It's always a sad report when rescue operations turn to recovery operations. In a way....in a very sad way....but then again in a very joyful way....the remnant of the church in America today....has moved from revival mode....to a rescue mode and recovery mode.
Over the years in these posts I would refer to the book of Jonah as representing our predicament....where we would have a figurative 40 days to repent....but the warnings of Jonah had expired....and it became the proclamations of Nahum that were directed to us....or as Billy Graham put it at the end of the 2010 second edition....of his book....Storm Warning....."[This] storm warning carries a booming jolt of truth--Trouble Ahead; Prepare to Meet Thy God."
This delusion that has surrounded the evangelical church as a fog comes in from the sea to cover an entire city....should....if we understood what was happening....change the focus from building your church....and praying for local revivals....in the hope of some distant general awakening....to rescuing as many as God will permit....and recovering as many who have already fallen for this grand deception.
In the midst of that fog....that advice of a remnant....rescue and recovery mission....may seem unwise....premature at best......but blow away the fog....and just look around at what this country and culture and society and even church has become....added to it AI....and the fundamentally restructuring of the world....this time without hedges of protection that at least were effective against a world war....and there is one word that should be on our lips....and here is the joy....an Aramaic word....which is a phrase in English.....Maranatha....our Lord come....inferring....Lord Jesus come....or as Revelation 22:20 in the NKJV has implies....Surely I am coming quickly, Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
Addendum: One of the Spurgeon sermons that I recommend often was titled....An Urgent Request For An Immediate Answer. It's a sermon quite unlike his normal sermons in that on that particular day that he gave it....May 10, 1891....less than a year before he went to be with his Lord and Savior and King....at the age of 57....he was not going to let his hearers walk out the door without making a decision....one way or the other. Maybe he knew that he had little time on earth. What is amazing about the sermon is that Spurgeon that day looked at his large congregation....many of whom obviously were not saved....and he gave them an ultimatum. I would like to pass on that ultimatum to readers here who think that they have all the time in the world to consider their eternal soul.
