Proud to Defy God?

Let’s not let the media ‘tell’ us what to think and do, rather each American should turn to the Bible for knowledge of God and His standards.  Yet if those who continue to push such propaganda, which is contrary to their Creator and the people continue to buy into the lies, then what will happen?  Should celebrations be held by those who are proud to defy God?

 

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge… As they were increased, so they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into shame.  They eat up the sin of My people, and they set their appetites on their iniquity.  And it shall be: Like people, like priest. And I will visit their ways upon them and repay them for their deeds.  For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall commit fornication and not bring forth, because they have ceased to take heed to Jehovah.  Harlotry and wine and new wine snatch away the heart.  My people seek advice from their wooden idols, and their magic wand expounds to them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have committed adultery against their God.”  Hosea 4:6a, 7-12

 

Though they may laugh, cheer and celebrate their blasphemous agendas, eventually such wickedness will turn into weeping and gnashing of teeth.  Let each man be assured that God Almighty, the One to whom ALL will stand (Rev. 20:12) before, certainly does take notice.

 

“And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called for weeping and mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.  But behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”  Isaiah 22:12-13

 

“Then one said to Him, Lord, are there few who are saved? And He said to them, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.  When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He will answer and say to you, I do not know you, where you are from, then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.  But He will say, I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrust outside.”  Luke 13:23-28

 

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“May Jehovah take notice, and require it!”  2nd Chr. 24:22

 

Understand the conditioning that is taking place across this once great land called America.  All across the country schools are telling lies against the Most High, jobs are pushing feel-good positivism propaganda and diversity training.  The entertainment industry can take even what would appear to be benign television programming about real estate transactions and turn it into a shows promoting the lusts of the world, covetousness and sodomy.  These are traps, traps which try to push enough of society from coast to coast to walk contrary to their Creator (Rev. 12:9). 

 

Those who promote these things are against God and blaspheme Him with their words and actions.  Understand that the origin of the positive thinking movement, which has changed names many times in the work place, but is still the same origin, is none other than someone who walked contrary to God.  The world might see what is going on with Hollywood directors and the evil that has been going on behind the scenes for years and years, yet is this not simply a symptom of the real problem?  Those who push this trash upon us are walking contrary to God – intentionally.  Now as our country becomes more and more engrained in sexual perversities, many of those want God to take notice.  Be assured, you can be absolutely assured that the God who Created the oceans on the edges of our land that we have taken for our country, the God who Created the Rocky Mountains that go from Canada to Panama, the God who Created you, will indeed take notice. 

 

“Behold, Jehovah’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor is His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, that He will not hear.  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has uttered perverseness.  No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.  They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.  Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.  Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.  The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.  Therefore justice is far from us; nor does righteousness overtake us. We wait for daylight, but behold, the night; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.  We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.  We all roar like bears, and mourn with moaning like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.  For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.  And justice is driven back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.  Yea, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.  And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore His own arm brought salvation unto Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him.  For He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. And He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was covered with zeal as a cloak.  According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay; fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies. He will completely repay their deeds to the coastlands.”  Isaiah 59:1-18

 

“And they did not repent of their murders nor their sorceries nor their sexual perversions nor their thefts.”  Revelation 9:21

 

“The heavens declare the glory of the Mighty God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.”  Psalms 19:1

 

There is mercy with God, if one repents.  Will we as a nation, as a people who still largely proclaim to be christians, continue to behave as we do not know what His Word says regarding Truth?  Will we allow those who invite us to join them in their rebellion against God to continue on with their agendas?  Dear individual, please understand that the hour is late. 

 

“The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.  But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has done, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall live life; he shall not die.  None of the transgressions which he has done shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live.  Do I delight with pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Jehovah, and not that he should turn back from his ways and live?  But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the treachery of his unfaithfulness, and the sin which he has sinned, in them he shall die.  Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair.  When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is for the iniquity which he has done that he dies.  Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he has done, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive.  Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he has done, he shall live life; he shall not die… For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, declares the Lord Jehovah. Therefore turn and live!”  Ezekiel 18:20-28, 32

 

While those of us who know God, who have repented and believed into Jesus Christ as our Savior, can only hope that our nation has some sort of repentance and recognizes that they are accountable to their Creator, understand that you too will individually stand before Him (Ro. 14:12).  Do you want to go along with the flow?  Do you want to continue ignoring God and hope in your heart that the existence of Him is simply a lie?  Or perhaps you want to continue on, either believing in a god, but not believing in who He is and what standards He has set in His Word, as well as that you are a sinner in need of repentance and a Savior, namely Jesus Christ, whom God sent to die on the Cross and who paid the penalty for your sins (1st Peter 2:24), raised the third day (1st Cor. 15:4) should you accept it.  Truly there is a choice in the matter, by making no decision, you have made a decision.  By ignoring, refusing to understand the Gospel or openly defying your Creator, yes you, as you might join the masses in rebellion against God, but there will be no protest or group funding to try and save you as you are cast into the Lake of Fire for your sin (Rev. 20:15). 

 

“But now the righteousness of God apart from the Law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through the faith of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, to give evidence of His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to prove at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who is of the faith of Jesus.  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law.  Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.”  Romans 3:21-30

 

“Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?  But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you.  And having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.  I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.  For when you were slaves to sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.  What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.  But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  Romans 6:16-23

 

“Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was accounted to him, but also for us, to whom it shall be accounted, believing in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.”  Romans 4:23-25

 

“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has established a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has appointed. He has given assurance of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”  Acts 17:30-31

 

Harsh words?  Or perhaps you hope that they are lies, as certainly there is no end to the amount of so-called preachers who are eagerly awaiting your participation in your so-called churches or ministries, telling you what you desire to hear.  Both the teacher and the willfully ignorant participants in their false ministries will stand before their Creator at the Judgment individually and be judged with equity and justice.  Take heed!

 

“But He answered and said, Every plant which My Heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.  Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch.”  Matthew 15:13-14

 

“You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked, You have blotted out their name forever and ever.  The desolations of the enemy have come to an end forever, and You have destroyed the cities; the remembrance of them has perished with them.  But Jehovah shall endure forever; He has prepared His throne for justice.  And He shall judge the world in righteousness; He shall execute judgment to the people with equity.  Jehovah also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of distress.  And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Jehovah, have not forsaken those who seek You.”  Psalms 9:5-10

 

“Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will deliver both yourself and those who hear you.”  1st Tim. 4:16

 

As far as our nation and our rebellion against our Creator, we got big words against God and actions that defy Him, yet we also have big words of war against many nations.  Will God intervene to help a nation who refuses to repent and is bent on continuing in the rebellion against Him or will he defy us who refuse to obey His edicts and refuse to acknowledge the One true God? 

 

“For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; but Jehovah delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of their fathers.”  2nd Chr. 24:24a

 

“Thus says Jehovah, Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah, doing kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says Jehovah.”  Jeremiah 9:23-24

 

“Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to shame.  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will exalt you.”  Jacob (James) 4:9-10

 

Amen!