To the elect of God, according to the knowledge of the Father, according as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the earth was laid. Jesus came to die. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, came to get his head cut off. Do you think that Jesus as a human being would have come to earth if He knew that His purpose was to die? It is a complex but interesting question. Jesus was God. Jesus is God. Did He not know that His purpose for living was to die? We must die to self so that others may live. The trying of our faith by fiery trials work to test the measure of our faith through the sanctification of the Spirit of God unto obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
The trial of our faith being more precious than gold that is tried by fire, that we may be found praising and honoring and glorying at the appearance of the revelation of Jesus Christ--although we have not seen Him, we love Him--believing and rejoicing with unspeakable joy in anticipation of His coming. (1 Peter 1)
May grace, peace, mercy love and power be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus Christ our Lord. (2 Peter 1)
To the almighty God who created heaven and earth and all that was made and not made--belongeth vengeance, and recompence; those who work to destroy your life and the life of others; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. (Deuteronomy 32)
To those who have been kept down and every time you try to get up you are pressed back down. To those who have been denied opportunities and stripped of your dignity and self esteem for generations. To those who operate from a place of self-hate, envy and jealousy and are on a vicious, deceptive and continuous campaign to destroy your neighbors, coworkers, and innocent people who go about their daily lives--running errands, the handyman, doing chores, yardwork and the like--your sword will go into your own heart, the net you have secretly laid to destroy others, you will fall in to. You will be confounded and confused. (Psalm 37) Vengeance belongs to the Lord; He will repay.
Praise the Lord for your fiery furnace!
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