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Tuesday... It brings it all together.


Tuesday... It brings it all together.

I just finished reading the last chapter in the Bible, Revelation 22 and there is something in this chapter that brings it all together.

I don't know if you have read the story in Genesis, the first book in the Bible of the creation and what happened there between the first man and woman and Satan. Now Satan had been one of the great angels in heaven and he thought he was better than God so God kicked him out of heaven and from then on he has done all he can to get back at God. And Adam and Eve, the first man and woman was where he started this campaign to get back at God. Adam and Eve were God's plan at how life would be on Earth.

Now He created them as free moral agents. He created them to worship Him by choice. The angels in heaven worshiped Him but that was why they were created. God created man and woman with the power to choose and so He set up a way to test them. He created two trees. One was the tree of life and the other was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If they ate from the tree of life continually, they would live forever, and the other one He told them not to eat of it. This was the test.  

And that is where Satan comes in. Now he wanted to get back at God so he set out to ruin God's plan so he told them like he does all the time now in our lives, he told them it would be ok for them to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. So they did it and God had to throw them out of the Garden where they lived and He put an angel at the gate to keep them from coming into the Garden to eat of the tree of life so they couldn't live forever. But He then set out a plan at how to redeem man and that is what the Bible is all about and Revelation 22 brings it all together.

Now the book of Revelation is a very complicated book. It really is. But here in verses 14 -15 (NLT) it brings it all together. It says, "Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat from the tree of life. Outside the city are the dogs - these sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, and all who love to live a lie."

Back in 1 John 1:9 it says, "But if we confess our sins to him, [to Jesus] he is faithful and just to forgive us us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness." That is what it means when it says, "Blessed are those who wash their robes." And that is why Jesus came to die for us. And that was God's plan to win us back and bring us to the place that we can eat again of the tree of life and live forever which was His original plan but the sin of Adam and Eve messed it all up. But God never has and never will give up. And that is what Revelation 22 is all about. It brings it all together. 

And we too can live forever and eat of the tree of life. So if we confess, He will forgive and wash our robes. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

  

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