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    Some wisdom for the 2010 hurricane season

    Hurricane season “officially” began three days ago.  Both AccuWeather and NOAA have gone on the record as predicting an extremely severe season this year.

    In the interest of avoiding public panic or outrage, the possible intensifying of effects of any hurricane due to the Corexit 9500 dispersant chemicals and the massive amounts of benzene now known to be in the atmosphere due to the yet-uncontained release of massive amounts of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico is generally not being emphasized by the mainstream media, as you may have noticed.  Rather, the focus of the discussion seems to be on possible civil or criminal charges against BP, why the last effort to stop the flow of oil failed, and why the next effort might succeed.  And neither the media (understandably) or the church seems to connect this with divine judgment against America for our national sins.

    I believe the Bible speaks to this in Proverbs 1:

    How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge. Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

    Because I have called and you refused — I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded — because you disdained all my counsel and would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity.  I will mock when your terror comes; when your terror comes like a storm and your destruction comes like a hurricane, when distress and anguish come upon you.

    Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD, They would have none of my counsel and despised my every rebuke, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled to the full with their own fancies. For the turning away of the simple will slay them and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

    But whoever listens to me will dwell safely and will be secure, without fear of evil.

    We still have “mockers” among us … even among those who consider themselves Christians.  They see no connection between the explicit Word of God that speaks to judgment against wicked nations, our murder of the unborn and “normalization” of sodomy, and the current catastrophes (which can only get worse unless God relents).  Scorners still think the collapse of our economy, the escalating of earthquake activity, the Gulf oil disaster and the rest are just “the way things are” but “things will get better; they always have.”  So they remain unconcerned, distracted, unrepentant, and prayerless.

    Look again at the verses above and decide whether you would prefer to have God mock when terror comes, or if you would like to dwell safely without fear of evil.   The time of decision has arrived.  Choose wisely.

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    Prophecy & Beyond News Review – Delayed

    I just got a note from our friend Pete Fisher.  He had some storm damage and also the well went out (pump failure?) and this constraint on his time pushed back his Analysis of the News until tomorrow.  As you are aware, plenty has happened in the past week, and Pete has some resources that give good insight into what’s REALLY going on.

    Thoughts on “BIBLE CODES” – unless we leave tonight, I’ve seen a mountain of additional evidence that the appearance of “Pentecost” in some equidistant letter sequence has no more prophetic import that the appearance of “Pentecost” in the dictionary.  Likewise gammatria (also “gematria”).

    Links of possible interest from our brother Daniel:  Indonesia
    Mud Volcano Still Spewing Sludge Four Years Later     and Hurricane
    Winds Carried Ocean Salt & Plankton Far Inland    .  In view of the current situation in the Gulf, it’s not hard to imagine “a toxic aerosol can the size of a hurricane” as Daniel puts it.  There is still some time to repent.  Will we?

    Finally – Obama/Federal Government and BP KNOW THIS STUFF:  Gulf Oil Spill – Gutsy Solution Restores Environment in Just Six Weeks.

    All consequences are intended.

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    “Well yeah, but …”

    “Remembering Lot’s Wife” has ruffled a few feathers. My references to disobedient and non-supportive wives has done likewise. The usual rejoinder is, “Yes, I see your point, but the HUSBAND is supposed to …” and then a discussion of how many/most/all husbands don’t love and support their wives as Christ loves the church, suggesting that this deficiency in the husband somehow legitimizes a Jezebel spirit in the wife. “He doesn’t love me, so I am released from the command to submit to him.”

    How well do you suppose that argument will play at the Judgment Seat of Christ?

    A rebellious spirit is a rebellious spirit. ANY circumstance – ANY outside influence or condition – can be cited as a reason why rebelliousness, arrogance, self-sufficiency or un-teachableness is somehow justified.  But the inner condition, rather than being repented of, is then simply reinforced. Using someone else’s sin to justify your own is not wise.

    Wives, submit to your husbands as unto the Lord. Help us weak, marginalized and culturally assaulted men to become what God wants us to be. Help us learn to love you as Christ loves the church. Don’t be like Lot’s wife by abandoning us just when we need you the most.

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    Remembering Lot’s Wife

    Wives actually don’t show up all that favorably in the Bible.  Some stellar exceptions are Noah’s wife in the Old Testament and Aquila’s wife in the New.  But from Eve to Mrs. Job to Mrs. Lot to Jezebel to Sapphira …  we get the picture.

    But of all the wives, Jesus admonished us to remember one in particular:  Mrs. Lot.  We know the story — angelic visitors were sent, by God’s grace, to rescue Lot and his family before Sodom was destroyed.  Lot warned his family, but some of them thought he was joking.  Whether motivated by love, obedience or faith, just three left with Lot before the city was destroyed.

    We’re sort of left to wonder:  Lot’s wife – for an unstated reason, was obedient in that she left the city.  And yet, apparently she didn’t believe enough to remain obedient.  She looked back — after being warned explicitly not to — and she became a pillar of salt.  Now, why would Jesus point to this particular incident as something that those living in these last days should remember?  A few reasons come to mind.

    First, Mrs. Lot didn’t know where she was living.  She apparently didn’t believe that she was living in a city that was coming under judgment.

    Second, she didn’t know when she was living.  She may have believed, in a general sense, that God would judge the world “some day.”  She did not know that the day had come.

    Finally, it appears that she did not know WHY she was living.  Her “job description” as Lot’s wife involved being a “suitable helper” for her husband.  By disobeying and looking back, she effectively deserted Lot just when he probably needed her the most.

    These things are coming into sharper focus for me as we see the judgments against America continuing.  As I write, a dispersant called Corexit is being dumped in massive quantities in the Gulf of Mexico, which is making that body of water TOXIC.  At the same time, national weather services are predicting an unusually severe hurricane season.  We have a certifiable Marxist in the White House and an economy on the brink of total collapse.  It should be clear to any student of scripture that God’s benevolent hand of restraint is being withdrawn, and that some frightening things are in the very near future.  It troubles me that many who consider themselves Christians are either unaware, or unconcerned.

    Most of us have never experienced an economic collapse.  Most of us have never lived in an aggressive police state (such as existed in Germany under Hitler and in Russia under Stalin).  None of us has experienced a hurricane that is spreading toxic waste and oil over large portions of the landscape.  And tragically, most of us continue in the false hope that “it can’t happen here.”

    Remember Lot’s wife.

    America has shed the blood of over 50 million innocent babies, and that blood — like Abel’s — cries out to the just Judge for vengeance.  God has given us ample time to repent, and we have not repented.  The problems now facing us are not political problems or environmental problems or economic problems; they are SPIRITUAL problems — the hard-heartedness, rebelliousness and disobedience of people who purport to be children of God.  We are occupied by the activities of our busy lives and the amusements of the culture.  The Titanic is going down but we’re in the lounge playing cards and can’t be distracted.

    God is not deceived; neither will He be mocked.  He is not mollified by our little prayer asking Jesus into our hearts, or our superficial once-a-week religious exercises.  The Judge of all the earth will do right, and He has been warning us continually.  Will we listen?  Will we OBEY?

    Remember Lot’s wife.

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