SHOFAR #7 - DAY 7 OF THE 10 DAYS OF AWE

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

10/1/14

SHOFAR #7

(DAY 7 OF THE 10 DAYS OF AWE)

If someone had told you ten years ago how far America would fall in the coming decade, you would have thought them crazy, in much the same way that people consider me crazy for my saying America is on the verge of being destroyed totally. 

No one could have convinced you that America would send mercenaries into two nations to destroy the infrastructure of those nations, ruining the lives of millions, for the purpose of robbery.  Nor would you have believed they had two or more nations in their sights before that destruction and robbery was complete.  All of this so those accustomed to jet setting and wild orgies could continue their life style.  You were still of the opinion (ten years ago) that America was the "…land of the free and home of the brave".  How things change!

Now we see a world with more wars being fomented, deliberately, and again, for the purpose of robbery.  You didn't see it on the media but the Ukraine was robbed of 40 tons of gold when that war was initiated by the U.S.  To their credit the media did show the robbery of Egypt as they were being destabilized and robbed --- only they called it confiscation of Mubarak's holdings.  If you will look in Daniel 11:42-43, you can see this robbery was prophesied two and a half millennia before it happened. 

Now we are in the days when the shofar is being blown to warn this nation and its leaders that judgment is coming at us like a cannonball.  Daniel 11:35 assures us that the date for this judgment is already set and Habakkuk chapter 2 assures us it will not be late.  The prophet Isaiah tells us it will come at an instant and Revelation 18 tells us America (the modern Babylon) will be destroyed in one hour!

We live in the days when mankind possesses weapons of unthinkable destructive potential, so the thinking of many is that none will dare use them.  Think again.  Has man ever possessed a weapon he didn't use?  Now we talk about "first strike deterrent", and "survivability.  Now we have bunkers 2 miles underground to protect the guilty. 

We have synthesized horrible diseased which have been incorporate-ed into warfare for centuries --- if not millennia. 

Now technology has reached the point where weather can be manipulated and used as a weapon as well.  Can we see where all this is headed?  We no longer live in the days when you take your enemies head off with a broad sword or run him through with a javelin and get blood all over your hands.  We live in the days when one can sit behind a desk in a white shirt and tie, with a laptop, and destroy a piece of the earth half a world away.  Politicians see that as "real power".  It is this "real power" that has thrust us into the "…time of the end" of the present age.  

There are different levels of religious superstition.  Some see the coming events as the "…end of the world".  Others see it as the days when the "saints" (those of their church), will be raptured away to heaven.  Others think America will be spared because "We are a Christian nation".   Others yet, believe the Jews will be spared the wrath to come as the Creator moves in to prevent the total destruct-ion of planet earth.  Each of these represent a level of deception as alluded to in Revelation 12:9.

The whole world is deceived and it would seem this is the way we prefer it.  "Don't make waves --- tell us smooth things."  This attitude has serious liabilities.  We can see this quite plainly in Thessalonians 2, beginning in verse 7.  Tyndales Living Bible, 7th edition.  "As for the work this man of rebellion (any clue who this could be?) will do when he comes, it is already going on, but he himself will not come until the one who is holding him back steps out of the way.

8  "Then this wicked one will appear, whom the Lord will burn up with the breath of His mouth and destroy by his presence when He comes. 

9  "This man of sin will come as Satan's tool, full of satanic power and will trick everyone with strange demonstrations and miracles. 

10  "He will completely fool those who are on their way to hell because they have said 'No' to the truth.  They have refused to believe it and love it … so God will allow them to believe lies."

To quote a famous Roman, "What is truth?"