Thurs.’s Devo - Our God Reigns!

Read: Zechariah 9:1-17; Revelation 17:1-18; Psalm 145:1-21; Proverbs 30:32 Remember the four horsemen that went north, south, and west? Hamath and Damascus (vs. 1) were in the north. Tyre and Ashkelon were in the west. And Gaza was in the south. Complete destruction was proclaimed for all of them. But, God promised the watch over Jerusalem. No more foreign oppressors would overrun his people. We are living in the day when God is going to do that again for his people in Israel. *** Zechariah prophesied that Israel’s king would come riding on a donkey’s colt. He would removed the evil from Israel. Jesus would destroy every weapon forged against them and bring peace to the nations. That has never happened in the natural, but it is about to. He promised to free all those in the dungeons (think of those in the underground tunnels). He promises to repay us double for our trouble. *** The battle in their day and the battle in our day is a spiritual battle in which the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will fight to protect us and bring us victory. We will be like jewels in God’s hands and be blessed with abundance and God’s new wine. *** In Revelation, John was taken to the wilderness to see the great prostitute. The beast she sat on had seven heads and ten horns, and blasphemies about God were written all over it. The woman wore purple and scarlet and jewelry of gold, gems and pearls. She held was drunk from the wine of obscenities and impurities. John looked at her in complete shock. *** The angel told her that this beast was once alive but died. It will resurrect from the bottomless pit but is headed for destruction. He explained that the seven heads of the beast were the seven hills where the woman ruled. Think of Rome and the Vatican. They also represented the seven kingdoms that had fallen already: Egyptian, Babylonian, Median, Persian, Greek, and Roman. The Roman Empire would resurrect. It did resurrect under the New World Order. The ten horns were powers that had not yet risen to power during John’s time. All these powers gave in to the NWO. These men who represent the horn are the leaders of nations who have promised to be ruled by the New World Order. They will wage war against God’s people everywhere. But, God will defeat them because he is the Lord of all lords and King of all kings! *** This prostitute ruled where there were masses of people. The people who serve the prostitute will end up hating her. They will turn on her and devour her and this will be God’s doing. The prostitute is not a person but a whole system or city that rules over the kings of the world. That is the cabal which is made up of blood-line families who have ruled the world in the background, who worship Satan and do all sorts of satanic rituals to stay in power. They are coming down! *** Hallelujah! Our God reigns! Thank you that you are in control of all the nations.