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turtle30cshell Daily Devotions For July 22, 2023
Living In Imperfect World
7/22/2023

Daily Devotions:
by Christina Farris

Revelation 22:10-21 KJV
10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

God's grace in a darken world of sin. A sin that will remain in our world until the end of time. If we can grasp that In verse eleven in Revelations 22 where it says "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." it not speaking of people remaining in sin, it speaking of sin remaining in the earth, righteousness remain as it is by faith and holiness being holy as it is according to God. God's word defining evil, defining truth, defining faith and hope in a world that is mixed by many things including unbelief.

In I Peter 3:30 it talks of the days of Noah and only eight people were saved. In Genesis it speaks of the evilness of man but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Not only grace but Noah was found to have faith. God does not love evil, and yet he loves every man, enough to send his only begotten son into the world that they might be saved through him. God has always sent forth his word even at the time of Noah to save man, but no one believed the preacher of righteousness. It does not mean people did not have morality of some sort in their world, it means their deeds in general were evil and they believed not God.

When God shuts the door on the people of sin, it comes swift, it does have end date in the world as we know it. Evil will be destroyed. The filthiness of the world will be no long in our world. There lies there is evil we grow up with and think what wrong with it. God ordain it as sin. Called it sin. God's word does not change his rules, God's word does show mercy until the end of time when his wrath is poured out like in the days of Noah when the flood came, instead a fire will come and the earth will be completely utterly destroyed as we know it. If the heat wave of this summer is not a reminder of the wrath of God to come, nothing will, however my area been rather cool for its summer, because of it I suspect snow will be in the forcast, but then again maybe not, because our snow usually comes forth from the north where it been hot this summer as well. The dog days of summer are upon us. Since early July Dog days have been extremely hot, but has not felt that way in my region, nor compared to other place across our nation. Yet it will be cooling off soon hopefully, but I seen heat in late November in our mountains only once but it occured because of weather patterns caused by El Nino weather patterns. The change of season since I was a girl tells of global warming. I can remember snow that would cover even a grown man standing up and maybe five or six men standing on the shoulders of one another. Snow banks the heighth of forty feet in lower valley regions of southwest Virginia.

What is God saying in the changing of our weather, that changes will continue til his return. All while the Gospel will be preach, that faith is needed for salvation, that there is a place where goodness reign and evil is not allowed in. Every abused child in the middle of the night retain those words to know that what they experience will not always exist. The nighmare of a loss of a love one by gun or knife point will not exist. The hate of this world will not exist.

God's Son comes to carry his bride away the church will not be here when the earth is destroyed for eternity. We do not has people have to remain in faithlessness or in other types of sin. People you have a choice of eternal home in glory land that outshines the sun. Or you have the destination called the eternal lake of fire that burns for eternity. If you living in a heat wave area right now that my friend does not sound to good. The hotest I ever experienced in the heat and not in this region was probably 110 degrees working in amusement park. It is heat stroke weather. Rides do shut down in that heat and you feel like you can not keep enough fluid within your body, though you drink water constantly. It worse I suspect 125 degrees. And in the park you only have the air from the rushing of a ride, no fans to keep you cool, and if you got shade you better thank God for it.

I stood in my own house tending the coal stove which gets very hot to keep the whole house in forty below weather. It will turn black coal to a light orange glow to a bright yellowish orange tint. You step back from the heat of the stove within it when the door is open and look and wonder if this is what hell looks like. God's kids have no need to know what the fires of hell look like but for the sinner the fires of hell image is something that needs to be etched into their brain with the knowledge of choice and the image of hell can be removed to a home in heaven. God's kids only need to know they just escaped the fiery furnance because they are saved. Noah and his family knew they escaped the flood as the rain came and would not ceases for days. They were safe. Eight of them in that ark was safe.

The water continued to pour out with the wrath of God. It seem there to be no end to the flood. Then the storm ceased and Noah and his family were still safe seals in the ark of safety. Society changed as Noah and his family knew it, but yet their new society was not without sin. The free choice of sin still existed after the flood. The sinning against each other, to abuse of one's own body existed.

The New Heaven and New Earth that is coming is without sin. We will be living in the perfection of the light of Christ. The light of God. We are sinners saved by grace transformed into the image of God's only begotten Son, sitting in the heavenlies as son and daughter of God. Joint heirs with Jesus. The Word of God will reign forever and ever.

Our imperfect world is not going to change until it is destroyed, but the soul of man can be changed through faith in Christ Jesus. We got a lot of work to do out there by sharing the Gospel of Jesus and the hope of faith. Let us stand in the hope we have an share that Gospel as believers in Christ. The fires of hell not a pretty sight even for the vilest of sinners.

Dear Heavenly Father thank you for the eternal hope of everlasting life through Christ Jesus our Lord, thank you for your word of truth and what is to come to the world destine for destruction with the opportunity of receiving hope through Christ Jesus. That one day it will no longer remains, but the place of eternity shines bright by you and your Son. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: 1 Peter 3:19-22 KJV
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

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