Thursday, January 31, 2013

When A Land Sins - Ezekiel 14:12-14

Ezekiel 14:12-14 ESV
And the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.

The leader of our nation in his first term of office said America was no longer a Christian nation. His actions reveal his preference and support for Islam, which denies the Son and therefore the Father.

Our nation has shrugged off the hand of God. The bread of heaven is increasingly rejected and there is a famine in the land for the word of God. Our nation is led by those who revel in a world apart from God, who have exchanged His truth and light for a lie. His hand no longer protects us, but comes against us.

The Lord is faithful and He will deliver His own. As Noah found safety in the ark during the flood, so will we reach dry land in the present ark, which is the body of Christ.

If we endure and remain faithful, we will eat from the tree of life.

Genesis 6:7-8
So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Isaiah 3:3-5
the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
And I will make boys their princes,
and infants shall rule over them.
And the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.

Proverbs 11:4-5
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight,
but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

2 Peter 2:9-10
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

James 5:11
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

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