THE JUSTICE OF HIS JUDGMENT!

Millions of us prayed for many weeks prior to the recent election. We asked God to put the right man in office as our President, but when we awoke on November 7, many believed the wrong man had won the election.

How could this be? What happened here? Were our prayers wasted? No! We prayed that God would put the right man in the highest office in the land and He did just that.

Whoa! Wait just a minute. Am I suggesting that God is a Democrat? No, I am saying that God is neither Democrat nor Republican. I am saying that God has done what He knows is best for the continued unfolding of His plan for the end-times.

American Christians have to face the prophetic future of our nation. Wishful thinking about a bright and rosy future is not going to change God’s mind or the prophetic word God has given about His judgment on this land.

I have not always embraced the idea that America had passed the point of no return. Almost four years ago I had a dream that totally changed my outlook on the times in which we are living. In my dream I was standing behind a man and I heard him say, “Isaiah 47.” I do not recall what I replied, but whatever it was caused the man (perhaps an angel?) to turn toward me and say very clearly a second time, “Isaiah 47.”

Most mornings I do not remember what I dreamed the night before. That day I started my day as usual but I could not shake what I had heard. I sat at my desk and read Isaiah 47, which in my study Bible is captioned, “The Humiliation of Babylon.”

I have struggled with whether or not to write this article, but I finally decided to share some of the main points and let you be the judge. It will be helpful to read all of Isaiah 47.

Verse 1-3 — I believe Babylon is the world system that in our lifetime has been typified by Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and the increasingly secular and morally bankrupt American lifestyle. Babylon is referred to as the “virgin daughter,” indicating that her walls had never been breached by an enemy. God has judged the wickedness of Babylon and declared that her sin will be uncovered and judged. Babylon has been removed from her throne and made to sit in humility in the dust on the ground like a common person. America is no longer the number one global power; she has been “dethroned” and humiliated.

As I write this, four of our highest ranking intelligence and military leaders are being exposed for their indiscretions and they have embarrassed themselves and America.

Verse 6 — God has let His people/the church be dominated by the spirit of Babylon because of their disobedience.

Verse 8 — This is a warning to the prideful spirit that says, “We are great and nothing can happen to us; we will succeed. After all, we are Americans!” This is a dual warning both to the secular and to the arrogant spirit that is in the American church.

Verse 9 — Indicates that the destruction/humility will come suddenly. Whoever would have thought that our world would be teetering on the brink of a financial meltdown that has not gotten better in the last four years but, instead, has deepened and is now being referred to as a “fiscal cliff”? Whoever would have thought that a late October storm would strike right at the heart of the largest metropolitan area of our nation and cause so much devastation? Hurricane Sandy was a storm that seemed to come out of nowhere and suddenly became “the perfect storm.”

Verse 10 — The wicked thought they could get away with their private displays of financial and material greed. Does this remind anyone of some of the investment scams and the corporate greed that have come to light in the last few years? Blatant almost beyond belief!

Verse 11 — This verse stopped me in my tracks! “Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall on you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you” (NIV).

For decades the unregenerate American way confronting problems both in our nation and around the world has been to spend money to solve the problem or give money to make it go away. Our nation has given hundreds of billions of dollars to unfriendly nations to buy their friendship and they gladly take our money and still hate us and are still unfriendly. Our government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to stimulate the economy with virtually no lasting results.

In the New King James, the phrase in verse 11 is, “You will not be able to put it off.” This is speaking of the calamity/humiliation. In the original language the words you will not be able mean that there is no way to prevail, no hope of overcoming. The phrase put it off means “to cover, to make atonement for.” God is saying, “When I declare judgment, the payment of a ransom, the spending of money to stop it is not an option!”

Could the ransom in verse 11 possibly be referring to efforts to avert the impending disaster of the “fiscal cliff” which is currently in the news? Is what we see coming from our leaders anything more than a display of extreme arrogance that believes that their intelligence, coupled with an obscene use of money, will stave off the judgment of God?

Verse 13 — We are being worn out by all the commentators on broadcast and cable TV and “talk radio” who claim to have the answers to our nation’s needs. None of those who talk and talk can save our nation but they certainly can weary us with all their counsel.

Verse 14 — None of the talking “counselors” will be able to save themselves, let alone the nation, from “the power of the flame,” which is the hand of God’s judgment coming on the nation.

To that arrogant Babylonian spirit, God replies in verse 15, “There is no one to save you.” America is under judgment!

This word does not frighten me and I am not afraid for my wife, my children or my grandchildren. I rest in the faithfulness of the God I love and serve.

No matter what the future brings for us, God’s grace and mercy will be more than sufficient. He will take care of His children!

“We give thanks to you, O God;

   We give thanks, for your name is near.
We recount your wondrous deeds.

   At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.
 When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, 

  It is I who keep steady its pillars” (Psalm 75:1-3, ESV).