Daily Devotional, Year 2 – JULY 7 (Lucifer’s Music Solo, Part 3, Continued: “It Is Not Near! Let Us Build Houses!”)
By admin On January 29th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – JULY 7
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Lucifer’s Music Solo,
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Part 3, Continued:
“It Is Not Near! Let Us Build Houses!”
To read Part 1, click here… Today’s Devotional – March 25th (Lucifer’s Music Solo)
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“(The Men of Jerusalem) Which say,
It (the Day of the Lord) is not near;
let us build houses:”
Ezekiel 11:3
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This above verse from Ezekiel presents a concept which encapsulates today’s church-world: putting the Day of the Lord far off in the future!
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You see, immediately after the persecution ceased in the Dark Ages, God’s people began to put the Day of the Lord far off! They felt that “Now, at last, we have peace and safety!”
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And they began building grand houses of worship (churches and cathedrals), just as God prophesied…“(the men of Jerusalem) Which say, ‘It (the Day of the Lord) is not near; let us build houses:’…” Ezekiel 11:3
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Church Attendance – www.thebiblerevival.com – Public Domain
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TWO BEAST POWERS RULE
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You see, when Satan saw that his first Antichrist war-machine, the apostate church-system of Europe, was about to receive its deadly wound by a sword (the sword of the Spirit, the Bible), this arch-foe of Heaven had a back-up plan already “waiting in the wings”, so to speak.
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Burned at the stake – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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2ND BEAST DIFFERS FROM 1ST BEAST
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Yes, when the newly-invented printing press began to fill Europe with Bibles, no longer could Satan hold those nations captive under a false, tyrannical religious system, through their ignorance!
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The Bible was that sword which gave the 1st-Beast its deadly wound!
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And while the first Beast employed torture, imprisonment, banishment, scarcity, and poverty against God’s people, this new improved second Beast was the mirror opposite of the first!
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CARES & PLEASURES OF LIFE
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Yes, this second beast employed a completely different strategy against the Church. Instead of famine and wantonness and scarcity, Satan would now begin to flood the western nations with all the things of the earth!
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Earthly mammon of every type began to be manufactured. Thus, was fulfilled the prophecy…“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth…” Revelation 13:11
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Yes, the natural resources from the earth gave impetus to this second Beast! From industry and business to the high-tech electronic age, this second Beast flooded much of the world with materialism in every form!
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And so, as long as the pendulum was going to swing away in a different direction from the stark scarcity of the Dark Ages, Satan would make sure it would swing away as far as possible in the opposite direction: over-abundance!
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Mall Market culture – Jakarta – Wikimedia – share-alike-lic.
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DESTROYED BY “PEACE & SAFETY”
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And it worked! Now the world began to embrace Christians. Instead of coming after Christians with swords and spears, the secular world now came at them with spatulas and meat forks…to invite them over for a neighborhood barbecue!
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Listen…“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” 1st Thessalonians 5:3
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In this way, Satan knew he could do far more damage! Now he could merely fill up the Christian community with as many earthly pleasures and worldly aspirations as he possibly could! And by so-doing, he could drown the Church in materialism and hedonistic pleasures.
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Barbecue – Dutch family – Wikimedia – Share-alike License
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CHURCH FALLS ASLEEP
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Yes, when persecution ceased, the Church began to get self-satisfied, lethargic, and sleepy-eyed. No longer did the Church maintain a watchful, vigilance. They began to, “put far off, the Day of the Lord”…
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Listen…“Woe to them that are at ease in Zion…Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;” Amos 6:1, 3
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Yes, this world is a spiritual battlefield! And those Christians who forgot this truth became an easy prey for unseen foes who worked around the clock to destroy unlearned and naïve souls!
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ABOVE PICTURE: Unfunny Judgment Day Cartoon – a party tonight – signsofheaven.org
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CHURCH JOINS HANDS WITH WORLD
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And so, by her own carelessness, the Church began to commit spiritual adultery with the world. Instead of maintaining a separation from the world, the Church bridged the gap between the holy and the mundane (“…they have put no difference between the holy and profane” Ezekiel 22:26).
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And among the many excesses which Satan flooded Christians with, music was used in such a way, as to flood the lives of Christians.
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And as a result, worldly-minded parishioners began to produce elaborate musical productions.
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A great amount of time and effort was expended to hone their musical craft! And soon, pride, foolish human pride, became a great motivating force behind so much of Christian music! And before long, Christian music began to become just another idol in the hearts of many churchgoers.
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HIGH-TECH DEVICES FURTHER DESTROY
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And with the advent of radio, recording machines, and even the new high-tech devices, Christian music soon became as idolatrous as the music of the world. Christians were spending far too much time listening to elaborate productions, which placed great emphasis on the pride of performance, more than on humbleness of Christ. Many Christian music artists even became idolized by adoring fans!
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And as a result, the modern-day churches began to enjoy great success when they brought in this new form of idolatry. The more worldly that a church became, the greater the audiences, who came to be entertained.
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Church of Christ worship music – Wikipedia – Share-alike License
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THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING…
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There is an old expression which goes… “The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof!” And this saying is very appropriate for today’s devotional to employ.
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If all this extravagant music empire, which had arisen to power within the Christian community, was such a wonderful thing, then why was the Church of God in such a miserably wretched condition? Why were Christians so worldly-minded? You would think that the Church would be holy and righteous, because of all our music-listening!
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But statistics show that the divorce-rate among Christians became phenomenal! The ignorance of the Bible among Christians was equally phenomenal! A high percentage of Christian men regularly viewed pornography. Drunkenness and immorality! Most Christian kids attended the soul-destroying, secular schools, which groomed students into atheism and sexual promiscuity!
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And many other alarming statistics painted an equally dismal portrait of the Church-world!
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So then, in light of these horrible statistics, we can conclude that all this music listening by Christians did not help, but probably only did much further damage. At the very least, it interfered with personal Bible study.
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But also, the fact is, when a person listens to ‘sensual’ music, it has a corrupting influence which will undoubtedly cause problems with promiscuity… “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.” 1st Corinthians 15:33
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Dancing woman – cropped & altered image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons License
Church music – Singers & Dancers – Wikipedia – Share-alike License
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“COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE!”
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And so, O stranger and pilgrim, we must not think that the Christian community is going to repent of all this musical idolatry.
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Oh yes, there is hope! But true hope will only be found in one direction…
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Listen… “And I heard another voice from Heaven,
saying, Come out of her, My people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.”
Revelation 18:4
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Just as the time came for the people of God to make their Exodus out of the land of Babylon, following their 70-year captivity, so too, it is now time for God’s people to make a modern-day End-time Exodus from spiritual Babylon.
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Oh no, at this present hour we must still work and eat and live and provide for the comfort and happiness of our families. We cannot come completely out of this Babylonish world as yet. But we can come A GOOD WAY OUT!
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James Tissot – The Flight of the Prisoners – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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SIMPLICITY IN FOLLOWING JESUS
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And what we really need is to see Jesus! We must stand by Him and sing those humble scripture songs. And we need to separate ourselves from the gaudy, overdone, and sensual musical productions which today’s Babylonish churches produce.
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“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;” Ephesians 5:19
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We must get back to the simplicity and purity of the early Church, as we stand fully armored, in this extremely evil day!
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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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TO READ PART 4, CLICK HERE…
January 16 (Lucifer’s Music Solo, Part 4: Who Mingled the Sacred With the Common?)
Violin Lullaby – Satan – Tartini’s Dream – Louis-Léopold Boilly 1761-1845 – Devil’s Trill Sonata – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to become sober and vigilant! Let me not fall into a death-like slumber! Make me to know just how perilous the times are…
The Christian Martyrs Last Prayer – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Vanity Fair” & The False Prophet”, or you can also read this shorter article…” March 27th (All Comfy-Cozy in Hell!)”
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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ORION, THE GOOD SHEPHERD
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This star-chart from Wikipedia, has Orion sketched in by the editor of this website.
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“As a shepherd seeks out his flock
in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered;
so will I seek out My sheep,
and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered
in the cloudy and dark day.”
Ezekiel 34:12
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And so God has placed this Starry Shepherd in the winter-night heavens to remind us of His great love for a planet which has wandered away: just like sheep that wandered to where the grass looked greener.
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Orion the reaper – Wikipedia star-chart (with the Reaper drawn over by this website)
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… Orion, The Good Shepherd
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TOMORROW…
JULY 8 (How To Get Rich In Real Estate!)
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20+ MINUTE AUDIO STUDY IN JEREMIAH 
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO BEGIN FOLLOWING THIS 650+ AUDIO BIBLE STUDY THROUGH THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH EACH DAY ON THIS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.
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THIS IS STUDY #553 PRESENTED BY THE LATE HAROLD CAMPING…
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above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain
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