Update: Since posting this, America has
suffered. Atheists have pointed at the Bible belt and laughed, saying
"Look at what your God is doing to the Christians." You do not
understand. Judgment begins with the house of the LORD. When the more
polluted lands of this nation are dealt with, it will be so much
worse. I doubt certain places will be able to recover. Seek the LORD
while you can, seek Him and live.
“Return to Me,” saith the LORD
by Jen
Shroder 2/27/12
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"If you turn your backs on Me,
I will turn My back on you."
Over
and over throughout history, God has outlined this message to the
Jews. Over and over again the Jews would not listen and were almost
annihilated. Do we, as Americans, believe we should fare better? We
began as a Christian nation, and God has blessed it. Slowly with time
our nation has become increasingly corrupt to the point we are
aborting babies to enjoy a promiscuous sex life that schools endorse
and promote. Now we teach children homosexuality and how to pray to
Allah, to participate in any and all religions except that of His Son,
Jesus Christ. Atheists are fighting to remove the Ten Commandments and
the Supreme Court is defying our Constitution to bow down. Does
America think itself so proud that it can snub our nose at God?
“That day is a
day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of devastation and
desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and
thick darkness,
A day of trumpet and alarm,
Against the fortified
cities,
And against the high towers.
I will bring distress upon men,
And they shall walk like blind men, Because they have sinned against
the Lord; Their blood shall be poured out like dust, And their flesh
like refuse.” Zephaniah 1
We teach
our children to bow to other gods and when the nations of those gods
surround us, we are astonished. We call out to the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob but He will not hear our leaders who have taken us to
such blasphemous places and then call out His name and pretend to know
Him! Before the smoke has cleared we return to our idolatries, our
games, our vain occupations and say the Lord will accept us because we
are worthy.
“Return to
Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord
of hosts. “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets
preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Turn now from your
evil ways and your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,’
says the Lord.” Zechariah 1
We provoke
our own death and destruction! Do not blame the Muslims or the Chinese
or the Russians or the North Koreans, Iran or Iraq or the nations that
gather against us. As a nation we are guilty before God! We have
brought what is coming on ourselves! If you know Him, stand fast in
what you have. If you don’t know the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
if you have not reconciled yourself to Him through Jesus Christ who
suffered, died and rose again to purchase you that you could be His…now
is a good time to start.
I urge you,
call to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob while there is still time.
Though they claim victory in the name of Allah, it is not Allah who
empowers them. For years we have been calling down our own death and
destruction. God will deal with those who will celebrate in our
sorrows, and even so, we must pray for them and share the Good News of
Jesus Christ, even in the face of their gloating and persecution.
“Your
fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Yet surely My words and My statutes, Which I commanded My
servants the prophets, Did they not overtake your fathers?
“You have sown
much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink,
but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one
is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with
holes.” (Haggai 1)
If we are
with Jesus Christ, even in the midst of suffering, we have Everything.
Pray for those who do not know Him. Though they may seem to gain the
upper hand, their grasp is empty.
God is
everything. And Jesus Christ is the only way to Him. Forgive your
enemies, seek Him and live. Jesus said He would never leave nor
forsake us, and He won't. There is not a thing that will happen in the
Christian life that He is not intently aware of. He never stops
thinking about us. Yet He said we would suffer in this life, but He
would be with us through it. If we keep our eyes on Him through the
storm, we can walk on water.
And when we
finally go home to be with Him, He will have a place prepared for us.
This is not our time, this is God's time. Time for those who do not
know Him to learn about Him through the Holy Spirit, through the Bible
and through us.
No, God
will not leave us, but as a nation, we are about to reap the
whirlwind. Our only chance for more time is revival. Will we, as a
nation, turn around? Will we continue to defile the land?
When the
Israelites repented and returned to the Lord, He welcomed them with
open arms. Will we, and Israel, repent and turn around? Or will we
face certain destruction of our own doing? Will we continue to
sacrifice our children?
“If My people
who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My
face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 1 Chronicles
We
Christians comfort ourselves with that verse often, but forget the
next verses. And lo, more and more Christians are beating up
Christians for daring to name sins. Many of us are happy to see our
children dance to African gods, bow and pray to Allah, look the other
way as children are told to honor homosexuals and when they are 17,
tell our children to experience many men or women before marriage and
yet fully believe they are following God! It will not stand! Sin
pollutes the land and land is hemorrhaging it as we spread
pornography, abortion, homosexuality in Christ’s name! Whether or not
you believe we are a Christian nation, the world sees us as Christian
even as we spew the vilest of sins upon the rest of the world. It will
not stand!
“And as for
this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be
astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this
house?’ 22 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord God
of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and
embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He
has brought all this calamity on them.’”
Understand.
Since Jesus Christ expanded the tent pegs in invitation to all the
world, “Egypt” is the world and “Jerusalem” is His people! Babylon IS
US! For we have pushed “multiculturism” and in that we are harlots,
led by godless atheists running our universities with the full
knowledge they are attacking Christianity. Look at Karen Armstrong, an
ex-nun who wanted to be a saint but couldn’t stand being alone with
God for five minutes in prayer so she left the church to lead our
children to other gods while proving Christianity is “bonkers.” She is
described as a “prominent and prolific religious historian” who’s
books are required reading for theology. Christianity is
under direct attack in public school and if you have any concern for
your child’s eternal destination, do not allow them to attend. Charter
schools are opening up, whatever you have to do, protect your
children!
Study
history. It has always been that when cultures began sacrificing their
children, God has said ENOUGH and nations were wiped out. We are
sacrificing our children replacing wombs for tombs. And if we decide
to bear them, we sacrifice them at the altars of public education.
Pray for
your children, pray for our nation, pray for His mercy and pray He
lead our troops. We are on the brink of destruction; God has made that
clear in so many ways. Stay close to the LORD. As the rest of the
nation is determined to steer this ship over a cliff, He will not
forsake you. But take Him at His word. I fear there are so many of us
who believe we are His and have no idea who He is.
God lead
our troops.
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