From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
                        The Importance of Praise   
      
   Glory to God and the Lamb in heaven so that the devil trembles!   
   For he does it. When we praise the Lord, then it is a powerful factor   
   in the spiritual world for which the devil has respect. "Out of the   
   mouth of babes and suckling God has established a power to knock   
   down the enemy." Psalm 8:2. (From the Swedish Bible).   
      
   When Jesus rode into Jerusalem the Pharisees said to him, "Master,   
   rebuke thy disciples. And he answered and said unto them, I tell   
   you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would   
   immediately cry out." Luke 19:37-40. Can the stones really cry   
   out? Yes, it was just what that happened in the year 70 when they   
   ruined Jerusalem.   
      
   When the enemy's armies began to surround the town, then the   
   disciples remembered what Jesus had said. "And when ye shall   
   see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the   
   desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee   
   to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart   
   out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto."   
   Luke 21:20-21.   
      
   When the Christians had fled from the town, then it was nobody   
   in Jerusalem who praised the Lord. Then the song of praise had   
   become silent in Jerusalem. Then it was time for the stones to cry   
   out. Then it was time for the gravel heaps and the ruins to cry out   
   and testify for coming times how it will be with a people who   
   rejects Christ, and a town where they persecute God's people, and   
   where they will silence the song of praise and destroy the prayer-   
   meetings.   
      
   This becomes repeated soon and this time the judgements come to   
   strike the whole earth. The most peace-preserving factor now, are   
   the Christians who praise God. When they have left the earth, then   
   it will be a catastrophe. Isaiah 26:19-21. When the song of praise   
   has become silent, then the laying waste is near. Then the ungodly   
   world goes towards its destruction.   
      
   For people who believe in Jesus, the death is a defeated enemy.   
   "O death, where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? The   
   sting of the death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But   
   thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord   
   Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 15:55-57. Nevertheless, for the ungodly   
   world that does not believe in Jesus, the death is an undefeated   
   and unconquerable enemy. The nations of the world have thrown   
   away billions of money on military armaments to protect   
   themselves against enemy attacks, and to survive, but it becomes   
   their death and destruction.   
      
   God can remove the danger of nuclear war and let it be peace on   
   the earth, but the world will not have anything to do with him.   
   The nations have left God and his power out of account and trust   
   only in themselves and their own weapons.   
      
   To all those who receive Jesus and believe in him, he gives right   
   to become children of God, and they have passed over from death   
   to life. John 1:12, 5:24. For these, the deaths are a transition to a   
   better existence. He who believes in Jesus will life, even if he dies.   
   John 11:25.   
      
   Only Jesus has this power to give eternal life. Except the Lord,   
   there is no Saviour. Isaiah 43:11. He that hath the Son hath life;   
   and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 1 John 5:10-13.   
      
      
   Allan Svensson   
      
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