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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Ruler, #50
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. (Isaiah 4:6)
The individual who is trapped in the world system of commerce, of material gain and comforts, of ease in this life, is unable to flee in the hour of the Lord's judgment. He is as Lot and his family. When the Spirit of God warns him to flee he cannot tear himself away from his goods.
Lot would have been destroyed if it had not been for the prayers of Abraham.
Jesus advised us to remember Lot's wife because we must be ready to obey the Spirit of God instantly the moment Jesus appears from Heaven.
In the days to come the Lord's saints will be led specifically and clearly to places of safety and provision—and so throughout the tribulation period. There will be a "Goshen" for every saint and his family, a place of perfect safety and provision whether or not "Egypt" is being spared at the time.
We are speaking now of the remnant as a whole. As we have noted previously, some of the saints will be given the privilege of sealing their testimony with their blood. Martyrdom is a privilege in the sight of God and the Lamb. It places the saint in the ranks of those blessed heroes of faith who have given their lives for Christ and the Kingdom of God.
The Lord God of Heaven is bound by His written Word to provide all our needs through His riches in glory by Christ. Also, He has stated that if we will delight ourselves in the Lord He will give us the desires of our heart (Philippians 4:19; Psalms 37:4).
The promises of God are independent of the abundance or lack of necessities in the world about us. God's promises depend for their fulfillment on God's abilities and resources.
If we live as good soldiers of Christ, ready and willing to endure hardships for the Kingdom of God's sake, the Lord will fulfill His Word toward us faithfully and consistently.
If we forfeit the Kingdom provisions by breaking our part of the agreement, trusting instead in the visible protection and provisions of the Antichrist world system, the Lord no longer is obligated to provide our needs and our desires. Rather, we will suffer frightful punishment because of our worship of the devil.
Blessed is the person who puts his or her trust in the Lord. But the individual who turns from the Lord and places his or her trust in the arm of flesh will not be blessed by the Lord. Human resources will fail the individual in the time of need.
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. (Jeremiah 17:5)
To be continued.