Daily Devotional, Year 2 – AUGUST 15 (The Commandments of God, Part 2: Rethinking The Removal of The 10 Commandments)

By admin On January 31st, 2021

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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – AUGUST 15

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The Commandments of God,

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Part 2:

“Rethinking The Removal of the 10 Commandments”

To read Part 1, click here…JULY 28 (The Commandments of God, Part 1: The True Light Now Shineth!)

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There was a joke which circulated through the Christian community a few years back, that went something like this:

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A boy came to his teacher after class, saying, “Hey Teach!”

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“Yes, Johnny?”

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“So, you say that we don’t have to obey the Ten Commandments anymore?”

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“That’s right Johnny! The 10 Commandments were the product of mere humans, and not to be regarded.”

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Well, Teach, then God doesn’t care if I steal a car?”

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“Well Johnny, actually there is no God. So how could He possibly care if you steal a car, if He doesn’t really even exist?”

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“Then you’re saying it’s not wrong to steal a car?”

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“Well, I suppose you’re right, up to a certain degree.”

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“So then Teach, it’s not wrong if I steal that nice shiny car out there in the parking lot, that belongs to you?”

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“Well now Johnny, that happens to be that very certain degree, I just mentioned, where it does become wrong to steal!”

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Thou Shalt Not Steal Sign – cropped and altered image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

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SURVIVAL OF THE STRONGEST

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Well, you get the point of this little joke. If the 10 Commandments are merely the work of men, and God doesn’t really exist, then they do not have to be obeyed.

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And if they do not have to be obeyed, then who’s to say what is right and what is wrong?

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It’s now just survival of the fittest: the strongest in the world, overtaking the weaker!

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Cat and dog – Dont know whats comin – Wikimedia – Share-Alike License

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“It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law”

Psalm 119:126

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Since atheism has risen to power, there has been a steadily growing movement to remove any and every Christian object or sentiment from public viewing.

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And these secularists are working around the clock to remove anything Christian, including the 10 Commandments from the public.

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Atheist sign Wisconsin State – cropped image – wikipedia – share-alike license

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***COMMANDMENTS GIVEN* *TO HOLD SOCIETY TOGETHER***

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God gave the world the 10 Commandments, as the glue which holds this world together.

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And when a society no longer tolerates these laws, then sooner or later that society will be destroyed from without or within…

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Listen to this verse concerning the Law of God in relation to the world’s societies…

…”Now we know that what things soever the law saith,

it saith to them who are under the law:

that every mouth may be stopped,

and all the world may become guilty before God.”

Romans 3:19

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Yes, the 10 commandments were given to this whole unsaved world, to show us our guilt, thereby condemning our rebellion against Heaven!

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Moses Breaks Tables of the Law – by G. Dore – Wikimedia – US Public Domain

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LAWLESSNESS & PANDEMIC MADNESS RISING

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Just look around!

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Immorality is rising to pandemic proportions!

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Crime is rapidly growing!

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The courts and lawmakers are finding it harder and harder to respect the rule of law!

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The major media has become the driving force of so much of the racial tensions, violence, and moral depravity now poisoning the minds of the populace!

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Many politicians make regulations according to who passes the most “contributions” to them “under the table.”

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In the business world, it’s called, “Risk Management: Whatever we can get away with!”

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There is rapidly declining morality in the business world.

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At least it seems that way, doesn’t it?

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Minneapolis Riots – Wikipedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license

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FAMILY UNIT NOW SPLIT APART

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The God-given institution of marriage & family is now greatly in shambles, because secularists are “reimagining society”!

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**And our young people (many from broken, dysfunctional, or one-parent homes), saturate themselves with songs about violence, crime, and lust, via their high-tech devices!**

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Parents having their children’s genitals mutilated, imagining that they can somehow change their God-given gender by the hand of a so-called “doctor”!

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And government-run schools are not only beginning to encourage students to engage in sexual promiscuity, but also teaching them to hate one-another, all based on skin-color!

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And things are getting so bad, a few teachers are even beginning to encourage the fantasy of murdering those whose skin pigment doesn’t qualify them to receive “politically-correct” protection!

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This kind of devilish societal madness is really frightening and should send a giant alarm about the fearful hour we’re now in!

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Antifa @ Protest Trump in Phoenix – 8-22-17 – Wikipedia – GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

Gay Parade – Jazz Jennings 2016 – Wikipedia – Creative Commons License

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HOW’S YER LAWLESSNESS WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA?

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Society had a saying which goes, “Well, how’s yer (this or that) workin’ out for ya?”

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This saying was always said in a sarcastic tone…

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…and yet as we look around, it almost makes a person want to defiantly ask secularists that very question…

…”How’s yer removing of the 10 Commandments workin’ out for ya?

You like all this lawlessness, hate and madness!?”

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Ferguson Riots – Wikimedia – Creative Commons 2.0

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^“Since they didn’t think it was worthwhile to acknowledge God, God abandoned them to a defective mind to do inappropriate things.”

Romans 1:28 (CEB)

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Well, what is God supposed to do when a society wants nothing to do with Him?

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Is He going to let us have our own way?

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Yes, it seems that God is gradually removing His protection away from this world.

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And perhaps, that is why we are seeing the four-winds of societal turmoil and confusion rapidly increasing to an almost hurricane force!

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Hong Kong protest near Tamar – Wikipedia – Share-alike License

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GOOD NEWS?

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Is there any Good News here? Is there any hope? Is it too late for the world?

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Listen…

…”Come, My people,

enter thou into thy chambers,

and shut thy doors about thee:

hide thyself as it were for a little moment,

until the indignation be overpast.

For, behold, the LORD cometh out of His place

to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:

the earth also shall disclose her blood,

and shall no more cover her slain.”

Isaiah 26:20, 21

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Here is the only place of hope!

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The storm that’s approaching is the greatest and most terrible storm to ever come upon this earth!

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This storm will destroy from one end of the earth to the other!

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If ever there was a time to flee from the wrath to come, it is NOW!

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ABOVE PICTURE: Hide Thyself in thy Chambers – inspired by Tornado Over Kansas by Curry

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TO READ PART 3, CLICK HERE…

SEPTEMBER 24 (The Commandments of God, Part 3: Love Not The World!)

Ten Commandments – cropped photo – Wikimedia – Share-alike License 4.0

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Help me to prepare myself to stand in the evil day! Help me to put on the armor of God. Help me to hide myself from the approaching storm…

Marine Praying – Wikimedia – USMC Public Domain

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THE END

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TODAY’S FEATURED SIGN

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EARTH: PLANET OF REST

Counting the Sun as the 1st heavenly sphere, the Earth is the 4th heavenly sphere.

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If we extend our theory (and it’s just a theory) that God created our solar system to correspond to the commandments, the Sun corresponding to the 1st Commandment…

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…then Planet Earth would correspond to the 4th Commandment: the Seventh-day Sabbath.

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And so, on the very planet that corresponds to the commandment that exalts the idea of “peace” and “rest”, there exists very little peace. And very little rest.

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Ironic, isn’t it?

The Earth seen from Apollo 17 – NASA & Wikipedia – Public Domain

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FOR FURTHER STUDY:

Planet of Rest: “What is the True Sabbath?”

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TOMORROW…

AUGUST 16 (Repentance 101)

Teacher writing on Chalkboard – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Share-alike License 2.0

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