A Warning For Our Day!

 

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Sunday is my day to go through the nearly 12oo blogs Gramps wrote over 11 Years of this calling by the Lord.  There is some method to my madness, I try to at least pick one from the month we are in. This blog was written nearly 10 years ago. Know as Christ-followers God IS our Father, Living God, provider, protector, strength, fortress, ……..Gma

GENESIS 47:13-27  (Read carefully before proceeding)
          
Hey Gang:  The following message came across my computer from a friend. I confess when I read it, I sat up and took heed of the wisdom of the Virginia Pastor’s words.  I have not taken the liberty of trying to interpret what he is saying but have given it to you as I received it.

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 “So, we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them.  And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. The people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.

So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But the famine wasn't over, was it?  So, the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.  “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land?  Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.

What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters?

That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes... That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?

Yes. After Jacob and Joseph passed on, and the Jews began to drift away from their GOD, even they too became slaves in the land of Egypt.  .

I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one:

We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to "share the wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us.

Government wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind.!

And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people in Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to their leaders.

What Mr. Obama's government (and today’s as well) is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of people like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they?

Is he a Messiah? A savior?

Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"?”  Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH!

No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh. Bow with me in prayer, if you will...

Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day..."

Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, (Thank you Lord we see Revival  happening and pray fires of Holy Spirit will spread). We pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of a new Pharaoh's government. In God We Trust...

And all of Gods people said amen!
  

Soooo, my young friends, what say ye?  We know the rest of the story.  God reached down to a shepherd through a burning bush and called him (Moses) to go and declare to Pharaoh, it is time to “Let my people go”. Have you prayed 2 Chronicles 7:14 lately?  Have you humbled yourself before the Lord and prayed from the depths of your heart that He would heal our land?  And notice who is to pray this prayer, “My people”.

Blessings,

Gramps