We have is a serious problem in the Coronavirus....and we need serious measures....but carpet bombing of the economy....destroy the village to save it....and then drive-through bailouts in an attempt to repair the damage....I'll take 50 billion and a Coke? Is there any wisdom here....for if there is it is hard to recognize. We didn't even have time to surrender....for these people....apparently on both sides....came with a blitzkrieg. I don't think that we knew what hit us. Why have we lost discernment on how to live....and on what is true prosperity? Where in our minds is God in all of this? I may be missing something....but I have not seen one bit of evidence yet that the leading ministers in our nation are warning anyone that God's judgments are increasing.....nor that the church in general feels any culpability....nor that we as a country have even a tinge of anything resembling guilt. I picked a book off the shelf in the basement today merely out of curiosity....it was Billy Graham's Storm Warning....from 1992....in which he wrote this...."TROUBLE AHEAD; PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD..." Precious few ministers dare preach this today. You surely remember the biblical scene....The Israelites were rebelling against God in the wilderness....and God sent fiery serpents who would bite them....and people were dying. Moses called out to God who told him to construct and raise a bronze serpent....and whosoever looked upon it after being bitten would live....for that symbolized Christ raised above the earth on a cross.....look to Christ and live....(Numbers 21)....but do you remember this....many centuries later Hezekiah took that very same serpent on a pole and broke it in pieces....for the people had come to burn incense to it! Have we today turned the cross....look to Christ and live....into that bronze bull in the financial district of Manhattan....Nehushtan? (2 Kings 18:4) Is this the real object of our worship today? Are we looking to this 'mere piece of brass' in order to live? If so we need to put our trust back where it belongs....in the Lord Jesus Christ....look to Christ and live.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Look To Christ
We have is a serious problem in the Coronavirus....and we need serious measures....but carpet bombing of the economy....destroy the village to save it....and then drive-through bailouts in an attempt to repair the damage....I'll take 50 billion and a Coke? Is there any wisdom here....for if there is it is hard to recognize. We didn't even have time to surrender....for these people....apparently on both sides....came with a blitzkrieg. I don't think that we knew what hit us. Why have we lost discernment on how to live....and on what is true prosperity? Where in our minds is God in all of this? I may be missing something....but I have not seen one bit of evidence yet that the leading ministers in our nation are warning anyone that God's judgments are increasing.....nor that the church in general feels any culpability....nor that we as a country have even a tinge of anything resembling guilt. I picked a book off the shelf in the basement today merely out of curiosity....it was Billy Graham's Storm Warning....from 1992....in which he wrote this...."TROUBLE AHEAD; PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD..." Precious few ministers dare preach this today. You surely remember the biblical scene....The Israelites were rebelling against God in the wilderness....and God sent fiery serpents who would bite them....and people were dying. Moses called out to God who told him to construct and raise a bronze serpent....and whosoever looked upon it after being bitten would live....for that symbolized Christ raised above the earth on a cross.....look to Christ and live....(Numbers 21)....but do you remember this....many centuries later Hezekiah took that very same serpent on a pole and broke it in pieces....for the people had come to burn incense to it! Have we today turned the cross....look to Christ and live....into that bronze bull in the financial district of Manhattan....Nehushtan? (2 Kings 18:4) Is this the real object of our worship today? Are we looking to this 'mere piece of brass' in order to live? If so we need to put our trust back where it belongs....in the Lord Jesus Christ....look to Christ and live.
