Harbingers

Jeremiah 23:16-17

“This is My warning to My people,” says the LORD Almighty. 

“Do not listen to these prophets when they prophesy to you,

filling you with futile hopes.  They are making up everything

they say.  They do not speak for the LORD!  They keep saying

to these rebels who despise My Word, ‘Don’t worry!  The LORD

says you will have peace!’  And to those who stubbornly follow

their own evil desires, they say, ‘No harm will come your way!’”  (NLT)

     These same warnings from God to His people Israel thousands of years ago are the same warnings to His Church today.  Just as God’s message to the nation of Israel was being falsified prior to the Church Age, so, too, is God's Word being compromised by many false teachers in our churches and our schools.  The false hope found in man-made religion is leading the world and America down a very dangerous path that I call complacent secularism—thinking that everything will be just fine and things will correct themselves; that this is America, and it will always be America.  This is not so, my friend, for just as Israel turned their backs on God and suffered the dire consequences, so, too, is the Lord’s anger burning against the detestable sins of America.  How can He not be?  We are losing our morality and turning away from God’s righteousness to do whatever our sinful natures crave.  We have, as a nation, legally sacrificed millions of our unborn children to be thrown away like garbage.  We have slowly removed the Truth of God’s Word from our homes and schools, from our governing, and sadly God’s Truth is even being removed from our churches as well. 

     Many people will never know the Truth because their minds are being poisoned with lies and false hope.  The future of this country and the world's freedom looks rather bleak.  Can God save this country?  Of course He can!  Will He save America?  His Word tells us not!  So what can American Christians do for God, our country, and this dark world?  We can live godly lives in our homes, in our schools, in our work place, and in our communities, but most importantly in our hearts.  By living and loving like Jesus the world will see the powerful hand of God graciously at work.  And amidst all the bad news that is consuming the airways and media, we must be steadfast in spreading the Good News of our Lord God and Savior, Jesus Christ and sound the trumpet of warning.  We must not hide in the Truth we know.  We must reach out to the lost and deceived.  We must not hide God’s Light from the world, we must shine it and sound the harbinger trumpet.

                                 A Whisper of Hope

Listen closely, dear children…to all the warnings I have so graciously given you.

Ezekiel 33:3, 4, 6 

When the watchman sees the Enemy coming, he blows

the alarm to warn the people.  Then if those who hear

the alarm refuse to take action—well, it is their own

fault if they die.  But if the watchman sees the Enemy

coming and doesn’t sound the alarm to warn the people,

he is responsible for their deaths.  They will die in their

sins, but I will hold the watchman accountable.  (NLT)

         “Return to Me, and I will return to you,”

                says the LORD of hosts.

                        (Malachi 2:7)