Nineveh and America :: By Nathele Graham

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History can teach us some important lessons. Unfortunately, people are hard-headed. We believe we are special or different than the people who came before us. Thus, we are doomed to make the same mistakes as our forefathers. Scripture contains many lessons we should learn. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).

Too many Christians think the Old Testament is “boring” or it doesn’t pertain to today. In fact, it’s the foundation of the New Testament. Many Christians race through reading Scripture to finish in a year in order to get a certificate. The problem is there’s no study. For instance, what about Jonah? Is it more than a story about a man eaten by a fish? It’s much more. Let’s take a look.

Jonah tried to run away from God. I often wonder why God chose him to carry such an important message of repentance to a wicked Gentile city. Jonah gives us many lessons, and one is that if God chooses you for a task, don’t run away. God told Jonah “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me” (Jonah 1:2).

Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria, and their wickedness was legendary. When they conquered a nation, they made sure people suffered greatly. They worshipped pagan gods, so there was no moral integrity. Jonah’s reaction to God’s call was understandable. “But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD” (Jonah 1:3).

There’s always a price to pay when we rebel against God, and Jonah’s price would be much more than just the price of passage on a boat. A mighty storm came up, and the pagan crew of the ship prayed to their pagan gods to no avail. Where was Jonah? He was sleeping.

Here’s a lesson for Christians. We all have a calling from God, but many of us are asleep. We are to spread the Gospel, but we sleep while the storm of wickedness rages. When all seemed lost, the captain found Jonah and said, “…What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise and call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.” Jonah 1:6b. The captain didn’t believe in the one true God, but as they say, “Any port in a storm.” It’s a shame that Jonah didn’t openly pray to God and obey His instructions. What a witness that would have been. Wake up, Christians.

The sailors drew lots and determined that Jonah was to blame. It was Jonah’s rebellious attitude toward God having mercy upon a merciless pagan nation. He answered their questions, saying, “And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land” (Jonah 1:9).

Finally, Jonah was being truthful. The sailors couldn’t believe he had tried to run from God and wanted to know what they could do to stop the tempest. Jonah told them to throw him into the sea. Well, the sailors had some integrity and didn’t want that to happen, but an amazing thing happened to these pagan sailors. They cried out to God. “Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, ‘We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee” (Jonah 1:14).

One person speaking up for God can bring others to belief.

The sailors threw Jonah overboard, and the storm stopped. The sailors were afraid, but they offered a sacrifice to the LORD. The story could end there with Jonah paying the price of his sin while the sailors rejoiced in their new-found faith and the calming of the tempest, but God still wanted Jonah to go to Nineveh. So, the LORD prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah “…And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights” (Jonah 1:17b).

This strengthened Jonah’s faith, but he still didn’t want to go to Nineveh. “Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice” (Jonah 2:1-2).

My fellow Americans, is that where we are? Are we in the belly of hell? The United States is in dire straits. Like Jonah, Christians have a message to deliver, but it looks as if we are running away from God. We’re surrounded by pagan worship. Maybe people don’t openly worship pagan gods, but they don’t worship the one true God; so by default, demons are worshipped.

America was founded upon Biblical principles. The men who founded this nation weren’t perfect, but they understood basic God-ordained rights. The Declaration of Independence contains some words to pay attention to. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Yes, our Creator has endowed us with rights, but America seems to be under siege by wickedness and evil. The leaders of this nation have little or no knowledge of God and care little for the individual people. The Republic of the United States has become a tyrannical dynasty led by people who encourage the pagan gods of evil that have brought destruction to many nations.

Abortion is nothing less than sacrificing children to the demon god Molech. The arms of this idol were heated, and babies were sacrificed by putting their little bodies in its arms. God told the Israelites, “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shall thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.” Leviticus 18:21.

Today, abortion kills babies in a mother’s womb. As the tiny body is brutalized, the cries cannot be heard. “Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, ‘Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones” (Leviticus 20:2). This is addressed to Israel, but Christians claim to belong to God, and we need to honor Him.

The leaders of our nation have legalized many abominations that are offensive to God. Creation of the world is credited to chance and happenstance (evolution) and not to God. “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Our leaders mock God by allowing evolutionary lies to be taught to our children. “And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things” (Romans 1:23).

There are consequences to disobeying God. Jonah spent time in the belly of a great fish, but the consequences of denying God as the Creator bring the abomination of homosexuality. “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen” (Romans 1:24-25).

Mocking God is never good. “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use unto what is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another: men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet [due]” (Romans 1:26-27).

Wake up, Christians. We must not allow God to be mocked. The mocking was very evident during the opening ceremony of this year’s Olympics. Are we like Jonah? Are we sleeping while the demonic wickedness in the world rages? Do we approve of the evil by keeping silent? If you don’t participate in the evil but watch with pleasure and accept it, God isn’t pleased. “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1:32).

Americans have a vote, and the last 4 years have been miserable. Before that, we had the wickedness of Ahab and Jezebel (the Clintons) and the Obama years. None of these people deserve our vote. We will not survive an administration of Harris. Christians, we must take a stand. Jonah could have avoided much trouble if he had obeyed God and gone to preach to Ninevah. He finally remembered God and prayed. “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy” (Jonah 2:8). The New King James translation makes the meaning clearer: “Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy” (Jonah 2:8, NKJ).

When you find yourself in the belly of a great fish, you realize you need to repent. Jonah did, and so must Christians today. We need to start making our voices heard in our government, whether in America or in other nations. Repent and turn from wickedness.

“And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land” (Jonah 2:10). Jonah must have been a mess and smelly. Sin and rebellion are always messy. Jonah’s mission wasn’t over. “And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee” (Jonah 3:1-2). Jonah did go to Nineveh but wasn’t happy about it. Christians have been forgiven of our sins, and now, we, too, must go and joyously preach the Gospel to a fallen world.

Nineveh was a very large city. The wickedness and evil found there was unspeakable. What would you do if God called you to preach repentance to San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, or Washington D.C.? Would you willingly preach, or would you run the other way? Would you like for God’s wrath to be poured upon the wicked, or would you want them to understand His love and mercy? Jonah was blunt as he delivered the message. “And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, ‘Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown’” (Jonah 3:4). Really? Jonah had received God’s mercy from being in the belly of a great fish, but Jonah could only say you have 40 days, and then it’s over.

Jesus Christ gave His life for us. If you’ve repented and received His forgiveness for your sin, then preach the truth with joy and gladness! It seems as if Jonah didn’t really want those in Nineveh to find God’s grace. They showed him! “So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes” (Jonah 3:5-6).

Can you imagine how great a nation could be if even the leaders repented and embraced God? The king decreed that everybody fast and cover themselves in sackcloth, including the animals. “Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?” (Jonah 3:9). Scripture tells us that God is willing to forgive all sin, but there has to be true repentance. “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Christians, we are called by God’s name. It’s time for us to humble ourselves and pray, seek God’s face instead of following the ways of sin, repent and turn from our wicked ways. Why should God bless us when we mock Him?

What if there was true repentance in France, or Great Britain, Canada, or the United States? Would we put off judgment? What if Hollywood and the entertainment industry stopped putting out movies and music that glorify sin? Could it happen? If Nineveh could repent, even America can. “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not” (Jonah 3:10).

Jonah wasn’t at all pleased. He wanted Nineveh to be destroyed. “But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry” (Jonah 4:1). He told God that this is why he tried to flee to Tarshish. He didn’t want Nineveh to be spared from God’s wrath. Is this why we don’t share God’s truth with people? Are we afraid our worst enemy will repent and find God’s mercy and grace?

There’s more to the story of Nineveh. It’s easy to return to wickedness and evil. That happened in Nineveh. About 140 years after their revival, they fell back into their evil ways.

When you know a repentant sinner, do you disciple them and help them live for Christ? Have you taught your children and grandchildren to love God? If you haven’t, then there’s a good chance they will return to the evil of the world. Public school is no place for a Christian child. They will be educated into the ways of the world and embrace the sin found there. Social media needs to be monitored by parents. The Ninevites reverted to their evil ways, and it can happen today. The return to their old ways can be seen in 2 Kings and Isaiah, as Nineveh again came against Israel.

God is slow to anger, but this should never be seen as acceptance of sin. He sent Jonah to witness to them, but we read in Nahum that God finally had enough of their wickedness. “The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet” (Nahum 1:3).

Is America about to see God’s anger? Remember that there is always forgiveness through Jesus Christ. True repentance will bring true salvation. We cannot hold onto our wicked ways and expect God to acquit us. We cannot continue to turn against Israel and expect God’s blessing.

America, remember Nineveh and turn from wickedness. We must love the Lord our God with all that’s in us and serve Him alone.

God bless you all,

Nathele Graham
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Just Where Is Socialism Going? :: By Ron Ferguson

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles

LOOK AROUND US AND SEE

Why is it that many nations in the Western world are all being governed by socialist governments? Under Biden, socialism reinforced itself, and under Harris if she is President, socialism will be in full bloom. This fellow Walz is even worse.

Marxism is just another form of socialism, and the difference between Marxism and communism is semantic.

As a non-American (who tries to follow what is happening), I think the earnest road to socialism was paved by Obama. This man was no friend of Israel, and in fact, no socialist is. What does that tell you straight away? The answer lies in left-wing policies that are quite demonic.

Australia and Canada are well along the socialist road; in fact, deeply along it in many States. The new government of Britain is very socialist. I hope we don’t get confused by media terms. All socialism is some degree of Marxism. What my observations tell me is that world socialism – discounting the absolute communist nations – Russia, China, North Korea, etc., is hardening quickly.

However, in so-called democracies, it is the people who make the choices, so we cannot turn around and then blame the elected representatives for the increase in demonic socialism. 50% of the USA (discounting the cheating) voted for Biden, 55% of Australia voted for Albanese, and a huge number of Britons voted for their hard socialist governments. That is the way the world is going.

WHAT IS CAUSING IT?

What is causing it? I don’t have the answer, but this I do suspect: the media is almost owned by Satan. Ages ago, the communists knew they had to control the media so their message could infiltrate to the people, and that is what they did. The media outlets are in the hands of the prince of the air, and I know of only one good television station/network in Australia, plus one other moderate one.

In the USA, you have a whole range of opposing, God-hating media. CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, The Guardian. One media not of the left and good is Fox News, and I just saw that a survey among people determined it had the highest negative bias of any outlet at 87%. The survey must have been done in the universities of California and New York.

The other factors are Social Media and the Education System. I saw this socialism deliberately being infused into education in the 1980s and ’90 when I was teaching, being brought in by a left-wing, socialist Government. It has only increased since. The minds and hearts of the young have been corrupted by people who will be accountable before God of great evil.

THERE IS ANOTHER ASPECT

This is worrying, for this increasing evil is not coming from the top downwards but from the bottom upwards. It is people who vote for representatives who most resemble or reflect themselves. Our societies are decaying; democracies are decaying. People are becoming more godless and adopting demonic practices and beliefs.

WOKE, with all its promotion of alternative sexuality, the destruction of children’s gender and sexuality, the use of pronouns, its “inclusion” policies that are inclusive of everything except Christianity, the hate for Israel, Jews and Christians – all these are cementing themselves in our societies.

The salt has become insipid in the main because our churches in so many areas have become traitorous in their adoption of alternate positions on a number of WOKE things. They fail to teach the Rapture and prophetic scriptures and banish those who want to do that. I was speaking to a man who travels Australia. He has been a stockman in some of the most remote areas. (I don’t know what the US term is. Cattle herder? cowboy?). He was telling me that church after church he goes to wants nothing to do with the scriptural teaching of eschatology. This is lamentable. They don’t want to know about the Rapture.

Earlier on (a past post), I wrote about Donald Trump’s MAGA. Sadly, UNLESS THERE IS MASS REPENTANCE, America will not become great again. If Trump is elected, then maybe he will stem the tide, but it will be only temporary. Remember (in my opinion), Josiah was the second-best king in Israel/Judah, yet the nation that was under this godly man was grossly corrupt. All his reforms (many of them) did nothing really. Read the book of Jeremiah, who was a prophet at that time, and the whole nation was corrupt and idolatrous. It was ripe for judgment and happened in the Time of Josiah’s sons.

WHAT IS THE BASIS FOR SOCIALISM AND ITS BEDFELLOW, MARXISM?

One simple answer is that it is Satan that is doing this. The question arises as to the foundation of our modern era and what caused socialism to gain a footing.

There are probably many answers, but I see humanism as the key factor. Once man considered himself superior to the notion of God and discarded biblical absolutes, then any concoction of man’s devising was legitimate. Maybe the first off the mark was Evolution, which displaced the Creator. Then Higher Criticism in Religion followed from Germany. Then you had the great influence of these deeply deluded men – Freud, Nietzsche, Russell, and other so-called “thinkers” and “philosophers” whose demonic writings influenced nearly every aspect of Western society.

God was one step ahead of these delusionaries. Delusionists? (If they are not words, then “deceivers.”)

Colossians 2:8 “See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.”

1 Corinthians 1:18-19 “The word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God, for it is written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.'”

Whether this is right or wrong, I will not say, but this is what Dr. Google says:

“The socialist political movement includes political philosophies that originated in the revolutionary movements of the mid-to-late 18th century, and out of concern for the social problems that socialists associated with capitalism. By the late 19th century, after the work of Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels, socialism had come to signify anti-capitalism and advocacy for a post-capitalist system based on some form of social ownership of the means of production. By the early 1920s, communism and social democracy had become the two dominant political tendencies within the international socialist movement, with socialism itself becoming the most influential secular movement of the 20th century. Many socialists also adopted the causes of other social movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, and progressivism.”

Socialism advocates public ownership of everything, and in trying to force that, brings a lack of initiative and happiness into society. People are pawns in an ideological system. This is the system that will ideally suit the Antichrist government and is the reason why we are seeing its rapid spread today. Walz is a true Marxist, and probably Harris too, so this election will be a very decisive one for the USA.

I did see this from a National Geographic encyclopedic entry on socialism:

“According to socialist philosophy, these features of capitalism lead to inequalities in wealth and hence power and the exploitation of workers. According to socialism, notions of individual freedom and equality of opportunity are available only to those who control the means of production. In a capitalist society, this means a few rich capitalists hold power at the expense of the working class. In a socialist system, however, it is argued that since everyone controls the means of production, everyone is free.”

The problem with that is that under socialism, nobody is free. Do not be deluded – look at conditions in the former USSR, and today in North Korea, and under Islamic socialism such as in Iran. The only true freedom is in a relationship with Jesus Christ and not to a system of man.

“You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy (originally You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy) is a catchphrase originating from a 2016 essay by Danish MP Ida Auken, which was included in the video “8 Predictions for the World in 2030” by the World Economic Forum. WEF Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab is an advocate of The Great Reset where control is in the hands of a tiny minority.

The thing is that socialism is so foreign to Christian doctrines and philosophy that there is no way we can adopt it, and (I don’t want to interfere) but there is no possible way (in my opinion) that a person could vote for a Democrat, especially at present under two Marxists – Harris and Walz. They are enemies of our Christian faith.

Who was a better candidate and more moderate on the Democrat side – Walz or Shapiro? Without a doubt, it is Shapiro, and the reason Harris rejected him was because he is a Jew. Make no mistake about it: Harris and Waltz are enemies of Christians and Jews.

If you seek out the origins of socialism, you usually end up with statements about the Age of Enlightenment and the 1789 French Revolution, as well as the changes that came about under that system with the murders and repression. Socialism is all about control over people’s lives because it is humanism for “the collective good.” Just look at the rule of the Albanese Government in Australia and the control of Walz, Trudeau, and Newsom in California.

The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was simply a further development in socialism. We cannot be sure, but I have a strong feeling that it will be a Socialism-Marxist reign under the Antichrist, and we know it will be punitive with the strongest repression and death for non-compliance, such as is expressed under the mark of the beast. That is why so many nations are adopting socialism today. Delusion is taking hold.

The idea under Socialism and The Great Reset (I reckon the same Marxist thing) that you will own nothing and be happy is absolutely contradictory to scripture; these organizations of men are contradictory to God. I will share these verses that have their setting in the Millennium and note the highlighted section that is the exact opposite of what Socialism/Marxism is:

Micah 4:3-5 “He will judge between many peoples and render decisions for mighty, distant nations. Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they train for war. EACH OF THEM WILL SIT UNDER HIS VINE AND UNDER HIS FIG TREE, WITH NO ONE TO MAKE THEM AFRAID, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken. Though all the peoples walk each in the name of his god, as for us, we will walk In the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.”

Personal ownership and care is part of the Millennium! Humanism wants it otherwise, but the Lord God has the final say.

WHAT TO EXPECT?

*** While the Lord tarries, socialism will become more entrenched and will become more restrictive of people’s lives. Christians in California know that.

*** Do not be surprised if some awful Democrat becomes President. We do not want that, but as we are in the last days of the Church age, then wickedness proceeds from bad to worse. The thing is, conditions will not get better.

*** Expect more and more unrest, violence, and rioting as wickedness increases. Man will not have the answer.

*** I do not think the Middle East problem will be solved until the saviour (small “s”) of the world arrives figuratively on a white horse and cleverly fixes it with a 7-year covenant with Israel. This will be after the Rapture removes the Church. Then things will go from bad to worse again.

As for the election, you Americans go and vote the way you want, or not vote, but what I do know is that half of the American population is demonically deluded. I think you have to be blinded by Satan not to understand the pure evil of Harris and Walz; therefore, half will vote for them. Why do I say that? Here is a Tribulation verse – Revelation 13:3 “I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed AND FOLLOWED AFTER THE BEAST.” Evil attracts followers, and that is what is happening now.

Just to close: In the passage of time, it’s the passage of time that is important, and time is in the passage of time so that with time, the passage of time will proceed timelessly! That is what the passage of time is!

Ron Ferguson