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“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will enter into judgement with them there … they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

“And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.”

Joel 3:1-3

No-one will escape the final judgement of our Lord. At the name of Jesus every knee will bow. Nietzsche said “God is dead”, but on that day he will say “Jesus Christ is Lord”. Stalin will stand before his maker and weep. Hume will bow before the LORD of all. Cupit will at last see the hypocrisy of his atheistic “Christianity” as he at once becomes a theist in a very real sense.

These are just some of the multitude of men who have attacked the church of the living God over the years. These are men who have laughed in the face of God and sought to glorify only self. They have looked to self interest and self agrendisement. Some, like Cupit, are found even within the church itself, and they above all will be found guilty of their blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Look at the evil that had befallen Judah: Children sold into slavery and prostitution that people may get drunk on wine. The nation was scattered and the land divided. It is hard to imagine such an appalling scene, and yet this is the very scene we see within our own churches.

The church is ravaged by the world which bites and tears at the edges, or else invades the church and deals out wholesale slaughter on biblical Christianity. This is nothing new, it has been going on since New Testament times, when the gnostics invaded the churches as a platform for their peculiar anti-Christian philosophies. Now the gnostics have all but gone, and yet there is a new “gnosis”, a new “sophia” which invades the church. Liberalism is rampant. The New Age infiltrates our structures and apostasy and apathy are our hallmarks in response.

The world is dividing up our churches whilst the Christians prefer their wine supported stupor.

Will the Lord tarry much longer in judgement? Do we dare pray for justice when we too will be judged as harshly as those of whom we decry?

Let us put our house in order first, and then let us seek the God of Justice. Remember the lesson of Saul - “To obey is better then sacrifice”. Let us be obedient, loyal and diligent servants of our LORD, the Living God.

“Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: