It's been one of the worst tornado seasons in decades for the USA, and the season it not yet over.
Joplin, MO...... you see the TV footage, it looks like it's been wiped off the map, the destruction is mind-blowing. I'm reminded of Slave Lake in Northern Alberta, hundreds of homes destroyed by fire, thousands left homeless.
I am reminded of two passages of Scripture, in connection with Israel, and believe it or not WE ... most of the Western world ARE the very descendants of the House of Israel.
"Therefore will I JUDGE you, O house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord God. REPENT, and TURN yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. CAST AWAY from you all your TRANSGRESSIONS, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a NEW heart and a NEW spirit: for why will you DIE, O house of Israel? For I have NO PLEASURE in the death of him that dies, says the Lord God: wherefore TURN yourselves, and LIVE!" (Ezekiel 18:30-32).
The New Testament tells us that God CORRECTS every son of His. We are to pray our correction will be with mercy and kindness, which then means we are to be in an attitude of WANTING to go the WAY of the Lord, being EASY to be taught, to be instructed, to love RIGHTEOUSNESS (which is Ps.119:172) , to love TRUTH (John 17:17) and to follow it.
"And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: YET you have NOT returned unto me, says the Lord.....I have smitten you with the BLASTING and the mildew....I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your YOUNG MEN have I SLAIN with the sword....and I have made the stink of your camps to come unto your nostrils: yet have you NOT returned unto me, says the Lord. I have overthrown SOME of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorah....yet have you NOT returned unto me, says the Lord.
Therefore thus will I do unto you, O Israel: and because I will do this unto you, PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD, O ISRAEL!" (Amos 4:6-13).
My heart aches and cries when I see these destructions come upon you O House of Israel (and destructions you have had, many especially in the tribe of Joseph in recent years).
All who think they believe in a God, must indeed admit that the Eternal is NOT, in MANY cases STEPPING IN to PREVENT these HORRIFIC destructions coming upon this or that town or city.
It is so HARD for me to have to bring you what God says, will continue to come upon SOME of you. Death and Destruction will come your way, if you do NOT as a PEOPLE, as NATIONS, TURN BACK TO YOUR GOD, GO BACK TO HIS WORD THE BIBLE AND AS PEOPLES LIVE BY IT. Your leaders, both civil and religious are PART to blame....they will NOT it seems teach you the right pathway to live. And you as people will NOT seek out the true servants of the Eternal and let them lead you in the ways of the Lord.
You, the average Sam and Sue, are following what you think is good. Most of you believe you are "good" people, living a normal decent life, many of you do have "human" good works and human righteousness. But you are not being taught that our human righteousness is as FILTHY RAGS before God. So you follow a way that SEEMS RIGHT in your eyes, but the Word of the Lord says, the way that seems right to us, ends in the way of DEATH! (Prov. 14:12).
It is heart-breaking for me to have to tell you that BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT RETURN unto your God in spirit and in truth and in Godly righteousness, more destruction and death will come upon you. More of the forces of nature will come BLASTING upon you .
God says He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked TURN from iniquity and LIVE!
The Ten Commandments are the foundation of righteousness. But they are only the basic foundation. Then those TEN are MAGNIFIED by additional commandments.
For just a START, read the Ten Commandments as in Exodus 20. Note the FOURTH ONE - to REMEMBER the Sabbath day, the 7th day is Holy to God, not the 6th and not the 1st; it is the 7th day that is the Holy Sabbath of the Eternal God. But we have made it into one of the busiest work and pleasure days of the entire week.
And so our nations have more and more departed from the Laws of our God, so indeed more and more we shall be blasted with the fire, the food, the tornado, the earthquake, the volcano (once more an Iceland volcano is blasting away and causing massive disruptions in air flights - maybe no deaths, but certainly huge problems for travel).
TURN YOU O ISRAEL, FOR WHY WILL YOU DIE, TURN YOU AND LIVE, SAYS THE LORD!!!
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