Jul 22 Week 29 - The Book of Revelation, Part 39 - Rick Joyner

      We must keep in mind that God is as gracious as He can be to all people because He loves all. So, He prefers mercy over judgment. He will bless things done for Him as much as He can, but He will only inhabit what He initiates and what He builds. Much of the book of Revelation is about the conflict between the church God is building and those men are building. Men may attach His name to their works and presume they are building for God when they are really building for themselves. It is similar to the motive the men of Shinar had when they built the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:4: “And they said, ‘Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.’”

      Men have never quit trying to build such works to gather people around a project and to make a name for themselves. This is called “Mystery Babylon” in Revelation. This is modeled after the Tower of Babel, where the Lord looked down upon their project and scattered their languages so they could not go on building. In like manner, the Lord looked down on the church men were building in the Middle Ages, saw their folly in trying to bring the kingdom of God to earth by their might and power— by their swords rather than by His Spirit—so He scattered their languages. Now, we have over 10,000 church denominations.  READ MORE