FOUNDATION

FOUNDATIONS

                Yesterday (Sunday) Bonnie and I went to the coast, taking more food to Bonnie’s sister Alilia. We spent about a half hour on the beach with the dogs and then went over to seaside to meet Bonnie’s other sister Suzanne and her daughter Judy and granddaughter Izzy. We had a nice visit at a restaurant called “The Big Foot” where we ate log cabin style, surrounded with carvings of Sasquatch. They served up the best Cod Fish and Chips I have ever tasted.

                Long beach Washington is a very unique place. We get there by following the Columbia River west on the Oregon side to Astoria, where we cross the river near its mouth and head about 20 miles north to the little town of Long Beach that sits alongside the longest beach in the world.

                Long beach is a 25 mile long peninsula that runs north from the mouth of the Columbia and in fact the Peninsula was  built by the flow of silt and sand carried by the waters of the river and driven north by the tides to settle on the shore. When this part of the country was still a wilderness territory Louis and Clarke travelled to the coast, landing on this spot. They gave a description of the beach which they say at that time was about 5000 feet long. Now it is over 100,000 feet long.

                Alilia tells us that if you live here on the coast for a period of time you become aware of changes in the beach, in the tides and in the sandy ground upon which the town sits. There are whisperings among the locals about flowing magma eating up the foundations deep underground and volcanic eruptions in the deep off the coast that provide chilling harbingers of horrors to come.

                Many home foundations are cracking as the sand shifts and people know that something isn’t quite right. There are hushed conspiratorial mumblings that government officials know what is coming, but withhold such information from the public so as not to cause panic. (In layman’s terms, to stop the flow of revenues.) (Think Jaws.)

                Well, we all know Jesus’ proverb about building your house upon the sand and of course the problems at Long Beach simply provide a new proverb concerning the foundations of our nation and even the church. Like a day at the beach, everything looks fine. Dazzling sunshine and the endless crashing of windblown breakers speaks of constancy. Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, year after year and century after century the oceans generally obey the limits that God has placed upon them.

                But just like people, oceans sometimes break out of their assigned places and wreak havoc upon those who are drawn by their beauty. And when you have been around long enough, you can also see the subtle changes, the eroding of the foundations of society, the pending disasters that silently await our final sin.

                God weighs the nations in His hand. He gives them time to seek Him, to repent, to choose righteousness and justice, but when their cup of iniquity is full, then judgment comes. Exodus 6:8 says:

                And I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the Lord.”

                But in spite of this promise, God waited until the cup of iniquity had been filled in Canaan before He drove them out. Likewise in Babylon during the captivity of Daniel, a hand wrote on the wall. “Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting.” In other words Persia did not overcome Babylon until her cup of iniquity had been filled. And when King Belshazzar drank wine from God’s holy vessels, ignoring everything his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar had learned; judgment came in one night.

                Again in our time God speaks of Babylon the Great (perhaps referring to the coming global kingdom of the antichrist) in terms of its sins saying: “And he cried out with a mighty voice saying Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! And she has become the dwelling place of demons and the prison of every unclean spirit and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. For the nations (notice here if you will that Babylon the Great is made up of nations) have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her My people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues…”

                On a side note here, some people think that Babylon the Great is the USA, while others think it is Papal Rome. And while it is made up of both of those things, it is described as a composite beast unprecedented in scope that is a combination of all the pagan and false Christian nations of the world. I believe it to be the coming New world Order.

                We know that the elites of the New World Order want to break America and to remove her sovereignty as well as to remove her national identity so that they can meld her into their global kingdom. America, however, has been a hard nut to crack because until recent decades she has had a very strong moral and spiritual foundation. We, the silent majority, rose up and voted Trump into office against all odds just to stem the tide of America’s destruction. God overruled globalist plans for a short space of time to give his people time to repent and to turn back to Him with their whole hearts. Will we benefit from this brief moment in time?

                There has been a great deal of erosion taking place in the church as well as in the community and in spite of the fact that God has given us this short reprieve, there is an ominous sense of  impending doom. Much of the church has not repented of its waywardness, but is instead using this reprieve as license to continue on in their corrosive and compromising ways. We are compromising with the world and embracing her sins. Many are now basing their doctrine upon the opinions of men rather than on the Word of God. Our foundations are being eaten out from under us and deep volcanic eruptions are sure to follow.

                Anyone that has studied the sins of Nimrod, of Babylon, of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Egypt, of Israel, of Canaan and of Rome can gain a pretty clear composite of the sins that fill up the cup of a nation and make her ripe for judgment. And it doesn’t matter how great people think America is doing, or even how Trump gave us a reprieve (as if politics can accomplish anything without God’s help); America is on the verge of collapse financially, spiritually, politically and morally.

                Even in the violent tantrums of nature worldwide we can see that this is not life as we have known it in the past. Like a writhing maniac in a straightjacket, nature is breaking every wall, every boundary, every record and we are seeing cosmic signs in the sun, moon and stars as well. In short it is starting to look a lot like Luke 21:24-27:

                “And they (the Jews) will fall by the hedge of the sword and will be led captive into all nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” Luke 21:24. Well, this prophecy was initially fulfilled in AD 70 at the destruction of Jerusalem, but it has a second application in the end of time, because the” times of the gentiles” has not yet been fulfilled. I believe it will end with the beginning of the time of Jacob’s Trouble. But the fact that Israel has come back into their own land after so many years, is an indication that the Time of Jacob’s Trouble is rushing in our direction, for Jesus said that this generation (The generation that saw Israel come back into their land) would not pass until all of these things would be fulfilled and that is perhaps why it is so significant that Israel becomes 70 years old this year on May 14.

                Could it be that the blood moons and eclipses all falling on God’s appointed times are telling us that we have entered that time? Are we watching, praying and listening? We think that America is doing okay, but magma underground has been eating away at our foundations for a long time. And to show us what is happening spiritually, we are seeing earthquakes in diverse places and there are more active volcanoes than at any other time in history. The nations are in an uproar and we are always minutes away from total chaos.

                Now on with our text in Luke 21: “And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars and upon the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then will they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Luke 21:25-27

                Can there be any doubt that this is talking about the last days… about our time? And if we combine this with Joel’s prophecy of end times he says that there will be wonders in the sky and on earth, “Blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood BEFORE the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.” Joel 2:30, 31.

                I don’t think we have seen it all yet. Even on the last of January we are going to see a moon that hasn’t been seed for over 150 years. It is a Super, Blue, Blood moon. This is exceedingly rare; maybe even one of a kind. A Super moon is when a full moon occurs at perigee (or its closest distance to the earth, while apogee is when the moon is at its most distant.) So a super moon is when a full moon occurs at perigee and looks about 14% bigger than normal.

                Now, a “Blue Moon” happens when there are two full moons in one month. This is also fairly rare and that’s where the saying comes from, “Once in a blue moon.”

                Thirdly, a blood moon is when the full moon goes completely within the shadow of the earth so that it appears to be red rather than white… not rare in and of itself, but when it happens on one of God’s appointed times or when added to the other things listed you get a Super, Blue, Blood Moon and that is indeed very rare.

                There are literally thousands of natural, military, political, religious, financial and cosmic events big and small that are taking place every day. If you are not tracking these things… if you just watch the daily news on Fox or CNN, you will feel like life is going on as normal. In truth they are not reporting most of these events simply because they look way too much like bible prophecy and they don’t want people to wake up and call upon the name of the Lord.

                I tend to believe that we are going to see events take place in 2018 that will wake up a whole lot of people. I believe there is going to be an uptick in natural disasters. I believe there is going to be an uptick in war. I believe we are going to see signs in the heavens that will cause men’s hearts to fail from fear. We will see the beginning of a great shaking that will keep increasing from here on out until everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that what remains will be God’s Remnant people. Many will come to the Lord during this time, but many will fall away as well.

                I believe that we are entering into Revelation chapter 12 just as the sign in the stars told us in September of 2017. What more could God do to warn His people than with the signs in the sun, moon and stars that God has given us over the past 4 years, landing as they have on His appointed times? If that doesn’t get our attention, what will? Signs in the heavens cannot be manipulated by men. they happen on God’s watch and by His appointments.

                How many people knew when Jesus was born at His first coming? Was it not a handful of shepherds and a few wise men, astrologers no less? The leaders didn’t know. “He came to His own and His own received Him not.” Do you really want to be among that crowd? Not me!

                I want to be among the crowd in Revelation 12:17 where it says: “And the dragon was enraged with the woman and went off to make war with the remnant of her offspring who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.”  

                Verse 6 says that the woman fled where she had a place prepared by God so that there she might be nourished for 1260 days. (42 months, or 3 ½ years) I believe that the woman refers to Israel when they are warned to flee from Judea and Samaria around the time of the abomination of desolation.

                But the Remnant of her seed who keep the commandments and have the testimony of Jesus, well, they have to be obedient Christians, or at the very least, Messianic Jews that have received their Messiah.

                We can’t nail down these things precisely, but we can know enough to know that we are very near the end and that, no matter when Jesus takes us; we want to be found obedient and faithful, with the testimony of Jesus on our lips. We want to be dressed in the full armor of God and dwelling in the secret place of the Most High. That much everyone can know and everyone can pursue with their whole hearts.

                We just need to make sure that our own foundation is built upon the Rock and not upon the ever changing sand.