A) All who are of age know the living shall die, but few like to pinpoint the
reason for brevity of life to the consequence of disobedience. Yet, that is why we
die. The proper label for disobedience is sin, which sounds harsh, yet it is true.
All disobedience is sin. But who decides what is disobedience and what is not? 1)
Do we as humans have the capability of invariably discerning what is true from
what is false, such that 2) a righteous decision can invariably be made? 3) Can
we invariably declare what is disobedience, sin, from what is not? 4) Can we as a
society invariably administer righteousness so that the guilty get their fair and
proper share of punishment? 5) Have we invariably only punished those in the
wrong without punishing those who did right? 6) Do we, as a society have the
right to establish what is acceptable and what is not as regards morals and
standards for personal and social behavior?
All who are of age and who have applied themselves to at least minimal
contemplation of the above must admit that because we can not invariably 1)
discern true from false; 2) can not invariably render a righteous decision
regarding all aspects of life; 3) can not invariably declare what is and what is not
disobedience; 4) can not invariably administer righteousness upon the guilty; 5)
have not invariably punished only the guilty and not the righteous, then it is
correct and proper to say, 6) neither do we have the right to establish what is
acceptable from what is not as regards morals and standards for personal and
social behavior.
Therefore, truth and false, right and wrong must be defined for us (because we
can not correctly define them ourselves) by someone who is capable and who is
invariable in all that He does, from decisions to actions. While a few are ready for
the conclusion of who this someone is, many are off on tangents worshiping this,
that and the other, most are not willing to admit their deficiency and thus will
chafe at the following. The only one who can invariably perform, with absolute
perfection of being and of knowledge is Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob; the God of Israel. We read in Isa 40, “Who hath directed the Spirit of the
LORD, or being his counselor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and
who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him
knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? Hast thou not known?
Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends
of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his
understanding.” Verses 13,14,28.
To those who have “not known,” is it because you have stuck your head in the
sand and have decided, “I do not want to know, because if I know, then I am
accountable to Him?” Or, is your lack of knowledge because you have been led
into the worship of a foreign god, one of the gods of the heathen nations outside
of Israel? Your ignorance for not knowing the one and only true God is no one’s
fault but your own. It is not even Jehovah’s fault. Neither will your ignorance
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excuse your accountability towards Him. “The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament shows his handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night
unto night shows knowledge. There is no speech nor language (here on earth)
where their voice is not heard. Their line (of testimony) is gone out through all
the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” Psa 19:1-4. “For thus saith
the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made
it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I
am the LORD, and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place
of the earth: I said not unto Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak
righteousness, I declare things that are right.” Isa 45:18,19. Why is it that you
do not know? How come you are willingly ignorant of such basic information?
Are not the same heavens over you as are over everyone else? How come others
know and you do not? What is your lame excuse? And LAME it IS!
The facts are, first, nothing comes into existence without intelligence and effort to
cause that existence. We personally have worked in a lumber yard, and we have
loaded truck after truck of materials which were delivered to numerous building
sites. Until intelligence and effort were applied to those materials at the site, no
building came into existence. Furthermore, if someone had randomly thrown
those pieces of material up in the air until time ended, still, no structure would
have come into existence. How foolish it is for anyone to think, to believe, that
the earth and the substance upon it came into existence by chance and then
“evolved.” Truly, the Scriptures declare, “The fool (perhaps the one who stands
in your shoes?) hath said in his heart, There is no God.” See Psa 53:1.
The facts continue: Adam was created (not evolved!) in the image of God, and he
chose to disobey, albeit from limited resources of experience and knowledge.
His disobedience, his sin, has passed to his offspring, each child having been
tainted with the genetic trait of imperfection from sin. Therefore, we, his
offspring, are twisted in perversity and in sin did our mothers conceive us, Psa
51:5. Even if this perversity did not exist within us, “the (correct) way of man is
not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps (aright),” Jer 10:23.
Man’s base of knowledge, wisdom and experience is small. Therefore, how could
he direct his steps with accuracy? “I (the humble) acknowledge my
transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee (God), thee only,
have I sinned (been disobedient), and done evil in thy sight: that you might be
justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge,” Psa 51:3,4.
The Law of God, as given to Israel through Moses, is far more reaching than you
have supposed. The token or seal of circumcision that was given to Abraham in
Gen 17:1-14 was a covenant between God and Abraham and Abraham’s seed.
“This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed
after thee; every man child among you shall be circumcised.” All who were born
into Abraham’s house of lineage and all who were bought with money of any
stranger, which is not of thy seed, were to be circumcised. Thus, every biological
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offspring, slaves who were purchased, and children who were purchased by
means of adoption fees are all included.
Our Lord Jesus said, “Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it
is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man,”
John 7:22. This commandment came from Lev 12:3, “And in the eighth day the
flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.” We ask the question, “What
constitutes a person coming under the obligation of the Law of Moses? There are
two parts to the answer. First, as demonstrated in Gal 4:4, “But when the fulness
of the time was come, God sent forth (from heaven) his Son, made of a woman,
made under the law;” a child born to one who is under the Law Covenant of God
also became subject to that same law by birth into that arrangement. Secondly,
the Apostle Paul clearly stated as a spokesman of God, “For I testify again to
every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law,” Gal 5:3.
From the above it becomes obvious that all male and female children are under
that Law when they are born to a woman who is under that Law herself. If the
woman is not under that Law, the child is under that Law if its father was under
that Law, from the principle of 1 Cor 7:14, for no woman delivers a child without
first becoming pregnant from the sperm of a man. Mary was the only exception,
Luke 1:34,35. When the male child is circumcised (whether or not the parent or
parents are under that Law), according to Paul’s statement above, that
circumcision places the male child under the Law Covenant of God.
Now let us go even further. If neither the man nor woman who procreate a child
are known to be under the Law Covenant of God, and if their male child is not
circumcised, does that place the child outside of that Law? If anyone of either the
father or mother’s forebears were circumcised, or were born into that Law
arrangement, then not only is the child in our question under the Law Covenant,
but so is the respective parent, grandparent, etc. back to the qualifying forebear.
Here is why. As regards circumcision, “And I will establish my covenant between
me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting
covenant,” Gen 17:7. That generational covenant has no end, and is therefore
not abridged by howsoever many generations pass, which means, even if
intervening generations are not circumcised, that lack does not negate the
covenant. Secondly, the obligation of that Law that is enjoined upon one by birth
is also not abridged by howsoever many generations pass. That Law was an
everlasting covenant as is manifested by Exo 24:7,8; Lev 24:8; 26:40-45; Jer
4:7; 9:11. The only way a child could be free from the obligation of that Law, is:
(male) that he is not circumcised, none of his forebears were circumcised, none
of his forebears were born into that Law arrangement; (female) none of her
forebears were circumcised, none of her forebears were born into that Law
arrangement.
You may ask the question, “Why did not the Apostle Paul go into all this detail in
Gal 5? The issue of circumcision in Paul’s day was relative to “Except ye be
circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved,” Acts 15:1. Paul’s
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arguments in the New Testament are summarized in, “But before faith came, we
were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be
revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that
we might be justified by faith (the Law justified anyone as perfect if anyone could
observe the Law without infringement of any of its requirements, James 2:10).
But after that faith (in Christ as our means of being justified before God, for ‘the
just shall live by his faith,’ Hab 2:4) is come, we are no longer under a
schoolmaster.” In context, if one is no longer under a schoolmaster, then neither
are they under that Law, which means they are free from its requirements,
having liberty. Thus we read, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage,”
the Law Covenant. See Gal 3:23-25; 5:1. Those who have legitimately come
into Christ, though they may have had obligation of keeping that Law, are made
free from that Law. It was Christ’s death, “blotting out the handwriting of
ordinances that was against us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.”
See Col 2:14. Therefore, Paul did not go into the detail that we did, for his
purpose was different from ours.
Because natural Israel was dispersed throughout the world, Isa 11:12, and
because natural Israel has not wholly kept herself from intermingling with the
peoples of the Gentile nations, therefore, only God knows completely who is and
who is not a descendant of an Israelite. Therefore, the strong possibility exists
that you are a descendant of an Israelite and are therefore under that Law, by
the fact of birth. For those who are not descendants from Israeli stock, all who
have descended from one who had been circumcised are by that act placed under
the Law Covenant of God. And lastly, all who are themselves circumcised are
directly placed under the Law Covenant of God.
It matters not what religious persuasion a man is, or is not, if they have been
circumcised, they are under the Law Covenant of God that He gave to Israel
through Moses.
Therefore, today there are probably very few individuals who are outside of the
Law Covenant of God, based upon the above criteria. On that basis, then, very
few would be outside of judgment upon them as pertains to that Law. Thus, God
would not use the standards of the Law Covenant as the basis for judging those
individuals. Are they then free of all judgment? No. “By the offense of one,
upon all men to condemnation,” Rom 5:18. “For as by one man’s disobedience
many were made sinners.” (Paul’s use of “many” in this verse of Rom 5:19 is to
“balance contrast” the result of Adam’s sin with the result of Jesus’ obedience.
Every descendant of Adam was made guilty, thus a sinner, but not every sinner
will be made righteous as a result of the obedience of Jesus, not because of any
inability on his part, but because some will choose to not be made righteous,
while some others will be destroyed as vessels of wrath because their usefulness
will have ended, Rom 9. Note that God’s promise to Abraham was that through
his seed all the families of the earth would be blessed, not all the individuals of
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the earth would be blessed. There is a huge difference between the two.) Paul
continues to say, “Moreover, the Law entered, that the offense might abound,” be
increased.
Therefore, those not under the Law Covenant are still under God’s Law, “in the
day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die,” Gen 2:17. This penalty has
extended to all of Adam’s posterity without any exception. (Note that Jesus is not
Adam’s posterity, but Eve’s! See Luke 1:30-35.)
Therefore, because of disobedience, sin, first because all are under the Law of
God, and then for some also under the Law Covenant, “the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all ungodliness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them
[“I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are thy works (through
procreation); and that my soul knows right well,” Psa 139:14]; for God hath
showed it unto them (“Day unto day uttereth speech...” Psa 19). For the invisible
things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Divinity; so that they are
without excuse.” Rom 1:18-20.
Deu. 32:41-43- “If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on
judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that
hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour
flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of
revenges upon the enemy. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will
avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries,
and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.”
Isa 13:11- “And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and I will lay low
the haughtiness of the terrible.”
Isa 59:12-15- “For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we
know them; In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away
from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the
heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice
stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea,
truth fails, and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD
saw, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.”
Nah. 1:2- “God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is
furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth
(wrath) for His enemies.”
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The Apostle Paul, in Rom 1:18-2:16, presents a powerful and compelling case of
man’s perversion from truth and right doing such that God is fully justified in
bringing His wrath to bare upon all wickedness. Take the time to thoughtfully
read it, and consider where you are in these verses.
Perhaps some might be inclined to think that they are not a bad person, that they
came from good people. Solomon said in his prayer at the dedication of the
temple that he had built, “If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that
sinneth not)….” 1 Kgs 8:46. Paul wrote, “for that all have sinned,” and as he
quoted from the Old Testament, “There is none righteous, no, not one; there is
none that understands, there is none that seeks after God. They are all gone out
of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good,
no, not one.” See Rom 5:12, 3:10-12. Even Jesus said, and he was a perfect
man, “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, God,” Mat 19:17.
We are not to imply from Jesus’ words that he was a sinner, for he was not, Heb
7:26 and context.
“But,” you counter, and there we stop you.
The commandments of God are: (from Exo 20:3-17)
1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
How many have placed money, wealth, career, sports, leisure, hobbies,
Buddhism, Allah, Satan, etc., as a god that they subscribe to, honor, follow,
“worship?” Those that have are guilty of violating the first commandment. Are
you one of those?
2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image...thou shalt not bow down
thyself to them, nor serve them.”
How many have bowed themselves to serve the god of money, which is itself an
image? How many have bowed to statues of gods, or even to saints within the
church? How many have made images of animals, heavenly bodies, etc., and
have prostrated themselves to it? Even if you have not bowed down, are you
serving them? Are you one of those?
3) Thou shalt not take (use) the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
How many are of the habit of using God’s name in their expressions of speech,
often as swearing, other times as a common term of language? Yes, the word
“God” is a term, a description, but it is also a recognized name of Jehovah, the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Do you use it lightly, “in vain,” or do you
speak that name with reverence and with appreciation? How do you use God’s
name? Your use is the basis for your judgment!
4) Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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How many have failed to set aside the seventh day as a day of rest and one for
education in the Word of God, that a man might be strengthened both by the
needed rest and by the infilling of God’s truth? Who has not failed in this?
5) Honor thy father and thy mother.
How many have despised their parent(s), even to the point of neglecting them,
hitting them, cursing them, robbing them, not caring for them in old age, killing
them, etc. etc.? Where do you stand in this toward your father and toward your
mother?
6) Thou shalt not kill (murder).
How many have utilized abortion services to rid themselves of an unwanted
pregnancy? Or, how many have used crude instruments to do it themselves at
home? The fetus is a living child. Civilian people who intentionally take the life of
another commit murder. How many have murdered others, non infants, not only
physically but also as regards their character? There are those who have used
their mouth to speak evil of others, who have slandered, who backbite, who climb
the success ladder by defaming their fellow employee. Assassination of another
person’s name and character is murder. Do we have to tell you about what goes
on in politics? and in the news media? Thou shalt NOT! But who listens? Are
you guilty of this?
7) Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Oh my! Pulling the sheet up does not hide the facts. Illicit sex is as rampant as
are insects in the summer evenings. Adultery occurs when sex is performed with
another person’s spouse. How much of that happens? Fornication is sex that is
improper which includes adultery, bestiality, incest, gay/lesbian and harlot
activity. All of it is wrong, none of it is to occur, but how many have done it, and
how many are still doing it? Thou shalt NOT, but of course, who listens?
There are those in the gay/lesbian group who believe that they were born this
way, and that God is “okay” with their behavior. False! First, while it is true that
one may have been born with such propensities for that kind of sin, that
propensity does not relieve them of their obligation to “rule over him” (Gen
4:6,7) even as God told Cain that he was to have mastery over the desire of sin
that was at hand. In Cain’s situation, that desire was to inflict evil upon his
brother, for Abel’s sacrifice was accepted and Cain’s was not. Your propensity
comes not from God, but comes from the deterioration in man because of sin,
just as repeatedly making a copy of a copy blurs the original image.
Secondly, “if” God were to be “okay” with your sin of sexual perversion, then why
is it that God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, setting them forth as an example
(Jude 7), “suffering the vengeance of eternal fire?” For God to overthrow those
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two cities because of the same sin that you are presently committing, and then
for you to say now that God excuses your sin, that He is “okay” with it, is to place
God in a predicament that not even He could get out of! God is not two-faced!
His standard yesterday is the same for today and will be the same for tomorrow.
Therefore, your conclusions that God is “okay” with your sin is false, it is wrong;
and if anyone were to be “okay” with it, that would be Satan, for he loves people
to be at variance with Jehovah! His servant ye are whom ye serve! You, whether
you want to believe it or not, are willingly serving Satan by what you are doing.
No exceptions! By serving Satan, you have violated the first commandment.
Those under that Law Covenant, by violating the first commandment, are worthy
of punishment, God’s wrath, and such they will get. No exceptions!
There are only two choices that are now before you: 1) continue in your vile sin,
and reap its consequences (God destroyed Sodom!), or 2) repent of your vile sin.
To repent means to turn about. That means, you completely stop what you are
doing, and walk the right course. There is no middle ground.
There are those who live profligate lives (be sure to read the dictionary
definition!) and think nothing of it, and think as does the harlot, who after
committing sin, wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wrong, Pro 30:20.
Where do you stand? Are you innocent?
8) Thou shalt not steal.
When you consider that taking items from your workplace, such as paperclips,
pens, paper, envelopes, etc.; or you pad your time card by punching out at 5:08
to get paid for 15 minutes that you did not work; or go to lunch and get back
late; or leave work early; or fritter away your employer’s time such that he pays
you for time not well spent (because you were lackadaisical); or for doing nothing
(not working at all); then you have robbed your employer and you are guilty of
sin. How much guilt in this lies on your shoulders?
9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
“And who is my neighbor?” Jesus answered that question in Luke 10. A man’s
neighbor is anyone who comes across his path in life unto whom he has the
opportunity to do good. Therefore, to every person in our life, we have the
responsibility to not testify falsely against them. That testimony could be in a
courtroom, but more commonly it would be in the street of everyday life. Speak
truthfully, honestly.
Lev 6:2,3; 19:11 manifest that speaking untruth, speaking that which is false,
thus a lie, is not to be done. Pro 14:5 tells us a false witness will tell lies.
What have you uttered? Are you blameless in your speech?
10) Thou shalt not covet...anything that is thy neighbor’s.
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How many have coveted their neighbor’s...whatever! As a result, some have lain
with his neighbor’s wife, while others have stolen items from him. Others have
envied their neighbor, coveted his...whatever, and consequently have defamed
his neighbor to make him look bad. Thou shalt not! But who listens? Are you
one of them who covets?
There are those who lie, cheat, steal, embezzle, punch, kick, wound, stab, maim
and even kill others to satisfy their own want list. There are those who spend
their careers trying to make a product that fails, but not too soon, so as to make
more money. Rather, these should have spent their time making products that
last a lifetime to faithfully utilize the earth’s resources, as a good steward of
them. “It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful,” 1 Cor 4:2.
There are those in the medical profession who really do not want their patients to
get well. Rather, the patient is put on an endless treadmill of return trips to take
more and more drugs to… make more money for the legal drug cartel! Oh yes!
They have their hand in that trough, too. God bless you? Hardly! Rather, God
will render unto you your due reward for your unrighteous behavior.
There are those, and chiefly in the corporate world, who reap huge salaries, and
bonuses while the blue collar worker frequently struggles to make ends meet due
to low wage pay. There is no business that runs entirely on autopilot! Therefore,
all who contribute to the success of the business are entitled to the fruits of their
labors. There is nothing wrong with a CEO or President righteously making a tidy
sum, but that tidy sum had better not be an extravagant amount when brought
alongside the wage of those (plural!) who make the lowest pay in the
organization. For those to whom this disparity applies, you have your day of
reckoning coming. See Lev 19:11 regarding the requirement of making daily
payments of wages! See also James 5:1-6.
There are those who participate in the illegal drug culture, whether strictly users,
dealers, or both. Such involvement is a two-fold sin: first for yourself in the
debauchery that you have brought into your life, and secondly, the debauchery
that you have forced upon others in your vicinity, whether family, friends, or
community. It is sin to not treat your body in a proper and godly manner. Now,
we do not hereby say that poverty is sin, not allowing one to do for themselves
the good that they ought, but drug use/dealing is an intentional choice and a very
poor one at that. So what if one makes large quantities of cash from a sale.
Does that make it right to inflict dependance and great sorrow on others who
have become addicted? You are your brother’s keeper. Is your wallet flush with
cash going to buy you a special privilege with God when He hands out
vengeance? Just try to offer God cash and see firsthand how far that will take
you!
There are those who waste nearly everything they own; from their dinner plate’s
contents, to the items they buy and then dispose because “I’m tired of it,” to the
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money they earn by wastefully spending it on junk and totally unnecessary items.
There are those who waste time, frittering it away as if there were not better
things that they could do with their time. There are those who feed their minds
upon trashy literature, which truly is a sin against themselves for allowing their
minds to be fed by the depraved individuals who write such wickedness. There
are those who fail to bring up their children responsibly, by first teaching them
the principles of what is right versus wrong, and then using the rod of correction
upon them, that afterward they may yield peaceable fruits of right doing. Those
fruits benefit everybody, whereas an undisciplined child becomes a detriment to
society. A child left to themselves is a blot upon the parents, as well as to
everyone else. It is no wonder that our society suffers as it does from adults who
were never properly reared as children to know right from wrong, as GOD defines
it! Present day psychologists have much to answer for before God, also.
There are those who have intentionally abused the Welfare system, because they
are too lazy to get off their duff and work to make a living. There is nothing
wrong with a little temporary help when the chips are down. Get back up, stand
upon your own two feet and work to make your own living, even as the Apostle
Paul said, “If any would not work, neither should he eat,” 2 Thes 3:10. Welfare
was never intended to be a permanent way of life, but many have made it their
permanent bread and butter. Those who have intentionally abused the system
will answer to God for having done so.
There are those who have driver’s licenses, but they might as well as not have
any based upon how they drive. The stop sign says, “STOP”. How many stop?
Most slow down and roll through. The speed limit sign provides a maximum
speed limit for driving on that particular stretch of road. How many exceed that
regularly? The solid yellow line on your side of the road means no passing there.
How many disregard that? You see, the road of life is full of regulations, which
we have a responsibility to live in conformity to, not outside of. We may not
agree with all of them, but then, they are supposedly there for the well being of
all. If everyone does their own thing, then we no longer have law and order.
Instead, we have confusion and chaos, which leads to anarchy. Anarchy is total
abandonment of all law and order, which means no one is safe anywhere at
anytime. Is that what you want? Keep up your disobedience and anarchy will
not be far down the road. Mind you, there are no rest stops in that stretch of the
road!
Then there are those who actually do the right things in life: they hold down a
job, rear children that are reasonably responsible, they do not take advantage of
their neighbor, they mind their own business, yet some of them somehow think
that all this right doing makes them superior to others. In this they err, for pride
is an abomination unto God, Pro 6:16,17.
Have we missed anyone? If we have, God has not. “Behold, the day of the LORD
comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He
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shall destroy the sinners out of it,” Isa 13:9. Even though this text was directed
towards literal Babylon, we see its application to even today, for verse 11 reads,
“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I
will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and I will lay low the haughtiness
of the terrible.” See! God left out no one!
Some may think, because the Bible was written by men, that it is not reliable as
the Word of God. What are you expecting? stone tablets written with God’s own
penmanship? Is that what it would take to prove to you His Word is valid? Well,
it would not. How do we know? Simply this, the law of God was written on stone
tablets by the finger of God, given to Moses and then placed in the ark of the
covenant inside the Tabernacle structure. What happened? Did the successive
generations of Israelites believe unto faithfulness? No, they did not, and neither
do you, even as you manifest today. Your lack of belief in the revealed Word of
God permits you to do your own thing, which, without any question, will get you
nowhere with God. Without His Word as a lamp unto your feet and as a light
unto your path, you and everyone else in the same situation walk the same road,
one of disobedience. Disobedience is sin, sin brings death. Look at what
happened to Adam. Is he here today? See Exo 24:12; Rom 5:12.
When will God exercise His wrath against all disobedience?
Joel 1:14 identifies the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Verse 15 declares “the day of
the LORD is at hand.” Joel 2:1 identifies the Feast of Weeks, (Shavuot/
Pentecost) and it declares “for the day of the LORD comes, for it is nigh at hand.”
From the documents that were made public on Saturday, May 30th, 2020, the
case was made, that the Day of God’s Vengeance had begun on that very day.
Those documents were posted to the website of Clarksville Times,
theclarksvilletimes@blogspot.com . Whether or not they are still there remains to
be seen.
The following texts, 2 Kgs 22:13; 2 Ch 24:18; 2 Ch 32:25,26, manifest that God
had exercised wrath upon His people Israel in time past. According to Jer 30:11,
God will yet punish Israel for her sins, one of which was her act of giving away
her God given land to Gentiles for peace after they acquired possession of it.
Israel did foolishly by doing so, and will reap the consequences.
The Gentiles also will experience God’s wrath as is mentioned in the following
texts: Ps 2:1-5; Pro 11:4,23; Jer 10:10; Nah 1:2,3; Zep 1:14-18; Zep 3:8. This
wrath will ultimately cause the utter destruction of our present society. While
some may think or believe that such calamity is way off in the far distant future,
we hasten to point out that such a view is contrary to the testimony of the
Scriptures. The call of the Gospel Age Church, the Body of Christ, is within a two
day period of one thousand years for each day. This is manifested by Lev 7
regarding the peace offerings. The Church began in 33 A.D. Because Rev 7 says
the four angels hold back the four winds until the saints have been sealed in their
foreheads, it becomes obvious that when that sealing work is done the winds of
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trouble are let loose. At most, the sealing of these members must take place by
Pentecost 2033 A.D.
What happened in early June of this year, 2020? Winds of great strife were
loosed, all because one black man was wrongfully killed by several white
policemen in Minnesota. This followed the public proclamation on Saturday, May
30th that the sealing had occurred already, and that God’s Day of Wrath began
that very day. We had proclaimed the initial strife would be between Arabs and
Israel. Obviously, we were wrong in our expectation. (We herein/hereby give
our apology for our wrong conclusion as to when that Arab/Israeli strife occurs.)
The initial strife was between black and white here in the USA. Nevertheless, that
strife between the Arabs and Israel will yet occur to fulfill prophecy.
What is the next step? The Apostle Paul said in Acts 17:30, “And the times of this
ignorance (in his day) God winked at (overlooked); but now commands all men
everywhere to repent; because He hath appointed a day (the day of His Wrath
inside the Millennial Day), in which He will judge the world in righteousness by
that fellow (Jesus is no longer a fleshly man) whom He hath ordained.” The
word of the day is “repent.” Repent for your willing ignorance, repent for your
deeds of iniquity (they truly are!), repent for your lack of even trying to know
God through His Word. Repent. True repentance manifests itself by a complete
reversal of the course of direction and the activities pursued. Repent means a
“one eighty,” a complete turn about.
God’s Vengeance will affect every last person upon the face of the earth, because
all have sinned and all have come short of the glory of God in performing their
duties to 1) God himself, and 2) to every person’s neighbor. Those of you who
persist in carrying on as before will be dealt with accordingly. In fact Jesus
addressed this in Luke 19:27- “But those mine enemies, which would not that I
should reign over them, bring hither, and slay before me.” All who carry on with
their wrong doing without any thought or act of repentance, manifest that they do
not want the righteous authority of Christ Jesus to reign over them. The end
result? Those individuals will be slain, killed. Those of you who repent may
expect mercy from God, but not complete immunity from His wrath. You decide,
you choose, and you will experience accordingly. But choose, you must.
“For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty,
and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low…. And the
loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made
low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. And the idols he shall
utterly abolish. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves
of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty, when he
arises to shake terribly the earth.” See Isa 2:12-22.
“It is written, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord,’” Rom 12:19.
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B) In Isaiah 34:8 we read, “For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the
year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.” Mount Hermon in Israel is
Scripturally called Mount Zion (Sion), from Deu 4:48. While that piece of real
estate is hotly contested, there is no need for that dispute to occur. The land of
Israel belongs solely to the descendants of Jacob because Jehovah God promised
it to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and to Jacob’s descendants. “In that same day the
LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land,
from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates,” Gen 15:18.
The promise was given to Isaac, “And the LORD appeared unto him (Isaac)…
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee,
and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath
which I sware unto Abraham thy father; and I will make thy seed to multiply as
the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries,” Gen 26:1-5.
The promise was given to Jacob, “And God said unto him,… and the land which I
gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I
give the land,” Gen 35:11,12; 28:10-15. What God has promised as a gift will
not be revoked by Him, nor will it be stolen away by anyone else.
Possession of their promised land began when Israel vanquished Sihon, King of
the Amorites and his army; and Og, King of Bashan and his army as recorded in
Num 21:21-35; and in Deu 4:44-49. In Deu 32:1-42 the account of the tribes of
Reuben, Gad and the half tribe Manasseh settling in the land east of Jordan that
had been the kingdom of Sihon and the kingdom of Og is given. After Israel
crossed the Jordan river, possession of the west side of the river began. Israel’s
possession of their inheritance required that all the current inhabitants of the land
be driven out, Num 33:50-56, but it was never completed. This was manifested
in Judges 1:27-29 wherein Manasseh did not drive out all the Canaanites from
their inheritance. Therefore, the displacement of the descendants of these
foreign nations is now due and will be done.
The expectation that lay before us is the cleansing of the land of Israel of all
foreign occupiers as a continuation of the cleansing of leaven from the houses of
Israel prior to the Feast of Unleavened Bread. God did not promise that land to
the Arab peoples, but to the people of Israel. The Arabs are not in the land by
right, but by usurpation. That is not acceptable, and their occupation of that land
will come to an end, even if force is to be used. To all the Arabs in the
promised land of Israel: leave from the land that does not belong to you, that
which is Israel’s by God’s appointment. If you fail to remove yourself from
Israel’s land of your own volition, then know this for certainty: you will be driven
out by force at great cost to your lives. This we declare by the voice of Scripture:
“And I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like blind men, because
they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust,
and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to
deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be
devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of
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all them that dwell in the land. Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together,
O nation not desired; before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the
chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the
LORD’s anger come upon you. Seek ye the LORD, all meek of the earth, which
have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye
shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger. For Gaza shall be forsaken, and
Ashkelon a desolation: they (Israel) shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and
Ekron shall be rooted up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of
the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the
Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.” See Zeph
1:14-2:5.
As for you, O Gentile leaders of the nations, do not interfere! For those who
presume to know more than Jehovah will find they have set themselves against
the Holy One of Israel, and those that do can not come away unscathed! See 2
Kgs 19:1-37 to learn what happened in time past to those that rose up “against
the Holy (One) of Israel,” verse 22.
C) Folks, your luxury suite is soon to collapse. The infrastructure of our society
is old, worn, and can not be repaired/replaced fast enough to even keep pace
with the aging factor. Our institutions can not sustain themselves much longer
for reasons of greed at the top, lack of morality throughout, and incompetent
work ethics at the bottom; not to mention outside influences soon to occur.
(WalMart closed years ago in our community due to internal theft!) Our
government will first fail from within, mostly from conflict and turmoil; not to
even mention the pollution and corruption that pours forth from her like sewage
water spewing out of a large pipe into a holding pond, before being destroyed
from without. We are now in the Day of God’s Wrath which is God’s period of
recompense for all the unrighteous behavior that has been occurring. Every seed
sown that sprouts concludes with a harvest. Each will reap what they have sown,
Gal 6:7. From the looks of things around us, that which has been sown has been
seeds of wickedness, and such will be the crop, only in greater quantity. Bad
fruits are destroyed, Jer 24:2-10; Mat 22:6,7; and so are the trees which
produced it, Mat 7:19.
Our parting advice to you is ever so simple, yet never so profound: repent of your
wicked ways, lest you be consumed in the fire of God’s wrath. Repent!
Copyright © G. Kuehmichel June 9-14, 2020. All rights reserved.
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