A Devotional Look at the Book #506

A Devotional Look at the Book #506

by Jesse Abel

A Thought for today by Papa “J”

Water on a duck’s back…? If you find some let me know; and have you found that needle in the hay stack…? Better off to search for God since the water, the duck, and the iron and hay… all belong to Him as also; the oil for the duck’s back and the magnet for the iron! Job 11:7-9 by human effort; God is past finding out.

A DAY IN THE PAST, THE PRESENT OR THE FUTURE

World Wars: WW1 lasted five years; WW2 lasted six years; the Korean War, three years of active fighting but still a threat. Vietnam War, said at one time to be the longest war for the U.S. was eleven years; but the longest war and still active is the Afghan War began in 2001 for us Americans. Americans, just looking at the last 100 years from July 28, 1914 to this very day have been involved in some foreign war for forty of those years and this does not include events like the Bay of Pigs and various other actions in the southern hemisphere. The example of just one country, but we have no peace; even worse, the history of war in the world around us would clearly show that the world has never known peace since the fall of Adam. So God is true; while every man is found a liar. There are wars and rumors of wars constantly, we seek peace but there is none to be found. Disaster upon disaster; rumor upon rumor, yet the vision of the prophet and the law of the land does not prevent desolation after desolation, Ezekiel 7:23-27. What is the problem? Go into any country, as I have said before; the country sides are full of common people who seek peace and many national leaders promote peaceful agendas. The ruler (king) of Tyre and all of his subjects and allies are the problem! “Say what… Jesse?” Take the time to look into the three chapters of Ezekiel, chapters 26; 27 and 28. This kingdom represents the satanic counterfeit kingdom of the world we live in and God is not pleased with our knowingly ignorance toward His call to repent; but you and I can be thankful that He is longsuffering toward us. 2 Peter 3:14-18. Jesus is coming again… are you interested?

2 Peter

2 Peter 2:7 – Sometimes I question integrity and so do you. “Righteous Lot” how can this be? Do you know the story of his life? Greed caused him to part from Abraham his uncle. Worldly pleasure drew him to Sodom and Gomorrah. Daily he allowed his soul to be tormented with the filth of impurity and the lifestyles of the sexual immoral. He did rescue the angels of the LORD and he did fight back the crowd of Tyre representatives. But like many of us he was not strong in the Spirit and his flesh worked ruin within his family.

2 Peter 2:8 – Yet the apostle Peter under the inspiration and guidance of God the Holy Spirit acknowledges Lot as a righteous man. So righteousness and integrity are not measured by the standards of the world’s counterfeit system that are designed and operational today by the king of Tyre (Satan). Ezekiel 28:14-19. Thus it is God who delivers man from sin and from a life-style that is wicked.

2 Peter 2:9 – Are you not full of joy knowing that it is the LORD who knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve judgment until the Day of Judgment on the unjust. The doom of false teachers will have a moment in court. The teachers of those gospels of works, prosperity and the liberalism will suffer and the godly will be delivered; true righteousness is then based on faith alone in Christ alone in that we are called by grace. Ephesians 3:1-7