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Ancient Israel's Fall and Mercy
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| What did you did you see something at that time? | |
| If we didn't listen to that, what would happen next? | |
| Yeah, well, we did exactly what ancient Israel did in its last days. | |
| Ancient Israel had seen this long decline from God, this long falling away. | |
| And then he, in his mercy, allows the hedge of protection to be lifted on the nation and he allows the strike to come to shake it up. | |
| And that people will come back to God. | |
| And again, you're right. | |
| In the first days after 9-11, everybody was flocking to churches, but without any repentance and without repentance, there is no revival. | |
| If you don't turn your course, so what happened is instead of getting better, coming back, America got worse. | |
| I mean, look at where it was then, 2001. | |
| Look at where we are now. | |
| Look at our culture. | |
| Look at all these things. | |
| You know, we are watching. | |
| The word harbinger means something that is yet to come. | |
| So what the harbinger is saying is that 9-11 and all that, that's a harbinger, not just signs, but harbingers of more of what is yet to come. | |
| There's a biblical template. | |
| And the point is, there's a mercy in it as well. | |
| I was on a television program and people are praying for the virus, the plague, and it's right. | |
| We need to pray for that. | |
| But the idea is not to pray so that things could just have prosperity again. | |
| The point is to pray that God's will will be done through all these things. | |
| And that is, it is in his mercy. | |
| C.S. Lewis spoke about the severe mercy of God. | |
| It's his mercy that is for this, because when we were the way America was before this calamity was not good. | |
| We were racing away from God. | |
| The culture was racing. | |
| We're doing what ancient Israel did. | |
| So the Harbingers were saying that everything that Israel did, the signs that appeared then, have now appeared. | |
| And the signs were a nation rising up, not in repentance, but in defiance. | |
| And so we've done all those things and all those things were manifested, defiance, defiance. | |
| Well, where does that lead? | |
| Well, it's right there in the Harbinger. | |
| Jim Laurie, there's a chapter in the Harbinger called Things to Come. | |
| And when I looked at that, again, things to come, let me just give you a little bit from it. | |
| And then we can go into it. | |
| It said at one point, Nouriel asked the prophet, what happens next? | |
| If the first stages of the pattern has come true so precisely, what happens after that? | |
| And the prophet answers, as long as Israel continued its descent, the judgment continue or the shakings and the warnings continue. | |
| And so in the years after 9-11, you have this period where you have this. | |
| There's actually, let me read to you words of a commentary on ancient Israel, Isaiah 9-10, about that whole thing. | |
| And look what it says. | |
| Listen to what it says. | |
| And it's in the Harbinger. | |
| It says, as the first stage of judgments, this is from a commentary on ancient Israel from Harbinger, has been followed by no true conversion to Jehovah, the Almighty Judge, there comes a second. | |
| So if the first stage doesn't lead to repentance, there will come a second judgment. | |
| Now, listen to the second shaking. | |
| Listen to the, here's another commentary on Isaiah 9, 10, the Harbinger scripture on ancient Israel, but look at how it applies to America. | |
| Listen, it says this, that which God designs in striking us to turn us to himself and to cause us to seek him. | |
| If this does not happen by lesser judgments, greater judgments may be expected. | |
| Now, that is in the chapter on things to come. | |
| And then the man Nouriel asks, are you talking about more calamities? | |
| And says, yes, how will it come? | |
| The prophet says in the harbinger, they will take they may take the form of economic disintegration or defeat, disorder, division, the collapse of infrastructure, man-made calamities, calamities of nature, decline, and fall. | |
| And in the case of a nation that's been so greatly blessed by God's favor, like America, it means the withdrawal of those blessings. | |
| The withdrawal, it says the withdrawal of prosperity, protection, and peace. | |
| Now, listen to one more thing here. | |
| There's far more to say, but one thing about this: it says, in the case of a nation like America, that has been preeminent among all the nations, it means the collapse, a collapse, but it means the removing of the crown. | |
| So the prophet speaks of shaking and the crown. | |
| Well, in Latin, the word for crown is corona. | |
| That's true. | |
| I do know that. | |
| That's shocking. | |
| I was just following along with you in my in the harbinger. | |
| Actually, this believe it or not, this is amazing. | |
| I have had it. | |
| I already had it marked. | |
| Thanks to Kai. | |
| Yeah, thank you. | |
| Go on. | |
| Don't this is great. | |
| This is great. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The um, so it goes on. | |
| And we don't mind dogs barking because this you're at your house. | |
| That's we have them to it's a sound of alarm. | |
| Okay. | |
| It's it goes up and it goes on. | |
| You know, if you read Isaiah, you know, the harbinger scripture is Isaiah 9:10. | |
| But Isaiah 9:11 goes further. | |
| The next verse, 9:11, says, Therefore, the Lord shall set up the adversaries against him. | |
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Land Continues to Shake
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| They shall devour Israel with an open mouth. | |
| For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out. | |
| So, in other words, because they didn't come back, it says that it's going to continue shaking the land. | |
| And then it goes, The land is burned up. | |
| What will you do in the day of punishment? | |
| And then, this is all from this Isaiah, and this is the Harbinger in the desolation which is going to come. | |
| So, in the Harbinger, the man asks the prophet, is it a prophecy of national destruction? | |