“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (wisdom), Because you have rejected knowledge (wisdom). I will also reject you from being My priest, Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also will forget your children” (Hosea 4:6).
‘The Lord is slow to anger and
abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will
by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, to the third and the fourth generation.” (Numbers
14:18).
Hey Gang: I may be a
hillbilly kid from the mountains of Pennsylvania, not to well-educated and very
limited in many ways but I know precisely that, if someone or someones
threatened to beat me to death with a baseball bat, I would not purchase or
give them the money and direct them to the place where they can buy the most
powerful bats.
I have collected some of the spewed threats that have come forth
from the leadership of Iran in the past several months pertaining to the U.S.
and their intentions as follows: “Today, the time for the
fall of the satanic power of the United States has come, and the count down to
the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started” (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
June 2, 2008).
“Let the entire world hear
me. Our hostility to the Great Satan
(America) is absolute….I conclude my speech with the slogan that will continue
to reverberate on all occasions so that nobody will think that we have weakened. Regardless of how the world has changed after
11 September, Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful
slogan, Death to America.” (Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah,
September 27, 2002).
Referring to the nuclear issue “Even after this deal with the P5+1, our policy towards the arrogant U.S.
will not change” (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, July 18, 2015).
They have also made similar, even more threatening threats against
the “apple of God’s eye, the Land of Canaan”: “It is the mission of the Islamic
Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region” (Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, January 2001).
“I must announce that the Zionist
regime (Israel) with a 60 year record of genocide is a rotten dried tree that
will be eliminated by one storm… (Because) its existence has harmed the dignity
of Islamic nations” (Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, April 14,
2006).
“If they (Jews) all gather
in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” (Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah,
Oct. 23, 2002).
They make no bones about it, when they get the bomb they will use
it on Israel and the United States. We are
presently in the final stages of approving or disapproving the agreement that
will give power to the Iranians to build the bomb within eight to ten years. But there is a problem: the Iranians have not
honored a covenant in their existence and it is felt by their neighbors they
will certainly not keep this one. Their
true goal is to get their paws on the monies that are held in escrow so as to
continue to build their empire in the Middle East.
There is much more that needs to be said about this issue, but we
will leave it for another day.
I close this epistle by drawing your attention to Zechariah’s
words: “Now this will be the plague with
which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against
Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet and their eyes
will rot in their sockets” (Zech 14:12).
My aunt, an Army nurse, stationed in the South Pacific during the
war, was ordered, with her Nurse Corp, to Hiroshima after the truce was signed.
They were to provide medical services to the Japanese who survived the first Atomic
Bomb. She said, as she began to see the
people lined up for the clinic, she remembered this Scripture, for it was a
perfect description of what they were dealing with. The skin had literally melted off the bones
of the people!
But even in these dark hours when all that can be shaken is being
shaken, there is good news. Are you now
ecstatic that in this time of such perilous times God gave us the Good News of
His Word? Ezekiel wrote the following words
of assurance for this very day: “The
Lord said, “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act,
but for My holy name, which once profaned among the nations where you went. I will indicate the holiness of My great name
which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their
midst. Then the nations will know that I
am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when I prove Myself holy among you in their
sight” (Ezek.36:2b-23).
And the promise for today: “I,
have spoken and I will do it”, so says the Lord of glory” and you can take
it to the bank! (v. 36).
Blessings,
Gramps
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