Discerning the one who is with Him Pastors´ Study Apostle Sergio G. Enriquez Oliva Guatemala, June 29th Year of Abundance
It is impressive how all religions talk about a coming chaos before a new order emerges; this is not an idea that came from the world but from God, the Bible mentions how the light came amid chaos. The world puppeteers copied this idea and now are trying to promote chaos manipulating the nations, afterward they will come up with an apparent solution that the whole world will accept. Added to this, the Muslims believe a prophecy that says that they should be fiercely attacked by the unfaithful, which are the western countries, and when this takes place, they expect their messiah to appear and the world to be converted to Islam. That is why the Muslims are provoking other countries to attack them and hasten this event. It is proper to mention what is now happening with the exit of England from the European Union; this separation can cause an economic downturn with all its repercussions, not only affecting one nation but the whole world, it may be seen like an octopus with all its tentacles touching all regions of the world. But despite this, we know that God will watch over His Church at all times, He will not let the darkness cover us, He will protect us from the enemy and He will be with us now that we need His help more than ever. God began His work in us and He will complete it until the end. In this world we will pass through the waters but we will reach the other side. We will pass through the fire but this is necessary for His work to be completed in our lives. Nothing that is now happening in the world can change God´s plan, we must know that if He has control over the universe how much more so will over the earth, no adversary can stand before Him. We are God´s sons and He will not allow the devil to take advantage of us, in fact, our Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon for His Church and all things that are happening will help to prepare His Bride, that we may be partakers of the Lamb´s wedding supper. As Christians we need to do a self-diagnosis, like when we visit the doctor to evaluate our physical condition, the same happens in the spiritual realm, we hear God´s voice and we know that the word is for us and not for our neighbor. II Corinthians 13:5 (LBLA) examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates? Matthew 12:30 (LBLA) The one who is not with Me is against Me, and the one who does not gather with Me scatters abroad. G4650 SKORPIZO To waste, scatter, disperse, spread. Based in this translation let´s consider the word SCATTER. Proverbs 13:16 (VMP) Every prudent man deals with knowledge, but a fool scatters his folly. This man is spreading his foolishness because he did not gather with the Lord. Leviticus 19:16 (KDSH) You shall not go about spreading slander among your people; nor shall you stay still when the life of your neighbor is in danger: I am the Lord.
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Discerning the one who is with Him Pastors´ Study Apostle Sergio G. Enriquez Oliva Guatemala, June 29th Year of Abundance
It is very regrettably that in the midst of the 21st century when all new technologies should work to help man, modern media are being used to spread slander. It is amazing how our society establishes some requirements regarding the legal age to do certain things, nevertheless, when we talk about social media, this requirement is broken. Nowadays even a teenager can access social media lying about his age. This scenario enables slander to be easily spread causing bad reputation to a person or entity. Numbers 13:32 (NVI) And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched to the sons of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up those who live in it. And all the people whom we saw in it were men of stature. Here we can see how something true can be manipulated. The spies that searched the land said something true about it, but within their words there was the venom that they wanted to inject; instead, Joshua and Caleb saw that there were giants in the land but they realized that these had no coverage; they knew that the giants saw them as locusts but they believed that the locusts were God´s army, and that Israel could defeat them. Numbers 14:36 (VIN) And the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by spreading slander regarding the land. All this backbiting would affect them, in fact, they were deceived by the slanderers. Joshua 7:6 (BJ3) And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Jehovah until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and threw (spread) dust in their heads. In this occasion, Israel went to the battle against Ai, but they didn´t gather discernment, instead, they were filled with pride and thought they could defeat their enemies without God´s approval. Finally they lost the battle and then they spread mourning instead of gathering humility. II Samuel 16:13 (NRVR 2011) And David and his men went by the highway. And Shimei went along on the hillside over across from him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and spread dust. We have to recognize that we cannot join with people who want to destroy those who are facing problems, we should remember that we are Christians, therefore our duty is to gather with Christ what He wants us to gather.
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