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Serving God When the Trumpets Sound

Serving God When the Trumpets Sound. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. Only when we see our frailty will we be able to gain true wisdom to live. (Psa 90:10-12). Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God.

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Serving God When the Trumpets Sound

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  1. Serving God When the Trumpets Sound

  2. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. • Only when we see our frailty will we be able to gain true wisdom to live. (Psa 90:10-12)

  3. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. Psalm 90:10-12 (NKJV) - The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. 12 So teach usto number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

  4. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. We do not need to be smart and powerful or look to those who are, to find both meaning and protection in this life. One of the sad spectacles in life is that of the proud fool who is unprepared for calamity. (Lk 12:19-20)

  5. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. Luke 12:19-20 (NKJV) - And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

  6. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. God is merciful and allows suffering to come in order that we may think straight! Israel refused to acknowledge God during its time of suffering. (Amos 4:6-13)

  7. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. Amos 4:6-13 (NKJV) - “Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities. And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD. 7 “I also withheld rain from you, …Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD. 9 “I blasted you with blight and mildew.… The locust devoured them; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD.

  8. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. 10 “I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt; Your young men I killed with a sword, Along with your captive horses; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD.

  9. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. 11 “I overthrew some of you, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD. 12 “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

  10. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. 13 For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man what his thought is, And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places of the earth — The LORD God of hosts is His name.

  11. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. There is no more fearful a thought than that of meeting a living God unprepared! For those who do respond God will receive, provide for and protect. (Joel 2:12-13)

  12. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. Joel 2:12-13 (NKJV) - “Now, therefore,” says the LORD, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” 13 So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.

  13. Men are quick to forget that they are frail and need the protection of God. What should we do in times of physical, financial and spiritual distress?

  14. Remember that God rules among the nations God has shown us time and again that He brings nations up and also takes them down. (Rev 2:26-27)

  15. Remember that God rules among the nations Revelation 2:26-27 (NKJV) - And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations — 27 ‘Heshall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ — as I also have received from My Father;

  16. Remember that God rules among the nations He gives nations opportunity to repent by warning them with His word and with His judgments. There comes a time where a nation reaches the point of no return. (Gen 15:16)

  17. Remember that God rules among the nations The book of Revelation was written primarily for the struggle of that generation. (Rev 1:1) God used “trumpets” that is calamities of various kinds to humble men so they might repent and seek God. (Rev 8:6-10)

  18. Remember that God rules among the nations Revelation 8:6-10 (NKJV) - So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 7 The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

  19. Remember that God rules among the nations 8 Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. 9 And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

  20. Remember that God rules among the nations Consider the affects of a sudden catastrophe. We see the world anew!

  21. Remember that God rules among the nations “Even while numbness sets in, something else happens. A mental "window" opens for a period of time that shocks us into an appreciation of our existence in a more poignant way than our everyday awareness allows for. We become more sensitized to the simple beauty of our being alive and the importance of those who matter to us.

  22. Remember that God rules among the nations Suddenly the important things in our lives jump forward in bold relief. The window tends not to stay open for too long, as we slowly drift back into our common mentality.”

  23. Remember that God rules among the nations These trumpets affected everything that was important to the worldly man. The misery was so great that many wanted to die. (Rev 9:5-6)

  24. Remember that God rules among the nations Revelation 9:5-6 (NKJV) - And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

  25. Remember that God rules among the nations Sadly most failed to repent when the trumpets sounded in Rome. (Rev 9:20-21)

  26. Remember that God rules among the nations Revelation 9:20-21 (NKJV) - But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. 21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

  27. Remember that God rules among the nations Most today will not respond with repentance. Foolish men never learn. (Prov 27:22)

  28. Remember that God rules among the nations Proverbs 27:22 (NKJV) - Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yethis foolishness will not depart from him.

  29. Remember that God hears and answers prayers Habakkuk had doubts about the wickedness around him. (Hab 1:1-4)

  30. Remember that God hears and answers prayers Habakkuk 1:1-4 (NKJV) - The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw. 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, And You will not hear? Even cry out to You, “Violence!” And You will not save. 3 Why do You show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife, and contention arises.

  31. Remember that God hears and answers prayers 4 Therefore the law is powerless, And justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  32. Remember that God hears and answers prayers Did God see Judah’s wickedness? Indifference? Why does God not act? Be careful when you seek such answers. God had a plan. God’s answer was not what Habakkuk wanted to hear. (Hab 1:5-11)

  33. Remember that God hears and answers prayers Habakkuk 1:5-11 (NKJV) - “Look among the nations and watch — Be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days Whichyou would not believe, though it were told you. 6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, A bitter and hasty nation Which marches through the breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling places that are not theirs….

  34. Remember that God hears and answers prayers It is important to know that God knows what he is doing. The Babylonians were very evil. They were going to make a great slaughter of the people and never give God credit. Habakkuk now has a greater problem. Have you ever had a problem that started out bad and then grew worse?

  35. Remember that God hears and answers prayers How could God use such a wicked people? (Hab 1:12-13)

  36. Remember that God hears and answers prayers Habakkuk 1:12-13 (NKJV) - Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction. 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, And cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours A person more righteous than he?

  37. Remember that God hears and answers prayers The destruction would be great! Nothing much would be left. (Hab 1:14-17)

  38. Remember that God hears and answers prayers Habakkuk 1:14-17 (NKJV) - Why do You make men like fish of the sea, Like creeping things that have no ruler over them? 15 They take up all of them with a hook, They catch them in their net, And gather them in their dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

  39. Remember that God hears and answers prayers 16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, And burn incense to their dragnet; Because by them their share is sumptuous And their food plentiful. 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, And continue to slay nations without pity?

  40. Remember that God hears and answers prayers “How could God allow this to happen?”

  41. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass Habakkuk to his credit knew when to be quiet and listen. (Hab 2:1)

  42. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass Habakkuk 2:1 (NKJV) - I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.

  43. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass You cannot learn when you complain all the time. You cannot learn when you close your ears in anger. God simply repeated what He said. You can count on it! (Hab 2:2-3)

  44. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass Habakkuk 2:2-3 (NKJV) - Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.

  45. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass God is not like us and is swayed by emotion. When we act on principle we will see a great consistency. When things do not go “our way” is when we show our faith. God did see the sins of Judah. (Hab 2:4-5)

  46. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass Habakkuk 2:4-5 (NKJV) - “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. 5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.

  47. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass He knew their pride. Only “the just shall live by faith”, this is the key to the book. The righteous would also suffer in such a judgment. But they will be faithful. God now gives five woes towards Judah. (Hab 2:6-19)

  48. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass It is almost comical to think that we could ever think that we know something that God does not know! I am sure Habakkuk learned much he never knew.

  49. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass What we need to do is shut our mouths and listen! (Hab 2:20)

  50. Remember that God’s judgments will come to pass Habakkuk 2:20 (NKJV) - “But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”

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