Daily Devotional, Year 2 – MARCH 14 (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 4: Churches)
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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – MARCH 14
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Come Out of Her, My People!
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Part 4:
“Churches”
To read Part 1, click here… “May 12th (Come Out of Her, My People!)”
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“And he (an angel) cried mightily with a strong voice,
saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen…
And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying,
Come out of her, My people, t
hat ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.”
Revelation 18:2, 4
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Many Bible students read this above passage, and wonder, “what in the world could this possibly be talking about?!”
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Perhaps it could be speaking of some city in Iraq, or perhaps the city which has recently sprung up called Dubai!
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But for those who have discovered that the Bible is a totally spiritual revelation of the Gospel…
…they know that the City of Babylon, the Mystery Harlot of Revelation 17, actually represents the world and the worldly portion of the Church.
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(To gain a fuller understanding of just why God considers today’s churches to be spiritual Babylon, read this series of devotionals called “Come Out of Her, My People”,)
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Whore – Babylon – Burgkmair – 1523 AD – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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YESTERDAY, THE WORLD, TODAY, THE CHURCH
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In past devotionals, it has been a constant theme that Babylon, i.e., the world, has its own way of handling life’s problems.
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And when we become a Christian, we still have much of these worldly ways firmly entrenched within our thinking!
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And yesterday, the encouragement was made that we must strive to become renewed in knowledge and wisdom of the Word of Christ.
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New York Times Square – terabass – cropped image – Wikipedia – Share-alike License
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COMPROMISE NOT ACCEPTABLE!
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But today, this article will examine how we Christians, for the most part, imagine that we can continually to live a compromised life, instead of the
purity of Christ…
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Listen to God’s command to the prophet, Jeremiah…
“Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return,
then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before Me:
and if thou take forth the precious from the vile,
thou shalt be as My mouth:
let them return unto thee;
but return not thou unto them.”
Jeremiah 15:19
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In this passage, God is speaking to Jeremiah, warning him to separate himself from the apostate people of God of that day!
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And the second message in this verse is for Jeremiah to, “take forth the precious from the vile”, so that God can become as Jeremiah’s mouth.
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Cry of prophet Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem – Wikiart – US Public Domain
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“LIFT UP THY VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET!”
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“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” Isaiah 58:1
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Now it should be a very distasteful duty to point out the sins of the Church.
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But unless it is done, too many people remain in a fog, concerning just exactly what are the problems within the Church!
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To a great degree, we’ve taken our eyes off Jesus!
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We don’t really believe that we need to become exactly like Jesus!
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We think that God will accept some hybrid version: partly like Jesus, and partly like the world!
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John the Baptist by J. Tissot – Wikimedia Commons – US Public Domain
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PRESUMPTUOUS SINS
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In other words, we believe we can talk like the world, as long as we are kind to people.
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We believe that we can pursue the materialism of the world, as long as we pay our tithes and go to Church, etc….
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We have been convinced that we can spend hours each day indulging our minds in worldly amusements, such as TV, etc., as long as we don’t watch the “really bad programs”.
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We are under the notion that we can carry on our worldly fellowship with unbelievers, and not be affected by their world-loving ways!
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We think that as long as we pay our tithes, we can lavish ourselves with the rest of our rather large incomes, when instead, we could easily give 20% or even 30% to the Lord’s cause!
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We listen to quasi-Christian music, believing that the sensual earthiness of that music won’t have a negative effect on us.
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We build lavish church buildings, not realizing that if today’s apostate Church was truly faithful to our divine commission, that Satan would immediately tear apart or burn down those buildings!
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PS Krøyer – Hip hip hurra! – Kunstnerfest på Skagen – 1888 – Wikimedia – Public Domain
Church of Christ worship music – Wikipedia – share-alike license
Church Burning – Burning Man – 2013 – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Lic.
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GOOD NEWS?
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And so, just what is the Good News in all this?
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Is there any happy side to all this?
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Well, maybe not for the corporate churches.
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But for the individual Christian, there is great hope!
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Yes, there is great news!
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You see, God in His great mercy, has provided time for His people to seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways!
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Oh no, we do not have lots of time!
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Just enough time!
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To read Part 5, click here…
MARCH 15 (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 5: The Christian)
TV – The Image of the Beast – www.theheavensdeclare.net – Not for commercial uses
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to become fully engaged in the purification of my heart! Oh God, transform my worldly life into the holy image of Heaven…
USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Ark of the Covenant Constellation, Pt. 2: How To Enter The Most Holy Place”…
…or you can also read… “January 18th (Jeremiah & the Smooth Prophets)”
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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DOUBLE ENTENDRE OF REVELATION 12 WOMAN
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“For the husband is the head of the wife,
even as Christ is the head of the Church:
and He is the Savior of the body.”
Ephesians 5:23
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This page concerns the constellation which is commonly known as “The Big Dipper” and the “Great Bear”.
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It actually appears in the summer months as a woman travailing in child-birth.
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God has purposely given her no head.
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But God did this to present a very important concept.
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Yes, this woman represents the Church, the, “Jerusalem above, which is free, and is the mother of us all” (see Galatians 4:26).
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You see, the single star she is giving birth to typifies the Christ child.
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Reading in Ephesians that Christ is the “head” of the Church, this single star is logically going to become her head.
But how will that be accomplished?
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WOMAN FLIPS AROUND IN WINTER
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Now, if this Woman-in-Travail were all that the Lord created in the heavens, it would be nothing short of amazing!
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But God, in His infinite power and majesty, has made this a great sign in Heaven, just as Revelation 12 proclaims.
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Because as the summer passes, this constellation begins to slowly flip around, until the stars representing her arms now become her legs.
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And the stars that once represented her legs now become her arms.
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And finally, it appears as the Fleeing Woman of Revelation 12.
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And at that point, this single little star in her womb-area, representing the Christ-child, now becomes her head!
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And of course, this reminds us of the passage… “And He (Christ) is the head of the body, the Church…” Colossians 1:18.
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ABOVE STAR-CHARTS: Ursa Major – IAU.svg – Star-Chart – Wikipedia – Share-Alike License
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Woman of Revelation 12 (Woman in Travail)”
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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TOMORROW…
“MARCH 15 (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 5: The Christian)”
TV – The Image of the Beast – www.theheavensdeclare.net – Not for commercial uses
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above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain