A Clarion Call – Part 4
In the last days…men will be lovers of self, lovers of money…disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy…without self-control…haters of good, treacherous…lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. Avoid such men as these…who…captivate weak women weighed down with sins…always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth [2 Timothy 3:1-7].
Snowballs plummeting down a mountain slope? You are wondering what all this has to do with 2 Timothy 3, aren’t you? Well, my daily living brings me into contact with a world full of folks who are living according to the patterns and behaviors expressed in the first seven verses of 2 Timothy 3. We are indeed in the last days, and the reality smacks me in the face daily.
Alas, but the folks who display this to me—and I don’t mean the non-Christians because they are expected to act this way—but the Christians who display the behaviors and attitudes enumerated by Paul, they haven’t a clue that they are replicas of the devil’s kids, and often down to the most minute detail! They might had a born again experience several decades ago, but they still live in a spiritual nursery, lying in a spiritual crib, and crying to be fed and have their diapers changed.
Babies in the crib, you realize, don’t know they are babies in a crib. They don’t know the difference. They are only behaving naturally. In rebirth we become newborns in a crib. We need spiritually mature mom’s and dad’s to rear us to spiritual adulthood, else we remain spiritual babes in a crib for decades until the Lord brings us home. And what a wasted life that is!
Here’s the problem we face today—and let me be quite frank about this, as a prophet speaking the truth in love. What happens when the Christian community is parented by babies in a crib? What happens when “capricious children will rule over them” (Isaiah 3:4) and “women rule over them” (Isaiah 3:12)?
Isaiah’s words pronounced God’s judgment on a sinning nation. Israel’s sin was that she deserted the Lord her God by ignoring His Word and doing what seemed right in her own eyes. So the Lord left her to her own devices. Since the Lord established male leadership, the first thing to transpire when God’s Word is rejected is for women and children to be the rulers.
Voilà! the good ol’ USA of today! And the behaviors and attitudes Paul enumerated in 2 Timothy 3 are the norm in our society too. For example, once upon a time in a far away land—not! I was just funning you a bit. Not long ago in our society it was normal to consider our actions in terms of society and the neighbors.
If I wanted to blast the stereo, I knew it was wrong to do so in the middle of the night or with it so loud that it disturbed the neighbors. The same applied if I wanted to have dogs. If the dogs barked they needed to stay inside, or else I needed to train them not to bark. If I wanted to build a patio out the back door or repair an automobile engine in the driveway, I knew better than to do so at 2:00 AM.
Let’s pause here and betake ourselves to the prayer closet for a fine time alone with Jesus. See you in our next study.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Snowballs plummeting down a mountain slope? You are wondering what all this has to do with 2 Timothy 3, aren’t you? Well, my daily living brings me into contact with a world full of folks who are living according to the patterns and behaviors expressed in the first seven verses of 2 Timothy 3. We are indeed in the last days, and the reality smacks me in the face daily.
Alas, but the folks who display this to me—and I don’t mean the non-Christians because they are expected to act this way—but the Christians who display the behaviors and attitudes enumerated by Paul, they haven’t a clue that they are replicas of the devil’s kids, and often down to the most minute detail! They might had a born again experience several decades ago, but they still live in a spiritual nursery, lying in a spiritual crib, and crying to be fed and have their diapers changed.
Babies in the crib, you realize, don’t know they are babies in a crib. They don’t know the difference. They are only behaving naturally. In rebirth we become newborns in a crib. We need spiritually mature mom’s and dad’s to rear us to spiritual adulthood, else we remain spiritual babes in a crib for decades until the Lord brings us home. And what a wasted life that is!
Here’s the problem we face today—and let me be quite frank about this, as a prophet speaking the truth in love. What happens when the Christian community is parented by babies in a crib? What happens when “capricious children will rule over them” (Isaiah 3:4) and “women rule over them” (Isaiah 3:12)?
Isaiah’s words pronounced God’s judgment on a sinning nation. Israel’s sin was that she deserted the Lord her God by ignoring His Word and doing what seemed right in her own eyes. So the Lord left her to her own devices. Since the Lord established male leadership, the first thing to transpire when God’s Word is rejected is for women and children to be the rulers.
Voilà! the good ol’ USA of today! And the behaviors and attitudes Paul enumerated in 2 Timothy 3 are the norm in our society too. For example, once upon a time in a far away land—not! I was just funning you a bit. Not long ago in our society it was normal to consider our actions in terms of society and the neighbors.
If I wanted to blast the stereo, I knew it was wrong to do so in the middle of the night or with it so loud that it disturbed the neighbors. The same applied if I wanted to have dogs. If the dogs barked they needed to stay inside, or else I needed to train them not to bark. If I wanted to build a patio out the back door or repair an automobile engine in the driveway, I knew better than to do so at 2:00 AM.
Let’s pause here and betake ourselves to the prayer closet for a fine time alone with Jesus. See you in our next study.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
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