Waging war…

 Waging battle….

I read once of a scene where Satan challenges God in Creation…

God accepts the challenge…Satan then proceeds the bend down and pick up a hand full of dirt….

“Ah, no”, Said God. “You make your own dirt…”

Revelation 13 repeats the words, “given power” several times…with the beasts…

God is still in control no matter what…

Revelation 13 continues with recounting the battles with the beasts out of the sea and the earth…who are given power, who blasphemes God… proudness, wages war against God’s holy people…performs signs and wonders…

“….This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people. “

This calls for wisdom…..

Rev.13.10b,Rev.13.18a

Reminds me of Job…

 One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. 

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.” 

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” 

“Does Job fear God for nothing?” 

Satan replied. “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” 

The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

Job.1.6-12

Satan was given only the power that God allowed…and one could say Job also had patient endurance, faithfulness, wisdom as is called for in Revelation for God’s people…when so much bad was happening to him……

Like Job, we don’t know all that the heavenly realm is waging or allowing on our behalf… 

Fo some that I know, this past year has been a trial and a blessing…we have found that through the trials, God has been faithful …we may have wondered “what is happening, why is this happening…” we may never know…but, God has been there all the time…but is has called for “patient endurance, faithfulness, wisdom”…

Thank YOU…

Blessings…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQan9L3yXjc