May 23
The Romans plowed the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem under. They endeavored to stamp out the Jewish people and to destroy Christianity. In the Middle Ages, the Spanish Inquisition turned belief in the Lord Jesus Christ on its head, employing evil rather than love in order to secure the faith.
In the 1800s, some philosophers asserted that before the turn of the century, people would have lost all faith in God. The 1930s and 40s saw the Holocaust. In the 1960s some had the audacity to declare that God was dead and life should be lived in abject freedom to be as wanton as one pleased—self was the only god to be satisfied.
But none of that is what God says. In Psalm 135:13 the psalmist states emphatically, “Lord, Your name endures forever. Your reputation, O, God, will abide through the generations.” Today, when we see a rise in the occult, an increased interest in eastern mysticism and we see religions of hatred and blood lust on the ascendency, be mindful of the Word that cannot fail and cannot lie.
As in the past, times of trial may come. The Church of Christ, believers in His truth as well as His ancient people Israel may endure persecution once again. Worldly havens of peace and freedom may be torn asunder by evil politicians or by terrorism, but the Bible, the Living Word of our Eternal God will stand. It will endure. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will endure—and prevail!
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