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Know, Consider, Pray – Tip
The book of Daniel is a fairly short book and can be read in one sitting. Daniel understood that judgment had come upon his nation because they had departed from the Lord. Portions of his prayer are below. You can read the full prayer in Daniel, chapter 9.
Daniel 9:5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14 Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
A primary difference between Daniel and our age is the lack of understanding that there is a God in heaven to be obeyed and that there are consequences for disobedience.
We don’t understand cause and effect any more.
The church does not focus too much on what is happening because it is waiting for Jesus to come. Yet, Jesus said, occupy till I come, so we need to be aware and be light and salt in the world around us and not allow evil to overtake the nation.
Luke 16:8b for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
However, the United States, like Israel of old, has participated in overwhelming evil.
We must work to remove evil leaders and evil from our nation. We have no right to complain about judgements falling on the United States. If we don’t remove the Achans in the midst, then we reap what we sow by sins of omission.
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If we, as a nation, do not have the moral courage or ability to deal with evil in high places, it will be a blessing if other nations, under international law, will step in and do what we have thus far, been unable to do. Other nations have suffered due to the actions of the United States, first and foremost most recently Ukraine, but many other nations as well. Under international law, now that they know “who dunnit”, hopefully they will go after the criminals in our own nation as it seems there is not the ability or moral courage within for us to do it ourselves.
It would be honorable if we could deal with evil in high places ourselves, but we may not be able to do that and it would be better to get the job done by anyone who has the moral courage.
And the trail needs to be followed back to the globalists as well, who seek to destroy the world if they cannot govern it.
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The Question Behind the Question
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Some people ask questions similar to these….
- If God is good, why is there evil?
- If God is good, why is there war?
- If God is good, why is there hunger?
- If God is good…and the questions go on….
That is not the real question.
There is a question behind that question that must be answered.
That question is this.
Did God create man or did man evolve?
That question must be faced and answered by each soul.
Jesus said,
Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
It is a simple yes or no.
There are those who say, how do you decide? How can you know?
There is a school of study called apologetics.
To explain what apologetics is, using a simple example, consider if you are deciding if someone made a chocolate cake in your house.
You come into the house after a long day.
- You might smell the smell of a chocolate cake.
- You might a bowl in the sink with some chocolate cake mix on the sides of the bowl.
- You might see a half eaten piece of chocolate cake on the table.
- You might see a child with chocolate icing on his shirt.
At this point, you have a decision to make. You have gathered evidence by smell, by sight. What is your decision?
Do you decide that someone made a chocolate cake?
Or do you say, contrary to all the evidence that you have seen…I don’t think anyone made any chocolate cake today.
Or, do you say, contrary to the evidence you have seen, I don’t think anyone made a chocolate cake, I think it was a strawberry cake.
Or you may not care to think about it at all, and would rather just flop down on the couch and watch a TV rerun.
Now of course, Bible apologetics is more detailed than figuring out if a chocolate cake has been baked, but it is really that simple.
Look at the facts and decide.
It is possible to understand the answer of whether man evolved from the slime or whether God created man.
Once that answer is settled, other questions can be answered. The answers are in the Bible.
God did not bring evil to this earth. Satan did.
Adam and Eve, by listening to the lies of satan, and through disobeying God, opened the door for evil to enter this world.
The point is, once the decision is made that the Biblical account is correct and that the Bible is accurate, then other questions can be answered as well.
Obedience to do what the Bible says to do is a key.
Psalm 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
A blog post can only introduce a topic but not cover it in depth. For more study on various topics, click here for links to various Christian ministries.
Depending on the ministry, there may be online church services, YouTube videos, podcasts, radio programs, books, teaching, or more. You have to seek out what they have.