Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
You won't see it in today's paper or on CNN; but it's the real "news": the great war raging between Christ and Satan. You may say, "I don't like conflict; let's have peace and quiet." Okay, but we can't have peace until the war is won.
Revelation 12 describes how the "war" began--with Lucifer rebelling against God out of envy of Christ (vss. 7-9). When Adam decided to join, the war was transferred to this earth (vs. 9). It's now become the theater on which the last conflict is now being played out. "Who has the last word in this conflict?" a speaker at our worship service asked. "God has!" someone answered. But the speaker had seen something that most of us had never noticed: God's people have the last word in this "great controversy between Christ and Satan." Revelation describes them as "our brethren" who "overcame [Satan] by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony" (vss. 10, 11).
The spotlight is on them in 15:2, 3--they "had gotten the victory," and sing the triumphant "song of Moses ... and the song of the Lamb." Again in 17:14 "they that are with" the Lamb, are "called, and chosen, and faithful." No idle spectators.
We hear them in 19:1-9 singing grand Hallelujah Choruses. The gala event of the ages is "the marriage of the Lamb." In their victory over selfish sin they have become the corporate "Bride" arrayed in a wedding dress like no one has ever seen: "fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." A different word in Greek from what we have always read about as "the righteousness of Christ"--now it's imparted to God's people, a part of them!
They have the last word in the war.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: September 16, 2001.
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