Posted on 11/05/2008 2:38:05 AM PST by DarthVader
(1 Samuel 8:1-21)
But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do." 1 Samuel 8:6-9
The LORD answered, "Listen to them and give them a king." 1 Samuel 8:21
God removes His hand from the United States, it is now time to act! With the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the next President of the United States, yesterday marked a watershed day spiritually for this nation. For decades now, this country has been operating in rebellion to God and His Truth. We legally slaughter 4,000 babies every day. We have made a mockery of God's Holy Institution of Marriage. God's plan for the family has been decimated. We have totally given ourselves over to the lusts of the flesh and the pleasures of this temporal world. We have bowed down to and worshipped every false god and idol created in rebellion to the God of the Bible.
Out of our rebellion to God, the people have now elected a man to lead this nation who is a staunch supporter of legalized infanticide. Speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, Senator Obama said, "The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do." President Obama will repay the support of those in the baby killing industry by insuring abortion on demand at any stage of the pregnancy, and through executive orders, he will wipe out any progress individual states have made in trying to ban abortions in their state. As President, he will elect judges to the US Supreme Court who will insure Roe vs. Wade is never overturned, as well as activist judges to the Federal Courts who will rule on the side of death in any abortion cases.
President Obama is also a great friend to the homosexual community and will be a champion of their radical agenda. President Obama will make it easy for gay couples to adopt children. I remember years ago warning people in my Daily Devotional that the homosexual community was targeting your children. People said I was over reacting. Today, an entire generation of children has grown up being brainwashed that being gay is normal and acceptable. They are being indoctrinated as young as kindergarten that there is nothing wrong with this choice of deviant sex. Again, through executive orders he will wipe out any gains made by various states to insure gay marriage will quickly spread across the nation, and the judges he appoints will help the radical gay agenda to move forward.
Today, the people of Israel should be very concerned. Over these past 60 years, they could always count on the full and total support from the United States government. No longer. It is bad enough we have had numerous Presidents now trying to make peace by giving away part of the land God gave to the children of Israel to those who want to see the Jewish people wiped off the face of the globe. Under President Obama, Israel will no longer have a friend in Washington that they can count on. Sadly for this nation, Genesis 12:3 that promises God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel is still in effect.
The truly sick fact is this will all be done by a man who will professes to be a Christian. Despite supporting the killing of innocent babies, the agenda and special rights of those who choose to commit acts of homosexuality, and believing the universalistic lie that everyone will get to Heaven regardless what they believe, President Obama proclaims to be a Christian. I have told you for the past few years that the biggest problem in Christianity, is the ever growing group of people who make up the Christian left. These are people who call themselves Christians, yet don't hold the Bible to represent Absolute Truth.
This liberal group that President Obama is part of, focuses on a social Gospel, things like world hunger, AIDs in Africa, and climate issues to name a few. These are noble causes Christians need to be involved in, but you can't just ignore issues like abortion and marriage like they don't exist. Most in the Christian left are a byproduct of this seeker/purpose driven/emerging church/liberal mainline denomination generation that lays down the absolutes of the Bible to attract warm bodies. It has flourished due to the gutless pastors who refuse to lead and preach a watered down, feel good, ear tickling message void of hard Truth so nobody is offended.
The nation has had Presidents before who were no friend of God and we didn't crumble spiritually. That is because there was still a vibrant remnant of true followers of Christ. Today, we have the better percentage of two full generations who have never been to church. So many churches today do little or no evangelism. Over the past 40 years, that remnant of true followers has dwindled down considerably as older saints have gone to be with the Lord and haven't been replaced.
The effect of Obama's election is that it will empower those who oppose the work of God. Those who serve satan will be bolder and more aggressive than ever. They will be targeting like never before, true followers of Christ. Spiritual crack dealers like Oprah who peddle New Age garbage are ok. Those who promote cults like Mormonism, the JWs, Scientology, Kaballah, and others are ok. The false religions like Islam, Buddhists, and others are ok. Those in the Christian left with their social agenda are ok.
Their target will be zeroed in on those who believe, preach, and teach the Bible is God's inspired, inerrant Word, representing Absolute Truth and our final authority in all matters. They will be out to destroy true followers of Jesus Christ. This will come in many forms, such as laws to call the Bible hate speech as other countries have already done. For the first time, real and tangible persecution is going to be felt by those who refuse to compromise the Truth of the Bible and preach the Gospel.
The end result is that people are no longer going to be able to stand in the middle. The election of President Barack Hussein Obama is going to finally force people to take a stand. You are either a follower of Christ, which means you are also a follower of His Word, or you are not. Jesus said you can't serve two masters. Elijah told the people on Mt. Carmel to CHOOSE who you will serve. My friend, it is now time to choose. If you going to follow Jesus, it is time to act!
I love you and care about you so much. I realize that very few can "hear" what I am saying today. They woke up in their bed this morning and it seems like just another day. I can empathize with the frustration of the Old Testament prophets as they warned the people of God's coming wrath and most of the people simply ignored them or wrote them off as kooks. Yesterday, God's hand came off this nation. True followers of Jesus Christ no longer have the luxury of sitting back and doing nothing. Silence is not an option any more. We must take our stand now, or we will no longer have that opportunity. We have the only true answer for this nation and for the souls of men. It is time to boldly and without shame or compromise declare that answer!
As I was praying over all of this the other night, before going to sleep I was flipping through the stations and I stopped at TBN. On the eve of the election, with the spiritual course of our nation hanging in the balance, I expected to see true men of God preaching great messages of repentance and a turning back to God. Sadly, these people are as lost as the sons of Eli or Samuel. What were they doing? Having a telethon, raising money by promising people if they sent them money all of their financial problems would be solved. It was like watching the fiddler play while Rome burned !
For those who have been following Liveprayer, you know in the Spring God gave me a vision for this nation. In July, I launched the Jonah Project. The Lord gave me this vision and the Holy Spirit guided me to set up this vehicle for exactly where we are at today. The Jonah Project is the plan from God to bring together the true followers of Christ at this moment in human history, to call this nation to repentance, to turn back to God and Biblical Truth, and to help lead the lost to faith in Jesus Christ while taking a bold and visible stand on the social issues of our day.
Let me encourage you today to become part of the Jonah Project. You can go to the Jonah Project homepage at http://www.liveprayer.com/jonah/ , watch the vision video, and sign up to be part of this great last days move of God. My friend, this is the only hope for our nation and for each soul. There is only one answer, JESUS!!!
In His love and service, Your friend and brother in Christ, Bill Keller
Read 2 Thessalonians 2.
Amen
Because I was up until 4 AM this morning, tired, my head hurts and not in the mood to engage in critical discussions.
That is totally cool. I was just on the phone with someone who told me to read this chapter not even 5 minutes ago.
Well, there’s nothing critical to discuss, anyway. Either one believes that stuff, or one doesn’t. You do. I don’t. :)
You made your point. Now go on your way to some other thread. Conversation closed.
1. Thank you for bothering to share your exhortation to me. I appreciate such whether I always agree, or not. None of us have the complete picture. All of us see through the glass darkly.
2. Truth sets free . . .
Not fantasies . . .
Particularly the Truth of Christ sets us free.
. . . and His Truth sets us free regardless of other fleshly or hellish contintengencies.
3. My humble words did not and will not speak that into existence. Some things are already more or less cast in stone. It is the watchman’s duty to warn the faithful and even the pagan. That is a duty primarily to God.
4. When the inner press in one’s spirit by Holy Spirit is strong, particularly, then, other folks’ opinions must not matter.
5. This 24-72 hours is a particularly teachable moment time for many clueless folks who have any chance at all to wake-up in sufficient time to get their hearts right with God. WOE TO THE WATCHMAN THAT DOES NOT SPEAK THE STARK TRUTH to such folks at such a time.
6. “Positive” and “negative” depend, often enough, at least partly on perspective. Was Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers negative or positive? From Joseph’s perspective? At what point in time? From God’s perspective?
7. God prefers obedience vs sacrifice. When we refuse the former, we get the latter. It’s rather like a law. When we don’t sow obedience, we sow sacrifice.
8. Certainly there is a time to focus on the positive confession etc.
9. And, there is a time to declare the horrific realities extant in a situation.
10. All those who love God foremost . . . are strengthened by The Truth. And even the truth of Obamao’s horrors has some inherent positive aspects. MARANATHA! THE LORD JESUS IS COMING SOONER THAN WE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT OTHERWISE. We get to see His Face sooner than might have been otherwise. The world gets cleansed sooner than might have been otherwise. Evil gets destroyed and locked away sooner than might have been otherwise.
GOD WILL BE DEMONSTRATING HIS POWER MIGHTILY AND DRAMATICALLY AND VERY SUPERNATURALLY AS IN NO OTHER TIME sooner than might have been otherwise.
In any case, I have no peace in my spirit about modifying, retracting, minimizing what I wrote in 137.
Could it be that God allowed this in order to spur the righteous into rising up up and smoting the wicked? In his infinite wisdom, He knows that Abortion and other liberal abominations will never be defeated by the political process in this country. Also, today’s “loyal opposition” are tomorrow’s political prisoners.
Interesting thought and good point it does require the change of hearts of people.
Darth, I wasn’t pointing fingers at you, nor even at Mr Keller. I was just making a point about what has really happened.
May God have mercy on us.
No offense taken. I think your title idea is more appropriate for this article.
The older you are, the starker the contrast.
But it's the boiling frog story.
The younger people especially, are completely ignorant of what this country once was.
To them things haven't gotten that much worse, and they're right.
They haven't been around long enough.
People who hate this country and everything it stood for have gotten into high places
in politics and education and the media, and have gone about systematically destroying
us from the inside out. It looks like they've captured the "minds" of the youth.
Maybe total economic and societal collapse can undo the damage, but I don't think anything less would.
We're too far gone, maybe terminal.
bfl
Chilling words... chilling words, indeed.
Look at the break down in voters. Obama got a majority of the Catholic and mainline Protestant vote, not to mention a large portion of the Evangelicals.
This for a man who wants, supports, and demands infanticide on any whim.
The people who supposedly love God have said “Not so fast, I want my bling first!”.
I am not really surprised. I feared that this was going to happen. The next move will be the GOP not only going more left, but trying to pass Obama. They can see that we are no longer a nation that has any love for God, or family, or anything else but gold from the public till.
So God hasn't removed His hand, the US has rejected it. So He will let us have what we as nation seem to want. Which will be hell.
2Th 2:1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,
2Th 2:2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
2Th 2:5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
2Th 2:9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
2Th 2:10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
2Th 2:11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
2Th 2:12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Th 2:13 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
2Th 2:14 To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Th 2:15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
2Th 2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
2Th 2:17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
A lady I once knew remembered when Russia was “Holy Mother Russia”. She once said it will be so again.
I am beginning to think that the US will be on the wrong side in Armageddon.
“I pray. Lord Jesus, come quickly. Your children have gone astray.”
Boy, talk about a quitter!
"The Lord is on his heavenly throne, He observes the sons of men; his eyes examine them."
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