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the bleeding cannot be stopped. People now sin openly
in the streets, no longer able to blush. Obsessed with
wealth, dollars, and delicacies. God says, "It is your
house now, and it's left to you desolate. Not mine any-
more" (Luke 13:35). Our sin is now malignant and
spreading.
Perhaps even yet they will turn from their evil
ways and ask the Lord to forgive them before it is
too late, even though these curses of God have
been pronounced upon them.
(Jeremiah 36:7,8 LB)
S. Cod's Bow
Judgment is God's bow. The arrows are His divine
instruments of wrath. And the only reason America has
not yet been severely stricken is that God is bending the
bow and pulling the string tighter. All the swifter and
more deadly will be our judgment.
He bends his bow against his people as though
he were an enemy. His strength is used against
them to kill their finest youth. His fury is poured
out like fire upon them.
(Lamentations 2:4 LB)
6. The False Boom
A wave of prosperity usually precedes great judg-
ments. This is God's way of making one last appeal,
through goodness rather than wrath. God pours on the
good, the prosperity, hoping it will lead man to repen-
tance.
Don't you realize how patient he is being with
you? Or don't you care? Can't you see that he has
been waiting all this time without punishing you, to
give you time to turn from your sin? His kindness
is meant to lead you to repentance.
(Romans 2:4 LB)
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in the streets, no longer able to blush. Obsessed with
wealth, dollars, and delicacies. God says, "It is your
house now, and it's left to you desolate. Not mine any-
more" (Luke 13:35). Our sin is now malignant and
spreading.
Perhaps even yet they will turn from their evil
ways and ask the Lord to forgive them before it is
too late, even though these curses of God have
been pronounced upon them.
(Jeremiah 36:7,8 LB)
S. Cod's Bow
Judgment is God's bow. The arrows are His divine
instruments of wrath. And the only reason America has
not yet been severely stricken is that God is bending the
bow and pulling the string tighter. All the swifter and
more deadly will be our judgment.
He bends his bow against his people as though
he were an enemy. His strength is used against
them to kill their finest youth. His fury is poured
out like fire upon them.
(Lamentations 2:4 LB)
6. The False Boom
A wave of prosperity usually precedes great judg-
ments. This is God's way of making one last appeal,
through goodness rather than wrath. God pours on the
good, the prosperity, hoping it will lead man to repen-
tance.
Don't you realize how patient he is being with
you? Or don't you care? Can't you see that he has
been waiting all this time without punishing you, to
give you time to turn from your sin? His kindness
is meant to lead you to repentance.
(Romans 2:4 LB)
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