“I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place and I will cause them to fall by the swords before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives, their corpses I will give as meat to the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. I will make the city a desolate and a hissing, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues” (Jeremiah 19:7-8). These were the reasons and the root behind the calamities and the tragedies of a nation. In these verses of scriptures, God’s prophets give us the root for the unrest and the universal darkness in their times (and ours). These words ring with deep relevance for our days. A nation’s erring heart, wandering feet and spiritual disloyalty have brought about its own great misfortune and downfall. It has given rise to the menacing peril of every form of adversity - from the sword to moral perversion, from incurable sicknesses and diseases to a convulsing nature which spews up tsunamis, hurricanes and typhoons at unexpected times, bringing with them horrifying deaths with corpses lying everywhere. Acheh, Sri Lanka, India, China, Russia, America, Mexico, Guatemala, Africa and …? The list goes on and on. In His dealings with mankind, God can either make soft statements to us by“putting his hand upon us” (Isaiah 1:25) or by making loud statements by “stretching out his hand against us” (Isaiah 5:25). I am afraid the latter is happening right now. Human hearts have so hardened that God has to deal with us in fury by “stretching out his hand against us.” God is definitely not whispering into our ears any more. The honeymoon period is over and I can certainly hear Him roaring and shouting at the nations of the world and dealing with them in His fury right now. It will grow in intensity. If God had brought a ‘holocaust’ upon His own nation Israel because they did not listen to Him, how much more will He deal with other nations who insist on doing the same thing? “You have not listened to Me, says the Lord, that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.”
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:39:00 +0000
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