Flee the Wrath

There is a drug that our western culture is distributing and using today which I believe to be very dangerous. It is pushed by the media, politicians and sadly, part of the church.   In the video below, Gerald Celente calls it “Optimism Opium”. I’m not sure what I would call it, but it evokes a response in the user which manifests as DENIAL.

In keeping with the nature of other opiates it is designed with a specific purpose, to reduce the pain, to have a sedative effect, even putting the user to sleep. This use of this drug and the accompanying manifestation of DENIAL, is to be found in the the occupants of Western Christendom and pertains to the present economic circumstances that she faces, but can also be found amongst the Lukewarm church, who presumes that she is rich, clothed in righteousness and discerning. The very things Christ told her that she is not.

Clearly, clearly we are at the precipice of something BIG in Christendom, the West. But we the church, for what reason I do not know, except perhaps for our drug addiction, are so often of the opinion that everything is just rosy. We seem to have partaken of this optimism opium, fallen asleep, are untroubled, at peace, even supposing peace and safety, that God will just rapture us out of here any day now. Troubling days,  for when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes …and they shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Perhaps a good biblical example of the manifestation of using optimism opium is seen in the example of the Kingdom of the Harlot, Babylon the Great,  who indulges on the opiate of the masses and declares ” I sit as a queen, am no widow and will not see sorrow ” Rev 18:7.  Clearly the harlot had a big habit, for her DENIAL as to reality is quite profound. For the word says, in one hour her judgment came, in one hour the supposedly impenetrable kingdom will be brought to it’s knees. For in one hour she is made desolate Rev 18:19.

The word of God tells us that the occupants of this Harlot kingdom are in DENIAL. They are delusional, having partaken of the drug induced comatose opiate that is being fed to the masses by the media and it’s deluded politicians. And now they suppose themselves to be something they are not, secure, strong, untroubled, safe, protected, invulnerable, impregnable, they are altogether in DENIAL, BIG time.

When I started writing this post I just wanted to make a simple point, one which is made on the video below. Don’t be fooled Christian by the messages that are coming from our media and politicians. All is not as it seems, and though they would like you to see through their eyes of optimism, it is a foolish notion, based on failed reason and a lack of any Godly wisdom. Their optimistic words are designed to create a false sense of reality, of comfort, a stupor, even blindness to the truth of these most perilous days.

Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy [fn] to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Gerald Celente is not a Christian prophet, but a trend forecaster who uses current events to predict future trends. I find much of what he says to be at odds with what your politicians would prefer to tell you.

The following list of 20 attributes pertaining to the Kingdom of Babylon the great, mother of harlots, was taken from the website America, the Babylon.

The list is drawn from old and new testament scripture specifically relating to the End-Time Babylonian Kingdom that is destroyed at the commencement of the “Day of the Lord”.  It pretty much lays to rest those out dated and bizarre teachings that she is the catholic church or Israel or the re-emergence of a Middle East Nation.

1. It is the KEY Commercial Nation and Engine of Wealth for the World’s Economy.
2. The chief city of Mystery Babylon is a “DEEP WATER PORT CITY”!!!
3. Leading center of imports and consumption.
4. She is also a manufacturing nation
5. Center for Merchandising and Marketing
6. Known as the World’s “policeman”
7. Known for “showing the flag” or “gunboat diplomacy”
8. Sensual, Materialistic lifestyle
9. Intoxicating high-society lifestyle as a world example to emulate
10. Elegant, Sumptuous lifestyle
11. Noted for its bright gaudy-colored lights and nightlife with round the-clock partying.
12. Noted for its Drugs and Drug use
13. A land of immigrants
14. Land of Rebels in its birth
15. Land of Agriculture (when was the last time you saw wheat combines and corn-pickers harvesting crops in Vatican City? How about Hog farming? A cattle ranch?
16. Described as a “Land” of many waters. “Land” is a term designating a nation not a city and not an organization or church.
17. Where the world’s leaders “stream” to meet (Jer 51:44 — where they all come at once to get together on a regular basis… also Rev. 17:18)
18. Last of the Super powers
19. Defenses reach up to Outer Space
20. AND LAST BUT BY NO MEANS THE LEAST… THE MOST LITERAL OF ALL: –A populated city named Babylon with deepwater port facilities and the city is considered the “chief city” or most important city of the nation. This is how people of the first century AD referred to a nation, by its chief city.

In such a very short a time there has been a significant change in one particular area of our western culture, family values and relationships.

I’m not talking about the decline of the traditional marriage, or the increase in family breakdown, but rather the introduction of same sex relationships by the media, into our culture,  particularly through television programming.  In what seems to be a few short months, not years or decades, but in a very short period of time many family orientated shows in Australia have introduced same sex couples into their storylines.

I know that our culture has been pushing these boundaries for years, but the change to traditional TV viewing  has been rapid, to say the least. We have stepped into new territory this past year with many producers pushing this value system into the lives of our families and children.

There is one positive aspect to this, well in my household anyway. The TV is getting less and less airtime. The idiot box which speaks an image of the world into the lives of my family may be coming to an end quicker than I had hoped.  Idiot box! That’s what my mum used to call  it 40 years ago. Maybe mum did have a prophetic gift after all!

Anyway the problem with all of this same sex relationship value system being imparted to our lives at warp speed is that it speaks of God’s judgement on this generation. Anyone who understands the scripture in Romans chapter 1, pertaining to the wrath of God, will know that God’s judgment on an unrighteous generation is to “hand us over”.

Rom 1:26   For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

The rampant increase in sexual immorality in this day is a clear sign that He, God, refuses to strive with men any longer, and the result of His wrath is to “hand us over”, or as the scripture above declares “God gave them up”. Then at the appointed time, when  iniquity has reached it’s fullness, shall come the straw which breaks the camels back. Though sadly, it may well be a rather pointed straw containing nuclear warheads. Rev 17:16

Now you and I Christian need to be quite clear, that God is in our day, allowing men in our culture to “go after strange flesh”. Pastors, leaders, men in the church ought not be ignorant  to this. Sexual immorality, lust of the flesh is like the prevailing spirit over much of our nation at this time. I’d liken it to spiritual swine flu, take precautions, or you might catch it.

But sadly it is I would say, a rather sobering sign as to where we are in the overall time span of God’s judgement on a kingdom. The western gentile nations are all in a similar position, all advancing the kingdom of unrighteousness with the same zeal. What we will shortly end up with is a kingdom that looks just like Sodom.

Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonians’ pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. Isaiah 13:19

Yes, Babylon will be overthrown like Sodom. According to the highly regarded Scofield bible commentary, (read notes) the scripture above speaks of both Babylon of old, and prophetically of the future Babylon, Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17. Yes the very same Mystery Babylon of the Western gentile nations comprising apostate Christendom of our day.

No prizes for guessing why Isaiah likens it to the destruction of Sodom, for it will be a literal Sodom, in that day. Or should I say, in this day.

Even though with one hand God is allowing judgement to begin, at the very same time, with great mercy and long suffering He continues to reach out to an unrighteous generation, calling men out before the appointed day.

Come out of her My people?