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OVERTAKING SATAN AND BEATING EVIL I - Knowing The Planned Time Series 003
Matthew 2:13, KJV
"13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."
The kind of man or woman God wants you to become is he or she who outsmarts Satan in his plan and beats the evil he has planned. That place says, "because man does not know his time...(Eccl.9:12). As such, evil happens to him. However, God wants you to know the time (specific hole punched time) Satan has planned and cooked to take you out so that you can avoid it. When you know, you carry steps and implement counter plans to avoid the hole he has dug. When you successfully avoid his hole and you escape his snare, you continue to live on to see the tomorrow you shouldn't have seen if your life had been taken yesterday. As such, you outsmart the devil and beat his plans.
Only those who will live with the knowing of what time Satan has deliberately planned to take them out would live on to see other days. When King Herod enquires of the wise men diligently what time the star appeared in order to send to kill baby Jesus, God moved with a counter plan and notified Joseph (the step dad of Jesus) of the need to vacate Bethlehem. As such, Jesus escaped death and was not part of those their parents mourned. Later on, we read, "and a voice was heard in Rama, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel (symbolizing all the women or parents), weeping for her children and refusing to be consoled because they are no more" (Matthew 2:18). What difference would it have made if at the time an angel spoke to Joseph to flee for his life, such parents also received communication from God to escape from that community. The sword would not have caught up with them. The Bible says, "then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under..." (Matthew 2:16). Imagine the mass mourning that day! If God tells you or you begin to experience it like withdrawing your child from a particular school, do go ahead. God might be teaching your spirit an imminent danger to avoid. One might just be around the corner. We've heard of boarding schools kidnappers burgled. Could God not have told a parent to go pick his ward for weekend only to discover why he had that unusual feeling?
You could have relocated to live somewhere but the time to leave there might have come in God's calendar. I hope you won't be stubborn saying, "I've become a citizen. I have my estate and my wealth here. I just can't leave here because all my friends and support are here. It has not even been long I got here." Then, you should be ready to face the tune and dance to the music when the event God wanted you to escape comes. The businesses and the estates you're talking about might be things slated to be wiped off by typhoon or one natural disaster. However, God wanted to preserve you alive. He wanted you to move the movables amidst what you have, withdraw your money or make necessary transfers and put plans on ground in a new place without being caught unawares. However, here you are arguing. The problem with man being trapped like fishes and snared like birds is simply unrealization of the time that has come upon him. The inability to read the signal and interpret it for what it is spells and always spells great danger for man - even the taking of his life.
Knowing is a matter that life and death hinge on. It is either you know and you live or you disregard and perish!
PRAYER: I know to live in Year 2025 and beyond. I am not dull of hearing or knowing. I see today, tomorrow and years to come. I escape the sword and Satan's punched hole.
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
I John 4 & Daniel 1-2
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