Daily Devotional, Year 2 – APRIL 17 (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 7: “Tortoises & The Shells of Our Resistance!”)
By admin On January 21st, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – APRIL 17
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Come Out of Her, My People!
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Part 7:
“Tortoises & The Shells of Our Resistance!”
To read Part 1, click here… “May 12th (Come Out of Her, My People?)”
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“THE WORDS I SPEAK…ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE LIFE!”
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For those who have discovered the Bible to be a totally spiritual revelation of the Gospel…
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…they perceive that the City of Babylon actually represents the world and the worldly portion of the Church, the Mystery Harlot of Revelation 17.
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Whore – Babylon – Burgkmair – 1523 AD – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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“Come out of her, My people!”
Revelation 18:2
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“Before you can take a man out of the slums, you must first take the slum out of the man!”
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This above statement shows that the people of the world have a certain wisdom.
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And God has been calling His people to “Come out of Her, My people”! Revelation 18:2
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This is a call to come out of Babylon (the world & the worldly Church)!
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But to merely remove ourselves from the apostate organizations of Babylon, will only be, “an exercise in futility”, as the saying goes!
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Family watching television, c. 1958 – Wikipedia – public domain
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OUR WORLDLY, WORLDLY WAYS!
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Because we are sinners, therefore we have inherent love for this Babylonish world!
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And just because we have gone down into the baptismal pool does not mean that our hearts have been purged from our past worldly ways!
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The ways of the world still remain firmly ensconced in our thinking!
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And so, God has given a great commission to each and every Believer…
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Listen…
“And every man that hath this hope in Him
purifies himself, even as He is pure.”
1st John 3:3
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As this above verse reveals, God expects us to purify ourselves, even as Jesus is pure!
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THE TORTOISE
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But let’s stop for a moment, and take a glance at a certain remarkable character from the animal kingdom: the Tortoise!
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Yes, the Tortoise is just another amazing creation of God.
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It is a delight for children and adults alike, to behold this benign creature with its strong armor!
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But beyond the sheer delight which this little armor-bearer brings to all who encounter it, the tortoise can teach a number of lessons about both good and evil!
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Yes, we can look at this shell from at least two vantage-points.
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It might speak of the armor of God, and the faith we must have in God!
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But this shell might also remind us of how we humans can so easily build up a shell of resistance around us!
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And this wall of resistance is what today’s devotional is all about…
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STIFF-NECKED & UNCIRCUMCISED!
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And one false idea that this False-Prophet-Anti
christ-Spirit has ingrained into our thinking, is that we’re, “pretty smart people after all!”
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And so, as a result, most of us have been thoroughly trained to trust in our own knowledge and wisdom, to a great extent.
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This is perhaps the biggest reason why it’s so hard to convince us of our great need of a Savior!
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Tortoise – Giant Tortoise – by Childzy – for Wikipedia – Share-alike License
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OUR SHELL OF RESISTANCE
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And isn’t it true that most of us have such a narrow mind, that we pretty much refuse to hear anything which challenges our own current understanding.
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We know what we know!
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We trust our own church or denomination!
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We place our confidence in our very own favorite Bible teachers!
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And the chances of anyone else coming to us with a seemingly new Bible concept, and breaking through this little shell of trust which we have built up, is not very likely!
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Eastern Snake Necked Turtle – by Damien Naidoo – For Wikimedia – Share-alike License
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GOOD NEWS! TIME TO CHANGE!
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We must forget our foolish understanding and turn to God’s Word, as little children!
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Jesus taught this same concept… “Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.” Mark 10:15
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And God has allowed a little time, for us to repent and turn back to Him!
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David’s sorrow – Wikigallery – Public Domain
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VERY, VERY GOOD NEWS!
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But the very Good News is that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the true Church (God’s Elect dispersed throughout the world!)
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No, God has determined that we are to finally come out of Babylon!
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Listen… “‘Come out of her (Babylon), My people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.'”
Revelation 18:2, 4
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So, here is the call to God’s people, to come out of Babylon.
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And by God’s great mercy & grace, we are assured the victory, if we “faint not”!
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ABOVE PICTURE – winter Constellations – Woman of Revelation 12 (Ursa Major) flees to the mountains – Mark 13:14 – Dragon comprised of Hyades, Pleiades, etc…Valley of Decision mountain comprised of Cassiopeia, etc… (This is not a star-chart, but merely a concept picture since this mountain is not in this position, but is actually in the fall months)
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To read Part 8, click here…
APRIL 22nd (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 8: Congregating Together)
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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…
Woman Praying – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “November 22nd (The Greatest Jig-saw Puzzle Ever!)“…
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…or you can also read… “JANUARY 31 (The False Prophet, Part 5: The Scofield Bible)”
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
“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 childbirth.
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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
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that Christ is the “head” of the Church, this single star is logically going to become her head.
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But how will that be accomplished?
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ABOVE STAR-CHART: Ursa Major – IAU.svg – Star-Chart – Wikipedia – Share-Alike License
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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-CHART: 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…
“APRIL 18 (Our Minimum Daily Requirements!)”
Vitamin Display – by Mark Buckawichi – for Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain
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above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain