Escaping the Coming Evil
From the Pastor: Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.
“The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.” (Is. 57:1-2)
The fact that all men shall come to death is an undeniable reality that has been fixed upon the minds and hearts of men since the fall of father Adam. However, when God, not man, targets and brings death to a certain category of individuals, one would suppose that folks would take notice of this unusual turn of events. But, this would be a false assumption, because fleshly awareness and spiritual awareness are not common to all without exception. When God begins to remove the righteous the unrighteous do not have a clue, for they are blinded in all spiritual discernment. It is as Sodom and Gomorrah; they had no spiritual familiarity with true righteousness, thus, they could not perceive that not even ten righteous men dwelt among them, which they could have cared less anyway. Righteous and merciful men are dreadful to the depraved conduct of men.
The words “taken away” carry the idea of a gathering up by removing. In essence God is gathering the righteous up by removing them from this world. It is as in the days of Noah; with the exception of Noah and his family, all the righteous were removed by the means of death prior to the pouring out of the wrath of God. It is possible that not even one person fully comprehended until Noah and family were sealed in the ark and the wrath of God flooded upon them. They were swept away in blissful unrighteous ignorance.
The righteous are gathered up into a place of holy peace, of mental, physical, and spiritual rest, and of complete tranquility. We cannot fully grasp this side of our gathering up and removal the unspeakable things in the paradise of the third heaven. It was unlawful for Paul to reveal the gloriousness of the eternal resting place of God for those justified and vindicated in the Lamb’s blood.
It is said that in death we can take nothing with us, but, in this passage we discover the righteous shall depart in their uprightness wrought by the Potter’s hands saturated with the blood of Christ Jesus. O, sweet peace and rest is the righteous’ escape from evil!
Truth IS "the WHOLE(not just a portion) world is under the control of the evil one".......
ReplyDeleteSo it is that The Brethren of The Messiah are exhorted to:
“Love Not The World”
”For the WHOLE world(not just a portion) is under the control of the evil one”.......(I John 5:19)
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world will pass away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of The Only True GOD will abide for ever.”(IJohn2:15-17)
“If you were of the world, the world would love it’s own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his Master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.” (John15:19-20)
“Where do wars and fighting among you come from? Do they not come of your lusts that war in your members? You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts. You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is to be at enmity with The Only True GOD? Therefore whoever will be a friend of the world is the enemy of The Only True GOD.” (James 4:1-4)
“The world cannot hate you; but the world hates Me, because I testify that the works of this world are evil.” (John 7:7)” and “The Messiah gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of The Only True God, Our Father.”(Gal 1:4)
The Messiah testified: “If the world hates you know that it hated Me before it hated you.”(John 5:18) Truly, Truly, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life in this world shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall have it unto life eternal.” (John 12:24-25)
John testified: “Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you.” (I John 3:13) “ James testified, “Whoever would be a friend of this world is the enemy of GOD”(James4:4)
The “earth and it's life forms” are The Creation of The ONE and Only True GOD, Father of ALL! The “worldly” systems are the creation of, and under the dominion of “the god of this world”, he who is “the father of lies”, he who “has blinded the minds of those who believe not The Messiah”! All the nations of this world are under the dominion of, and serve, the “god of this world” for he provides the fuel that feeds mankind’s “imag”ination. And sadly, mankind’s “imag”ination is destroying Creation(air, water, land vegetation, creatures) and perverting that which is Spirit(Truth, Light, Life, Faith, Love, Peace,, All that is Truly Good) ;-(
Those who “love this world” all serve “the god of this world”, and have their portion in the processes that are progressively destroying The Creation of The Only True GOD. And The Only True GOD will "destroy them who destroy the earth.” (Rev 11:18c)
Global warming, polluted air, land and waters, toxic wastes, sexual perversion, evil inventions of destruction, greed, hate, carnal warfare, dis-ease(no-peace),,etc,, are destructive processes that have their root in “the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life” all of which fuel the fires of mankind’s “imag”ination ;-(
"Come Out of her, MY people"!
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this world and it's systems of religion, for "the WHOLE world(not just a portion) is under the control of the evil one" indeed and Truth......
Truth IS, a lie is not.......
Abide in The Truth....... francis