Today’s Devotional – September 17th (Dawn of the Dead! Part 2: “Tattoos”)

By admin On February 3rd, 2021

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Today’s Devotional – September 17th

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Dawn of the Dead!

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Part 2:

“Tattoos”

To read Part 1, click here…September 16th (Dawn of the Dead! Part 1: Music)

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Are you old enough to remember that startling movie, “Dawn of the Dead”?

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Now the premise of that movie was that some global holocaust had killed off the bulk of Mankind, leaving no more room in Hell.

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And this theme is loosely based on Jeremiah’s prophecy…

“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD,

that it shall no more be called Tophet,

nor the valley of the son of Hinnom,

but the valley of slaughter:

for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.”

Jeremiah 7:32

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Thus, the world was now mostly populated by these half-dead zombies, who continually sought to cannibalize the few surviving humans remaining on earth!

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And that infamous shopping mall became the macabre backdrop for this apocalyptic scenario!

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Dawn of the Dead – Wikipedia – Copyrighted – Fair-Use Rationale

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CUTTINGS FOR THE DEAD

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And yesterday’s devotional was concerning music. But today’s devotional concerns tattoos.

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Listen… “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD” Leviticus 19:28

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Now, most Bible teachers deny that this verse has anything to do with tattoos.

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Manson – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-Alike License

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“GOD LOOKS ON THE HEART!”

1st Samuel 16:7

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But wait a minute! Perhaps this above passage does relate to tattoos!

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Because if you think about it, people generally get tattoos to impress others.

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**And since the Bible says that Mankind is “dead in trespasses and sins” Ephesians 2:2, then you could possibly conclude that tattoos are indeed, cuttings in your flesh for the spiritually dead.**

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That is, they are inscribed into the flesh in the desire and hope of impressing the spiritually dead people of this world.

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So, Leviticus 19:28 may also be condemning the practice of tattooing one’s body.

Tattoo My Chemical Romance_-_the_black_parade – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

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But actually, today’s devotional is not really concerned with this question!

Exclamation Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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WHAT’S IN YOUR HEART?

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Oh no, this article is not so concerned about what the world does.

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What they do is between them and God.

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But this article is only concerned with the motives of the hearts of Christians.

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And so, just as the world’s inhabitants are making etchings upon their bodies, so too, the Heaven-bound Christian is to make etchings upon his or her heart!

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That’s right! You could say that Christians should be getting tattoos upon our hearts!

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Listen… “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,

and receive with meekness the engrafted Word,

which is able to save your souls.”

James 1:21

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Here is a very telling statement! We are to, “receive with meekness, the ENGRAFTED Word”!

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But where is that Word to be engrafted?

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In the Bible? Or in our hearts?

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The words of Christ are to be engrafted into our hearts, of course!

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And this conveys the idea that God’s Word is to be etched, or tattooed into our hearts! (The heart is not the blood-pump, but is actually the treasure chest of the mind.)

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IMAGE OF JESUS

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And so, God is allowing the people of the world to teach us how we must live, as Christians transpose the world’s behavior into a spiritual counterpart!

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Therefore, the Believer must be busy, tattooing the image of Jesus, as revealed in His Word, upon the fleshly tables of our heart!

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Listen to Paul… “Ye (Christians) are our epistle written in our hearts,

known and read of all men:

Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared

to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us,

written not with ink,

but with the Spirit of the living God;

not in tables of stone,

but in fleshly tables of the heart.”

2nd Corinthians 3:2, 3

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So here we see that each and every Christian is an open letter, visible and read by all Mankind!

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Thus, we see just how important it is to have only the pure words of Christ tattooed upon our hearts!

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Jesus – by J. Tissot – Brooklyn Museum – US Public Domain

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IMAGE OF JESUS ON OUR HEART

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And in conclusion, as we look at many of the things which people are doing in the world, we need not look down our long nose at them.

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**But God is allowing all of these things for our good (see Romans 8:28).**

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They are used by God for our teaching moments!

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And many things, such as tattoos are allowed by God to remind us of what we must be doing within our heart…

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…that is, we must firmly tattoo the image of Christ upon our own heart!

Listen… “But we all, with open face

beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,

are changed into the same image

from glory to glory,

even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

2nd Corinthians 3:18

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

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ABOVE STAR-CHART – Sign of the Son of Man – www.theheavensdeclare.net – Not for commercial uses

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TO READ PART 3, CLICK HERE…

September 18th (Dawn of the Dead! Part 3: The Flesh-Eating ‘Old Man’)

Cannibalism in Russia and Lithuania 1571. – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

***“Dear Lord,* *I come to you asking that you might take all my mind-controlling instruments completely out of my life and begin to fill me with your precious words of life…***

Marine Praying – Wikimedia – USMC Public Domain

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THE END

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TODAY’S HEAVENLY SIGN

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SATAN’S WAVE OF WATER CONSTELLATION

“For this shall every one that is godly

pray unto thee in a time

when Thou mayest be found:

surely in the floods of great waters

they shall not come nigh unto Him.”

Psalm 32:6

Waves are used in Scripture to represent both good as well as bad things.

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And in the black sea of the heavens, is seen a constellation of a dragon.

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And this dragon is spewing a wave of water out of his mouth.

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And this article will explore just what all this means.

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And the Reader is invited to come and behold secrets in the Stars, which have been hidden since Creation; but now are being revealed by God, for such a time as this.

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So come along and behold these grand heavenly pictures which our great God has inscribed, in the heavenly scroll, and stretched, even from sky to sky.

Mavericks Surf Contest 2010 – wikipedia – share-alike license

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TOMORROW:

“September 18th (Dawn of the Dead! Part 3: The Flesh-Eating ‘Old Man’)”