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1 Peter 1:5
5 Who [ho] are kept [phroureo] by [en] the power [dunamis] of God [theos] through [dia] faith [pistis] unto [eis] salvation [soteria] ready [hetoimos] to be revealed [apokalupto] in [en] the last [eschatos] time [kairos]. KJV-Interlinear
5 who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. NASB
Any person cannot live for very long before he begins to understand his own weaknesses and inabilities to control the world around him.
Look at the news in recent days. Even a huge government, in all of its branches, is seemingly run by incompetents.
Some are caught by surprise, others try to manipulate for power and authority. All, lack the ability to control the many aspects of an economy that has risen to great heights in recent decades. And all seemingly trying to take credit for successes, or lay blame for its failures. None, when it comes right down to it, possess any authority or power to do anything regarding the economy.
But for God, it is different. God possess the authority, the sovereignty, to command, to issue orders, and to gain complete and strict obedience from the entire universe and its occupants.
God possesses the power, the ability, to do whatever He wills.
Man can’t control anything. Man cannot control the weather, the economy, or even his own heartbeat. It should be quit apparent that we all lack power and authority in life, to control life.
But from the foundation of the universe, from the very beginning of beginnings, God has preserved our inheritance, our destiny, which is in heaven, the new heaven still to come. And God has been watching over it and preserving it and protecting it, just as a powerful army garrison protects its assigned responsibilities, from any and all enemies.
At the proper time, when all of human history has come to its completion, when our current dispensation ends with the Rapture, after the Tribulation ends with the second advent of Christ, when the millennium comes to its final end, when the universe in its entirety is destroyed totally out of existence, when the new universe and heaven combined are revealed, then our salvation, our permanent life with God, our inheritance, will become a reality.
And God has been keeping and preserving our inheritance since eternity past, since before man was created, since before you were born. God has looked down through time and saw you and me and our pathetic lives, and because of one commitment and only one commitment, which is faith in Him, and for that reason only, He has kept, and will continue to keep our inheritance for each one of us, until it is time to give it to us.
And that time will occur, with certainty, because it is God who possesses the authority and power to accomplish it.
No man can match the work of God. No man can accomplish that which God can accomplish.
Anyone, who looks to the world, and its evil filled goals, will never receive anything permanent from the world.
The world and man, lack true authority, and true power to sustain, or accomplish, or to set his own path through life.
Only by relying on God, through doctrine, we can attain infinite success. Otherwise, all that any of us could possibly have would be nothing.
