Distinguished From the World...

Lately, the seemingly dire news of impending calamity - storms driven by the hand of God - have been voiced with great emphasis in the last week. I started posting last week what God began dealing with me about two years ago, then two days after my first post David Wilkerson felt compelled to send out an urgent message of coming calamity - something he has been voicing for decades now.

Our church has resigned to prayer every Sunday evening with surprisingly large numbers in attendance for our Sunday evening - now prayer - services. This says that people are heeding the warnings given by God's Spirit. Our pastor has been speaking at length on the warnings that have been received by him from the Spirit as well and encouraging the congregation to repent, turn to God and pray. This is the spiritual preparation that must be made now.

Last night in my reading a verse of scripture leaped out at me having the signature of the Spirit on them:

Exodus 11: 6-7
6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been, nor shall be any more. 7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that Jehovah doth make a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

Two things I noticed in the text immediately:

1. "A great cry... " (bolded above) such as there hasn't been in Egypt ever before.
2. Jehovah makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
   

This seemed to parallel what is about to take place in America in the very near future. When God pours out His wrath on our nation a cry is going to go up throughout all of America. It's going to be as such as has never before been felt in any American catastrophe. The Great Depression won't match it, Pearl Harbor won't match it and September 11th won't match it. What I've received from the Spirit is that this will be a permanent crippling of America; to state it more accurately, a complete collapse is coming. Unthinkable, right?

How can this great country ever not exist in the capacity it has always existed?

It will cease to exist because it has ceased to call on God for it's guidance and salvation. This country has resigned itself to the murder of millions of pre-born babies a year. This country has resigned itself to the "struggle" for gay rights and the redefining of God's most basic and original institutions - marriage. The rich profit from the poor. The church does the same. As the church goes, so goes the country. And, we would all - maybe all - agree that the church has, well, gone... .

But, the second thing that seemed to leap out at me was the statement, "Jehovah doth make a distinction between Egypt and Israel." In the text, God was raining judgment down upon Egypt. And, just before the tenth plague where the first born would be killed, God makes this statement to Moses. He was going to show open distinction between His people and the people of Egypt. God is going to make this distinction as well in the coming calamity.

While America is being judged, God is going to miraculously distinguish His people from the people of America being judged. What a statement of His Kingdom! What a hopeful statement for those of us who are called by His Name and have not ceased to walk in His ways. It will be those who have not bowed to worship the gods of America - namely Mammon - but who have been faithful to our Lord that He will preserve. This should send shock waves, however, through the church. The church that has made Christ the sideshow and Mammon the headlining act! God has instructed us to not tear up the tares for the wheat might be pulled up as well. He said in essence "leave the sifting to Me".

This sifting is beginning. The church must make sure individually that they know in whom they have believe and are persuaded that He is able to keep that which has been committed to Him against the day of judgment. If we truly follow Christ, then protection from the calamity is ours. God's hand of provision will be upon us. This doesn't mean we won't suffer any loss of stuff, but it does mean that the thing most valuable, given to Him, are never in danger at all. He will preserve us to be a peaceful beacon in the time of chaos and calamity. People will want to know how we are getting along when their world has fallen apart. God will save the small group of people who haven't bowed and succumbed to this society to be the pointing compass to Christ. Though calamity is on the horizon, so is revival. As Wilkerson has stated a song is going to rise out of this. A song to God most High will rise from the ashes!

Search your heart, repent and begin to pray that God tempers wrath with mercy. To God be all glory. Our hope is in Him alone.