What does it mean to be the first and the last? Isaiah 44:6, “Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me. “ Some believe this means that the Creator is not constrained by time and that may well be fact however the Jeremiah 32:35 verse demonstrates He may choose not to “time travel” into the future. He simply has spoken the end of day and it will happen just as He has spoken.
Matthew 5:14
1 Peter 5:6
"Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them."
Pr 24
Some people stress that we must believe the Devil is real and is our dangerous enemy; they say that in order to fight well we must recognise the enemy.
And sometimes they think to stress this point by saying that evil people are not our enemy - this is the opposite of recognising the enemy: Christ said to evil men, “ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do" Jn 8. Evil men are absolutely our enemy, doing the lusts of the Devil on the earth.
If we do not recognise this enemy, then we do not recognise our enemy the Devil, or any enemy.
"Beware of men" Mt 10
Some might object that we shouldn't see some group of people as our enemy, but this of course does not come from Scripture. Rather, we must group people by morality, and this must trump any other grouping. Grouping by morality must trump grouping by skin colour, for example: if a person is good, we must be friends, regardless of skin colour: if a person is evil, he must be our enemy, regardless of skin colour.
#sabbathposts 2023/09/09
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