Saturday, August 6, 2016

Thoughts concerning Commen the “day of vengeance of the Lord.” 519-2 - 23 - 4

Isaiah 34:8-9, “For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.”
Interesting word recompense, also referred to by Paul. Romans 1:27, “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”
Today homosexuality is celebrated by many as a normal expression of love. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the community’s acceptance of homosexuality rather than for its practice. Our country has travel far down that path to destruction.
But I digress. Picking up from last week, Jesus read from Isaiah 61:1 ending with a period rather than a semi-colon. Had Jesus continued reading he would have added verse 2, “To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;”
Throughout the Old Testament warnings of the phases “The Day is Near” and “The Day of the Lord” are given by a number of the prophets including Mican, Amos, Jeremiah. As with Isaiah, many of these prophecies were for the latter days.
Chapter one of Zephaniah told of a Judgment on the whole earth in the Day of the Lord. Zephaniah 1:14, “The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. Ezekiel 7:7, “The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.”
1 Timothy 6 talked to doing good and “Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.” And warns in 1 Timothy 6:11, “But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.”
And the grand finale will be Revelation 1:16, “And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” The Word, the two edged sword will slay the enemies of Jesus as He returned as the Lion of Judah rather than as the suffering servant of His first incarnation. 

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