On September 30th the Obama administration will allow the operational control of the Internet to no longer belong to the United States of America but allow that control to be without leadership allowing most likely the United Nations the opportunity to take over thus the world losses the freedom of communication and information it once knew.
Liberty and freedom that we once took for granted is quickly vanishing from the earth and few people notice but of those who do notice most believe this is a good thing, that too much freedom for the common man is not healthy for him.
We should understand that this is what Jesus told us would happen. The Lord gave us a forward looking example of prayer that asks for this age to end with all its darkness and pain and pray for the Messianic age when Jesus would rule and morning would dawn for mankind.
We are familiar with the Lord’s Prayer but we may not be aware of the promise this prayer calls to be fulfilled. In order to better understand this dimension of the prayer we need to look at Ezekiel 36 where the Lord declares that God’s people Israel have profaned His name to the nations but that He will sanctify and make holy His name once more.
When we pray, “Holy be Your name” it is the first part of calling on the Father to bring about the Messianic age just as “thy Kingdom come” and “thy will be done” are also calls for the evil of this age to end but there is more.
In both the Matthew and Luke versions of the Lord’s Prayer there is something interesting about the daily bread you may have not heard about before. What is rendered from Greek as daily is not really the best understanding of what Jesus was telling us.
The Greek word epiousion is not a Greek word used anywhere else in the language, it is a cobbled together word that might be better translated as tomorrowly or tomorrow’s bread and it begins to make sense when put in context with the parables that follow of asking a friend for bread due to a midnight visitor and the ask and it shall be given passage after that found in Luke’s version.
When put together we understand that the bread being ask for at midnight is the bread prepared for the morning or tomorrow and that Jesus is telling us to ask the Father to end the night and bring the Messianic age now to end the darkness and that it is the persistence of the follower of Jesus Christ that causes the Father to rise up and end the exile to bring about the age of light where sin will be cast away.
When the darkness gets truly dark, the people of God are needed to cry out to the Lord and call upon Him to bring about the Day of the Lord so that the destructive forces of Satan will not consume us.
Christians have forgotten that we are to be crying out “Maranatha, Lord come quickly!”
