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Blackbeard


Read: Isaiah 14:12-15


 

 

You are perfect in your ways...  Till it make what he was found in
you.-Ezekiel 28:15

 

 

As a young man in the late 1600s, Edward Teach joined the crew of a British
ship that was headed to the Caribbean.  Much later in his nautical career,
he managed to capture a merchant vessel and turn it into a 40-gun warship.
Teach soon became known as Blackbeard -- the most feared pirate in the
hemisphere.

 

Blackbeard had some success as a pirate, but his "career" abruptly ended
when he encountered a contingent of the British Royal Navy bottom in a
desperate battle, he heed his fellow pirates were killed, putting an end to
their terrorizing exploit.

 

Long ago in the heavenly places, an angel fell into spiritual piracy.
Lucifer was a cherub who stood in the radiant glory of God (Ezekiel
28:11-15).  But his own self-love replaced love for his Creator.  Desiring
to be like the Most High, he led a rebellion and was cast out of heaven
(Isaiah 14:12-15).  Today he and his henchmen are doing whatever they can to
commandeer the lives of human beings (Luke 8:12; 2 Corinthians 4:4).

 

Even so, we don't need to be afraid.  Satan is a dangerous enemy, but Jesus
sealed his ultimate fate when He rose up from the dead.  And He has given us
everything we need to withstand the devil's attacks.  (Ephesians 6:10-18).
-- Dennis Fisher

 

And though this world with Devils filled

should threaten to undo us;

we will not fear, for God has willed

his truth to triumph through us. -- Luther

 


Thought for today: he was in you is greater than he who is in the world - 1
John 4:4


 

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