"Gather together and pray, you shameless nation. Gather while there is still time, before judgment begins and your opportunity is blown away like chaff. Act now, before the fierce fury of the LORD falls and the terrible day of the LORD's anger begins. Beg the LORD to save you -- all you who are humble, all you who uphold justice. Walk humbly and do what is right. Perhaps even yet the LORD will pro...tect you from his anger on that day of destruction."
If ever there were a relative word of the Lord for the Church in America this passage from Zephaniah certainly is one of them. The passage starts out by telling the "Nation" to gather together and pray, but that, though it would be ideal, will not happen at this point so the Lord tells us what we as individuals must do. We must "Beg" God to save us and "perhaps" he will protect us from His anger on the day of destruction.
I (Pastor Bob) believe that the nation has crossed a line that will bring inescapable judgment. I do not know if we can reverse the curse (nationally) that has been brought on us by evil politicians who have allowed evil to be called good and good to be called evil and by corrupt lobbyists who, for reasons of greed, have oppressed the poor and advocated for wickedness. We have murdered, and continued to murder babies by the millions, we have gone from tolerating sodomy to embracing it and teaching it to our children as an acceptable 'alternative' lifestyle, we embrace the marriage of people of the same gender, we are legalizing and promoting the use of mind altering drugs and a thousand other things that are shameful and destructive to any society.
What I do know is that if we pray from a sincere heart with fervent prayers, we 'may be protected' from His anger. It is a frightening thing to fall into the hands of an angry God and I believe He is angry with America, but I also know that His mercy is new every morning, His loving kindnesses never end, He will never leave us or forsake us and His desire is that none would be lost but that all would come to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for your family and friends, pray for your community, pray for your state and pray for America like life itself depends on your prayers! Your prayer may be the one that turns the heart of God from bringing destruction to America or it may be the prayer that holds His anger back from you and your family, regardless of the reason just pray.
If ever there were a relative word of the Lord for the Church in America this passage from Zephaniah certainly is one of them. The passage starts out by telling the "Nation" to gather together and pray, but that, though it would be ideal, will not happen at this point so the Lord tells us what we as individuals must do. We must "Beg" God to save us and "perhaps" he will protect us from His anger on the day of destruction.
I (Pastor Bob) believe that the nation has crossed a line that will bring inescapable judgment. I do not know if we can reverse the curse (nationally) that has been brought on us by evil politicians who have allowed evil to be called good and good to be called evil and by corrupt lobbyists who, for reasons of greed, have oppressed the poor and advocated for wickedness. We have murdered, and continued to murder babies by the millions, we have gone from tolerating sodomy to embracing it and teaching it to our children as an acceptable 'alternative' lifestyle, we embrace the marriage of people of the same gender, we are legalizing and promoting the use of mind altering drugs and a thousand other things that are shameful and destructive to any society.
What I do know is that if we pray from a sincere heart with fervent prayers, we 'may be protected' from His anger. It is a frightening thing to fall into the hands of an angry God and I believe He is angry with America, but I also know that His mercy is new every morning, His loving kindnesses never end, He will never leave us or forsake us and His desire is that none would be lost but that all would come to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for your family and friends, pray for your community, pray for your state and pray for America like life itself depends on your prayers! Your prayer may be the one that turns the heart of God from bringing destruction to America or it may be the prayer that holds His anger back from you and your family, regardless of the reason just pray.
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