#Noah was a preacher of righteousness

[wecanbeperfect]

DESTRUCTION FOR FALSE TEACHERS

2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

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2 Peter 2:5 (NKJV) and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

[feedingtheflockministry]

A Letter to Those that Share the Message of Jesus with Others.

Dear brothers and sisters in our beloved Savior and Lord Jesus Christ,

We come to you in love and with humble hearts to address the issue of other ungodly messages and financial gain that is present among the good works you do unto The Lord. For many of you have social media accounts, online video platforms, film productions, blogs, books, audio recordings, and the likes of these that are for the purpose of spreading the message of Christ, but do not call your work a ministry because it is not associated with a church or denomination. This is a deception you have fallen prey to beloved brothers and sisters.

Because of this deception you have allowed your work to become defiled by things such as; symbolism, money, fame, success, and through these things pride and arrogance have hardened your heart to repentance. This has only blinded you from being aware that the presence of God has left your ministry.

For we are told many times over throughout the biblical narrative that we should not tolerate sin in ourselves, and among our gatherings or work unto The Lord. We are told that we should not fellowship with those that practice disobedience, and walk in darkness. We are told that those who practice abominable acts with same sex partners are worthy of death according to the Torah and the Apostles of the first century church. We are also told by Jesus Himself that tolerance of these things among us will result in His judgement coming upon us. Look at His warning to the church in Thyatira in the book of Revelation.

Stop and consider Peter’s words from one of his own letters.

“For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority.”

Peter paints the mental image of what the heart of a righteous person looks like by using Lot as an example. Lot was tormented in his soul because of what he saw and heard day after day. He did not have a ministry, nor could he tolerate the wickedness around him by making excuses for it. It is also highly doubtful that he would employ such people to tend his sheep or associate himself with them. By allowing such ungodly people to be among your work to The Lord it exposes your own lack of righteousness.

Another thing to consider is the words of the prophet Micah when addressing the judges, priests, and prophets of his day that were using their offices / work for financial gain. He writes, “

“With the Spirit of the LORD — and with justice and courage to make known to Jacob his rebellious act, even to Israel his sin. Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and twist everything that is straight, who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with violent injustice. Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe, her priests instruct for a price and her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD saying, “Is not the LORD in our midst? Calamity will not come upon us.” Therefore, on account of you, Zion will be plowed as a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.”

If The Lord passed this judgment on the nation of Israel for making money off of judging, teaching, and prophesying how do you think He will judge your works?

Jesus taught us this, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble. Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”

If you have a ministry of any kind that shares Jesus with others, and someone in your ministry is sharing an godly message in a verbal or symbolic way that causes others to stumble / sin (and you do not remove that person after becoming aware of it) you become an accomplice to their crime. Therefore you to become a stumbling to others.

The last thing to consider is this. Perhaps you may think that obtaining such material gain or allowing other messages to be present in or around your work for The Lord is no big deal. Let us remind you all that this way of thinking is what brought about the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden. Another message was present, and a desire to gain something. Heed the words of the prophets, the apostles, and The Lord Himself.

We must protect our work unto The Lord from any defilements. We must set a righteous standard for ourselves and those around us that are participating in our work. We must not let any other message in along side it, nor financially profit from the things of God.

With sincere hope in our hearts we pray you repent of these sinful practices. For those that do will be sanctifying their work to The Lord. Holiness and righteousness will take root and flourish in your work, and your reward in Heaven will become great because you did not receive it here, nor let it become defiled in any way.

[apilgrimpassingby]

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and make a post that will provoke my Protestant followers.

I don't believe in sola scriptura. Because the New Testament authors didn't.

Again and again, they refer to things that Scripture does not say: the names of Pharaoh's magicians, Satan contesting for Moses' body with the archangel Michael, a prophecy by Enoch, the Israelites being followed by the rock that Moses struck water from, Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because he knew God could resurrect the dead, Noah as a herald/preacher of righteousness, Lot being distressed by the sexual immorality in Sodom.

If Peter, Paul and Jude didn't see the Bible as the sole fount of theological truth, why should anyone?

[freebiblestudies]

Line Upon Line Lesson 007: Get on the Boat!

Genesis 7:1 - Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.”

Many people think God commanded Noah to build the ark solely to save the animals and his own family.  However, this is actually not true.

Let’s read together Ezekiel 14:14-20; Habakkuk 2:4; and Hebrews 11:6-7.

Noah was considered righteous by God because Noah believed in God. Noah demonstrated His faith in God through his obedience to God’s commands. Noah built the ark even though there was no evidence or prior history of floods in the world.

Note that the Bible clearly states Noah could not save anyone else with his righteousness.  This means Noah’s wife, his three sons, and their wives each had an individual faith in God. They also believed in God and were obedient to His words.

Let’s read together Psalm 142:7; Isaiah 42:6-7; 1 Peter 3:18-20; and 2 Peter 2:5.

The Bible described Noah as a preacher of righteousness. God used Noah to deliver a message of repentance. Noah wasn’t just building the ark for one hundred and twenty years. He was warning the entire world about God’s judgment and the impending flood.

Let’s read together Deuteronomy 30:19-20;  Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27; and Ephesians 4:17-32.

In essence, Noah’s message was, “Repent now and get on the boat! If you do not, you will be destroyed by the coming flood!  This is the only way you can be saved!”

Unfortunately, no one listened to Noah. Their hearts were so set on sin, the Holy Spirit could not reach them.  God wanted to save them all, but they chose not to be saved.

Let’s read together Acts 4:10-12.

God gives us all the same choice today that He gave the people of the Antediluvian age. Repent now and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. There is no other way to be saved. Will you choose Jesus?

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Deliverance from False Prophets

Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed. In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly; and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings. Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.

These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed. The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness.

They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you. Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.” — 2 Peter 2 | The Reader’s Bible (BRB) The Reader’s Bible © 2020 by Bible Hub and Berean.Bible. All rights Reserved. Cross References: Genesis 6:8-9; Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19:5; Genesis 19:24-25; Exodus 15:16; Exodus 22:28; Numbers 22:5; Numbers 22:21; Deuteronomy 32:35; Job 21:30; Psalm 73:8; Psalm 85:8; Proverbs 5:6; Proverbs 26:11; Jeremiah 12:3; Ezekiel 33:13; Mark 7:22; John 8:34; Romans 13:13; Hebrews 11:4; Jude 1:6; Jude 1:9; Jude 1:12-13

[in-fearandtrembling]

God of the impossible

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”

I prayed a bit of crazy prayer today.

I feel as though lately that is all i have been doing...praying to God and asking Him about things which in the natural seem impossible.

Really impossible.

And yet, i have this faith and this hope that God is working it out. i have this faith and trust in Him that He is doing something in the background that i cannot see nor fathom. 

Today at church we had a special guest preacher and at the very end of the message he brings up these two bible verses - the only two he read today. 

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1 John 5:14-15

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

and also 

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

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He said something awesome - that seeking God and searching for His will for our lives can only be found through reading the word of God. 

Because the reality is that when you seek God and when you search for Him with your whole heart through His word which He has made available to us, God will begin to reveal to you things that you cannot even begin to imagine. 

God will show you what His will is for your life and then when you begin to pray to Him, you will be praying according to His will. 

It is a mystery and a secret that He has revealed to me lately. 

That seeking Him and praying to Him and immersing myself in His word is the key to unlocking His plans for our lives. and then once you have done that and He has revealed what He wants for your life, you get to partner with God in praying for it and seeing it come to pass.

God really will give us what we want - so long as what we want is according to His will and i am seeing that now. I am seeing that it is possible to align your mind and your heart with what God wants for you. 

There is something i have been praying for and for the past couple of years i wondered and wondered if it was God’s will for my life. 

Upon seeking Him in my quiet place (my car ha) He began to show me that it is His will for my life but notice this - He waited for an appointed time to show me what His will is. 

I kind of felt this impression that what my promise is coming in this season and i began to feel led to pray about it - and by pray about it i mean i felt led to pray and call it into being according to the will of God and in the name of Jesus Christ. 

So...

That impossible thing? 

Well it’s not very impossible then is it?

I am trusting that as i am seeking God and His kingdom and His righteousness, He is showing me some really cool things and one of those things is that i serve the one and only living God who just happens to be a God who loves working with impossible. 

Abraham and Sarah, Moses and the Red Sea, Joseph and prison, David and Goliath and then David and Saul, Esther and the genocide, Gideon and his small army, the wall of Jericho, Noah and the Ark, Jesus and the water into wine, Jesus and conquering death. Jesus and the resurrection. 

These are all impossible things. Things that in the physical and natural realm should not have happened at all. 

And yet, 

The God i serve is a God who just loves the impossible because it reflects the glory back on to Him. 

He loves to show us who He is and He loves to reveal His character to us and i think one way He does it is through all of the impossible things we give up on or give up hoping for. 

I suppose in my seeking God, i have realised that there is no such thing as impossible with Him. I cannot limit Him nor can i place Him in box. 

And so right now - i place this (the thing on my heart) in His hands. 

and I say - God. Take that which is seemingly impossible and mould it into a tangible reality which no eye has seen, nor ear heard nor human mind ever conceived (1 Cor 2:9). I trust that you are good! i trust that you hear my prayers (Jeremiah 29:12). I trust that when i ask for something according to your will and in the name of Jesus Christ, it is already done (John 14:14). And so in this moment Father, i hand over my hopes and dreams and wishes. I pray that in this moment where that thing - that desire, that hope, that promise - seems so distant and impossible, that you be with me. guiding me and showing me your goodness so i may have faith in who YOU are

Dear God. thank you for it is done!

[pistol247]

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)— II Peter 2:4‭-‬8 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/2pe.2.4-8.NKJV https://www.instagram.com/p/ClgVUSXObSg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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2 Timothy 4:2-4

[2]preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

[3]For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

[4]and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

2 Peter 2:1-22

[1]But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

[2]Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;

[3]and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

[4]For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

[5]and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

[6]and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

[7]and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men

[8](for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

[9]then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

[10]and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,

[11]whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

[12]But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

[13]suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

[14]having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

[15]forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

[16]but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

[17]These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.

[18]For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

[19]promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

[20]For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

[21]For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.

[22]It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire."

[wecanbeperfect]

DESTRUCTION FOR FALSE TEACHERS

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; 

2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eight person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

[podcastpreacherman]

So As It Was In The Days Of Noah - 

So the following two scriptures will outline the entire message, not that I will not use other scripture but these will lay the foundation for this revelation and in some ways I hope I am wrong, but I don’t say that to ease how you will feel if your feeling takes a back seat to the motivation and inspiration, I hope you get for getting away from everything that distracts you from the things of God in your life. This should literally take your breath away for at least a moment and you should have some kind of spiritual reaction if you see and hear what the spirit is saying to us in this message.  

 Luke 17:26-30 - 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

 2 Peter 2:5 - and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

 Lets hear that again you know for impact. “And as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be also in the days of the son of man they did eat they drink they married wives they were given in marriage until the day Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all likewise also as it was in the days of lot they did eat they drink they bought they sold they planted they build it but the same day that lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed.” 

 When the son of man is revealed, hummm are we ready for these days leading up to this event? Everyone alive on this earth, whether you believed or not, will actually see Jesus for the first time, especially those of us who grew up in the Laodicean church where Jesus was kicked out long ago beginning around 1906. And but when you see Him know that the ark door has just closed. The opportunity for salvation is offered no more.

[bills-bible-basics]

FALLEN ANGELS AND REBELLIOUS SONS OF GOD -- KJV (King James Version) Bible Verse List Visit https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/ to see more. "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the SONS OF GOD saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the SONS OF GOD came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." Genesis 6:1-4, KJV "And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Semiazaz, their leader, Arakiba, Rameel, Kokabiel, Tamiel, Ramiel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqiel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants." Book Of Enoch 6:1-8, 7:1 "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;" 2 Peter 2:4-5, KJV "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." Jude 1:6, KJV "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." 1 Peter 3:18-20, KJV ". . . And in the twenty-eighth jubilee Noah began to enjoin upon his sons' sons the ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he knew, and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honour father and mother, and love their neighbour, and guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity. For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth, namely, owing to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances went a whoring after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which they chose: and they made the beginning of uncleanness. And they begat sons the Naphidim, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another: and the Giants slew the Naphil, and the Naphil slew the Eljo, and the Eljo mankind, and one man another.

And every one sold himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity. And after this they sinned against the beasts and birds, and all that moves and walks on the earth: and much blood was shed on the earth, and every imagination and desire of men imagined vanity and evil continually. And the Lord destroyed everything from off the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth He destroyed everything . . ." Book Of Jubilees 7:20b-26a "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." Revelation 12:7-10, KJV "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." Isaiah 14:12-15, KJV "And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." Luke 10:18, KJV "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12, KJV If you would like more info regarding the origin of these KJV Bible verse lists, go to https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/. Thank-you! https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/fallen-angels-and-rebellious-sons-of-god-kjv-king-james-version-bible-verse-list/?feed_id=126770&FALLEN%20ANGELS%20AND%20REBELLIOUS%20SONS%20OF%20GOD%20--%20KJV%20%28King%20James%20Version%29%20Bible%20Verse%20List

[jesuschristsave]

4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. 10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority.

Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings; (2 Peter 2:4-10)

[yhwhrulz]

Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 11th January 2024

1/11 Genesis 7:1

1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

Noah's relationship with God affected his entire family. The same was true for the Philippian jailor (Acts 16:34) and the centurion that sent for Peter (Acts 10:24, 33). One person in a real relationship, who is walking with God, will touch the lives of those closest to him or her. We can't help but affect those in our family for better or for worse. Our rebellion against God will encourage others to do the same, or our increasing relationship with God will draw them to Him.

Noah stood out in his generation as a man who would not give in to the culture. He heard from God and lived in a radically different way. His family followed him by faith, but when the rain began to fall, their faith became sight. They realized Noah's faith had an effect on life in the real world. It meant their salvation. They probably never doubted Noah again. The blessing for Noah's obedience fell on them as well.

Have you thought of how your life is affecting your family and friends? The second letter of Peter calls Noah a preacher of righteousness (2Peter 2:5), but we don't have any record of his preaching. Perhaps it was Noah's very life each day as he built the ark and lived differently from the world around him that proclaimed the message of righteousness. Is the way you live each day drawing people to, or repelling them from, the God you proclaim?

Prayer: Lord Almighty, help my relationship with You be winsome to those who see my life, especially my family. Help me not to conform to the world, but to obey Your word. Draw me close to You throughout each and every day; I ask according to the will of Jesus my Lord.

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December 18th-the very same power that healed the blind and the lepers, and even raised the dead, is available to heal our infirmities.

2 Peter 2: 4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; 5and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to…