Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
It's coming at us from all sides--the realization that we need repentance:
(1) In the Book of Amos, there is a sad message calling for ancient Israel to repent, and how they refused until the corporate nation was totally destroyed by the Assyrians. Insistent convictions remind us that Amos is "present truth." Those "ten tribes" were lost to history; it's healthy for "us" to ponder and tremble before God!
(2) Side by side with the disaster of the Northern Kingdom is the story of the Southern Kingdom. What Amos was to Israel, Jeremiah was to Judah. "All the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD ... in Jerusalem ... till there was no remedy" (2 Chron. 36:14-16). Poor Jeremiah was forced to witness the burning of the Temple and the destruction of the city, and the people taken to Babylon. A disaster totally the opposite of the blessings God had promised to Israel in the New Covenant (Gen. 12:1-3). It was the fruit of their Old Covenant mindset and heart attitude. They ended up crucifying their Lord of glory.
(3) The same process of apostasy that "polluted" ancient Israel has worked within the Christian Church through the ages--the infiltration of pagan ideas. Has it gone so far that there is "no remedy"? Revelation declares that now "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city" (14:8). And, like ancient Israel, Babylon will end up enforcing "the mark of the beast"--crucifying Christ "afresh."
(4) And lastly, the church of Laodicea is "lukewarm," unconscious of a vast poverty of Spirit in this hour of crisis (Rev. 3:14-21). Should we not learn lessons from history?
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: October 20, 2001-1.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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It's coming at us from all sides--the realization that we need repentance:
(1) In the Book of Amos, there is a sad message calling for ancient Israel to repent, and how they refused until the corporate nation was totally destroyed by the Assyrians. Insistent convictions remind us that Amos is "present truth." Those "ten tribes" were lost to history; it's healthy for "us" to ponder and tremble before God!
(2) Side by side with the disaster of the Northern Kingdom is the story of the Southern Kingdom. What Amos was to Israel, Jeremiah was to Judah. "All the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD ... in Jerusalem ... till there was no remedy" (2 Chron. 36:14-16). Poor Jeremiah was forced to witness the burning of the Temple and the destruction of the city, and the people taken to Babylon. A disaster totally the opposite of the blessings God had promised to Israel in the New Covenant (Gen. 12:1-3). It was the fruit of their Old Covenant mindset and heart attitude. They ended up crucifying their Lord of glory.
(3) The same process of apostasy that "polluted" ancient Israel has worked within the Christian Church through the ages--the infiltration of pagan ideas. Has it gone so far that there is "no remedy"? Revelation declares that now "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city" (14:8). And, like ancient Israel, Babylon will end up enforcing "the mark of the beast"--crucifying Christ "afresh."
(4) And lastly, the church of Laodicea is "lukewarm," unconscious of a vast poverty of Spirit in this hour of crisis (Rev. 3:14-21). Should we not learn lessons from history?
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: October 20, 2001-1.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Please forward these messages to your friends and encourage them to subscribe. The "Dial Daily Bread" Web site resides at: http://1888message.org/
To subscribe send an e-mail message with "subscribe" in the body of the message to: dailybread@1888message.org
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Robert J. Wieland's inspirational "Dial Daily Bread" messages are availalbe via e-mail to anyone who wishes to receive a daily portion of uplifting Good News. "Dial Daily Bread" is FREE. Due to travel or other circumstances, there may be intervals when "Dial Daily Bread" will not be sent.
