SEVEN YEARS TO THE DAY AND HURRICANE ISAAC IS VISITING

I was reading the first 3 chapters of the book of Romans this morning and was reminded once again of the similarity of the Sin of Pauls day and now.  The total disregard of Gods laws has brought nothing but calamity upon many Nations around the World.

I then opened my email box and recieved the following report:

I am STRUCK by the understanding of the seven-year period since Hurricane Katrina. SEVEN YEARS AGO, Katrina struck New Orleans during the WEEK OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CONVENTION known as "SOUTHERN DECADENCE."

Now Hurricane Isaac is scheduled to hit New Orleans once again - exactly SEVEN YEARS LATER TO THE DAY (August 29th) on the first day of the "Southern Decadence" annual convention. How much more blatant can the King of the Universe be? He gave this nation a grave warning, and then - according to His great mercy - He gave us SEVEN YEARS to REPENT.

In Hebraic understanding, seven years means "completion." The opportunity for repentance is complete, but this nation (United States) has not only refused to repent of this sin, which God calls an abomination (Leviticus 20:13), but it has greatly encouraged and promoted it, from state to state and throughout the U.S. military.

The word Isaac means "laughter." Psalm 2:4 "He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the LORD shall hold them in derision." Psalm 37:11-13: "The wicked plot against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. The LORD laughs at him, for He sees that his day is coming."

I do not believe this means our God is taking delight in wiping out the wicked (those who reject Him and scoff at His Word) ; but I do believe it means that He will NOT be mocked, and He WILL prove Himself to be a God of justice, who does what He says He will do.

Let us be sober-minded, friends, and let us be in much prayer for this nation as ISAAC churns toward the Gulf Coast... The timing of Hurricane Isaac with Southern Decadence is a sign that God's patience with America's sin is coming to an end.

I also read the book of Jude before I read the above report....and our dear Lord is not going to allow these terrible sins to go on and on....he will require an accounting from EVERYONE who supports this degrading practice.  The WORD of GOD tells us that we OBEY GOD as ruler in situations like this and not man made laws that declare this practice legal.


Blessings


David

 

IDOLATRY WITHIN THE CHURCH THAT CLAIMS TO FOLLOW THE TRUTH

The sin of idolatry brought down God's awful wrath on His own people. It angered Him more than any other sin in the Old Testament, so much that He declared: "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger" (Jeremiah 7:18).

This is God's declaration against idolatry in the Old Testament and He hates idolatry just as much today. It brings down His wrath on any generation, including these modern ones.

This very day the Orthodox Catholic World honours and worships the modern version of the Queen of heaven…Mary the mother of Jesus Christ the man. They actually teach that Mary never died but was taken to heaven and became our Lady Queen of Heaven…

This and other idolatry is sweeping across our world right now. It is not only people kneeling down before carved images; but modern idolatry seduces multitudes by its subtlety and craftiness. Yet it angers God just as much as any Old Testament idolatry.

"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of

Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed" (Galatians 1:6-8).

This ‘other gospel’ that Paul mentions is a message of salvation without the cross. Another great idolatry of our day is the casting aside of the message of the cross of Jesus Christ. Jehovah’s Witnesses claim to be Christian but reject the cross of Jesus as a pagan symbol.

The cross - including its demands and hopes - is the very root and foundation of the gospel. Any worship, any fellowship, anything calling itself a church is blatant idolatry if the cross is not at its centre. Such worship is of another spirit entirely and God will have nothing to do with it. Without the cross, all that is left is chaff - a perverted gospel, something from the pit of hell. It is more insulting to the Lord than the idolatry of Israel. Many claiming to be Christian no longer use the cross or have one in their place of worship, just in case it offends someone of another faith. Yet Jesus said:

"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me" (John 12:32). This "lifting up from the earth" Jesus mentions is his crucifixion. He was lifted up before the whole world on the cross, an image of His great sacrifice for our sins…

Do not be misled as Satan will use any method to divert our worship away from our dear Lord and his Father in heaven.

Blessings


David