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!
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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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CARES & PLEASURES OF LIFE
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Yes, this second beast employed a completely different strategy against the Church.
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Instead of famine and wantonness and scarcity of the Dark Ages, 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.
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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!
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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…
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…Satan would make sure that pendulum 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.
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Instead of coming after Christians with swords and spears…
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…the secular world now came at them with spatulas and meat forks…to invite them over for a neighborhood barbecue!
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.In this way, Satan knew he could do far more damage via earthly pleasures and worldly aspirations!
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And by so-doing, he could drown the Church in materialism and hedonistic pleasures.
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CHURCH JOINS HANDS WITH WORLD
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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, elaborate and sensual music was used in such a way, as to flood the lives of Christians.
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And soon, pride, foolish human pride, became a great motivating force behind so much of Christian music!
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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.
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Christians placed great emphasis on the pride of performance, more than on humbleness of Christ.
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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.
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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?
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Why were Christians so worldly-minded?
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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!
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The ignorance of the Bible among Christians was equally phenomenal!
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A high percentage of Christian men regularly viewed pornography.
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Drunkenness and immorality!
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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.
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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…
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“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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SIMPLICITY IN FOLLOWING JESUS
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And what we really need is to see Jesus!
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We must stand by Him and sing those humble scripture songs.
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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 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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