Tuesday, September
17, 2013, 3:00 a.m. – the Lord Jesus woke me with the song “Should I Not Preach Jesus” playing in
my mind. Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Ezekiel 3-4 and Acts 3-4
(ESV). The Lord Jesus continues to show me parallels between these two
books of the Bible, particularly as applicable to our world today.
The Holy and
Righteous One
“And
now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But
what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would
suffer, he thus fulfilled. ~ Ac. 3:17-18
A man who had been lame from birth, in the name of Jesus
Christ, was healed through Peter, who was God’s divine instrument of that
healing. All glory went to God. The man entered the temple with Peter and John,
walking, leaping and praising God. Amen! The people were filled with wonder and
amazement at what had just taken place. The people ran to Peter and John. Peter
seized the opportunity to share with them the gospel of Jesus Christ. He told
them that they had denied and had crucified the Holy and Righteous One sent
from God. They had killed the author of life, but God had raised him from the
dead. Amen! But, to add insult to injury, they asked for a murderer to be
granted to them instead.
In a sense, I believe that is what we in America have done. We
have refused God’s voice and his words of warning, and we elected a president
who is a murderer, though we acted in ignorance. I believe with all my heart
that what the Lord Jesus has been showing me these past seven years is that
this man is an instrument of Satan and that he is guilty of the deaths of many
innocents, including the deaths of those who profess the name of Jesus Christ
throughout the world. So, we share in the guilt of our leaders in these acts of
denying and putting to death Jesus Christ all over again, by their willful acts
of murder of followers of Jesus Christ – his witnesses and servants. And, our
president’s most recent act of making the way possible for the US to send “chemical
weapons-related assistance” [1] to Syria to help the opposition, which I
believe is the N.W.O., only reveals his true motivations.
Stubborn and
Rebellious
And
he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words
to them. For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard
language, but to the house of Israel— not to many peoples of foreign speech and
a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to
such, they would listen to you. But the house of Israel will not be willing to
listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house
of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. Behold, I have made your
face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. Like
emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be
dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.” Moreover, he said to
me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and
hear with your ears. And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them
and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ whether they hear or refuse to
hear.” ~ Ezekiel 3:4-11
I believe this is a picture of the institutional church here
in America, though certainly it does not describe every follower of Christ
here. The church today has gone the way of the world; the way of humanistic
teaching and philosophy; and the way of big business and marketing schemes for
how to build big “churches,” i.e. businesses of mankind. They have bought into
so many lies that they hardly recognize the truth when it is right in front of
their eyes. The gospel of Jesus Christ has been watered down to make it more
palatable, more comfortable and more acceptable to the world or to the worldly
church. Entertainment has replaced true worship. Marketing 101 has replaced
Christ as the head of the church, who is the one who is supposed to build his
church his way, not the ways of the world. Humanistic teaching has replaced the
word of God. And, the people love it this way. So, they bear the guilt of their
own sins of spiritual adultery and of idolatry, and of the moral decline of
this nation.
Repent and Turn Back
Repent
therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of
refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the
Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for
restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets
long ago. Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me
from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. And it
shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed
from the people.’ And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those
who came after him, also proclaimed these
days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made
with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.’ God, having raised up his servant, sent him
to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” ~
Ac. 3:19-26
We, as a nation, and we, as a people of God, need to turn
from our wicked ways, humble ourselves before God, pray, seek God’s face, and
we need to turn to or turn back to God as a nation, and as the church within
this nation, if we want to see divine healing and restoration. We never may see
national restoration or even physical restoration of our land in this life, following
this judgment of God on our nation, but if we will turn back, he will forgive
our sins, and he will revive us, renew us, and restore us to himself. Amen! Then,
Christ will return for his bride, and then we will know physical restoration,
as well.
In the meanwhile, we are commanded not only to repent (turn
from) our sins, but we are commanded to walk in obedience to our Lord Jesus and
to obey everything he tells us to do. If we do not listen, and if we do not
obey, we will be destroyed. Jesus was sent to us, and he died for us, not just
so we could go to heaven one day, but so we would be free of the control of sin
day-to-day while we still live on the face of this earth. He was sent to us to
bless us by turning us from our wickedness. Oh, how wrong it is when preachers
tell you that you no longer have to turn from (repent of) your wickedness, and
when they tell you that you no longer have to obey Christ and his commandments
for salvation and for eternal life. If we refuse to listen and to obey, and we
refuse to repent, thinking we don’t have to, we will be destroyed. God’s
blessing to us is one of repentance and obedience.
And
you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city,
even Jerusalem. And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against
it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant
battering rams against it all around. And you, take an iron griddle, and place
it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and
let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign
for the house of Israel. Ez. 4:1-3
The Lord Jesus has been showing me this coming judgment
against America for nearly nine years now, and lately he has been impressing
upon my heart that this is a present reality in our lives, in our nation, and
in the world. America and the rest of the world are under siege, and the US
government is party to this siege, in particular our president.
I believe the Lord Jesus has been showing me that there are
cells of quasi-military forces hidden among us just waiting for their orders. They are like a
military privatized police force specifically for subversive purposes and they
dwell in secret (hidden from plain site) colonies (cells), evidently, such as
in caves or other underground locations. They are a murderer’s army, and their
purpose is to destroy the nations of this world, and believers in Jesus Christ.
This murder’s army is to whom we are supplying weapons of mass destruction! And,
I don’t believe these weapons are to be used solely against Syria, either, but
against the people of the world. And, we will pay for this crime against
humanity with our own lives.
They Had Been with
Jesus
Now
when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated,
common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with
Jesus. But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing
to say in opposition. But when they had commanded them to leave the council,
they conferred with one another, saying, “What shall we do with these men? For
that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. But in order that it may
spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone
in this name.” So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at
all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is
right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,
for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” ~ Acts 4:13-20
When this takeover of our nation becomes obvious, and it
surely will in due time, we will begin to see severe persecution and the
murdering of followers of Jesus Christ. They will be targeted because it will
be obvious that they have been with Jesus. Not everyone who says he is a
Christian will be targeted, but only those who truly bear the mark of Jesus on
their lives and on their witness. And, they who follow Satan will come after us
to try to keep the gospel of Jesus Christ from spreading, yet I believe that
God will use this time of persecution to revive his church here in America and
to light a fire in our bellies to where we cannot stop speaking in the name of
our Lord Jesus, even if it means our deaths! Amen!
Should I Not Preach
Jesus
An Original Work / July 4, 2013
Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13
Woe to me should I not
preach Jesus.
I’m compelled to
preach the full gospel.
I make myself a slave
to ev’ryone
To win their hearts to
Christ.
All this I do for my
Lord Jesus,
And for the sake of
His Name;
Do it for the sake of
His gospel,
So that I, its
blessings gain.
Scripture notates the
sins of others;
Written down for us as
examples
To keep us from
setting our hearts
On evil as did those
of old.
Do not worship other
gods of man;
Do not give your
hearts to them;
Not partake in
immorality.
Do not test your Lord
and King.
So, be careful if you
think you are
Standing firm in your
faith in Jesus.
God has given his word
to warn us,
So through faith we
will not fall.
No temptation has
o’ertaken you
Except what is
commonplace.
God is faithful to not
let you be
Tempted past what you
can bear.
He gives the way of
escape.
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