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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 559
are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have
also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)
...unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul
of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile. (Romans 2:8-9)
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness. (2 Thessolanians 2:8-12)
God's Protection And Provision
God protects and provides for his faithful followers. God will warn and protect his people
if they will listen. He also honors their faith. Noah and his wife and children were protected in
the Ark during the flood (Genesis 7 and 8). Lot, his wife and daughters were escorted by Angels
out of Sodom before its destruction (Genesis 19). Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego were
saved by God when they refused to worship King Nebuchadnezzar's golden image and the king
ordered them thrown into the fiery furnace. They were not injured in the slightest and there was
not even the smell of smoke on their garments (Daniel 3:8-25). Daniel was protected by God
after being thrown in the lion's den. He was thrown in the lions den because the king had made
prayer to God illegal. Daniel remained faithful to God, he continued to pray and God protected
him (Daniel 6). The nation of Israel was repeatedly protected by God beginning with the parting
of the Red Sea (Exodus14) and followed by many miraculous defeats of their enemies. And
Christians were given instructions by Jesus to flee Jerusalem when it was surrounded by
armies.
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Those who obeyed were saved from the eventual destruction by the Romans in 70
A.D.
God continued to warn his people right up to the destruction of Jerusalem. “At the start of
the revolt [against the Romans], the leaders of the Jerusalem church were advised in a vision to
flee the city.”
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Josephus writes that Jewish prophets had also prophesied that the destruction of
Jerusalem and the temple would occur when the temple became foursquare. The destruction
occurred shortly after the tower of Antonia was demolished and the temple was made
foursquare.
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What a wonderful God!
God provided for Israel while they were in the desert. God sent Manna from heaven to
fed the nation (Exodus 16:14-35) and he quenched their thirst by providing water from a rock
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