This is a call to the Ekklesia, the called out assembly of God's people, to a day of new beginnings across this land. Many in the Church are compromising the truth, and this compromise will destroy us. Laws are being currently considered in our nation that many believe could eventually prohibit the sale of the Bible. We are at a moment in time when each of us will have to decide if we will stand for the Truth, which is His Word, or compromise, and deny it. Are you one who is in this valley of decision? The prophet Joel wrote that multitudes will be in this valley as the day of the LORD comes (Joel 3:14). The prophet Hosea spoke the word of the LORD to God's people for them to return to the LORD, and he even provided them the effective words to speak to God:
"O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity .Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously:so will we render the calves (meaning sacrificial offering) of our lips." Hos. 14:1-2
The LORD goes on to promise in these verses that He will heal our backsliding, and love us freely. His anger will turn away from us (v. 4). The LORD says that wisdom, understanding, and prudence teach that "the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein."
The ways of the LORD are found in His Word. As God appointed Joshua in the leading of the people into the promised land, He commanded him:
"Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." Josh. 1:7-8
Prosperity and success have their foundation in not only the knowledge of the Word of God, but in the fact that His people are to meditate upon His Word. In meditating upon the Word of God, it becomes part of us. David wrote in Psalm 1 that those who delight in the law and meditate upon it day and night are blessed. They are like a tree planted by the water-ever living, green and fruitful. He prospers in whatever he does. The ungodly, the sinners, and the scornful do not live in this same blessing. Those who turn away from this knowledge of God, fall further into the ways of destruction. The apostle Paul also warned of this in Romans 1. As the people of God have indeed rejected God in their knowledge regardless of these warnings, it cannot be denied that we have seen the proliferation of all of these things that result from that reprobate mind today:
"...unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful..." Rom. 1:29-31
Even knowing that all of these things result in death, those who have turned away from the truth still do them, and have pleasure in seeing others do them (v. 32).
Jesus said that as the day of His coming approaches and is revealed, we will see the same conditions that existed before the destruction by the flood in Noah's generation, and the destruction by fire of Sodom in Lot's generation (Lk. 17:26-30). We are seeing, especially in America, these very same conditions, as God's people have turned away from, and compromised the truth, knowledge, wisdom, and understanding found in God's Word.
The prophet Ezekiel wrote the word of the LORD to His covenant people about the iniquity of "thy sister (intimate connection, together with, resemblance, like, each to the other) Sodom (burning, conflagration)" before the fire from heaven fell upon it, and that condition of iniquity sounds very much like the condition of America today:
"...pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters (children branches, like quality or condition), neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy...they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore, I took them away as I saw good." Ezek. 16:49-50
Have God's people today become like their sister Sodom and her daughters, as they had previously? The LORD also speaks through Ezekiel that as His people remember their covenant with God, and remember their own ways with shame, He will establish His everlasting covenant again with them (v. 60-63). The LORD makes that same promise of healing, forgiveness and restoration upon the whole land with the repentance of His people in 2 Chron. 7:14 and 1 Jn. 1:9.
Psalm 11 talks about the wicked enemy who takes deadly shots at the righteous, and asks the sad question, "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" The psalmist, King David, says to "Trust in the LORD". The LORD is still on His throne, and He sees the hearts of both the wicked, and the righteous, and their ends are very different.
The people of God need to remember the covenant He has made with us through the costly blood of His Son, Jesus, who gave us His righteousness, because we didn't have any of our own. The condition of our nation indicates that many of the ekklesia have entered into the valley of decision. It is time for His people to decide whether they will choose the way of the LORD.
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I believe this can be the day of a new beginning for the ekklesia, and for this nation, depending upon that choice.
*The above is based upon the 2/17 message to the Church from Dr. Kenneth Stevenson.
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Prayer of Salvation for all who desire to receive Jesus as their Savior: Lord Jesus, I desire to know You, and to know Your salvation. I believe that You died for me, and that You were resurrected for me. Forgive me of my sins. Come into my heart, change me, fill me with Your righteousness. Inscribe my name in the Lamb's book of life. Baptize me in Your Holy Spirit, so that I can learn the truth of Your Word and ways, and be strengthened in my walk all the days of my life. You are the hope of my life, and You are my eternal life. I place my trust in You, Lord, for myself, and my whole household. Use me to do the will of the heavenly Father, Who sent You, in Whose name You came. In Your name, and in thanks and praise I pray, Amen.
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