Sunday, September 16, 2012

Cracked Foundation


        O reader, this blog will be built on the previous blog that’s called America’s Cornerstone. I cannot stress enough that we are living in the days of judgment in America right now, and many people still need to wake up and seek God with a humble and repentant attitude. What I am about to tell you comes partly from Jonathan Cahn’s video called “The Second Shaking”, and partly from personal research after I had learned of the truth given to him by God. I want to be clear that the economic situation that we are living in today is not normal. It is not something that we can just shrug our shoulders, “rebuild”, and pretend that everything is alright. NO! WAKE UP! We are in danger! We have to seek and love the truth, and seek God with all our being!
        
        This was what happened during what was called “The Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis”—reiterating Rabbi Cahn. He can explain this much better than I can. On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because the Federal Government—which bailed-out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from their bankruptcy—chose not to do so a third time. This brought about an economic collapse that ended with Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 777.12 points in one day—On September 29, 2008. In the Hebrew calendar, 9/29/2008 was Elul 29, and the next day was Rosh Hashanah—the group I go to call it the Feast of Trumpets. 7 years earlier, on the day that America reopened the New York Stock Exchange after 9/11, stocks fell 684.81 points. (http://www.nyse.com/about/history/timeline_events.html) That day was September 17, 2001—which was Elul 29 in the Hebrew calendar.
        
        Elul 29 was the day that we are to do what the laws of Moses instructed in Deuteronomy 15:1-11. On the 7th year, we are to forgive and release all debts owe to our brothers within the nation. Buying stock is giving a loan to a creditor and expecting something in return. Student loans, mortgages, car loans, credit cards (just to name a few) are all loans. Releasing a debt is simply “giving up your claim to what is owed by your brother”. In other words, you are clearing and forgiving loans, not expecting anything in return, and you do it once every 7 years on the end of the year. In other words, you are giving a gift to a creditor. Elul 29 is considered the end of the harvest year, and is the date to release debt. The 7th year was considered “the LORD’s release”, and if done the way God wills it, it’s a blessing.
        
        However, what happens when we don’t do God’s will on the appointed times that He says too? Well, in a time of judgment, God uses it as a sign of judgment. If your economy is based on debt and loans, it will collapse if the loans aren’t paid off or forgiven. That’s exactly what happened with Lehman brothers and the economy around September 11, 2008. America lost 7% of her GDP in one day. This created a domino effect in Europe and other countries around the world. This economic collapse fulfilled Isaiah 9:13-15:

For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.
Therefore the Lord will cut off head and tail from Israel,
Palm branch and bulrush in one day.
 The elder and honorable, he is the head;

The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.”

In other words, God’s response to our spirit of defiance is letting our disobedience backfire on us—collapsing our economy. Instead of seeking God’s will, we made the choice to cut interest rates in half in 2001, and that created the mortgage bubble. The only reason it was a bubble was because it was popped in 2008 by not forgiving our brother’s debts. We need to seek God and His law: the 10 commandments. Jesus Christ is the Chief Cornerstone, and the Law (first five books of Moses) and the Prophets (Rest of the Old Testament) is the foundation that rests on top of Him.

But, the American government did not respond with humility and repentance. In fact, newly elected President Obama said in a joint session of Congress on February 24, 2009:

But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this:

We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.”
          
         Strangely, he said the samething Tom Daschle said on September 12, 2001 after quoting Isaiah 9:10. Obama continues to say:

“The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation. The answers to our problems don’t lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth.
        
        
 In other words, don’t seek God because the answers are not there, and take pride in your hard-work on the earth—even though God declared that He’s against our “pride and arrogance of heart” (Isaiah 9:8-9). Obama and leaders like him have fulfilled Isaiah 9:16: “For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed”. I declare to you, O reader, the truth: God is the answer!!!! Seek Him!

There’s nothing wrong with going out and earning a living and working hard at what you do. There’s nothing wrong with capitalism as long as it’s used correctly without greed and corruption. There’s nothing wrong with getting educated or starting a business or owning a business or working for a business. The problem is the reaching for wealth without God: seeking money instead of seeking God who gave the power to get wealth (Deuteronomy 8:18). With Obama’s statement, America is saying “My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth”—no. It is because of God’s promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph that we have the blessings that we have today. Remember Deuteronomy 8:11-18… O Fairest in the Land… To God be the Glory!

            Making wealth our foundation is like building a cracked foundation on top of a sinking cornerstone of Isaiah 9:10. If we keep the 10 commandments and seek God by seeking the Law and the Prophets—the Books of Moses and the Old Testament—we’ll be building on the Chief Cornerstone of Jesus Christ. O America, do you want to be the scarlet queen that sinks comfortably to her doom? Or, do you want to be the Fairest in the Land, a chaste virgin with a zeal and love for God and life? The choice is yours… O Fairest in the land… I will not wait forever…

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

America’s Cornerstone


        On March 24th 2012, 12 days before Passover, I knew some Messianic Jews that were talking about “The Harbinger”. I had never read the book, but I wanted to know what was going on about it. God was leading me in this because I was searching online for videos about it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXei0Zb3dxM). I believe Jonathan Cahn to be led by God to reveal the truth about why 9/11 happened. After listening to a sermon about the 9 harbingers of Isaiah 9:10, I was sobered and humbled. Let me describe the feeling this way: I was cut to the heart as the people of Pentecost were in Acts 2:37 when they learned what they did to Jesus Christ in their spiritual sleep and ignorance. This was why He said: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do” (Luke 23:34). When you are spiritually sleeping, you really don’t have a clue what you are doing because the evil one and his minions take advantage of your spiritual slumber.

I never knew how arrogant I truly was, and it wasn’t even my own doing. I followed the spirit of defiance without even knowing it. Actually, I feel that God allowed me to follow it for a short time in order to experience what His bride is dealing with right now. America is under the vow of the cornerstone of Isaiah 9:10, and there’s a spirit of defiance against God. But, I do not believe His bride is doing it willingly, but she’s stuck in a deep sleep of arrogance. What I had learned about the Harbingers was this, and Jonathan Cahn can elaborate much more than I ever could. But this is what I’ve learned. September 11th, 2001 was God’s wake up call to America and to the Church of God in America.

It was the most devastating attack on the mainland of the country since the War of 1812 when the British burned down the Whitehouse. I agree with Cahn’s commentary that 9/11 was a limited scale lifting of God’s hedge of protection on the country. I also agree that it was meant to call her back to Him, and not to destroy her. I was a junior in high school when 9/11 happened, and I only heard about it from the news on TV. My first response to it was fear that the government was falling apart—unknowing what’s happening with the government today. I never knew about Isaiah 9:10 at that time. I never knew that the two towers fell down to a heap of bricks that would soon be replaced with a “bigger and better” tower called the Freedom tower. I don’t quite understand how you can have freedom without God because He’s the only one that can set you free from your tower of sins.

Then, there’s the sycamore tree being struck down by a falling beam from the falling towers near ground zero. I never even knew there was a sycamore tree growing near there much less having it being struck down by the terrorist attack. The tree was uprooted and immortalized in bronze for everyone to see. I didn’t know that bronze was the metal of judgment—did you, O reader? Later came the replacing of the sycamore with an Erez tree like the cedars of Lebanon. That’s exactly what happened, and in the same spot as the former sycamore tree was struck down. There was a ceremony over the laying of the Erez tree and a ceremony over the laying of the cut, query cornerstone of ground zero, but at different times. American leaders, like Tom Daschle on September 12, 2001 and Jonathan Edwards on September 11, 2004 , quoted the actual words of Isaiah 9:10 as official statements to America, the world, and God. I didn’t realize they were pronouncing judgment on America—did you, O reader? 



Now, Jonathan Cahn explained these harbingers much more clearly than I just did. Now I understand that America is under judgment, and I still believe that Jesus Christ will return for her. I still believe that the happy ending will happen: Revelation 19:11-16. I also believe that there’s still hope to save her in this present time. Why do I still believe this? Simple: Jesus Christ is the Chief Cornerstone, and the gates of hell can’t prevail against His church (Matthew 16:18, 1 Peter 2:4-7). American leaders have vowed the vow of Isaiah 9:10 on a cut, query cornerstone in their spiritual slumber and ignorance, but there are those who were and are baptized into Jesus Christ: the Chief Cornerstone. I am one of them; I am under the new covenant with Christ as my Cornerstone and King. I am not under oath of arrogance and defiance, and most Americans aren’t willingly under oath of arrogance and defiance either. It doesn’t mean that we aren’t affected by arrogance and the spirit of defiance that spilled over from the top. We have to overcome human nature, and it has to be overcome through God’s Holy Spirit. 

The only way to counter and overcome the Isaiah 9:10 vow of judgment is to do what Peter said to do in Acts 2:38: “Repent, and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” The only way to do this is to do a submerge baptism as a symbol of the death of your old self (human nature) into Christ’s death, and rise again above the water as a new creation symbolizing the resurrection of Christ. (Romans 6) After that, you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands by a local Pastor or Minister or Elder of your church. 

Now, remember Isaiah 1:16-20. O America, you have a choice to either be the arrogant, blood-stained scarlet-dressed woman that comfortably sits on the sinking cornerstone of Isaiah 9:10, or you can be the Fairest in the land as a chaste virgin, white and clean, that stands on the everlasting Cornerstone of Matthew 16:18. By choosing to humble yourself and repent, God will give you the sword of the Spirit to defend yourself and a Husband that will cherish and nurture you with an everlasting love. You decide who you want to be, O Fairest in the Land… I will not wait forever…