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Revelation 1:8 \u00a0 <\/span>Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, \u201cGo, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.\u201d So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, \u201cTake and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.\u201d And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. And I was told, \u201cYou must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ezekiel 2:8 – 3:1\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cBut you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.\u201d\u00a0And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.\u00a0And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.\u00a0And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.\u201d\u00a0So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat.And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.\u201d Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.\u00a0And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them.\u00a0For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel\u2014\u00a0not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.\u00a0But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.\u00a0Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.\u00a0Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.\u201d \u00a0Moreover, he said to me, \u201cSon of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. \u00a0And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord GOD,\u2019 whether they hear or refuse to hear.\u201d \u00a0Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: \u201cBlessed be the glory of the LORD from its place!\u201d \u00a0It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great earthquake.\u00a0The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

John, like Ezekiel, was told to consume the message of God.\u00a0 <\/span>This message was sweet to the taste but bitter to the stomach.\u00a0 <\/span>When you think about it there is something sweet and bitter with God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 <\/span>Grace, mercy, and love – sweet,\u00a0 <\/span>Wrath, anger, judgment – bitter.\u00a0 <\/span>Do you ever wonder if today there is enough being taught and preached about the two of these?\u00a0 <\/span>We here so much of the grace, mercy, and love without a full understanding of the need to preach the whole Gospel which also speaks of wrath, anger, and judgment.\u00a0 <\/span>The Gospel that promises me redemption, forgiveness, salvation, life, hope, peace, rest, satisfaction and eternity in heaven also promises wrath, anger, judgment, unrest, confusion, anxiousness, fear, turmoil, dissatisfaction, discontentment, anguish, disappointment, regret, unhappiness, frustration, chaos, and eternity in Hell.\u00a0 <\/span>How many have trusted in a shallow gospel of prosperity, health, and heaven with a single understanding of the benefits of coming to Christ?\u00a0 <\/span>How is it they can know the need of forgiveness without knowing of sin and its consequences?\u00a0 <\/span>How can they know the depth of the love of Jesus Christ if they do not know of the depth of His wrath, anger, and judgment against those who reject Him?\u00a0 <\/span>Preaching and teaching and believing in a watered-down gospel does no one any good.\u00a0 <\/span>The need to be saved can only be understood when we know what we are being saved from. Understanding and becoming aware that we deserve hell but have been given a choice of redemption through Jesus Christ is the beginning and all of the promises and blessings after this deepen our faith commitment post being saved (born again).\u00a0 <\/span>The sweet and blessed redemption through the Love of Jesus Christ and the bitter consequences of the rejection of this Love must be proclaimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revelation 1:8 \u00a0 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, \u201cGo, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.\u201d So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. … Continue reading “7.g. Say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord GOD,\u2019 whether they hear or refuse to hear.\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[856,12815,12828,7385,12827,10196,12811,12822,8835,12824,38,5583,5260,12817,4527,12814,12803,12614,12818,1900,5972,12823,4416,3916,2448,12825,12819,315,3305,12816,12813,5565,12812,12820,3898,12826,12821],"class_list":["post-80118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-angel","tag-be-not-rebellious","tag-being-strong-oupon-me","tag-bitter","tag-blessed-be-the-glory","tag-earthquake","tag-eat-it","tag-fear-them-not","tag-hard-forehead","tag-hear-with-your-ears","tag-heaven","tag-house-of-israel","tag-kings","tag-lamentation","tag-land","tag-languages","tag-little-scroll","tag-living-creatures","tag-mourning-and-woe","tag-nations","tag-prophesy","tag-receive-in-your-heart","tag-scroll","tag-sea","tag-son-of-man","tag-speak-to-them","tag-speak-with-my-words","tag-spirit","tag-spoke","tag-spread-before-me","tag-stomach","tag-stubborn-heart","tag-sweet-as-honey","tag-they-would-listen","tag-voice","tag-whether-they-hear-or-refuse-to-hear","tag-will-not-be-willing-to-listen-to-you"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80187,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80118\/revisions\/80187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}