Thursday, July 12, 2012

Revelation 12:17


17 So then the dragon was furious (enraged) at the woman, and he went away to wage war on the remainder of her descendants--[on those] who obey God's commandments and who have the testimony of Jesus Christ [and adhere to it and bear witness to Him].
If you were like me growing up, you always heard that the church is not mentioned in Revelation from Chapter 4 through chapter 20. But right here, Jesus tells us that satan will come against those who bear His testimony, the Church! Jesus is not divided, there are not several different churches, anyone who truly bears the testimony of Jesus, does so through the power of the Holy Spirit, and they are of the Church. 
Satan failed before, he has always failed, and he will fail again here. Even when the whole world is against us, through Christ, we will absolutely prevail. During the end times millions of us will be martyred for being used by the Holy Spirit to tell of Jesus. Satan will be furious because of it, think of it, he will have empowered the anti-christ and the false prophet with all of his power, and through Christ we will still prevail. He will have ordered that we cannot buy or sell, and we will prevail. Satan will see millions of his people being killed by plagues, wars, and diseases, and yet he will see Jesus’ Bride prevailing. Everything that satan does has failed, and everything that he will do will fail. Our Father made satan to be a failure and our Father was very successful at what He created. 
The church will be glorious, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish during the end times. We will be used by our Father to give food, water, and most importantly Truth during these 3 1/2 years, Matthew 24:45-46. A ton of people want to be raptured out during these years, not me. I want to be used through Christ to serve when I cannot trust in myself at all, when I cannot trust in money, when I cannot trust in a job, or government. I want to be part of the glorious church that is used when the world is at its worst. Desiring to be raptured is for those who fear and through Christ we have not been given a spirit of fear, but a spirit of faith with a sound mind, 2 Timothy 1:7.

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