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CALL TO REPENTANCE, A PROMISE TO RESTORE
Joel 2:25
“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.
What do I hear the Lord saying? We live in a nation in turmoil. We’ve gone the way of ungodliness. What started as
a nation built on godly principles of freedom to pursue happiness and dependency
on God has turned into a nation of dependency on man, man’s systems and man’s
government. Every time the nation of Israel turned away from God and to
their own fleshly desires & pursuits, they suffered great consequences.
Now I know people will say
this is archaic thought- that it was about a nation existing thousands of years
ago that was a theocracy and it doesn’t apply to us today, here, and in the
natural. I say God cared about nations
then and he cared about nations now. If
you know anything about bible history, you would understand Israel was
God’s chosen people. It wasn’t that they
were favored but it was the nation he would bring to the world, his Son Jesus
Christ and his Word through. Through his
Son and the truth of his Word, the entire World would have the opportunity to
become his chosen people. I can’t go into depth to teach that but it is true
that through Christ we are grafted into the Olive Tree
of God’s people.
No matter the outcome of a
debate of that argument, non-Christians have always been welcome here and
indeed some of the founders were not Christian. Most still recognized there was
one true God. They still made laws that
were based upon what was right!
No matter the outcome of that debate, there is a God and he only cares about truth. He doesn’t care what the outcome of the debate is. He will one day judge the nations based on righteousness. When he returns he will divide the nations based on right and wrong. This has nothing to do with individual choices of whether to serve Christ or not.
No matter the outcome of that debate, there is a God and he only cares about truth. He doesn’t care what the outcome of the debate is. He will one day judge the nations based on righteousness. When he returns he will divide the nations based on right and wrong. This has nothing to do with individual choices of whether to serve Christ or not.
To the Christians, I believe God is calling out. He’s
calling us to repentance. Based on the
scripture below, God cries out to his people who have slipped away from him to
return with repentant hearts. There are
many in this nation who name the name of Christ but
their ways are far from him. There is a
clarion call by the Spirit of God going out for all to come home! If every
person who names the name of Christ in this nation
alone returned to him with repentant hearts, bowed on their knees in prayer for
forgiveness and determined to walk in his ways, this nation would experience a
great turnaround in righteousness.
Those that understand this scripture know that it applies to bothIsrael and
Christians. Later in the chapter the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the upper room on The Day of Pentecost is
prophesied (not included here.) This
passage is a prophetic passage having to do with that and with an end times
revival in which God’s people return to him in repentance.
Those that understand this scripture know that it applies to both
Yesterday was a day of prayer and I hope millions of
Americans bowed their heads in prayer for this nation. Let’s as a nation begin to examine our own
ways, read our bibles, searching out the scriptures to see if our lives are
lining up with righteousness. Let’s
return to God with all of our hearts, minds, soul and strength. If that happens, as Christians turn back to
God in their own hearts, there will be a great revival in this nation and a
return to righteousness. With over 70%
of our people claiming to be Christian ,
can you imagine if each one began to put God and his Word first in their lives.
Can you imagine if all of their own personal decisions were based on what is
right in the eyes of God and how that alone would reflect in this nation? It
would have far reaching effects!
When true repentance happens restoration takes place. This scripture addresses a people who had
fallen away but encourages with a promise of restoration to those that will
humble themselves, pray, seek the face of God and repent of their ways.
I believe God wants to restore this nation- to make her “a city on a hill,” for all to see with respect and admiration. I believe God wants our nation to be the example of what can happen when people are free to choose him and they do! I hear the Lord calling out to his people in every land to come home! Come back to God!
I’ve included this passage containing a call to repentance and a promise of restoration. This is a passage applying to the nation ofIsrael and
Christians. I’ve included two versions. Please read both and let’s not make prayer a
one day event but let’s all together commit to pray often for our nation and to
reform our own lives to reflect his ways! Amen and God bless!
I believe God wants to restore this nation- to make her “a city on a hill,” for all to see with respect and admiration. I believe God wants our nation to be the example of what can happen when people are free to choose him and they do! I hear the Lord calling out to his people in every land to come home! Come back to God!
I’ve included this passage containing a call to repentance and a promise of restoration. This is a passage applying to the nation of
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Scripture references from: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joel%202:12-25&version=NKJV;NLT
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