America plus Others: Nations in Turmoil

Call for a Solemn Assembly

“Consecrate a fast, Proclaim a solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of the Lord your God, And cry out to the Lord.” -Joel 1:14 (NASB)

America and other nations of earth are in trouble and face the wrath of God because they have ejected Almighty God from their midst. I think of the US but also Australia and the UK and many European nations. They have all tossed God aside for their own gods of lust, wealth, greed, foreign false gods, and idols. Friends, God is not kidding around and His wrath could fall at any time. We have not known the real wrath of God upon the nations since ancient times. Yes, we have had wars and most recently terrible storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes – it seems that God’s very own nature is warning us to turn back to Him … now!

So who is even thinking along these realms? Who cares?

The people of Sodom and Gomorrah along with the Antediluvian (pre-flood) world’s population didn’t either. They rejected God, His prophets, His warnings and they were destroyed. Is this the path we are on?

I say an unequivocal – yes!

The Book of Joel in the Old Testament describes Joel the prophet sent by God to proclaim to the people – our nation is in turmoil and it’s time to turn back to God in sincere repentance. They were in a great crisis and the nation needed to cry out to God in national repentance. Today is no different for America and others; we are all headed for God’s judgment unless we return to Him. Joel called for a special assembly of the people several times in this short 3-chapter book; his pleading for the nation to see what has happened and what will happen if they didn’t amend their ways before a Holy God.

The priests of that time – the pastors of our time – needed to make this call and make it happen. Severe destruction was coming upon them unless they turned around and faced God. Today we face human devastation and disaster across this globe. Just read the news – it seems like it worsens every day. Every day nations grow closed to war. The US and China, the US and Russia, in Syria, the US and Russia concerning Venezuela, even now the Ukraine and Russia tensions are rising and news says that the US is moving in heavy tanks to support the Ukraine’s move against Eastern Ukraine and most likely Crimea. Things are not going well across this planet. Why?

The church today and Christians have a calloused indifference (insensitive and emotionally hardened) to all that I am preaching here. Where are God’s people rending their hearts instead of rending their garments?

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
    “return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13  and rend your hearts and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
    for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
    and he relents over disaster.” -Joel 2:13-14 (ESV)

God is sidelined and we don’t call on Him anymore. We, instead due to the lethargy of the Christian church – yes, that’s you pastors (cowards) – fail God in not calling for local and national repentance. And we fail in preaching the full Council of God (Acts 20:27). The consequences are real and unless nations turn back to God, His wrath is coming and it will be absolutely terrible!

Joel called for a solemn assembly of the church to turn back to God and he also called for a fast. Joel was serious and was not doing this to get paid or earn fame for himself. He was a true servant of God doing the Lord’s work. Joel called for the elders to gather along with all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord. Why? To cry out to the Lord! For the day of the Lord (the Day of His Wrath) would soon be upon them. He urged them to blow the trumpet and sound the alarm for the Day of the Lord was coming and was near.

The time is now America to turn back to the Lord in genuine repentance from the White House to the church house. Now is the time for the days grow short until His wrath strikes. We have His Holy Writ as a testimony to His actions. He is long suffering but His patience does not last forever. He will not continue to overlook our sin and murder babies (abortion) and do nothing.

Pastors – blow the trumpet and call your congregations to a solemn assembly to cry out to God for mercy and for a corporate turn around to God. Pray pastors and teach these things from your pulpits. Be like Noah and proclaim the truth, yes, even it hurts and offends – DO IT!

Turn back to God today!!!

 “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:” -Heb 12:25-26 (KJV)

 

-BPWatcher, Internet Preacher and Bible Prophecy Watchman

“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” -2 Peter 3:11-12

GLORY TO GOD!

PJA-Red1
 

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