'The Day of the Lord’s Wrath is Swiftly Approaching, & the Nations Are Being Turned Into Hell' - Who Are You Pointing To?

By Tim Cameron

 

“Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe” (Jude 1:3-5).

As I sit down to type this message, it seems the whole world is being given up to a reprobate mind. North Korea has garnered the world’s temporary attention as it is threatening a nuclear strike. Iran is rapidly approaching the famed “red line” in its pursuit of becoming “nuclear” so they can make “Israel no more.” Same sex marriage is gaining momentum and because of it, now pedophilia is trying to piggyback its way into the mainstream as a normal way of thought and lifestyle. Can you say “gross darkness?” All across the globe, culture is heading towards a time unless God shortens the days, no flesh would survive.

The day of the Lord’s wrath is swiftly approaching, and the nations are being turned into hell.

“When the wicked spring up like grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forever” (Psalm 92:7).

“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Psalm 9:17).

The time we have left on this fallen planet is ONLY for reaping those “ripe unto harvest,” the ones for whom Jesus prayed in John 17.9: “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.”

Author Paul Washer has said, “With one hand God is motioning man to come to Him. With the other hand He is holding back His wrath. Soon He is going to drop both hands.”

“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

Yet despite God’s goodness and His desire that none should perish, Jesus exhorted in Mathew 7.13:  “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.”

“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

 

With that being the case…

Why are we wasting our breath?

“Church,” is the golden calf of today.” Say it isn’t so! I’m becoming more and more convinced that one of the greatest deceptions of our time is “church.” Why would I say that? It is because of what I’ve witnessed on a very personal level over the years.

“And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching” (Hebrews 10:24).

It is because of our obedience to the Word of God and our love and devotion to Him that we should assemble together: In the Name of Jesus and not by any other name or person other than Jesus Christ!

“In My Name,” Jesus said! 

This generation has become a witness to the “mega church” epidemic and its incredible extravagance. A mass migration of: Both sheep and goats have been “flocking” toward this movement and it’s getting down right scary. In the early 80s there was a movie called “Body Snatchers” and I can’t help but think of that movie when I see what has been happening all across the nation in which I live.

Certain “churches” and ministries have “increased” in this “mega church” apostasy. All the while Jesus has “decreased.” How can this be so? Because we have thought it is a self-righteous act to “go to church” and that righteous act has been exalted in our minds as an act of tremendous sacrifice of our own will, which then validates SELF in the eyes of God?

The great tragedy of this mindset is how it has devalued the cross. The ONLY thing that removed my sins, or yours, the sins of the whole world was Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the cross. That ACT of divine will triumphed over my carnal will and redeemed a hopeless “chief of all sinners”(me) into a one on one (atonement) relationship with Almighty God. I am crucified in Christ and FORGIVEN. When we realize what the cross was all about how desperately exclusive that act was to our eternal existence…How can we NOT fall on our faces and esteem Christ and Him crucified as SUPREME?

It is NOT for going to “church” that Jesus died. It was to reconcile our lost and totally destitute lives back to Almighty God as “Abba Father.” THAT is what makes us the “church!” In order for church to decrease and Jesus to increase, we must repent and make like John the Baptist and point way more to Him and way less to us. We must yield from self-glorification and begin to LIFT HIM UP!

[Jesus said,] “If I be lifted up, I will draw all man unto Myself.”

We who have been forgiven much, should, with incredible love begin to use our voices and our energy to lift up the Name that is above every name 1,000,000,000 to 1 in whatever name that we trumpet. I know it grieves the One who sent to testify of Jesus tremendously that we tout our names or a churches name when the Bible has said the ONLY Name given us by where lost man can be saved is Jesus Christ!

And He does NOT need to be marketed. It is such a sad state of affairs in our time that we have been “sold” into thinking that selling Jesus is the call of a people who were lost and now found, who were blind and now see, who were dead but now live again. So many think we need to market Jesus in clever ways so if they like us and where we hang out, then they will listen to us talk about Jesus.

Talk about having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof! There are movements in this country that are “ELEVATING” (very much like a multi-level marketing scheme), and because it’s done in Jesus’ Name people are eating it up. They hook you with Bible verses taken out of context, selling you that you can have your “best blessed life now” and yet they are “fleecing” and making merchandise of the ones they are selling their watered down, cross-less gospel to. They offer-up strange fire, playing satanic secular music to attract the crowds and then have them: Repeat after me,” a prayer of tremendous self-deception and then pronounce it: “Christian.”

I feel led to take a stand here that will have about as much chance of success as say, a sling shot against a giant. But I’m going to sling this stone out there. One of the most misused words in the English language is the word “Christian.” I wish it would be scratched from MY vocabulary in describing anything to do with me.

SAY WHAT? I personally think to say, “I’m a Christian” is such a statement of absolute pride and absurdity.

“You did NOT just say that?”

“YES I DID, but hear me out.”

The word “Christian” means “Christ-like.” It was first used in the book of Acts: By the people of Antioch to describe the disciples who were preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified. But to say that of myself, no way! I promise you I absolutely love Jesus Christ and He is my Lord and Savior. Flesh and blood did not reveal that to me, but My Father in heaven. I follow Him in my daily walk and life but to pronounce myself “Christ-like” that would be so over-promising and under-delivering on steroids.

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