Your world view, your view of your nation, is going to determine your point of view. It will be the lens that you view events through and the filter through which you pray. What are the goals of your prayers for your nation? Do you seek to see it ” turned around?” What about your culture, do you want to see it saved or preserved? Your way of life, your goals and aspirations for yourself, your children and your grandchildren, are they dependent upon the state of the economy or the state of the culture or the state of the nation? What if the message is that your way of life, your culture, your country, everything that you hold dear is going to be dismantled and destroyed and become unrecognizable? How will you, how do you, react to hearing such a thing? If the message or the word does not have a ” good,” ending could you still embrace it or would you reject it. Can you embrace a God that is judging and will continue to judge your culture and your nation? Can you embrace a God, that because of His judgments, you will be called to suffer greatly, suffer the loss of everything that you hold dear? And ultimately, can you embrace a God that would call you and your family to martyrdom? Obviously this could only be done in the Spirit and the flesh would rage against such thoughts. Brothers and sisters, even now the fires burn all across Christendom. The vandals have entered the gates of the cities. These spirits have come to invade every heart and every mind and every church in the land. These are hordes that have poured forth from the bowels of hell, foul defiling hordes. Yet, they are only the pre-cursor for what is to come. Their job is to tear down everything that is called holy. Every part of society is to be torn down stone by stone. This is the spirit behind the forces who will turn wrong into right, who will turn day into night. Now brothers and sisters, we can see evidence of this all around us and we see the disintegration of society unfolding rapidly. The forces that align themselves against Christianity are gaining momentum. They are making a way for their own master to enter onto the world stage. How shall we react to such forces and events? Many without eyes to see, struggle greatly against this incoming tide. As they see the loss of everything they know and hold dear they have a great desire to fight back. They want to fight against the immoral forces that are tearing down the culture that they love and have created. Fear rises up in them, panic even. That fear and that panic compels them into the arms of many would be leaders. Some cry out that we need a great revival, others cry out that we need Godly men in political leadership. Others even consider arming themselves for what they see as a coming cultural war. Brothers and sisters, Christ is coming back and He is coming soon. This world is judged, this country is judged and Christendom is judged. And so now we must flee, flee from Babylon and into the arms of Jesus. Just like Lot we must prepare to leave the comforts of Sodom. Just like the exiles, we must prepare to leave the comforts of Babylon. Just like our early brothers and sisters, we must prepare to leave Jerusalem for there is a fierce judgement coming, the final judgement. All attachments to this world must be broken even as we continue to go into this world for needs must. These judgements that we are in the midst of, these birth pangs are just the beginning and they are from the hand of God. Shall we resist the hand of God? Brothers and sisters we have been called as lambs to the slaughter. You must prepare for this eventuality. Prepare your hearts for slaughter. Resistance will not change the judgements to come. The arrogance of those who hate us will continue to rise. Shall we meet arrogance with arrogance? Shall we match their hatred and their violence, shall we render evil for evil? As our enemies gain ground they will become emboldened. They will have the world behind them and true and genuine Christianity will be pushed forward into the lime-light and all the world will hate us as we refuse to bow down to the gods of this world. Yet brothers and sisters, be of good cheer for the Spirit of God will burn brighter in this generation than has ever been seen before. As the flood of darkness pours in, an incomprehensible darkness, then the light that is in us will shine brighter than ever before. The nobility of the Royal priesthood will be seen by all the world. Consider how one views diamonds in a Jewelers. The diamonds are set on black velvet so that the brilliance of the stones are illuminated against the blackness. As so it will be with the Lord’s own jewels. They will be seen against the backdrop of total darkness and they will shine and be seen like they have never shone or been seen before. The magnificent beauty of holiness will burn so brightly in the chests of every remnant child of God as they are led, all the day long, as lambs to the slaughter. And when their numbers are fulfilled, then shall come the King of Kings.
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Indeed brother the sheep will be slaughtered just as the Lamb was slaughtered. Those who follow the Lamb will be led to martyrdom. This is what Jesus meant when he called us to take up our cross to follow him. Bonhoffer said it best when he stated when Christ bids a man to come to him. He bids him to come and die. Tragically this truth is not being preached in our churches today. There is no sense of the soon return of Jesus. No sense of calling for the people to prepare for his soon return. It is all about trying to save America. More precisely the WASP lifestyle. Saving the culture.As I posted on another thread. Jesus did not come to redeem cultures. He came to redeem the souls of men and women. He did not come to save a nation. He came to save a people out of that nation and bring them into a spiritual kingdom. For Jesus told Pilot, my kingdom is not of this world. And it is our testimony of the heavenly King and his eternal kingdom that will surely get us killed.Bearmaster.
Today I was reminded of how engrained this culture saving is in American evangelicalism. On a con call I heard a prayer leader say there will be a solem assembly convened to call America back to God. Their mantra is 2 Chron. 7:14. The sister put the name of Jesus into it. But it was getting Americ to turn back to God and not sinners.Such prayer leaders may have noble intentions. They see the evil that America is sinking into. But their perceptions are not correct. They want America to be preserved. Instead they need a gospel response. America is a nation of sinners already under judgement. The call is for sinners to turn to Jesus Christ to be saved. As Paul declared to the Ephesians. They should turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.For Christ did not come to redeem cultures. He came to redeem to redeem, yea, to save men and women. And that by his finished work on the cross. For this is the glorious news. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Not cultures. Hallelujah!!!!Bearmaster.
For Christ did not come to redeem cultures. He came to redeem to redeem, yea, to save men and women. And that by his finished work on the cross. For this is the glorious news. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Not cultures. Hallelujah!!!!
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Bear writes........."Such prayer leaders may have noble intentions. They see the evil that America is sinking into. But their perceptions are not correct. They want America to be preserved. Instead they need a gospel response. America is a nation of sinners already under judgement"Amen brother...............bro Frank
Well said brother.I bear witness with what was said here fully.The old song "People get ready, Jesus is coming, soon we'll be going home", was a good one, but left out the final trials, persecution, & great tribulation. But you don't get the prize without the price. We we will blessed to be called to suffer for the one who died for us. Praise God! It will be hard for a day and worth it for a billion years (& the rest of eternity)
jeffmar writes.........."I bear witness with what was said here fully.The old song "People get ready, Jesus is coming, soon we'll be going home", was a good one, but left out the final trials, persecution, & great tribulation. But you don't get the prize without the price. We we will blessed to be called to suffer for the one who died for us. Praise God! It will be hard for a day and worth it for a billion years (& the rest of eternity)"Amen brother, the sufferings of this world will ultimately pale in comparison to the glories of God and His throne-room..................bro Frank
