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Saturday, July 23, 2011

DAYS OF PRAISE- When the Rivers Run Dry July 24, 2011

Days of Praise
When the Rivers Run Dry
July 24, 2011
"The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of
waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures
of the wilderness." (Joel 1:20)
After the Flood of Noah, God set a boundary for the waters,
"that they turn not again to cover the earth" (Psalm 104:9)
. There is a time coming, however, when even such a mighty
river as "the great river Euphrates" will run dry, and "the water
thereof |will be| dried up" (Revelation 16:12). Instead of
covering the earth, the life-giving waters will be withheld as
one of God's coming judgments on the rebellious world of
the last days. His prophetic witnesses will be given power to
"shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy"
(11:6). Furthermore, the atmosphere will be so restrained
that "the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea,
nor on any tree" (7:1), yet the sun will burn so intensely that
"men |will be| scorched with great heat" (16:9).
All of this will generate great fires and famine around the world.
The prophet Joel places all this in the context of the coming
"day of the LORD . . . as a destruction from the Almighty"
(Joel 1:15). The pastures will burn up, and the rivers will dry up
, "for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can
abide it?" (2:11). "Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth,
and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned, and few men left" (Isaiah 24:6).
Yet there is also a time coming when the judgments are past and
"the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
springs of water: . . . And the ransomed of the Lord shall return . . .
they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away" (35:7, 10). In that day--as in this--it is all-important
to be among the ones ransomed by the Lord. HMM
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