Be sure your sins will find you out.
As a prophet of Jehovah, I have a duty to Him to speak when He places a burden on me. That duty includes an obligation to make sure I filter it through Scripture. The dynamic of the Spirit of God speaking to my spirit is not the problem; it’s when my fallen human brain seeks to process what comes out of that interaction. All the talent in the world isn’t worth much if I have invested no effort in making my intellect subservient to that higher authority. This is hardly static, and my grasp on things will surely mature as my mind is seasoned by consistent commitment.
If you are a believer, a follower of Jesus, I can hold up the standard of God’s Word and know He will hold you accountable. It may take some doing to convince you what I declare is, indeed, consistent with Scripture. However, if you show no sensitivity to the teachings of the Bible, I don’t have to regard you as a fellow Christian. Yes, how I treat you is entirely different, depending on whether you claim Christ. I hold Christians to a higher standard, because we share things others cannot.
That is not to say there is no accountability for non-believers. The Bible is loaded with examples of God sending His prophets to shake a finger at nations other than Israel. They had different covenants, to be sure, but the differences were contextual, not fundamental. When God told Israel He had both blessings and curses for them, depending on their obedience, He was making more obvious something which had always applied to all humanity since at least the days of Noah. Whether it was Noah or Moses, though, all humans were under God’s Laws by virtue of living and breathing the air.
Some years ago, I prophesied America would be destroyed. Granted, it didn’t require a prophet to realize the fragility of an economy dependent entirely on consumer spending. Such an economic model is very powerful, but exceedingly unstable. I knew that on a human level, and many better educated people saw it before I was born. Nobody listened to them. And from ancient times, the Lord has warned nations they should not ignore His moral standards, but no nation ever listens long, particularly America. Once I came to understand in the flesh how our very foundation was upon the Enlightenment and other godless philosophies, I realized we were doomed. The spirit of the prophet saw the Devil in the facts. But I could not know precisely how we were doomed without that prophetic calling.
So I warned back then we were facing natural disasters, a prophetic analysis of an obvious human mistake, and I was hardly alone. While the general principle of natural processes becoming critical on sinful nations is an ancient subtext, it required a more direct revelation from Spirit to spirit to know we would have numerous violent storms destroying infrastructure, that there would be floods and earthquakes. Mere intellect for me was not sufficient to grasp that God would use our risky human endeavors to go horribly wrong with truly vast destructive consequences. No, I didn’t predict the petroleum volcano in the Gulf of Mexico specifically, but I recognized it when I saw it. I didn’t even know we had nuke plants in a flood zone. I knew nothing of Japan’s nuke plants on the coast in a very active earthquake zone, but I’m not surprised so much of the fallout is landing on us.
And my prophetic spirit shouts even now: You ain’t seen nothing yet!
But what of the innocent children just yesterday left homeless by tornadoes in Nebraska, the flooding in Minot, and the thousands poisoned by fallout? I don’t expect non-believers, especially in the West, to understand. I do expect Christians to understand. I expect them to understand God’s Laws apply to those who are guilty, recognizing it falls upon all they hold dear. I expect Christians to receive the Word of God which says Western Civilization is damned because it rejects His standards, and to embrace those standards as soon as they are explained by a fellow believer. God says the parents are entirely accountable for their children until the point the child is capable of effectively rejecting and operating in defiance of those parents. At that point, they enter the domain of the wider community. However, until then, the parents are accountable only to God and their extended family for those children, and neither the wider community nor the state has anything to say about it.
If the parents allow the state to do evil when they hold some power to stop it, the parents have doomed those children. If the parents participate in evil themselves, they have surely doomed those children. Yes, it’s possible they don’t really know God’s standards, but if they did want to know them, they could. God didn’t hide Himself from anyone, ever, until they went past some point when He could be sure they would never have any interest. Every nation and culture in history has had some chance to find out His Laws had they wanted them.
So much is bluntly stated in Scripture, and I am no position to argue. I am bound in my spirit, the anchor of my existence. This is not something I chose, nor could have chosen. There is nothing to defend.
I can also warn Christians if you don’t embrace His Word and shed your false Western rationalistic approach to things, and if you don’t embrace how His Laws apply to you right now, those natural disasters will strike you, too. It’s obvious God can rip my home apart whenever it suits His purposes, because my life and possessions were forfeit the day I turned to follow Christ. The same for everyone in my household. But in general, He promised it was in His interest to grant the promises of His Laws to those who serve Him. That’s how He demonstrates His standards, by protecting those who obey Him. So right now, all this stuff keeps missing the trailer park where I live. Fires, tornadoes, diseases — all that stuff keeps passing by us. Even human evil meets limits, as the crooks and thugs keep getting caught and removed from us. This is not because we are so good; we surely fail all the time. But we care, and that’s the standard.
We are never satisfied we have it all worked out. We “hunger and thirst for righteousness” and keep trying to find a bigger mouth full. Those who fear have little to fear, but those who fear not are doomed. It’s too late for the nation to get right, but your household is in your hands right now, Americans.
