Rev 16:
8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the
sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.
9 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and
they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not
repent and give him glory.
10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the
throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed
their tongues in anguish
11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain
and sores. They did not repent of their deeds……….
21 And great hailstones, about one hundred
pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of
the hail, because the plague was so severe.
Romans
1:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their
unrighteousness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to
them, because God has shown it to them.
20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his
eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the
creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without
excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they did not
honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their
thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God
for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of
their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God
for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is
blessed forever! Amen.
Romans 9:
15 For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy
on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have
compassion."
16 So then it depends not on human will or
exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For
this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and
that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
18 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills,
and he hardens whomever he wills.
19 You will say to me then, "Why does he
still find fault? For who can resist his will?"
20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to
God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like
this?"
21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to
make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for
dishonorable use?
22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and
to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath
prepared for destruction,
23 in order to make known the riches of his
glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—
Through the prophetic
language of scripture, i.e. symbolic
metaphor, and allegory, the Lord reveals His truth.
God pours his wrath out
upon vessels/men created for such. Consider that as God is raining down fire,
darkness, hailstones, and inflicting sores and pain upon the wicked, they curse
God and refuse to acknowledge Him, i.e. give Him the glory. What is revealed by
this is that they know that it is God who is performing these things and
instead of repenting and worshipping Him, which would seem to be the logical
thing to do, they show the depths of their hardened condition and blaspheme the
name of the Lord.
They know that He has the power and is the one afflicting them and still they
refuse to acknowledge Him as God. It boggles the mind.
Therefore
,in our attempts to gain biblical understanding regarding our blessed
hope,(that is, His return to the earth, of which the saints, as well as all
creation, will joyfully partake in); let us set aside the latest books, movies,
news sources, “new revelation”, dispensationalism, futurism and all other such
error, and go to His word alone. Selah!!
Romans 1:
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge
God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
29 They were filled with all manner of
unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty,
boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Though they know God's righteous decree that
those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give
approval to those who practice them.
2Thess
2:
11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so
that they may believe what is false,
12 in order that all may be condemned who did
not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Proverbs
16:4 The LORD has made everything for
its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
The
revelation and understanding of so great a salvation, ( the election of sinners
to sainthood) and His final (and only) return are inextricably intertwined,
that is, they are not to be understood apart from each other.
Hebrews
9:
26b ……….. But as it is, he has appeared once for
all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And just as it is appointed for man to die
once, and after that comes judgment,
28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear
the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save
those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Selah
Indeed!
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