The Bible tells us that the devil and his hosts know there is one God, and the knowledge causes them to tremble in terror. This means they know He is Powerful and can destroy them at His will. In fact, they know their very existence is by His will, and at His will they will cease to exist. If the devil knows this, why do humans think He does not exist, and if He does, they can wrap Him around their finger!
Those that claim to be sons of God that ought to know these things behave as if He has lost His power or the power can be wielded according to their own will. Hence the rewriting and retelling of His Word as it pleases them. This phenomenon is not strange, as we saw a similar pattern in the Bible. No wonder the Bible tells us: "The thing that has been–it is what will be again, and that which has been done is that which will be done again; and there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9, AMPC). Listen, what was, will be again, what was done, that which will be done again! Thus, those ideas and feelings we get thinking it is new? Not so; it was before, and it will be again!
There is an account in the Bible (Daniel 5:1-31) about the Son of King Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. His name was King Belshazzar. He had a feast for one thousand of his officials. They ate, drank and made merry. Some versions say that when he got drunk; others say when he tasted the wine, he became senseless and careless, and he asked for the gold and silver vessels that his father pillaged from the Temple of God in Jerusalem. Please understand this: while he was drinking, getting drunk in debauchery, Heaven only watched him until he chose to cross a line he should not have crossed!
Beloved, many in these times live as if time belongs to them because of their wealth. Many, because of their wealth, have become arrogant, proud and BORED! As we saw with the king. Ordinary, simple, accountable and responsible living has become boring, so they devise methods to make life a bit more exciting for themselves. We might say only the rich do this. Not really. Brother, sister, you have become wealthy in your attitude towards the things of God and towards the people. Ordinary, simple and responsible living has become boring to you. So you devise means to create excitement for yourself. The relationship, the business, the travel, the decision and many others that you have contemplated and embarked on- who told you to?
Many feel the LORD is slow and wasting time; thus, they have taken matters into their own hands to fast-track that which they believe belongs to them. Belshazzar never understood, at the point of giving that order, what he set in motion. Beloved, every time the things of God are deliberately misused and abused, a line is silently crossed. And Heaven answers!
In your marriage, you deliberately rose up to abuse your partner, your children, and you expect God to smile at you. In your business dealings, you deliberately rose up to cheat and undercut your partners, colleagues and employees because you can, and you think you can simply get away with it. After all, like Belshazzar, the articles were not different from the ordinary ones that were being used. Belshazzar may not have been the first, but Heaven made sure he would never try it again.
Beloved, Esau crossed a line he didn't know was already drawn; Lot's wife crossed one; Demas, Ananias and Sapphira, and many others did too. Sadly, this line, when crossed, catapults one from the Presence of God.
When Daniel was brought in to interpret the writing on the wall, he rebuked the king thus: “But you, his successor, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this... But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in His hand and who controls the whole course of your life” (Daniel 5:22-23b). We read the Bible now and think that what happened to others for the same failures we see in our lives will not happen to us. We are deadly wrong! We are meant to learn from them and not become arrogant by thinking we are better because we are in an advanced time!
Beloved, as we await the Return of the LORD Jesus Christ, instead of getting familiar with His instructions and becoming bored, let us rise up and hold fast to Him to renew our walk with Him daily. These are dangerous times to get satiated with the feast from the table of the world and forget He who loves us and gave His life for us.
May the LORD pour His love afresh into you so you do not stray from His Presence, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
God bless you!
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