Admittedly not a popular subject, certainly not a popular subject in the world and not even a popular subject in the church.
But an absolutely critical and central subject to any understanding of the gospel, the wrath of God.
Where God's final assessment on "Birth Right you will bear your own load"
ends November 06, 2018, it's probationary's outcome on how well it
measured up by the law of Christ and no other will make your load
lighter by being worse than you are has begun.
There is what we could call cataclysmic wrath, like a tsunami, a volcano, a hurricane, an earthquake, resulting in thousands of death...cataclysms happen in this world. And they are a reflection of the judgment of God.
There is also what you could call consequential wrath. Consequential wrath is the sowing and reaping wrath, you live a certain kind of life and you set in motion certain forces that will produce judgment.
But there is one other kind of wrath and that is the wrath that is presented in passage and it is the wrath of abandonment.
It is that wrath exhibited by God when He turns His back on a society.
To the sons of Israel, God said in Judges 10, "You have forsaken me and served other gods, therefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen, let them deliver you in the time of your distress." God is saying I'm done with you.
In Proverbs chapter 1 verses 24 to 31 we find a similar sentiment. "Because I called and you refused, I stretched out My hand and no one paid attention and you neglected all My counsel and did not want My reproof, I will even laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your dread comes, when your dread comes like a storm and your calamity comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you, then they will call on Me but I will not answer. They will seek Me diligently but they shall not find Me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord. They would not accept My counsel, they spurned all My reproof. So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be satiated with their own devices."
In Hosea 4:17 it is recorded that God said, "Ephraim is joined unto idols, let him alone." There comes a time when God abandons men. God comes to a point where He lets a people go, lets them go to the consequences of their own sinful choices. They will not accept His counsel, they spurn all His reproof, as Proverbs says, so they eat the fruit of their own choices and they have to be satisfied with the devices they have chosen.
Of the Pharisees Jesus said, "Let them alone, they are blind leaders of the blind," Matthew 15:14, the most terrifying words, "Let them alone."
It's frightening just to think about that. But ever so more Frightening when reality compasses one not only might be abandoned by God, but their opportunity for salvation is past and that the day of grace is over.
Some passages may relate to an individual as in the case of Samson, But, for the most part, they relate to a group such as the Pharisees or to a nation, such as Israel.
Has would-be tyrant seized his moment where Plato argued? You Be the Judge.
"A Power Far Greater Than All" is ready to convince America that God will abandon nation to the effects of its sinful choices in accordance to Word and such correction shall not only reflect Babylon's Rebuke in History but will Inclusion Roman Empire lessons that Emphasize "No More" too All "Tribal" Birth Right Nations, Under God.
Other Words holds a Simple English: If one does not "Participate" In The Solution then one is a 'participant' in the Problem and shall no longer Live in Excuse Both Ways.
Acts 14:16, the Apostle Paul said,"In the generations gone by, He...God...permitted all the nations to go their own way." This is the story of history. All the nations of history go their own way. So like the nations of old, like the nations past,we follow the same cycle of having the truth, rejecting the truth and being abandoned by God.
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