Good morning! How are we faithing? Paying attention to scripture and how prophecy compares to current events is interesting. Not being a scholar or anything like that, a lot of times I can miss what scripture is telling me but sometimes it slaps me right up side the head. Do you do that? Do you peruse the scripture in amazement that the world just doesn't see the simple beauty of it? Salvation is so simple but people get all twisted up in works and miss it. People think they have to get better to get saved. No where in scripture is that ever said so where do they get that? Prophecy can be straight forward as well as cryptic. Could be cultural, could be the age written and could be purposely written so future people see what the former could not. For example;
Zec 14:12
And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Back a hundred years it would be all but impossible to see how this could happen. Flesh gone while standing would be possible with nukes right? Just a possibility. How about;
Eze 1:24
And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Zec 14:12
And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Back a hundred years it would be all but impossible to see how this could happen. Flesh gone while standing would be possible with nukes right? Just a possibility. How about;
Eze 1:24
And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
A jet perhaps? Read all of Ezekiel 1, it sure sounds like a description of a fighter jet to me. From their vantage point thousands of years ago this looks like a pretty good description of a jet fighter. Then again in five hundred years from now, who knows. Point is that we all ought to read books like Ezekiel and Daniel, Joel etc and just read with wonder and amazement of how alive scripture really is. Just some food for thought to begin your week.
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Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the cross. Thank you for your inspired Word that teaches us your truth and ways. Help us reflect your light to everyone we meet this week. Grant us wisdom to see that truth and the courage to follow it. In Jesus name, amen
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