This short paragraph comes from a January of 2018 post:
God warned us for a half century. He was patient and long-suffering but we laughed and called his patience impotence....his long-suffering weakness. A winnowing may be coming to the church in the form of a delusion. The searing breath of the Holy Spirit leaving only those who trust only in the Lord Jesus Christ and pant as a deer for water at His return.
These three paragraphs from June of that year:
An hour ago I was walking through our town.....stopping once to say hello to friends who were enjoying their dinner on an outside table. I returned home and sat down....booted my web page up....and then the storm came in suddenly. (I later found out that the restaurant diners were scattered as the storm hit) I walked around the house to check and see if the gutters were draining properly....as the torrent of rain was pouring over them as a spillway. I knew that the storm was coming in for I had checked the hourly weather report....and it came in right on time. Folks....there is a storm coming to America. I checked the reports from both the Old Testament and the New Testament. God's Doppler radar shows it approaching. I've been following it for years....even decades....along with many others.
My wife and I spent one full day on the beach a few days ago while traveling. I walked the boardwalk and sat under an umbrella in the sand for five hours....reading a book about how Christians in the Middle East suffer for their faith. A green flag undulated gently in the sweltering heat....indicating that it was safe to swim. Have you ever been to Ocean City, New Jersey? It's a trip back into the past of beautiful two and three-story wooden framed houses on quiet streets with families everywhere....and no bars. I did not hear one F-bomb while there. It is my favorite beach getaway....and I built my short novel....Isaac Crockett....around it....but there is a hurricane coming in...multiple storms.....everywhere in America....each one named after a garden that we gave up weeding decades ago.
It's time to hit the markets early before the shelves are bare.....to buy that plywood.....and nails....water....and essentials. It's time to plead with God to keep us through the storm that He has told us for many decades was coming. It's time to thank Him for all the blessings that He has given this nation....and all the good that came to the world because it existed....but it's well past time to begin to read the weather reports.
It's time to hit the markets early before the shelves are bare.....to buy that plywood.....and nails....water....and essentials. It's time to plead with God to keep us through the storm that He has told us for many decades was coming. It's time to thank Him for all the blessings that He has given this nation....and all the good that came to the world because it existed....but it's well past time to begin to read the weather reports.
We have had one judgment upon us after another for two decades at least....and they are intensifying....and there are more to come. I titled one post from somewhere in the past....Battle Stations....and another....Batten Down The Hatches.....and another....SOS....SOS....SOS....and yet another that I remember....All Hands On Deck.
I'm in the middle of yet another Titanic book....this one a few years old....The Ship Of Dreams....by Gareth Russell. Even as the davits were extended....and the people were on deck waiting to be seated in a lifeboat....they thought that they would return to the ship before the night was over. That's us. It's just a drill....a bump in the night....but of course that feeling on the Titanic began to fade fast as it was obvious that the ship was beginning to list.
What can we do....well for a start we can begin to read the Old Testament prophets....and the Psalms....and all the references in the New Testament concerning the second coming of Jesus Christ. If we in humility seek God's wisdom as we read then He will begin to take away veils.
I'm in the middle of yet another Titanic book....this one a few years old....The Ship Of Dreams....by Gareth Russell. Even as the davits were extended....and the people were on deck waiting to be seated in a lifeboat....they thought that they would return to the ship before the night was over. That's us. It's just a drill....a bump in the night....but of course that feeling on the Titanic began to fade fast as it was obvious that the ship was beginning to list.
What can we do....well for a start we can begin to read the Old Testament prophets....and the Psalms....and all the references in the New Testament concerning the second coming of Jesus Christ. If we in humility seek God's wisdom as we read then He will begin to take away veils.
