Good morning. Now the next
verse does not say that the following will happen, just that if it does: for it
is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right
rather than for doing what is wrong. Now no one wants to suffer for any reason.
Our example, of course, is Christ. For Christ also died for sins once for all,
the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been
put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit. Jesus said not My will
but Yours. He did suffer for doing right. In which also He went and made
proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the
patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of
the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through
the water. And corresponding to that, baptism now saves you – not the removal
of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience – through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Of course baptism by itself does not save you
– it comes after you are saved. In the days of the early church, baptism was
immediately after receiving Jesus as Lord of your life; so it seemed as if they
were at the same instance. The old man is dead and buried. So if the devil comes
and says look what you did back then, you can say my conscious is clear. I
didn't do it - it was that old guy. Father thank You that the reader is walking
in Your will. He/she continually does what You want him/her to, and You bless him/her
richly every day.
Out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Good morning. Out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. (Kind of like Egypt with the grasshoppers). They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, not any green thing, nor any tree (normally these are the things that the locusts would be interested in), but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads (most likely the 144,000 - possibly the only believers left on earth). They were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months [My Bible says it is a limited period of time suggested by the lifecycle of the locust.]; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. Add in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them. I guess the stings were so painful that they got to the point where they wished they were dead. We will see what the locusts looked like tomorrow. Father just like You will pro...
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