{"id":1122,"date":"2018-07-19T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2018-07-19T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:15:46","slug":"devotion-revelation-215-8-hope-disappears-into-reality-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Devotion \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Revelation 21:5-8\u00a0 Hope Disappears Into Reality\u00a0\u00a0 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><b>Revelation 21:5-8\u00a0<\/b><i>&#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059text\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059text\">He who was seated on the throne\u00a0said, \u201cI am making everything new!\u201d\u00a0Then he said, \u201cWrite this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyahoo_quoted_2141929567\" class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyahoo_quoted\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059text\"><i>6\u00a0He said to me: \u201cIt is done.\u00a0I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost\u00a0from the spring of the water of life.<\/i><\/span><i>\u00a0<span class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059text\">7\u00a0Those who are victorious\u00a0will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059text\">8\u00a0But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars\u2014they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.\u00a0This is the second death.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\">\u201cHe who was seated on the throne said, \u201cI am making everything new!\u201d\u00a0 In previous scripture it is sometimes unsure who is speaking.\u00a0 However it is clear who has just spoken.\u00a0 It is He who is able!\u00a0 It is our God Himself!\u00a0 Listen everyone, attune our ears, quiet our mouths and clear our minds and hearst to receive what the Lord God Almighty is speaking!\u00a0 Receive what\u00a0<i>our\u00a0<\/i>Lord God Almighty is speaking!\u00a0 He has begun to reveal what is coming after we are in our residences in Heaven, just as Jesus promised (<b>John 14:1-4<\/b>).\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0 Oh how wonderful is our Faithful, True and Almighty God!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\">Family, things have wrapped up and moving forward.\u00a0 The beast and the False Prophet are in the Lake of Fire. Satan is in the Lake of Fire.\u00a0 All of us, His saints, are in Heaven.\u00a0 The old earth and heavens have been destroyed.\u00a0 The new heaven and earth have been revealed.\u00a0 The promise of\u00a0<b>2 Corinthians 5:17<\/b>\u00a0is now fully known.\u00a0 The new Jerusalem has been gifted.\u00a0 But wait!\u00a0 God is not done!\u00a0 We have an eternity with Him in front of us.\u00a0 We are only beginning.\u00a0 The journey of forever continues and how excited we will be.\u00a0 God has made, and continues to make all things new.\u00a0 We know, in general what we will be doing for eternity, but God knows in detail.\u00a0 We will serve Him and rule beneath Him, but whom will we rule?\u00a0 He knows and for all who love and trust Him, though we are curious, since God knows, we are in peace and satisfied.\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 I can hardly wait!\u00a0 A new quest!\u00a0 A continued, forever journey! All that hurts is gone and we remain in the eternal blessings of God!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\">\u201c<span class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059text\"><i>Then he said, \u201cWrite this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 There are surely those who read these scriptures and don\u2019t believe.\u00a0 They don\u2019t believe because they don\u2019t belong to God.\u00a0 For us, the news is so good, it will seem surreal.\u00a0 For us, the news is so good we will just be stunned.\u00a0 Family, God is assuring us that in that day the battle will finally be over.\u00a0 Peace.\u00a0 No more strife.\u00a0 Stunning tranquility, beauty and fulfillment of soul will be fully realized.\u00a0 It is our destiny.\u00a0 It is our new reality. And then it will be here.\u00a0 We will be standing in the midst of it.\u00a0 God before us and what was behind us is a forgotten memory\u2026praise God!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\"><i>\u201c<span class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059text\">He said to me: \u201cIt is done.\u00a0I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost\u00a0from the spring of the water of life.<\/span>\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Our God states that\u00a0<i>\u201cIt is done.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 He is stating that it has been done, just as He said it would be. \u00a0On the cross Jesus said that all that He was to do has been done.\u00a0 Here He is stating that all has been done exactly as He said it would and that all will continue to be done as He has determined.\u00a0 Does not the works of God testify of the Truth and Power of God?\u00a0 Since all that He said has come true, then it is proof that all that He has in future for us will also come true.\u00a0 Our eternal peace and safety with God are indisputable, just as His truths are always indisputable. What God has planned, known, and declared from eternity past is sure for all eternity future!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\">The Eternal One, has emphatically declared that only He is the Alpha and the Omega, that is, the Beginning and the End.\u00a0 The word \u201cI\u201d is emphatic!\u00a0 Oh praise God!\u00a0 He is declaring that what we have seen through eyes of faith we now see plainly.\u00a0 Hope vanishes as sight and knowledge of Him is complete.\u00a0 Not that we know everything about Him, we will always continue to learn more of Him, but that our knowledge that He is who He has told us that He is will then be fully realized.\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 Our hope for bread is now being consumed.\u00a0 The water from the spring of the water of life is being freely given to us and we shall forever drink it.\u00a0 We no longer will thirst to see what God has said, we will see.\u00a0 Eternal life is what we will continue to walk in.\u00a0 Praise the Lord! \u00a0God is true!\u00a0 God is good and He loves us!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>But 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<p class=\"yiv1481299235ydpc91e059fyiv9473927483ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>He 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.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ydp99761059MsoNoSpacing\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation 21:5-8\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He who was seated on the throne\u00a0said, \u201cI am making everything new!\u201d\u00a0Then he said, \u201cWrite this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.\u201d 6\u00a0He said to me: \u201cIt is done.\u00a0I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. 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