Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from Sunday’s service and message “The Crowd Outside”.
While a joint session of the US Congress along with the Vice-President were convening to read and certify the vote totals of the Electoral College of the 50 states, a crowd had gathered on the outside.
A crowd that had been whipped into a frenzy and told to march down to the capital based up fraudulent claims that the 2020 Presidential election had somehow been rigged and stolen and they had to do something about it.
This crowd on the outside then overwhelmed those assigned to protect the capital building from intrusion and proceeded to force their way into a place they were not permitted to be by breaking doors and windows and everything in the way designed to keep them out.
They stormed through the building shouting threats, destroying and damaging the contents, rummaging through personal files and desk and sitting and standing in places reserved for the honored and duly elected members of Congress.
It was a complete and total desecration of the most revered and sacred place of US democracy based upon a lie and the enabling and perpetration of that lie my many immoral people.
The Book of Revelation tells us of another crowd outside a sacred place. This crowd is outside the city of God. This crowd in made up of many like that crowd that stormed the capital who would enter God’s holy city by force and desecrate it. But this crowd is much larger because it includes a greater number and type of person.
In this crowd are “dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie”. This crowd encompass a large portion of humanity. But unlike the crowd outside that breached the doors and windows of the US capital, this crowd outside the city of God will not enter. God will collect them all and place them somewhere where they will never threaten or trouble His people or city again.
The only people not in that crowd outside are those who washed their robes in the blood of Christ by believing and trusting in Him and who do His commandments. They have the right to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into God’s holy city.
God’s city will not look like a fortress with armed soldiers and guards at every station. But the 12 gates to the city are always open and the people of God bring their glory and honor in and out of the city.
That crowd outside the US capital has dispersed but it may reassemble. The good news is that those who were in the initial crowd don’t have to be in any subsequent crowd. Because we were initially in the crowd described in heaven, we don’t have to remain in that crowd. We still have the opportunity to leave that crowd outside the gates of God’s eternal city and never return.
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Pastor Jordan
