Daily Devotional, Year 2 – OCTOBER 24 (Taking Back This Nation For God! Part 3: “A Hedge With A Swinging Gate”)

By admin On February 6th, 2021

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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – OCTOBER 24

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Taking Back This Nation For God!

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Part 3:

“A Hedge With A Swinging Gate”

To read Part 1, click here…“March 28th (Taking Back This Nation For God!)”

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bonnat02.jpg“Then Satan answered the LORD, and said,

‘Doth Job fear God for nought?

Hast not Thou made an hedge about him,

and about his house,

and about all that he hath on every side?”

Job 1:9, 10

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Job (oil on canvas) by Bonnat, Leon Joseph Florentin (1833-1922) – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bonnat02.jpg

The story of Job is a very instructive account in many ways. For one revelation, it pulls back the curtain of how God and Satan both interact concerning the affairs of men.

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And another revelation from this most ancient book is how God puts a hedge (a wall) around the life of His faithful people, to prevent Satan and his fellow evil angels from breaking through.

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Yes, Job enjoyed God’s protection for many years, prior to his great trials.

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Job (oil on canvas) by Bonnat, Leon Joseph Florentin (1833-1922) – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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JOB PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Family_Portrait.jpgAnd so, this one aspect of the Book of Job, concerning God’s hedge about Job and all his household, becomes, “profitable for doctrine, confirmation, correction and instruction in righteousness”, that we might become, “perfect, thoroughly equipped unto all good works!” (2nd Timothy 3:16, 17)

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In other words, this hedge which God had placed around faithful Job, is a picture of what God does for any and all His faithful followers!

Yes, those who prayerfully and faithfully follow Jesus can be confident that God, likewise, has a wall of protection around them and their household.

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Family Portrait – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

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A HEDGE IS NOW NEEDED MORE THAN EVER!

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TV_highquality.jpgNow, the reason for even bringing up this subject is to address a problem within the household of God.

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Yes, in this increasingly dangerous and evil world, it becomes imperative for parents to have a strong wall of protection around their household.

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Let’s face it! Satan is on the march!  And he now has an arsenal of weaponry which he never before had: soul-destroying weaponry such as high-tech devices, television, clubs, sports, radio, sensual music, entertainment, games, drugs, and a vast array of inventions designed to deter Christians and their children and grandchildren from becoming Christians!

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TV – highquality – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons License

Girl Texting – cropped and altered image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons 2.0

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A HEDGE WITH A SWINGING GATE

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But tragically, many parents have constructed a door, a gate into God’s wall of protection. In other words, so many of us dedicated parents and grandparents have access to and from the world-loving endeavors, via the gate which we have installed into God’s hedge around us!

TV indoctrination

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Yes, most of us can easily go back and forth through this gate, whenever we wish.

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For instance, if we watch television, or listen to sensual music, then we have just left our wall of protection, and have entered back into the world. And if we allow our young children to watch television, or listen to sensual music, then we have allowed them access back into the world.

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Or if we have secular friendships, we indeed have installed a gate in which we can easily go back and forth into the world. By violating God’s command to, “Come out from among them and be ye separate…” 2nd Corinthians 6:17, we now have a swinging door to and from the lust and selfish-pleasures of this world.

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GATE GIVES SATAN ACCESS TO OUR HOME

 

https://theheavensdeclare.net/television-the-image-that-speaks/.

The great problem with all this is that the same spiritual gate that we travel through back and forth into worldliness, is the very same gate which Satan and his evil angels also freely use to gain access into our home!

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And then it should not surprise us to discover that our spouse and children have little love for the things of Heaven!

Neither should it surprise us, should the day come that tragedy strikes one of our family members.

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After all, by allowing Satan free access via our swinging gate, we will eventually reap the whirlwind, as the saying goes.

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GATE MUST BE REMOVED

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And so, the whole point of today’s devotional is to encourage us Christians to close up that http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-06831.jpggate of access, so that the Enemy of Souls can no longer have access to our spouse and children!

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And grandparents must likewise close up any breach in the wall of God’s protection around our own lives. Because the faithfulness of grandparents will have a great influence upon their grown-up children as well as on their grandchildren!

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And it is by shunning the many selfish attractions and ungodly influences of this fallen world, and instead prayerfully filling my heart with the pure Word of Truth, that God will place that hedge of protection around my life.

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USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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And may this last verse never find its fulfillment in yours or my life…

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“I (God) will tell you what I will do to My vineyard:

I will take away the hedge thereof,

and it shall be eaten up;

and break down the wall thereof,

and it shall be trodden down:”

Isaiah 5:5

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TO READ PART 4, GO HERE…

January 21 (Taking Back This Nation For God! Part 4: “Hand-Wringers For God!”)

 

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prayer_Mother_and_Daughter.jpgTODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Help me to build up the walls around my home, and keep from putting a gate in it, to and from the world, with all its selfish pleasures and proud pursuits… 

Prayer – Mother and Daughter – Wikipedia – (cropped image) the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book_magnify2.svgREAD MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… Ark of the Covenant Constellation, Pt. 2: How To Enter The Most Holy Place, or you can also read this shorter article…JUNE 18 (Rollie-Pollie Bug Christians! Part 4: Building A Hedge Against Satan)

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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THE END

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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN

Info & pics of constellations on this site from Wikipedia & International Astronomical Union (click here)

 

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MICHAEL, THE SOLDIER

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star chart orion & dragon

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Michael the Soldier, battles against the Dragon:

And there was war in heaven:

Michael and his angels fought against the dragon;

and the dragon fought and his angels, 

And prevailed not;

neither was their place found any more in heaven.”

Revelation 12:7, 8.

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Contrary to popular opinion, Michael here represents Christ as He battles this dragon.  No, Christ is not merely an angel. Christ is very eternal God. But Christ is often represented as various entities, such as a rose, or a burning bush, as well as many other things in the Bible.

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ABOVE STAR CHART (with constellations drawn in by this website): Wikipedia star-charts latter winter constellation in West with Orion – Revelation 12 Dragon (Hyades, Auriga, Pleiades, etc.) – Goodly Horse (Persius, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, etc.) – Holy Ghost Rider (Camelopadelis)

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book_magnify2.svg

READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Orion Phenomena”

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TOMORROW…

OCTOBER 25 (Look For The Light! Part 5: Confessions of a Political Junkie! 

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20+ MINUTE AUDIO JEREMIAH STUDY

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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 #662 PRESENTED BY THE LATE HAROLD CAMPING…

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Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.com – Public Domain

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