{"id":860,"date":"2018-02-22T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2018-02-22T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:02:22","slug":"devotion-revelation-1210-12-setting-the-stage-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Revelation 12:10-12 Setting The Stage Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revelation 12:10-12<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: \u201cNow have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah.\u00a0 For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.\u00a0 11\u00a0They triumphed over\u00a0him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.\u00a0 12\u00a0Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe\u00a0to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: \u201cNow have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah.\u00a0 For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0 Again we are not told from whom the voice comes.\u00a0 Some would not believe that it is angel who is talking.\u00a0 They say so because of the statement \u201c\u2026the accuser of our brothers and sisters\u2026<\/span>\u201d.\u00a0 Some people believe that an angel would not call himself and us as brothers and sisters.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see the problem with that. In fact I am delighted to call the angels of God my brothers.\u00a0 Yes, we are saved through the blood of Christ, while they have not been.\u00a0 However, they too have a free will and they too have chosen to continue to love and cherish God rather than follow the evil of the devil.\u00a0 They use their free will to follow God, as we do (John 7:17, Joshua 24:15, Genesis 2:16-17, 2 Peter 2:4<\/b>).\u00a0 They are used by God to do His will as we are.\u00a0 They are messengers of God as we are! Soldiers often refer to those who fight side-by-side with them as brothers.\u00a0 It is something we understand.\u00a0 Then is it hard to believe that we and the angels, who stand with God, could think of ourselves as brothers doing the will of God.\u00a0 We are called into the war that they were battling long before we were enlisted.\u00a0 In\u00a0Revelation 22:9<\/b>\u00a0John is overwhelmed by an angel and falls to worship at the feet of an angel but the angel responds to John \u201cDon\u2019t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll.\u00a0Worship God<\/span>!\u201d\u00a0 Here this mighty angel whose presence drops John to his knees calls John a fellow servant.\u00a0 We work side by side with angels to do the will of God.\u00a0 We are in good company!\u00a0 The Lord within us and the angels besides us.\u00a0 That should be a great encouragement.\u00a0 If one disagrees, okay, but I think that we, the angels and us, belong in the brotherhood of those who love and serve God.\u00a0 Praise God for the high calling He has brought us to!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n

The main importance of this message is not the tools that God uses (angels and us) and that He may unite us for His purposes, it that now what is transpiring is that the time for Jesus to come and walk into the completion of what was already completed has come and is coming.\u00a0 This declaration is of what at that moment is happening and continues to happen.\u00a0 The salvation and the power of God that came to us and is with us is plainly revealed.\u00a0 It is Jesus, the Messiah.\u00a0 He comes with what He always had, authority (Daniel 7:14, Luke 9:1, Ephesians 1:19-22<\/b>).\u00a0 How wonderful is the humility and wisdom and glory of God (Matthew 5:3-10<\/b>)!\u00a0 The devil, drunk in his pride, deceives himself.\u00a0 He never had full authority anywhere.\u00a0 Always, all authority belongs to God.\u00a0 He can give authority and He can withdraw authority.\u00a0 Have we not seen this with earthly kings and rulers?\u00a0 When Nebuchadnezzar became too proud God not only removed him (temporarily) from authority, but God gave to Him what Nebuchadnezzar had demanded for his life.\u00a0 What Nebuchadnezzar had claimed for His life was the praise and the glory and the status that only belongs to God.\u00a0 For that God let that insanity of Nebuchadnezzar overwhelm him and he lived in the field and grazed like an animal to be slaughtered (Daniel 4:23-27<\/b>).\u00a0 Indeed, all who are proud and who oppose God have made themselves beasts who know not that they will be destroyed and disappear.\u00a0 God is not mocked (Galatians 6:7<\/b>) and He shares His glory with no one (Isaiah 42:8<\/b>).\u00a0 Only God deserves His glory and He does not give it away. \u00a0Jesus said he would come back in His revealed glory and at this time, it is happening.\u00a0 It is unfolding and being revealed!\u00a0 Family, let us jump for glory.\u00a0 Our hero stands atop the podium, He is revealed!\u00a0 It is the greatest victory of all time and He did it all for us.\u00a0 At this thought we should jump and shout!\u00a0 We should be like King David who shed all that he was, who set aside the garb of his earthly kingdom (given to him by God) to dance and sing before the Lord (2 Samuel 6:5, 20-22<\/b>). \u00a0Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice (Philippians 4:4<\/b>).<\/p>\n

The wonder and beauty of the true Victor is being revealed.\u00a0 The devil has been cast out of Heaven, he has been violently thrown out of Heaven.\u00a0 He is no longer allowed to slander and accuse the children of God.\u00a0 Daddy said He will not allow the enemy of our souls in His house to trouble us.\u00a0 Our Father God loves us and will not allow the enemy to torment us in Heaven.\u00a0 Jesus promised us peace (John 14:27<\/b>) and our Lord is clearing house to make sure we have the peace.\u00a0 Praise God, praise His Champion!\u00a0 Our Champion!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n

\u201cThey triumphed over\u00a0him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 Here we see that the powerful enemy we have has been defeated by us.\u00a0 But we had no power of our own to defeat him.\u00a0 We defeated Him by asking Jesus to be our Savior and Lord.\u00a0 Jesus has washed away our sins with the shedding of His blood.\u00a0 The full price of our sin has been paid by Jesus (Isaiah 53:4-5<\/b>). Here it is being expressed that we stood with God and never shrank from claiming Him as our Savior and Lord.\u00a0 We have not been ashamed of His Word, but instead have propagated it wherever God has us. His Word not only reveals Him, but it reveals what He has planted within us and what and whom we are being crafted by Him to be.\u00a0 And there is no cost too much to never deny His name.\u00a0 We stand with God, no matter if we have to die, or those we love have to die.\u00a0 That is important, we never deny our testimony to shrink from death.\u00a0 We understand that when we are led to an execution we are led to eternal life.\u00a0 No, we do not shrink from death, instead we do what the world cannot understand.\u00a0 If need be, we leap into the arms of death only to be found in the arms of Christ!\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 We love God infinitely above all else.\u00a0 Is this fanatical?\u00a0 Yes, it also reasonable and right.\u00a0 There is no life, ours and any others, that is of higher value that our testimony in Christ.\u00a0\u00a0 If we love life on this more than death than our God then the Word of God says we are not His (Exodus 20:3, 1 John 2:15<\/b>).<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe\u00a0to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0 Yes rejoice!\u00a0 Rejoice in the Lord!\u00a0 Rejoice with all of God\u2019s angels.\u00a0 Rejoice with all of those who through death have preceded us to Heaven.\u00a0 We, them and us, all rejoice.\u00a0 The kingdom of Jesus is coming, it is here, and it will never go away.\u00a0 Family the day comes soon.\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 Come soon Lord Jesus, come soon!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/span><\/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<\/span><\/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<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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