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http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/official-russia-plotting-to-start-war-on-israel/ If you don’t know about Biblical prophecy concerning Russia’s involvement with Israel, then please take a few minutes to read Ezekiel 38 &39 and ask your pastor about Gog/Magog.

Having just crossed the point of no return we long for sight of shore, but still have not come to grips with meters truth.  What then shall we tell our children of a tomorrow that does not exist within the scope of probability?  We have denied, ignored and chuckled as each warning indicated future’s folly, our guiding light.  What poor choices remain in the realm of suggestion, hoping desperately for the arrival of some charismatic leader to save us from a certain destiny, perhaps?  What then does the Bible suggest will be given us, a proud generation, wicked, lacking reason, faith or miracle?  Certainly, we shall be given exactly that for which we have rallied, cheered and demanded, independence from God, in the moment when we can least withstand His absence.

That which is yet to come for the purpose of fortifying our faith God has foretold.  Would it puzzle you to see that I worry not for the future of humanity?  To me there is no unknown, I am not at the mercy of that nebulous, chaotic realm of what is yet to come, to me God has made all things clear.  You see we have been praying for so long, “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven”, without remembering in faith that God answers prayer.  His will is what comes next, for we have through negligence, ignorance and disobedience forgotten to seek God’s wisdom and counsel and thus face a future full of earned consequence for self service.  Yes, rejoice for the harvest approaches and the gathering of souls will be immeasurable, but also mourn for those whose time is shortly come in realizing eternal separation from God.  Lord, I cannot imagine my mind ever being free of that painful thought of my friends and family alike having missed the opportunity to choose eternity.  Forgive us Father, lead us to the protection of Your Righteous Shadow.

Jesus repeated that this wicked generation would be given no sign but that which was shown Jonah.  In review what did Jonah know about the future?  Jonah knew that God was going to judge a particular segment of humanity, a group of people that Jonah loathed, an undeserving nation, that God would see saved from His wrath.  The only sign that Nineveh was given was the Word of God delivered by a reluctant prophet, bidding them repent immediately, fasting in humility and beg God for pardon or they would soon be judged.

How is our circumstance any different?  Would the prophet Jonah look upon America with love and intercessory prayer or would he consider us a wicked, disobedient nation, guilty and deserved of God’s wrath?  If we are honest in our analysis and evaluation we can come to no other conclusion than we are the people of Nineveh who have only one choice left, repent and seeks God’s face in humility and prayer or face certain, imminent, inevitable judgment forthwith.  Toward the purpose of providing content amenable to those who do not count America’s behavior equivalent to Nineveh.  I then must ask you to place yourself in Jonah’s sandals for one moment.  Which country/nation do you abhor, for their wickedness, their unconscionable actions or their departure from Divine guidance?  Which country do you dislike so much in your own judgment that you would disobey God’s direction to warn them of certain judgment?  Then accept God’s command to go now and warn them for this is our charge as Christians.

For those who have ears to hear let them hear what the spirit says to the churches.  For them who will hear, repent and pray there is forgiveness, salvation and everlasting life with God found only in the Name of Jesus Christ the King.  We will be given no sign other than the Word that God gave to Jonah.  I pray that we head those words right now for the future is certainly upon us.

Having set a course that leads to abandon, we can now only hang on to face the rogue waves of our certain future or immediately, authentically and humbly appeal to the mercies of God’s Grace.  The choice remains, set adrift for eternity or attached to God, the Rock of Ages who does not waver, fail, fade or change.  We ought not seek the face of a worldly charismatic leader to bring us out of our self-imposed spiral, for this world will be given just such a leader who is the spirit of antichrist.  That foul, indwelt man will be given dominion over the Earth to usher in God’s judgment to produce nothing but the war, pestilence, famine and death reserved for the wicked.  Oh but glory be to God on high, that in His everlasting mercy this Earth shall be delivered from this unholy spirit and returned to the Righteous Hand of a Holy, Almighty and Powerful God who will rule in justice, strength and Righteousness forever and forever, Amen.  Come soon Lord Jesus, but if You may please tarry a bit, so that we might tell those who will hear of Your Glory, that they too might be saved.

Cautiously prepared

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A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.  Matthew 16:4

As the crowds increased, Jesus said, “This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.  Luke 11:29 NIV

But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;  Matthew 12:39

http://lovestthoume.com/FeedMySheep/UntowardGeneration.html

http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=20547

Let us for a moment remember the circumstances and try to see through the eyes of Lot as he beheld the unrepentant wickedness of his friends in Sodom and Gomorrah.  The Bible says that Lot was a righteous man, yet the angels were sent to sternly warn him of God’s coming judgment and that he must flee to save the lives of his family.  What on earth could have caused Lot to remain, living in fellowship with pure wickedness?  Do any of us believe that a righteous man could remain in the midst of wickedness and not be polluted, poisoned or effected?  We want to be tolerant, we want to stay our judgment, hoping and praying that this world will find repentance and belief, but if we are also to remain in the wise counsel of God we must remain apart from that social tolerance and cohabitation with wickedness.  Are we standing in Lot’s sandals right now?

The sermon’s links above, given by Greg Gordon are scathing are they not?  Yet, they tell the truth of nations, generations and societal erosion leading to our current circumstance where wickedness deliberately seeks to corrupt or contort all innocence.  The innocent are under attack by powers and principalities of wickedness.  Youth, cannot escape salacious images while simply walking the halls of education.  The pure are bombarded by the persistent cries of “tolerance” of every sinful act, while the simple pious acts of the pure are disallowed.  We sit in our comfortable seats of hypocrisy not realizing that our cohabitation with the world has counted among the wicked in census.  How is it possible, even in the slightest manner that we have become new creatures yet continue to commit the same sins that led us to repent in our first encounters with Christ?

Are we that wicked generation demanding a sign from God, calling us to purity?  We shall not receive a sign, we only receive the words of prophets repeating Christ’s call to readiness of saints.  Simple Question; why did Jesus repeat parables of readiness, demanding that “believer’s” have oil in the lamps unless there is an implied negative judgment for those who fail to listen to His multiple warnings?  He was not telling these parables to unbelievers because He had already established that He used parables so that only those with ears to hear would understand.  These warnings are for believers who know the truth but failed to obey that truth.  My greatest fear for the Church is the same fear I have felt myself hearing those words from the Lord Jesus, “Depart from me you doers of iniquity, I know you not”.

Brothers and Sisters, we will not be given a sign, we all agree that we live in the “time of Noah” or the “time of Lot” as Jesus indicated would occur in the last days.  If you feel safe and secure in your church walls yet you and your church families fail to do the work to prepare for harvest, then you should awake for the Kingdom of God is upon us.  If you pass judgment on those around you then go home to commit wickedness and unrighteous acts in the eyes of God, then you should fear His wrath, for it is upon this wicked generation.  If you are surrounded by wickedness, seeking to corrupt your children in its unholy desire to corrupt the innocent then flee for God’s judgment imminently follows.  Do not expect that angels shall be sent to warn you of God’s impending wrath, for we shall not be given any other sign then the one of Jonah.  Repent or face the wrath of God.

Holy Father, awake our hearts and minds to the truth of our era.  Lead hearts to You with Your Holy Voice so that they might be saved a day and time of Your imminent wrath.  Father let us not tolerate the corruption and corrosive voice of inclusive wickedness, preached by this wicked generation.  Snatch us from the field of Your coming judgment.  Awake Church, Body of Christ, Bride to the Bridegroom of Heaven, Christ Jesus, soon to return for the faithful.  If you do not feel called to do the work that has been prepared for us since the beginning of time then you should be concerned for your eternal spirit, for “Many are called but few are chosen”.  Matthew 22:14    In Jesus, Holy Name I thank you Lord for drawing us to a salvation we could not find on our own.

Warning?

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Characteristic Names for Jesus in Revelation 2 & 3 when He is speaking to all the Christian Churches  –

The Words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven lamp stands, The First and The Last, He died and came to life, The words of Him who has the sharp double-edge sword, The Son of God, Whose eyes are like blazing fire and feet are like burnished bronze, The words of Him who holds the seven stars, The words of Him who is Holy and True, who holds the key of David, What He opens no one can shut what He shuts no one can open, These are the words of The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Ruler of God’s Creation.

What He sees and knows of the Churches –

  1. He knows the Church in Ephesus deeds, their hard work and perseverance, their inability to tolerate wicked men, that they have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not and have found them false, they have persevered and have endured hardships for His name and have not grown weary.
  2. He knows the Church in Smyrna’s affliction and poverty–yet they remain rich, He knows the slander of those who say they are Jews but are not and are of the synagogue of Satan.
  3. He knows where the Church in Pergamum lives, where Satan has his throne, He knows that they remain true to His Name, that they did not renounce their faith in Him even in the days of Antipas His faithful witness, who was put to death in their city.
  4. He knows the deeds of the Church in Thyatira, their love and faith, their service and perseverance and that they are now doing more than they did at first.
  5. He knows the deeds of the Church in Sardis, their reputation of being alive but they are dead.
  6. He knows the deeds of the Church in Philadephia that they are of little strength, yet they have kept His Word and have not denied His name
  7. He knows the deeds of the Church in Laodicea, that they are neither hot nor cold.  He wishes that they were either one or the other.

His critical commands and promises for the Churches –

  1.  Ephesus – He holds this against them: They have forsaken their first love.  They are to remember the height from which they have fallen!  They are to repent and do the things that they did at first.  If they do not repent, He will come and remove their lamp stand from its place.  They have this going for them that they hate the practice of the Nicolaitans, which He also hates.
  2. Smyrna – Do not be afraid of what they must suffer, that the Devil will put some of them in prison to test them, and that they will suffer persectution for ten days.  He tells them to be faithful, even to the point of death and He will give them the crown of life.
  3. Pergamum – He has a few things against them, they have people there who hold to the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israeltistes to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality.  They also have people who hold to the teachings of the Nicolaitans.  They are Repent therefore! Otherwise, He will come to them and will fight against them with the sword of the mouth.
  4. Thyatira – He has this against them: that they tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess.  By her teaching she misleads His servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.  He has given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.  So He will cast her on a bed of suffering, and He will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.  He will strike her children dead.  Then all the churches will know that He is the one who searches hearts and minds and He will repay each of them according to the their deeds.  Now He says to the rest in Thyatira, to those who do not hold to her teaching, and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets (He will not impose any burden on them): He says only to hold on to what they have until He comes.
  5. Sardis – Wake up!  They are to strengthen what remains and is about to die, for He has not found their deeds complete in the sight of His God.  They are to remember therefore, what they have received and heard; obey it and repent.  If they do not wake up, he will come like a thief, and they will not know at what time He will come to them.  Yet, they have a few people who have not soiled their clothes.  They will walk with Him dressed in white, for they are worthy.  Those who overcome will, like them, be dressed in white.  He will never blot out their names from the Book of Life, and He will acknowledge them before the Father and His angels.
  6. Philadelphia – He will make those who claim that they are Jews but are really from the synagogue of Satan come and fall down at their feet and acknowledge that He has loved them.  Since they have kept His command to endure patiently, He will also keep them from the hour of trial what is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.  He is coming soon.  He wants them to hold on to what they have so that no one will take their crown.  To him that overcomes He will make a pillar in the temple of His God.  Never again will He leave it.  He will write on them the name of His God and the name of the city of His God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from His God.
  7. Laodicea – Because they are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, He will spit them out of His mouth.  They say that they are rich and have acquired wealth and do not need anything.  But they do not realize that they are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.  He counsels them to buy from Him gold refined in the fire, so that they can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so they can cover their shameful nakedness; and salve to put in their eyes, so they can see.  Those whom He loves He rebukes and disciplines.  So He says they should be earnest and repent.  Here I am!, He says.  He stands at the door and knocks.  If anyone hears His voice and opens the door, He will come in and eat with them and them with Him.

Each of these churches was promised a reward for those that overcome.  Many were also promised that they would suffer specific judgment for not heeding His direction.  Every Christian should feel the urge to study Revelation 1-3, fully understanding what the “Spirit says to the churches”.  Praise You Lord.  I thank you so much for showing us what must certainly swiftly soon come to pass.

There are so many things we can personally and collectively understand and reflect upon in our review of Your Church evaluation.  How do Your words of encouragement or warning apply directly to my walk of faith or to those actions and inactions of the Churches in our city?  Was this meant to prepare us for the days to come?  Do all of these historic Churches resemble the behavior of Churches in modern day?  Do we all have a bit of characteristics of each of these Churches to which You have spoken?  Lord, I pray that if these warnings are meant to sound the alarm to all Churches, that we in fact pay close attention and follow Your direction, repenting and renewing our walk as Your Church body and bride.  Oh that all of us who call ourselves by Your name would demonstrate our love for You by doing just as You have commanded.  Thank You for the warning Lord Jesus.