Zephaniah warns about complacency in thinking there is no good no evil.

Zephaniah 1:12-13

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 “And it shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled in complacency, who say in their heart, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will He do evil.’” Zephaniah 1:12

The following verse is from the words to the Seventh Church, “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!  So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’  But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.“ Revelation 3:15-17 Not being hot nor cold is equal to complacency or indifference.  Click here for a post on the Seventh Church.

The world we live in today feels no need for the remission of sin through Jesus Christ. They are completely complacent and indifferent to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, including the churches which have partnered with the anti-Christian community of the global culture. “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9 They depend on the thing with power over physiology to control sin by giving people what to think, feel, say, do and believe. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through the masses in every city around the world. They are conformed to the anti-Christian global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do. They think they have sin conquered without our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lamp that God uses to search for us is the Light of Jesus Christ. He wants to see His Son Jesus living within our spirit and soul. He wants to see the blood of the Lamb (Jesus Christ) applied to our heart for the remission of sin which reconciles us to Him. He is the giver of life and Salvation. Our Lord Jesus Christ shares a parable with us about keeping oil in our lamp in anticipation of His return. As long as our spirit shines with the oil of the Holy Spirit then He will see us and welcome us into the eternal New Jerusalem. By the remission of sin, we receive the light of the Holy Spirit in our spirit. If there is no oil in the lamp of our spirit, then there will only be darkness and he will not see us on the day He returns. Click here for the parable about keeping oil in the lamp.

“Therefore their goods shall become booty, and their houses a desolation; They shall build houses, but not inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.” Zephaniah 1:13

The goods that become booty is the Holy Spirit who is stolen from this world by the thing which has power over physiology to form what we think, feel, and believe. It makes the house of the Holy Spirit desolate, which is our body, as quoted, “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 The “he” in that verse refers to the “man of sin”, the “lawless one”, the “son of perdition”. Click here for a post on the “man of sin”.

To build houses but not inhabit them refers to how our body is created by God to be built with the Holy Spirit but instead are built with something else. It is not possible to live in the house of the Holy Spirit when the anti-Christian thing inhabits our thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. “Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him….Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:16-18, 19

To plant vineyards but not drink their wine refers to planting the human spirit and soul with something other than the Gospel of Jesus Christ (the New Wine) and not allowing the fruit of the Holy Spirit to blossom. The thing with power over physiology is not spiritual and opposes the fruit of the Spirit. With the thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors it gives people, there is a wall built between the human spirit and the remission of sin through the New Wine of Jesus Christ.  “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” Galatians 5:17-18

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1