How Not to Bow. Part [14] 07/20/2025 (Evening thought)

Revelation 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

As it was throughout history, the use of force will be the last resort after incentives and other sweeteners do not work. There will be tremendous pressure to bow down in order to retain your rights, and we can expect these pressures to be coming from unlikely sources. The mark of the beast spoken of in Revelation is a pressure campaign to get the people of God to bow down to a false system of worship, and efforts will be made in the extreme, to starve individuals into compliance.

But when these and other measures are exhausted, there will be only one more tool in the tool box, the use of brute force for this is the very last page of the playbook used by man’s mortal foe, through human agencies…. Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

Then the servant of The Lord lays out in a graphic manner, what kinds of pressure and arm twisting we should expect from frenemies and foes alike. This is none other than a wakeup call for us to renew our commitment to serving and obeying God first…. Revelation 13:16 And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.

Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!

How Not to Bow. Part [13] 07/19/2025 (Morning thought)

Exodus 32:23 For they said unto me, make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

In the case of Joseph, Mrs. Potiphar exerted much social pressure upon the young man, and when seduction and entreaty would not work, she resorted to brute force. Hence the reason why, when Moses asked Aaron of what the people did to him, to cause him to buckle and bow, he referred to the immense pressure that was exerted against his soul which caused him to do the unthinkable. But at the end of the day, it was his own decision.

[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 320] The great leader summoned his guilty brother and sternly demanded “What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?” Aaron endeavored to shield himself by relating the clamors of the people; that if he had not complied with their wishes, he would have been put to death.

In the not too distant future, the Bible again warns us that tremendous pressure to bow down to false gods, will be exerted, and this will be coming from all sides of the political and religious spectrums. The pressure campaign is scheduled to begin with entreaty, peer pressure, financial pressure and the type of pressure that was exercised by the clergy in years gone by. Persons will be encouraged to make a deal, by exchanging their souls for some temporary gain, only if they will bow down.

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!