“Western Megadrought: Folks, This is No Ordinary Dry Spell”, The Daily Sheeple -5/26/2014
“West Texas Seeing ‘Driest Such Period in Over a Century’”, State Impact:NPR – 5/16/2014
“100 Percent of California Now in Highest Stages of Drought”, Climate Central – 5/15/2014
“Drought conditions getting worse in Kansas”, KWCH News – 5/8/2014
“Drought worsens in western USA”, USA Today – 4/25/2014
Bible Prophecy Commentary – Droughts: Warning Shots from God?
Seven states are facing this extreme drought and it will affect the economy of the US. But why is this happening? Global warming? I don’t think so. Status quo or normal weather? No. Warnings from Almighty God? Very, very possible.
Friends, stark and alarming events are affecting the US. And those events, manifested in nature, are the consequences of unrepentant sin; this nation has rejected and ejected Almighty God from their midst across almost all fronts – social, spiritual, political and financial. Besides tremendous spiritual battles going on we now have physical events occurring in nature smashing records with devastating consequences.
Amos was a fiery and fearless preacher, a common man, called to deliver God’s messages to the rebellious, complacent and obstinate people of ancient Israel. Israel needed to repent of their sin and turn back to God. They didn’t so God sent judgments upon them to try and get them to understand and turn them back to Him. You see God doesn’t play games, fool around or tolerate sin. His anger is aroused and will flare up with persistent unfaithfulness and rejection. So it did upon ancient Israel in five forms (Amos 4:6-11):
- Famine
- Drought
- Plant diseases and insects to their crops
- Wars and plagues
- Destruction as like Sodom and Gomorrah
It is my opinion that God has brought and now is increasing the US drought but is anyone attentive to His warnings? Is anyone listening to His call for repentance? Is there a return to holiness? Is there a return to living righteously before the Living and Mighty God? I think not. However, the drought/s are worsening and our grocery bills are going up and up. Where is all this leading? Perilous times, last days, the days preceding His second coming as prophesied in Scripture! The Black horse of Rev 6 brings food scarcity and economic failure to the world and the US will be no exception. Is this happening now? Looks like it… but what’s your assessment?
If you haven’t heeded His call for confession of your sin and repentance then now is the time. If you haven’t noticed, the world is getting sicker and sicker, more wars, more unrest, more hate and more Godlessness. Sin’s consequences are reaping the fruits of corruption, evil, wickedness and lawlessness. Now is the time to get right with God. He is long-suffering but He also has limits and will not tolerate this forever. His wrath is coming as the Book of Revelation describes in vivid detail. Call on Him today!
Another OT example
Remember the story of Nineveh and Jonah? Jonah preached to them and they repented and the Lord’s fierce anger of destruction was turned away – Jonah 3:5-10. Then 100 years later here comes Nahum, a prophet of God, speaking to Nineveh again as they fell back into much sin and were worst than before – a very wicked city. This time the king and people told Nahum to ‘get lost’ as they would have none of his talk. They wanted to live life their. See any difference in America today? The result: the city was destroyed some 50 years later. God did give them enough time to turn around and repent but they would have nothing to do with it. But just so you can see how God dealt with ancient Nineveh the capital of Assyria, at that time, here are the ways He shows Himself against the wicked. Nahum 1:1-8 (KJV)
- Whirlwinds (tornadoes)
- Drying up the sea and rivers
- Earthquakes, volcanoes
- Fire
- Floods
- Darkness
Our God is serious, yet loving, merciful and full of grace. However, He is also just and does require obedience to His word and total dedication to His will. Remember, our hope is in His Son – Jesus Christ. He offers a free gift of salvation to all who will call upon His name. But … we must call.
“See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.” -Heb 12:25-29 (KJV)
Keep alert, keep watch, keep your eyes on Israel and keep in prayer.
-BPWatcher
PERILOUS TIMES IN THE LAST DAYS!
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. -2 Tim 3:1-5 (KJV)
