THE TWO VOICES
“Come down, and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon,
sit on the ground: there is no throne”
Isaiah 47:1
It is a day of the humbling of nations, a day in which authority will fail and, in the rejection of all that is right, just and holy, we will see the result of men’s choices. Every form of wickedness contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
“And he cried mightily with a strong VOICE, saying,
Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,
and is become the habitation of devils,
and the hold of every foul spirit,
and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
For all nations of the wrath of her fornication,
and the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich
through the abundance of her delicacies”
Revelation 18:2 -3
The man tormented by the legion lived in the graveyard; every living thing seeks out an environment in which it is comfortable. The reason Babylon is inhabited with devils, foul spirits, unclean and hateful birds is because there was provision made for them. In the rejection of the light and the choosing of darkness men provide a dwelling place for such things. God’s judgment is to simply give men over to their own ways (Romans 1:18 – 32). In the midst of the declaration that Babylon is fallen we hear “another voice” crying out…
“And I heard ANOTHER VOICE from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues”
Revelation 18:4
It is the calling out of God’s people unto righteousness and a sanctified life. To be numbered as one of God’s people yet to remain in Babylon WILL NOT SAVE US from the judgments of our God! Positional truths will not circumvent an unrighteous life. If we partake of “her sins” we will most assuredly partake of “her plagues”.
“God is not mocked, whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap”
That VOICE IS SPEAKING TODAY, calling out to the people of God to COME OUT and be separate unto our God. A separated life is an obedient life; not a life lived unto itself. It is a life poured out unto the development and raising up of the BODY OF CHRIST! It seeks (like Nehemiah) the welfare of the people of God. To live unto ourselves, to choose our own way and to secretly love the things of Sodom is to ultimately partake of its plagues.
“Remember Lot’s wife”
Luke 17:32
Brian Troxel
www.aword.info
10/31/2010
Amen. Lord help us…
“To live unto ourselves, to choose our own way and to secretly love the things of Sodom is to ultimately partake of its plagues.”
…I tremble at these words, for how vividly they describe my former ways; and for how many will hear the same words yet not follow them to the place of deliverance. To be set apart as a vessel fit for the honorable use of the Master requires us to die to all other purposes. We can have no peace with God except we let His will be done in us.
With that in mind, please pray for me. Before the mirror of His holy eyes, I am still found wanting in many ways. He who gives the Spirit of life without measure to those who can receive it has been rejected enough, and I hate contributing to such a grievance when I already know better.
And bless you Brian, your faithfulness to God has been a window through which He could easily make many wonderful things clearer to my eyes than they had previously been.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend (:
“Positional truths will not circumvent an unrighteous life.”
Amen. Leonard Ravenhill once said that a man can have all of his doctrines right and still reject Christ.
Amen. We need to look no further than the Scribes and the Pharisees to know that.
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
Such is the truth for today.
Safe travels.
BT
Amen. We need to look no further than the Scribes and the Pharisees to know that.
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
Such is the truth for today.
Safe travels.
BT
“Positional truths will not circumvent an unrighteous life.”
Amen. Leonard Ravenhill once said that a man can have all of his doctrines right and still reject Christ.