Spiritual Versus Secular Modes Of Thought Part [10] 10/27/2026 (Morning thought)

Malachi 3:1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

But the multitude back then, as is also the case now, were seeking a Messiah of their own choosing, and by clinging to their world view, they built out entire doctrines to support their misinterpretation of the prophecies, which clearly pointed out the Messiah’s work. In fact, now that Christ has come and died and risen again, it is forbidden in many Jewish circles, to read Isaiah 53.

That’s how far the spiritual and secular is going to put persons at odds, for God says one thing and the strong spirit of unbelief says another…… Isaiah 53: 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

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

Spiritual Versus Secular Modes Of Thought Part [9] 10/27/2026 (Evening thought)

1st Kings 17:And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

[Prophets And Kings pp 124>126] The earth is parched as if with fire. The scorching heat of the sun destroys what little vegetation has survived. Streams dry up, and lowing herds and bleating flocks wander hither and thither in distress. Once-flourishing fields have become like burning desert sands, a desolate waste. The air is dry and suffocating; dust storms blind the eyes and nearly stop the breath. Once-prosperous cities and villages have become places of mourning.

Hunger and thirst are telling upon man and beast with fearful mortality. Famine, with all its horror, comes closer and still closer. They began to cast about for some other cause to which to attribute their sufferings. Jezebel utterly refused to recognize the drought as a judgment from Jehovah….. The secular and the spiritual were also at odds in the days of Christ, when worldly perspectives were allowed to taint the prophecies concerning Christ as the Messiah.

This one is different to the others, for they actually used the prophecies in the scripture to build secular perspectives concerning Christ. How on earth they came up with the view that the coming Messiah would reign as king in Jerusalem is a mystery we cannot fathom, especially when in the book of Isaiah and the Psalms, it is clearly written of the Messiah, that He would die a violent death.

 1st Kings 17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

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