Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
What practical down-to-earth difference does it make in one's daily living what he believes about Christ? Is He ministering as High Priest in the Most Holy Apartment of the heavenly sanctuary (the second), or is He still absorbed in His first apartment work? Where is He?
A Christian writer with keen perception says it means everything. It's either getting ensnared in Satan's clever last-days counterfeit, or getting involved with Christ's genuine work of preparing a people to receive the seal of God versus the mark of the beast. The latter will become an extremely subtle imitation. The issue will end up either (a) bowing down to the false "christ" in the final test, or (b) bowing before the true Christ. You don't want an angel taking a snapshot of you kneeling to the devil--knowingly or unknowingly!
In other words, those who finally decide to receive the alluring "mark of the beast" are even now day by day preparing. Apparently insignificant "self" choices today build up a massive case ending in a judgment of intense ultimate self-condemnation.
Likewise, those who finally choose to receive what Revelation calls "the seal of God," "let this mind be in [them], which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5). They choose this way of thinking now, day by day. They "let the word of Christ dwell in [them] richly in all wisdom" (Col. 3:16). They choose moment after moment to let the Holy Spirit hold them by the hand as they "walk in the Spirit" (see Gal. 5:16; Isa. 41:10, 13).
It's simply choosing to surrender one's natural selfish alienation from God in order to "be ye reconciled" to Him. It all comes through the final ministry of the Lamb of God, your true High Priest (forget those earthly "priests" who have no connection with Him).
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: June 25, 2002.
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