Marching Order - 8

What Army will God take into Battle?

Updated 2/4/11

Romans 9 : 20-21 - "But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'" Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?" Ezekiel 34 : 16 - "I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice." 2Chronicles 7 : 14 -"if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."

(Update) If God's Children hear His Call, humble themselves, and repent; if we will turn back to living the Truth and ask to be cleansed from our delusion induced unrighteousness, then we will march out like Joshua's mighty army. However, if we do not heed the call, many fewer of us will march out like Gideon's smaller but still highly effective army; that is after we have humbled ourselves, received the Lord's Rebuke, and have repented from our unrighteousness. Either way God's Army will take the field and God will win the day.

Since the Lord says that He's soon going to take the sleek and the strong from among us, it's likely that it will be an army of the weak, meek, broken, humble, poor, sick who were healed, and lesser regarded Christians who will take the field for the end times harvest. God often uses the weak to shame the strong, and He doesn't look at how people appear, but He sees right through us into our hearts. 1Samuel 16 : 7 - "But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.'" The only hope that the sleek and the strong have to be a part of the end times harvest is to repent and become weak before their God. If they don't, upon reaching Heaven, they will be given a white robe and will have to sit out the end times harvest. Revelation 6 : 9 - 11 - "When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the alter the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they maintained. ........ Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed." Truly God has a plan for the times known to us as the end times, and all of His Plans will be accomplished. If God is planning to lead into spiritual battle an army of the weak and broken, then this will truly be the Christian nerd's finest hour.