True Refuge in a Time of Judgement
From Wikipedia's 'Mass Shootings in the US':
"Studies indicate that the rate at which public mass shootings occur has tripled since 2011. Between 1982 and 2011, a mass shooting occurred roughly once every 200 days. However, between 2011 and 2014, that rate has accelerated greatly with at least one mass shooting occurring every 64 days in the United States. According to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive, there were 251 mass shootings between January 1 and August 4, 2019—the 216th day of the year."
What we are seeing is a judgment. Peace is being taken from the earth:
Revelation 6:4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
This will get much worse, not better. It is God who is allowing it to happen, and it is directly related to the coming of Jesus:
Revelation 12:12 “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
God is giving mankind what mankind wants, which is to be its own god....to do what it wants without yielding to God's leadership. The result is mass death and selfishness pervading the earth. The people perpetrating these crimes are literally losing their minds. Their hearts are failing them in anger, rage, and confusion. Most, like the murderer who went on a rampage in my hometown back in 2016, openly claim demons/the devil led them to do these acts! (Wikipedia '2016 Kalamazoo Shootings')
In the Bible, God tells us how to get in agreement with Him and make our communities safe from more judgment.
This is what I began teaching on last month on Friday nights, although this is what I have been teaching on, in a general sense, since 2011.
I teach on the end times because there is something to do to make your family, your church, and even your city, safe from judgment by agreeing with God that we need to be judged....that we need to changed... that we need to repent. The only thing that will fix this problem (and the shootings are one SMALL part of the problem) is personal repentance by people that claim to love Jesus.
Jesus isn't releasing this judgment because of all the people that don't know Him. He is releasing it because the people that claim to know Him are completely casting off His leadership. Judgment begins in the church:
1 Peter 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
18 Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved,
Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
Judgment begins with people who claim to be ready for judgment. The idea is it will sift those who really want to humbly submit to God into a unity of repentance...
Matthew 13:30‘Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Where are you being gathered to right now?... To the repentant and humble, or the confused, angry, self-righteous and controlling?
It's the people who know God humbling themselves and repenting that will change the area they live in. The judgments won't stop until Jesus is back, but they can be changed into a blessing where you live, if you want them to be. Do you know how to agree with God in this? Is this what you are learning about at church? Are you doing anything practical to agree with God about this?
It is actually very easy to do. It amazes me that American Christians are more willing to attend a vigil where people are already dead, then a prayer meeting that might prevent the deaths! They both take the same amount of energy on the part of the living.
If you are interested in learning more about a City of Refuge, or the safe place in the storm Jesus is allowing to engulf the earth, these message might help get you started (we will continue to study this as a church on select Friday nights through October):
Cities of Refuge 2019
"Studies indicate that the rate at which public mass shootings occur has tripled since 2011. Between 1982 and 2011, a mass shooting occurred roughly once every 200 days. However, between 2011 and 2014, that rate has accelerated greatly with at least one mass shooting occurring every 64 days in the United States. According to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive, there were 251 mass shootings between January 1 and August 4, 2019—the 216th day of the year."
What we are seeing is a judgment. Peace is being taken from the earth:
Revelation 6:4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
This will get much worse, not better. It is God who is allowing it to happen, and it is directly related to the coming of Jesus:
Revelation 12:12 “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
God is giving mankind what mankind wants, which is to be its own god....to do what it wants without yielding to God's leadership. The result is mass death and selfishness pervading the earth. The people perpetrating these crimes are literally losing their minds. Their hearts are failing them in anger, rage, and confusion. Most, like the murderer who went on a rampage in my hometown back in 2016, openly claim demons/the devil led them to do these acts! (Wikipedia '2016 Kalamazoo Shootings')
In the Bible, God tells us how to get in agreement with Him and make our communities safe from more judgment.
This is what I began teaching on last month on Friday nights, although this is what I have been teaching on, in a general sense, since 2011.
I teach on the end times because there is something to do to make your family, your church, and even your city, safe from judgment by agreeing with God that we need to be judged....that we need to changed... that we need to repent. The only thing that will fix this problem (and the shootings are one SMALL part of the problem) is personal repentance by people that claim to love Jesus.
Jesus isn't releasing this judgment because of all the people that don't know Him. He is releasing it because the people that claim to know Him are completely casting off His leadership. Judgment begins in the church:
1 Peter 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
18 Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved,
Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
Judgment begins with people who claim to be ready for judgment. The idea is it will sift those who really want to humbly submit to God into a unity of repentance...
Matthew 13:30‘Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Where are you being gathered to right now?... To the repentant and humble, or the confused, angry, self-righteous and controlling?
It's the people who know God humbling themselves and repenting that will change the area they live in. The judgments won't stop until Jesus is back, but they can be changed into a blessing where you live, if you want them to be. Do you know how to agree with God in this? Is this what you are learning about at church? Are you doing anything practical to agree with God about this?
It is actually very easy to do. It amazes me that American Christians are more willing to attend a vigil where people are already dead, then a prayer meeting that might prevent the deaths! They both take the same amount of energy on the part of the living.
If you are interested in learning more about a City of Refuge, or the safe place in the storm Jesus is allowing to engulf the earth, these message might help get you started (we will continue to study this as a church on select Friday nights through October):
Cities of Refuge 2019
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