Please Wake-Up, Please

By Tim Cameron

 

You know some people can sleep through anything, even sirens and storm warnings, but with the storm that is approaching you can’t afford stay asleep!

“Look! The Lord’s anger bursts out like a storm, a whirlwind that swirls down on the heads of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not diminish until it has finished all he has planned. In the days to come you will understand all this very clearly” (Jeremiah 23:19-20).

“And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” (Revelation 6:15-17)

The radar for planet Earth is growing ominously dark and it’s my prayer that you are awake and paying attention. It’s the goodness of God that leads us to, “stop and think” and that is exactly what God is doing right, He’s being good!  And Jesus is asking us this question:

“Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming;’ and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, ‘There will be hot weather;’ and there is. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?’” (Luke 12:54-56) 

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” (2 Timothy 3:1)

“Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them” (Colossians 3:6-7).

 “When you see the wicked spring up like grass, it is that they may be destroyed forever. (Psalm 92:7). 

Romans 1.18-32:

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.”

“Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord is coming,
for it is at hand” (Joel 2:1).

Can you hear the trumpet? Do you who have ears to hear? Are you hearing? What is the trumpet saying that is sounding right now? It’s the call to: “WAKE-UP.”

Are you awake?

President Obama is going to Israel to try and broker a peace between Israel and its hate filled neighbors by asking Israel to give up land for peace. On May 19th, 2011, three days before one of the deadliest tornado’s in American history, US President Obama announced his desire to see Israel retreat back to “1967 borders.” If you read Joel 3, you will read that the plan of any nations to “divide Israel” is a provocation of apocalyptic implications. This stage is being set even now.

At the same time, debt is being used as a WMD against national sovereignties and most specifically the dollar. The Bible has warned all who would listen, “The debtor is enslaved to the lender.” In case you aren’t aware, you are being sold into slavery. Have you seen the “debt clock?” Over 16.5 trillion dollars and counting and yet even the mere mention of stopping spending invokes “hate speech” outcries by those who lust for more spending.

Today thousands of babies are going to die, babies late in their term. Seven, eight and even nine-month old babies in the womb will be murdered and we have leaders who have said that if those babies survive the abortion, since the intent was for them to die, then it should be okay for the baby to die outside the womb. “THOU SHALL NOT KILL.”

Right in my home town, in the “Bible belt” Our local schools have received two recent violent threats that have resulted in every parent getting a phone notification that we are going to be sending our kids to buildings that are under surveillance for possible mass violence. But you know what? There has been no call to prayer, no area wide prayer vigils, no great awakening to the times at hand. Why?

 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;  and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables” (2 Timothy 4:3).

Apostasy has filled the churches and the mega ministries are instructing their followers to live for your, “best life now.” Big names with big followings are telling everyone they are “okay” when they are “not okay.”

Jeremiah 23.16-22:

“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says to his people: “Do not listen to these prophets when they prophesy to you, filling you with futile hopes. They are making up everything they say. They do not speak for the Lord! They keep saying to those who despise my word, ‘Don’t worry! The Lord says you will have peace!’

And to those who stubbornly follow their own desires, they say, ‘No harm will come your way!’ “Have any of these prophets been in the Lord’s presence to hear what he is really saying? Has even one of them cared enough to listen?Look! The Lord’s anger bursts out like a storm, a whirlwind that swirls down on the heads of the wicked.

The anger of the Lord will not diminish until it has finished all he has planned. In the days to come you will understand all this very clearly. “I have not sent these prophets, yet they run around claiming to speak for me. I have given them no message, yet they go on prophesying. If they had stood before me and listened to me, they would have spoken my words, and they would have turned my people from their evil ways and deeds.”

UNBELIEVING BELIEVERS

I have found it to be true that “as it was in the days of Noah” so shall it be. Noah being divinely warned prepared an ark for the saving of his house hold and yet Noah was a preacher of righteousness warning everyone to listen, but after 100 years of warning, Noah surely had to feel like the biggest failure when only seven people heeded the warnings and got on the ark.

Are we being like Noah and preparing for what’s coming? Are we sincerely “watching and praying” or by our distracted living, are we scoffing? What is our heart crying for?

In Revelation 22 we read that the Spirit and the Bride cry, “Come quickly Jesus.”

If that isn’t your heart’s cry in this hour, then don’t you have to ask why?

Is your heart scoffing? Is it like the heart of the evil servant in Luke 12 saying, “My Master is delaying His Coming?” Or is it stoked with a passion to be where Jesus is? Jesus is coming for a Bride passionate for the Bridegroom!

Be honest with yourself right now. Is your heart passionately watching for Jesus? I mean are you consumed with “this life” and more concerned with the trends of Hollywood glitz and glamour or with what’s trending at Lowe’s and on Wall Street? Or are you longing for the fulfillment of the promise, “I will come again and receive you unto myself?” Are you looking for a city who’s Builder and Maker is the Lord?”

As time draws short and it is drawing short, we need to stop everything we are doing and get our priorities in order.

I find it ironic that two times in Scripture we read of God getting ready to pour out wrath on sinful man and in both instances, “as it was in the days of Noah” and “as it was in the days of Lot” God saved singular families. That highlights our most urgent mission, right in our own homes.

It so very much a time now to “make ready.”

“But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers” (1 Peter 4:7).

PLEASE TAKE SHELTER

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