15-OCT-2020_the Lord’s eyes-His spies
THE LORD’S EYES ARE WATCHING	(By Vatina)
It’s lovely to be here with you again. I look into your eyes through the text you are reading and I can see if you are actually really listening, or just glancing while wishing to be somewhere else, doing something else. It might look just like text on a page or on a computer screen, but think of God’s Word in textual form more as eyes. “The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth.” (2 Chronicles 16:9)
What eyes? What are His eyes? His spies of course! But God’s spies are unable to be captured and quizzed about their activities, and punished for being on the wrong team. No. God’s spies, His messenger boys and girls, work nearly totally in secret, infiltrating every part of society. 
It is these messengers that capture the youth with the truth, and that pry into their hearts and minds to get them to think about the tough questions of life. –For each one on earth is going to need to stand before the throne of God one day and give an account of their life. Hard questions are going to be asked, and those who took the time to really listen to God’s messengers and take notice of the messages that He sent, will be able to give the answers.
Think of it as an entrance exam. What you have found out and learned while in this life, and what you have done with the knowledge God allowed you to partake of, is in many cases what will determine your next station of service. There are exceptions, of course, from a God of mercy and justice. But don’t think that you can just fool around with the promises of God and ignore vast vats of wisdom granted unto you, and think that it won’t matter. It will matter in the final outcome of what you are granted the authority to do or have in the world to come. 
God’s spies, God’s eyes are all around, searching you out. Both His messenger boys and girls in the form of angelic assistance, as well as the written Word that searches out your heart and speaks to you. Through God’s Word He looks right into you, and through His Word He can see what you are thinking and how you react. 
It’s not a light thing to be looking into the face of the very Word of the Almighty God. When you get the privilege of looking at a page of words that are trying to convey a bit of God’s thoughts to you in your language and in a way you can assimilate it, it’s like you are looking right into the very eyes of Jesus, who is the Word. 
Don’t think you can get away with distracting thoughts and a lack of attentive focus. He sees. He knows. And you know what else? Yes, He feels. He feels when you are hungry to know more truth. He understands when you have had enough and just need some time to digest what you have taken in. He knows if you are doubting His very real existence, or if His Words mean anything to you.
 Ah, this life can be so, ever so deceptive to the vast amount of humans walking on this planet. In a world where what you say and do can make things happen, it’s easy to think that you are more powerful than you really are. 
Really, the way it is, is that what you think and say and wish for, the great God of the universe is granting—but only for a time. What are you going to do with freedom? If you could really be free from the “God” factor telling you what to do or say, what would you do? And so a lot of people get themselves into this make-believe world thinking, “I am boss; and what I say is what happens.” But if they would only see the real way it is: that God has granted them all their wishes, good or bad, just to see what they would do. 
One day the test will come, and all will need to give account. The real wake-up will come when they see that in the real world God always was and always will be in control. And due to their wicked choices they have worked themselves into a tight and uncomfortable position in the world to come.
 If they could willingly forfeit a bit of that so called “freedom do to as they wished” and instead submit themselves into the hands and rule of the God who always was and always will be in control, real control of their lives, things would go so much better. But no, they want to party now, and hope the bill to pay for it won’t be too high later on, or rather that there won’t even be a bill and cost. 
However, you who take Jesus at His Word seriously, who look in to His eyes, through looking into His Word, are the wise ones. You’ll party for sure, for you did your homework now. Graduation to the next life won’t be a time of public humiliation, but of joy. 
See, those who get famous now, and for all the wrong things, will be the most embarrassed when the time comes and all that is in secret is then revealed. The more famous they were, the more people who knew them when they were promoting all the wrong things and making the wrong choices—choices they were applauded and cheered for by the Earth dwellers—the more embarrassment they will feel, because so many people knew them. Seek not for fame, but seek to know the mind of Christ.
InSIGHT on God’s EYES --The Lord’s eyes can see you:
Psalm 34:15 –“The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous.”
1 Peter 3:12– “For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous.”
Proverbs 15:3 – “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”
Job 28:10– “His eye seeth every precious thing.”
Proverbs 3:5-7—“Be not wise in thine own eyes.” Psalm 32:8 — “I will guide thee with mine eye.” 
Psalm 73:24 —"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel; Psalm 55:13-14 “… my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together.”
Proverbs 5:21—"For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.”
Proverbs 22:12—"The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge.”
Daniel 4:13—"A watcher and an holy one came down from heaven.”
Daniel 4:17—"This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones.”
Daniel 4:18 —"All the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.”
Revelation 1:14– “His eyes were as a flame of fire.” 
Hebrews 1:7 – “Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.”
Revelation 2:18– “These things saith the Son of God, who hath His eyes like unto a flame of fire.”
Revelation 19:12– “His eyes were as a flame of fire.”
Exodus 3:2 – “The angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire.”
Revelation 4:8 – “The four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within.”
Zechariah 3:8-9 –“Behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. …upon one stone shall be seven eyes.”
Revelation 1:4,20 –“The seven Spirits which are before his throne.” "The seven stars are the angels.”
Revelation 2:1—"These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.”
Zechariah 4:2—"Behold a candlestick all of gold… and his seven lamps thereon.”
Zechariah 4:10—"… with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Joel 2:3,5,9,11 A fire … a flame burneth… chariots on the tops of mountains … a flame of fire … They shall run to and fro …the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: .. he is strong that executeth his word: …
2 Chronicles 16:9a,10a—" For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him...” “Then Asa was wroth with the seer.”
1 Samuel 9:9—"(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
[God’s called out children are like eyeballs] Zechariah 2:8—"…he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”
[Angels with messages are a type of “prophet”] Revelation 22:9—“ I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets.”