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Reading of the Week

SET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER

Through Noah’s preaching God called mankind to set its house in order. But people did not take heed. Longsuffering as He was, God finally determined it was time to scrub the planet clean and to repopulate the earth, beginning with Noah’s family and countless pairs of every species of life. A runaway Jonah had time to digest God’s request or be digested himself in the belly of a whale. The once reluctant Jonah went to the city of Ninevah warning them that in to forty days ruin would befall them. His preaching saw some 120 thousand persons repent. Many are the illustrations in the Bible which qualify as being calls from God to set our houses in order.

Sick unto death, for example, Hezekiah was told to do so. After pleading with God, he was not only healed but given another 15 years to live. Jesus set His sanctuary in order. He purged the temple of wickedness twice, at the beginning and end of His ministry. Indeed God sent Jesus to redeem all who would believe in Him and thereinafter set their houses (lives) in order. Since each believer represents a temple of the Holy Spirit, that temple must be set in order in each individual.

To set your house in order daily becomes mandatory, knowing that Jesus could return at any moment to take away with Him His faithful followers in the twinkling of an eye. Any of Christ’s followers (See parable of 10 virgins) caught unprepared will be left behind. Ananias and Sapphira deliberately set their house in “disorder.” They plotted to lie to God about the amount of the proceeds from a land sale being given as an offering. Sometimes God keeps a short account, as it seemed to be so here. Both conspirators had ample opportunity to set their house in order beforehand (repent), and, as well, just before they lied. Nonetheless both dropped dead at Peter’s feet some hours apart for not repenting. Moses had time to set his house in order (to repent) after striking rather than speaking to the rock out of which water flowed. For his act of disobedience, the consequences remained. He did not enter the promise land in his lifetime. That we see him later at the Mount of Transfiguration with Elijah and Jesus confirms his repentance.

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