In my daily time with the Lord the Lord talked to me about the following and asked me to post a thread on it. He wanted it here, because it is His prophecy, but it applies to us all Today.
I spent the first 40 years of my life not knowing the Lord personally. I had never heard a word from Him. Then He came into my life and now we talk everyday called "Today". That started over 20 years ago. Him and I, we talk. And one of the first things you actually find out when you start talking back and forth with His is that, contrary to what the worlds thinks, the Lord has His hands into almost every little thing. That is to say; that the Lord is out there doing good, and sometimes evil if some deserve it. Now He is love, but it is also written that a Father who loves His son will punish His son. Many a nation has perished because the Lord made it so. Which brings us to the point He wants covered.
Zep 1:12 “It will come about at that time That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And I will punish the men Who are stagnant in spirit,
Who say in their hearts, ‘The LORD will not do good or evil!’
So there is a time when the Lord goes about searching out men "Who are stagnant in spirit" to punish them!!!!
And we know them, or if it happens to be us, because they are those men who have said to themselves that 'The Lord will not go good or evil'.
That is what I pretty much thought before I knew Him. God didn't seem to be around one way or another. But that is the last thing I could think now that I actually know Him. Now, He does often amaze me that He does just move in on some of them men of this world and kick their buts right now. But I had seen Him do it, even with me when I tend to get rebellious. Yet He has He day and time for doing things, and He is doing things everyday, just not what I expect.
Frankly, I am afraid to lie, cheat, or steal, because I know that He knows and sometimes and will at some point do something about it to me personally. That phrase spare the rod spoil the child has roots in the Bible.
He once told me, "Karl, vengeance is Mine!! I do that!! I take vengeance!!"
He does it. And note: He did not say He will do that, He said He does that! Too many people thing 'at that time' means some time a long time from now, but it is a more person time. People die every day. And at that point, if that time for them has not yet come it then comes.
Zep 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD’S wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make a complete end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
The unbeliever is the person thinking that Jesus Christ, the Lord and Word of God, is not alive and active; simply because they don't actually know Him. They are anyone thinking that the Lord is not around and doing good and evil if need. It is too often true with those who collected fortunes with out considering the righteousness of their method. They lie! They might steal!! They often deceive!! And they tell themselves that God does not know, and does not do anything about it. It sadly sounds like too many of the men in leadership today in the USA. What is a little spin on a news story to make the evil sound good? I can tell you what it is - it is a lie and a confession that you don't know the Lord and feel that He will not do good of evil.
Nations have disappeared for this reason!!
Even Israel, God chosen, was taken away for a long time for this reason. We need to get wise. We need to start to believe, really believe, that God is in our midst, and alive and active!! Believe that and it will be good for us, otherwise don't believe and He will take action!
Zep 2:9 “Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel,
“Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah—
A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”
So what about the USA? God's personality does change. Are we to be a sexually perverted nation, of lies and deceit, like Sodom?
Or are we going to be a nation of people seeking the voice of the Lord who is alive and active
I spent the first 40 years of my life not knowing the Lord personally. I had never heard a word from Him. Then He came into my life and now we talk everyday called "Today". That started over 20 years ago. Him and I, we talk. And one of the first things you actually find out when you start talking back and forth with His is that, contrary to what the worlds thinks, the Lord has His hands into almost every little thing. That is to say; that the Lord is out there doing good, and sometimes evil if some deserve it. Now He is love, but it is also written that a Father who loves His son will punish His son. Many a nation has perished because the Lord made it so. Which brings us to the point He wants covered.
Zep 1:12 “It will come about at that time That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And I will punish the men Who are stagnant in spirit,
Who say in their hearts, ‘The LORD will not do good or evil!’
So there is a time when the Lord goes about searching out men "Who are stagnant in spirit" to punish them!!!!
And we know them, or if it happens to be us, because they are those men who have said to themselves that 'The Lord will not go good or evil'.
That is what I pretty much thought before I knew Him. God didn't seem to be around one way or another. But that is the last thing I could think now that I actually know Him. Now, He does often amaze me that He does just move in on some of them men of this world and kick their buts right now. But I had seen Him do it, even with me when I tend to get rebellious. Yet He has He day and time for doing things, and He is doing things everyday, just not what I expect.
Frankly, I am afraid to lie, cheat, or steal, because I know that He knows and sometimes and will at some point do something about it to me personally. That phrase spare the rod spoil the child has roots in the Bible.
He once told me, "Karl, vengeance is Mine!! I do that!! I take vengeance!!"
He does it. And note: He did not say He will do that, He said He does that! Too many people thing 'at that time' means some time a long time from now, but it is a more person time. People die every day. And at that point, if that time for them has not yet come it then comes.
Zep 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD’S wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make a complete end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
The unbeliever is the person thinking that Jesus Christ, the Lord and Word of God, is not alive and active; simply because they don't actually know Him. They are anyone thinking that the Lord is not around and doing good and evil if need. It is too often true with those who collected fortunes with out considering the righteousness of their method. They lie! They might steal!! They often deceive!! And they tell themselves that God does not know, and does not do anything about it. It sadly sounds like too many of the men in leadership today in the USA. What is a little spin on a news story to make the evil sound good? I can tell you what it is - it is a lie and a confession that you don't know the Lord and feel that He will not do good of evil.
Nations have disappeared for this reason!!
Even Israel, God chosen, was taken away for a long time for this reason. We need to get wise. We need to start to believe, really believe, that God is in our midst, and alive and active!! Believe that and it will be good for us, otherwise don't believe and He will take action!
Zep 2:9 “Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel,
“Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah—
A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”
So what about the USA? God's personality does change. Are we to be a sexually perverted nation, of lies and deceit, like Sodom?
Or are we going to be a nation of people seeking the voice of the Lord who is alive and active