Dangers Of Deliberately Believing Lies. Part [9] 04/20/2024 (Evening thought)

Genesis 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

[3SG pp 43] Adam censured Eve's folly in leaving his side, and being deceived by the serpent. They both flattered themselves that God, who had given them everything to make them happy, would yet excuse their disobedience because of his great love to them and that their punishment would not be so dreadful after all.

 Here again is the same phenomenon taking place in the era of the Antediluvians, where they chose to disregard the facts in the matter, as was manifested in the natural world. At first, they see it as a sign of foreboding, but then they flatter themselves that it is not really what it is. Thus, when Noah preached his final sermon, it fell on deaf ears.

[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 97] The period of their probation was about to expire. And now the servant of God made his last solemn appeal to the people. With an agony of desire that words cannot express, he entreated them to seek a refuge while it might be found. Again, they rejected his words, and raised their voices in jest and scoffing.

Genesis 7: 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean and of fowls and of everything that creeps upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God commanded Noah.

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

Dangers Of Deliberately Believing Lies. Part [8] 04/19/2024 (Morning thought)

Psalms 12:1 Help, Lord; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things

There are two words that are written side by side in the Spirit of prophecy, which caught our attention as we were preparing the study for today, and because of the number of times they occurred together we had to take notice, for they are written together no less than 685 times. Here they are:  Flattered themselves. It seems that the deliberate choice to believe a lie is not something new, but it has occurred throughout the history of our world.

It started out in the garden of Eden, and down through the ages it has morphed into the mindboggling phenomenon we see today, where persons deliberately shutter their eyes to the truth and facts to the point where many are bereft of reason. Some are actually seeing all the red lights flashing danger, and some are complaining, yet the habit of believing errors has become so deep-seated that in some instances, persons almost cannot escape, for after a while, deliberately believing lies can become addictive, just like cocaine or Fentanyl.

Adam and Eve flattered themselves that God’s word would be reversed, and that His great love for them would preclude Him from enforcing the sentence. In the vain hope that the serpent’s words might yet be true, they huddled together in the valley of wishful thinking, until the voice of God triggered the rude awakening to the raw facts in the matter.

Genesis 3: 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. 17 And unto Adam he said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

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