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Luke 5:38 

"And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth 

a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then 

both the new maketh a tear and the piece that was 

taken out of the new agreeth not with the old."

        Jesus knew the Pharisees and the company of tax collectors and sinners would understand this parable. Because Christ would explain things in terms of what was around them and what they were knowledgeable about. The first verse of this parable actually teaches us what happens when we turned to Christ and we don't fully commit 100% to our new birth in Christ.
        My friends when you get saved you can not walk in true Righteousness by mixing a little of your new nature with your old nature. If one only puts forth a small portion of their new nature with their old nature, the old will over take the new. Why? Because it will not agree with the old nature, and the new nature separates itself from the old and the old becomes dominant once again.
        When we give our hearts to Christ it must be 100%. The problem with today's thought process is this: "It is trying to take our Lord out of everything it can, and replace it with the old." That being Man's Law's and Not God's!! My friends one can not be, one quarter in, half way in, but 100% A Believer and Stand Firm! 
        Amen!!

Reading: (Luke 5: 36-39)   
               (Mark 2: 21-22)
               (Matt. 9: 16-17)
Ref: (HGSB)

May God Bless You 

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Felt Affiction Becomes Blessed Affliction

Psalms 10:1  

"Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? 

Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 

         "Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?" This is a Question verse, and a Great Teaching Tool. It is not the trouble, but the hiding of our Father's face, that's what hurts the most. When trial and desertion come together, we are as Paul was, when his ship fell into a place where two seas met.  "And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves" (Acts 27:41).
         There is no wonder that we are like the vessel which ran a ground, and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, while the hinder part was broken by the violence of the waves. When our sun is eclipsed, it is dark indeed. If we need an answer to the question, "Why hidest thou thyself?" It is to be found in the fact that there is, "a need to be" not only for trial's, but for heaviness of heart under trial.  "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" (1Pet. 1:6)
        But how could this be the case, if the Lord should shine upon us while he is afflicting us? Should the parent comfort his child while he is correcting him, where would be the use of the chastening? A smiling face and a rod are not fit companions. Right; that action is not correct for us to use! God bares the back that the blow may be felt; for it is only felt affliction which can become blessed affliction. If we are carried in the arms of God over every raging river, where would be the trial, and where would come the experience. So, which trouble is meant to teach us?

        Amen!

Reading: (Ps. 10:1-18)

Ref: (HGSB KJV)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry 

The Threefold Temptation

Luke 4:4  

"And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, 

That man shall not live by bread alone, 

but by every word of God."

        
        As the waters of Jordan bisects (divide into equal parts, or separates) the Holy Land, so does our Lord’s baptism bisect His holy life. In that He had identified Himself with the world’s sin; and now, as the High Priest who was to deal with sin and sinners, He must be "in all points" tempted and tested "just as we are."
        He went into the wilderness a perfect humanity of flesh and blood, made just like us in all points though without sin. He elected to fight His great fight, not by the use of the divine attributes, but as Son of man. Where the first Adam fell, the second stood.
        First, He could not use His native power for His own gratification. Second, He would abide strictly within the limitations of the world He had entered, (Heb. 2:16-17). Third, He would win His kingdom by the Cross. "Now in order for you to be a part of His Kingdom, you must be "Born Again;" undergo a "spiritual rebirth." (John 3:3; Mark 16:16; Matt. 18:3; John 14:6; Titus 3:5; Matt 28:19).
        Amen!!

Reading: (Luke  4:1-13)
Ref: (HGSB,MSC)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

A Preacher Of Righteousness

Luke 3:4 

"As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, 

saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 

Prepare ye the way of the Lord, 

make his paths straight."
 

        The emperor, a governor, two high priests, and three tetrarchs, are of subordinate interest, compared with the one man, the child of the desert, whose coming dated a new era and to whom he devotes the remainder of the chapter. After all, it is religious men who really make the history of mankind.
        "The word of God came unto John the Baptist; and then he came." That is the true order. Get your message and then come. It is often in the wilderness of life that God’s words find us. The man who is going to master men must first master the appetites of his own body. If you seek popularity, you will lose it; if you seek to do God’s will, men will almost certainly come to find you. Souls require a clear pane of glass, when they look out on the infinite expanse of the sky! Be real! Live at first-hand with eternal truth! Fear not the face of man!
        Amen!!

Reading: (Luke 3:1-14)
Ref: (HGSB, MSC)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

The Saviour is Born

Luke 2:11, 12  

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David 

a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this 

shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the 

babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, 

lying in a manger."

        The manger and its precious occupant are among the most cherished memories of our childhood; but as we come to know Christ, the wonder grows. "Great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifest in the flesh," (1Tim 3:16).
        All around the precious child there were, "Shepherds with their curious wonder; angels from the realms of glory; wise men with their gifts; aged saints like Simeon and Anna, Surely the desire of all nations is Still Present! Let us ask that the Lord of glory to fill us with His Holy Spirit and be born again in a heart that once was condemned. God is the Master of all, and His left hand controls all providence and history, and His right hand holds all things to Him. So, what can He not do for us and His Church!
        Amen!!

 MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

                                                            

Reading: (Luke 2:1-21)
Ref: (HGSB, DSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Following Christ In Pleasing Others

Romans 15:1  

"We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities

 of the weak, and not to please ourselves." 

        This chapter is remarkable for its threefold designation of God. The God of patience and comfort, (Rom. 15:5); the God of hope, (Rom. 15:13); and the God of peace, (Rom. 15:33). Our character may be deficient in these things, but His fullness is there for us to draw upon. There is no lack for those to whom He says, “Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.”
        We must always be on the lookout for the weak, the heavy laden, and the downcast. Let us help them with their burdens, anxieties, fears, and questionings, imparting to them something of our cheery hope. Never pleasing ourselves; merciful to others; though merciless in the standard and criticism we apply to our own conduct; comforting ourselves with the Word of God, that we may be able to impart these divine consolations to others.
        Where such conditions are realized, life becomes a dream of Heaven actualized in flesh and blood. But we must fulfill the injunctions of (Rom. 15:9-13), rejoicing in praise and abounding in hope. The outlook on this side may be dark and depressing, but open your curtains on your windows toward God and see, that the land is light.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rom. 15:1-13)
Ref: HGSB,  

May God Bless You 

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Until The Time Of Harvest

Matthew 13:30  

"Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest 

I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, 

and bind them in bundles to burn the: 

but gather the wheat into my barn"

        Jesus used the grain because it was in just the right phase of growth to illustrate the parable. In those parts where the grain has headed out, the tares had done the same, and there a child cannot mistake them for wheat or barley; but when both are less developed, the best eye will often fail to detect them. I know that I could not do it at all with any confidence. Even the farmers, who in this country generally weed their fields, do not attempt to separate the one from the other. They would not only mistake good grain for them, but very commonly the roots of the two are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate them without plucking up both. So both must be left to grow together until the time of harvest.

        The whole series of pictures within this parable teaches us that there is always a hostile power in the world, seeking and waiting to destroy the good seed. Our experience is that both kinds of influence act upon our lives, the influence which helps the seed of the word to flourish and to grow, and the influence which seeks to destroy the good seed before it can produce fruit at all. The lesson is that we must be for ever on our guard.
        It teaches us how hard it is to distinguish between those who are in the Kingdom and those who are not. A man may appear to be good and may in fact be bad; and a man may appear to be bad and may yet be good. We are much too quick to classify people and label them good or bad without knowing all the facts.
        It teaches us not to be so quick with our judgments. If the reapers had had their way, they would have tried to tear out the darnel (rye grass or cockle) and they would have torn out the wheat as well. Judgment had to wait until the harvest came. A man in the end will be judged, not by any single act or stage in his life, but by his whole life. Judgment cannot come until the end. A man may make a great mistake, and then redeem himself and, by the grace of God, atone for it by making the rest of life a lovely thing. A man may live an honorable life and then in the end wreck it all by a sudden collapse into sin. No one who sees only part of a thing can judge the whole; and no one who knows only part of a man's life can judge the whole man.
        It teaches us that judgment does come in the end. Judgment is not hasty, but judgment comes. It may be that, humanly speaking, in this life the sinner seems to escape the consequences, but there is a life to come. It may be that, humanly speaking, goodness never seems to enter into its reward, but there is a new world to redress the balance of the old.
        It teaches us that the only person with the right to judge is God. It is God alone who can discern the good and the bad; it is God alone who sees all of a man and all of his life. It is God alone who can judge. So, ultimately this parable is two things; it is a warning not to judge people at all, and it is a warning that in the end there comes the judgment of God. 

        Amen!!

Reading: (Matt. 13:24-30)

Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

The Hardening Power Of Unbelief

Matthew 12:45  

"Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked

than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state

of that man is worse than the first. even so shall it be

also unto this wicked generation."

       Christ made the point to His teaching very simple. The point of the parable of the Empty House; is that the Law may negatively empty a man of evil, but only the gospel can fill him with good. The Law therefore simply leaves a man an empty invitation for all evil to take up its residence within his heart; the gospel fills him with positive goodness that evil cannot enter in. Here is Jesus' claim, "that the gospel can do for men what the Law can never do."  Myself, I would rather be "Held by the Hands Of God," than the hands of Evil !!
        Amen!!  

Reading: (Matt. 12:43-45)
               (Luke 11:24-26)
Ref: (HGSB,BSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Power Of Truth

Mark 4:20  

"And these are they which are sown on good ground; 

such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring 

forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, 

and some an hundred."

        There was the ground that was full of thorns. The Palestinian farmer was lazy. He cut off the top of the fibrous rooted weeds; he even burned off the top; and the field might look clean; but below the surface the roots were still there; and in due time the weeds revived in all their strength. They grew with such rapidity and such virulence that they choked the life out of the seed.
        It is easy to pack life with such a multiplicity of interests that there is no time left for Christ. As a poet once said, the cares of life can be like the clogging dust until "we forget because we must and not because we will." The more complicated life becomes, the more necessity there is to see that our priorities are right, for there are so many things which seek to shoulder Christ. 
        If we are really to benefit by the Christian message the parable tells us that we must do three things. We must hear it; and we cannot hear unless we listen. It is characteristic of so many of us that we are so busy talking that we have no time to hear, so engaged in arguing that we have no time to listen, so occupied in advancing our own opinions that we have no time to attend to the opinions of Christ, so much on the move that we have no time for the essential stillness.
        We must receive it. When we hear the Christian message we must really take it into our minds. The human mind is an odd and dangerous machine. We are so constructed, in the wise providence of creation, that, whenever a foreign body threatens to enter the eye, the eye automatically closes. That is an instinctive, reflex action. Whenever the mind hears something that it does not want to hear it automatically closes its door. There are times when truth can hurt; but sometimes a distasteful drug or an unpleasant treatment must be accepted if health is to be preserved. To shut the mind to truth we do not want to hear is the straight road to disaster and to tragedy.
        We must put it into action. The yield in the parable was thirty, sixty and a hundredfold. That is a large yield but the volcanic soil of Galilee was famous for its crops. Christian truth must always emerge in action. In the last analysis the Christian is challenged, "not to speculate, to what might be," but to "act."
        Amen!!

Reading: (Mark 4:13-20)
               (Luke 8:11-15)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

The Strength Conferred By Duty

Matthew 7:24, 26

"Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them,

 I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth 

them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man,

 which built his house upon the sand:"

         Only a house whose foundations are firm can withstand the storm; and only a life whose foundations are sure can stand the test. Jesus demanded two things. He demanded that men should listen. One of the great difficulties which face us today is the simple fact that men often do not know what Jesus said or what the Church teaches. In fact the matter is worse. They often have a  mistaken notion of what Jesus said and of what the Church teaches. It is no part, the duty of an honorable man to condemn either a person, or an institution, and that today is precisely what so many do. The first step to the Christian life is simply to give Jesus Christ a chance to be heard. 
        He demanded that men should "do." Knowledge only becomes relevant when it is translated into "action." It would be perfectly possible for a man to pass an examination in Christian Ethics with the highest distinction, and yet not be a Christian. "Knowledge must become action; theory must become practice; theology must become life." There is little point in going to a doctor, unless we are prepared to do the things we hear him say to us. There is little point in going to an expert, unless we are prepared to act upon his advice. And yet there are thousands of people who listen to the teaching of Jesus Christ every Sunday, and who have a very good knowledge of what Jesus taught, and who yet make little or no deliberate attempt to put it into practice. If we are to be in any sense followers of Jesus we must hear and do.
        Is there any word in which hearing and doing are summed up?  "Yes", and that word is "Obedience." Jesus demands our implicit obedience. To learn to obey is the most important thing in life. It is such obedience that Jesus demands. It is Jesus' claim that obedience to him is the only sure foundation for life; and it is his promise that the life which is founded on obedience to him is safe, no matter what storms may come. 
        Amen!!

Reading: (Matt. 7:24-27)
               (Luke 6:46-49)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

 May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Loss And Gain

John 15:1, 2 

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh

  away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth

 it, that it may bring forth more fruit."

        There are three ways in which we can be useless branches. We can refuse to listen to Jesus Christ at all. We can listen to him, and then render him a lip service unsupported by any deeds. We can accept him as Master, and then, in face of the difficulties of the way or the desire to do as we like, we abandon him. One thing we must remember. It is a first principle of the New Testament that uselessness invites disaster. The fruitless branch is on the way to destruction. That My Friend Would Be "Our Loss!"
        Let us take a human analogy. All analogies are imperfect but we must work with the ideas which we possess. Suppose a person is weak. He has fallen to temptation; he has made a mess of things; he is on the way down to degeneracy of mind and heart and mental fiber. Now suppose that he has a friend of a strong and lovely and loving nature, who rescues him from his degraded situation. There is only one way in which he can retain his reformation and keep himself on the right way. He must keep contact with his friend If he loses that contact; all the chances are that his weakness will overcome him; the old temptations will rear their heads again; and he will fall. His salvation lies in continual contact with the strength of his friend.  
        Abiding in Christ means something like that. The secret of the life of Jesus was his contact with God; again and again he withdrew into a solitary place to meet him. We must keep contact with Jesus. We cannot do that unless we deliberately take steps to do it. For one example; "to pray" in the morning, if it be for only a few moments, is to have an antiseptic for the whole day; for we cannot come out of the presence of Christ to touch the evil things. For some few of us, abiding in Christ will be a mystical experience which is beyond words to express. For most of us, it will mean a constant contact with him. It will mean arranging life, arranging prayer, arranging silence in such a way that there is never a day when we give ourselves a chance to forget him.
        Finally, we must note that here there are two things laid down about the good disciple. First, he enriches his own life; his contact makes him a fruitful branch. Second, he brings glory to God; the sight of his life turns men's thoughts to the God who made him like that. God is glorified, when we bear much fruit and show ourselves to be disciples of Jesus. The greatest glory of the Christian life is that by our life and conduct we can bring glory to God. That My Friend Is "Our Gain!"
        Amen!! 

Reading: (John 15: 1-6)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

 

The New City (Holy Jerusalem) Conclusion

Revelation 22:1 

"And he shewed me a pure river of water of life,

clear as crystal, proceeding out of the

throne of God and of the Lamb." 

 

        The waters of earthly rivers are not crystal clear. Many of them are muddy and contaminated with sewage. This wonderful river is called the River of the "Water of Life," because of its "life giving" properties. Earthly streams have their source in some mountain spring, but the "River of Life" has its source in the Throne of God. Rev. 22:1. Somewhere on that “Pyramidal Mountain” in the center of the City, probably on its summit, will rest "The Throne of God," from under the seat of which shall flow down in cascades, from terrace to terrace, the crystal stream that shall feed that wonderful "River of Life."  The streets are to be lined with trees, as are also the banks of a wonderful river. These trees are not mere shade trees, but beautiful Fruit Trees, called the "TREE OF LIFE," that bear Twelve Kinds of Fruit, a different kind each month. The fruit of these trees is for Overcomers Only. "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." (Rev. 2:7b). The leaves of the trees are for the Healing of the Nations that shall occupy the New Earth. Not that there will be any sickness, but to preserve them in health, as Adam would have been preserved in health if he had eaten of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.

        Whoever heard of an earthly city without some place of worship, be it heathen or Christian, but the wonderful thing about the New Jerusalem is, that it has no Temple. Why need a Temple when the object of worship is present, for "He Lord God Almighty and the Lamb Are the Temple of It." In fact the whole City itself will be a Temple.  " And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away"  (Rev 21:3-4). This means that Heaven shall have come down to Earth, and that this earth will become the RESIDENCE OF GOD.  

              My Friends, Christ Is Coming Quickly!  The rest of this Devotional Study consist of Scripture only. This is for the benefit of Our Readers in Foreign Nations that have no access to God's Holy Word. (Bibles are needed, if you would like to help contact us rlail1974@gmail.com). 

 Christ Final Testimony and Warnings. (KJV)

Rev. 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Rev 22:8  And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
Rev 22:9  Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
Rev 22:10  And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11  He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Rev 22:12  And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Rev 22:13  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Rev 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Rev 22:16  I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Rev 22:17  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Rev 22:20  He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Rev 22:21  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. 

        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 22:1-21)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)
       (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

   

The New City (Holy Jerusalem)

Revelation 21:9  

"And there came unto me one of the seven angels which

had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues,

and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will 

shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." 

         The Angel said to John; "Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife."  Some claim that because the word "WIFE" is used here, that Israel instead of the Church, is to be the Bride of Christ. But we must not forget that this offer to show John the Bride, was made after the Wedding of Christ to the Church, and at this time she was no longer the Bride but had become the WIFE of Christ, and should be thus spoken of. But instead of John being shown a Woman, he was shown a CITY, the Holy Jerusalem, and as what makes up a City is not its buildings and parks and business, but its inhabitants, it is clear that the Bride and the City are identical.
        From this we see that there is not only to be a New Heaven and a New Earth, but also a New City. This City is the place Jesus said He was going back to Heaven to prepare for His Bride the Church.  "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know." (John 14:2-4)
        It is just such a place as we would expect the Divine Architect to design and build. The description of it is grand. It is of Celestial origin. "It is not Heaven itself, for it comes down out of Heaven."  No mortal hands are employed in its construction. It will take up its abode on the New Earth, and we see in this why this present Earth will have to be renovated by fire, and why there shall be "no more sea," because the New City is 12,000 furlongs, or 1500 miles square, and would reach from Maine to Florida, and from the Atlantic Seaboard 600 miles to the west of the Mississippi River. In other words would occupy more than one-half of the United States.
        We are told that the length and breadth and the height of it are equal. This does not necessarily imply that it is a Cube, for there is another geometrical figure that has equal dimensions, and that is a Pyramid. This is its probable form, for a wall 144 cubits, or 216 feet thick, could not support a wall 1500 miles high, and a wall that high would hide the pyramidal part of the City from view.
The 144 cubits in Rev. 21:17, then must refer to the "height" of the wall. In this wall are 12 gates, 3 on each side, each gate of one Pearl, and these gates are never closed. The wall itself is of Jasper, and the foundations are garnished with all manner of precious stones. The foundations contain the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb, and over the gates are the names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. What a magnificent spectacle such' a city must present from a distance with its pyramidal top surmounted by the light of the  "Glory of God."
       "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof" (Rev. 21:23). "And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there" (Rev. 21:25). This must refer to the City only, and not to the outlying parts of the New Earth, because there will be day and night wherever the light of the City does not reach.
        The Pyramidal part of the City will no doubt be in the center of the City, and probably not occupy over one-half of the surface area, leaving the remainder to be divided up into boulevards and broad avenues, with numerous parks and residential sections. We are told that the City itself is of Pure Gold, Like Unto Clear Glass. (Rev. 21:18). If this refers to the houses and homes of the inhabitants, then the redeemed are to live in palaces of Transparent Gold, and the streets are to be of the same material. (Rev. 21:18; Rev. 21:21). We cannot imagine a city with such dwellings and streets to be unclean or lack beauty.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 21:9-27)

Ref: (HGSB,BSB)

        (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

        

The New Heaven And The New Earth (Part 2)

Revelation 21:4  

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; 

and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 

nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: 

for the former things are passed away." 

         If, it is as some believe, that the "Seventh Day" of the "Creative Week" corresponds to the Millennium, then we have a prophecy of the Dispensation that follows the "Renovation of the Earth" in the "Morrow After the Sabbath."(Lev. 23:36). The Seventh day of Genesis had to do with the "Old Creation," which was imperfect, but the "Eighth Day" has to do with the "New Creation," which is perfect, for it was on the "Eighth Day," or the "First Day of the week," that our Lord arose from the dead, and 50 days later, on the "Eighth Day," that the Holy Spirit was given at Pentecost. The "Eighth Day" cannot point to the Millennium, for that is represented by the "Seventh Day," neither can it point to Eternity, for a day is a Period of Time, while Eternity is Timeless. The “Eighth Day” must then point to a "period of time" between the "Renovation of the Earth" and Eternity, or what we are pleased to call the "Perfect Age."
        It is also called a Dispensation of Fullness of Times in (Eph. 1:10). That is, a "Full-Time Dispensation." The indication is, that all the previous Dispensations were not "Full-Time" Dispensations," because God had to cut them short on account of sin. As to the duration of this Dispensation of the "Fullness of Times" we are not in the dark. Israel is to have a large place in that Dispensation. "For as the New Heavens and the New Earth, which I will make shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain." (Is. 66:22). And as the duration of God's Covenant with Israel was extended in (Deut. 7:9) to a "Thousand Generations" or 33,000 years, we have an indication that the "Dispensation of the Fullness of Times" will last for at least that length of time. Now Let's look at some of the characteristics of that Age or Dispensation.
        There Will Be No Sin. All the powers of Evil will have been expelled from the earth and imprisoned in the"Lake of Fire" forever. The atmosphere of the New Earth will afford no lurking place for disease germs, and there shall be no more sickness or death, and health will be preserved by the use of the leaves of the "Tree of Life." The heavens shall not robe themselves in angry tempests and gloomily blackness, or flash with the thunderbolts of Divine wrath, or cast plagues of hail on the earth, or cause devouring floods of water with destructive wind storms. It may be that in that day a "Mist shall go up from the earth and water the whole face of the ground as in Eden."  
        We read that there shall be "No More Sea," not that there shall not be large bodies of water, because the river that flows through the street of the New City must have an outlet, but that there shall be no great oceans. The Earth shall also put on its "Eden" Beauty and Glory. There shall no longer be thorns and thistles, no parasites or destructive insects, and labor shall be a delight. No serpents shall hiss among its flowers, nor savage beasts lie in ambush to destroy and devour. Its sod shall not be heaped over newly made graves, nor its soil moistened with tears of sorrow and shame, or saturated with human blood from random killings. The meek shall inherit the earth, and from north to south, and from east to west, it shall blossom like the rose and be clothed with the verdure of Paradise Restored. 
        Amen!!  

Reading: (Rev. 21:4-8)
Ref: (HGSB,BSB)
       (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

The New Heaven And The New Earth

Revelation 21:1

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the

first heaven and the first earth were passed

away; and there was no more sea." 

         As for the "Departing as a Scroll" of heavens, and the "Flying Away" of  the earth and heavens, that John spoke of in, (Rev. 6:14; 20:11) is not a total disappearance of the material worlds, because he tells us afterwards he saw; The New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven, and nations living and walking in the Light of it on the earth, and the Kings of the Earth bringing their Glory and Honor Into It." (Rev. 21:2, 24).
         The Holy Spirit through Solomon said, “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the Earth Abideth Forever.” (Eccl. 1:4).  It is specifically promised that; "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."  (Matt. 5:5), and that the Children of Israel shall dwell in it forever, (Is. 60:21; Is. 66:22), and if God's people are to inhabit it forever, it must EXIST FOREVER.  Amen!!  It is clear then that this earth as a planet is not to be annihilated, but that it is to be Cleansed and Purified by Fire and made fit for the home of those peoples and nations that are to occupy it after its renovation.  
        This earth has been consecrated by the Presence of the Son of God, where the costliest sacrifice that the Universe could furnish was offered up on Calvary to redeem all people who Believed in Jesus Christ, and inherit Eternal Life. It is too sacred a place to ever be blotted out or cease to exist, for it is the most cherished in the mind of God of all His great creation.    
        With the “Renovation of the Earth by Fire,” Time does not end; Eternity begin. We read in the New Testament of a “Perfect Kingdom” that Christ shall surrender to the Father, so that God may be “All in All.” (1Cor. 15:24-28). A Kingdom in which; “At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in Heaven, and things in Earth, and things Under the Earth, and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ "IS LORD.” (Phil. 2:9-11.) This describes a Kingdom in which all things Celestial, Terrestrial and Infernal are to be subject to the SON OF MAN.
        Now this “Perfect Kingdom” cannot be the “Millennial Kingdom,” for that, as we have seen, ends in Apostasy and Rebellion. It must therefore mean another Kingdom on the Other Side of the “Millennial Kingdom,” and as there is to be no other Kingdom between the “Millennial Kingdom” and the “Renovation of the Earth by Fire,” it must mean a Kingdom that is to follow the “Renovation of the Earth by Fire,” and that Kingdom is the Kingdom of the “New Heaven and the New Earth,” which we call the “Perfect Kingdom.” 
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev: Chap. 18)
Ref: (Scriptures As Noted In Devotional)
       (HGSB, BSB, C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Renovation Of The Earth

Revelation 20:11 

"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, 

from whose face the earth and the heaven  fled away;

and there was found no place for them." 

        Immediately after the destruction of Satan and his armies, John Says,  "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them (Rev 20:11). Then John describes the Judgment of the "Great White Throne;"  However we shall go a little further. 

        The Subjects  are the Wicked Dead. The time is during the Renovation of the Earth by Fire. The place; Before "The Great White Throne." Basis of Judgment will be their Works. The result will be Cast Into the "Lake of Fire." The account is given in Rev: 20:11-15. It will take place at the close of the Millennium a 1000 years after the Judgment of the Nations, and before the "Great White Throne."

        The "Great White Throne" will not be on earth, because the "Great White Throne Judgment" will take place during the renovation of the earth by fire, because the "renovation" of this Earth is reserved or kept until the time of that Judgment, that Peter calls "The Day of  Judgment and Perdition of Ungodly Men" (2Pet. 3:7), because the Judgement of the "Great White Throne" is the Judgment of the Wicked dead.
        All the Righteous dead will arise at the First Resurrection. If any Righteous die between the First Resurrection and the Resurrection of the "Wicked" or Second Resurrection they will rise with the wicked at that Resurrection. The words; Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life (vs. 15), implies that there will be "some," probably very few, Righteous at the Second Resurrection. At the close 0f the Millennium and just before the renovation of the earth by fire, the living Righteous will probably be transformed, and the living Wicked, and  Ungodly will be destroyed in the flames that will consume the earths atmosphere and exterior surface.
        The Wicked and Ungodly will not be judged to see whether they are entitled to Eternal Life, but to Discover For Certainty the "degree" of their punishment. The sad feature of this Judgment will be that there will be many kind of lovable people "There" who were not "Saved," and who will be classed among the "Ungodly" because they rejected Christ as a their Saviour.  The"Books" will be opened in which the "Recording Angel" has kept a record of every person's life, and they will be judged every man according to his "Works." Some will be sentenced to a more severe punishment than others, but none will escape. The worst of all is, that those who were not so bad must spend Eternity with the ungodly, in the “Lake of Fire.” Their punishment includes the “Second Death,” which means, as we have seen, that they shall lose their resurrection body, in which they were Judged and become “disembodied spirits” again, and so exist in the “Lake of Fire” FOREVER.
        What a Judgment Scene that will be. There will be Cain and the wicked, before The Flood that took place after Noah built the Ark; the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah; Pharaoh, Ahab, Jezebel, Judas and all those Scribes' and Pharisees and Chief Priests who caused the Crucifixion of our Lord, and did not repent, and Ananias and Sapphira, and the great host of the wicked and all those who by choice rejected Christ in all nations and through all ages.
        The “Fallen Angels” (not the Devil's angels) who are “reserved in everlasting chains under darkness,” will be Judged at this time, which Jude calls the “Judgment of the GREAT DAY.” (Jude 1:6.) When this Judgment is over the Devil and his angels, and all the ungodly, will have been condemned to the “Lake of Fire,” and the Universe purged of all evil, and righteousness shall reign supreme on the New Earth.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev: 20:11-15)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)
       (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry 

The Righteous Judge

Revelation 19:20  

"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that

wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived

them that had received the mark of the beast, and 

them that worshipped his image. These both 

were cast alive into a lake of fire 

burning with brimstone."

          At the end of seven years the allied armies of the ten Federated Nations will gather together in the Vally of Megiddo, north of Jerusalem, to besiege the city. "For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city" Zech. 14:2). " And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn" (Zech 12:10). 

        Then the Lord at the head of  the "armies of Heaven," will come to their rescue. "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS" (Rev. 19: 11-16).

        And the Jews will see Christ descend upon the Mt. of Olives. "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mt. of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south" (Zech. 14:4).

        The Beast (Antichrist) and the Kings of the earth, and their armies will gather together to make war against the Lord and the Beast and the false Prophet will be taken and cast alive into the "lake of Fire." Whats left of the armies will be slain with the sword of Him who sits upon the "White Horse," and the fouls of the air will be summoned unto the "Supper of the Great God" and shall feed on the flesh of the Kings, Captains and the mighty men. Rev. 19: 17-21.

       Amen!!

Reading: (Rev Chapter 19)

Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

        (C Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

"Fall Of Babylon," The Great City (Part 2)

Revelation 18:10 

"Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas,

alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! 

for in one hour is thy judgment come."

        In the description of the destruction of the city of Babylon given in Rev. 18, we read that her judgment will come in one hour (vs. 10), and that in one hour she shall be made desolate (vs. 19), and as an illustration of the suddenness and completeness of her destruction, "And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all (Rev. 18:21).

        She is to be destroyed by Fire as well (Rev. 18:8, 9, 18, and this is in exact harmony with the words of Isaiah; "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah (Is. 13:19). The prophet Jeremiah makes the same statement; "As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein (Jer. 50:40). The prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah cannot be fulfilled unless there is to be a Future Babylon that shall be destroyed. 
        In Rev. 16:17-19, we are told that Babylon will be destroyed by an Earthquake, with lighting and great thunder. So it appears since, Sodom and Gomorrah were first set on fire and then swallowed up by an earthquake, that the rebuilt city of Babylon will be set on fire, and then an earthquake will cause the burning city to fall into a "Lake of Fire" and the city like a "Millstone" (Rev. 18:21 will sink below the surface of the earth as into the sea, and be swallowed up so that it will be impossible to ever use her stones for building purposes, and the land shall become a Wilderness where no man shall ever dwell. And the Kings of the earth, and the merchants, and the ship-masters, and sailors, and all who have profited by her merchandise, will stand afar off and cry, and wail because of her destruction, but the heavens will rejoice for God will have rewarded her Double according to her work, and BABYLON WILL BE NO MORE
        As to the probability of the ancient city of Babylon being rebuilt, just look at the events in the past years in that part of the world; It looks to be happening. 
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. Chapter18) 
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)
       (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

    

"Fall Of Babylon," The Great City

Revelation 18:1 

"And after these things I saw another angel come

down from heaven, having great power; and

the earth was lightened with his glory." 

  This chapter begins with the words "after these things." What Things you ask? The things recorded in the previous chapter, the destruction of "Mystical Babylon." Since  "Mystical Babylon" was destroyed in Chapter seventeen then she cannot appear in Chapter eighteen. So the "City" that is described here must be the "City" called Babylon, and since there is no city of that name on earth today, and has never been since the ancient city of Babylon was destroyed. This alone tells us that this must be a reference to a future city of Babylon. 

       The fact that both, Chapters seventeen, and eighteen refer to different things is verified by the fact that they are announced by different angels. The events in chapter seventeen are announced by one of the "Vial" Angels, while those of the eighteenth are announced by "another" angel; probably the "second Angel Messenger," who by the way of anticipation, announced in chapter 14:8, the "Fall of Babylon," "That Great City." 

        But Isaiah is still more specific for he locates the time when his prophecy will be fulfilled. He calls it the "Day of the Lord." Isa. 13:9. That is the Millennium. And he locates it at the beginning of the Millennium, or during the events that usher in the Millennium, for he says; "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine  (Is. 13:10).  "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory (Luke 21:25-27. Surely nothing like this happened when Babylon was taken by Cyrus.

        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. Chap 17, 18)

Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

        (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

 
         

Mystery, Babylon The Great (Part 3)

Revelation 17:6  

"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints,

and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when 

I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."

        We left off last time that the colors, scarlet and purple are the colors of the Papacy. We are also told that the woman was "drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus."  While this refers more to the martyrs of the time of Antichrist, yet who knows, who has studied the history of the Christian church for the past nineteen centuries, to say this is true of the Papal Church during those centuries? We only need to read the history of the persecutions of the early Christians and more particularly the story of the "Inquisition" in Papal lands, to see that the Papal Church has been "drunk" with the blood of the Saints.

        The fact that the Woman sits on a 'Scarlet Colored Beast" reveals the fact that at that time the "Beast" (Antichrist) will support the woman in her pretensions, or others words, the Woman as a  "State Church," will control and rule the State. Her long dream of world-wide Supremacy will at last be realized, for John tells us that "the waters which thou sawest, where the 'Whore' sitteth, are Peoples, and Multitudes, and  Nations, and Tongues."
        That means  that after the "True Church" (the Bride of Christ) is taken out of this world; then the "False or "Papal Church" (The bride of Antichrist) will remain, and the professing body of Christians (having the "form of Godliness without the power") that is left behind will become the Universal Church.. But this will continue for only a short time, because the "Ten Kings"  "of the Federated Kingdom," finding their power, will "Hate the "Whore," and strip her of her gorgeous apparel, take her wealth (eat her flesh) and burn her churches and cathedrals with fire. Rev:17:16.
        This will take place at the time the worship of the Beast is set up, because Antichrist in his jealous hate will not permit any worship that does not center on him.  Now the Beast which the Woman sits on is to show from whom the Woman (The Papal Church) gets her power and support after the true church has been "caught out," and also to show that the Beast (Antichrist) and the Woman (The Church) are not the same , but separate. Therefore The Papacy is not Antichrist. 
        So from the foreview of the Papacy we see that the Papal Church is not a dying "System."  She is to be revived and become a "Universal Church," and in doing so is to commit fornication with the Kings of the Earth, and that she will again be "drunk with the blood" of the martyrs of the Tribulation Period. So now the meaning of Chapter seventeen of the Book of Revelation is no longer a Mystery. The prophetic portrait of the Woman, corresponds too closely with the history of the Papal Church to be a mere coincidence. Tomorrow we begin Chapter eighteen; "The Fall of Babylon," "The Great City."
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 17:6-18)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)
       (C.Larkin)
       (Inquisition - Wikipedia Online)
 

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

        

     

"Mystery, Babylon The Great (Part 2)

Revelation 17:4 

 "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and

 decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having

 a golden cup in her hand full of abominations

 and filthiness of her fornication:"

        We left with a question from  our last Devotion Study. Why give a "bride" the name of a "City"? The answer is that it is not unusual in the Scriptures. The same angel that showed John in this chapter "Mystery, Babylon the Great" also came to John in chapter 21:9-10 and said; "come hither, I will shew thee the Bride' "The Lamb's wife," he did not show John a woman, but the great city, the "Holy Jerusalem" descending out of Heaven from God

        Here we see that a ""city" is called a "bride because its inhabitants, and not the city itself is the bride. "Mystery, Babylon the Great," the "bride of Antichrist, then is not a literal city, but a "System" a religious and apostate "System." As the Church, the Bride of Christ, is composed of regenerated followers of Christ, so "Mystery, Babylon the Great," the bride of Antichrist, will be composed of followers of all False Religions.  The river Euphrates, on which the city of Babylon was built, was one of the four branches that flowed into the Garden of Eden. And Satan doubtless chose the site of Babylon as his headquarters.

        As to the word "Mystery," The Papal Church has always surrounded herself in mystery. The mystery of "Baptismal Regeneration;" the mystery of  "Miracle and Magic" whereby the simple memorials of the Lord's Supper are changed by the mysterious word  "Transubstantiation,"  from simple bread and wine into the literal Body and Blood of Christ; the mystery of  the  "Holy Water," the mystery of  "Lights on the Altar,"  and other superstitious rites and ceremonies mumbled in a language that tends to mystify, and causes confusion; "which is the meaning of the word Babylon." 

        All this was a "Mystery in John's day, because the "Papal Church" had not yet developed, though the "Mystery of Iniquity" was already at work (2 Thess. 2:7). It is now no longer a Mystery, for it is easy to identify the "Woman;"  "Mystery, Babylon the Great, because John described her as the "Papal Church." In Rev. 17:4 we read that the "Woman" was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls having a 'Golden Cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications. Now who does not know that scarlet and purple are the colors of the Papacy? (The office and jurisdiction of a pope). Tomorrow we will finish Chapter 17 of "The Great Mystery" and move forward to Chapter 18 "The Fall of  Babylon."

        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 17:1-5) 

Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

        (C. Larkin) 

May God Bless You

 And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

"Mystery," Babylon The Great

Revelation 17:5 

"And upon her forehead was a name written,

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND 

ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

        The ancient city of Babylon restored, plays an important part in the events of the last days. his is very clear by what is said in the seventeenth and eighteenth chapters of the Book of Revelation. When first read the two chapters seen to contain some things in common, but difficult to resolve. However; when we get the "Key" the understand will be easy.

        It all starts with the seventeenth chapter when it speaks of a "Woman," and this "Woman is called, "MYSTERY," Babylon The Great, The Mother of Harlots And Abominations of the Earth.  The eighteenth chapter speaks of a "City," a literal city, called "Babylon The Great. It is clear that the "Women" and the "City" do not symbolize the same thing; because what is said of the "Woman" does not apply to a city, and what is said of the "City" does not apply to a woman. The "Woman" is destroyed  by the "Ten Kings," while the "Kings of the Earth" in the next chapter, "bewail and lament" (cry and grieve) over the destruction of the "City," which is not destroyed by them, but by a mighty earthquake and fire. So that makes the "Woman" to be destroyed "Three and a Half Years Before The City: and the fact that the first verse of chapter eighteen says; "after these things," that is after the destruction of the "Woman." What happens to the "City" shows that the "Woman" and the "City" are not one in the same. 

        So we know the "Woman's" name is; "MYSTERY, Babylon the Great."  We have heard the word "Mystery" before! Paul calls the Church a "Mystery" because it was not known to the Old Testament Patriarchs and Prophets (see  Eph: 3:1-21). Christ to have a "Bride" was first revealed to Paul (Eph 5:23-32, and the "Mystery" that Antichrist is to have a "bride" was first revealed to John on the Isle of Patmos. The name of Antichrist's "bride" is "Babylon the Great. Some may ask why give a "bride" the name of a "City"? We will find the answer to that question in tomorrows "Devotional Study" 

        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. Chap.17)

Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

       (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

      

The Seven Vials Of God's Wrath (Part 3)

Revelation 16:16 

"And he gathered them together into a place

called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."

        When the "Seventh Vial" is poured out a "great voice," probably the voice of the One who cried on the Cross; "It Is Finished." He (Christ) will cry; "It is Done," and there will be a "Great Earthquake" that will divide into three parts. The "Great City" and the cities of the Nations (the ten Federated Nations), London, Rome, Paris, etc, and "Great Babylon" that will be rebuilt by that time, and whose destruction by an earthquake is foretold in (Rev. chap 18) will fall. This earthquake is foretold by the Prophet Zechariah; "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.  And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee (Zech. 14:4-5).

        In the "Great Hail," every stone of which shall weigh 100lbs, will fall on men. Here we have a repetition of the "Seventh Egyptian Plague."  ( Ex. 9:13-35). Hail has been one of God's weapons of war. God used it to destroy the enemies of Israel at Bethhoron in the days of Joshua  (Joshua 10:11). The Law required that the "blasphemer" Should be "stoned,"  "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death" (Lev. 24:16).  And the "Blasphemers of the "End Time" will be stoned from Heaven.
        In the Book of Revelation, between the pouring out of the Vials and the "Battle of Armageddon," which ends the Tribulation Period," in chapter seventeen and eighteen, there is a destruction of a "System" called "Mystery, Babylon the Great," and a city called Babylon. They are mentioned in that place in Revelation, not because they did not exit until that time, but because they are both destroyed at that time. We will study the "Mystery, Babylon the Great," and a city called Babylon Starting tomorrow. After this study, will follow the "Battle of Armageddon."  
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 16:17-21)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)
        (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family 

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry 

The Seven Vials Of God's Wrath (Part 2)

Revelation 16:9  

"And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed

the name of God, which hath power over these plagues:

and they repented not to give him glory." 

        When the "Fourth Vial" is poured out men will be "scorched with great heat." This is the only plague for which there is no parallel Egyptian plague.  However; The Prophet Malachi refers to it in Mal 4:1,  "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." The effect of this plague will be to make men repent, but to cause them to Blaspheme the Name of God.  

        When the "Fifth Vial" is poured out there will be "darkness" over the whole Kingdom of the "Beast" and men will "gnaw their tongues for pain." This will be a repetition of the "Ninth Egyptian Plague." Ex. 10:21-23. Notice that this Plague follows the Plague of "Scorching Heat," as if God will hide the sun whose heat was so hard to bear. The effect of  "Darkness" will be to make men "gnaw their tongues" for pain, and for their sores, showing that these "Vial Plagues," overlap or follow each other rapidly. 

        When the "Sixth Vial" is poured out the river Euphrates will be dried up so the Kings of the East (India, China, Japan) and their armies may cross over and gather for the great Battle of Armageddon. This will be a repetition of the opening of the Red Sea and the river Jordan. The Prophet Isaiah foretells this:  "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.  And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt" (Is. 11:15-16).

        These nations will be gathered by "Three Unclean Spirits," like frogs, that shall come out of the mouth of the "Dragon," and the "Beast" and the "False Prophet." Rev. 16:13-16. They will be the "Spirit of Demons," the "Seducing Spirits" of those days. 1Tim. 4:1. It was such a "Lying Spirit" that deceived King Ahab and led him to his death. 1Kings 22: 20-38.   Tomorrow we will conclude with the pouring out of the "Seventh Vial" (Rev. 16:17-21).

        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. Chap 16)

Ref: (HGSB, BSB)

        (C.Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry  

The Seven Vials of God's Wrath (Part 1)

Revelation 16:1  

"And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying

to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out

the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth." 

        Let us go back and recapture where we are at this point. The first expression of God's wrath is seen in the "Seven Seals" (Rev. 6:1-17). The Seventh Seal contains the "Seven Trumpet Judgments" (Rev. 8:1-13; 9:1-21: 11:15-19). Then out of the "Seventh Trumpet Judgment" comes the "Seven Vials of God's Wrath" (Rev. 15:1; 16:1-21). 

        Now we will start with the final expression of the wrath of God during the Tribulation. The pouring out of the "Seven Vials" filled with wrath. When the "First Vial" is poured out a "noisome and grievous sore" will fall upon men who have the "Mark of the Beast," and who "worship his image." This is a repetition of the "Sixth Egyptian Plague."  Ex. 9:8-12. What the Lord told Moses in Exodus to do in those few verses were verbatim and with an obvious meaning! And We believe that to be, so why can this not be? The "Literalness of these "Vial Judgment" is the key to the meaning of the whole Book of Revelation. 

        When the "Second Vial" is poured out, the sea (Mediterranean) will become as the "blood of a dead man," and every "living soul" (creature, for creatures have souls) in the sea will die. Something similar, though not so great in extent, happened when the "Second Trumpet" sounded. Rev. 8:8,9.

       When the "Third Vial" is poured out the "rivers" and "fountains of water" will become "blood." This is a repetition of the "First Egyptian Plague." Ex. 7:19-24. Those will be awful and dreadful times when there is nothing to quench the thirst but "blood." Tomorrow we will continue with the pouring out of the "Seven Vials". Thank God I'm saved by the Blood of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Saviour.  

        Amen!!!!

Reading: (Rev. 15:1; 16:1-21)
Ref: (HG SB; BSB)
        (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry