Posted on 10/21/2020 12:41:48 AM PDT by spirited irish
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:24
O Lord our God, here you reveal truth in a seeming paradox. For though you are ‘our peace,’ fellowship with you will be costly. It will involve suffering, strife, opposition, persecution, and separation from the world and even from our own family.
“And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed” Luke 2: 34
From the first, O Lord, your name, Jesus of Nazareth, has been a name of shame—hated, opposed, and despised. But unbeknownst to your opposers, your name O Lord is a Sword, separating sheep from goats:
“He that is not with Christ is against him, and he that gathereth not with him scattereth abroad. Where Christ is no man remains a neutral; he decides either for Christ or against him. “ Christ—The Rise and Fall of Many, Charles Spurgeon, 1869
Those who despise and oppose you O Lord fall away. They remain on the outside. They are the sons of flesh, the children of darkness whose father is the Devil. Rev. 22:15
In our time O Lord Jesus, many who hate, despise and oppose you have control of the levers of power in our land. They use this power to divide people against each other, to corrupt, bring death, destroy, loot, burn, terrorize, induce paranoia, stir up hatred against your children, and foment insurrection against President Trump and all men and women of good-will who support him.
They are the Devil's godless revolutionary troops: Marxists, Socialists, ‘Woke’ Social Justice Warriors, Queer Social Justice Warriors, Democratic Socialists, Progressives, international pedophiles (Global and national), pedo-satanists (Global and national), Wiccans, New Age Sorcerers, all practitioners of occult arts, the Interfaith ‘church,’ Illuminati (Baron and Baroness de Rothschild), Malthusians (extreme population control via abortion, euthanasia, induced diseases, and other means) and all builders of the New World Order.
Revolutionary children of darkness are of the man-centered and Satanic world system. Satan’s world system is characterized by autonomy (you can be as God), selfish love, selfish passions, self-righteousness, envy, covetousness, rank hypocrisy, lawlessness, pathological lying, relativism, myths (i.e. Darwinism), nature worship (i.e. global change), hatred of Jesus Christ and Sons of God, and justification and moral perfection by human efforts (works) via forced application of ideological social justice, thought and speech controls, and political correctness.
In its determination to rule the world and the souls of as many people as possible, Satan’s world system persecutes and kills God’s faithful children in order to purge itself of alien elements—Jesus Christ, his Good News and children of God. It is this world system, a system based in hatred and death, not Love and Life, that the children of God and all who are ensnared by it are called by you O Lord our God to separate themselves from. (Rev. 18:4)
Heavenly Father, Your Word tells us that this ultimate and growing chasm between children of light and fleshly sons of darkness and death is your Sword passing through this land separating wheat from weeds--all who hate and despise you Lord Jesus:
“Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’ Matthew 13:30
O Lord our God, you have begun a work of exposing evil in the hearts of the wicked and banishing it from our land. (Titus 2:13; Romans 8: 18; Hebrews 9:28; Jude 1:21; Philippians 3:20, 21; 2 Timothy 4:8; Acts 24:15)
Gracious Heavenly Father, You are our Lord. Your servants love you and wait patiently for your blessed return in these terrible times. Please O Lord, strengthen your servants, strengthen President Trump, VP Pence, AG Barr, and bless them with discernment and judgment. Walk with them and uphold them as they do their part through prayer and righteous works in these evil days. Encourage and fortify your servants, President Trump, and all men and women of goodwill who serve and protect him.
Even so, O Lord, we wait for your Blessed Return:
"And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Isaiah 25:9
"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." Matthew 16:27
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world." 1 John 4:14
In the Blessed Name of our Wonderful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the One we long for. Amen
May it come true, Lord! Amen!
Amen to your prayer! Thank you for leading us today.
Even so, O Lord, we wait for your Blessed Return:
"And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Isaiah 25:9
Amen, and Amen, Dear Servant of the King of kings.
Joining you in Thanksgiving, Prayer, and Praise.
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