Monday, February 3, 2014

"God is Just" -2

"Wait on the LORD, and keep His way, and He shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it." (Psalms 37:34) You do understand that the devil will have his day, don't you? He knows that too, he just wants to take as many with him as he can. My mom always use to say, Misery loves company; which I came to understand as a teenager, when I choose to hang out with the wrong crowds. I don't know how, but we will be able to see God's wrath poured out during the Great Tribulation; which may be the reason there are so many who believe the rapture will take place after, because they believe they are going to be able to witness God's judgement upon the earth. However, if you think about Revelation, John is seeing all that he sees from heaven, including those things that are happening upon the earth; almost as if there is a huge theater presented, and everything is displayed for the inhabitants of heaven to see. All those around the throne of God see it also, such as the twenty four elders, and the four beasts, who all worship Him who sits on the throne, saying, "Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come", and, "Thou art worthy, O LORD, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created." (Revelation 4) Then, as you go to chapter six, you see in verse nine that there are a multitude of souls below the alter, who cried out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?" And they were given white robes, and told they should rest a little while longer, till their fellow servants and brethren should also be slain as they were; which we can see fulfilled in chapter nineteen. Basically, what I am trying to say is that heaven holds a different point of view than earth; in other words, we see things revealed and have eyes such as of God, which will be able to view more than we could ever imagine; at least that is what I have been taught to believe. I have even heard Pastor Jon Courson share about the "cloud of witnesses" from Hebrews 12:1, as those that have gone before us, and who are there in heaven watching our lives, and seeing how we perform; cheering and smiling when we do good, and groaning and frowning when we do bad... "Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:1 & 2)

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