What about the Righteous?

When the Lord is ready to stretch out His hand against a rebellious unrepentant land what will happen to the righteous who are in the land?  Ezekiel 14:13-14 reads:

¹³ Son of man, when a land sins against Me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out My hand against it and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it man and beast,

¹⁴ Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they would save but their own lives by their righteousness (their uprightness and right standing with Me), says the Lord God.

 

Our Lord Jesus Christ made us righteous by His finished work on the cross, all who believe and confess He is Lord are made righteous through faith by grace.  Romans 10:9-10:

⁹ Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

¹⁰ For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.

 

As children of God, it grieves our heart to know that the people who reject and rebel against God will suffer.  We are to pray for the lost that they may hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe and be saved and many will but there are those who will not.  God has given us a free will and every opportunity to choose to turn from evil and ask Him to save us from our sins.   2 Peter 3:9: ⁹ The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance.

 

The Lord repeatedly tells us in Ezekiel these things will come to pass so that we will know that He is the Lord.

 

The Lord says we will have consolation Ezekiel 14:22-23:

²² And yet, behold, in it shall be left a remnant (an escaped portion), both sons and daughters. They shall be carried forth to you [in Babylon], and when you see their [ungodly] walk and their [wicked] doings, you will be consoled for the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

²³ And they shall console you when you see their evil ways and their rebellious actions. Then you shall know (understand and realize) that I have not done without cause all that I have done in Jerusalem, says the Lord God.

 

 

 

Scripture reference:

Ezekiel 14:13-23

Romans 5:1-21

Romans 8:1-3

 

 

 

 

A New Day

This morning as I awakened to a beautiful new day, I was reminded that God has already gone before us and prepared this day.  Everything that will happen or not happen He already knows about and because He loves us I know He will be with us in the good times and the bad times.  Deuteronomy 31:8 - And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.  Everything that I see happening in the world, the government shutdown, murders, hatred, wars, rumors of wars, calamities, pestilences,  is all pointing to the return of Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.  Revelation 3:10 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Gods children know there has been a change, a shift in the Kingdom of our Heavenly Father and as members of the Body of Christ, we have an indescribable excitement of joy and expectancy.  You see, Heavenly Father, has been speaking to us through dreams, visions, prophetic word and His holy bible letting us know the Bridegroom, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is on His way to get His Bride, us, His children and we are to watch and pray and let His light shine before men that our Father may be glorified in heaven. Like never before we need to pray for the lost, open our mouths and our hands and let them know Almighty God sent His Son, Jesus to take our punishment for sin and He has risen and lives forever and the door is still open, He is knocking and is still ready and willing to save.  By His grace through faith in Jesus Christ we are saved and the lost will be also.  One day we were lost and someone shared the glorious good news, the Gospel of Jesus Christ with us and we confessed we were sinners and asked Jesus to forgive us and become our Lord and Savior, we believed it in our heart and confessed it with our mouth and we became His to live with Him forever.  Our names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.