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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 541
God reveals his secrets to the prophets so we will turn back to him and so he won’t have
to rebuke us. He doesn’t want to rebuke us; this is his last resort. He gives us prophetic pictures
of judgment and destruction not because he wants to rub our nose in what is to happen but
because he doesn’t want it to happen. It’s a warning and if we heed the warning we can change
the future.
Unfortunately we don’t have a lot of examples of people changing the future by repenting
at the words of God’s prophets. But there is the example of Nineveh. God sent Jonah to declare
to Nineveh that the City would be overthrown (Jonah 1:1-2). Although Jonah made a slight
detour, he did go and warn the City of Nineveh (Jonah 3:3-4). The people of Nineveh believed
God’s Prophet even though they were pagans. They fasted, repented and turned from their
wicked ways (Jonah 3:5-9). God was pleased with how Nineveh turned around and so Nineveh
was not overthrown (Jonah 3:10). God would like to spare Babylon the Great as well!
While God declares: “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) He also declares
the end from the beginning. (Isaiah 46:10) And what God declares in his word he shall surely
bring to pass. God clearly states:
The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall
it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: (Isaiah 14:24)
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my
word to perform it. (Jeremiah 1:12)
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain
without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver,
and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass
hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. (Daniel
2:45)
God has revealed the destruction of Babylon (America) in the word of God and he will
surely bring it to pass. Therefore, while the nation won't be spared, you as an individual can be!
That is why God has declared: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Revelation 18:4). He wants you to be spared! God is not
willing that any should perish. The Apostle Peter writes:
“
The Lord is not slack concerning his
promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)
Paul says that, as followers of Jesus, we are to be aware of the times and the seasons and
we are not to be caught unaware and unprepared:
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write
unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a
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