Greetings,
Deuteronomy 28:62, "left few in number"; 28:63, "rejoice over you to destroy you and bring to nought"; 28:65, "Lord shall give thee a trembling heart, and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind"; 28:66, "And thy life shall hang in doubt before that . . . and shalt have none assurance of thy life. . . "
Where are we at? Why are we here? Where are we going?
Deuteronomy 28, is the chapter of blessing & cursing. From verse 3 - 14, is the blessings which Moses tells the people that they will receive if 'they hearken and obey the Word of God". And from verse 15 - 68 are the curses, which Moses warned that if they would not hearken and obey that God would send upon them. It is very easy to understand the blessings and cursings: hear and obey and receive blessings; refuse to hear and disobey and receive the curses. Now these curses come in waves upon the nation and the person. God in mercy gives opportunity for correction and repentance. And several times through the curses, Moses warns, and if you refuse to hear and obey, then God will do this next to you. The curses starts off outwardly. but after multiple times of rejecting God's mercy, you reach the end of the curses which is death.
Where are we at?
Brethren, we are now facing desolation, destruction and death. We are experiencing something that other generations went through, but never has this generation, a world wide pandemic, where 1000's are dying and 100,000's are facing death. This is increasing each day. IF you follow the stats for the nations, you can see how deep the impact of this goes globally. what is to come, is even more unsure. This is where we are at. We are in a day to day moment of understanding that there are families, loved ones, and people facing death and eternity. Whole communities living in fear and anxiety for they know not what will come from this time. Impact on society, impact on churches impact on the economy and our future all is unforeseen how deep and long this will go.
I hear Christian leaders and pastors, seemingly quoting Scriptures of promises and hope; and yet it seems vague if they really believe it. Are they offering hope out of broken cisterns? So much 1/2 truths of II Chronicles is presented and never the full leading of the text. Only focusing on the Lord's action in verse 14, but not so much on the 4 responses of the church. They seem unsure in their faith and walk. It is definitely a testing and trying time for the believer to give an account of themselves.
WV governor called for a day of prayer today across the state and led in this. I have seen so many 'calls to prayer'; zoom prayer meetings; call in prayer meetings; all kinds of prayer initiatives from all ministries. Why didn't we listen before? Why did we have to wait till the worst of Deut. 28 came to finally start to pray? what will come out of these prayer times?
Why are we here?
Instead of II Chronicles 7:14, Isaiah 59:2 is more true to our plight. The confession, recognition and repentance of our sins is ever so needful. Just as the king of Nineveh repented and caused the people to repent, so we must understand why we are in this plight. We have sinned against the Lord. Our sins have increased and they have provoked Him to anger and wrath. He has warned, repeatedly, but we have not listened, now He has sent the death plague to the nations, to remind us how fragile our life is, and neeful we are of Him.
Since our nation has legalized and embraced all the abominations of the Bible, that God hates and has cursed; and since the church has lost its purpose of holiness, fear of the Lord and embraced the comforts and love of this world. God has warned; God has been longsuffering; God has been patient; God has sent remedial judgements to cause us to return and repent; God has been beckoning unto us all along. And as warned in Deuteronomy 28, when He spoke and showed Himself mighty, if they refused to hear and continued in their sin, then He would send curses upon them. Of which, our nation(s) have received wave upon wave. We would not listen, nor would we hear. 'God rising up and sending His prophets, but they refused to hear them."
Where are we going?
All the efforts over the last year of 100 hours of prayer; 80 hours of prayer; and the call to Concerts of prayer, church and prayer leaders refused to hear and obey. Now they are all employing and embracing calls to prayer. What remains to be seen, is when this begins to die down, will they learn or will they return to their folly and sins of self. A mandate now, to not return to our former ways is very needful. this is why an acknowledgement of our why we are here, due to our rebellion is necessary. For if they don't understand and agree with this; it will be explained away. And it will all be for nought.
All those professing Christ now, as soon as this passes, will return to their old ways and sins and be that much more a child of hell. do we understand this? This is not a spiritual awakening! Dead men grasping for straws does not make it true salvation. True salvation comes with remorse and sorrow, godly sorrow over sins. This remains to be seen. But for what is happening right now, it is only a salvation for escapism.
What will come from this is countries posturing for the upper hand. Economy will be a huge impact to who leads and governs. Christians and the church called upon during the crisis, may be persecuted and blamed following the crisis. Some how and some way, persecution must come to us in the west. Without a true brokenness and contrition, that which is to come will be worse upon the church. Very needful for us to prevail during these days. A true word, a true spirit of Christ, and a true drawing near to Him is ever so necessary for what will follow.
EPIDEMICS:
Drugs & Alcohol - still overdoses and deaths through this time; alcohol is a false god and there has been no repentance of this;
Natural Disasters - major 7.5 earthquake; still due for 8.0 or greater; strong storms and tornado season is upon us; floods in Middle EAst;
Great Evil - murder-suicides are increasing daily; the talk and fear of suicides is misplaced, for they are already happening; homicides have remained consistent;
Children - awful abuse and neglect is evident during these days children are home; parents spending money and time on drugs and alcohol, whiile kids go hungry;
LGBT -
UPDATES:
--we have been live streaming on facebook & uploading to youtube; we purchased an IPAD that we are able to record with and upload to youtube; prayers answered!! Thank You!!
--live streamed last Saturday night, 3/21 in lieu of our Fox's Hollow prayer time; both sermons for Keyser Church and Fox's Hollow were preached and live streamed & recorded & uploaded; Monday night bible study recorded and live streamed;
--Thursday night prayer at 7 PM (EST), March 26;
--still working on re-memorizing Psalm 119; but looking to start a few days early for bible readings before end of month;
--The Activity of God - Isaiah, chapter 53;
--A Word blog - started into Isaiah 63, first couple of verses;
Until,
Dan
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