157 The Revelation of Jesus Christ about their destruction. True it is that some of the evil cults today, especially Christian Science, are claiming many Jews among their number. It is ever Satan's purpose to rob men of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, even Israel's Messiah and the eternal Son of God. · Whatever "the flood" may signify, God will safeguard the faithful remnant with His protecting care. That faithful rem nant is referred to in verse seventeen as that company "which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." In some miraculous way that will be made known in that day, God will deliver His people from this final determined effort on the part of Satan to destroy that nation, through which Christ, according to the flesh, came. "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed." The remnant will be the witnessing body of 144,000 Jews. We shall see in the next chapter how the devil will make war against them. My friends, we have been listening and studying about what the devil is going to do with the nation of Israel in that day. His attempts have always been the very same; he seeks to lead a man from God and from God's Christ. My dear brother, never think for one moment that the devil is trying to make a drunkard out of you; that he is trying to take you away from a good job and a good home and put you in the gutter. That is not the purpose of the devil in your life at all. It is to give you everything that God will give you, apart from Jesus Christ. He knows, whether you know it or not, that there is only One who can ever save your soul and bring you into a right relationship with God, and that One is Jesus Christ. The devil will let you accept everything that is in this Bible. providing you deny the deity of Christ and His atone ment. and refuse to have the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of the world, in your heart. It is for you to decide whether the devil is going to succeed in his purpose. If you are still out of Christ, you are in Satan's camp. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."
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