Serious Times, 4/11/15
In the 1980s, God sent a wonderful true prophet of God to America preaching of the coming judgments of God against this nation. We are now coming into the times of which he prophesied. His name was Dmitri Dudeman, a Romanian prophet of God. Although we are a nation with a covenant with God, one of the things he preached from Jeremiah 51 was that our sin as a nation is so great that God calls us "spiritual Babylon." This is a very serious indictment when we consider some of the things that God says about how he will deal with Babylon. Today the Lord led me to read and consider Isaiah 13 which contains the same message:
Isaiah 13 New King James Version (NKJV)
Proclamation Against Babylon
13 The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 “Lift up a banner on the high mountain,
Raise your voice to them;
Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded My sanctified ones;
I have also called My mighty ones for My anger—
Those who rejoice in My exaltation.”
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts musters
The army for battle.
5 They come from a far country,
From the end of heaven—
The Lord and His weapons of indignation,
To destroy the whole land.
6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man’s heart will melt,
8 And they will be afraid.
Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy its sinners from it.
10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not give their light;
The sun will be darkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11 “I will punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
And in the day of His fierce anger.
14 It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
And as a sheep that no man takes up;
Every man will turn to his own people,
And everyone will flee to his own land.
15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through,
And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ravished.
17 “Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It will never be inhabited,
Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there,
And their houses will be full of owls;
Ostriches will dwell there,
And wild goats will caper there.
22 The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
Her time is near to come,
And her days will not be prolonged.”
So we see that God has positively terrifying things to say about how he will deal with Babylon. This should bring us much pause and sobriety and fear of the Lord. We cannot avoid the reality that God calls us spiritual Babylon. Serious judgments from God are coming our way. Please be sober about the very serious word from God about our sin as nation and please listen to one of Dmitri's messages about judgment in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvYOQN7TZ0
Bless you and may you be found in the Lord as the judgments of God fall on our nation. If you do not know the Lord Jesus yet then please pray this prayer:
http://www.spursellpoet.com/…/prayers/a-prayer-to-receive-s…
If you are already a christian but are not totally sold out of God with all your heart then please pray this prayer:
http://www.spursellpoet.com/…/prayers/prayer-of-consecration
Steve Pursell, 4/11/15