Sun.’s Devo - Be

Read: Ezekiel 39:1-40:27; James 2:18-3:18; Psalm 118:1-18; Proverbs 28:2
In Ecclesiastes 1:9 says that everything that has happened has happened before and there is nothing new under the sun. What we read about today in Ezekiel will be repeated in the end of time. According to Easton’s Bible Dictionary, Gog has been supposed to be the name of a district in the wild north-eastern Central Asia, north of the Hindu-Kush, now a part of Turkestan, a region about 2,000 miles north-east of Nineveh.
God said he will bring Gog against Israel to destroy her then He would turn on Gog and destroy her. All her warriors would become food for the wild animals and the birds. You can read about this “Feast of Leviathan: also in Revelation 19:17-21. The tables will be turned and Israel will loot those who have looted her and plunder those who have plundered her. It will take seven months to cleanse the land of the bones of the wicked. Next God would gather his people together and pour out his Spirit on the house of Israel.
All of this happened on the cross. Satan was defeated and the plunder is ours. The bones of the past are still in the land and we have the right to bury them. These bone of the past are anything passed down to us that hinders us from taking our inheritance. We have to throw defeat, discouragement, fear, worry, pain, offenses, curses, anger, etc. into the valley of Hamon Gog. Gog means “to cover” which is exactly what the devil wants us to do with all our sins. He just wants us to sweep them under a rug and deny they exist. There they take root and grow bigger and bigger and produce more seeds. God wants to cover our sins under the blood of Jesus so that they have no more power over us. Only the blood of Jesus can take away our sins. Hebrews 10:4 says that it was not possible that the blood of bulls and goats to take our sins away but, 1 John 3:5 says that Jesus was manifested to take away our sins. We have to throw our sins and weaknesses into this valley and let the blood of Jesus cover them and take them away forever.
This will also happen at the end of time when Jesus returns and fights the final battle at Armageddon. Death will be defeated and we will live the last millennium cleansing the earth of the destruction of that war.
James explains that it is a “be” - “do” religion instead of a “do” - “be” one. The “do” - “be” was the religion of the law. It said that you had to “do” first then you would “be” in right standing with God. Jesus taught that first you must “be” then out of who you are you will “be”. You must first have faith to exercise faith - not the other way around.
Lord, help us to “be” your sons and daughters who have inherited your righteousness.