July 17, 2017
Before I knelt to pray this morning, the Father began speaking;
I want to tell you a story, little lady.
There was once a great king who sat upon the throne, judging right and wrong. He loved his people dearly and gave commandments they should live after, in order that there might be peace and blessings throughout the land. The king was not mean but, in fact, very loving toward his people.
But they made fun of, light of the commands he had given, as though they were a joke or an option really. The king sat and watched as year after year, the situation grew worse. The townspeople and those in the countryside cared nothing for the king but lived to delight each himself.
As it pleased each man, so he did. There was rioting and looting, fighting and the like, stealing and extortion, backbiting and malicious schemes, hatred and murder at every turn; a very disgusting sight it was. The king watched, saddened by the state his people were in, but he knew he had to do something.
He sent out his messengers, even the town criers who stood on the street corner and shouted his message to the people:
Mend your ways, O people! For the king has seen the utter disregard in the land for the simple rules he gave you to follow. Lest you turn from them and clean up your act, a far worse thing will come upon you. But they were laughed to scorn and mocked, and none truly paid any mind.
The king then sent them to warn of the judgments he would bring upon the people lest they repent, but they still didn't listen. The noise and the uproar of the people clamoring began to drown out the sound of his messengers, one by one.
The messengers looked on in amazement as they watched the conditions worsen yet knew what the king had said. The filthy lucre being passed in the streets grew denser with the passing of time, and those things which the townspeople did only worsened by the day.
Some of the messengers actually joined in the atrocities and set up stages and put on performances. The people loved this, and many paid them to dance all the more. Yet the king was heartbroken yet enangered over a people who would not listen. So what must he do?
As it was, he gathered his remaining messengers and told them what must be done. Judgment had come - there was no way around it. Unless he do something, the townspeople would destroy themselves and the city so that nothing would remain. He told them to find shelter and gather any who would come with them. Not many, but a few came.
The king arose and nodded to those around him; indeed, it was time. With no time remaining, the king brought a wave of judgment that was felt throughout the land; not a person could stand for its severity.
Now they have a choice. What will they do? Pray they choose carefully, for the next will be worse than the first.
This story is likened unto this generation, this people who are so far from Me. They have removed themselves and excused themselves from obeying anything I've commanded. Yet I call out to them daily through My prophets and messengers, but they will not repent.
Must I now continue to watch them destroy themselves? Nay, but the time of judgment commences in order to wake them up. This is My mercy, for I desire that none perish.
Hear ye, hear ye, the word of the Lord spoken this day. What will ye do in the day of your visitation? Repent, I implore you.
Yahweh, Yahuah Elohim
Scripture given:
Isaiah 24
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
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