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[size=x-large]A Brand Plucked From The Fire[/size]
Read for This Week's Study: Zechariah 1 - 3, Rev. 12:10, Exod. 3:2-14, Eph. 2:8-10, and John 14:15
Memory Verse: "Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment" Zechariah 3:4
However easy to forget, the great controversy between Christ and Satan is the ultimate driving force behind reality. Wars, crime, violence, and the whole seething and boiling cauldron of human tragedy are but surface manifestations of the underlying conflict that began in heaven (Rev. 12:7), a universal struggle that impacts not just every human but all creation (Rom. 8:20-22). One thing, though, we must never forget. The great controversy isn't over Middle East oil or over the epochal geopolitical shifts in the military and economic hegemony. It's over the salvation of the human race, one soul at a time.
Nations come and go, power structures come and go, grand themes of history and ideology come and go, only the saved, those covered in the robe of Christ's righteousness, last forever. Satan doesn't care about money, power, politics, not in and of themselves - he cares about souls, about taking as many down to ruin with him as possible.
Christ, through His death, has made it possible to save everyone from that ruin. The essence of the great controversy is, at the core, people choosing eternal ruin or eternal life. All the rest is essentially fluff.
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Read for This Week's Study: Zechariah 1 - 3, Rev. 12:10, Exod. 3:2-14, Eph. 2:8-10, and John 14:15
Memory Verse: "Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment" Zechariah 3:4
However easy to forget, the great controversy between Christ and Satan is the ultimate driving force behind reality. Wars, crime, violence, and the whole seething and boiling cauldron of human tragedy are but surface manifestations of the underlying conflict that began in heaven (Rev. 12:7), a universal struggle that impacts not just every human but all creation (Rom. 8:20-22). One thing, though, we must never forget. The great controversy isn't over Middle East oil or over the epochal geopolitical shifts in the military and economic hegemony. It's over the salvation of the human race, one soul at a time.
Nations come and go, power structures come and go, grand themes of history and ideology come and go, only the saved, those covered in the robe of Christ's righteousness, last forever. Satan doesn't care about money, power, politics, not in and of themselves - he cares about souls, about taking as many down to ruin with him as possible.
Christ, through His death, has made it possible to save everyone from that ruin. The essence of the great controversy is, at the core, people choosing eternal ruin or eternal life. All the rest is essentially fluff.
By Permission Of: http://www.ssnet.org/
