Pride Goeth Before Destruction

(Psalm 12:3)… THE LORD Shall cut off ~ALL~ flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh *Proud* things..
(James 4:6)… God resisteth the ~proud~ BUT giveth ~Grace~ to the humble…
(I Timothy 6:4) … he IS Proud, knowing nothing..
(II Timothy 3:2).. For men shall be lovers of their own selves…
(Proverbs 16:5) .. ~Everyone~ That IS *Proud* in heart IS An ~Abomination~ TO THE LORD…
(Proverbs 16:8) .. *Pride* goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall…
(I John 2:16)… FOR ~ALL~ That IS IN the world; The lust OF the flesh; The lust of the eyes; & The *Pride* of life, ~IS NOT OF~ THE Father, BUT, Of the world…
(Daniel 5:18-20) .. The ~Pride~ of Nebuchadnezzar: when his heart was ~Lifted up in Pride~ what happened? He was deposed from his kingly throne… (21)…his heart was made like the beast…
(Hosea 7:1-10) .. When the LORD would have healed ~Israel~, iniquity was found, in Ephraim… & they considered not in their hearts that I (THE LORD) remember ~ALL~ their wickedness… *They Have Made The King Glad with their wickedness*… & ~The *Pride* of Israel testifieth to HIS face: & they do not return to the LORD their God, Nor seek HIM in ~ALL~ this…
Consider all the past history… AS the war hero’s that are being lifted up in praise and honor do.. They study the failures of past war maneuvers, of failures in battle to improve their chances of winning the present wars …
We the people who call ourselves after The Son OF God, should also consider the past failures of God’s people to serve THE LORD and Keep their faces turned TO HIM… While we are lifting up the flags of earthly rulers and nations, praising the lands in which we live, giving praise and honor to the countries that drove our friends, loved ones, fathers, sons, brothers, like cattle to the slaughter in the u-boats that landed on Normandy, fighting for our freedom… WHAT Price was paid?
Does that honor go to the men who died? To the men who lived? To the Generals, & Chief’s who planned the maneuvers, to fight ~the enemy~? OR, do we OWE THE Praise, Honor, Glory TO, THE ONE WHO Holds ~ALL~ Things IN HIS Hand…???
Would these things have been avoided BY keeping our faces turned to THE LORD, as was the failure of the Israelites, which sent them into punishment, of death and bondage, at the hands of other nations?
Would we better ~honor~ those who gave their lives in battle, BY praising the LORD, for HIS mercy…? The lives of those who fell on the beaches, on the mountains, in the wilderness, on lands foreign to their birth, those who fell, those who lived, those who were killed as the enemy of another? ..
Each country, that a person IS born in, IS The homeland of that person, fleshly… AND that heritage IS carried as our roots… There are those whose are citizens of this country, BUT their roots, their fleshly ancestors, are grounded in another land, and so there IS Still the ~Pride~ of the old country in their hearts… AS Well as the ~Pride~ of this country… BUT:
When one IS Drawn by the Father, led by the Spirit to Accept The Son, TO come under the Leadership of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, THEN our ~~citizenship~~ IS changed.. we are no longer to follow the ways of the world, BUT our conversation IS TO BE, IN Heaven. WE are changed, or should be, the old man IS PUT away, and the new man IS Now on the roles of God’s Kingdom… (Ephesians 4:22) . (Philippians 1:27 * 3:20)
AND we can no longer ~~LOOK BACK~~, to the old homeland, raise the heart of pride for a country on earth, Because in this act we are ~~Rejecting~~ THE Kingdom of our LORD… FROM WHICH, ~~ALL~~ our *Freedom*… RINGS… man does not deliver us, no amount of ammunition or weapons can accomplish our deliverance into eternal life, ONLY God.
AND YET, each and every secular holiday, we want to break out the praise of nations, lift up the proud hearts for a world of flesh, give our allegiance to the flags of earthly countries, looking to them as saving us from oppression, from hunger, from war, from poverty, while we are sitting smack dab in the middle of ~ALL~ these things, blind as bats, as to THE REAL SAVIOR. Our backs are turned to God, while we have turned our faces to the wall of Satan in a world set for annihilation…
I am not saying that the accounts of ~ALL~ these things cannot be reviewed, so that the memory of our loved ones be lost, but the way we look at these events, must be taken with a grain of salt, and spoken of as accounts, not lifted up and praised as being grand and greater than or equal to God’s Glory…. AND we MUST as IT IS Written, give the proper respect to the rulers that are over us as Daniel and The Three Hebrews DID, BUT at the sounds of music, or the calling of assemblies to praise anything other than our LORD, we MUST Draw the LINE, STOP Abruptly, and Keep our eyes focused ON our Maker…
IT IS Written from ~Genesis TO Revelation~ this world IS set for destruction, because of the sins of man… AND only those who, ~hear, Obey, & follow The LORD, keeping their faces turned TO God, will gain eternity in HIS Kingdom…
SO IF we can’t claim HIS Kingdom while we are walking here in in the flesh, *IF*, we can’t ~Lift Up THE Ensign of God’s Kingdom, Jesus Christ, Instead OF ALL the other’s, Do you think we will be found worthy, when Christ returns? (Isaiah 11:10)
Can we come to the marriage supper draped in the flags of the nations, and the blood of fallen soldiers? Does this benefit those who gave their lives in battle?
(Revelation 19:4-16)… Read IT ALL In the KJV of THE Bible… they ~Worshiped~ God that sat on the ~Throne~ and a voice came out of the throne, saying, “Praise our God, ~ALL~ ye HIS servants, AND ye that fear HIM”… “Let ~~us~~ be glad & rejoice, AND Give *Honour* TO HIM: for the ~Marriage of the Lamb IS Come…. AND, His ~~bride~~ has made herself ready, and to her was granted that she ~Should BE~ Arrayed IN fine linen, clean and white…
WE can’t wait until, there IS ~NO~ earthly countries left to praise, and honor to give our complete honor and allegiance to God’s Kingdom, BUT we are to be oiling our lamps NOW, making ready for the marriage of the Lamb… Because when the Bridegroom cometh, IT IS TOO Late: Only those that ARE Prepared will enter in, AND The Door WILL BE Shut… (Matthew 25:1-10)
(Revelation 18:23) … The ~light~ of A candle shall no more shine at all in thee; … thy merchants were great men of ~THE~ earth: FOR By thy ~Sorceries~ were ~ALL~ *Nations* deceived….
The sorceries of Satan, the building up of ~~Pride~~ in the hearts of men, for anything, brings forth ~Contention~… (Proverbs 13:10) Arguments, jealousies, rivalries, all arise from the *Sin* OF *Pride*… SOOOOoooo… “*IF* we have put our hand to the plow, we cannot look back, but we must, keep our gaze focused upward, placed firmly upon, “THE Ensign” OF God’s Kingdom, giving the praise, glory, and honor to out Heavenly Father, realizing and giving Thanks TO The Father in the Name of the Son, AS IT IS Written, IN The Book That God Gave us to Refer to as reminder of the things that HE Expects HIS children TO OBEY!
(Luke 9: 26) … ~~NO man~~ having put his hand to the plough and looking back IS fit for the Kingdom of Heaven….
SOOOO IF we have made that commitment, TO God, AND expressed IT publicly by Baptism, we can’t look back at any nation to praise IT or lift IT up as giving us our freedom, before the world… else we make a public denouncement of Christ our Lord and of God’s Kingdom…
There IS A place of quiet, peace wherein we come to meet with our Lord, and hear His voice, feel His Love, His Presence… and that IS where we should seek to walk…what we should seek to share with others, & *Express* Before ~ALL~ people… NOT in the loud and blusterous ways of a lost and dying world, led by the adversary IN the ~~Pride, of IT~~…