It is at times like this when man's extraordinary weaknesses can be seen. I have lived sixty years as an adult....and no time period....not even all the time periods combined add up to the immanent dangers that face America and the world right now. There is no getting out of this mess. The NATO and United States alliance...and the buffer between war and peace that it brought with it....is either ended or seriously damaged. Putin....(or his successor)....will...if not now....at some point in the future....start the war....and China will jump in with Taiwan....or vice versa. The Arab nations....some of them....that we are arming now....will use those jets and tanks against Israel. There will most likely be some geologic or cosmic catastrophes....and there will be another pandemic....of which we will probably at first laugh off.
There is all of this before the Word of God has even to be mentioned....within which....God has warned all of us that beginning back in 1948....and the miraculous establishment of the state of Israel....that the whole world from that moment in time was put on notice to prepare for the calling of kings and kingdoms into there prophesied place....but we of course ignored that warning. There is nothing new in all of this....for that is how man acts....whether it is us today....or any other fallen empire in the past....or any of the multiple occasions where God's Word warned Israel....and its kings who did evil before the LORD.
All of this should be obvious to the Christian....for there are more signs than any of us should ever need. God has not left us in the dark. He warned us just as He had warned the people of Israel so many times. He sent prophets....just like Billy Graham....and although we didn't kill them before the altar as they had in Israel....we either ignored them or laughed them to scorn....and God has thus taken them all home....their tasks having been completed.
Trump/Biden/Trump has been and is judgment from God. When Jesus said that a house divided against itself cannot stand....He may also have been pointing to us today....for the West has been divided....and America is divided....families are divided....and friendships of all kinds have been divided. We cannot stand.
Now we don't even want to hear this. That also is right out of the Old Testament....or the Tanakh....a copy of which is right at my elbow. We are being called out of the world....which is the exact antithesis of....Make America Great Again.
How do I....(and there are multitudes of others)....know this....but most do not? It may be because....for men anyway....as I type....Saturday at 10 PM....they are sitting by the television watching maybe the second or third football game of the day? If one's spiritual mind is in such trivial disarray....there is no way that God is going to reveal even the most basic and clear signs that it is time to come out of the world....put on the armor of God...."Put on sackcloth and lament....consecrate a fast....call a solemn assembly....(not a state of the art laser light conference/party)....gather the elders.....and all the inhabitants of the land....to the house of the LORD your God....and cry out to the LORD."
Joel
