October 22, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
PROPHECY AND HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF NATIONS
See the following verses first: Gen. 11:1. The whole earth in the beginning was only of one language. Gen 11:1-9. God is the Author of languages and nations (See PP 120). Acts 17:26. All nations are of one blood (See PK 500). Deut. 32:8. God establishes the boundaries of nations. Job 12:23. He increases and destroys nations (cf. Hab. 1:5-11; Pk 499, 500). Deut. 4: 13-17. God watches over the nations (PK 536, 537). Eze. 29: 17-20. God uses a nation to punish other nations. Her. 25: 9-11. God calls even heathen nations His ‘servants’ to do His biddings. (cf. Jer. 50: 11-20). Jer. 46: 17. When God forsakes a kingdom, is but a “noise;” it soon passes. Now this:
“In the annals of human history the growth of nations, the rise and fall of empires, appear as dependent upon the will and prowess of man. The shaping of events seems, to a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or caprice. But in the Word of God, the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, behind, above and through all the play and counter play of human interests and power and passions, the agencies of the all-merciful One, silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will. The Bible reveals the true philosophy of [human] history.” -E.G. White, Education, p. 173.
As worldly-ambitious men and women, political parties, behemoth corporations, ideologies, religions and churches vie against one another for the highest positions of recognition, power and wealth in these last days filled with chaos and strife, God is soon not only to demonstrate His sovereign power over all nations and proud institutions of men, He will also take over the “reins” of the closing work in His mighty hands and “will cut it short in simplicity and righteousness.” May we part of the closing hour “eleventh-hour workers” in the parable! Bless all, NMF.