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Daily Devotional, Year 4 – February 22

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And The Nations Were Angry!

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Part 4:

“Planet Earth, An Experiment In Selfishness”

To read Part 1, go here…October 24th (And The Nations Were Angry!)

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“And the nations were angry,

and Thy wrath is come,

and the time of the dead,

that they should be judged,

Revelation 11:18

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WOW! Just look at the way things are spiraling downward in today’s world! It’s hard to be optimistic when the world seems to be spiraling out of control! Yes, this world seems to be going helter-skelter!

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In the world of politics, the pure venomous hatred between the opposing ideologies has reached a boiling-over point!

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The mass media news has devolved into little more than yellow journalism, when it comes to anything even vaguely related to politics and social issues.

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Rogue religions attempting to force themselves upon the world, under the threat of physical violence.

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Schools increasingly transforming into indoctrination centers for anti-biblical ideologies: socialism, evolutionary atheism, and now even pushing perverted lifestyles on the students, as though they are normal, even good!

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The United States justice system is filled with socially/politically activist judges, being weaponized to destroy the enemies of the state.

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Government leaders committing financial suicide, as the national debt continues to climb out of control!

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Various ethnic/religious groups becoming increasingly intolerant and disdainful of each other, now increasingly fixated with the insane obsession over skin-color!

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Colleges becoming increasingly intolerant of any speech which opposes the dominant false ideologies.

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Censorship by the Internet ‘Goliaths’ is sending many websites into the cyber-abyss because they are not “politically correct” in what they advocate.

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The number of sick persons around the world is greatly increasing.

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People becoming increasingly intolerant of each other for social, personal, ethnic, and religious reasons.

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Various churches and denominations now preaching prosperity-driven gospels, sometimes referred to as, “The Name-It-And-Claim-It Gospel” or even the “Entrepreneurial Spirit”. 

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Oh yes, these prosperity ideologies may be fine for the people of the world to pursue, but the Christian’s great focus and chief desire is now to be Heavenward, seeking to be transformed into the image of Christ.

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And the list goes on and on of how this world is falling apart.

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ISIL – Execution of man – September 2014 – Wikimedia – Public Domain

Anger during a protest – by David Shankbone – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike-License

Gay Parade – Jazz Jennings 2016 – cropped image – Wikipedia – Creative Commons License

Berkeley protests – cropped image – Wikipedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Lady in sling – Photo by Liz Roll – FEMA – Elderly cared for in Louisiana – Wikimedia – US Govt. Public Domain

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PLANET EARTH: EXPERIMENT IN SELFISHNESS

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But really, to understand all this global failure, we need to realize that this world was originally just an experiment in selfishness. That’s right, Lucifer, being one of the chief angels of Heaven, thought he had discovered a better way than God’s government of “unselfish love”.

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And in His infinite wisdom, God allowed Lucifer to bring his rebellion down to this little planet, to show the universe what a terrible ideology Lucifer was trying to peddle.

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And so, this world has been allowed to continue on for the millenniums it has existed until this very day in which everything all around us seems to be failing.

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Satan presiding at the Infernal Council – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

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LUCIFER WAS DESTINED FOR FAILURE

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And God knew all along that this world was destined for failure.

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But God couldn’t convince us, unless He allowed us to suffer through this experiment in selfishness (And let’s face it! That’s all that sin really is: selfishness!)

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But if He didn’t show us up close and first-hand, we could never have comprehended just how evil that our selfishness really is!

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Paradise Lost – G Dore – Wikipedia – public-domain

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“EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW”

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And so, now it simply remains for Planet Earth’s inhabitants to bow our knees and confess to God our failure.

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And this confession will happen! It’s just a matter of time. As things continue to grow worse and worse, the world will soon surrender.

Listen…“for we shall all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord,

every knee shall bow to Me,

and every tongue shall confess to God.”

Romans 14:10, 11 

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Every Knee Shall Bow – Confession of the Centurion – James Tissot – Brooklyn Museum – Creative Commons License

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TO READ PART 5, CLICK HERE…

February 24 (And The Nations Were Angry! Part 5: “Planet Earth, An Experiment In Selfishness” CONTINUED)

Lucifer Fallen – Gustave Dore – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Help me to hide myself in this day when you are causing the nations to drink of Thy cup of fury…

Girl Praying – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read…August 11 (The Devil Made Me Do It! Part 13: “Revelation 11:18: Why Are The Nations Angry?”), or you can also read… January 8 (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 39: “What If The Nations Fail?”

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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THE ARK IN THE HEAVENS

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So what importance to us is all this information? Well, if a person goes out at night, beginning in April (earlier in southern-most latitudes, and later in northern-most), in the pre-dawn hour, they just might locate the constellation commonly referred to as the Sagittarius Constellation . It is located in the southern sky. (Each night it appears a little earlier, slowly inching westward, through the summer, until it finally disappears below the western horizon in November.)

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At first, it simply appears as two twin birds flying westward. But if you look once again, it just might appear as a long box-like figure, with one star on the right, as you face it, and two stars on the left. The box, of course would be the Ark, and the stars on either side would represent angels, which are sometimes referred to as stars in the Bible (for instance, “the seven stars are the angels…” Revelation 1:20). To the right is a star-chart from Wikipedia, in which the editor of this site has sketched in this Sagittarius Constellation, to show how God created it to appear.

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Star-chart to right is from Wikipedia. Editor has sketched over Sagittarius to show this Ark Constellation.

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Ark of the Covenant Constellation”

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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TOMORROW:

February 23 (Flee To The Mountains, Part 23: “How To Be Like John the Baptist: His Gravitas!”)

John the Baptist by Harold Copping www.wikigallery.com US public domain

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THE DESIRE OF AGES, BY ELLEN G. WHITE

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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this chapter of the audio book about the Gospel of Jesus Christ in His life and ministry.

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Chapter 9 – Days of Conflict

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Sign of the Son of Man Constellation – made of the various constellations on this website

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EXCERPTS FROM THE OPEN FORUM QUESTION/ANSWER RADIO TALK-SHOW…

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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this small 30 minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s nearly 50 year long series of 90 minute nightly talk shows…This is Open Forum Show #103

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ABOVE PICTURE: Holy bible – Wikimedia – Creative Commons l

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