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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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<a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/" target="_blank">www.2rbetter.org</a></b></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">January 31, 2013</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>AUG
26 - EZEKIEL 38-39 - GOD & MAGOG DESTROYED - ISRAEL EXALTED</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
38:2-3a (38:1-7, ESV) PROPHECY: GOG TO BE REPULSED. “<font size="3">Son
of man, set your face toward God, of the land of Magog, the chief
prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">3
</font><font size="3">and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am
against you.”</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal"> And
whom You are against Father, shall </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">surely</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
fall. Yet a little while, and the wicked shall be seen no more.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed be
your :name.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
38:10 (38:8-13) GOD’S INVASION PURPOSE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Thus
says the Lord GOD; On that day, thoughts will come into your mind,
and you will devise an evil scheme.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You are the only God Who can tell a man’s thoughts before He has
even thought them! What a </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">great
God</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
You are! Humble us before Your might and power! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
38:16 (38:14-17) GOD’S PURPOSE IN THE INVASION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“You
will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the
land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the
nations may know me, when through you, O God, I vindicate my holiness
before their eyes.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes
Father, You make even the wrath of man praise You! You use man’s
evil purposes to fulfill Your will. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
39:2 (38:18-39:7) DESTRUCTION OF GOG AT ARMAGEDDON. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from
the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains
of Israel.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we tremble at Your might and omnipotence! You are also omniscient!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our :daily
:bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">39:12 (39:8-20) GOG:
SPOIL AND CARNAGE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to
cleanse the land.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
devastation! What fulfillment of Your Word, Father! O how we need
You! O make us like the deer panting after the the water brook, that
we thirst after </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And forgive
us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
39:21 (39:21-24) THE PURPOSE OF GOD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see
my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on
them.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
see Your power Father, when Your judgments are upon earth. Then Your
Glory shines forth. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
39:28 (39:25-29) ISRAEL: TO BE REGATHERED AND CONVERTED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Then
they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them
into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own
land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Greater
than Your deliverance of Israel through the Red Sea Father, is Your
returning them to their land after Babylon, and after 70 A.D. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil one.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
39:29 (39:25-29) GOD’S FINAL SMILE UPON ISRAEL. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit
upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.” </span></font></b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is Your Sovereign choice, Father. The Potter is working on His clay!
We cannot say You, No!</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 56:10 (56) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">IN
GOD WE TRUST. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“In
God whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes
Father, we will bless You for Your Word! For Your </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">promises</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are backed by all the honor of Your Name (Psalm 138:3, L.B.)! How
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">great</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is Your Name. No wonder we say, </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">We
have here the songs of God’s servant, who rejoices once more to
return from banishment and to leave those dangerous places where he
was compelled to hold his peace even from good. There is such deep,
spiritual knowledge in this Psalm that we might say of it, “Blessed
are you, David Bar-Jesse, for flesh and blood has not revealed this
unto you.”</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">1:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>For man would
swallow me up. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">He
is but Your creature, a mere man, yet like a monster he is eager for
blood; he pants, he gapes for me; he would not merely wound me, or
feed on my substance, but he would fain swallow me altogether, and so
make an end of me. The open mouths of sinners when they rage against
us should open our mouths in prayer.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">1:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>What time I am
afraid, I will trust in You. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">David
was no braggart; he does not claim never to be afraid; he was no
brutish Stoic free from fear because of the lack of tenderness.
David’s intelligence deprived him of the stupid needlessness of
ignorance; he saw the immanence of his peril and was afraid. We are
men, and therefore liable to overthrow; we are feeble, and therefore
unable to prevent it; we are sinful men, and therefore deserving it,
and for all these reasons we are afraid. But the condition of
the Psalmist’s mind was complex - he feared, but that fear did not
fill the whole area of his mind, for he adds, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>I
will trust in You.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
It is possible, then, for fear and faith to occupy the mind at the
same moment. We are strange beings, and our experience in the divine
life is stranger still. We are often in a twilight, where light and
darkness are both present, and it is hard to tell which
predominates. It is a blessed fear which drives us to trust.
Unregenerate fear drives from God; gracious fear drives to Him. If I
fear man, I have only to trust God, and I have the best antidote.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">1:4.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>In God I will
praise His word.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
Faith brings forth praises. He who can trust will soon sing.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">1:5.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Every day they
wrest my words. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">This
is a common mode of warfare among the ungodly. They put our language
on the rack; they extort meanings from it which it cannot be made
fairly to contain. Thus our Savior’s prophecy concerning the temple
of His body, and countless accusations against His servants, were
founded on willful perversions. They who do this every day become
great adepts in the art. A wolf can always find in a lamb’s
discourse a reason for eating him. Prayers are blasphemies if you
choose to read them the wrong way upwards. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>All
their thoughts are against me for evil. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">No
mixture of good will tone down their malice. Whether they viewed him
as a king, a Psalmist, a man, a father, a warrior, a sufferer, it was
all the same - they saw through colored glass and could not think a
generous thought towards him. Even those actions of his which were an
undoubted blessing to the commonwealth they endeavored to undervalue.
O, foul spring, from which never a drop of pure water can come!</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">6:13.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>That I may walk
before God in the light of the living.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
Here is the loftiest reach of a good man’s ambition, to dwell with
God, to walk in righteousness before Him, to rejoice in His presence,
and in the light and glory which it yields. </span><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</b></span></font></font></p>
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