{"id":1067,"date":"2018-06-20T07:31:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2018-06-20T07:31:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:31:20","slug":"devotion-revelation-1911-16-faithful-and-true-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Revelation 19:11-16 Faithful And True Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revelation 19:11-16<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0I saw heaven standing open\u00a0and there before me was a white horse, whose rider\u00a0is called Faithful and True.\u00a0With justice He judges and wages war.<\/span>\u00a012\u00a0His eyes are like blazing fire,\u00a0and on His head are many crowns. He has a name written on Him\u00a0that no one knows but He himself.<\/span>\u00a013\u00a0He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood,\u00a0and His name is the Word of God.14\u00a0The armies of heaven were following Him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen,\u00a0white\u00a0and clean.<\/span>\u00a015\u00a0Coming out of His mouth is a sharp sword\u00a0with which to strike down\u00a0the nations. \u201cHe will rule them with an iron scepter.\u201d\u00a0He treads the winepress\u00a0of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.<\/span>\u00a016\u00a0On His robe and on His thigh He has this name written:\u00a0<\/span>KING OF KING AND LORD OF LORDS<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWith justice He judges and wages war.<\/span>\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 In ESV and the NKJV it is translated\u00a0\u201cin righteousness He judges and makes war.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Using the translation \u201cjustice\u201d is proper and is closely related to \u201crighteousness.\u201d\u00a0 We might define justice as giving out or receiving what is fair or impartial.\u00a0 Of a judge it is considering the facts and then making a decision that is made from the facts and circumspect consideration.\u00a0 There is not impartiality or bias in the decision, just a rendering of what is as equitable.\u00a0 Some consider justice to be a compromise, yet compromise is not always fair.\u00a0 Sometimes one person is one hundred percent right and another person one hundred percent correct.\u00a0 So compromise for the sake of compromise can be very unjust.\u00a0 There is not compromise for those who have rejected Jesus as their Messiah and Lord are fully guilty of rejecting the mercy and love of God to embrace the evil in and of the world.\u00a0 They are one hundred percent wrong and have no excuse (Romans 1:18-32, 10:31<\/b>). \u00a0Righteousness is only imputed to a person who has Jesus as Savior and Lord.\u00a0 Then the righteousness (sinless nature and life) of Jesus is imputed on to the His follower and the horrid sin that His disciple once had is imputed onto the believer.\u00a0 Outside of the Gospel there is no imputed righteousness.\u00a0 How can there be, there is none other than the Triune God who is sinless, who is righteous.\u00a0 No one can give what they do not have so none but God can impute righteousness to another.\u00a0 God has only made one way to receive His righteousness and that is through Jesus His Son.<\/p>\n

So what is righteousness?\u00a0 God is the only one who has it, except for those to whom it has been imputed to.\u00a0 Righteousness is the innate purity of God.\u00a0 It is all the qualities of God that are all manifested as the result of His love. Since God loves all (John 3:16<\/b>) He is just with all (Romans 2:11<\/b>).\u00a0 His love demands that justice be rendered in every case.\u00a0 From God\u2019s love flows His qualities.\u00a0 He provides, protects, heals, teaches, etc. all out of His love.\u00a0 Yes God is righteous, because it flows from His very nature.\u00a0 It is who He is and it all comes from His love.\u00a0 It all begins and ends with His love.\u00a0 The Word says that God is love.\u00a0 It is not that love controls God, but that God Himself is love and it flows from the essence of Him.\u00a0 God does not have a checklist of things to do to be loving, He is loving because He is love.\u00a0 It is His essence.\u00a0 A perpetual liar lies because that is what is within Him.\u00a0 In his heart is dishonesty and deception and so he lies.\u00a0 The action does not make the heart but from the heart flows the action (Luke 6:45<\/b>).\u00a0 Acts of love from God does not make Him a loving God.\u00a0 Rather acts of love flow from Him because He is love.\u00a0 Love naturally flows from the fount that is Him.<\/p>\n

Since God is love the judgement that comes from Him is not from anger or vengeance.\u00a0 Rather it what is fair and righteous.\u00a0 It come from His love.\u00a0 In love He gave men free will.\u00a0 However throughout the Word, even from the Garden of Eden, God has always warned that rebellion against God is sin and so there will be a penalty for sin (Genesis 2:15-17<\/b>), which is not the righteousness of God.\u00a0 Any action that is contrary to the nature of God (is revealed by what He does and is who He is) is sin.\u00a0 And only those who have God within them are being transformed by Him to change from their sinful essence to a Godly essence.\u00a0 If God truly lives within us then we have His love within us and thusly we live in righteousness (the nature of God) and justice (which is a byproduct of the nature (love) of God.\u00a0 Righteousness and justice are a supernatural progression of all those who have yielded to Jesus as their Savior and Lord.\u00a0 Holy Spirit is love (1 John 4:8)<\/b>.\u00a0 If He is transforming us to be like Jesus, who is leading us to the Father, who both are love, then love is within us.\u00a0 Now it is not exactly that having love displayed from within us is the key.\u00a0 What is the key is that because God lives within us He is then assimilating every cell within us to be conformed to Him (and that we call out and plead for Him to do).\u00a0 He is love and so we are transformed from selfish sinners to unselfish conformers to God, not done by our will but by His love (1 Corinthians 1:8-9<\/b>).\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore, yes we yield to God, but it is He who chooses us and keeps us and transforms us because He loves us.\u00a0 He calls us to Him because He knows all and He knows that what is best for us is to be with Him.\u00a0 As we were made to be His children, to not be His child is an abomination against not only our Lord, but also against the very make up of how we were built.<\/p>\n

When Jesus comes back to judge and make war, it is not out of hate or vengeance, but rather because of His very nature of love.\u00a0 He has been merciful and offered grace and a place at His dinner table to all.\u00a0 If they have refused Him then they have stated that who He essentially is, is not what they like, or prefer, but even hate (Matthew 12:30<\/b>).\u00a0 They do not want to be what they were created to be.\u00a0 Those who reject Christ reject their creator, they reject the purpose of their creation, they, in fact, reject the essence of who they were made to be and have mutated and become a vile creature that ends up living a life that is hateful even to self.\u00a0 They refuse to live a life of subjection to God.\u00a0 Rather, they would be free of God.\u00a0 They may cry out \u201clive and let live,\u201d but actually, since they were created to love and fellowship with God, by rejecting God they have decided Him unworthy to be their Master.\u00a0 So they defame God and elevate themselves (Job 40:8<\/b>). \u00a0They are not listening to God, but to the enemy.\u00a0 He also attempted to elevate Himself as sovereign over his own life and deemed God unworthy to rule over Him (Isaiah 14:12-15<\/b>).\u00a0 Therefore God is just and He is righteous in waging war against those who have utterly rejected Him. He loves His disciples and the world has rejected and scorned His disciples.\u00a0 They have scorned the Gospel message they shared with the world.\u00a0\u00a0 God judges and He discerns what the fruit of the unbelievers plainly reveals.\u00a0 It reveals that they reject God\u2019s presence in their lives and so God gives them what they want, and what they want is separation from Him.\u00a0 He is just with the unbeliever and gives them what they want, separation from Him and that means spending eternity in the Lake of Fire.\u00a0 He is in the same action just with the believer who has been martyred and, or, persecuted, because the unbeliever who persecuted or killed them has received a just sentence.<\/p>\n

Family, remembering the martyrs under the Altar form\u00a0Revelation 6:9-11<\/b>, they cried out for justice, for justice to be done for their blood spilt by unbelievers.\u00a0 God is bringing justice for all those who have harmed His beloved children.\u00a0 Every cruel word will be accounted for.\u00a0 Jesus loves us and woe to the one who harms or attempts to derail one of His children (Luke 17:1-3a<\/b>).\u00a0\u00a0 In His absolute righteous judgement of the rebellious, His love for us is in open display.\u00a0\u00a0 Family, indeed God is love.\u00a0 His justice is a fruit of His love.\u00a0 It is all about love, His love.\u00a0 He is always good and He always loves us.\u00a0 Woe to those who hurt the children of God.\u00a0 Pray for them.\u00a0 Praise our God who loves us so!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Revelation 19:11-16\u00a0–\u00a0I saw heaven standing open\u00a0and there before me was a white horse, whose rider\u00a0is called Faithful and True.\u00a0With justice He judges and wages war.\u00a012\u00a0His eyes are like blazing fire,\u00a0and on His head are many crowns. He has a name written on Him\u00a0that no one knows but He himself.\u00a013\u00a0He is dressed in a robe dipped…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[129,1865,103,1849,100,106,2489,101,94,711,10],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-corinthians","tag-genesis","tag-isaiah","tag-job","tag-john","tag-luke","tag-luke-psalm","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-revelation","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}