http://www.afweather.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123042444  A tornado chased the British out of Washington, ending their military move to sack and burn the city in the War of 1812.  God’s protection of a fledgling and believing nation.

Convenant, an agreement with promises relating to specific conditions.  Who would like to show me one instance where God has not come through on His covenant promises?  This is the common and comedic failure of atheist, preterist and false teacher, for none may show how God even once diverted from His declared prophecy, when covenant conditions were satisfied.  This produces the second fallacy that “all roads lead to God” for God says emphatically, repeatedly and definitively that they do not.

He wants a Holy, set apart and genuine people born of faith in His righteousness, even to the point where He has already once reduced their numbers to eight protected flood survivors.  There are none who can show sufficient evidence that what He says shall come to pass is unlikely or improbable.  Even the scientist must concede that the best indicator of future action is past performance.  With respect to God, He has always done what He said He would do and everything that He said would happen, has.  That should fill us with hope, determination and desire to follow through on our part of the covenant conditions.  The war with God is over for them who will repent, believe and follow Him.

What then of Israel?  Every single prophetic prediction with regard to His Covenant People has transpired exactly as He said that it would.  Even now He is gathering from every nation to return to the land He granted them, where He will bless them, cleanse them and once again turn their hearts back to Him.  This is so difficult for others to comprehend because they continue to focus upon Israel forgetting the promises were made them by God.  Just as with every Christian who has been saved for eternity by the blood of Christ, the Jewish Nation will not be delivered through their own works or righteousness but by the Promises of God to His Good Glory.  They, like us, will continue to fail until that moment they finally see His righteousness and once again remember their birthright as the olive tree.  Read Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Romans and Matthew and you will see that in God’s perfect timing He will again turn His primary focus on saving the Nation of Israel for eternity.  Even now the forces against them are mounting in preparation for their destruction, this will be stopped suddenly by God Himself to declare once and for all to the Nations the Glory of God’s Promises, Righteousness and Sovereignty.  All those who curse Israel do so at their own peril for it is with God Himself they will be pitted into hopeless battle.

Who then believes in a future of roses and continued blessings for the United States as we continue to fall short of the covenant conditions.  Especially in our continued ebb of support for Israel.  In our glib and flippant treatment of a God, who has never once failed to follow through on promised judgment, we are challenging the Almighty to “do something”, when it is us who should immediately and unconditionally repent.  There is no consensus here, no common ground, no bargaining or negotiation.  The terms of God’s covenant were set by Him, monitored by Him and enforced by Him as He is the only dependable Sovereign Truth available in this or any universe.  If we continue to pursue our own means against the covenant of a Holy God, who has never once failed to follow through on what He predicted, then we will certainly deserve every consequence in Righteous Judgment.  We then alone can be blamed for our failure to anticipate the coming storm and seek shelter under the wings of Almighty God through Jesus.

God is Holy, Righteous and True and with Him we should never trifle.  Hallelujah He has prescribed the path to salvation for each of us to clearly follow, so that we might be protected from His overwhelming Wrath in all its Righteous, Glory and Justice.  We the faithful depend on the promises of God, not upon our sight.  My eyes, ears and heart might be deceived but never my faith for it is firmly rooted in the steadfast promises of Almighty God.  He is faithful to complete the work He first began in each of us.  Glory to God in the Highest.  Jesus is Lord.