The Crucible== Genuine?

CRUCIBLE == GENUINE! HOT TRIALS!

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

We go through seasons of tests. Sometimes the trials are so hot we almost seem hopeless. HANG ON!

Proverbs 17:3 The firing pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

Psalm 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

THERE IS A SPIRIT OF GRADUALNESS WHEN WE FACE TESTING. HOT? LUKEWARM? COLD? WHAT IS HOT GETS COLD. WHAT IS COLD GETS LUKEWARM. BE PREPARED. BE READY.

I have been told that if you keep a dog chained up, he will test the length of the chain. The dog will run until the chain stops him in his tracks. After pulling on the chain, the dog will learn the limitations of the chain and stop. I am also told if you take one link a day out of the chain the dog will not realize the slow reduction of his movement. LET US CALL THIS THE SPIRIT OF GRADUALNESS.

* Our enemy works the same way. He works by the spirit of compromise to gradually lower our expectations and standards as the norm. We often change by the test of hot fire. Change often comes imperceptible degrees, baby steps that occur to change slowly by small degrees. TEST: OUR ENEMY DOES NOT COME KNOCK ON YOUR FRONT DOOR ANNOUNCE HE IS HEAR TO DESTROY YOU. He is subtle and sneaky. BEWARE TEST ARE SURE.

ZECHARIAH REFERS TO THE LAST DAYS, THE END OF TIME, AS WE KNOW IT WILL COME IN THE CRUCIBLE OF HOT TRIALS. GOD WORKS WITH HIS PEOPLE THE SAME WAY THAT SILVER AND GOLD ARE REFINED --THE SAME WAY. THE FATHER’S PLAN IS TO REFINE AND PURIFY THE CHURCH BY USING HOT TESTS AND TRIALS.

Zechariah 13: 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

*1948? WE PUT THE GOLD IN A CRUCIBLE AND PLACE THE CRUCIBLE IN THE FURNACE. 1948

IS THE TEMPERATURE WHERE SMELTING GOLD OCCURS… AT 1948 DEGREES GOLD STARTS THE PROCESS TO BE PURIFIED. DO YOU KNOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF 1948?

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 1:7 (NIV) These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

On May 14, 1948 at midnight a new state was proclaimed to the world --- ISRAEL! Golda Meir raise funds from around the world to re-establish Israel, the HOLY LAND, as a nation.

WHAT CAN A FIRE PROVE? WHY 7 TIMES HOTTER? HEAT THE FURANCE 7X’S HOTTER? WHY? THE KING WANTS TO SHOW HIMSELF.

Daniel 3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. 20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

ARE THEY WALKING AROUND TO STAY WARM? THEY FELL DOWN BOUND? WEREN’T THERE 3 MEN?

Daniel 3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. 25 He