Is it time to throw on our sandwich boards and start walking?
The good new these days: Abortion is no longer protected by a “Supreme” Court. More babies (smaller versions of you and me) will live. The bad news: People are walking around with nonsensical signs that tell us how much they want to kill grown-ups for wanting to rescue babies from the claws of death.
Our prophet was instructed to speak to the land of Israel. Let us heed those warnings today in the good old USA.
The end is coming for the four quarters of the land.” - Ez. 7:3
This is one reason why I think we just might see a secession or a split of sorts in this country. Judgement is complete. However, there are strongholds in this land in which the mockery and the blasphemy goes all out, as they say.
Last summer, we visited a smaller town in a reasonably conservative spot on the map. As I spoke to a teacher in the public schools, I was encouraged. While many schools were banning prayers and Christian T-Shirts, this school openly prays before football games. As a matter of fact, one child showed up to classes with a T-shirt that supported an organization which promoted violence in the streets (while claiming to honor lives of some people). The child was given a two choices: “Change your shirt, or go home.”
They still have schools like that?
I was deeply encouraged. So, there is hope in some pockets of this country. If the contrast between freedom loving/God fearing populations and communities who celebrate death and tyranny gets any more vivid, I can envision a surgical separation.
Either way, there will eventually be a separation which is final and complete. And this event is what we pray for and (for the sake of the lost sheep) pray against.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025:31-46&version=WEB;NIV
The Choice You Love Has Consequences
The anger that YHWH proclaimed to a generation of Israelites was a direct result of the things that the people chose to do. He said it was “as your conduct deserves.” Judgement was only due to the choice to rebel.
Parades Parading Pride
Not only were the people being called to account for their conduct, but they were seeing the result of their parading of filthy practices. It’s one thing to be a creepy man of sin, lurking in dark places, but we live in an America with wide open “filthy practices.”
And this is the reason our God warns, “The end is coming.” When pride is at its peak (v. 10) and “violence has risen to become the scourge of wickedness… the time has come and the end is near.”
Prophetic Chains
The prophetic symbol that God instructs Ezekiel to create is to forge a chain. The pride parade will be broken.
Once the prideful become fallen and broken, they will seek a prophet and a priest, but they will be clueless on how to help.
What does all this accomplish?
They will learn that I Am YHWH!” - Ez. 7:27
Once we know that He is YHWH, we will have no legs to stand on and wave a fake rainbow flag. Once the knees are bent, we can bow and seek repentance and mercy.
Is He a God of Mercy? You better believe it. We can celebrate Judgement, we can celebrate brokenness, because through that, we discover His mercy, and His fellowship.
Celebrate life, but celebrate a life of grace in His Kingdom.
America, bless God!