The Waters of God's Justice

The word of the Lord Jesus Christ came to me on the ninth day of January in the year 2005, telling me to write these words.

The Lord of hosts has spoken, and this is the word that is declared unto me by the King of nations, the God of creation,
“I have uttered My judgments upon a people who did not know Me. A wave of sorrow has swept them away. Paradise has turned into a desolation and lands of plenty have been emptied of their inhabitants.

“Men have asked, “Why?” Women and children have cried. The fathers are drowned, and upon the children has the wave come down, sweeping them out of their mothers’ arms.

“Destruction, destruction, destruction upon the whole land. The earth quaked and the waters raged. The land is flooded. The bodies of men are scattered upon the open ground.”

This is what God has spoken concerning the killer wave that struck the nations on December 26, 2004, “The fathers have raised the children and taught them to follow after idols. The feet of the people have been swift to run after gods that are no gods. Where is Allah’s strength? Where is the enlightenment of Buddha? Where is the power and life force of Brahman? Their servants are dead. They could not deliver the people from the waters. Rivers have run in the streets. The people tried to flee, but were taken away, because their gods could not deliver them.

“I the Living God have judged the gods of the people in the land where darkness dwells. I am the Christ of Life. Come to Me, you who have remained. Let the orphans look to Me. Let the widows stretch out their hands to the only Savior. Come, come, come to Me and be saved,” says the Lord of heaven, the God of earth.

“Do not say, “It is because they were more wicked than me.” For a fool would speak such foolishness. I have stretched out My hands to a people raised in idolatry. Their gods have been judged by the waters of My justice. Turn, turn, turn to Me. Run, run, run and flee from the wrath to come. For I am the God of the nations and who can abide My indignation? If you do not repent, you will all likewise perish.

“Men have run to and fro seeking answers. To whom shall I speak that they may hear? Who will declare it that they may consider? Is the earth’s movement beyond My control? I tell you, No! By My word is the universe sustained. At My command the clouds drop down rain. This is no accident. It is not happenstance. I am purposeful in all My ways. From the beginning to the end I am the Ancient of Days.

“You who have suffered great loss I invite you to come and eat. Drink, yea, drink and be satisfied. Where you walk water of bitterness has swept through. But it is living water that I offer you. You have smelled the stench of death. Outside of your temples bodies lie lifeless. I invite you to come to My holy habitation, to My temple made without hands and live. Yea, I cry to you, live!

“All nations will see and tremble on My day. It will be a day of darkness and distress. The day of the Lord Jesus Christ will be a day of reckoning, and settling of accounts. At that day every knee will bow to Me and every tongue will confess to Me, that I am the Lord. Buddha is confounded; Brahman has passed away; and Allah is not! Where is the comfort; yea, where is the peace of Muhammad? Their prophets and their priests, their wise men and their monks are wind and confusion. My word is not in them,” declares the Son of God Who is the Word of God.

“This wave swept through one day after the world celebrated My birth. I am Emmanuel. But who will celebrate My return? Who is he who loves My appearing? To such an one will I grant My eternal life, for to know Me is eternal life indeed. For all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered, and when I return to judgement your joy will be full in Me.

“I the Lord have come to you, Thailand and Indonesia; I have come to you, Sri Lanka and India; I have come to these nations to call a people who were not My people. The nations have been plowed that I might plant My word, even the good news of the kingdom of God. I the Lord do what is right; I work justice and judgement in the earth for My name’s sake. And I have caused My light to shine upon the darkness, that the blind may see and grope about no more. Through death and darkness shall spring the light of life.”

Biblical Salvation

If when asked the question, How do you know you are saved?, you respond, "Because I now live right", what does this mean? This sort of response would make the Hindu ascetic, the Buddhist monk, and the devotee of Islaam partakers of your type of salvation. Salvation in the Biblical sense is not right living as such. Biblical salvation as purposed by God is none other than living and breathing the whole of one’s existence under the Supreme Head, Jesus Christ. “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ” (1Timothy 1:1). You cannot dichotomize the Lordship and Saviorhood of Jesus Christ--they are indivisible characteristics of His nature and His work in redemption. It is impossible to say, "Why, yes, I have accepted Christ as my personal Savior, but I have not quite made that step into receiving Him as Lord of my life." You are either saved unto God's ultimate and categorical reign in your life, or you are not saved at all, and the sentence of death and eternal wrath hang over you to this very hour.

God does not save a man or woman in order to place them on display to shine for a brief while until they collect dust while reveling in their own whiteness. The evidence of salvation in Jesus Christ is expressed in the irrevocable surrender of one’s life to God for God’s own desired end, whether destruction or blessing. Whatever tells for God’s highest glory is the mark of His Lordship and salvation in a man.

It is the religious fervor that denies the redemption of Jesus Christ that calls attention to its own accomplishments in living, whether by outright declaration or inward intention. Such a life only exemplifies the fact that the man doing such is more alive to himself than ever, and thus living for himself, and not for God. Conversely, it is the soul that has been united with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection that takes no account of the right actions, but only remains a servant of his Master, chained to Him as His prisoner of love, doing his Master’s bidding out of a pure heart. (See 1John 3:2-9). "So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do" (Luke 17:10). Oswald Chambers says that sin is not the enemy of God, it is our enemy. He then states that the enemy of God is a moral rectitude based on a denial of Jesus Christ. Any form of morality that is divorced from the Cross of Jesus Christ is not morality at all, but rather a stench before a righteous and holy God.

It is the disciple of Jesus Christ that is a living sacrifice. A dead sacrifice is one that examines its own degree of rightness and in an attempt to modify itself, thus conforms to a higher standard. This is behavior modification, and it is an idea as foreign to the New Testament idea of salvation as night is to day. A living sacrifice, on the other hand, will have been changed from the inside out, not by gazing upon his own deeds or misdeeds, attempting to alter his character through personal ambition and striving; but rather by beholding the face of Jesus Christ, and in so doing is transformed by the Holy Spirit into a completely different image, that of the Lord Himself (2Corinthians 3:16-17).

Man’s work will result in work for man, perpetuating an image of a god fashioned after the likeness of man. As a side note, this sort of right doing will also produce a righteousness that is not righteousness at all, because it has traveled through the filter of man’s corrupted sense of virtue, which virtue is vitiated because it is merely the remnants of what man used to be prior to the fall of Adam. Transformation via abiding in and looking upon Yahweh Tsidkenu (the Lord our Righteousness, see Jeremiah 23:6) will result in bringing glory to God by God’s Spirit working within man—God’s handiwork done by God’s hand. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10). This is done by the Lord Who is that Spirit. Ah, there is the wonder of it all—righteousness, redemption, liberty, salvation all under one Supreme Head, the Lord Jesus Christ!

To "Be" GOD's Will

We speak of what we like to do for fun and what sorts of things we like to do for entertainment. Understandable. Before I knew Christ and immediately after being born from above I used to enjoy movies and certain television shows. But consider...Whose are we? To Whom do we belong? I have been learning this very recently myself. In discussing a particular activity and attempting to ascertain whether such is "okay" or "not okay" for a Christian to do, we miss the whole point. For some time I myself was caught up in the rational arguments presented, much of the time under the guise of theological and/or Biblical contention.

For example, "Well, there is nothing overtly wicked about it (e.g. nudity in a movie, getting drunk, etc.), so I can see no Biblical reason to refrain from the activity." Seems like a reasonable argument. But oh how it misses the wonderful simplicity of being a son or daughter of God, a true disciple of Jesus Christ.

A conversation I had with a friend involved the issue of Christians gambling. One man I knew said that just as some people set aside in their budget a certain amount of money for entertainment purposes, so he did; and his entertainment was to play cards with friends and bet (with the understanding that he would not outspend his allotted entertainment money). Sounds innocent enough.

But it misses one of the great freedoms and responsibilities of discipleship--namely that as a wholly devoted follower of the Son of God I am a living sacrifice. This means that I do nothing without the sovereign purpose of God for the absolute glory of God. Oswald Chambers says that as a child of God who is born again, you do not just do the will of God, "you are the will of God." And your freewill choices will be the foreordained decrees of God unless the Holy Spirit gives you a check, which you must heed immediately. Just think, as I abide in Christ, He perfects the Father's will in and through me in every situation and He engineers my every circumstance. But this cannot be the case if I would like to claim any particular entertainment or activity as my own, for which I have a natural inclination, and thus should be allowed to enjoy from time to time as long as there is "no Biblical injunction to the contrary."

"What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (1Cor. 6:19-20).

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Rom. 12:1-2).

It is not so much an issue of right or wrong. A Christian is not an automaton who is programmed with "convictions" in order to maintain a particular rule. The issue is the underlying purpose and passion of the heart of Christ as He walked this earth--His Father's will. "For I came down from heaven not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me" (John 6:38). "Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do Thy will, O God" (Heb. 10:7). As a disciple of Christ I can consecrate nothing to God but my right to myself. This alone will He receive that He might have His way in me. A living sacrifice indeed, "Be ye therfore followers of God, as dear children: and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour" (Eph. 5:1-2).

My Lord Jesus, may it truly be said of every one of us as You look upon us, "He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied..." (Isa. 53:11).