July 6 2013
We are living in a time that I believe will be the Church’s greatest hour. But unfortunately much of the Church is either living with its head in the sand or paralyzed by fear. As I stated a month or two ago, God’s prophetic clock has become a stop watch, things are moving rapidly into place. We will begin to see Christian persecution accelerate after the Supreme Court ruling favoring gay marriage a couple of weeks ago. Already there is a law being proposed for the city of San Antonio Texas that would prohibit Christians from working for that city.
I would like to quote a few verses that I feel speak to this time:
Daniel 12: 3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
Proverbs 29: 25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare,
but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
Luke 12: 4-7: Jesus speaking said: “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Esther 4: 13 Mordecai speaking to Esther stated: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
1 Peter 2:9 Speaking of the Church Peter declares: But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Now is not the time to cower in fear. Now is the time to speak the word of the Lord in wisdom. Pray, and seek the Lord and God will give you wisdom about who and when he would have us speak to others of his Glory.
I would like to close this with a couple of quotes from Martin Luther King:
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
And also: In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don’t be silent in this last hour of Church history.
