In The Furnace....A Multitude....Plus One

            I posted a couple of times in the fall of 2016 while the campaign was in full swing that there were only four possible outcomes in the coming November election....and I'm going to describe again those four outcomes....but you really won't be able to understand what I was trying to say unless you realize that there was a time....recently....before this became a Trump/Biden thing where there is no other reality to life other than these two men....where Christians still retained the fundamental belief that America must return to God or be judged. The nearness of that judgment was long gone in our minds but we at least knew that we had to turn back to our Creator.
            Those four possible outcomes were that America would essentially....as a people.....in large numbers anyway.....humble themselves before God for the catastrophes upon us....that Hillary Clinton would still become President....and that although judgment would come....God would be with us in that judgment. The second possibility was that we would remain in darkness....Hillary would win....and judgment would come to America.....but God would not be with us through it.
             The third and fourth possibilities were similar only that in the one we would humble ourselves before God.....Donald Trump would become President.....and God would be with us through the dark days ahead.....and in the other we would not humble ourselves.....Donald Trump would become President.....and even though we used God's name all the time....it would mean nothing....and He would not be with us as the judgments increased in intensity.
             In all four possibilities.....judgment was coming.....as God had warned us through many faithful servants....for over a half century at least....and although we neared Him in the 70s and 80s....we walked all that back....and our coming judgment....and the judgment of the whole world....would be at hand. There was no possibility during this whole campaign of 2015/16 that America was just going to pull itself together....and God would allow us to live happily once again in Vanity Fair.
            So here we are.....Trump won....we not only did not humble ourselves.....but our arrogance and dependence on our own power only increased. We can spew out "God bless America" all that we want....we can reelect Trump or replace him with Biden.....we can do anything that we want....but the judgments that we brought upon ourselves....and I bear as much responsibility as anyone else....are intensifying. There is more chance of a false revival occurring than for us as a people to humble ourselves. Listen to talk radio....our new church....anytime from six in the morning to midnight....and you will not find even a hint of humility or repentance.
            God is sovereign.....and we are nothing but the Potter's clay. It seems as if He has discarded the warped and deformed vessel that He once used....has taken but a lump of that hardened clay....and will fashion a remnant vessel out of it....and be with that remnant in the furnace....protecting it from cracking. May he add to that remnant in great numbers....may He keep me and mine in it....may He keep you and yours in it....may He bring many others into it.... in America and all around the world....and may He keep us from false revivals....false miracles....and great delusion....separated across this earth....but united in one hope.....His return in power and glory!