Gosh! Another Roman Rooster is running through the barnyard today - this time a female rooster!!!
God makes the sun rise.
The rooster crows.
Yet the wise rooster only announces what God has done,
knowing his purpose isn’t to supplant God.
God purposed in eternity past:
- To create man and woman and bless their union
- To restore man after the Fall by the sacrifice of the Promised Messiah
- Create a Jewish nation for His own and make unconditional promises to them
- To bring forth Messiah from that Jewish nation
- To bring forth all Scripture through Jews
- To bless every tribe and young and people and nation through Messiah
- To pay the price for the sin of mankind through the death of Messiah
- To inspire, record, and preserve His holy Scripture through 5,000 years
- To give eternal life to all who turn to Him alone for the payment of their sin - and this apart from merit and by His Glorious Grace
The Roman Rooster is a different sort of creature.
The Roman Rooster crows & crows, "Look at my glory! Look my greatness! Bow Before ME!"
- He crows that he is responsible for everything, stealing God’s glory
- He crows about his chicken coup, instead of God himself
- He changes the sufficiency and totality of Christ’s payment for sin into a system of earned merits and purchased indulgences
- He claims he now owns all God’s promises to Abraham and his descendants
- He crows of the glory of Mary, instead of the glory of Messiah and God the Father Who sent Him to redeem mankind
- He claims he is the Greatest Rooster and superior to every other Rooster that God Raised up to His glory
- He claims credit for God’s inspired Words in every way
- He crows to roosters who are departed, instead of to the God who commands us to “come boldly into His presence.”
And why? It is all written in the scrolls God gave him to read. Yet he claims credit for these while missing their message.
Yet he prefers to crow about traditions of pagan roosters and create idols and wear vestments that glorify himself and his earthly chicken coop as the greatest Coup - The Original Coup.
