Fall 2015: Ripening of the Earth (57 min)

Many are talking about the events of this fall.  It is easy to be deceived.  I do believe this fall will be significant, but I am also clear on what the Bible says:  many will totally miss what God is doing in it.  Many won’t see what is clearly happening, even if they “know” things they think will happen…even if those very things happen.

I hear the Lord saying these two passages are essential right now:

Isaiah 30:8-14  Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to come, Forever and ever:  9  That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the law of the LORD;  10  Who say to the seers, "Do not see," And to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.  11  Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us."  12  Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: "Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and perversity, And rely on them,  13  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.  14  And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter's vessel, Which is broken in pieces; He shall not spare. So there shall not be found among its fragments A shard to take fire from the hearth, Or to take water from the cistern."

 

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Isaiah 8:9-17  "Be shattered, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Give ear, all you from far countries. Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces; Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.  10  Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us."  11  For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:  12  "Do not say, 'A conspiracy,' Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.  13  The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread.  14  He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  15  And many among them shall stumble; They shall fall and be broken, Be snared and taken."  16  Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.  17  And I will wait on the LORD, Who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him.

 

Don’t make decision on things you are imagining to happen this fall.  Make decision that were always the right ones anyway…respond to the Lord NOW, while there is time.