Greetings,
"The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen."
When you read through the Old Testament you see the progression from blessed times of King David, to their slow, centuries filled of vacating God. In Jeremiah, the warnings come, 'You have forgotten Me, and forsaken Me; and now I will forget you, and forsake you.' And then into the prophet Ezekiel we go, reading of a people and the nations that are judged by God for their folly and sin. This particular verses of chapter 30 is dealing with Egypt; but again, all Scripture, every word of it, is timeless for God's purpose and warnings. There is a day coming for our nation, for our future, that has slowly been shadowing us over these last years of what is to come. And as we view this time of remedial judgements now, it is a hard thing to watch unfold; but knowing that there is greater judgements to come it is almost too much to bear.
I have written and shared for some time on the remedial judgements happening upon our nation, churches and families. At first initial spotting these judgements I was more prone to believe that they were simply prayer targets, something to be prayed against or prayed for. But as the consistency of these judgements have increased and widening in their death and destruction, I know now that God's hand has gone out against us. This flood of evil has led me to cry out in great alarm 'Woe Worth the Day!' because of what is happening and what shall happen.
but never did I forsee the increase to what is happening or better said - "What shall be"; future judgements that will ultimately lead to our destruction. But as time has gone on, and the judgements have widened and increased, the handwriting on the wall is becoming clearer, our time is running out. And at moments for me, and others in the prayer movement, these happenings provoke an urgency upon us to prevail before the Lord. A failure to prevail in this will usher the judgements, will dash all hopes of the great revival we want, and will seal the fate of millions that are damned to hell. Much is upon the church to prevail. A urgent, desperate message which the great majority of the church knows nothing of.
The churches primary emphasis seems, to me, to be ministry. Church ministry, pastoral ministry, a ministry for everything and anything is upon the churches. Now there is nothing wrong with this, except to observe and see if it be Divine ministry from the Lord's calling or initiative, or carnal ministry, devised from the minds and hearts of men. I hear too much and see too much evidence of ministry in the churches today, carries more humanism than spiritualism; more temporal, than eternal; more carnal than spiritaul. They garner the pronouns of "I", 'ME' "WE"; but little is heard of the unction and anointing of the Lord upon the endeavor of said ministry. Every true ministry can testify and evidence that the Lord birthed in them and through them and God is glorified. But ministry of 'to do something' produces none of this.
It is hard to garner a conversation about the great need and fulfillment of the following:
--You cannot talk about 'revival'; and when I say revival, I'm talking about where sin is put down, whole communities and the greater part of the nation is chastised and called to accountability. I'm talking about revival where God shows up and says to His church as He said to Job, 'Give an account to Me, answer me'. And Job writhed in the dust and humbled Himself in the Presence of God, as all revivals do to His saints. People may pray and talk about this. But the whole issue of why so much prayer about it, but still unacheived? Leonard Ravenhill stated the truth on it for all of us: 'The reason why revival tarries, is because we are content to live without it". The remnant loves to hear, pray and talk about revival, it is their burden; but the whole of the church has no heavenly/earthly idea of what real revival is.
--You cannot talk about Holiness. I think this is one reason that I started this word study throughout the Bible to mark all reference to unholy and holy. But when you reference complete sanctification, holy as God is holy; the crickets start chirping and the conversation ends. And to discuss, share, hear talk about being holy in our daily lives, I have never seen so many Christians get so defensive, so angry at the church and their own selves being questioned if they are holy or not. If you are doing the spiritual disciplines, and maintaining holiness; why are you so defensive on your daily living? I would think the only ones that would become defensive is the ones not really doing it. But for the bride of Christ, who know their Lord and His holiness, they love to talk about it, pray for it, and seek it; but for the carnal Christian, unholiness is a norm to them - something's wrong with this.
--You cannot talk perfection. Go ahead and quote Deuteronomy 18 and Matthew 5, 'Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God'. and the first ones to argue it is the church. Then why did God give a clear command? They won't even discuss it, just dismiss it. I can think of nothing more like hell, than to dismiss the Word of God.
These are several issues to me of great importance on how the church is living daily in this world and how we are walking with the Lord. And if we be found unfaithful to these things, we understand why the evil has multiplied. We let down our guard, we let down our hands, as Moses did and the Amalekites prevailed. We didn't war a good warfare, and Satan has taken full advantage of our carnal, temporal, selfish, sinful lifestyles as His church and His saints. There is a price to pay for such living; there is a judgement for such that live like this; 'for where much is given, much is required'. Woe worth the day!
Now walk with me over the last 20 or so years; this century so far, we will look at, and speak your minds on this.
1. Drugs - we see the limited practice of opium and other drugs leading up to the 1980's; but in the 1980's due to wealth increase and a society built for fun and entertainment, drugs became a norm for society. That slow demise has swept to our epidemic today of all aspects of our culture and society. It all started with the few and Satan edges it to consume the whole. Death and destruction has increased with the product and the potency of these drugs. And death is as real for every community unlike anything that we have seen before.
2. Murder-suicides - great tragedies of this nature, were few and far between 30 years ago. If there was one a year, I think that to be stretching it, leading up to 2000. But since then, and especially the last 10 years I have followed this increase from one a month, or one every two months to now every week, if not at its height, every two to three days. Again the rise in numbers, the impact on more and more communities and families. This will become the next issue as cancer and drugs that I say, 'Tell me what family has not had to deal with cancer in a loved one, or had to deal with the drug use in a family member(s)." Soon this great evil will be upon every household.
3. Family - divorce rates began to increase, family unit under attack, mixed homes, now neglect and abandon, coupled with the drugs, and the older generation is raising the younger. That which God intended has now become a nightmare for our future. Did we ever think 30 years ago, it would look like this? To have a grasp in another 10 or 20 years of what it will look like is beyond me to consider or grasp the horror of the American home. But this I am certain, it will all but be extinct.
4. Cops being shot and the rise of homicides and mass shootings - we heard and knew in the 1980's of the increase of murder by gangs, drugs trafficking, etc. But to become so personal in schools, churches, and mass shootings like we have seen since 2000 I don't believe any one foresaw. But where we will go in the next 10 years. The bar is high and the numbers are low for school shootings and mass shootings; someone will come along with a means and way to increase the impact of numbers, mirroring the terrorists and their huge numbers of 1000's. This evil comes from many venues of violence, access, means and opportunity; and to stop those things is almost beyond the power of government or any one. At the root of it all is evil. Satan possessing his agents, tempting them in their pain and grief to act out in violence, and they employ their means. Cut off the evil and the death stops. How long before we figure this one out?
5. LGBT - never have we seen such a plague from hell as this that is attacking minds, hearts, homes, lives and our very future. Is this what Rome looked like before its fall? Transgenders numbers are escalating at rates no one foresaw and this is destroying the very identity of who we are and what we will be. Satan is having a field day with this, and the church largely is silent and powerless to do anything about it.
This may be our final undoing, the last nail in the coffin.
These are some of the scenarios of current headlines and happenings, so far in this year, 2018. These happenings and numbers will only increase throughout this year. For our greatest opportunity came last September and church leadership failed to respond to the moment. Whether they didn't see it, or agree with what I was saying, remains to be seen. But this much is sure, they refused to take any action. Except the action they always take after the tragedy, 'Let's pray'. In order for these things to change and be undone, it will require a prayer movement intentionally engaged to 'war a good warfare'. And everything is at stake. Failure to prevail, means our certain destruction and desolation as a nation.
There is a weak movement right now for prayer regarding revival. some areas are more encouraging than others, but across the whole, there is not the solid warfare needed to defeat Satan's agenda and prevail with God for His Sovereign Divine Presence. But this is the answer for our day, we need His Divine Presence to fall upon us and meet us. Revival to undo our present course of destruction and give a window of 'showers of blessings' and great grace. And much like the days of Josiah, that God had already forewarned that Manasseh's sins would not be forgiven, but the blood he shed would be required at the death of Josiah. Twenty years after Josiah's death under Zedekiah, Babylon sacked Jerusalem and carried the land off to 70 years of captivity. And much the same for us, abortion may be overturned, there is definitely a movement happening; but regardless, what do you do with the blood of 60 million babies already on our hands?
This renewed call to prevail in prayer is for right now. There is no regarding for future plans next year, or end of year. If we don't prevail right now, there may not be an end of the year. The clouds on the horizon are definitely the shapes and patterns of world war. And I fear that this may be one of our next remedial judgements if the church does not humble itself and confess and seek Him with all their heart. The hour is late, and the need is great.
While there today, 'Howl ye, Woe worth the day! The day of the Lord is near'. yea, even now, upon us through severe remedial judgements. And the clouds on the horizon are not favorable to our nation or to our future. Brethren, may we enter into a renewed time of seeking Him; confessing and humbling ourselves before Him; walking after Him and with Him; being holy as He is holy and seek for that state of perfection that is found in those that are 'well pleasing in His sight'. Time is running out and the spirit of urgency is upon my soul.
Prayer Targets:
--drugs; new stats are coming in showing ER cases are up above 30 % increase for overdoses; I'm assuming the death rate will be closely linked to that. 2016 - 63,000 deaths; 2017 estimated over 70,000;
--LGBT; new studies reporting that teenager numbers are growing for those that are removing gender; The absurdity in this is revealing that God is 'giving us over to a reprobate mind'. The generation of the yesterday is reaping greater evil than any one of us could have foreseen. This is hugely detrimental to our nation and future.
--cops being shot and killed; another 1 in Missouri and 2 more wounded last night; reports of 18 killed thus far this year; remedial judgement on order, civility;
--school shooting, mass shooting; almost a dozen other school shooting plans have been found out and thwarted since last months' FL shooting; begging the question, how many more are in the works. nothing has been changed in our provoking the Lord, thus another mass shooting and school shootings will be a part of our future; and we will continue to hear the terms 'historic' & 'record' number of deaths and instances;
--murder-suciide; homicide; suicide; This judgement is random, but consistent across the nation and a weekly happening. The homicide rate in places like Chicago and other big cities is a daily factor of death and dying and destruction;
--ISIS & Boko Haran - figrues and labors of evil, agents being used by hell to bring stealing, maiming, killing and destruction on ways of life world wide; terror agents;
--plague - Lassa fever in Nigeria; no vaccine; over 1000 cases already; dozens dead, especially health workers; 20% death rate to those that contract;
--religious freedom; Supreme Court ruling in June; other cases popping up of churches and Christians under assault to proclaim, live and share God's Word of truth; lawsuits, threats and attacks in our own land; all of which erodes our freedom; This is a short windwo for our freedom; and it will be gone soon. enjoy and make the most of it while its still here.
Updates:
24/7 prayer chain - http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-broken/58736439
--sermons; Keyser church sermon out of Hebrews 2 & 4; 'We ought not to let these things slip. . .Let us"; 2 parts due to break in recording; Fox's Hollow - Isaiah 50:9 - 11;
--visit to DC ; praying for Divine moments on this trip; not the way I want it, but praying to make the most of it by His hand;
--prayer conference Sunday at 5 PM for Upper Ohio Association;
--A Word - finishing up on Isaiah 50, only 3 of 11 verses to finish, all other done; starting into chapter 51;
--word phrase study; I'm getting so close to finishing this task of over 2 years; 45 pages to go; less than a month for my 47th time through;
--bible reading; for my 48th time through I should be done in April; word study - Destroy/Devour/Destruction/Desolate; marking all these in bible and writing out reference; marking HOLY, & Depart; will reference these next time through;
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