6/22/12

Gone with the wind


I feel certain in saying that the hat wrecked someones picture of the pyramids!!!  Face it; things happen, and sometimes quite suddenly.  When you lest expect it....wham!!!  I couldn't help but think of Egypt and how Pharaoh opposed God and look what happened to him!!!  Fast forward to the new testament and we find this passage in the book of Thessalonians....

2 Thessalonians, Chapter 2
1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you 2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.  3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,  4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.  5 Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?  6 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.  7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.  8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;  9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;  12 that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;  14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, whomever you think the "man of sin" is one thing is certain: God has power over him and will destroy him as easily as breathing on him.  Man may do great things; brag about his accomplishments and seem to be in control, but frankly it just isn't so.  In God's time, in God's way, all who oppose HIM will be like that hat in the wind.  Nothing can stand before him; absolutely nothing!  Some things we just need to accept by faith... this is one of them!!!