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August 24th 2020

David_Orr • August 24, 2020
Standing God’s Ground
STAND IN THE GAP! I usually write Monday’s Devotional on Sunday night to keep from writing in my usual Monday morning “Baditude” but I watched an hour long Podcast last night from “The Bible Project” on YouTube on Satan (Translated Adversary) and I have been overwhelmed ever since. In Genesis 3 I thought Satan had took on the form of a snake but the Bible Project guys translated it from the original Hebrew as Seraph. Lucifer (Latin) was a Seraphim! He was the song leader in Heaven before He fell. He was one of the Seraphim that flew around God’s Throne with wings covering his face and feet singing HOLY, HOLY, HOLY. Eve was deceived by one of God’s 3 lead angels and part of his punishment was to crawl on the ground. He went from a glorious Creature with 6 magnificent wings to a vile creature in the dust. It is said that Moloch, Chemosh, Dagon, Belial, Beelzebub and Satan were the leaders of the rebellion against God. We think them all but Satan to be false gods of stone, wood and gold: but they are real Demons. God took down a curtain in my life last night where I saw things that shook my feelings of security. It was a false sense of security of choosing not to see things that are really there. I lay on the day bed in front of the TV bewildered at what those 2 men were discussing. Seraphim is translated as serpents and “Burning Ones” they say were Fiery Serpents that bit Israel in the wilderness. Fallen angels God allowed past His protection to chastise Israel. The Gap
Fear or Faith?
So, understanding that what I thought was haphazard coincidences of Evil is all meticulously planned should bring what response? My “Happy Bubble” was popped and my thinking can’t go back to the way it was yesterday afternoon: can it? I don’t think those 2 men were telling us their findings to scare and deter us from doing what God has called. I am notorious for walking around in my own little world and since Jesus is here all is good: RIGHT? Why would Jesus pull back the curtain and show me scary things? The Reality of the Threat
Just my size
The gap I am to stand in is no bigger than my own reach: God is God and I’m not. All these months of study on faith building were leading up to this point: where the rubber meets the road. We began last December digging up prophecies of Jesus out of the Old Testament seeing He is who He says. And we built on that in January going through Hebrews 11 about faith. We studied about “Building a Wall”, fighting fear and understanding Grace: culminating in this understanding that “We ARE THE WALL!” Together we stand against our Adversary (Satan) the devil keeping him from devouring. God is God and He stands with you if He ordered you to stand where you are standing. I didn’t have to fight for God’s peace this morning: He gave it. When I tried to relate to God what I am understanding: He said “SO WHAT. Did I cease to be God?” So we learn more so we can do more and help more: God’s Got This!

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