Daily Devotional, Year 4 – December 11 (Look Up, Lift Up Your Heads, Part 11: “This World is Not My Home!”)
By admin On June 15th, 2024.
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Daily Devotional, Year 4 – December 11
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Look Up, Lift Up Your Heads,
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Part 11:
“This World is Not My Home!”
To read Part 1, click here… “July 4th (Look Up & Lift Up Your Heads!)”
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“These (persecuted Believers) all died in faith,
not having received the promises, but
…were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
Hebrews 11:13 (Condensed)
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“Man, oh man, oh man!!!”
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The daily news reports just seem to be getting worse and worse and worse!!!
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It seems like the entire world is coming unraveled…
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…Completely out-of-control thievery at an all-time high…
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…The younger generation being indoctrinated into insane and hateful ideologies…
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…Racial hatred and division being stoked by the lying Helter-Skelter media…
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…Governments engaging in suicidal spending…
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…Inflation too…
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…The Internet becoming a modern-day “Big Brother”, mind-controlling the world…
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…The major news-media becoming more and more dishonest and increasingly untrustworthy…
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…Children being confused about basic biology…
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…The western nations becoming weaker while overtly-evil nations grow stronger…
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…A total collapse of national borders, allowing unknown millions to pour over…
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…corrupt judges and politicians allowing crime to skyrocket…
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Yes, the state of the world is getting so unbelievably horrible, that many are no doubt becoming hopelessly sad and confounded!
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It just doesn’t seem like things will ever get better!
TV – ABC-Good Morning America – Wikipedia – Share-alike License
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So, just what are we to do?
How are we to cope with all the insanity
and all the hell-bent, self-destructive, dystopian nightmare
which the world appears to be racing into?
Question Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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ARE WE REALLY “JUST A -PASSIN’ THROUGH”?
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Remember that old song…
“This world is not my home,
I’m just a-passin’ through.
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue.
The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door.
And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore”?
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This song first appeared in print in 1919 and has been sung by many Gospel musicians.
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Well, most faithful church attendees would probably wholeheartedly affirm this song’s faithful sentiment: “We’re just a-passin’ through!”.
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Jim Reeves Monument – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
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“…then look up, and lift up your heads…”
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The fact is, we have entered into the fulfillment of Luke 21:28, in which Jesus admonishes us…
…”And when these things begin to come to pass,
then look up, and lift up your heads;
for your redemption draweth nigh.”
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Yes, things down here are getting increasingly hopeless.
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It’s time to renounce this hopelessly tragic world…
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…and begin our upward ascendancy to our new home…
…”And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away…”
Revelation 21:1
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Starry Night at La Silla – Wikimedia – Share-Alike license
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“This world is not my home I’m just a-passin’ through!”
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And, so, how can I cope with all the evil, and insanity, and injustice that this world seems to currently be embracing?
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Well, every time I hear of some really horrible, or insane, or unjust event, instead of becoming angry or discouraged, I must remind myself…“This world is not my home I’m just a-passin’ through!”
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Such an attitude can greatly quell my anger, allay my fears, and dispel my disillusionment with the daily news reports…
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…”This world is not my home,
I’m just a-passin’ through.
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue.
The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door.
And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore”?
Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley by Carl Gustav Carus – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Open my eyes, that I may see the veracity of this message, and keep me from allowing Satan to bring my focus back down to earth…
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…
JULY 31 (How Do I See These Signs of Heaven?),
or you can also read…
“March 20 (“This World is Not My Home!”)“
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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A HEAVENLY HOBBY
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“Lift up your eyes on high,
and behold Who hath created these things;
that brings out their host by number:
He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might,
for that He is strong in power;
not one faileth.”
Isaiah 40:26
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“AND WHEN YE SEE THESE THINGS…
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LOOK UP, LIFT UP YOUR HEAD”
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There is one hobby which every ‘Noble Berean’ may take up, which only compliments the pursuit of the heavenly Prize.
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Yes, Signs Of Heaven becomes a wonderfully rewarding hobby which, unlike many less meaningful hobbies, pays off with rich, heavenly rewards. Everlasting rewards!
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And unlike the person in this photo with equipment, all you need is fairly good vision, and a dark, starry night.
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And once a person really gets to know these heavenly messengers, it will become very apparent that the message connected with these signs is truly a message to be heeded.
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Thus, will the Christian be able to share this message with others.
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And there are perhaps many nuances and hidden biblical truths to these signs which have yet to be discovered.
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Astronomy Amateur – cropped image – Wikipedia – share-alike license
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FIRST FIND ORION & 7 STARS
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The very first step in finding these many constellations, should be to find the two main constellations: Orion, and the 7 Stars (aka, The Big Dipper).
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These two constellations represent Christ (Orion), and His Church (7 Stars).
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And just as these are the easiest constellations to find, so too, the first place to begin studying the Bible is the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John).
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These four books present Christ and His Church, when He walked the earth, just as Orion and the 7 Stars represent Christ and His Church, as seen up in the heavens.
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Then, once you are comfortable finding these two constellations, you can begin to locate the next closest constellations, and so on.
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TOMORROW…
December 12 (Fainting Goats & Us: PART 2 “Who is the World’s Strongest Human?”)
Atlas holding up the celestial globe – Guercino 1646 – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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Jim Reeves – This World is Not My Home
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS 3-MINUTE SONG – – Jim Reeves – This World is not my home
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Jim Reeves Monument – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
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