"So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." Numbers 35:33
When praying against sin, we see the high cost in our lives; past, present and future. Has it been recognized? Has it been acknowledged? Has it been dealt with properly? Prayers of confession are usually dealt with in the most general, haphazard way by the Christian and by the church. "Lord, forgive me and us of all our sin." Now its not that that Lord does not honor that prayer or answer that prayer. but whenever I hear some one pray that prayer, I always hear the Lord say, 'Forgive for which sin? what did you do?' God wants us to be specific on what has been polluted; defiled; and not cleansed.
Land/Nation - Is our land polluted? wherein Is our land defiled? wherein Is our land in need of cleansing? wherein.
Home/Family - Is our home/family polluted? Is our home/family defiled? Is our home/family clean?
Church - Is our church polluted? Is our church defiled? Is our church clean?
Personal heart - Am I polluted? Am I defiled? Am I unclean?
sin pollutes, defiles and makes us unclean. Here in this passage it is the sin of shed blood. None of us are void of this offense. For our land has shed the blood of abortion, the innocent babies. our streets are filled with the blood every day through murder. and the hate and malice in men's hearts one toward another is filled with the intent of killing. And what shall we say of the damned, that go out into eternity with little or no prayers for their lost souls. Little or no tears for their eternal plight in hell. And hardly a plea from the Christian church to engage them about their eternal soul is spoken to them. Do you not think that God will hold us innocent over the blood of souls? He will require the blood of those souls at our hands. Ezekiel 3 & 33;
do you know that old hymn, "Must I Go Empty Handed?"
“Must I go, and empty-handed,”
Thus my dear Redeemer meet?
Not one day of service give Him,
Lay no trophy at His feet?
- Refrain:
“Must I go, and empty-handed?”
Must I meet my Savior so?
Not one soul with which to greet Him,
Must I empty-handed go?
These are tough things to deal with by the church, by individual Christians about where we are and what's going on. And I do not presume to have the answers to it all. But what I do read and understand is that God holds a people accountable for the blood shed upon the land. Manasseh was guilty of the same; Cain was guilty of the same - 'Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground' The blood is the gift of life from God; God is life and when it is spilt upon the ground it pollutes, defiles and makes unclean.
Of course apart from blood shed, is the sins of the heart, mind, mouth, eyes, hands, and intents; of that which is done, and that which is not done. sin in the whole pollutes, defiles and makes unclean. Therefore the church and Christians must go beyond the basic of 'Lord, forgive me for my/our sins" When God is convicting us, 'Which sins do you want forgiven for?" Specific examination rather than general.
And only then is sin dealt with, confessed, repented of, and put away from among us. Just after the floods, wildfires and hurricanes upon our land this year, there was much clean up after. So when sin is brought before us, there is much clean up before the Lord, at the cross and in the fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuels' veins to lose all our guilty stains.
As I write and plead in prayer against remedial judgements, God's reciprocal response to man's; EPIDEMICS and fate of our future; it is found in the dealing with sin properly. We are guilty and we must make it known to the body of Christ, it must be taught and shown in Scripture - "Herein is your sin"; 'Thou art the man'. Once it is recognized and acknowledged it can be remedied by the grace and mercy of God upon a truly repentant heart. But to allow it is folly and prolongs His wrath against us.
EPIDEMICS:
1. Drugs - reports of NJ seeing higher death overdoses; but rest of nation is lower; This is which I said before, death total will come down from the record number of last year 70,000; but drug useage is still at an all time high. and the long term affects ares still not known for our future.
2. Cancer - rejoicing with answered prayers for some of these on my prayer list that God has been with them through surgery and treatments; but within a 24 hour period, I had 3 more names given to me and 1 this mornign, totaling 4 more just this week;
3. LGBT - such a trend among teenagers to experiment and go this way of polluting, defiling and making unclean in choices out of peer pressure or wantonness from heart desire of evil; It continues to advance;
4. Great Evil - a few police officers have died this week; no school shootings, but 2 major episodes were stopped due to your prayers; Continue as evil lurks in the minds and hearts of many for Satans purposes of death, destruction
5. Children -Wisconsin arrest made in 100's of cases of misisng children and sex trade;
6. Natural Disasters - long term affects are bothering me of all these disasters we have experienced coast to coast; the culminative judgement is not just the here and now, but what shall be;
Still wondering about EPIDEMIC #7. the church has not dealt with it issues of sin and failure. Thus the remedial judgements have increased and deepened. Now the other judgements that God brought upon a land was pestilence and war. These are hoovering over us; and I see increases of possibilities of both. Oh, that we would respond rightly and turn back His fierce wrath from us. We do not have to continue to progress to our own demise like this.
UPDATES:
--youtube page - sermons from Sunday uploaded; also did a 15 minute devotional and welcome to those joining my facebook page - A Word;
--danbiser.blogspot.com - prayer blog; going to write out the scriptures and themes for God's response to man's response; the Activity of God - finished Joshua, starting Judges;
--A Word - only a few started, none finished; in Isaiah 56;
Until,
dan
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