles, the Disciples of the Savior and they had to believe!

Act 19:18  And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

Act 19:19  Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Many of those who believed PRACTICED evil ways!  Read that!

They USED CURIOUS ARTS.

They USED BOOKS of these CURIOUS ARTS.

They USED VERY EXPENSIVE BOOKS of CURIOUS ARTS, things they knew were CONTRARY to the WAY Of the Savior Jesus Christ.

They BURNED these books publically revealing their commitment to the WAY, the TRUTH they were learning and believing. 

This is truth and today we discount this and believe that NOTHING we do matters at all. We tease the evil spirits, we live with them among us and we laugh and play and believe that it's all good.

I'm not saying any of us know where the evil spirits are, who they are possessing. It seems as if there isn't a way to know as there was back in the days of the Apostles. Some say they know, and maybe if I were confronted boldly by one inside someone I'd know, I just can't know that I would. I don't have the answers to this but I DO know that EVIL SPIRITS did NOT DISAPPEAR from the earth.

I know EVIL ways have not disappeared from the earth. 

Curious arts are still prevalent and used all the time- ALL THE TIME. And they are used by those who have NO idea they are using evil, and they wouldn't believe you if you told them they were. They see no EVIL, they see no harm in their curious arts.

We know this--

Deu 18:9  When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

Deu 18:10  There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Deu 18:11  Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Deu 18:12  For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

ABOMINATIONS-

Divining.

Observing times.

Enchanting.

Witchery.

Charmers.

Consulters with familiar (EVIL) spirits.

Wizards.

Necromancers.

We know this--

Dan 2:1  And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

Dan 2:2  Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

Dan 2:3  And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

Dan 2:4  Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

Dan 2:5  The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

Dan 2:6  But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.

Dan 2:7  They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.

Dan 2:8  The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

Dan 2:9  But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

Dan 2:10  The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

Dan 2:11  And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

Dan 2:12  For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Dan 2:13  And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

Dan 2:14  Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:

Dan 2:15  He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

Dan 2:16  Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.

Dan 2:17  Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

Dan 2:18  That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Dan 2:19  Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Dan 2:20  Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

Dan 2:21  And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

Dan 2:22  He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Dan 2:23  I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.

Astrologers, soothsayers, magicians-  NONE of these are of GOD!

Daniel- a prophet of GOD, he alone had GOD on His side.

All these things we do today and think harmless, GOD FORGIVE US! PLEASE GOD FORGIVE US! 

With our minds we SERVE YOU, and YOU ALONE!

Bless us! Keep us in YOU! SAVE US FROM OURSELVES! KEEP US FROM EVIL! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

Let us look SOLELY to YOU for ALL THINGS, not to any person at all whatsoever, but YOU!

In the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ our LORD! Now and forever, AMEN.