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Post by Woody Williams on May 1, 2017 6:08:16 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Revelation 7:1-3 ---------- After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on earth or sea or against any tree. I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to damage earth and sea, saying, "Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have marked the servants of our God with a seal on their foreheads."
Devotional ---------- In the midst of a vision describing devastations in the earth, a word is spoken to protect God's faithful. The servants of God will be marked with a sign of deliverance and protection. For Christians, that sign is the cross of Christ placed upon the brow at baptism. In that sign we are sealed as children of God and heirs of God's salvation. The sign of the cross made on your forehead each day can help remind you of your chosen-ness by God in Christ's saving death.
Prayer ----------------- Thank you, gracious God, for the gift of life in Jesus and the sign of your victory in the cross. Amen
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on May 1, 2017 12:14:58 GMT -5
We are marked and sealed by and for him. His Holy Spirit marks us. Praise God!
I understand that MANY churches are failing in not teaching about prophecy; however, they shouldn't teach what they don't understand. In this Tribulation period The Church has been taken. So the only ones being mark for protection against this devastation are new Christians, Tribulation Saints. What is important to understand here has to do with the Holy Spirit ...the inhibitor.
Work with me here. We have laws of nature in this dimension that cannot be broken naturally. They're not optional; they just are. Drop a rock and it will fall. Well there are laws in the spiritual world too. The Holy Spirit could not come until Christ left, and the antichrist cannot be revealed until the inhibitor is removed from this world. The Holy Spirit(the inhibitor, restrainer) must be taken out, removed so that the son of perdition(antichrist) can be revealed. (2 Thessalonians chapter 2) It will be Satan's time on earth, and he knows his time is short.
These servants of God needed to be marked, because the Holy Spirit had been removed from the world at this point. The Tribulation Saints will not be filled with the Holy Spirit as we are now. They need to be marked to protect them from what is coming. It has been debated as to whether these saints are the 144K or all of them who believe. It will be what it will be; we can only speculate, but from reading here we know for sure some will be marked for protection.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 13:48:07 GMT -5
We are marked. We can't see it, but our marked spirit lives.
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