James 5:7 Starting right now I command you: be patient and keep being patient until the arrival of the Lord. The rich man, who Lords it over you now, like Divies Lorded over poor Lazarus, Luke 16:19-21, he will not always do so. When you are face to face with the Lord Jesus Christ awaiting glorification at the Bema and a trip to rid the world of now inferior demonic hordes, then these rich will not Lord it over you they will in fact NOT be found. Why? They are in the torments of the underworld, sheoul. Luke 16:3&4 They are burning in hell and their gold is the wick, James 5:3, on hell's roman candle of torment. Sorry Randolph and Mortimer, Sorry to the rest of the rich, Sorry Carlos Salim, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and George Soros, the Lord's younger brother Jake, Gal. 1:19, has the courage to tell your future, just as Jesus did, if not moreso. Few are as close as a brother, and the holy spirit disclosed Jesus mind toward these rich to brother Jake. So Be patient, fellow believer in Christ, part of the Lord's royal family, be patient with the rich and powerful on our planet, even though they oppose you and God and Christ, the antiChrist rich will find their righteousnesses were just composting menstrual rags, Isa. 64:6; that, in death, all their pride, vanity and power vanished; and only Christ remained. But, he would have none of them. So, like Judas, who, though he had a name as one of the twelve, Jesus knew from the beginning who did not believe, who would betray him, like Judas, the rich will go to their own place. No lexus there, no black AmEx card there, just flame and crying out for relief. James 5:7 Starting right now I command you: be patient and keep being patient until the arrival of the Lord. How about the opposite. Lord please hurry up. God when will you deliver us? Hello Lord! It has been 1,979 years since the angels said “He will come again in like manner as you see him ascend.” Acts 1:11. Things are getting worse not better, Lord. The closer we get to you, the worse things get. It is too hard, Lord. God says to these laments, "Keep being patient, Starting right now I command you: be patient and keep being patient until the arrival of the Lord. James 5:7a In other words, as long as it takes. Open up your minds eye and see the farmer waiting patiently for the growth from the soil, He is patient waiting on the crops, the seed is deteriorating in the earth. The farmer is patient. You take in Bible teaching, the early rain, you believe the teaching, early rain, you consider it, what to do about it, early rain, and act on it, early rain. Still no change in circumstances. Be patient. Starting right now I command you: be patient and keep being patient until the arrival of the Lord. The farmer waits as the slow growth from an early rain continues. Finally the late season rains come and the now deep-rooted plants grow and bear fruit, veggies and whatnot. James 5:7 First we are patient as God tests and tries us to develop and strengthen us, we get water absorbing capabilities get deep roots and we get mature. Now, when God needs us to put on the good fight and endure onslaughts for Jesus, we are ready for evidence testing, like Job got, showing forth fruits in the latter rain. James 5:8 Be patient then, Christian farmer, build up, work out, empower the right lobe of your soul's mentality, pump up your conscience with Bible based norms and standards, feel the burn as you stretch your vocabulary to the utmost filling it with concepts like: expiation, redemption, substitutionary atonement, strategic victory of Jesus Christ on the cross where he broke the back of Satan and tore the bonds of sin and death away from all who will receive Jesus, When he by the healing of resurrection also healed us back together with God having born our weakness and infirmities, by His stripes healed in resurrection we are healed. He took our sins far away from us as our scapegoat, Positional sanctification God united us with Christ on the cross and we died to our sins positionally there with him positruth also unites us currently with Christ in his death, burial, resurrection and glorification. We are seated in Christ in the heavenlies. Reconciliation wherein the great fissure and painful gash had cut us away from God like the lash wounds on Christ's back, all the above separated us from God, but the solutions to each problem were the healing balm of Gilead to join us back together with Christ by faith in His person as God-man and His death for our sins on the cross and His burial, resurrection ascension and glorified session where he waits patiently, like a farmer for all his foes to be made the footstool for His feet. We shall one day with Christ in our union with Him plant with him our foot on the Devils head. Allah, under our feet in Christ, Buddha, under our feet in Christ, Mao Tse Tsung, under our feet in Christ Marx brothers: Karl, Lenin and Engels, under our feet in Christ, Hindu pantheon, under our feet in Christ, Gaia the Earth mother, under our feet in Christ, Satan, that old serpent the devil, Lucifer, Son of the Morning, under our feet in Christ! under our feet in Christ! under our feet in Christ! These are the concepts and categories of Bible Teaching each of which take a few days to learn rightly that, when learned, build up, yes, and strengthen our heart as God tests and tries us to develop and strengthen us in Christ! Thing’s like these fill your heart’s categorical storage, until each little devil that sees you coming says “StrongHeart is here, I need backup!” James 5:8 Be patient. Strengthen your heart. The arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ is at hand! Our feet are positionally on the devil’s neck. It is the positional truth of the cross, we are united with Christ suffering on the cross and in all that the cross brought forth: Jesus death, burial, resurrection, ascension, session in glory and ultimate glorification when His feet, and ours in union with His, are firmly planted on the devil’s sour face. That is, at the Arrival of the Lord!! We are with Him positionally now and will be with Him then, at both times, now and then, doing that disrepect to the Devil with Christ! James 5:8 Be patient. Strengthen your heart. The arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ is at hand! Jesus went about at the beginning saying “Repent the Kingdom of God is at hand!” Now we are to Be patient. Strengthen your heart. The arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ is at hand! God does the work, it is Grace, you just position yourself in front of the Bible Teaching. Then the positional truth will become more and more real to you, until God crushes Satan under your feet, shortly!! Romans 16:20