Prophecy to the People Part 2
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Sworn to Our Fathers
Sworn to Our Fathers
At this point in time you may be asking, “Pastor, is all gloom and doom? Is there any hope for us as a people or a nation?” First, I will let the Word’s of God give you an initial answer.
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Through the Prophet Micah we see where the same feelings of despair and hopelessness existed in his day.
The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.
for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
We are indeed living in times when it seems that even those who profess to know God obviously do not. When so many people use profanity to exclaim that as a Christian they can with pure conscience support that which God has called wickedness, it is easy to feel like you are an island if you stand for that which is righteous in the eyes of God. We see a continual breakdown of family and the church.
But God is clear and adamant that the wages of sin is death.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
These same people will argue that they disagree and what they believe is acceptable. They know it is because they have a Bible App.
So, what are we as believers and followers of Christ to do? Well, the prophet instructs us:
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
The phrase “I will look to the Lord” is the Hebrew word atzapah bah-Adonai אֲצַפֶּה בַּיהוָה meaning to watch for Him expectantly. And as we expectantly watch for the coming of our Lord, we wait for Him in His salvation. The word for “wait” used here is yachal יָחַל meaning to trust and place all of your hope.
This is another, “As for me and my house we will serve the Lord”! This is a resolve to hold firm to the precepts and principles of God even in the face of darkness and cultural compromise. It is to stand firm and never give up.
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
And know that the world will try to discredit, devour, discourage, distract, dilute and delete you and your God. But your God has the final word.
Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
Indeed we are living in Biblical times and the days of now are fast becoming the days of old. As did the nations throughout Scripture, so go the nations of our day. As Israel went time and time again to idolatry and cultural captivity, so goes our nation and much of what we call the church. But you must not waiver. We might be living in biblical days but we also serve the same God of that Bible.
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
There is none like our God. He is faithful and good. He is holy and just. He is merciful and righteous. He is our redeemer and deliverer. He is our strength and our shield. He is the God who keeps His covenant with those who are His.
Never forget that we have this eternal hope as He swore to our fathers Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David and many others:
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
If that is not enough, hear the words of the Apostle Paul to the Early Church during dark and terrible days. Many take these words out of context and apply them to their doctrinal heresies of moral compromise. But put these words in the right context as with the words through the Prophet Micah.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This covenant lovingkindness that He swore to the Fathers of our Faith remains eternal even in the darkest of days. His steadfast love endures forever!
