Daily Devotional, Year 2 – JANUARY 3 (World of Lies, Part 1: “The Femme-Fatale Firefly!”)
By admin On January 12th, 2021.
Daily Devotional, Year 2 – JANUARY 3
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World of Lies,
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Part 1:
“The Femme-Fatale Firefly!”
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Moviegoers have been fascinated with the “Femme-Fatale” for many decades!
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The ruggedly handsome hero meets the seductively beautiful, yet unobtainable heroine!
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And before long, this nitro-glycerin chemistry produces a 120-minute movie-thriller, which keeps audiences clamoring for a sequel or two!
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Well, all this is made to look really great on the silver-screen!
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And with the addition of edgy music, glamorous “stars”, etc., this larger-than-life extravaganza seems exciting and romantic, and well, maybe even an obtainable dream to so many gullible moviegoers!
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Casablanca Poster – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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SATAN: “GOD OF THIS WORLD”
2nd Corinthians 4:4
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But the fact is, “The god of this world” is the true, behind-the-scenes movie producer in Hollywood!
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Make no mistake about that, O Christian!
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Hell’s armies (both human and angelic) are busy, busy, busy, churning out all these 120-minute puffs of imagery from the never-dormant smokestacks of Tinseltown’s Dream-Machine!
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ABOVE PICTURE: Dream Maker of Babylon – Signs Of Heaven.org
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HELL’S ADVERTISER-IN-CHIEF!
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Yes, the television/movie industry is Hell’s advertiser-in-chief for this high-tech world.
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And, well, God wasn’t taken by surprise in His foreknowledge of last-day arsenal of high-tech weaponry.
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As a matter of fact, God had created many things in Nature, so as to teach us all about sin’s deceptive ways!
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THE FEMME-FATALE LIGHTNING BUG
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Take for instance, the little seductress, the Photuris, commonly known as the femme fatale lightning bugs of North America.
These alluring little lightning bugs can imitate the mating-signals of light of female fireflies!
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Yes, just imagine this happy-go-lucky little firefly, joyfully buzzing about the summer night air, shining his light for all the world to see!
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But then, he spots that unmistakable love-light signal which promises romance!
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And off he goes, straight into her deadly arms!
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And in a few seconds, he is no more! Gobbled up!
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Firefly composite – Wikipedia – Creative Commons License
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“Let your light so shine…and glorify…Heaven.”
Matthew 5:16 (Condensed for brevity)
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Yes, just like those wonderful little fireflies, the Christian is to let his light shine for all the world to see!
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But the last thing Heaven’s enemies want, is for the Christian to be a beacon of soul-saving light for all the world to behold!
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And the Bible tells us that there will be false shepherds, so-called “ministers of righteousness”, who will, “if possible, deceive even the very Elect”!
(see 2nd Corinthians 11:15 & Matthew 24:24)
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Casablanca Poster – Wikipedia – Public Domain
Satan presiding at the Infernal Council – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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UNEQUALLY YOKED
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And so, no one should be surprised when some femme-fatale comes across that Heaven-bound Pilgrim’s pathway.
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Oh yes, she’s very alluring!
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And before long church bells ring for that new couple!
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Casablanca Poster – Wikipedia – Public Domain
Weddingring – JH – cropped image – Wikipedia – share-alike license
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WHO CONVERTS WHO?
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Perhaps, in the beginning, that naive one thought to himself, “Well, maybe I can eventually convert her! After all, she promised to faithfully go to church with me, if we marry!”
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Well as we all know, the only one who gets converted, is the Christian…converted back into the world!
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And after a few years, his life is so hopelessly devoted to providing her with all the accouterments of this life, all in attempt to satisfy the insatiable desires of his prosperity-focused soulmate!
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(Of course, this above scenario is equally true (and maybe even more so), when a female Christian becomes unequally yoked with an unbelieving male!)
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Casablanca Poster – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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WORLD TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER HEAVEN!
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And so, Jesus gets put on the backburner!
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The world takes precedence over the things of Heaven!
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Casablanca Poster – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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THE GOOD NEWS!
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The very Good News is, that there is nothing impossible for God!
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Yes, “with God, all things are possible”! Matthew 19:26
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And just as God doesn’t forget about His lost sheep!
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And perhaps as that defeated one is lying in bed, after a hard and discouraging, or even sad day, a still small voice pierces the night…
“Why am I putting out all this energy and self-sacrificing toil?
Didn’t I once believe in Heaven and all the wonderful glories of everlasting life?”
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ABOVE PICTURE – 7 Stars Constellation as the Cross (aka Big Dipper) – winter – signsofheaven.org – not for commercial uses
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LIFE FROM THE DEAD!
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Yes, there is a very wonderful and merciful light which shines down from Heaven, sending bright beams of mercy even into this dark and hopeless world!
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Yes, the Christian who has been deceived by Hell’s impostors, has a God in Heaven who (if He chooses to), can bring him (or her) back from death and destruction!
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And the Eternal One, who was Himself, brought back to life from the dead, can now bring back those who have been gobbled up by one of Hell’s many counterfeit light-bearers!
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And once revived, that redeemed one will finally realize that a relationship with Jesus is much more fulfilling, more faithful, and more joyful than any earthly relationship could ever be!
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Sunrise from Burrow Mump, Burrowbridge, Somerset – cropped image – Wikimedia – share-alike license
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To read Part 2, click here…
“JANUARY 8 (A World of Lies, Part 2: Every Vote Counts!)”
Voting in Hackney – Wikipedia – Creative Commons 2.0 License
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Lead me back into the light, and relight my candle, and cause me to rejoice once again in Thy Salvation…
Marine Praying – Wikimedia – USMC Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “‘7 Stars’ Imitate ‘The Cross of Orion’”…
…or you can also read… “February 24th (The Valley of Dry Bones!)”
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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REVELATION 12 WRITTEN IN HEAVEN
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Here is a sketch of this Fleeing Woman of Revelation 12.
This is the Winter Constellations of Signs Of Heaven.
Besides Orion and his Horse, we also see pictured in this sketch, the Dragon of Revelation 12.
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This Revelation 12 Woman Constellation is fleeing.
As you can see, the Dragon Constellation is spewing a flood of water in her direction, as is written…
“And the serpent cast out of his mouth
water as a flood after the woman,
that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.”
Revelation 12:15.
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This wave of water represents Satan’s lies, and his false teachers who tell those lies.
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Beholding the Fleeing Woman of Revelation 12 Constellation in winter, it seems that God is trying to get a very important message across to His people: that His Church is to flee!
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But what are they to flee from?
Well, you can go to the article titled “The Fleeing Woman of Revelation 12 Constellation” for that answer…
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Fleeing to the Mountains, Part 3: The Abomination in My Heart”
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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TOMORROW:
JANUARY 4 (Eternal Torment! Part 4: Impossible Idea!)
Buddhist Hell – Wikipedia – public domain