{"id":531,"date":"2021-01-20T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=531"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:23:27","slug":"worship-the-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Worship the Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>The evidence points to a Creator. But a rebellious world will not submit to the one who made us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus opened His ministry with a quotation from Isaiah. It started with the words \u201cThe Spirit of the Lord is upon me\u201d and ended with, \u201cto proclaim the favourable year of the Lord\u201d. Luke 4: 18 \u2013 19. The prophecy in Isaiah 61: 2 continues with the words \u201cAnd the day of vengeance of our God\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>For the last 2000 years we have lived in a time of God\u2019s favour. It has been a time when the gospel has been taken to all nations. A time when a way of salvation has been offered to all people. But the favourable day of the Lord will not last for ever. There will come a day when our God pours out His vengeance on a rebellious, sinful world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Revelation chapter 14 contains three final warnings of coming wrath. The first warning is the gospel preached to all who dwell on the earth. The second warning is the fall of Babylon. The final warning is the reign of the beast after which will come God\u2019s judgment on a rebellious world. This article will look at the first of these final warnings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence points to a Creator. But a rebellious world will not submit to the one who made us. Jesus opened His ministry with a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,11],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}