By Rick Lange
http://bibleprophecybyricklange.blogspot.com/
Posted with authors permission
The question we must ask ourselves today is why America’s enemies would want to take out her power grid? We have always helped other nations, or at least we see it that way and for that matter, there are millions of people around the world who would give anything to live in America. So why do they hate us?
There are a wide variety of answers and motives, but first of all I would say that we are seen as the great consumer of the world’s resources. While the rest of the world is struggling to put a bowl of rice on the table, we are trying to lose weight because of the over-abundance of our consumption.
Secondly, even though the world makes a living off of our consumption, they do so at slave wages and so while we live in opulent splendor and comfort, they huddle under tin roofs and car hoods.
It is true that we have worked hard for what we have as a nation and we have been blessed by God because we have largely lived by His general principles. But all of that is changing as our nation forgets who blessed us and to add insult to injury, we have begun passing laws in defiance of God’s general principles.
Many people around the world have this love/hate relationship with America. They would love to live here and they love the money and food we send, but they resent needing handouts in the first place and they see us as spoiled and self-important.
But more importantly, God sees us as a nation that is falling away from Him. He graciously and miraculously put in a Jehu/Cyrus type president to bring the Ahab and Jezebel rule to an end, but it is only a stop gap measure, offering us a moment in time to repent before our nations continues its plunge into obscurity and ruin. (Unless, that is, we actually repent.)
God has sent us hundreds of warnings. He has written it across the sky with signs in the sun, moon and stars. He has warned us with harbingers and signs of coming doom if we do not repent. He has furthermore lain in our laps a written history of Israel in which He clearly shows us what brings His blessing and what incurs His wrath. In His Word He clearly shows us that there is a direct correlation between a nation’s moral and spiritual condition and its continued peace and prosperity.
God also lets us know that He is no respecter of men or nations. Even His chosen people He disciplines and chastens. When they serve Him they prosper, but when they reject Him, they go into captivity. In truth, God doesn’t need to judge us, because our own sins take us down. And right now America should be reading the handwriting on the wall. But the people cannot read the writing and they need a prophet to interpret the writing, but they are not listening to the prophets and right now the people still believe that America sits as a queen and no harm can come to her.
So what the world sees in America is a nation being divided by opposing ideologies. We are being weakened by our sins in spite of the fact that God has warned us that the end will be marked by the situation in Noah’s day and the situation in Lot’s day. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to piece together the messages and to draw their conclusions, namely that we are now on the brink of not only national destruction from our enemies, but God’s wrath as well.
Meanwhile many of the biggest churches in America dance through the night claiming great revivals and even more opulence and blessing even as they fall away from the faith of our fathers and prepare to merge with the other religions of the world to serve the antichrist.
Really, can you imagine a greater blaspheme than to agree to merge Jesus into a pantheon of equal gods? The One through whom all things were created… the Word who was with God throughout eternity and was God… the One and only God and King of heaven and earth who set aside His infinite splendor to come into our world as one of us, to redeem us from the fall, to die in our place and then to raise us up to be seated with Him in heavenly places?
Do we really want to trade Jesus in for gods who rather than dying for us, demand our blood and the blood of our children as we offer them on the red hot arms of Moloch, or cut them into pieces in the local abortion clinic? Do we really want to serve gods that hate us so desperately that they will do anything to erase the image of the Creator God from us… that they will spend millions of dollars to alter our DNA, make us into trans-human beings, man and machine integrated into soulless slaves designed only for battle and robot-like duties so that they can get rid of the real humans they call “Useless eaters?”
Cannot America and the church wake up and listen to the prophets and the watchmen that are reading the writing on the wall? We quibble over slight differences of prophetic interpretation even as we miss the message that stands like an elephant in our living rooms. Time is running out and the judgments of God are about to fall. The angels of Revelation 14 are calling us out of Babylon, just as the angels called Lot out of Sodom, but we keep saying, “I don’t see any fire and brimstone. What are these conspiracy nuts talking about?”
We forget that the Bible contains the biggest conspiracy of all time. It involves every one of us. It is an ongoing battle between Christ and Satan and we are given 70 years, give or take, to decide whom we will choose as our captain. We are dancing on the Titanic and the only ones that will be rescued are those who somehow look beyond the band and the glitz and glamour to the iceberg that is ripping our nation apart just below the surface.
Think about China for a moment. Over-populated and unable to produce enough food for its own population… Millions of men without wives because of previous abortion policies… not quite powerful enough to take us on in an all- out battle, they hesitate. But with just one EMP bomb over our nation, the lights would go out. Without firing a shot they could sit back and wait for 90 percent of us to die off. They would only have to wait for 6 months to a year and then they would have abundant room to expand and to grow many crops. And it should sober us up a bit to realize that all of the component parts for our power grid are made in China.
And yet China is in competition with Russia to see who wins the big prize first. India wants to get into the action as well. And of course the globalists want us to lay down our arms and join hands and sing Kumbaya even as they make us all slaves to the coming antichrist.
Friends, America is in the hot seat. We are on a sinking ship and yet we continue to ignore all of the harbingers of destruction. It should concern us that in the Magog war of Ezekiel 38, there are no other nations to defend her. Verse 13 shows the nations sitting back and not responding as a great nation from the remote north invades Israel. Verse 16 tells us that this battle happens in the Last Days. So where will America be when Israel needs her. So God will defend Israel Himself.
What God’s people need to do now is to take their faith off of all the stuff that we have placed our faith in and we must turn to God with our whole heart… and we must make our stand against the enemy (Satan) at all cost. We need to gear up for battle with the full armor of God. We need to be firmly connected to the Vine that is Jesus. We need to become well-versed in God’s Word and in His prophetic agenda for these last days.
We need to prostrate ourselves before God and cry out to Him in repentance for the wasted days and years in which we have lived powerless and spiritless lives. We must call upon Him to pour out His Holy Spirit upon us, both individually and corporately. We are temples of the Holy Spirit. We are living stones in His temple. We, the church are made up of many parts that must work together in harmony. Each of us has been equipped to fulfill some particular part in the Body, but right now 20% of the people do 80% of the work and the giving. People do not understand their vital part in the body of Christ.
But there is a great shaking coming and each of us must ask ourselves: Am I a part of the dead wood that will be shaken out, or am I a vital part of the living Body that is connected to Christ and manifesting His fruit and gifts to the world?
Oh how we need His Holy Spirit… but He can’t pour it out on us as long as we choose to be more like the world than like Jesus. The vast majority of Christians are hanging out in the outer court, refusing to enter within the veil where they can be sanctified and set apart for His service. We are still living in the flesh, but flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. (1Cor. 15:50) Only the Spirit can accomplish God’s work in the world (Zech. 4:6) and He can only work through vessels that have been set apart in holiness for Him. (Rom. 15:16, 1 Cor. 6:11, Heb. 2:11, 1 Thess. 5:23, John 17:17)
It is time to move beyond justification to sanctification, for sanctification must come before glorification. Sanctified vessels are those that are filled with oil. we know what happens to vessels that contain no oil. They didn’t get into the wedding feast. Need we say more? It is God’s program for us as described in the Sanctuary and the book of Hebrews verifies this truth by saying: “Pursue peace with all men and the sanctification without which no one will see God.” It is time to move on into maturity. So many of us Christians come to church to get our wounds patched up when in fact we should be patching the wounds of others by now.
We need to move from the realm of being wounded soldiers, to the realm of being mighty warriors through Jesus Christ… having put on the full armor of God and having learned to live by the Spirit rather than by the flesh. In God’s army we don’t need to be disabled. We have been provided with supernatural armor. We may get knocked down, but we cannot be defeated, for as Paul says, even to die is gain. And then he goes on to say in Romans 8:38, 39”
“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” Romans 8:37
America is in the hot seat and her defenses are weakened by sin. The harbingers of her destruction are everywhere and yet the church sleeps on. It is time to choose sides and to gear up for battle.
2 Cor. 4:7 “We have this treasure in earthen vessels; that the power might be of God and not from ourselves.”
2 Cor. 10:3-5 “For though we live in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are powerful…”
1 John 4:4 “Greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world.”
This article is fairly spicy… I know. Perhaps a little too much hot pepper in it, but 2019 is the transition year and we must make a firm decision which side we will stand on and standing means putting on the full armor of God. Eph. 6:10-20.