Greetings,
"If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long conintuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. Moreover He will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou was afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of thi slaw, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed." Deuteronomy 28:58 - 61
This is the cursing section of Deuteronomy 28. the first 14 verses are filled with blessings from the Lord for their obedience; the remaining 53 verses are curses for their disobedience. It is the last words of Moses to a people that have murmured, disobeyed and continued to fight against the Lord. It is his last appeal to warn them of what will be if they continue in their sin.
It is not different for us today. Yes, we are not under the law, but grace; but the nature of God toward a person, a people that obey or disobey is the same. If we obey and do right, He blesses; but if we disobey and do not do right, He curses. The purpose that I have sought to show our plight is to see the judgements of God. A number of years ago, I studied and preached a series on the ":Seven Levels of God's Judgements'. the 7 areas of our life that are impacted by God's anger and wrath against a disobedient people. Many of these same acts of God are upon us now. I do read or hear of any others preaching or sharing this. But it is before me, and I reveal what I see from the Lord.
These curses upon our nation, families, society and the church are because of our continued sin against the Lord. These curses I more refer to as remedial judgements. For remedial judgements are sent and allowed by God to bring us to an awareness of wherein our folly is and confess and repent of it. The failure to remove the sin, heightens the wrath of God because our evil and sin goes deeper. This is what we have seen in the last 18 years. Although I reference the last 18 years, this century thus far; these things are for decades and centuries.
All of creation is God's. He created it, He sustains it. We see His powerful, magnificent hand in colors, scenes, and beauty of it. But also, we see His power and wrath when it is unleashed against men, animals and the land itself. This quite evident throughout all the Bible. We see in Genesis, when God was angry with the people for their wickedness, He sent the flood; in Egypt, of the 10 plagues, over 1/2 of them was nature set against Egypt and the people; in Revelation we see 1/3 of all His creation destroyed by elements of His doing; and in so many other parts of Scripture we see beasts, drought, locusts as means of His wrath against the nations.
In identifying the remedial judgements against us as a nation, and against the church for their folly to not address nor come before the Lord, we see these judgements heighten and increase to epidemics.
#1 - Drugs;
#2 - Cancer;
#3 - Great Acts of Evil - murder, suicides, mass shootings;
#4 - LGBT agenda;
#5 - Children and the abuse and neglect of high percentage of them;
#6 - Natural Disasters;
Epidemics - large, increased effect upon land and people; usually in reference to disease, but here in impact of nature against large portions of our land;
Throughout these last months, I have continued to seek the Lord and men to help in understanding this and dealing with it. I sought to identify a few of the epidemics as was largely upon our nation as the drugs and shooting death. Large numbers are tallied weekly and monthly for these judgements upon us. And then it was clear that there was other epidemics as well happening that was increasing and has increased over the years. Understand this, it has not happened over night. But these epidemics have been allowed, caused and permitted by God in due to the sin of the nation and the failure of His church. For years we have been dealing with this.
I felt 3 or 4 was sufficient, but the Lord continues to reveal how His arm has gone out against us. And through the events of this week, God made it clear that Natural Disasters have reached epidemic proportions all over our world. Now it is funny to me, that where I began with these judgements in seeing God's wrath was here. I watched the earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, etc. to see the power of God in the storm, awe struck as well as fearful. And now I am back due to the increase of our national calamity of disasters happening weekly.
Again, time plays into identifying these epidemics. They are not one and done; they build a consistent pattern of continual happenings. And the intensity that happens should be the key that they are increasing. when words are used to describe them as 'record'; 'historic' and 'apocalyptic' ; we know they are not flukes, or just global warming, but an act of God, in direct response to the sins of the nation.
WARNING: this is the 6th epidemic upon our nation. Woe unto us, if we reach #7.
In Leviticus 26, God warned that if the children of Israel did not correct their ways and repent, the next round of remedial judgment would be 7X greater. Seven is a number of completion by God for whatever His purpose and will. With the heighten increase of these epidemics upon families, regions, people and individuals, the increase to a seventh epidemic would surely raise alarm to our plight. by reaching this, where do we go from there? Surely the next round would catastrophic calamity seeing we did not respond during these days that He gave us warning. it would be historic proportions of death and destruction upon the nation and people.
I have besought church leaders and prayer leaders to respond. Even a dialogue about this, but to no avail. I wonder what it will take to cause a right response before the Lord due to our great sin against the Lord. I wonder why the church doesn't pray more earnestly seeing there is such a plight upon the land and dire warnings for our immediate future. I see entertainment, sports, and ease continue by the church as if this is all normal. I see holiness and eternity the furthest thing from the church's mind. Yet I know in the midst of it all God is working for His glory and purpose. He will be glorified in all the earth.
So the Lord has given us a season to work, to respond, to seek Him. But alas, as the determined behavior of the church in these days has been consistent, we will not seek Him. We will seek our ease and pleasure, but we will not seek Him. Now the remnant is praying and seeking; and it will be now to see whether they prevail or not.
Suggestions:
--24/7 prayer chain;
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-broken/58736439
--last prayer blog that went out with plea and no response
http://danbiser.blogspot.com/2018/07/prayer-blog-appeal-for-spirutal-reponse.html
--Call to Assemble
http://danbiser.blogspot.com/2018/07/call-to-solemn-assemble.html
Until,
Dan
Started: July 27, 2018
Continued: 7/28;
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