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Dr. Arnold Murray, DRE Newsletter #222 - April 1997
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How many of you become dismayed, when ~~~~~~~~:\Irights to become a part of what should be their
you watch the evening news? We live in a .@ptabliShtb
highest Christian day of celebration, Passover.
generation where the majority of the people "t
simply don't care about anything. The lack of ISAIAH 59:8-9 The way of peace they know
morals in our society becomes more and more evident. not; and there is no judgement in their goings: they have
Let's turn to God's Word to learn how we may stabilize made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shal/
not know peace. 11 Therefore is Judgement far from us,
ourselves in these times. First, we are going to look neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but
at the Father's prophecy of how far this generation behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
would separate themselves from Him.
Righteousness is far from us and difficult to find in
ISAIAH 59: 1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not short­ this generation. Watch the evening news.
ened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that
it cannot hear: ISAIAH 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and
we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day
No matter how bad things become in this genera­ as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
tion, God is still there for those that love and serve
Him. On the other hand, He will turn a deaf ear to God's prophecy is accurate. There is no need to grope
those that don't. for truth. The truth is right here in the Bible.

ISAIAH 59:2-3 But your iniquities have separated between
you and your God, and your sins have hid His face
from you, that He will not hear. J For your hands are
defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your
/ips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Even churches that teach the traditions of men.
rather than the Word of God, are perverse in His eyes:
ISAIAH 59:4 None cal/eth for justice, nor any pleadeth
for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they
conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
God has a plan. He expects those that love Him
to study that plan, whereby they may be of service to
Father to accomplish that plan. Others are playing church.
ISAIAH 59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave
the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth,
and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
ISAIAH 59:11-12 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore
like doves: we look for judgement, but there is none; for
salvation, but it is far off from us. .12 For our transgressions
are multiplied before Thee, and our sins testify against
us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
iniquities, we know them;
As a nation, we have children killing children in gang
related violence. Our government sponsors a welfare system
that supports children being born outside of a family. That
is not God's way.
ISAIAH 59:13-14 In transgressing and lying against the
LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression
and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words
of falsehood. H And judgement is turned away backward,
and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the
street, and equity cannot enter.
The word judgement means verdict.

Cockatrice' eggs are vipers' or snake eggs. The
spider's web is a web of lies and deception created by
false teachers. What is false teaching? If it is contrary
to God's Word, it is false teaching.
ISAIAH 59:6 Their webs shall not become garments,
neither shall they cover themselves with their works:
their works are works of iniquity, and the act of vio­
lence is in their hands.
The web of deceit will not be suitable to serve as
the gospel armour (Ephesians 6).
ISAIAH 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make
haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts
of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
False teachers leave a trail of confusion in their
paths. If you think I am exaggerating, consider that
many churches have allowed pagan rituals and fertility
ISAIAH 59:15-16 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth
from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it,
and it displeased Him that there was no judgement. 12
And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that
there was no intercessor: therefore His arm brought salvation
unto Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him.
The salvation He brought forth was Jesus Christ. The
word sustained is from the Hebrew "comak" (saw-mak').
It means to lean upon. What did He lean upon? His
righteousness. Your righteousness stabilizes you, as well.
When you make an effort to understand God's Word and
to follow His instructions, you become stabilized.
ISAIAH 59: 17-18 For He put on righteousness as a
breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon His head;
and He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a cloke. 12 According to their
deeds, accordingly He will repay, fury to His adversaries,
recompence to His enemies; to the islands He will repay
recompence.
Vengeance belongs to our Father.
ISAIAH 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD
from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun.
When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit
of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
God will lift up some of His servants to stand against
Satan and Satan's flood of lies with the truth. Those
servants must be stabilized in the Word to be of any
use to God. Let's tum to the New Testament. We will
find the Greek word from which "stablished" is translated
is even stronger than the Hebrew.
/I PETER 1:3-4 According as His divine power hath
given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of Him That hath called us to
glory and virtue; 1 Whereby are given unto us exceeding
great and precious promises; that by these ye might be
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust.
The divine nature is the Holy Spirit. Are you a
partaker? How do you escape the corruption you witness
on the evening news? You escape by stablishing yourself
in God's Word and doing the best you are able to live
His way.
/I PETER 1:5-6 And beside this, giving all diligence,
add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; ~ And
to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;
and to patience godliness;
Diligence means you care. Virtue is resolve. Tem­
perance means self-control. Patience is stedfastness. Godliness
is the divine nature you possess, if you do these things.
II PETER 1:7-8 And to godliness brotherly kindness;
and to brotherly kindness charity. ~ For if these things
be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall
neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Barren may be translated "idle".
/I PETER 1:9-10 But he that lacketh these things is
blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that
he was purged from his old sins. 1Q Wherefore the rather,
brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election
sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
You will have bad days. You will be persecuted by
some; however, you will never fall.
II PETER 1: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered
unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
This is your ticket, friend. I hope you have one.
II PETER 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put
you always in remembrance of these things, though ye
know them. and be established in the present truth.
The word established is from the Greek word "sterizo"
(stay-rid'-zo). "Sterizo" means to set fast. Are you solid
in the truth? Are you immovable from the truth?
/I PETER 1: 13-14 Yea,
am in this tabernacle, to
I think it meet, as long as I
stir you up by putting you in
remembrance; 1.1 Knowing
my tabernacle, even as
that shortly I must put off this
our Lord Jesus Christ hath
shewed me.
Peter is referring to the conversation Christ had with
him in John 21 concerning Peter's death.
/I PETER 1:15-16 Moreover I will endeavour that ye
may be able after my decease to have these things
always in remembrance. 1Ii For we have not followed
cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto
you the power and coming of our LC(rd Jesus Christ,
but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
This is the key. If you keep the truth "always in
remembrance", you will be able to stand against the
enemies of God stedfastly. He will give you power over
your enemies. In Chapter three of II Peter, we find one
of the most in-depth teachings. Peter tells of the three
world ages. Let's pick it up in verse eight.
/I PETER 3:8 But beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.
The millennium is the Lord's day.
II PETER 3:9-10 The LORD is not slack concerning
His promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance. 1Q But
the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the
earth also and the works that are therin shall be burned
up.
The elements, or rudiments, which are evil will be
destroyed in the lake of fire at the end of the millennium.
In closing, let's go to verse fifteen.
II PETER 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of
our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul
also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath
written unto you;
We also should be patient. It is not God's will that
any should perish.
II PETER 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking
in them of these things; in which are some things hard
to be understood, which they that are unlearned and
unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures,
unto their own destruction.
Those that are not stablished in the Word wrestle
to understand the Bible. Now, listen up. Peter gives a
warning to those that understand the three world ages
and the nephilim he spoke of in chapter two.
II PETER 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know
these thing before, beware lest ye also, being led away
with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Peter is speaking to those that know the truth. The
warning is that they not be deceived. The end result
being the unforgivable sin of denying the Holy Spirit and
worshipping antichrist. Heed Peter's warning. Stablish yourself
in the Word. God will stabilize those that do.
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