How are we being guarded by God and for what purpose? How was Danial Guarded by God?
Danial 6:19-24… Finally, the king himself, at dawn, proceeded to get up in the daylight, and in a hurry, he went right to the lions’ pit. And as he got near to the pit, he cried out with a sad voice even to Daniel. The king was speaking up and saying to Daniel: “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you are serving with constancy been able to rescue you from the lions?” Immediately Daniel himself spoke even with the king: “O king, live on even to times indefinite. My own God sent his angel and shut the mouth of the lions, and they have not brought me to ruin, forasmuch as before him innocence itself was found in me; and also, before you, O king, no hurtful act have I done.” Then it was that the king himself became very glad, and Daniel himself he commanded to be lifted up out of the pit. And Daniel was lifted up out of the pit, and there was no hurt at all found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
Why was Danial guarded what saved him? Daniel himself had not done anything against the king also he trusted in God for his salvation. God was not done with Daniel he was a prophet before God.
What purpose is God guarding us?
1 Peter 1:3-7… Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance. It is reserved in the heavens for YOU, who are being safeguarded by God’s power through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last period of time. In this fact YOU are greatly rejoicing, though for a little while at present, if it must be, YOU have been grieved by various trials, in order that the tested quality of YOUR faith, of much greater value than gold that perishes despite its being proved by fire, may be found a cause for praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The word Guarded in Strong’s Concordance #G5432 can be used as if we are kept by a military guard, this guard can be used for defensive or offensive means as needed, because of the Authority and Power of God.
This defined meaning gives us a strong word picture. Can we imagine an angel of God station close by us, to make sure that we are safe, and he will take action as needed just to guard us.
So, why are we being guarded by God?
John 17:9-17… I make request concerning them; I make request, not concerning the world, but concerning those you have given me; because they are yours, and all my things are yours and yours are mine, and I have been glorified among them. “Also, I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are. When I was with them, I used to watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me; and I have kept them, and not one of them is destroyed except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I am speaking these things in the world in order that they may have my joy in themselves to the full. I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. “I request you, not to take them out of the world, but to watch over them because of the wicked one. They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth.
First Jesus requested that the Father watch over us, not taking us out of this world. But why? Because of the wicked one. Because we are no part of this world. Second our being guarded has to do with God’s timing.
Read at 1 Peter 1:5 it revealed “at the end of time”.
So, we are guarded by God till the Timing of or Salvation, and the knowledge of this revealing is tied to the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:18-24… Consequently, I reckon that the sufferings of the present season do not amount to anything in comparison with the glory that is going to be revealed in us. For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will but through him that subjected it, on the basis of hope that the creation itself also will be set free from enslavement to corruption and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. For we know that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now. Not only that, but we ourselves also who have the first fruits, namely, the spirit, yes, we ourselves groan within ourselves, while we are earnestly waiting for adoption as sons, the release from our bodies by ransom. For we were saved in [this] hope; but hope that is seen is not hope, for when a man sees a thing, does he hope for it?
So, we can see that at Romans 8:19 there is to be a revealing of the sons of God.
What is God going to reveal? God going to reveal his Glory upon the sons of God.
So, when is this going to happen? At the Adoption as Sons when we are released from our bodies. This will be a glorious time for the world to witness.
Matthew 24:27-31… For just as the lightning comes out of eastern parts and shines over to western parts, so the presence of the Son of man will be. Wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together. “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in lamentation, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send forth his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity.
As we can see Matthew 24:27-31 speaks as to the sign that will be seen. They will all see the son of man coming, to gather the chosen ones.
Come Lord Jesus!
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