Daily Devotional, Year 2 – NOVEMBER 14 (The Time of Jacob’s Trouble, Part 5: “Ye Shall Loathe Yourselves!”)
By admin On February 9th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – NOVEMBER 14
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The Time of Jacob’s Trouble,
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Part 5:
“Ye Shall Loathe Yourselves!”
To read Part 1, click here…July 13th (Jacob’s Trouble, Part 1: Alone With God)
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“And they that escape of you shall remember me
among the nations whither they shall be carried captives,
because I am broken with their whorish heart,
which hath departed from Me,
and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols:
and they shall loathe themselves for the evils
which they have committed in all their abominations.
And they shall know that I am the LORD…”
Ezekiel 6:9, 10
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ABOVE PICTURE: Prayer – Wherefore He is able to save to the uttermost…” Hebrews 7:25
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This above passage from Ezekiel 6:9, 10, speaks of God’s people returning from their 70-year captivity in the land of Babylon, during the days of the Old Testament prophets.
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But though this prophecy was written by the Old Testament prophet, Ezekiel, it is nonetheless applicable to both Jew and Gentile Christians!
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But it was actually written more for Christians today, both Jew and Gentile, who are now being called out of Babylon (the world, and its world-loving churches), “The Mother of Harlots”, spoken of in Revelation 17 & 18…
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James Tissot – The Flight of the Prisoners – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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MYSTERY BABYLON, MOTHER OF HARLOTS
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Listen to Revelation 18:1-4…
“And after these things I saw another angel…
And he 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,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.”
(Condensed for brevity)
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Notice that this above message concerns the whole world!
It is the great harlot which “sits on many waters” (Revelation 17:1)!
(This above engraving from 400 years ago shows that the Church back in those days understood just who Babylon was and is. Whore – Babylon – Burgkmair – 1523 AD – Wikimedia – US Public Domain)
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“ALL SCRIPTURE PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE…”!
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Yes, the Bible makes clear that Babylon is still alive and well.
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Listen to this explanation of how we are to understand the Old Testament… “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” 1st Corinthians 10:11
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Both the New and Old Testaments are equally beneficial for “doctrine, confirmation, correction, and instruction in righteousness!” 2nd Timothy 3:16, 17
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BRINGING US BACK FROM CAPTIVITY
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But what does it mean when it says in today’s signature Bible passage…
“And they that escape of you…
shall loathe themselves for the evils
which they have committed in all their abominations.”?
Ezekiel 6:9, 10
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In that day, God will open our eyes, and we will realize that we were indeed captives of Satan, freely eating “swine-husks” from the world’s feeding-troughs.
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And when we think back on our living and lusting for this selfish world, we will loathe ourselves, in the sight of a holy God!
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Vincent van Gogh – Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity) – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
Weeping Woman – Van Gogh – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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GOOD SHEPHERD BRINGS US BACK!
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But now, Jesus is calling us back, even as a good shepherd seeks out his lost sheep “where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.” Ezekiel 34:12
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Oh, how we desire such grace, spoken of here in 2nd Timothy: a grace that will fully release us from our captivity, and restore us back into God’s sheep-fold!
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Brooklyn Museum – The Good Shepherd – James Tissot – Wikpedia – US Public Domain
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THE GOOD NEWS!
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Well, the very Good News is, that this is still the day of Salvation!
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And if you or I have been given ears to hear, we can still turn away from our foolish ways, and return to the Lord…
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USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – Public-Domain
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TO READ PART 6, GO HERE…
April 20 (Jacob’s Trouble, Part 6: “Let The Old Man Live!?”)
Pilgrim’s Progress – 09, p29 – Obstinate – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to awaken to this frightful situation! Help me to cry out daily! Chasten me Lord, that I may be cleansed of my Laodicean apathy…
Praying Hands – Otto Greiner – Wikimedia – .bassenge.com – Cropped image – Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…January 1st (Good Shepherd Finds Us)”), or you can also read… January 10th (Why Doesn’t My Christianity Work?)
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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With the addition of a single star, Theta Geminorum (the left hand of the Castor twin of Gemini), the sickle in Orion, the Reaper’s hand (sketch to left), now extends the blade, thus transforming that sickle into the hook of a shepherd’s rod and staff.
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And so now this little Gemini star becomes the tip of Orion’s Shepherd’s rod & staff. .
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Thus, with this additional star, Orion the Reaper Constellation now becomes the 5th personality of Orion: The Good Shepherd (sketch below right).
Theta Geminorum is a class A3, 4th magnitude star, which means it is much fainter than either of the stars, Castor or Pollux.
But faint as This little star may be, it nevertheless presents a giant concept, turning Orion’s sickle into a shepherd’s rod.
And this is a very wonderful and beautiful Bible truth: namely, that Jesus is the Good Shepherd, as is written…
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“As a shepherd seeketh 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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ABOVE WIKIPEDIA STAR-CHART – winter – Orion the Good Shepherd (Orion Constellation and rod made of Gemini stars – with the Shepherd drawn over by this website) – www.signsofheaven.org
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READ MORE…
Orion, The Good Shepherd
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TOMORROW:
NOVEMBER 15 (Watchman On Zion’s Walls, Part 2: When the World ‘Moves Itself Aright!’)
Alcohol bottles – photographed while drunk by Kotivalo for Wikimedia – cropped image – Share-alike License 3.0
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