Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

What is THE top news story for today? Every morning when you log on
with your computer, you get a glimpse of what your e-mail server
considers the most important or most spectacular news item of the day
(or it’s the biggest headline in your morning paper). But back of it
all, what does that heavenly Father of us all, the God who says He is
“love” (agape), tell us is the great News behind the news? Answer:
the central message of the Book of Revelation: “the everlasting gospel”
being “proclaimed to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people”
(14:6, 7). And what is the purpose of this most highly acclaimed activity? To
prepare people for the most climactic event of all history--the second
coming  of Jesus (vss. 15, 16).

Is this message getting through to the people of the world, or is it
being buried under an overwhelming mass of confusion published by the
media, or even by a similar mass of confusion known as “organized
religion”?

The answer does not depend on mere human observation, for even the New
York Times doesn’t know what is “all the news that’s fit to
print.”  Jesus said, “The kingdom of God cometh not by observation” (Luke 17:20). In His day, what served as “the media” tried to ignore the greatest News of all time, but the Holy Spirit was working quietly,
surely, in what Jesus was doing. So today, the “everlasting gospel”
proclaimed by those three angels of Revelation 14 is getting through in
different ways.

The best way to know for sure is to consider the character of God
Himself--He is “love” (agape); that is, He will not permit the
final, cataclysmic events of earth’s history (“the seven last plagues,”
Rev. 16) to come, until people have had a reasonable chance to prepare. And
that means, they must hear the message of Good News, of His “much
more abounding grace.” You can’t believe that “God is love” (agape)
if you think He has gone to sleep. You must recognize that every angel in
heaven is intensely active, moving upon the hearts of human beings everywhere. God’s “office” in heaven is the central command post of the vast worldwide war between Christ and Satan, as real as the war between
them when Jesus was here on earth 2000 years ago. It will not be
recognized “by observation,” but it’s the most real newsworthy
happening today. Read about it in Revelation 14-19; let the same Holy Spirit that inspired the Book speak to your heart in its pages.

Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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