I was specifically looking for an older post on 2 Peter 1: 10 and 12....where the apostle urged everyone to make sure of their calling and election....and then said that he intended always to remind them of this....for it was so important. Before I came across that post I came across the one that is below....which I otherwise would never have stumbled upon.
The post is from June 14, 2015....and was titled....Flash Flood. I was being very critical of Republican elites who were treating God as a "social issue"....not realizing the seriousness of the trouble that was ahead. I wrote in that post...."God is about to show them the folly of their ways in the whirlwind taking form..."
So I read over this post...warning the elites that God was about to judge them....and two days later....on June 16, 2015....Donald John Trump came down that escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy in the 2016 election.
I continued in that post...."As I typed in the period of this last sentence, I was somewhat startled as my iPhone trumpeted an emergency weather alert for our area. Thunder and lightning have been lighting up the sky for an hour and the sound of heavy rain pelting the chimney cover has been echoing down to where I sit. I responded to the alert to find out that a Flash Flood Watch is in effect until tomorrow but cannot help but relate this to the warnings that God has given to us for over forty years, and I'm reminded of the words of Jesus in the 16th chapter of Matthew..."...When it is evening, you say, it will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, 'There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?"
So in summary....two days before Donald Trump began his quest....I warned the Republican elites that the God that they played around with was about to judge them....and we have now had over eight years of that judgment! After typing up this post I continued to look for the older post on 2 Peter....that was titled....How Can One But Remind....Again And Again....and Again. It was first posted in June of 2018:
With a beautiful grandson to laugh with and thank God for....I somehow found time during our visit to sneak the warning in on the perilous days in which we live. I always do....for I feel that I should remind our son again and again. Not that he doesn't know it but it is of such importance that it's better to be safe than sorry by remaining vigilant.
They are words that one could easily pass over but they are part of the very Word of God and therefore never to be glossed over....2 Peter 1:12, 13...."Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth being present in you. I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder." Peter knew that he was nearing the end of his life.....yet he felt it necessary to remind again and again.
I never tried or even hoped that some readers to these posts would come back day after day as if they were some famous pundit's podcast. I have always been more concerned with how many people hear some of these warnings at least once.
In what was nothing short of miraculous, God in 1948 established Israel as a nation unto itself once again. He in effect told us in this that we are not looking at centuries before His return but rather decades at the most. We ourselves began to unravel in November of 1963 but along with the coming decade of violence and rejection of God came the reaffirmation that one had to be....born again....to be a Christian. A flash flood of conversions gave America one last breath of life before the spiral began. I was swept along in that flood.
God began a long slow process of warning us that we as a nation......and the world....were going to be judged. We in America underwent judgments one after another in quick succession....assassinations....abortions.....riots.....terrorism.....a communist president....a final blitzkrieg against God's commandment against homosexuality....and now in effect a people that bears little to no resemblance to its former self.....yet these judgments did not even phase us.....in fact we now have a president who boldly proclaimed to the nation that there has...."Never been a better time to start living the American dream."
Even though God's Word tells us that when they say "peace and security" that "sudden destruction" will come upon them....even though this is very clear.....we are right now celebrating just that....the coming...."peace and security!" We actually think that God gave us Donald Trump to make America great again. We don't care at all what he is like. We have an excuse for everything that he does. All we have to do is compare him to Barack Obama....a former judgment from God. Our economy looks good right now.....and we are totally oblivious that this could turn 180 degrees in one single day!
I have lived sixty-eight years and some odd months. (seventy-three years now) I was able to partake in the America of our heritage.....before that America succumbed to the same temptations that ancient Israel succumbed to before they were judged by God. I remember that heritage....and weep at what we have replaced it with. I have given nothing to stop the downward spiral....in fact I added to it. I am but one person....one of many....who God for some unknown reason had mercy upon. Even my warnings are tinged with pride and arrogance....but I continue to warn....for if Jesus felt it to our benefit to warn us....and if Peter warned us....and Paul warned us....and John warned us....and Christians ministers such as Billy Graham.....just to name one.....of whom I would have had no right to even stand beside....if they felt....and feel it necessary to warn those that God gave them to minister to.....then we all have no choice but to at least warn our neighbors and friends....which in reality is all that these posts are....words to neighbors and hopefully friends....wherever they may live!
