The Revealing
The Revealing
In a recent blog I wrote about the revealing of the person taking place through the coronavirus (C-19). Here are three points to further discuss:
1. How C-19 surfaces and reveals what is hidden.
2. After the reset, what remains?
3. God’s enemies taking advantage of the instability in the world.
When you bump a glass whatever is inside comes out. We see this happening all over society, in governments, in the world, and in individuals. We are seeing the best and the worst surface in people. We see hording, fear, manipulations, and we see kindness, giving, reassurances, hope, and love.
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Roots are bringing forth their fruit.
Hebrews 10: 24 says that we are to consider one another in order to stir up love and good works. Most of us really cannot effect world events (except as we agree with God and pray according to His will), but we can stir up those in our circle. Let me encourage you to stop for a moment what you are doing, ask God who needs a phone call. Ask the Holy Spirit to use you to encourage that person, then give them a call. Pretty easy, right?
Now let’s move on to 2 and 3:
After the reset, what remains? There is reset happening in many—most—parts of the world right now. In our country alone it’s as if puzzle pieces have been thrown up in the air. How the pieces fit together when they land is up to the church. We can, as the church, stop the enemies of God from taking advantage through the instability in the world. We need to hear the Holy Spirit and then agree with Him in prayer. Previously misfit puzzle pieces need rearranging, while others, which are properly placed, could end up manipulated by the enemies of God. When we pray we have an audience with the King of Kings. He invites us to partner with Him through prayer as He rules and reigns. What an incredible invitation.
I have often thought about what Satan was up to after he tried to temp Jesus in the desert. There are some references of both Jesus’ and the disciples’ encounters with demons, but not about Satan himself. So what was he up to? My belief is that he was community organizing. He community organizes by influencing the minds of the human race. I also believe this is the purpose of the principalities and powers who are assigned to cities, governments, and nations. (As an example see Ezekiel 28 concerning the prince of Tyre.) Areas, large and small, seem to have groupthink and personalities of their own. Satan’s focus was to stop Messiah and His Kingdom come, which would mean his overthrow and imprisonment (Revelation 20). (I doubt Satan knew the plan of God otherwise he would not have killed Jesus.) Furthermore, I believe Satan always has a man ready to rule the world, since he does not know the time of or the events that will lead up to of Christ’s return. He therefore must always have his man ready to usher in the one-world-government (Revelation 13). There are two men who will have a one-world-government: the anti-christ during the tribulation and Jesus during the Millennial Age.
Is it time for that man of sin to rise (2 Thessalonians 2:3)? I have no idea. But what I do know is that the enemy and his people will take advantage of every opportunity we, the church, allow them to. We want the puzzle to reflect the picture God has in mind when all the pieces land. And that is likely up to us.
Let’s stand in the gap for the world.
Let’s be the kind of people God can tell His secrets to.
Then, let’s talk to God about those secrets.
