I Will Bless Those Who Bless Israel and Curse Those Who Curse Israel!

I believe that when it says I will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel, it is referring to nations who have turned their back on Israel, and the individuals who hate Israel along with it. A blessing will come for those nations who support God's people and a curse will come upon those who curse God's people, the Israelites. It is clear that in the end all nations will turn their back on Israel at the Battle of Armageddon, so if America is still here, which is unlikely because it is not mentioned in Bible prophecy, then America will turn their backs on Israel.

We see clearly that Obama is not really for Israel. Because the unrighteous are in authority, the people shall mourn. Am I calling Obama unrighteous? That is God's decision but his activities are certainly unrighteous and God is angry at America for their stance on Israel. The curse in itself could come in a number of ways. It could be through natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. It could be that God writes Ichabod on many of the churches in this nation, because it is true that judgment always begins in the House of God.

The solution to the problems that this country will not come through Congress or the House of Representatives or even through the Office of the President. It will come when the Bible is again the authority and guide for every decision that is made in this nation. Many of the people in authority are wicked and are Biblically illiterate. They do not realize the danger they have put this nation in. You can contribute this problem to decades ago when the Bible was taken out of schools. When the Bible is taken out of society, society goes with it. Depravity rises, and soon we see people acting out in open defiance against God. Obama is acting out in defiance against God and America will pay for it. Anytime a nation is judged, everyone is at risk. You must remember that in Noah's day, only a few survived on the Ark. The rest were completely destroyed.

When the foundations are destroyed, what shall the righteous do? The answer can be found in 2 Chronicles 7:13-14- If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. We see clearly here that God can and will use natural disasters to get a nation's attention. Notice where it is said if I shut up heaven. He has the power to send drought upon the land. He has the power to send pestilence upon my people. In other words, God is control of the weather and if he gets mad enough he can use whatever means to get people's attention and that includes tornadoes. Notice the next verse. It says My people. This clearly denotes that God's people need to be on their knees. There is power in corporate prayer. And when I mean prayer, I mean a baptism of anguish. People live their lives as if nothing is going on much like Noah's day. We are in the last days. At many moment the trump could blow and we are gonna go. God is in control of everything and it is all coming to fruition just as the Bible predicts. I believe you and everyone else will agree when I say Ever Come so quickly Lord Jesus. There is coming a day when God is going to judge the nations of the world for turning their back on Him and His people. There is coming a day when Jesus will rule and reign from Jerusalem with a iron rod and scepter for 1,000 years. Soon all be made right by King Jesus. Until then let us work and labor for the Kingdom, proclaiming the Gospel to all nations, so that when we do enter the pearly gates

Reviving Your Day Episode 6- Reverend Tony Workman

Reviving Your Day Episode 6- Reverend Tony Workman

Courageous Faith!

Many times in life we will come across situations where every ounce of our being is tested. What is it that gets us through these trying times? Well for some it might be a number of things: For some it might be the bottle, for some it might be drugs,and even for some it might be sex. But with those who know Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior it is faith that gets us through these tough situations. When the most trying time in your life comes knocking at your door, it is faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ that will get you through the trying times that you will face.

Faith is the key that unlocks the power of God in our lives. Faith enables us to live by His promises and experience His blessings in our personal lives. Faith allows us to live beyond the normal limits of life and experience the unlimited power of God on a regular basis. Hebrews 11:1 says Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. This means that there are some things in this life that we cannot see right away but by faith we believe that it will happen. In what ways can we learn to develop Courageous Faith.

The first way that we can develop courageous faith is by staying in God's Word. Psalm 119:165 says, Great peace have they that love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. This verse shows that when trying times do come that those who truly love God's Word will not let trying times offend them or bring them down. In Psalm 119:105 the Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. This verse illustrates the importance of letting the Holy Spirit illuminate your path so that the shadows that arise in your life will not overcome you. Psalm 1 is a example of how a faithful man should live and the person who has developed courageous faith will delight in the law of the Lord and in His law will he meditate day and night.

Finally, in the journey of developing courageous faith, we need to look at the stories of the men in the Bible who exhibited courageous faith. The first person I want you to see is Abraham. In Genesis 12, the Lord commanded him to get out of his country and out of his father's house and go to the land that I will show you. Now in Abraham's time, paganism was rampant and most of the people worshipped the moon god Nannar. Now Abraham was from Ur, a city known for its prosperity. Sir Charles Wooley excavated the place in the early 1920's and the early 1930's and found a 70 foot ziggurat that was dedicated to the moon god Nannar. I suppose that Abraham would often go to the ziggurat to pray to the moon god. On one particular day however after countless number of times of trying to reach Nannar without a response. Abraham was terrified when he did get a response. Only this time, it was an audible voice and it was Jehovah, the God over the moon and everything else. Abraham was then told to leave his home to the place that Jehovah would show him. Abraham's courageous faith was shown in his response to God and his journey in faith from everything he once knew. Several other examples show us in the Bible that Jacob exhibited courageous faith by hanging tough in the tough times, Joseph exhibited courageous faith by starting over when it all fell apart, Moses showed courageous faith by overcoming his past, Joshua showed courageous faith by conquering the opposition, Gideon exhibited courageous faith by overcoming his fears, Samson showed courageous faith by making faith at the very end one of his strengths, and David's courageous faith gave him confidence in the face of danger. The point of mentioning all these men is that we can all learn lessons from these men and through their examples our faith in God and in our everyday lives can be strengthened.

God, Send Us Prophets by Leonard Ravenhill!

The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality. In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, “has almost always been that of recovery.” The prophet is God’s detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity.

Compromise is not known to him.

* He has no price tags.
* He is totally “otherworldly.”
* He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.
* He marches to another drummer!
* He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration.
* He is a “seer” who comes to lead the blind.
* He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a “thus saith the Lord.”
* He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment.
* He lives in “splendid isolation.”
* He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright.
* His message is “repent, be reconciled to God or else…!”
* His prophecies are parried.
* His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void.
* He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.
* He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead!
* He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with epitaphs when dead.
* He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few “make the grade” in his class.
* He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
* He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint by posterity.
* He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of Life to those who listen.
* He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years.
* He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation.
* He announces, pronounces, and denounces!
* He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire.
* He talks to men about God.
* He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men.
* He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing.
* He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in the marketplace.
* He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
* He has passion, purpose and pugnacity.
* He is ordained of God but disdained by men.

Our national need at this hour is not that the dollar recover its strength, or that we find the answer to the ecology problem. We need a God-sent prophet!

I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life:
bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the “seven years of plenty” are over for us. The “seven years of famine” are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in this nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (Amos 8:11).

Millions have been spent on evangelism in the last twenty-five years. Hundreds of gospel messages streak through the air over the nation every day. Crusades have been held; healing meetings have made a vital contribution. “Come-outers” have “come out” and settled, too, without a nation-shaking revival. Organizers we have. Skilled preachers abound. Multi-million dollar Christian organizations straddle the nation. BUT where, oh where, is the prophet? Where are the incandescent men fresh from the holy place? Where is the Moses to plead in fasting before the holiness of the Lord for our moldy morality, our political perfidy, and sour and sick spirituality?

GOD’S MEN ARE IN HIDING UNTIL THE DAY OF THEIR SHOWING FORTH.

They will come. The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history.

There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable.

Let him be as plain as John the Baptist.
Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and stagnant “churchianity.”
Let him be as selfless as Paul the apostle.
Let him, too, say and live, “This ONE thing I do.”
Let him reject ecclesiastical favors.
Let him be self-abasing, nonself-seeking, nonself-projecting, nonself- righteous, nonself-glorying, nonself-promoting.
Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move men to God.
Let him come daily from the throne room of a holy God, the place where he has received the order of the day.
Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism.
Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision no man in this century has seen. God send us this Moses to lead us from the wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon.

God have mercy! Send us PROPHETS!

This is a article written by Leonard Ravenhill but this is what I believe as well! These words are exactly what I believe, and what is needed in this nation!

God Has His Prophets!

Let no Christian's heart fail him because it seems that the enemy has come in like a flood, that the voice of the prophet is not heard in the land. God has His men hidden. They will come forth without price tags, with nothing to sell, nothing to promote but His message, nothing to organize, nothing to propagate but holiness unto the Lord.

John the Baptist came at a critical hour in the history of Israel. The parched souls sought him in the heat-laden desert. England, dead under the teaching of Deism and thickly foul with corrupt politics, hardly offered loving arms to the Oxford scholar, Wesley. Injustice, unequal taxation, vice, drinking, etc. were all at a premium in Wesley's day. To the nation dead in politics and with icicles on the pulpits and snowmen in them, Wesley brought the torch of Spirit-anointed preaching and the nation melted before him.

The cultists and purveyors of false doctrine, with millions to spend on scattering their false doctrines worldwide, offer us greater challenges than Wesley or Finney had, but not greater than our God is able to deal with. Our present evangelism offers men a change of destiny- Biblical regeneration offers men a new Spirit-born personality, then destiny.

Revival is the Lord's doing, and is marvelous in our eyes. Wet-eyed, heart-broken revivalists produce wet-eyed, heartbroken sinners at the feet of a Holy God. True revival, said dear Dr. Tozer, "changes the moral climate of a community". Men like John the Baptist, and Wesley burned their names on the history of the world.

At the moment, we are a broken nation, broken financially, morally and spiritually. If we were half as spiritual as we think we are, we would be going to the house of the Lord in sackcloth with a handful of furnace ashes to anoint our unworthy heads. But we still play church. We still delight in shallow preaching and offer shallower praying. Our sackcloth and ashes would be less conspicuous than Isaiah, "walking barefoot and naked" for three years as a sign.

Jeremiah mourned the sin of the people. His castigations of their iniquity cost him a spell in the stocks, the inside of a prison, and the misery of sleeping at the bottom of a muddy well. He knew better than to say, peace peace, when there was no peace. He alone knew the pending judgments of God. He sat alone because of the wrath of God (Jer 15:17).

Oh for men who will wait upon the Lord, hear His voice, get a baptism of His power and an authority to deliver His message to a sick church and a dying world. We have labored in the flesh for too long. We have interpreted success by material gain- bigger buildings for our churches, bigger crowds for our hearers, bigger offerings as proof of His favor. We have had weak preachers for too long- God give us giants! We had promoters too many, Lord send us revivalists. We have played evangelism with a hundred gimmicks; Lord give us, in this dark hour of human history, some John the Baptists to burn and shine, some Knox to say, " Give me America and the nations, or I die".

The Future Status of Israel!

During the tribulation period, Israel will again be a focal point of God’s activity. Many Jews will be saved as a result of God’s dealings with them. This is part of God fulfilling His covenant promises to the Jewish people. God’s covenant promises to the Jewish people include salvation, restoration to their land, and the Lord Jesus Christ as their ruler. God grafted in the Gentiles when the Jewish people rejected the Messiah and the gospel message. God’s purpose in grafting in Gentiles includes making Jews jealous as He brings them to the point where they accept the Lord Jesus Christ as the Messiah. God has chosen a remnant among the physical descendants of Jacob. Spiritual blindness (for the most part) rests upon the Jews today because of their persistent disobedience and unbelief. God will remove the blindness from the Jew’s hearts and many will be saved during the tribulation period. At least 12,000 from each tribe of Israel will be saved. God is worthy of praise for the sovereign way He has worked among the Jews and Gentiles. Every person will, by one means or another, come to acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord. Some may voluntarily do so now by coming to Jesus in faith and receiving salvation. Some will be saved during the tribulation period. Others will have to later acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, but they will only receive condemnation, not salvation.

One of the greatest evangelism explosions the world has ever seen will take place during the tribulation period, as God continues to have His witnesses on earth even during those dark days. A great evangelistic outreach will be led by 144,000 saved Jews (12,000 from each tribe of Israel, according to Revelation 7:4-8). The 144,000 Jews are described as being redeemed and following the Lamb. The 144,000 Jews are able to learn a song that others on earth are unable to learn. The 144,000 are sealed in their foreheads to indicate God’s ownership. The message preached by the 144,000 witnesses will be the gospel of the kingdom, involving the same gospel message that is preached today, and additional emphasis on Jesus’ soon return to establish His earthly kingdom and the need to prepare for that event. People will have the opportunity to be saved during the tribulation period. People will be saved during the tribulation period (and only way) people are saved today—by God’s grace, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The New Covenant will still be in effect at this time, since it is an everlasting covenant and promises salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, based on His atoning work on the cross. A huge (innumerable!) group of people from every social, ethnic, and linguistic group will be saved during the tribulation period, largely through the commitment and effectiveness of the 144,000 Jewish witnesses.

The Distinction between the Rapture and the Second Advent

The terms second coming and return of Christ have multi-faceted significance, which often results in a bit of confusion. It is necessary to distinguish between the Lord Jesus Christ’s coming for His saints (often called the rapture) and the Lord Jesus Christ’s coming with His saints in triumph and glory (sometimes called the second advent, meaning second coming).
Distinctions between the rapture and the second advent: the rapture could occur at any time; with no signs preceding it to indicate that it is about to happen. The second advent of Jesus will be preceded by various signs and events. At the rapture, Christians will meet Jesus in the air. At the second advent, Jesus will return to earth (specifically, to the Mount of Olives, causing the mountain to split in half). His feet shall stand in the day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave (split) in the midst thereof toward the east, and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. At the rapture, the only people on earth who will be involved are Christians. At the second- advent, every eye shall see Him. Changes in Christians will take place at the rapture, but nature will remain unchanged. Changes in nature will take place at the second-advent. In conjunction with the rapture, believers will be judged. In conjunction with the second-advent, unbelievers will be judged.

Certain passages are commonly thought to be referring to the rapture, because of statements such as “Then shall two people be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come… be ye also ready; for in such a hour as ye think not (when you are not expecting it) the Son of man cometh. Matthew chapter 24, Mark chapter 13, and Luke chapter 21 are not referring to the rapture. In context, Jesus was responding to His disciples’ question about the signs that will precede His coming back to earth at the end of the age. Jesus described the signs that will precede His triumphant coming to set up His kingdom on earth, at the conclusion of the tribulation period – not His coming in the air at the rapture.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Many shall come in My name, saying I am Christ, and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers (various) places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end (of the tribulation), the same shall be saved (delivered from the tribulation). And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation (the antichrist), spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand), then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains… For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved (no one would survive). Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken; and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. The immediate context compares the people in Noah’s day to those who are taken when the Lord Jesus Christ comes. Those who are taken are taken to be judged, just like those who were taken in judgment by the flood in Noah’s day. Those who are left remain on earth to experience Jesus’ millennial reign, just like those on board the ark were left alive (unlike all other people on earth in Noah’s day).