To refuse Him is to perish.

Hebrews 12v26-29

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chapter 12 contrast God's revelation at Sinai with His revelation in and through Christ. 

The incomparable privileges and glories of the Christian faith are not to be treated lightly. God is speaking, inviting, wooing. To refuse Him is to perish.

Those who disobeyed the voice of God as it was heard in the law were punished accordingly. 

When privilege is greater, responsibility is also greater. 

In Christ, God has given His best and final revelation. Those who reject His voice as it now speaks from heaven in the gospel are more responsible than those who broke the law. Escape is impossible.

At Sinai God's voice caused an earthquake. But when He speaks in the future His voice will also produce a “heavenquake.” This was, in substance, predicted by the prophet Haggai (Hag 2:6): “Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land.”

This shaking will take place during the period from the Rapture to the end of Christ's kingdom. 

Prior to Christ's coming to reign there will be violent convulsions of nature both on earth and in the heavens. Planets will be moved out of orbit causing raging tides and roaring seas. Then at the close of Christ's Millennial Reign, the earth, the stellar heavens, and the atmospheric heavens will be destroyed by fervent heat (2Pe 3:10-12).

When God said, “Yet once more,” He anticipated a complete and final removal of the heavens and the earth. This event will explode the myth that what we can see and touch and handle is real and that unseen things are unreal. When God ends the sifting and shaking process, only that which is real will remain.

Those who were occupied with the tangible, visible ritualism of Judaism were clinging to things that could be shaken. True believers have a kingdom which cannot be shaken. This should inspire the most fervent worship and adoration. We should unceasingly praise Him with reverence and godly fear.

God is a consuming fire to all who refuse to listen to Him. But even to His own, His holiness and righteousness are so great that they should produce profoundest homage and respect.

Then [at Mount Sinai] His voice shook the earth, but now He has given a promise: Yet once more I will shake and make tremble not only the earth but also the [starry] heavens. [Hag 2:6]

Now this expression, Yet once more, indicates the final removal and transformation of all [that can be] shaken--that is, of that which has been created--in order that what cannot be shaken may remain and continue. [Psa 102:26]

Let us therefore, receiving a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken, offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship, with modesty and pious care and godly fear and awe;

 For our God [is indeed] a consuming fire. [Deu 4:24]

You take care of God’s business and God will take care of you!

Get your mind off of yourself and put on God thereby walking daily in His Love by giving daily to God of yourself that Love is uppermost in your life. The enemy can’t handle it and people in the world can see God in you thereby He alone gets the glory through you! Your life will prosper throughout because you are living daily serving the King and His Kingdom!

Love God and love people! Pray for any negative, any offences, your enemies etc

Love is the highest form of spiritual warfare!

2Thess 3v18

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen!

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