A man, who strives to be righteous, has apparently terrible personal and financial losses. Is he being punished or blessed?
A man who, by trickery and deceit steals billions from religious organizations, investors and charities, is able to do so for three decades. Where is his punishment? Why doesn’t GOD take matters into HIS HAND?
Malachi 3:
13 Your words have been all too strong against Me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say: ‘Wherein have we spoken against thee?’
14 Ye have said: ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully because of the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they try God, and are delivered.’
16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon His name.
17 And they shall be Mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in the day that I do make, even Mine own treasure; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not.
19 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall set them ablaze, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
20 But unto you that fear My name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.
21 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I do make, saith the LORD of hosts.
Where can I read this for my self? http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2403.htm
A few items that I observe as important or enlightening. First, this is the second place we find a Book Of Record created by GOD for GOD. The other is Exodus 32:33 [And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.] The truth for judgment, REQUIRES THE WITNESS OF TWO OR MORE WITNESSES.
Second, Nothing has been forgotten, but everything must be at the correct time, place and with the correct people –always. Nothing is wasted, like the idea of Thermal Dynamics which we(learned interested parties) believe that energy is not lost it is only placed in a different state. For example heat of fire changes energy from highly excited energy to a -rock which takes the energy and stores it as potential energy. Maybe a better example would be a battery of a laptop computer which takes a charge and then slowly converts that charge to lights, computations, data storage and heat that warms something else.
Third, those that find it successful to do evil while GOD does not destroy them for NOW! Will be punished later in a fashion I want nothing to do with.
So who is GOD, the LORD of Israel and the Creator of the Heavens and Earth?
Isaiah 45: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1045.htm
17 O Israel, that art saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. (The world will end.)
18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens, He is God; that formed the earth and made it, He established it, He created it not a waste, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob: ‘Seek ye Me in vain’; I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
22 Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
23 By Myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from My mouth in righteousness, and shall not come back, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Ezekiel 24:14 I the LORD have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.’
Yaakov
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