LEADERS PLAYS THE FIDDLE WHILE THE U.S. IS BURNING?
May the Bride of Christ Pursue their Beloved w/Passion
MIT professor Theodore Postol and David Wright, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), said the rocket could fly even further - over 10,000 kilometers - if changed into a missile. “The Unha launcher represents a significant advance over North Korea’s previous launchers and would have the capability to reach the continental United States with a payload of one ton or more if North Korea modified it for use as a ballistic missile,” they said, “It could have a range of 10,000-50,000 kilometers, allowing it to reach Alaska and Hawaii, and roughly half of the lower 48 states,” they said in an article posted this week on the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences.” (Yonhap News Agency)
… Chances of North Korea firing mid-range missile high amid favorable weather: sources By Son Kim
SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) — Chances that North Korea will test fire a high-range missile this weekend around U.S. Independence Day are high as favorable on its east coast, sources said Friday. But it is unlikely that North Korea will launch an inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) around July 4 even though the equipment has apparently been moved to a base on the west coast, they said.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2009/07/03/0401000000AEN20090703007400315.HTML
Are “evangelical” leaders so-called warning U.S. citizens to repent and turn unto the Lord Jesus Christ? This describes the nation:
- Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. Ez 14:6
What of Molech?
The children of Israel were offering their children to the pagan god, just as the U.S. is sacrificing her treasure - by upwards of 50 Million - babies on the pagan idolatrous throne of self, success and money. Hear the simultaneous anger and sadness in our LORD’s heart!
- And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and daughters and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. Jer 32:35
We have had legalized abortion (murder) since 1973, and in that time have slaughtered millions of innocents; yet God was slow to anger. The abominable “partial birth” abortion, sounds so sterile, so “not born” but does lie. PB is when one who took a hypocrit oath, “doctor”, stabs a scalpel into the base of a full-term (6-8 month gestation) baby after that baby has left the body of the mother. So there is nothing “partial” about the birth. That little boy, or little girl, is murdered at the point of birth. Yet God was slow to anger.
What of Mammon?
Jesus spoke a great deal about money. Contrary to what most are hearing from the pulpit these days, he said, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head.” Lk 9:58 What once made our nation great was her foundation which was laid upon God’s wisdom, His Word. Surely the ten commandments surpass them, as does every precious, Spirit-breathed verse, but the Constitution and Bill of Rights are close seconds to the greatest documents ever given men through, as George Washington was fond of stating, “By Divine Providence.”
The United States, whose white capped mountains were peppered with steeples, and valleys coated with universities, all of them established to train young men in the Bible, produced some of the greatest missionaries who fearlessly went unto all the nations. No longer known for this, we have become a nation stained by the whoredoms of sodomy, idolatry, greed, pornography, and child murder, etc. In recent years we suffered a major terrorist attack, previous to that we had significant hurricanes, Santa Ana fires, tornadoes and increased seismic activity. As Christ said, due to man’s sin, sorrows would escalate Mt 24:7-8.
God initially sends remedial judgment, but if the people will not heed the warnings and turn from their wickedness, He will send harsher judgment to a land that is filled with hard-hearted sinners who refuse to acknowledge Him, His Word and their accountability before Him. This is the reason for financial judgment, which shall (as we have said before) make our grandparent’s Great Depression appear as a time of bounty by comparison. Yet, very few are crying out to God in repentance, preferring instead to follow after a god of their own making.
Money is an exchange that is earned as wage to purchase needs to provide for oneself or family, and that is after some has been given into the storehouses of God Mal 3:10, for the provisions of missionaries, utilities, bulletins and tracts not private jets parked on palatial estates. The church has lost her way and fallen in love with mammon, rather than the Giver of manna Ex 16:15 Jn 6:31
Our forefathers had a manna that perished, whereas we have an one of an eternal nature Jn 6:38, given to us by a Holy God who has for so long looked upon our sin but has remained slow to anger. Believers are promised if we abide in Him and His Words - not the words of the most chased after mega-talker - we can ask anything we want in His name and He shall do for us Jn 15:7. The magnitude of those words, upon each heart that intimately knows Christ, should be staggering!
Why chase after trinkets that rust? Mt 6:28-33 We must answer the upward high calling of God in Christ Jesus and proclaim the Gospel - with boldness - that the lost might know Him. Oh, that we would regain our boldness and stand. As the days get darker it can be challenging to “Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” Mt 6:34
As daily we see prophetic headlines splashed across international newswires, we must remind ourselves to continually focus upon eternity. A favorite verse:
- While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Cr 4:18
While these verses are presented in the reverse, when the night is dark and you awaken in the wee hours to pray or fret, pray. Despite what the devil is doing, God is LORD of Hosts and ever cares for us.
- For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exeeding and eternal weight of glory; 2 Cr 4:18
What of Sodom?
June, dubbed “Gay Month,” by those in power, brought much change in the geo-political arena which has been eclipsed by the death of Michael Jackson. Back during the inaugural week, there were sodomite celebrations at hotels around the nation’s capital, and just days ago the People’s House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue hosted a sodomite gala. When are those who profess Christ going to say enough? Our Lord told us to occupy, not close our eyes!
Sodom was burned with fire and brimstone, but today those who die in sin go directly to hell. There will be no more ‘flashy’ judgments of fire in the sky. Those who are lost need us to tell them of the coming judgment and Wrath of God, how will they know if we do not tell them? Unless we openly share our testimonies, no matter how painful, and display before them the Power exercised to change us from our former selves how will repentance found only in Christ be made real to them? Paul frequently spoke of his own faults, as we should ours.
- For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would do, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Rm 7:14-17
Do sinners of any variety see us as just like them? Are being real? Truly. When witnessing we should tell the lost of our struggles, and make it clear that just because we have been reborn does not mean we suddenly never sin 1 Jn 1:10. Christ went into the brothels and marketplaces where merchants were using uneven scales, just like our day. Why is it that most of the church sits in air conditioned buildings?
- I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Rm 7:21-23
- O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Rm 7:24-25
Confess, Repent, and be Saved!
Hear us: be ye sodomite, adulterer, lust-filled man/woman, alcoholic, drug addict, prostitute, tax cheat, thief … fill in the blank … Jesus Christ was offered once for sinners who will but be honest and agree that their sin is filthy and separates from a Holy God. There is no doubt that you know conviction in your life, for the Lord Himself put it there to testify of your need of Him and Calvary!
As sure as my heart is beating, every person who was ever saved had to listen to one who knew of the Power, Mighty-Wonder working, Miraculous Power of God that reached down into their own personal pit of sin and pulled them out. On that day the gospel came alive:
- God is Holy and can not abide sin.
- God is Just, He judges sin and will send souls to hell (most souls).
- God sent His Son to die, for sinners, that we might live.
- Christ bridged the gap between heaven and fallen mankind.
- Christ arose from the dead of His own power and sits waiting to return as Judge.
- God will break you of sin if you believe, faith (trust), repent, surrender and yield to His Will for all areas of your life.
- Christ Jesus is coming to claim His Bride, and the dark evil foreboding that all people sense (ie. ’something is wrong’) will break loose as never before.
- Christs’ death was sufficient, nothing is added by mankind … trust and believe!
Loving This Life Not Unto the Death
Paul would never have remained silence, legislation or no.
- Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Heb 7:25-26
God is upset with pride (sin of Lucifer) that leads a nation to imagine that they are untouchable, and can do anything and demand of His Chosen people to give up His Land granted them. We have been engaged in attempting to divide Abrahamic Covenant Land for decades, and destruction has resulted time and again.
Despite all you have done, dear sinner, there is One who is ready, willing and able to save your soul: the Lord Jesus Christ. As Jan Markell so often says, “The Ark door is again fixing to close.”