“The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,
and you will not hear?
Or cry to you “Violence!”
and you will not save?
Why do you make me see iniquity,
and why do you idly look at wrong?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
So the law is paralyzed,
and justice never goes forth.
For the wicked surround the righteous;
so justice goes forth perverted.” (Habakkuk 1:1-4 ESV)
Habakkuk was a prophet of God. As with most prophets of God, he cared deeply about what God cared about. He was deeply troubled in his spirit over the wickedness, the injustice, violence, strife, conflict, physical destruction, and moral decay that he witnessed with his own eyes, in his own nation, and among his own people. He could not understand why God allowed this to go on with no apparent hope for salvation. Not only that, but he felt as though God was turning a deaf ear to his cries for mercy.
I empathize with him. I have seen much wickedness, injustice, strife, and destruction of people’s lives caused by sin’s deceitfulness in my own nation, and among those professing faith in Jesus Christ, too. I have seen so much apathy and complacency among God’s people to the things of God, i.e. to true righteousness and to holiness in living. And I have witnessed the gospel of Jesus Christ being watered down to make it more palatable to the listener and to make it easier for people to “come to faith in Jesus Christ.”
But the problem with that is that it is not the true gospel nor is it true biblical faith in Jesus Christ. For the Bible teaches that unless we die to self and to sin, we cannot live. We have to turn from our sins, and we have to turn to walk in obedience to Christ. This is what it means to come to faith in Christ. Thus, if we preach a false gospel, we are giving people a false hope, and we are condemning them to remain in their sin. So we need to teach death to sin and walks of obedience to God as the faith which saves.
And, I have witnessed that some who stand for what is right, and who preach the true gospel, are being ostracized and rejected in the church, and even invited to leave because they don’t fit the new way of marketing goals and schemes for how to draw in large crowds of people into their gatherings. For so many of our leaders within these gatherings are following after the ways of the flesh and of the world rather than after the ways of God and his holiness and righteousness. So the righteous are being rejected by them.
I have wept many tears and prayed many prayers to God over this destruction of God’s holy people, his church, by sin’s deceitfulness, by moral decay, through complacency and apathy, and through the church becoming one with the world. I know it breaks God’s heart, because he shows me his heart all the time. And it breaks my heart to see those who profess to know and to follow Christ still walking in sin’s way, and still following the ways of the world more than or in place of following Christ Jesus and his ways.
It breaks my heart and God’s heart to see many pastors leading their people to walk in the ways of the world more than or in place of teaching them to walk in holiness and righteousness. And I know God is going to judge his complacent and apathetic church for her refusal to listen to his voice and to turn from her sins of idolatry and spiritual adultery. That breaks my heart, too, because I know the devastation and pain that must come upon God’s people in order to get them back into a right relationship with their God.
[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]
God’s answer to Habakkuk
“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth,
to seize dwellings not their own.
They are dreaded and fearsome;
their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.”
“At kings they scoff,
and at rulers they laugh.
They laugh at every fortress,
for they pile up earth and take it.
Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,
guilty men, whose own might is their god!” (Habakkuk 1:6-7,10-11 ESV)
God’s answer to the spiritual and moral condition of his people, at least here in America, but elsewhere, too, is to bring judgment on the people to get them to repent of their sins. Over the past 20 years the Lord has spoken to me much concerning the church in America, where I live, and concerning our government and their involvement in what is ultimately to be the beast of Revelation, I believe. The government and military of the USA are part of a global order, which includes the U.N. and NATO as its military force.
The Lord has revealed to me many times over that the US government and their military are doing the kinds of things worldwide that are described here in this passage of Scripture concerning this Babylonian kingdom that God would use to bring against his people in order to get them back into a right relationship with God. Leaders of nations are turning against their own people, so this is destruction from within, in concert with other nations in the world, and to bring about a one world order of government, I believe.
I believe they are on their last leg of this journey to conquer all the kingdoms of the world, including the USA will be completely conquered by them, too. History repeats itself. And, one day we will see the fulfillment of the prophecies of the book of Revelation in our time, I believe. First he used the USA and their NATO allies to take down other nations in the world, and I believe now he is turning our leaders against their own people in order for God to bring revival to our nation so that many will be saved for eternity.
Now, what I just stated above may not comply with what you have always been taught or with what you have come to believe about your own nations, or about the USA (where I live), and it would take hundreds of documents to prove my case. So all I can do is ask that you pray about what I just shared with you, and ask the Lord to show you about the governments of your own nations and that of the USA and who they really are and what they are really doing, and then let God show you his plan to get his people revived in heart.
For Our Nation
An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.
Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.
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