Rock of Ages, cleft for me.  Let me hide myself in Thee.

~Hymn written in 1763

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Recently, an archeological dig in Israeluncovered what is believed to be the “Harbinger Bricks” from this verse in Isaiah 9:

The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with hewn stones
This find has special significance in light of Jonathan Cahn’s best-selling book “The Harbinger” which claims America is due for a major catastrophe similar to the one that occurred in the ancient nation of Israel.  The Israelites were dragged away into Babylonian Captivity in 586 B.C. after refusing to repent from their wickedness despite repeated warnings from God.  Needless to say, they never got around to their grandiose rebuilding project. 

According to Cahn, all nine “harbingers” or warnings of pending doom have already manifested in the United States.  Unfortunately, we have not heeded any of these calls with national repentance yet so…it’s “crunch time.”
Revelation mentions judgment coming in three “waves” of seven for a total of 21 judgments.  The first seven are called “seals”–God literally pulls the “seal of approval” from his covenantal, bridal nation. Like a cheating, treacherous bride, our deceptive veil will suddenly be ripped off and we will be UNCOVERED. 
Interestingly, Obama”care” seeks to provide new “coverage” for our nation–  coverage for a multitude of sins.  It covers free birth control to encourage a continued profligate sexual culture (can you say Sandra Fluke?).  It covers abortions funded by American health policy participants who will now also have innocent blood dripping from their hands.  It covers abortifacients, now forcibly requiring employers to provide these death-producing drugs as part of their prescription plan.      
I believe we have seen some Revelation type judgments already:  the Newtown shootings, Navy Yard massacre, Boston Bombings, Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey Boardwalk Fire, Oklahoma epic Tornado, California Wildfires, and “Biblical” floods in Colorado.  Maybe you are thinking in comparison to the sound of the Revelation judgment descriptions:  “That wasn’t so unusual.”  Maybe your little section of American paradise hasn’t even been affected yet.
But like hurricane and tornado ratings, these judgments ramp up EXPONENTIALLY.  Let me explain:  The difference between a Hurricane Level 1 and a Hurricane Level 2 is not incremental.  That is, a Hurricane Level 2 is not just slightly or moderately worse than a Hurricane Level 1—it is DOUBLE the force and DOUBLE the damaging power.  The same rule applies to tornadoes.    

So it is with the Revelation judgments.  After the seal judgments comes the trumpet judgments.  Trumpet judgments will be exponentially worse than the horrors listed above and, like the reveille trumpet used to wake military personnel at sunrise, these are designed to give us a mega-WAKE UP CALL!  I can’t even imagine a storm double the devastation of Hurricane Sandy or a tornado double the size of the one in Oklahoma which had the highest winds ever recorded and the widest swath of damage on record.   

God help us…if this isn’t enough to send us straight to our knees in repentance, the third level of judgments in Revelation is BOWL judgments.  As in:  God will DUMP AN ENTIRE BOWL of judgment on our heads to get our attention.  Bowl judgments are so horrific, that the scripture says:
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.  And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

~Matthew 24: 21-22

  

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~Psalm 103:2

 

A dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends…”

~Abigail Adams

REPENTANCE PRAYER: 

Lord Jesus/ Yeshua, we hear You. You are knocking at the door of our hearts. Help us to discern Your voice clearly. Teach us to open the door of our hearts to You. Help us to repent of our old sins, Almighty God. Purify us Lord and give us a heart of wisdom. We want to be arrayed in fine linen. We want to be part of Your Bride. Help us to turn from our old ways that are wicked and become more like You.  We personally add our individual acts of repentance today to similar acts of repentance in Your Church body and our communities. We pray that You will hear from heaven, forgive our individual sins, and the sins of our nation. Please heal our land. We pray in Your Holy Name above all names, AMEN.”
~Posted by permission of Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly (Founder of National Day of Repentance)

Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration

–Both are available for FREE at The National Day of Repentance website: www.dayofrepentance.org

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