FATHER out of HIS Love for mankind always warns them before judgment arrives and this time is no different. All of us remember 9/11/2001 and where we were at on that fateful day. No matter who instigated the attack, judgment came to the shores of the U.S. When the country’s response should have been repentance and remorse, instead it was pride, defiance, and unrighteousness.
Fast forward to 2008, seven years later, and we nearly had a meltdown of the financial system and were in hours of the government proclaiming martial law. In the next seven year period we have had zero percent interest rates thus the middle class and the retired have suffered with less income from their life savings. True unemployment has stayed around 22-23 percent during this period. In response the government has increased transfer payments and food stamps to keep the populace from rising up. Throughout this entire period the U.S. continues its war in the Middle East, the longest in its history.
There have been countless prophets warning America and those warnings have mostly fallen on deaf ears. We have a tendency to believe if those warnings don’t come to pass rather quickly they must have been false. However, FATHER is longsuffering to a point and does not hastily deal out judgment. We should remain vigilant and not assume that all is well in the land. Proverbs 16 expresses the position we should be taking:
16 How much better to get wisdom than gold!
And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil;
He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
18 Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly,
Than to divide the spoil with the proud.
20 He who heeds the word wisely will find good,
And whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he.
America’s hedge of protection has been removed and the enemy has been able to wreak havoc within our borders. It is true for those countries who historically professed to be Christian nations.
Babel was a tower of defiance and mankind had totally separated itself from FATHER, In an effort to rise up to the heights of the spirit, the tower was man’s attempt to become as god using their soulish thinking and methods. Men have continued to build taller and taller buildings in an attempt to show their superiority and display their egos. The buildings communicate the arrogance “Mine is bigger than yours thus I am better than you.” Perversion continues to spread across the land.
In Isaiah chapter 9, the defiance of the leaders of Israel are but a type and shadow of the leaders of today:
8 The Lord sent a word against Jacob, And it has fallen on Israel.
9 All the people will know— Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria—
Who say in pride and arrogance of heart:
10 “The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with hewn stones;
The sycamores are cut down, But we will replace them with cedars.”
11 Therefore the LORD shall set up The adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies on,
12 The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth.
For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.
When judgment comes, man’s pride attempts to defy FATHER’S Hand in the matter. In man’s arrogance and pride he remains blinded from the reality that he is under judgment. Those who ascribe to the current political path of destruction will suffer the most. What does FATHER think of hewn stones? We read in Exodus chapter 20:
25 And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.
Man has replace the covenant of marriage with a different covenant represented by a six color rainbow. FATHER’S covenant to the earth is a seven color rainbow. Man’s redefinition does not suddenly make it true. It only reinforces the reality that a harsher judgment is imminent.
Those who place their trust in FATHER will be spared the harshness of the coming judgment, no different than when the death angel passed over those who knew how to be protected from the severe judgment over Egypt. On the other side of judgment is a restoration and those who have trusted in FATHER will be as lights unto the world. The final preparation continues as the warning is still in effect. Don’t be lulled to sleep because it hasn’t fully occurred yet for FATHER isn’t restricted to our timing and expectation.