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A REVIVAL OF CONFUSION

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. (Jeremiah 8:7)

Yes, you guessed it! This is another one of those Bible-believing “fuddie duddies” who believes that a sovereign God allowed the tragedies to come upon us on September 11, 2001 for judgment of the sins of America. First of all, if you think God didn’t have a say in the matter to begin with, then I advise you to put down your “Daily Devotions Of Dr. Smellfungus” and pick up a Bible (KJV of course!) and read Job chapters 1 and 2. God had to give Satan permission to do what he did to Job. Any minister or any professing Christian who says they don’t know why this happened is either ignorant of what the Bible says because they don’t read it, or is afraid to tell the truth to this religiously pagan society.

I will also say that if America is turning back to God, then they will be in church on Sunday (Hebrews 10:25) than in a beer-guzzling sports arena. We are a society that has ritual rather than righteousness. The only thing the lost secular world does after a tragedy is sing the Lord’s Prayer and a few verses of Amazing Grace and then go and live like an alley cat when its all said and done.

This is a generation where nobody believes in any absolutes. On that note, I will say that there is a revival spreading through this nation. That is, a revival of confusion because God’s Word has been ignored and substituted by secular humanism, entertainment, and emotionalism (Colossians 2:8). And when you hear anything about church on the news, it’s always a church with a liberal “pulpit polyanna” that wears a robe and a “beanie” on his (or her) head and quotes Shakespear rather than the Holy Spirit-inspired Bible (2 Corinthians 11:13-15).

Nobody wants to hear why God declared judgment on the “high towers” in the Old Testament times (Zephaniah 1:16) because they trusted in their gain rather than God. Regardless, the ecumenical eggheads of our day are the ones that people want to listen to and their ears need more scratching ( 2 Timothy 4:3). Let me leave you with what Jesus preached on about a certain tower that fell back in the time of His earthly ministry in Luke 13:4-5: “Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”

Now I ask you, why is there so much confusion? Well, all I know is it didn’t come from God (1 Corinthians 14:33)!

(Join me next month for another Hodges Highlights if you still have a backbone like a sawlog!)

- James S. Hodges

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