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Subject: What Can the Righteous Do? (Part 2)
From: Martin M Overfield
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000

What Can the Righteous Do? (Part 2)

Psalm 11:3, "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"

    I do not claim to know whether the foundations are totally destroyed in
our beloved country USA), but, I have to wonder.  If it is not yet so, it
may be just a short while before it is so.

    Remember (in part 1) I Quoted from Ezekiel chapter 14 about Noah,
Daniel, and Job and I also mentioned the situation with Josiah in
II Chronicles chapter 34.

    In Ezekiel God indicates that the three men would deliver themselves but
no one else by their own righteousness.  Therefore, if - or when - the
foundations are destroyed, the righteous must continue to be righteous.
Even if we cannot turn the tide for the nation we can at least be sure that
we are right with God ourselves.  One soul is worth more than the entire
world.

    Then, in Josiah's case, part of God's message to him was that Josiah
would not have to see the awful judgments to come.  I deduce from this that
God delayed them for Josiah's sake.  This historical deliverance is
illustrative of the prophetical deliverance in Revelation 3:10, "Because
thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour
of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell
upon the earth."

    We should be righteous in anticipation of the imminent Rapture on the
one hand and of our personal departure on the other -- "We are confident, I
say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with
the Lord." (II Corinthians 5:8)

    I also notice that Josiah did everything within his power to live right
himself and to help others to do the same.  Though his attempts may have
seemed so futile, Josiah was to be commended for serving God with right
motives.  Though, the foundations had been destroyed, and there was no
promise of recovery, Josiah did what he could to reestablish the
foundations.

    Therefore, no matter how desperately wicked and beyond hope our nation
may seem, the righteous should keep focused on their eternal reward, serve
God with pure motives, and do their best to help others do the same.

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if
we faint not.  As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all
men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith."
(Galatians 6:9,10)

"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;"  (II Corinthians 4:17)

Yours In Christ,
The Bible Note Writer

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