One thing is for sure as long as there is day and night, the world will continue turning on its axis. Whether you are here in it or not depends on whether or not you are still alive. As a pastor, I hear people say things so often that are just absolutely not true. These things are grievous to our Lord. He created everything, and He created everything with a purpose and an opportunity. A tree has the opportunity to be really beautiful and cast lots of shade on a hot sunny day. Some trees can produce fruit, others beautiful flowers and leaves. Some produce nuts and berries, but each and every tree has a purpose and an opportunity, and it is their God given right to be that particular tree. As long as God provides the necessary sunlight, water, and food for each tree to blossom, produce and thrive to its fullest potential, it has no choice except to do so. Trees do not have a choice. That choice is born out of free will. There is the rub! Free will. Only the humans tha God created have free will, and that is the man. Now, man can decide to do absolutely anything that he chooses to do, say or think. And man, do they!!!! Do, say, and think that is! One of the things that men say that I really hate is like this: WHY does God allow little children to be harmed? The answer is, He does not allow little children to be harmed. Now some of you out there will idiotically say, YES, He does! My question to you is, can you prove what you say? I dare you, come on now, prove it! Well, you can’t. WHY? I will answer your question with a question. Does God play favorites, and before you say He does, He does not? God is no respecter of persons. Luke 13:4. King James Version: “Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 28 King James Version: 28 1: “The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
20 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
22 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
25 Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.”
Note, in particular, verse 18. It states that God will bring forth a fire from within the “MIDST” of thee, and it will devour thee, and it will bring thee to “ASHES” upon the earth in the sight of all that behold thee. This is the death sentence of Satan as God pronounced it, so shall it be! Thus he is named the “Son of Perdition.”Perdition means to die or to perish. Satan and his evil angels are thrown out of heaven by Michael, the Ark Angel, and his angels in Revelation chapter 9, verses 7-9. This starts the 6th trump. Satan returns to earth as the False Profit. He is here in a form other than his natural body for two and one-half months. Then he shows his real body and is here for an additional two and one-half months. After God defeats him in the battles of Gog and Magog and Harmegedio, or Armageddon as it is more commonly called. Harmegedio is translated. The Gathering Place of the Crowd” What Crowd? The nonbelievers. They gather just outside of Jerusalem. It is they who God defeats. The battle of Gog and Magog takes place on the shores of Alaska. It literally means the burying place of the evil ones. The USA purchased Alaska as a place to bury the very people that we purchased it from. Gog and Magog became known as Rush on the Volga (river) and later Russia. After the sixth trump is completed, Satan is locked in a pit that he cannot escape from, nor does he have any influence over people that see him. People, that see him in the pit say, “Is this the “ISH” or man that caused all the trouble? He is seen in his natural state of a little whimp and one to not be afraid of at all. He has been stripped of all of his supernatural powers, so he is nothing. But, he is released at the end of the Millennium for a “little season” (My guess is that time period is two and one-half months) to tempt and try the souls God wants to save. He will be successful and take some of them with him to the “Lake of Fire.” This is the first place in the Written Word of God where “Hell” is real and is opened for the first time. Hell is not that burning eternal fire that tortures men for all of eternity. It is not that place where your old evil uncle Charlie or aunt Clara goes and are tortured day and night forever. Hell is a one-time thing. Think about it. To explode from within with fire consumes one’s entire body, even though it is a spiritual body. Deuteronomy 4:24 and Hebrews 12:29 both say that God is a consuming fire. God’s consuming fire destroys it, and the smoke produced from its burning goes up before God for all eternity. this is eternal separation from God, and it is the only true death because it is the death of the spiritual body and the soul. Only God can kill a spiritual body. This is why Christ suffered death on the cross to atone for everyone’s sins for all eternity, except for Satan. So, As the World Turns, you have an equal opportunity for true happiness and success. Most people in the world have a drug of choice, be it soft drinks or sweets or alcohol or illegal drugs, even legal drugs, or overeating. Maybe it is a sexual addiction or photography. Maybe it is watching too much TV, or maybe it is excessive music or movies. Whatever it is, the only way to recovery is to stop using the drug of choice or maybe at least start practicing moderation for some addictions. Some are deathly and should be stopped. Others may not be so intensely deathly but still can cause serious health problems when not checked and controlled. One addiction does not cause harm if applied correctly. But once again, it has to be controlled, or it can also become hazardous to one’s health. That addiction is Religion. A person can become addicted to Religion. But one will hardly ever become addicted to being Spiritual. Religion is just that, being religious. Being Spiritual is a way of life; that is what Jesus and His Written Word teach. Spirituality and discipline. One can not be Spiritual without true Discipline. A person without Discipline is like an ember floating on the water. It will soon be extinguished and die for lack of life. All of you little children out there. If anyone ever comes to you and asks questions that you are not comfortable with, like about your private parts, or tries to do something to you that you are uncomfortable with. Please tell an adult that you trust so something can be done. Child abuse and molestation, and slavery are the worst of crimes against our children. Please talk to your kids and try to make them understand about such things. Your willingness to talk to your kiddos will often save them from possible death or, at the very least, a life of traumatic events that will take a severe toll on them as they grow and mature. Blessings, Pastor Marvin Cape
