Daily Devotional, Year 3 – January 12 (The First Shall Be Last! Part 1)

By admin On February 10th, 2021

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Today’s Devotional – January 12

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The First Shall Be Last!

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Part 1

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It’s so sad to see the nations crumble, which once received the Gospel with such love and dedication!

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It’s so sad! They just didn’t know what they had! Now God has washed His hands of these nations, giving them over to the same sins which overthrew Sodom & Gomorrah!

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Burning Man – 2013 -Chapel – cropped and altered image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons License

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SATAN’S OWN COUNTER-REFORMATION

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Yes, just as that same opulence and decadence swept over Sodom and Gomorrah, so too, these decadent nations of Europe and America are now reaping the whirlwind!

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Jesus said… “So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.” Matthew 20:16.

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And now, many are weeping to see these formerly great societies being destroyed by Satan, giving themselves over to decadence, crime, and immorality!

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New York Times Square – terabass – cropped image – Wikipedia – Share-alike License

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1st BEAST’S DEADLY WOUND HEALED!

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Yes, those nations were the first to really embrace the Gospel, as they finally saw the Beast receive his deadly wound by God’s glittering sword, the Bible.

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Oh yes, those European printing presses began churning out Bibles by the thousands.

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And as a result, the apostate churches of Europe could no longer keep the great masses in spiritual ignorance.

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At last, Christianity had triumphed over the Beast of Revelation 13: that evil Beast which persecuted anyone who loved the Bible for so many centuries!

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Book Burning – Santo Domingo y Los Albigenses – Wikipedia – Public Domain

Burning at the Stake – Wikipedia – Public Domain

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“And I beheld another beast (the 2nd Beast) coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon”

Revelation 13:11

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But alas, that deadly wound was slowly healed.

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And it was time for the 2nd Beast, the False Prophet to bring in that flood of opulence and decadence, which swept over those liberated nations.

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And soon, the joy of the Gospel began to wane, as Europeans and Americans began to rejoice over material prosperity, much the same way they once rejoiced over the Gospel!

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ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who now in these last days destroys the churches via a world-loving prosperity-driven false gospel – www.signsofheaven.org

Mall – Fashion Centre at Pentagon City – Wikimedia – Share-alike license

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OPULENCE & DECADENCE

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Yes, this 2nd Beast stole away the pure rejoicing in Jesus Christ, and replaced it with a fervor for the things of the earth!

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That is one great reason why the Revelation 13:11 states that this 2nd Beast would be “coming up out of the earth”!

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Yes, the earth, and all it produced, became the worst enemy for those Gospel nations.

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Listen… “Two things have I required of Thee;

deny me them not before I die:

Remove far from me vanity and lies:

give me neither poverty nor riches;

feed me with food convenient for me:

Lest I be full, and deny thee, a

nd say, Who is the LORD?

or lest I be poor, and steal,

and take the name of my God in vain.”

Proverbs 30:7-9

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Yes, this above passage from Proverbs seems to encapsulate what happened in Europe. You see, the 1st Beast made life depleted by means of a flood of stark austerity.

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But the 2nd Beast did just the opposite, by flooding us with more than the heart could wish! So much so, that we are now denying Jesus.

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Mall Market culture – Jakarta – Wikimedia – share-alike-lic.

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APOSTASY NOW COMING INTO FULL

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So now, those nations who were the first to joyfully receive the Gospel, are now losing everything God once blessed them with.

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And now, those who are last, in the third-world nations, are currently receiving the Gospel, while Europe and America are losing the Gospel.

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Oh yes, there are prosperity-driven gospels which are thriving here in America. But these are merely the itching-ears gospels which Paul forewarned would eventually bring the church-world into utter apostasy!

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“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;

but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,

having itching ears;

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,

and shall be turned unto fables.”

2nd Timothy 4:3, 4

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This above verse speaks of total apostasy of the corporate churches, both liberal but also conservative!

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Skateboarder Jesus in Jeans by Peter Royle – cropped image – WIKIMEDIA SHARE-ALIKE LICENSE

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So, what are we to do? What are we to say to an angry, yet merciful God?

Question Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation,”

1st Peter 2:9

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Let each of us remember that we have been elected to be priests of the Lord.

And now, the Book of Joel commands us…

“Gird yourselves, and lament,

ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar:

come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God:

for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly,

gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land

into the house of the LORD your God,

and cry unto the LORD.

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand,

and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.”

Joel 1:13-15

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Yes, the Day of the lord has come like a thief in the night! And we have been caught sleeping when we should be watching!

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PICTURE – Most Holy Place of the Heart Signs Of Heaven

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But God is a merciful God! Listen to Joel again…

“Therefore also now, saith the LORD,

turn ye even to Me with all your heart, and with fasting,

and with weeping, and with mourning…

Who knoweth if He will return and repent,

and leave a blessing behind Him;

even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?”

Joel 2:12-14 (condense for brevity)

David’s sorrow – Wikigallery – Public Domain

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TO READ PART 2, CLICK HERE…

January 16 (The First Shall Be Last! Part 2: “The Tragic Tale of Europe’s Apostasy”)

Atheism – Descent of the Modernists (now called Progressives), E J Pace, Christian Cartoons, 1922 – Wikipedia –

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Give me the strength and resolve to shun the excesses which prevail in this opulent and hedonistic society, and run the race to the top of heavenly Zion…

Marines at Prayer by Alex Raymond – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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THE END

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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN

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THE VALLEY OF DECISION CONSTELLATION GROUP

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They appear in mid-summer in the eastern skies in pre-dawn hours.

These are made of Cassiopeia (mount on left), and various stars from the Andromeda Constellation (valley) Pegasus (Mount of Cursing (middle mount) & Destroying Mount (right)), and Pisces (Broad Way to Hell).

**The galaxy which appears to be climbing the Mountain of Blessing is the Andromeda Galaxy.**

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This chart shows this amazing constellation group as it appears in fall, just prior to the winter constellation group.

**Actually, these Valley of Decision Constellations appear in mid-summer after midnight.**

**The mountain to the left (AKA Cassiopeia) is the Mount of Blessing (Grace).**

**The middle mountain is the Mount of Cursing (the Law).**

**And the third mountain to the far right is the Destroying Mountain (Babylon).**

The straight line from the Destroying Mountain to the Dragon is called the Broad Highway to Hell.

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Martin_John_-_Satan_presiding_at_the_Infernal_Council_-_1824wikipedia-public-domain.jpg

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TOMORROW:

January 13 (Habakkuk Says “Run!” Part 8: “The World: A Crazy Weird Cartoon!”)

Cartoon character – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution

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90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM

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ALL‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM, A QUESTION/ANSWER CALL-IN, TALK SHOW.

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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN…Harold Camping December 15, 2009 on The Open Forum (youtube.com)

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ABOVE PICTURE: Holy Bible – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Lic.

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