Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:50:02 PM
How will we know when divine wrath comes to our nation? Will it be outward signs of physical destruction or will it be manifest in the sense of reaping the corruption of the lawlessness that has been sown? One thing is for sure: when we as a culture are without shame in justifying lawlessness, then wrath is near. Lawlessness in the apostate church precedes lawlessness in the antichristian state. Christ will preserve His church by executing judgment on her persecutors.
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/09/03/dont_head_for_the_hills
We who enjoy the heritage of a culture built on Reformation thought are no less guilty than the children of Israel who rejected their heritage. For we have seen the greater things that were promises to them; the Physician has come and brought healing and release to the captives enslaved in sin; in Christ there is the beginning of all liberty, there is liberty indeed [John 8].
Everyone is given to covetousness;
And from the prophet even to the priest,
Everyone deals falsely.
They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’
When there is no peace.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No! They were not at all ashamed;
Nor did they know how to blush. [Jeremiah 6]
My people do not know the judgment of the LORD.
“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the LORD is with us’?
Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.
The wise men are ashamed,
They are dismayed and taken.
Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD;
So what wisdom do they have? [Jeremiah 8]
For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt.
I am mourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.
Is there no balm in Gilead,
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people? [Jeremiah 8]