Daily Devotional, Year 4, July 4 (Sodom Rising? Part 20: “Great Balls of Fire!”)
By admin On July 17th, 2023.
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Daily Devotional, Year 4, July 4
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Sodom Rising?
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Part 20:
“Great Balls of Fire!”
TO READ PART 1, CLICK HERE… “August 22nd (Sodom Rising!)”
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“But the day of the Lord will come
as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise,
and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat,
the earth also and the works that are therein
shall be burned up!”
2nd Peter 3:10
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Amongst the many popular sayings commonly spoken of in society, the phrase, “Great balls of fire” began to be commonly used in the mid 1800’s.
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And of course, the saying, “Great Balls of Fire” most likely evolved into a tongue-n-cheek mockery against some preachers of the era who wanted to alarm their flock by what was known as “Fire & Brimstone” preaching. In other words, if some secularist wanted to make a rather comical exclamational remark, they might feign a response to some startling news by saying, “Great balls of fire!”
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Of course, this was no doubt funny to hear, especially in the secular communities who were always at odds with such fire-n-brimstone preaching.
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Sunday preaching – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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“The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood”
Proverbs 12:6
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And let’s face it, such a mockery comes right out of Satan’s playbook, in his attempt to make the Bible as irrelevant/distrusted/dishonored as possible!
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In other words, this antichrist world is literally teeming with words, phrases and names which create a stigma in the minds of the general populace.
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And so, Satan will often take some King James Version word or phrase and give it some comical meaning.
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For example, the name “ass” (donkey) has been crudely morphed to now refer to someone’s anus. Thus, by calling someone an “ass”, has become a double-entendre. And now, when people read the King James Version, there are many similar words and phrases purposely distorted to make the King James Bible as irrelevant as Satan can possibly make it!
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A LEWD SONG FOR A PERVERSE SOCIETY
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Now, as far as that “Great balls of fire” saying, Satan was not content to leave it alone. No, but rather he wrote one of the very first Rock-N-Roll songs (working through several secular songwriters), giving an even more crude, even a sexually lewd connotation!
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And even though “Great balls of fire” is no longer a common exclamation-remark, this lewd, decades-old song, “Great balls of fire”, is still being jokingly bandied about as a sexually lewd inuendo!
Jerry Lee Lewis single Great Balls of Fire 1957
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“Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven”
Genesis 19:24
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But the fact is, the Bible does mention such a phenomenon. That is, in the Book of Genesis, God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, raining down fire & brimstone (sulfur balls of fire) which immediately destroyed those wicked cities.
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As a matter of fact, around the watery graveyard of those cities (now immersed beneath the Dead Sea), countless balls of brimstone are embedded in the surrounding miles of landscape. And there are Internet videos showing researchers finding those sulfur balls, and lighting them on fire with a match, thus silencing most skeptics who cast doubt on the biblical account of Sodom’s destruction!
(Click here to watch one video of Brimstone found around the region Sodom)
Sodom and Gomorrah – by John Martin – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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VIDEOS ONLINE SHOWING BRIMSTONE BALLS AROUND SODOM
(Click here to watch one video of Brimstone found around the region Sodom)
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In this unbelieving, atheistic world, one might conclude that the existence of balls of brimstone still being found in that area might raise some eyebrows within the geological communities.
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But those who have been in Christianity for many decades are only recently discovering this incredible phenomenon, instead, through all because of the various Internet videos now being produced in that region surrounding those ancient cities (those four cities long ago submersed in their watery grave at the bottom of the appropriately named, “Dead Sea”).
Brimstone – Sulphur – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God”
1st Peter 4:17
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The Bible warns us that even though God once destroyed the world by water, but has now determined a fiery deluge of this present world, because of our present-day wickedness!
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But let’s not imagine that only those faithless secularists will be on the receiving end of this fiery judgment from Heaven! No, the Bible also warns the Christian community…“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” 1st Peter 4:17
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Yes, those who neglected a “better resurrection” will be numbered with the hypocrites when God’s fiery judgments rain down on this sodomite-world
Picture – Lot Escapes (this site cannot name this city because of Internet censorship) – www.thebiblerevival.com offers free Bible clipart – Public Domain.
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“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be
in all holy conversation and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved,
and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to his promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness”
2nd Peter 3:11-13
USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to use this opportunity to warn my friends and family and neighbors to flee from the wrath to come, knowing that soon it will not be possible to warn others…
Prayer at Day’s End – Angelus by Jean-François Millet – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… (Television: Enchanted Ground!), or you can also read… (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 6: The Sensual Church!), or you can also read…April 22 (Eternal Torment? Part 19: “Our God Is Fire & Brimstone!?!”)
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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FLEEING WOMAN CONSTELLATION
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FROM WHERE & TO WHERE DOES SHE FLEE? WOMAN ROTATES THROUGH THE SEASONS…
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This page is about the Big Dipper, also called the Great Bear constellation (Ursa Major ). However, the ancient pagan cultures did not see this constellation as God intended it to be seen. It is actually a headless woman in childbirth. This is seen in springtime. It is seen in the northern skies.
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But as the seasons progress, this travailing woman flips upside down, now appearing as a woman with upraised arms like eagle wings who is running (eventually flying, as shown in sketch on right) into the wilderness (westward). The single star representing her birth-child (Christ) now becomes her head (“Christ is the head of the church.” Ephesians 5:23
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The 7 Stars (Big Dipper) is easy to see with its very bright 7 stars. But the Revelation 12 Woman (Ursa Major) must be seen on a dark starry night, away from city lights.
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Ursa Major Star-Chart with woman drawn in by this website – Wikipedia – share-alike license
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… Woman of Revelation 12 (Flees to the Wilderness)
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TOMORROW…
July 5 (The False Prophet, Part 35: “Misguided Mercy Toward the Homeless”)
Lady Helping the homeless street-person – Wikimedia – Share-alike License