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America's unique government, American Constitution, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Great Tribulation, Jeremiah 20:9, Light and the Glory, Magna Carta, No king but King Jesus, Peter Marshall Jr., the King is coming
Even as Jesus fulfilled His promise to come as the Lamb the first time, He will soon fulfill His promise to come again. Behold He comes quickly! And He is returning for a Bride who is without spot and without wrinkle, who is prepared for Him to return.
We are on the precipice of the Great Tribulation. I call your attention to all of the signs that Jesus speaks of in Matthew 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13 along with 2 Timothy 3, 2 Peter 3, Acts 2, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-chapter 5 and so forth. His disciples had asked for a sign of His coming, and He gave them a multiplicity of signs. Plus, he rebuked that generation for knowing the signs of the weather but not knowing the signs of His appearing (Matthew 16:1-3). “The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
And when it comes to pestilence and storms, God is in the whirlwind (Job 28:1), and God said, “When I…send pestilence…” (2 Chronicles 7:13), God sent the plagues of Egypt (Exodus), He touches the earth and it melts (Amos 9), and God sent a plague to Israel and wiped out 70,000 men (2 Samuel 24), He is the Lord of the weather (Job 26, 36-38), and list goes on indefinitely. Is not Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever? (Hebrews 13). Behold He is God and changes not (Malachi 3:6). In Acts 2 Peter quotes God from Joel 2 who says, “In the last days…I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath…” We are in the last days, and have been since Peter. But we, unlike Peter, are seeing all the signs Jesus talked about in Matthew 24, and He said that when we see them all that He is at the door, and to lift up our eyes for our redemption is drawing near (Luke 21).
Regarding obedience of government, the Founders of this great nation were concerned about obeying their king, and searched the Bible for answers and prayed fervently concerning everything that was happening in the 1700s. It was then that they realized that the king had broken his own law, the Magna Carta, by not allowing them representation, and therefore, he had stepped over the line and become a tyrant. And thus, the war for Independence ensued, and God’s blessing rested on this nation as they founded it “under God” with a Bill of Rights and Constitution, composed of hired/elected leadership in order to keep this nation “of the people, by the people and for the people.” We are not under a king. We are unique. We have a Constitution and Bill of Rights that are never to be suspended, not for any reason at any time. The American pastors are not rebelling. Rather, our elected/hired government officials who are our employees are the ones who are rebelling. They are the ones trampling the law of this land by creating their own “executive orders” that completely disregard and defy the Constitution in the name of the common good. Remember that those who call out for “peace and safety” have sudden destruction come upon them (1 Thessalonians 5). (Source: Peter Marshall Jr. and David Manuel, “The Light and the Glory”).
I feel like Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life in the “run on the bank” scene where he says, “Can’t you understand what’s happening here?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPkJH6BT7dM Oh that the Church could see what’s happening here!
Yes, God is taking what Satan intends for evil and is turning it for good. The enemy is imploding this economy and the economies of other nations, ruining businesses, destroying our monetary system, and shutting down the church. And while everyone is panicking over the virus, the enemy is fast tracking the setup of his antichrist system, his one world order. But God in His incredible, infinite mercy has given us a 2 minute warning, for God is taking this virus thing and the people “sheltering in place” to get His Bride ready. It is His great mercy that has allowed for everything to come to a screeching halt. I pray it is not squandered. We don’t have the time!
Dear God! Do you think Israel ever believed the prophets of their day? Do you think that Israel—the people of God, called by His name—ever thought they would really be killed by plagues in the city, struck down by the sword, and taken into captivity? They thought they were safe and that things would go on as usual, that everything would return to normal.
God’s word has been like a fire in my bones (Jeremiah 20:9) and I’ve been weary of holding it in. So, there you have it!
Jesus is coming soon. The King is coming! Incredibly this youtube link to the song “the King is Coming” is unintentionally prophetic in the first verse. Take a listen… “work on earth has been suspended as the King comes through the gate.” And indeed, work on earth is suspended, and the King is coming.