The way things are going, you would think we were living in the place and time of Isaiah 13. Today is Friday the 15th, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will be meeting with President Trump in Alaska, where the people are still wearing jackets in the August summer. Everyone else in the USA is sweltering in the unusual heat blanket that presently covers most of the Americas. Meanwhile, the poor, misguided Palestinians are already there – with nowhere to go and nothing to eat. People in other places, like Sudan and Ethiopia, India, and Pakistan, face the same dilemma.
Trump is trying to broker a peace deal and has already made peace among some of the warring nations. But let us remember what the Bible says- When they cry peace – all of a sudden destruction. Peace will not come until the Prince of Peace comes to rule and reign.
Putin is adamant about keeping the already conquered Eastern part of Ukraine and wants to expand his Russian territory even further. Zelinsky is resolute in keeping the rest of that breakaway country from falling into Russian hands, so they are killing one another by the thousands. Since this is essentially a two-man fight by two headstrong individuals, maybe they should go at it mano a mano in a boxing ring, winner take all. In so doing, they would save a lot of lives but only lose self-respect if they lose.
Nevertheless, this and the other calamities we are presently facing can and should be attributed to our God, who has seen enough to make him angry – very angry. And so it is that things are really heating up around the world, literally and figuratively. Could this be an omen of things to come? Let us consider this warning of things to come from Isaiah 13:11-16).
“I will punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
And in the day of His fierce anger.
It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
And as a sheep that no man takes up;
Every man will turn to his own people,
And everyone will flee to his own land.
Everyone who is found will be thrust through,
And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ravished.”
Book report
The book titled The Awe of God by John Bevere is one of the best books I’ve ever read, and I’ve read hundreds of non-fiction “Christian” books over the years and have even had to have book sales every so often to make room for others. (I average about one a week.) Nevertheless, this book is spot-on in everything the writer espouses. In fact, the writer is saying the same things I’ve been writing about over the past few years as I draw ever closer to my Creator. In fact, my second book, Encountering God Outside the Box, deals with the same issues that face Christians today and touches on other issues facing us in these present and perilous times.
I like Dr. David Jeremiah’s books; he is someone you can learn from, whereas some “Christian” writers are in it only for recognition and acclaim. One such writer, whom I won’t name, writes about hidden esoteric things (only he knows). Indeed, he is very learned, but that doesn’t mean his speculative writings are true; in fact, they can be very confusing at times.
Others like to pontificate as if they were the only expositors of truth. Yet I would be remiss if I told you that such men are only sinners saved by grace, just like you and me. Yes, they may know more about history and geography, but that’s of no help to you nor I who only want to know God more intimately and how to please Him – things like going out into all the world and proclaiming the good news of the Gospel, which is a direct commandment to each and every one of us.
In this extraordinary book, you will read how, above all, God demands obedience. He doesn’t really need your offerings since He is our provider and sustainer, even of our very existence.
Then, of course, there are interlopers who write from their fevered and twisted imaginations, which only serve to confuse and deflect. Most of those are “fiction writers,” claiming to know deep dark secrets, thus leading others to fanciful imaginings.
“There is a way known to man, but the end thereof is the way of death.”
Someone once said, If you can’t convince them with the facts, baffle them with B.S. While a fictional book may be logical in humanistic terms, we must remember that God isn’t always logical and can’t be constrained to a humanistic way of thinking. He is demanding – but at the same time, full of forgiving grace, love, and mercy. Not only that, but He can change things in an instant with provision, miracles, peace, and power, like the Bible promises.
In conclusion, I would like for you to experience God in this way for yourself. My gift (and we all have them) is to share my faith with others face to face without fear or trepidation. So far, of all the people I’ve spoken to, only one has rejected me – a self-righteous Christian, no less. I suspect he is a self-absorbed deacon or “teacher” in a local “Laodicean” church.
Everyone is a writer these days, and indeed everyone has a story to tell, but we need to test their writings against the Word of God – the Holy Bible.
YBIC
Jim Towers
You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com. You can also find me on my newly restructured website www.propheticsignsandwonders.com, which now features the Gospel and videos of worldwide events taking place in the present time, as well as proof of God’s existence and the reality of Biblical places, and Moses himself.