August 9, 2016

Greetings My Friend Through the years of reading the Bible I notice periods of time where I feel certain passages are teaching me something I need to learn. For a few months I may be learning of God's patience and love and later I may learn of God's dissapointment still later I am stopped on the passages about God's judgement. Currently I keep reading about God's judgements. While God is pointing out judgements I hear His great love and desire that we listen because He would rather not pass judgement. He wants our hearts to turn to Him and to repent of our ways. He wants us to worship Him and no other gods. He seems to speak of judgements to come for a long period of time and then the judgements will come if we do not heed His warnings. For sometime I have sensed God pronouncing judgement on America and I also do not think we are listening. Natural disasters abound and it seems like to me they are getting worse. The draught, the fires, the storms are often the worst in decades, centuries and even longer. God shows us that the most powerful nation in the world can be brought low, 911 for example took our country by surprise. We take God out of everything and then when we are hit with a major disaster we stand with our hands on our hearts and sing a Christian hymn. That is not what God wants a public display only to deny Him in every aspect of our public lives. He wants our nation to turn back to Him. At one time schools used the Bible to teach children. Prayers were said in schools and the 10 commandments were put up in our halls of justice. Today we do not allow God anywhere. Either we are a Christian nation or we are not and frankly we are in name only anymore. from the colonies until around 50 years ago all we did was based on the God of the Bible. Our founding fathers stated many times our need to have Jesus as our Savior and God as our Father. Abraham Lincoln was concerned more about pleasing God than man. Our children are not even being taught this information anymore and history is being rewritten. God's judgement will come unless we turn and repent with a true heart as a nation. As I read my Bible study in Jeremiah I "heard" again of God's disapointment "I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me. I sent to you all my servants the phrophets, sending them persistenly saying, 'Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I have you and your fathers." Many say that we are under the NT, I say we are and I also say we are under the OT since Jesus taught from the Torah or OT. If Jesus taught us from the OT then I believe we need to learn the lessons that are put forth in the OT. Israel is God's chosen people and we learn from them many lessons. They walked away from God throughout history and God corrected His chosen people. We learn that if God loves us He will correct us as a father will correct His son. God sent Israel into captivity and He can easily send us into captivity too. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet