Wednesday, October 5, 2011

A Message to “WALL STREET” and to all those who love Unequal Weights and Deceitful Scales




A message to WALL STREET, NEW YORK, and to all those who love dishonest scales and unequal balances and to all those who have ears to hears...

It is written:

“Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God”

"Diverse weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good."

"Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD."

“The LORD abhors dishonest scales”

"The end has come upon my people Israel;

I will never again pass by them.

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,"

declares the Lord GOD. "So many dead bodies!""They are thrown everywhere!" "Silence!"

Hear this, you who trample on the needy

and bring the poor of the land to an end,

saying, "When will the new moon be over,

that we may sell grain?

And the Sabbath,

that we may offer wheat for sale,

that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great

and deal deceitfully with false balances,

that we may buy the poor for silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals

and sell the chaff of the wheat?"

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:"Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. Shall not the land tremble on this account,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it,

and all of it rise like the Nile,

and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?"

“Shall not the land tremble for this,

and every one mourn that dwelleth therein?

and it shall rise up wholly as a flood;

and it shall be cast out and drowned,

as by the flood of Egypt.”

The voice of the LORD cries to the city—

and it is sound wisdom to fear your name:

"Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!

Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?

Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales

and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Your rich men are full of violence;

your inhabitants speak lies,

and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,

making you desolate because of your sins.


“Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances,

and with the bag of deceitful weights?”

With Whom Will You Be Counted Among Part 3

JOB

“There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.” The Lord Himself spoke of Job to Satan saying, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?" Job was the kind of person that carnal minded people would say did not deserve any evil or misfortune in his life because of how good of an individual, father, husband citizen and role model of society he was. But God doesn't think, see or judge like men. "For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

When Satan said to God, "Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”…the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand." God used Satan to rob Job of his wealth and to kill Job’s animals, servants and children. And what was Job’s response to the evil God sent onto him?

“Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, "Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.”

Again Satan came before God, “and the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to destroy him without reason." Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face." And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes. Then Job’s wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and

die." But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.”

Even though the Lord God Himself described Job as “blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil”, the Lord still had some things to teach Job and some work to do in him. The Lord taught Job that he Job was the created...and that He God was the all wise, all purposing, all just, all powerful and all knowing Creator. The Lord had to cleanse, refine, conform and perfect Job in accordance to His will and purpose for Job's life. The Lord accomplished all this through the needed discipline and counsel He afflicted Job with. At the end of Job’s tribulations and after being confronted and questioned by God, this “blameless and upright” man, “who feared God and turned away from evil” said these last words to the Lord…

"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted..."

"Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know."

"I had heard of you by the

hearing of the ear,

but now my eye sees you;

therefore I despise myself,

and repent in dust and ashes."

"And the LORD restored Job...And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before...And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning."

And the word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, even if these three men; Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD.”

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So that’s a look at Noah, Daniel and Job…now to us…now to you…

When the Lord brings evil onto us, onto you… and your family, community, town, city, nation and your world as you know it...

through Satan...wicked men, pestilence, famine, sword, beast, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, floods or however He determines it…

for He has asked, "Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come?" Lam 3:38

...and He has said," I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." Isaiah 45:7

Therefore when the Lord visits, will you be counted among the remnant, the few Noahs, Daniels and Jobs that “would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness”?

Or will you be counted among their many sons and daughters, and wives and husbands, and friends and family that would not be delivered becuase of their unrighteousness?

With whom will you be counted among?

Will you be counted among the few Noahs, Daniels and Jobs that will remain in land or the many that will be cut off from it?

It is written “For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, the blameless will be spared. But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.”

And “The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.”

With God, “mercy triumphs over judgment”. But how can there be mercy when there is no repentance?

"O LORD, I have heard the

report of you, and your work,

O LORD, do I fear. In the

midst of the years revive it;

in the midst of the years

make it known; in wrath

remember mercy."

Give ear you righteous ones that have fallen into sin!!...

Give ear you sinners that have not turned to righteousness!!…

"And behold, the LORD

passed by, and a great and

strong wind tore the

mountains and broke in

pieces the rocks before the

LORD, but the LORD was not

in the wind. And after the

wind an earthquake, but the

LORD was not in the

earthquake. And after the

earthquake a fire, but the

LORD was not in the fire. And

after the fire.....

the sound of

a low...

whisper.

“When you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”!!!

With whom will you be counted among???

With Whom Will You Be Counted Among Part 2

NOAH


In a world taken over by evil, violence, corruption and perversion, Noah was the one man at the time who “…found favor (grace) in the eyes of the LORD.” Why? Because “Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations”. He was “a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time”. Noah wasn't just a righteous man, he was the only follower of God left in his community, town, city, and country...and in the whole world at the time. “Noah walked with God.” Living in a society saturated with sin and rebellion against God, Noah was the only man alive that pleased God. Can you imagine such unwavering faithfulness in the midst of such godlessness?

"Noah did everything just as God commanded him."

He obeyed God when everyone else didn’t. He did not conform to the ways and practices of the world around him. He did not follow men. It wasn't that he lived in Rome and thus "did as the Romans did". No...Not Noah. Noah acknowledged God’s presence and His nature; holy, just, loving, fearful... and he lived his life in accordance to this reality, this faith...though everyone else around him did otherwise. Noah wasn’t sinless, but he loved God, and feared God and was obedient to God.


DANIEL


Daniel remained faithful to God while facing many pressures as a captive in Babylon. The King of Babylon was looking for young men with “no blemish, but well-favored, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans” to serve them. To the Chaldeans (Babylonians), Daniel met these requirements. But from day one of his unique captivity, (not to suffer as a prisoner, but to be trained, brought up in the culture of Babylon and to serve the Babylonian Kingdom in an honorable role) “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself”. He purposed in his heart and determined it in his mind to not dishonor his God by conforming to any of the ways and practices of His captors that went against that of his God. The Lord God had placed Daniel in Babylon to serve Him from there. It is written, “Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” So Daniel was to serve the Lord from Babylon with sincerity in heart and fearing the Lord. Daniel obeyed what he was instructed to do by the Babylonians and their King but whenever there was a command from his masters that went against his God, Daniel wouldn’t do it. Instead he would honor His God over men at whatever cost. Because of this, Daniel disobeyed some instructs of his masters. In doing so, before God, Daniel was seen as “faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.” When a decree was made that no one should pray to any god but the King of Babylon alone and that disobedience to the decree meant death by lions, it is written that "Daniel, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the decree you put you put in writing. He still prays three times a day." “Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.”

It is written, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” Daniel is such a righteous man for from his account he said...

“While I was speaking and

praying, confessing my

sin and the sin of my people

Israel, and presenting my

plea before the LORD my

God for the holy hill of my

God, while I was speaking in

prayer, the man Gabriel,

whom I had seen in the

vision at the first, came to

me in swift flight at the time

of the evening sacrifice. He

made me understand,

speaking with me and

saying, "O Daniel, I have now

come out to give you insight

and understanding. At the

beginning of your pleas for

mercy a word went out, and I

have come to tell it to you,

for you are greatly loved.”

With Whom Will You Be Counted Among? Part 1

For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And
“If the righteous is scarcely saved,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”
1 Peter 4:17-18

If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Proverbs 11:31


And the word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD.”

In that day, when the wrath of the Lord visits you and your country, your nation, your city, your town, your community, your neighborhood, your family, your household…will you be counted among the remnant, the very few, the scarcely saved that deliver their own lives by their righteousness? Will you be counted among the righteous as like Noah, Daniel and Job? Or will your fate lie with the unrighteous?

“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver NEITHER sons nor daughters. They ALONE would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.”

In that day, when the fierce anger of the Lord visits you and your country and your city will you be counted among the remnant, the very few, the scarcely saved, that deliver their own lives by their righteousness? Or will you be counted among the many sons or daughters, and many husbands or wives that will not be delivered on the account of someone else’s righteousness?

“Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast, though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.”

In that day, when the punishment of the Lord visits you and your nation and your town, will you be counted among the remnant, the very few, the scarcely saved, that deliver their own lives by their righteousness? Or will you be counted among the many unrighteous sons and daughter, fathers and mothers that will not be delivered?

“Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.”

In that day, when the fury of the Lord visits you and your community and neighborhood, will you be counted among the remnant, the very few, the scarcely saved, that deliver their own lives by their righteousness? Or will you be counted among the majority of their sons and daughters, or their friends and family that will not be delivered because of their own unrighteousness?

My Lord what if You send an earthquake and roaring waves and floods into the land, What would happen to its inhabitants?

“Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness. They would deliver neither son nor daughter declares the Lord GOD.”


In the day that the Lord’s fierce indignation visits you and your household and your family, will you be counted among the remnant, the very few, the scarcely saved, that deliver their own lives by their righteousness? Our will your fate lie with the unrighteous?

"For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon them my disastrous acts of judgment to cut off from it man and beast! But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon the land, for all that I have brought upon it. They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord GOD."