PRÉCIS ON THE CLEANSING FLOOD: FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE BATTLE OF THE LAST DAYS

SCRIPTURE. “Who can discern his lapses and errors? Clear me from hidden [and unconscious] faults. Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then shall I be blameless, and I shall be innocent and clear of great transgression.” – PSALM 19:12-13, AMPC

KEY TERM: “ERRORS.” ‘Shegiah’ [שְׁגִיא֥וֹת]: “A moral mistake; a lapse that is hidden from the sight of others; only God can see this kind of willful sin; a wandering or deviation from the truth; a mistake in judgment, by which men assent to or believe what is not true; may be voluntary, or involuntary – Voluntary, when men neglect or pervert the proper means to inform the mind; Involuntary, when the means of judging correctly are not in their power. An error committed through carelessness or haste is a blunder.”

QUOTATION. “Have you seen your sin in light of the Law of God? Do you understand in your heart of hearts that if every secret sin is manifest on the Day of Wrath and if justice had its way, you would fall like lightning into Hell? Have you fallen prostrate in the blood-soaked earth at the foot of the Cross? Have you pictured Jesus Christ crucified? Have you seen the precious blood pouring from His hands and His feet, and cried, ‘For me He dies?’ If you have, horror mingled with unspeakable gratitude will drive you to your knees, and you will whisper, ‘Oh, God, because You did that for me, I will do anything for You!’ This Zeal for God will produce in you a zeal for the lost. Remember that whispered prayer of surrender the next time you fear hollers at you as you hand someone a tract.”― RAY COMFORT, The School of Biblical Evangelism, 2018; edited

COMMENTARY. “‘God’s Word warns the Wicked not to go on in his wicked way, and warns the Righteous not to turn from his good way. There is a reward, not only after keeping, but in keeping God’s Commandments.’ Religion makes our comforts sweet, and our crosses easy, life truly valuable, and death itself truly desirable.

David not only desired to be pardoned and cleansed from the sins he had discovered and confessed, but from those he had forgotten or overlooked. All discoveries of sin made to us by The Law, should drive us to the Throne of Grace, there to pray. His dependence was the same with that of every Christian who says, ‘Surely in the Lord Jesus have I righteousness and strength.’ No prayer can be acceptable before God which is not offered in the strength of our Redeemer or Divine Kinsman, through Him who took our nature upon him, that he might redeem us unto God, and restore the long-lost inheritance.

‘May our hearts be much affected with the excellence of the Word of God; and much affected with the evil of sin, and the danger we are in of it, and the danger we are in by it.’” – MATTHEW HENRY, Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, 6 vols., 1708-1710; edited

DK’S TAKE. I have come under the heavy conviction that certain sins that others cannot see and of which I am not always aware must now be cleansed. There is a ‘Sense of Urgency’ here, as the Holy Spirit begins our last shake down cruise as it were, before The Chaos of the Days to Come arrive very soon.

We simply must be made fully ready, shoring up all the chinks in our armor plating, so that when we engage The Final Battle, we shall not be hindered by unsettled accounts with God. This is painful, but it is the Grace of God to perform it for us, that He might truly have an Army, made fit for fierce spiritual confrontation in the days ahead.

We shall need all our strength for it, beloved. And so we but say “Yes, Lord!” to the ever Faithful Shepherd of our souls.