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Chapter 29: God’s Weapons
Man has invented many weapons to use against his fellow man down through the centuries. We have progressed from clubs and swords to thermonuclear bombs that can destroy an entire city in a few moments. God also has weapons that he has used down through the centuries to direct mans attention toward him. Ezekiel 14:13, 15,17, 19-20 "Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, "Or if I send wild beasts through that country and they leave it childless and it becomes desolate so that no one can pass through it because of the beasts, "Or if I bring a sword against that country and say, 'Let the sword pass throughout the land,' and I kill its men and their animals, "Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath upon it through bloodshed, killing its men and their animals, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness. God's weapons are famines, wars, wild animals, and plagues and pestilence's. He will use all of his weapons against the inhabitants of earth to cause as many as will seek him to repent and escape his wrath when it is poured out upon the earth. The two witnesses will be his vehicle to call mankind's attention to the fact that they need to seek the mercy of the lord before the return of Jesus Christ. Ezekiel 14:21-23 "For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments--sword and famine and wild beasts and plague--to kill its men and their animals! Yet there will be some survivors--sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem--every disaster I have brought upon it. You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign LORD." Although the verses above pertain primarily to Jerusalem, the lesson they teach can be applied to all nations. It will be shown after all that has been written in the book of Revelation has been accomplished that God was more than fair in bringing destruction down on the nations and kings of the earth. If anything, his plagues will be proved lenient compared to what was deserved. |