These words are not easy to record and speak. I do so in fear and trembling before the Lord. I have learned that when the Lord repeats Himself, and when His words grow stronger in the repetition, His timing for fulfillment is closing in. There is no fear in this word for His people. But it is sobering to speak of His judgment of those who refuse Him.
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“Behold, I will stretch out My Hand against the rulers who stand against Me. Kings, priests, rulers of all kinds – hear My Voice. Turn from your wicked ways and bow before Me, or I WILL DESTROY YOU.
“You who say, ‘I have done this and I have done that’ – you have done NOTHING. Of old I have planned. I have brought the nations today to where they are. I hear the cries of My People in the nations around the earth. THE EARTH IS MINE. No one cries out to Me that I do not hear. The cries of My People HAVE REACHED My ears. AND I WILL COME AND SAVE THEM.
“The Time is nigh for judgment against the wicked who refuse to repent before Me. The earth, the very earth I have created, melts and distorts. Blood of the innocent cry out to Me from the soil I created – soil once pure, made by My very Hands. Now polluted, now full of blood. I AM COMING TO AVENGE THE NATIONS. The nations who are Mine I now raise up. I come to save; I come to bring down My enemies. I come to winnow and to thresh. I come for the tares, and I come for My HARVEST. You who cry out to Me, HEAR ME. I cry out to YOU.
“I call day and night to mankind to turn from their wicked ways. I call and call. Why do I call unendingly in this time? Because THIS is the TIME of My JUDGMENT. I long to extend Mercy. But even My Mercy runs out against the hardness of hearts who will not heed Me. When My Mercy can no longer lead to repentance, I COME in JUDGMENT. I do not wish to see any perish at My Hand. They fall under their own evil choice against Me. My People, you shall see My Hand of destruction. Do not be alarmed. I shall keep you in the shadow of My Hand, even as your wicked neighbor falls.
“Blessed be the Word of the Lord God, the Almighty Judge of the Earth. Amen.”
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Notes:
The Lord speaks from Isaiah 24, which tells of His great judgment against “the inhabitants of the earth” – those who act wickedly – while His own people remain joyful and praise Him in the midst of His righteous judgment. The prophet Isaiah even cried out in woe as he witnessed the vision regarding the destruction of the wicked, whose violent acts pollute the very soil of the earth. In symbolic terms Isaiah speaks of the earth “tottering” and “falling” because of the transgression upon it. Yet we see a glorious ending, with such an evil-laden earth never rising again. Instead, God will heal His creation, and His glory will be before His people. Paul speaks of creation longing for this time in Romans 8. Therefore, as God’s people we have nothing to fear. We can rejoice that evil is being judged, the very soil of the earth renewed, and “the whole earth will be filled with His glory” (Psalm 72:19). We are truly living in biblical times!
Isaiah 24:1-5, 14-17, 20, 23: Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants. And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor. The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word. The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant…They raise their voices, they shout for joy; They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the Lord. Therefore glorify the Lord in the east, the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the coastlands of the sea. From the ends of the earth we hear songs, “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I say, “Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous deal treacherously, and the treacherous deal very treacherously. Terror and pit and snare confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.”…The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard and it totters like a shack, for its transgression is heavy upon it, and it will fall, never to rise again…Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and His glory will be before His elders.
Romans 8:19-22: For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
Isaiah 37:26: “Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, from ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass…”
Numbers 35:33: So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
Isaiah 26:9-10, 20-21: …For when the earth experiences Your judgments the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. Though the wicked is shown favor, he does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness,
And does not perceive the majesty of the Lord…Come, my people, enter into your rooms and close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while until indignation runs its course. For behold, the Lord is about to come out from His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer cover her slain.
Jeremiah 30:23-24: Behold, the tempest of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a sweeping tempest; It will burst on the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back
until He has performed and until He has accomplished the intent of His heart; In the latter days you will understand this.
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