Ancient Hot Stuff

Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand. Ezekiel 39:3

Arm ourselves with the weapon of the day, pretty much a firearm in our case, and we feel like hot stuff. Sorry, hot stuff is a dated expression from the ancients meaning confident and secure in oneself; a person to take note of for his or her ability to take action. And it means a pretty person in a disco, but the ancient expressions were rather flexible. Gog of Magog, the person to which our verse speaks today, will feel that he is the hot stuff of his time, a time that has not showed up on the timeline of our historical record, by the way. We are time traveling today into the past of Biblical prophecy where the Lord's prophets long ago spoke of things which have not yet been done from where we stand in history. Gog will be hot stuff until the Lord God knocks his weapon out of one hand and causes his 'bullets' to fall from the other.  In the bygone days of disco, it would be the pretty dancer whose britches fell off just as the song began the second verse. Hot stuff becomes cold humiliation when the Lord removes the objects of false confidence from the hands (or bottom). 

We have our confidence in the Lord. He is the only strength that will endure in the times of increasing lawlessness. His throne is the one that will stand when all others fall to the mob and they raise up a false throne for a brief time. When others take a knee before the temporary powers of the Earth, we stand for the One who comes in the fullness of His glory and causes every knee to bow and all tongues to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Whoo! I feel a thrill! No ancient hot stuff for us, but the King of kings and the Lord of lords forever! 

Have a day of rejoicing in Christ the Lord! 

Bucky