Final Movements Will Be Rapid Ones. Part [1] 03/30/2025 Morning thought)

Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh.

The above verses were taken from Christ’s discourse with His disciples, pertaining not only to the demise of Jerusalem of old, but also to the end time events that would usher in the final conflict between good and evil on planet earth, and the subsequent end of human probation. The prophecies, as recorded by Matthew, have dual meaning because some predictions pertained to the invasion and destruction by the Roman Cestius.

And some aspects pertained also to the 1260 years of papal persecution while some other aspects of the prophecies pertain to the here and now. The servant of the Lord, in describing the horrors in the days of Titus, says that the situation back then had deteriorated to the point where satan himself was at the head of the nation, and many crimes too horrible to mention took place at his instigation.

He had taken the reins of control, although he also remained completely hidden from view, working his will through those human agents who had become fully demon possessed, even though they knew it not. Persons will most likely never see a live devil sitting in the seat of power over any nation, for the work of devils is centered squarely in disguise.

1st Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

A Just and Merciful God. Part [19] 03/30/2025 (Evening thought)

John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

[Testimonies Vol. 5 pp 421] The world had lost the original pattern of goodness and had sunk into universal apostasy and moral corruption; and the life of Jesus was one of laborious, self-denying effort to bring man back to his first estate by imbuing him with the spirit of divine benevolence and unselfish love. While in the world, He was not of the world. It was a continual pain to Him to be brought in contact with the enmity, depravity, and impurity which Satan had brought in.

But He had a work to do to bring man into harmony with the divine plan, and earth in connection with heaven, and He counted no sacrifice too great for the accomplishment of the object. He “was in all points tempted like as we are.” Satan stood ready to assail Him at every step, hurling at Him his fiercest temptations; yet He “did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.” “He ... suffered being tempted,” suffered in proportion to the perfection of His holiness. But the prince of darkness found nothing in Him; not a single thought or feeling responded to temptation.

As we behold the glory of His character in all of the vicissitudes of life, our own characters will undergo the necessary changes that will prepare us to stand unmoved when the winds of strife are let loose, as they already have begun to. We therefore end with a passage of Scripture which should cheer us on our journey to the Kingdom, and which should encourage us with the promise that all things are possible with God.

2nd Corinthians 3: 18 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.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!