Our Deliverance -Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!” - Matthew 23:37

    As poignant as Jesus’ words were, we still to this day refuse to be gathered to Him. In this 21st Century, we are now nearing the greatest time of apostasy among many professing Christians as well as the hateful and deliberate rejection of faith in Christ, His forgiveness, and His perfect atonement for our sins. “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” - Hebrews 11:6.
    Taking great liberties with the word ‘prophets,’ we can infer the term ‘teachers.’ These teachers in many lands are routinely persecuted, tortured, and executed. So yes, in a sense today’s prophets are still being killed. Using the term persecute in place of the word ‘stones,’ we can easily see quite a bit of stone-throwing in America and other Western nations today by many governments, media sources, and people of notoriety. True Biblical Christianity is frequently lambasted as intolerable and narrow-minded, even among many professing evangelicals. “In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.” - 2 Timothy 3:12-13.
    Our tribulations grow worse by the day as faith in God and His righteousness are scrutinized for not being inclusive enough. For Christians to be received with open arms by the world, the flesh, and the devil we must cave in and genuflect at the altars they have erected in the place of God. Be it abortion, homosexuality, gender politics, or atheism, to name but a few, we must accept them, encourage them, and endorse such sinful behavior and abandon God’s laws which have stood for His righteousness since Moses walked down from Mt. Sinai. But God will neither be ignored nor mocked. “Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not paid attention to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.” - Jeremiah 6:19.
    As our cities begin to crumble and our infrastructure collapses around us be mindful that it is only a reflection of how we have disintegrated morally. Food prices increase as it becomes scarce, Potable water is disappearing at an ever-increasing rate. Be sure that the god of technology will not save us. It cannot save us. Pestilence and famine creep across our land as thousands die with not enough hospital beds to go around. Hunger slithers through many of our largest cities like a snake coiling around its victims. Murder sweeps through our land without compunction as we, like rabid animals, kill for the sheer thrill of it. And we cry out and wonder, “Where is God in all this?” The very ones demanding to know where God is don’t even believe in Him. There is only One who can save us and we have turned our backs on Him! AS we have done, so will He. “But whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10:33'
    There is no hope for our nation nor for our world short of returning to our beliefs in the one true God. And if we never had such belief it is time we believe now! God promises a new life, an eternal life for those who come to Him in faith but we must return to Him. “And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. “ - Deuteronomy 30:1-3. The words of Moses continue to offer the promise of God’s deliverance to this day. We have but to return to the Lord to see our deliverance.