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Today’s Devotional – February 13th

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The True Pilgrim’s Pathway!

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“And an highway shall be there,

and a way,

and it shall be called

The way of holiness…”

Isaiah 35:8

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Yesterday’s devotional (click here) was on John Bunyan’s allegorical book, Pilgrim’s Progress.

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But today, there’s a question remaining to be asked: “Pilgrim’s Progress is regarding what progress?”

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Or maybe this question needs to be rephrased: “What or where was the Pilgrim progressing to?”

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Well, if we read the rest of the title, we see it actually says, “Pilgrim’s Progress, From This World, To That Which Is To Come”.

And so, “Pilgrim’s Progress” was merely a shortened title, for brevity’s sake!

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And so, Pilgrim was making progress toward his upward journey…to the Celestial City!

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Pilgrims Progress title page third edition 1679 – Wikimedia Commons – public-domain

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Now there are many who think that the Cross is where our battle ends.

But they mistakenly assume that the Cross is where they can stop searching. Stop fighting!

The journey’s over, as far as they are concerned.

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Pilgrims Progress – His Burden Fell Off His Back – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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OUR PILGRIMAGE BEGINS AT THE CROSS

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And so, here’s the point of today’s devotional: Just like Pilgrim, those who truly lay down their burden of sin and guilt at the Cross are to continue on in our pilgrimage.

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Oh yes, the Cross is where the Christian receives everlasting life.

But the Cross is really just where the road divides.

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“What road?”, you ask?

But those who are pretentious will take that other path.

They take that fork in the road!

The road more heavily traveled!

The Broad Way that leads to destruction!

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All Roads Lead To Rome (Except One) Public Domain www.signsofheaven.org

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WORLDLY WISE-MEN

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Oh yes, Bunyan repeatedly presented this same concept throughout the book, yet in different ways.

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For instance, there was one character, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, who misdirected the Pilgrim to the Village of Morality.

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This, of course, is the place where people can merely be moral and even with a degree of religiosity, without that genuine crucifixion from self!

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And here is where many churchgoers end up.

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Pilgrim’s Progress p34 Mr Worldly Wiseman – Wikimedia – public domain

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THE TRUE PILGRIM’S PATHWAY!

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But those who truly walk the Pilgrim’s pathway, go on to a greater and greater devotion and a deeper and deeper death-to-self!

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Yes, those who truly fix their gaze on Christ, will ever-so-gradually be “transformed into Christ’s image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of Holiness”.

This is the true Pilgrim’s Pathway! (2nd Corinthians 3:18)

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Flickr trials and errors The Roads to Heaven and Hell, religious tract, ca. 1896 – cropped image – share-alike lic.

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“ANOTHER JESUS…ANOTHER SPIRIT”

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And this is why the apostle, John says…

“They (false brethren) went out from us,

but they were not of us;

for if they had been of us,

they would no doubt have continued with us:

but they went out, that they might be made manifest

that they were not all of us.”

1st John 2:19.

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So, this above verse lets us know that the false brethren are walking a completely different pathway from the true worshippers of God!

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Oh yes, they still attend church. Oh yes, they still pay tithes and partake of the Lord’s Supper.

They may even hold church offices and talk of God’s grace, and of His blessings, and of their many trials.

But there is something vastly different about them, which only makes true worshippers a little nervous, when in their company!

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PS Krøyer – Hip hip hurra! Kunstnerfest på Skagen 1888 – Wikimedia – public domain

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“COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM!”

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Yes, the Bible speaks of a time when God will separate the wheat from the tares.

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This is spoken of in Matthew’s Gospel…

“Let both grow together until the harvest:

and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,

Gather ye together first the tares,

and bind them in bundles to burn them:

but gather the wheat into My barn.”

Matthew 13:30.

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When this separation time comes, that is when…

“ye (shall) return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked,

between him that serveth God

and him that serveth Him not.”

Malachi 3:18.

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Yes, there is coming the day (and even now is here!) when God’s people will be able to easily discern between the Believers and those who are merely vain deceivers.

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Winnowing Vannage_du_riz,_Uttarakhand,_India – cropped image – Wikimedia – share-alike lic.

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THE REALLY GOOD NEWS!

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Now there is some really Good News in all this!

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Yes, there are many in the Church who have been deceived by the pretenders in God’s house.

Yes, there are many who have been unwittingly led astray, only to walk the wrong pathway.

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Listen… “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,

and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.”

Ezekiel 6:9, 10

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Yes, it says that we will loathe ourselves for all our abominations!

But at the same time, we will rejoice that God has graciously opened our eyes to our folly!

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We will rejoice that He has, as the Good Shepherd, brought us, like lost sheep, back into His fold!

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Brooklyn Museum – The Good Shepherd – James Tissot – Wikpedia – US Public Domain

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And from that day forward, we will be ever-so-careful, to not let that notorious wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing lead us astray, ever again!

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Exclamation Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23, 24

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Revelation 12 Woman & The Narrow Gate Stars (Orion’s Gate to Heaven)” 

or you can also read…April 24th (Pilgrim’s Progress – “The Wicket Gate!”)

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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THE PLEIADES: A TALE OF TWO WOMEN

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This photo is the Pleiades Cluster. Does it appear to you like an angel? Well, if it does, then you are encouraged to keep reading.

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The above two verses concerning the Pleiades are all the Bible has to say about the Pleiades, directly. But if you will read this article, you will discover that the Pleiades represents concepts which span much of the Bible! 

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And The Heavens Declare.net will attempt to unravel this mysterious phenomenon in the night-sky, and will, hopefully, also interpret these two verses to show just what all this means, and how it might apply to our lives.

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The Pleiades (Above constellation can be seen in colder months in mid sky, traveling east to west through the night. With the eyes alone, it would appear much smaller than this. But with binoculars, it would appear more like this photo).  NASA photo by Robert Gendler 

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TALE OF TWO WOMEN

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You see, this constellation tells the tale of two women! But how can it be, that nobody has ever seen the Pleiades as a constellation of a woman?

(There is one other person on the Internet who has his own rendition of this constellation. Click here to see)

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This article will discuss this great paradox of these two women, found in the Pleiades, and what it means scripturally to us: we who comprise the global community of Christians.

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Because this constellation (or should we say Constellations, plural), has very much to do with us: those of us who are living right now on the threshold of eternity. 

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And as you might expect, if you are at all familiar with this website, the Bible holds the key to understanding all this!

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read…The Pleiades: The Captive Angel & Mystery Harlot Constellation

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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TOMORROW…

February 14th . . . . By Beholding Jesus…Changed!

Transfiguration – Bloch – cropped – Wikimedia Commons – US Public-Domain

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