“Judgment must begin at the house of God” (See I Peter 4:17). When bringing harsh judgment upon the house of Judah for their sun worship and other gross sins, God commanded the destroying angels to “begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men” (See Ezekiel 9:6). But the command was to “slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women” (same verse).
Many have been wondering if the devastation brought upon North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida recently has merely been a quirk of nature or if nature’s God has been using the weather to judge America. It would not be the first time God has so directed the weather. Of course, the question must be asked, does America warrant such devastating judgment? Isn’t our national motto, “In God We Trust”? Doesn’t that signify we are collectively a godly people?
Thirty-nine times in the Bible God commands His people of all times and eras, “Be ye holy!” In no scripture are we commanded to be religious. Hindus are religious! Muslims are religious! Sun worshipers are religious! Christians are exhorted to “abstain from fleshly lusts” and we are to “keep His commandments” (See I Peter 2:11 and I John 5:2).
Christians are divided into dozens and dozens of factions, each denomination or independent congregation differing widely from one another in what they believe and teach. God is not the author of confusion. Satan is! And Satan entered the Christian fold early on while some, if not most, of the apostles were still on the scene. True Christians, even the apostles, were being cast out of the church, yet a church remained – a corrupted church! The apostle John wrote “I wrote unto the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.” Still these people were the people of God, but their spiritual leaders were not being led of God and, thus, began introducing errors into the church – errors that persist to this day.
Christians in America have had nearly 250 years to get it right, to come back to the faith once delivered to the saints. We have not done so. For the most part, we have gone backward, not forward. Some congregations have openly homosexual pastors, even transsexual pastors. Many congregations support abortion and the LGBTQ movement. Few congregations are exhorted to live holy lives and to shun and avoid all sin. Keeping the Ten Commandments is seldom, if ever, mentioned.
Once God begins to move in judgment He commands His servants, “Pray NOT for this people,” for God never moves in judgment against His people unless He has already exhausted all other entreaties to turn them around. (See Jeremiah 7:16 and Jeremiah 11:14).
Tighten your seatbelts, brethren. We are in for a very rough ride. Individually the fully surrendered believer can take Psalm 91 as his, or her, comfort, but note well that the promises of that Psalm are given to those who “dwell in the secret place of the Most High” and “abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” (See verse 1, Psalm 91). God help us all to understand.
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley