And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
---DANIEL 7.25
The verse above is misapplied to TODAY. The time is not yet but it is nigh, even at the doors:
Are you wore out? Who's wearing you out? Or is it the sin that doth so easily beset us?
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set
before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God.
---HEBREWS 12.1-2
Who are those in the "great cloud of witnesses" mentioned above? Does this really apply to us? Here's another verse that comes to my mind:
[We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
---II CORINTHIANS 4.8-10
One thing I've noticed today is that when I get "angry" I'm told it's a bad thing by them that examine me and usually from them that believe not. But whether anyone likes it or not there are times when I'm grieved and very angry:
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
---EPHESIANS 4.26
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the wicked] every day.
---PSALM 7.11
