There
is real urgency about Daniel's prayer: "O Lord, look with favour on
Your desolate sanctuary ... O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord,
hear and act!" (Daniel 9:17,19). We do need to pray with urgency. There
are many who seek to lead us astray (1 John 3:7) - "Bloodthirsty men
hate a man of integrity and seek to kill the upright" (Proverbs 29:10).
Who can help us in this situation? - Only the Lord: "The reason the Son
of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work" (1 John 3:8). He alone
will give us strength to "continue in Him, so that when He appears we
may be confident and unashamed before Him at His Coming" (1 John 2:28).
" ... Will you ... come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, We are safe" - safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears My Name become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 7:8-11). “God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site” ( R K Harrison , Jeremiah ).
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