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Behold, He Cometh

Daily Devotionals

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About the Writers

Dr. Robert A. “Sunny” Brock was born April 15, 1941, to an oil field hand dad and child polio victim mother. He was raised by five old country Irish uncles and was first prize winner of the National Interscholastic League Story Telling Contest. He served nine years as a US Air Force chaplain’s assistant during the Vietnam War era. He attended Baylor University, University of Southern California and the University of Hawaii. He received his Master’s in education from Sam Houston State University and ThD from Texas Baptist Institute and Seminary. Sunny taught eighth grade earth science and vocational

agriculture and also taught women prisoners at Huntsville, TX. He has thirty-eight years of teaching and has tenure at Texas Baptist Institute and Seminary. Dr. Brock has authored articles for newspapers, religious journals and textbooks—Romans—The Fifth Gospel, Teaching Methods for Bible Teachers, Developmental Psychology, Research and Writing Manual for Master and Doctoral Thesis, Bible Backgrounds, Discipleship and Interpretation of the English Bible, Criterion Press. Book credits include Salt Lick Vol. I and Vol. II, Exlibris Press, Turkey Mountain Boys: My Brother’s Keeper, Tate Publishing, OK. He may be contacted at BobBrock@juno.com.

Wally Fry was born in 1962 in Memphis, TN. Shortly thereafter he and his parents moved to Little Rock, AR, where he grew up. He attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies. He served seven years active duty in the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer, leaving in 1993 to pursue other career options. He has lived in Arkansas, Texas, Utah and Wyoming in this country; he lived in Germany three years and a short tour in Saudi Arabia. He finally returned home to Arkansas in 2001. After forty-five years as a strident nonbeliever, Wally was saved in May of 2007 during preaching at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church

in Star City, Arkansas, where his membership has been since. He has completed the Faith Bible Institute three year remote Bible study program and loves to read and study. He currently teaches on the rotation for adult Sunday School class and BTC for the young teens. Wally is married to Heather Fry, who was responsible for him being in Bethlehem church in the first place. He has two grown children, a granddaughter and two stepchildren belonging to his wife Heather. As an almost lifelong nonbeliever, Wally is passionate now about reaching those who are lost and teaching the saved how to understand what they believe so that they can also take the gospel into a lost and dying world.

Beverly Barnett grew up in a Missionary Baptist deacon’s home, was saved at the age of nine and joined Hatley MBC, Hatley, MS. She married Nicky Barnett in 1971. Bro. Barnett has pastored in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida for the past twenty-eight years. In each of Brother Barnett’s pastorates, Beverly has taught children in Sunday School or children’s church. Beverly returned to school in 1985 and graduated with honors as a LPN. In 1991, she graduated from Northwest Alabama Community College with an associate degree and became a registered nurse. She

has been a guest writer for “Women of the Harvest” magazine, her hometown newspaper and writes a monthly newsletter. She continues to study the art of writing. She may be contacted at nanb542000@yahoo.com.

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, June Scripture Readings ,

o June 1 1 Kings 11; 12; Acts 5:1-20

o June 2 1 Kings 13; 14; Acts 5:21-42

o June 3 1 Kings 15; 16; Acts 6

o June 4 1 Kings 17; 18; Acts 7:1-20

o June 5 1 Kings 19; 20; Acts 7:21-40

o June 6 1 Kings 21; 22; Acts 7:41-60

o June 7 2 Kings 1; 2; Acts 8:1-19

o June 8 2 Kings 3; 4; Acts 8:20-40

o June 9 2 Kings 5; 6; Acts 9:1-19

o June 10 2 Kings 7; 8; Acts 9:20-43

o June 11 2 Kings 9; 10; Acts 10:1-22

o June 12 2 Kings 11; 12; Acts 10:23-48

o June 13 2 Kings 13; 14; Acts 11

o June 14 2 Kings 15; 16; Acts 12

o June 15 2 Kings 17; 18; Acts 13:1-23

o June 16 2 Kings 19; 20; Acts 13:24-52

o June 17 2 Kings 21; 22; Acts 14

o June 18 2 Kings 23; 24; Acts 15:1-18

o June 19 2 Kings 25; Acts 15:19-41

o June 20 1 Chronicles 1; Acts 16:1-15

o June 21 1 Chronicles 2; 3; Acts 16:16-40

o June 22 1 Chronicles 4; 5; Acts 17

o June 23 1 Chronicles 6; Acts 18

o June 24 1 Chronicles 7; 8; Acts 19:1-22

o June 25 1 Chronicles 9; 10; Acts 19:23-41

o June 26 1 Chronicles 11; 12; Acts 20:1-16

o June 27 1 Chronicles 13 —15; Acts 20:17-38

o June 28 1 Chronicles 16; 17; Acts 21:1-26

o June 29 1 Chronicles 18; 19; Acts 21:27-40

o June 30 1 Chronicles 20—23; Acts 22

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Satan Is a Deceiver2 Corinthians 11:13-15

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light,” 2 Corinthians 11:14.

Lahore Pakistan: Dr Maima, fake neurosurgeon, deceived National Services Hospital administration and performed many complicated brain and spine surgeries on patients for eight months with fake credentials in the second largest health facility in the country of Paki-stan. After exposure, she continued surgeries until she was removed and was only fired, without punishment, because of her social connec-tions. Satan has been deceiving God’s people for six thousand years. Satan’s deceived ministers are the disciples of Satan. However, they pretend to be disciples of Christ. In every false religion and cult, Satan rules by fear and deception. If Satan presents himself to man as a comforter, he can easily exchange God’s agenda for his own. Parents have been known to scare children into submission by conjuring in their mind an evil creature that will “get you if you don’t straighten up.” Satan has been deceiving young people by making sin appear pleasurable. He teaches them also not to fear evil creatures, having them play with monster dolls, monster games, watching evil entertainment until satiated children believe evil is normal. If sin was not any fun, Satan would have no customers. He makes sin socially acceptable, but hides the consequences until it is too late. He was created a most beautiful angel, full of wisdom and beauty. God never took that away from him. He uses his wisdom and beauty to trap us, making sin practical and pleasurable.

THOUGHTTeach your children that Satan makes

sin irresistible, inviting them to participate. Teach them to ask, “What would Jesus have me do?”

Robert Brock

Monday, June 1

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We Are Not To Be DeceivedMatthew 24:5-14

“And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many,”Matthew 24:11.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our secretary of state a formal reply to a recent American message....During the intervening time the Japa-nese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.” Jesus warns us of deceivers who will come making promises that all is well, when actually, the end-time world is falling apart. Humans are destroying each other and love will be almost non-existent, replaced by chaos, and that’s only the tip of Titanic’s iceberg. Lurking below the surface, Satan orchestrates man’s self-destruction. He is playing man’s tune, touting the message that the antichrist has all the answers and comes bringing peace. Satan appeals to man’s dark side, promising see-touch-and-feel comfort. “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Corinthians 4:3, 4).

THOUGHT“For there shall arise false Christs, and false

prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very

elect” (Matthew 24:24). Study God’s Word and be not deceived. Robert Brock

Tuesday, June 2

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Revelation Began with a BookRevelation 5:2-10

“The Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof,” Revelation 5:5.

Actually, the scroll of Revelation was spiritually related to the scroll of Daniel. (See Daniel 12.) “There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:…And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:1, 2, 4). It appears the seven-sealed book opened by the lion of the tribe of Judah is revealing the information Daniel hid with sealing wax until man was spiritually intelligent enough to understand the magnificent revelation. The Lion of the tribe of Judah’s first mention came from Genesis 49:10, where God specifically established Judah as the king line. Jesus’ grandpa, David, was the first king in the line of Judah, and Jesus was the last. “The sceptre [symbol of king’s authority] shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh [Prince of peace] come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine [Revelation 19:13], and his clothes in the blood of grapes: his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk [symbols of His sacrifice]” (Genesis 49:10-12).

THOUGHTJesus is literally Israel’s last legitimate king. Is He King

of your heart? If so, you know peace the world cannot understand.

Robert Brock

Wednesday, June 3

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Jesus Did Many Things Not Recorded

John 20:26-31

“Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence

of his disciples, which are not written in this book,” John 20:29, 30.

George Washington, commander of the Continental forces in New York, read the Declaration of Independence aloud in front of City Hall to a riotous crowd of Americans. The same day they tore down a nearby statue of the English King George III, melted it down and shaped the metal into more than forty-two thousand musket balls for the fragile American army. Many things have happened connected to major events that most people do not know because they were not recorded. Jesus performed so many thousands of miracles that they could not all be written. “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written,” (John 21:25). At this period in the gospel story, Jesus had already been resur-rected and was teaching His apostles to live by faith and not by sight. He was teaching His church to carry the gospel to the entire world, As soon as the New Testament Scriptures were finished, miracles became unemployed (1 Corinthians 13). “These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (John 20:31).

THOUGHTThe gospel is all that is needed for the world to be

convinced that Jesus is of God and paid for our sins.

Robert Brock

Thursday, June 4

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Jesus Preached from a BookLuke 4:14-28

“And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read,” Luke 4:16.

The book noted in this verse was not a many leafed book as we know books. It was a scroll. The Dead Sea scroll of Isaiah was 24' long. It was found in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds near the Dead Sea below Jerusalem when a shepherd boy was looking for his lost sheep. He heard pottery break when he threw stones into a cave. It is older, by one thousand years, than all the Hebrew Isaiah scroll manuscripts. It is the only scroll from the Qumran Caves to be preserved almost in its entirety. Jesus had given the writing of the book of Isaiah to the prophet almost a thousand years before the incident that is recorded in Luke 4:16-21. He and His brothers had probably sat before these rabbis in synagogue school and memorized the same portions of Isaiah. Isaiah was a very large scroll with no capitals, no chapter or verse numbers, only column after column of writing with no breaks. Jesus had to have practiced unrolling the scroll many times at school to find this exact Scripture. These rabbis that He read to on this occasion may have been His teachers. He literally was telling His old school teachers that He is God. Jesus and His family probably attended the synagogue on a regular basis. Jesus set the example for us by His practice of assembling to worship God (1 Peter 2:21).

THOUGHTFaithful Christian parents who raise their children in “the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4) at home, Sunday School

and worship services reap rewards, now and for all eternity.

Robert Brock

Friday, June 5