Many Confrontations Faced

Yes, life is full of "confrontations."


Incorrect. The very first command ever given was to be fruitful, multiply, subdue the earth and rule over it. Even in the good, unashamed, and sinless state prior to Genesis 3:6-7 humans were going to experience confrontation. Remember also, the serpent resided in the garden and he lies. That was always going to be another source of confrontation for humanity, even in the good and sinless state. 

It is more accurate to say the confrontations multiplied, not that they did not previously exist and then suddenly appeared. 

(big grin) You've just contradicted yourself . The gospel preceded creation. The moment the gospel is asserted as confrontational the previous claim of no confrontation existing before disobedience is contradicted. 

However, you are correct: the gospel is confrontational. It requires our surrender and sin hates surrender to anything but itself. 

I suppose, but I'm not sure I would call that a confrontation. That might well be consider a liberating revelation, as well. All of use (prior to coming to Christ) know in some form something is missing. We struggle with what has proverbially been called the "God-shaped hole within us," and the gospel fills it, and therein we find satisfaction. 

Yes. Sin will not serve its Master on its own. Blessedly, God is sovereign even over sin and every act of disobedience bows to His will and purpose in the end. 

Yes, and I don't mean to be splitting hairs or sound that way, but Jesus is not Savior if he is not Lord. Jesus is Lord. That is where the confrontation begins, not with Jesus as Savior. EVERY knee will one day bow and acknowledge Christ as Lord to the glory of his Father. 

But not every knee will be able to confess Christ as Savior. 

On that day we, those in Christ, will revel because we engaged the struggle, the confrontation with sin, doing so by relying on the work of Christ and not the work of our own flesh. The same shed blood that freed us will condemn those who do not know Christ as both Lord and Savior. They felt the struggle within. They did not surrender to Christ. They continued, day in and day out, to surrender to sin. Thereby bringing about the last confrontation upon themselves.

Yep. 

That's a wonderful example of what I was just referencing. The harlot is confronted.

And loses. 


But she will, nonetheless, bow her knee and confess Christ as Lord. 







How do you mean the Revelation passage to be relevant to our daily walk in a life full of confrontation?

I disagree with your disagreements. They don't comport. Perhaps we have a different understanding of what confrontation is, in my case the deceitfulness of the serpent and the seductiveness of its suggestion doesn't amount to confrontation in the sense that mankind had no experiential knowledge of good and evil, a state God desired for them to be in. Furthermore, the Fall of Creation did not occur until after Adam and Eve's act of disobedience, before which there was nothing to be Redeemed and no prophecy of such.

Confrontation results in the blood of saints and martyrs and all those slain on the earth being found in the Great Whore.