Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Shout it Out Loud!

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
SHOUT IT OUT LOUD
Prov 14:28
28 A large population is a king's glory,
but without subjects a prince is ruined.
NIV
Is this really about how a king would govern his people? Does this really speak about a ruler promoting such grace and mercy that his people multiply freely and increase in number so he has glory? That when a government places such a burden upon its people that they decrease in number? Many great minds are leaning toward this meaning, but I wonder if this has more. Could this not be a statement of the state of a man’s spirit? Does not God receive great honor and glory when the body of Christ, his church is filled with great multitudes? Would not the statue of Satan come to ruin if no one was in his snare and he was left all be himself with only those angels who fell with him? Is this not a plain and simply contrast between the end result of God and Satan? Then I saw a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language standing before the throne an in front of the lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” Rev 7:9-10
The prince of this world will come to ruin without question in the end. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Rev 20:9-10 But it is so sad, that is not over for along with them some, there is going to be a number, certainly not as many as the multitude that cannot be counted, but some will follow him. And the result is: Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Rev 20:14-15
There is no doubt this speaks to that end and for one I have chosen to be among the uncountable multitude who has been and will continue to cry out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb”! If we do no cry it out loud now, will we get to later? Be loud, shout it out loud every day!

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