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                              When God Departs

                          Is God Leaving America?

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By David Wilkerson
November 18, 1991
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          I have often heard people say, "God will never depart
          from America. There are too many praying Christians in
          this country. Our victory in the war with Iraq is proof
          God is still with us. We're a Christian nation, the
          apple of God's eye! World missions depend on us. We've
          always been a great nation, and the Lord will bless us
          as long as we exist."

          Yet this is just what Israel said at the height of
          their apostasy! All their false prophets proclaimed,
          "God will never depart from His chosen land - He loves
          Jerusalem too much. He cannot leave us because of His
          covenant. Besides, the temple is in Jerusalem and that
          is where Jehovah abides. The world depends on the
          Light, and the Light is in Israel. We're safe, secure -
          nothing can happen to us!"

          Then along came the prophet Hosea, crying out in behalf
          of the Lord, "Woe also to them when I depart from
          them!" (Hosea 9:12). "For the wickedness of their
          doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love
          them no more" (verse 15).

          This woeful prophecy from Hosea seemed ridiculous to
          his fellow citizens. They said to him, "Prophet, you'd
          better take another look around. You say judgment is at
          the door. But, tell us - where is the evidence that God
          is about to depart from us? Our nation is not
          collapsing. We're still prospering, we're still a
          mighty nation. Our military is still strong

          There are no enemies at our gates. We have problems,
          little pockets of trouble. But we've survived every
          other crisis, and we'll survive these. There is no sign
          that God is leaving us!"

          Hosea answered the skeptics, "It's true that up to now
          it has been pleasant for you." "Ephraim, as I saw
          Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place" (Hosea 9:18).
          Ephraim refers to those ten tribes who were not of
          Judah.) Hosea was saying, "You have been prosperous
          like Tyre, that great city built upon a rock,
          surrounded by water and near-impregnable. You've been
          trading with the merchants of the world and have become
          one of the richest, most prosperous societies in
          history. Yes, in every outward appearance you're like
          Tyre.

          "But there is something you don't see! Even now, at the
          height of your military and financial might, there are
          signs all around you that God is departing! You
          attribute all your troubles to fate, saying these
          pockets of crises are happenstance, and they'll pass
          away. But you're missing what God is trying to say:
          These signs are in your midst because God is leaving
          you! You say you won't have to suffer as other nations
          have - but you are blind! Things are spinning out of
          control because your day of reckoning has come!"

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                     "The Days of Visitation Are Come,
                      The Days of Recompense Are Come"
                                (Hosea 9:7)

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          Hosea could hardly believe the blindness of God's
          people. They saw nothing but good times ahead. They
          believed they could pull themselves out of any
          difficult trial. But everywhere he turned the prophet
          saw powerful signs of God's displeasure - and
          departure! He couldn't understand why the people of God
          weren't awakened, why no one was being stirred.

          "The days of visitation are come...Israel shall know
          it" (verse 7). Hosea was saying, "Up to now, you
          haven't known you were under judgment. But God says,
          'I'm going to move with great judgment so suddenly and
          quickly that you will know I am behind them all!'

          In the same way today, the judgments of God will fall
          on America so swiftly and mightily that there will be
          no mistaking they are from God. Every prophet who's
          been preaching peace and prosperity and lulling a
          sinful nation to sleep will soon be exposed This nation
          will know that the time has come to pay up! It will be
          payday for mocking God out of our schools and
          government...for murdering millions of babies...for
          making Jesus Christ the object of blasphemy... for
          murder, lust, run-away crime, violence and pornography!

          Right now, few believe America's troubles are God-sent.
          But just wait - we'll soon be in the same place as
          Israel: the day of recompense! What makes us think God
          would judge every past society when they reached this
          stage - and yet somehow we, who are more wicked than
          all of them, will escape? Why do we think that because
          we're Americans, we won't suffer like other nations? Do
          we really believe our nation can continue growing more
          evil, violent and godless, and never have to give an
          account?

          What will be the last slap in God's face? What will
          make Him say, "Enough!" Hasn't it been enough that
          we've passed laws banning Him from our society; that we
          now clamor for atheism and humanism; that we've
          murdered 25 to 30 million babies? Which national
          affront, which mockery, which shaking of our fist at
          God will be the last straw?

          I believe that day has already happened in America that
          He's already had the last slap in His face - and heaven
          can take no more!

          But, as I said before, we have prophets in our land
          today who tell us God has promised never to depart from
          us. At conferences all over America you can hear well
          known men say, "Don't listen to Mr. Wilkerson and those
          other doomsday prophets. Instead, turn to Isaiah 54 and
          listen to the good word for America!" Then they will
          quote you this passage:

          "Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be
          thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame....
          For thy Maker is thine husband.... For a small moment
          have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I
          gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee
          for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have
          mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer..."

          This is the verse they'll use to guarantee that America
          cannot come under judgment: "For as I have sworn that
          the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so
          have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor
          rebuke thee.... My kindness shall not depart from thee,
          neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed,
          saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee" (Isaiah
          54:4-10).

          This promise is indeed wonderful! But what these
          modern-day prophets fail to tell you is that the
          promise is meant only for those who are taught of the
          Lord, who are established in righteousness - according
          to the same chapter in Isaiah! The promise is not for
          America - it's for overcomers: "This is the heritage of
          the servants of the Lord" (Isaiah 54:17).

          The Lord will never leave and forsake His beloved; His
          mercy will never depart from those who cling to Him.
          But these prophecies have nothing at all to do with God
          sparing sin-laden America. Rather, the woes of Hosea
          are directed to a nation "gone a-whoring" from their
          God! I ask you - has America become a harlot nation?
          Yes because we have gone down the same road of apostasy
          that Israel did!

          Hosea gives us four signs God showed to Israel to
          reveal to them He was departing:

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                              Sign Number One:
                         The People Give Themselves
                         Over to Filth and Shame.

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          "They have deeply corrupted themselves..., and
          separated themselves unto that shame.. and their
          abominations were as according as they loved" (Hosea
          9:9-10). Sexual perversions - shameful abominations had
          spread throughout Israel, corrupting even the
          once-righteous. They have deeply corrupted themselves,
          as in the days of Gibeah" (verse 9).

          Who can forget what happened at Gibeah? This was the
          small city of Benjamin where lust-mad bisexuals
          gang-raped the concubine of a visiting Levite - because
          they couldn't have the priest himself! They raped her
          all night long and left her to die on the doorstep.

          When the rest of Israel found out about the horror,
          they came against Benjamin. Israel told them, "Just
          deliver the homosexuals to us. We'll deal with the men
          who spent the night raping this concubine. There has to
          be a cleansing. Our nation cannot let this go - it's
          too much!"

          But Gibeah was entrenched in their sin, and sat secure
          - because they knew their society would back them up.
          And they were right! A whole nation of Benjamites rose
          up and said, "'No, they have a right to be what they
          are." So Israel came against them in battle, and 25,000
          strong Benjamites and 100 Gibeanites died. They died
          not for justice - but for Gibeah's right to sexual
          perversion!

          Can you imagine a society so deeply corrupted it would
          send men to die for the right to practice sexual
          indulgence, to the point of public rape? Over 25,000
          men died to protect Gibeah's homosexual rights!

          Hosea is saying to us today, "Woe to you! God is
          departing because you have become as deeply corrupted
          by sexual lust as those in Gibeah." This is the major
          corruption of America today - we have become a modern
          Gibeah! And therefore God says He will visit our sins!

          I'm going to be very brave in talking about something
          God has laid on my heart. I want to talk to you about
          the deviant sexual practices of America. I don't mean
          those of homosexuals in San Francisco or in Greenwich
          Village. I don't mean the lurid sex murders of Jeffrey
          Dahmer, who killed and cannibalized some of his
          homosexual partners. No, these sinners aren't the ones
          who break God's heart the most; these have always been
          given over to their sins.

          God's heart is grieved over something more evil than
          that:
          He is grieved over the sudden moral breakdown of those
          who call themselves Christians! In millions of
          Christian homes, so-called normal, godly people sit
          before cable TV or a VCR and drink in filthy, shameful,
          R- and X-rated movies!

          I believe I'm speaking to literally hundreds of
          thousands of Christians. And the Holy Spirit spoke to
          my heart that I may be the only voice that warns you of
          the danger you face. God told me I had to take this
          stand, before it's too late for many!

          TV networks and cable companies now compete to bring
          the vilest, most perverted movies into America's homes.
          And untold numbers of "believing Christians" now
          secretly view this filth! They have bought the lie of
          psychologists who say "mature Christians" are not
          affected by watching porn. Christian couples are being
          told, "Pornography can't hurt married adults. In fact,
          it will enhance your marriage. It will bring a new
          excitement." Some even say these movies serve as a
          valve to let off sexual energy that otherwise would
          cause a spouse to turn to someone outside the marriage.
          This lie is being bought even by ministers of the
          gospel!

          Every night and day in this nation, Christians who once
          would not even think such things now indulge in all
          kinds of kinkiness - sadism, pain games, wild
          experimentation. They excuse it by misquoting the
          Scripture, "The marriage bed is undefiled." They twist
          it to mean, "Anything goes between married people!"

          Dear saint, that's a lie from hell! Pornography is not
          innocent - it is dangerous and destructive! It opens
          your home to every kind of demonic attack!

          One Pentecostal minister's wife watched in horror as
          pornographic lust destroyed her husband's anointing and
          changed him into a man she didn't know. He started
          bringing porno movies home and sitting for hours in his
          study, drinking in one filthy film after another. Soon
          he turned into a porno addict. All his relationships
          began to sour. His wife could see the demonic
          influences entering his heart.

          Eventually, he insisted that she watch with him - and
          that they introduce those same sexual acts into their
          marriage. He said if she didn't comply, he'd leave her.

          She didn't want her marriage to fail - so she watched
          the movies with him. She told me "Mr. Wilkerson, at
          first I was ashamed. But within two or three weeks, an
          attraction was building in my heart. It was laying hold
          of me.

          "I was watching one time, and suddenly I realized we
          had opened ourselves to demon possession. We were
          trying to reenact those very scenes in our lives, and
          hell was coming into our hearts! I knew that the people
          who perform in those movies are the children of the
          devil - and we were doing the same things! I ran out
          and fell on my knees and repented and God changed me. I
          told my husband I couldn't do it anymore!"

          Her husband left her. He resigned from the ministry and
          gave himself over to despair. He went downward
          physically and spiritually, and within a year he was
          completely different man.

          But his wife wouldn't give up on him. She prayed for
          him - and her prayers prevailed. God set the man free!
          Today they are both completely restored. He's planning
          to go back into the ministry, and his anointing has
          returned. A good man has been restored, and the whole
          house has been cleansed.

          This family can tell you some thing of the hellish
          stronghold pornography can have on a Christian home.
          They can tell you that teenagers are going to hell,
          because their parents have corrupted their own minds!
          Mom and Dad wake up in the morning, their mind
          replaying scenes of lust... they sit at the dinner
          table thinking of it, they go to bed with their minds
          on it... and right now as I write this, in Christian
          homes all across America, filthy scenes are being
          played, replayed and reenacted that are right out of
          hell!

          I believe I am speaking as an oracle of God to many
          people. This shame has invaded your life and home, and
          you may be blinded to its power. If it has taken hold
          of you, it will destroy you - and God will depart from
          you! When people who were once "separated unto God"
          become so deeply corrupted they become "devoted to
          shameful lust," God must depart He must call for a day
          of recompense! God would not tolerate this deep
          corruption in Israel, and HE won't tolerate it today.
          May you cry out to Him for deliverance!

          If you're reading this and you are involved with
          pornography in any way, run to God - right now fall on
          your knees, dear brother, sister or pastor - because
          the devil has your heart and the Holy Spirit has
          departed from you!

          Up to this point, the Holy Spirit has been the
          "Restrainer" in our society. He has delayed His
          judgment, because we've been a praying people. But when
          God departs His favor and restraining power leave as
          well.

          Can you imagine how totally given over to sin America
          will become when God leaves us? If we remain so
          sin-possessed now while He is near, pleading with us to
          forsake our sin, what will it be like when He leaves?
          What will happen when the Restrainer is gone? How many
          Christians will be overcomers then?

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                              Sign Number Two:
                    There Will Be Tumults And Uprisings
                      Among The People (Hosea 10:14).

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          "Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity....
          Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and
          all thy fortresses shall be spoiled" (Hosea 10:13-14).

          A tumult is an uprising in the land - a noisy,
          disorderly riot. It also means, "inciting people to
          riot and disorder." Tumults best describe what is
          happening in Russia, Yugoslavia, Ireland, South America
          and Albania. God has sent tumults to arouse the masses!
          Why are all these tumults among the nations taking
          place? "Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped
          iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies... -
          Therefore shall a tumult arise" (Hosea 10:13-14).

          God did not need our high-tech bombers or military
          might to bring down the Soviet Union. All He needed was
          a few tumults within their own borders. And now it is
          America's turn! We are going to see tumults rising up
          all over the land. Can you already see the signs of
          emerging race and economic riots?

          When a nation walks in the fear of God and does right
          before Him, God brings a quiet within its borders.
          David said, "(God) being girded with power... stilleth
          the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and
          the tumult of the people" (Psalm 65:6-7).

          But when God departs and He lifts His hand, all hell
          breaks loose. Soon, America's enemy will not be Russia,
          China or nuclear weapons - but violence within our
          gates! The next thing on America's calendar will be
          uprisings among the people. It will be Jew against
          black, black against Korean American, against Japanese,
          white against black.

          I'm not speaking of some vision I've seen. I'm simply
          preaching what Scripture clearly teaches in Hosea. And
          it says: "Tumults are going to rise among your people!"
          And that's a sign that God has lifted His hand, that He
          is departing the nation!

          Jeremiah confirms that tumults are a sign of God's
          wrath and withdrawal. He told backslidden Israel: "For
          the Lord of hosts, that planted thee.. .hath pronounced
          evil against thee, for the evil of the house of
          Israel... which they have done against themselves .with
          the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon
          it" (Jeremiah 11:16-17).

          Zechariah brings out the very same prophecy. God will
          keep His people safe in Him, but those who are anti-God
          will endure the following: "And it shall come to pass
          in that day [meaning, our time] that a great tumult
          from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay
          hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his
          hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor"
          (Zechariah 14:13).

          God is saying, "As My judgment comes upon you, neighbor
          shall lay hand upon neighbor." After listening to the
          news of the past six months, does that sound familiar
          to you? You can forget the terrible Watts riots of the
          sixties. They were nothing compared to what we soon
          will face.

          Beloved, God can remove His hand at any moment! The
          stage is now set in America for riots and tumults
          beyond anything this nation has ever experienced. We
          shake our heads in wonder at what is happening to
          Russia, with all its inner turmoil. But soon Russia and
          the world will shake their heads in disbelief as racial
          and economic tumults sweep across America!

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                             Sign Number Three:
                        Your Children Will Be Given
                   Over to the Murderers! (Hosea 9:13).

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          "Ephraim, as I saw Tyus, is planted in a pleasant
          place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to
          the murderer" (Hosea 9:18).

          This is a shocking prophecy. In the same verse that
          Hosea acknowledges Israel's prosperity, he also says
          their children will be brought forth to murderers!

          Today, not only are our children being murdered, but
          their parents are becoming their murderers. They are
          tormenting, abusing and killing their own children.
          Listen to this story from the New York Daily News:

          "A Bronx couple were arrested on attempted murder and
          child abuse charges yesterday after police said they
          found their 8-year-old daughter cowering in a closet,
          covered with bruises, scars and burns after years of
          torture. The child allegedly had been handcuffed to a
          bathtub railing and burned as punishment for trying to
          hide bits of food to eat. 'She had extensive injuries
          over 95 percent of her body - she looked like walking
          death,' said Detective Scott Wagner....

          "The officers found the girl in a closet, where her
          71-year-old grandmother, Edith Carter, had hidden her
          before admitting the cops.... 'They said it was the
          worst case of abuse they had ever seen on a child who
          lived,' said Detective Sgt. John Ruiz.

          "Edith Carter said that her granddaughter had not gone
          to school for two years. She said her daughter had
          beaten the child over the past five years.... The
          weapons, Ruiz said, were the paddle used to beat the
          girl and handcuffs, belts and straps used to shackle
          her in the bathroom and closet....

          "Carter said that at times, punishment for stealing
          food would be to place the child's hands over a lit
          stove. Other times, she said, the punishment would be
          to handcuff the girl to a handrail in the bathroom.
          'She would sometimes fall asleep in the tub because she
          was tired from standing up,' Carter said."

          I ask you - is what happened in Gibeah any worse than
          this? Mothers and fathers are being exposed by
          celebrities who say, "I was raped in childhood by my
          mother." Who can believe it? Yet before we moved our
          ministry to New York, our hearts were broken over all
          the incest we had to deal with in the hills of East
          Texas. My daughter found a precious two-year-old girl
          who every uncle, grandfather and man in the
          neighborhood had raped. She was so bruised up, I
          couldn't handle it! We brought down the fury of the law
          on those parents.

          Ghetto children are being destroyed before our eyes by
          drugs, alcohol, demon-possessed pushers and gangs.
          There are housing developments in every major city now
          where nearly all teenagers carry guns, knives and other
          weapons to protect themselves. There is hardly an
          apartment in these buildings that has not lost a child
          or relative. These children are being killed - or else
          they become the murderers!

          Two boys robbed a Dallas shoe store recently, leaving
          with an armload of sneakers. They just had to have the
          special sneakers that this greedy nation has said they
          must have (for over $100 a pair!). A bystander tried to
          stop them by pulling the keys out of the boys' car -
          and one of the boys pulled out a gun and shot the man
          in cold blood. The killer was four-teen years old.

          I ask you - what will become of our nation when God
          lifts His hand completely? We're singing, "God bless
          America," while judgment knocks at the door. And we
          don't want to hear it! You may put down this message,
          flop down in front of a TV and forget every word I've
          said. But I urge you, if you can't get rid of it, at
          least control your television habit - because TV has
          caused the very things I'm talking about!

          Moses warned of the grave consequences of God's curse
          upon nations that forsake Him: "Cursed shall be the
          fruit of thy body" (Deuteronomy 28:18). Isaiah warned
          that God will "punish the world for their evil, and the
          wicked for their iniquity.... Every one that is found
          shall be thrust through.... Their children also shall
          be dashed to pieces before their eyes" (Isaiah 18:11,
          15-16). I tell you, our children are being dashed to
          pieces on the news, in the newspapers - before our very
          eyes!

          There is one more sign that God gives us - and it is
          one that involves every true believer. Thank God, it
          gives us hope:

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                          Sign Number Four:
                       In the Midst of Turmoil,
                        God Will Have a People
                          Seeking Him for an
                     Outpouring Of Righteousness!
                            (Hosea 10:12).

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          Here's the sign: that in the middle of all this chaos,
          God will have a people who are becoming more holy, more
          pure and more righteous. They will call on His name,
          and He will rain down His righteousness upon them.

          I think this is one of the most beautiful verses in all
          of Hosea: "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in
          mercy; breakup your fallow ground: for it is time to
          seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon
          you" (Hosea 10:12). Yes, God is visiting us today with
          His judgment and His wrath. But today is also the day
          to seek God for a great outpouring of His
          righteousness!

          Hosea was echoing God's heart-cry. The Lord cries out
          to everyone who still seeks after Him: "Yes, there is
          shame, there is backsliding on all sides. Indeed, it is
          an evil time. But if you will seek Me in this day of
          visitation, I'll pour out upon you My beautiful
          holiness. In the midst of shame I desire a people
          yearning for purity. And I will pour it out upon you if
          you will seek Me."

          In Hosea's time, this cry fell on deaf ears. There is
          no evidence that even a remnant heeded the prophet's
          call. There was no rain of righteousness, because
          nobody stood in the gap and said, "I will seek the Lord
          in these shameful days!"

          But God has a holy remnant in America today! And He
          says, "You are to seek Me until I come and rain
          righteousness down upon you. It won't be just a few
          drops - I'm going to flood you!"

          The word "rain," as used here in Hebrew, is "a
          pinpointed rain, directed as an arrow." God will shoot
          His arrow of righteousness down to create a hunger and
          thirst in us. And it will fall upon those who are
          turning to the Lord with seeking hearts.

          This "pinpointed rain" also means that it's not going
          to hit everybody. No, it's not going to fall on the
          whole church. If you're thinking of a national or
          international revival of the whole church world, you
          can forget about it. God's rain will be a spotted rain.
          It will fall wherever God finds a people who truly
          hunger and thirst after Jesus... who are sick and tired
          of their sin... who rise up and say, "As for me and my
          house, we will serve the Lord. We will seek Him - there
          will be no devil in this house!"

          Beloved, the outpouring of righteousness we seek is not
          one of signs and wonders. Thank God the Red Sea opened
          and Israel went through on dry ground - but that didn't
          impress Israel. They soon forgot and backslid in spite
          of it all. Thank God the walls of Jericho fell - but
          afterward Israel fell into corruption right away. Thank
          God Lazarus was raised from the dead - but soon the
          Jews sought to kill him and Jesus!

          Miracles and wonders have never had a lasting
          impression. The only thing that will impress a wicked
          society is a rain of righteousness and a revival of
          holiness among God's people.

          You see, a people who walk clean and pure in a wicked
          generation stand out as lights. They beam in the
          darkness, full of Jesus, holy, righteous and pure. They
          are untouched, unmarked. "Ask ye of the Lord rain in
          the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make
          bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every
          one grass in the field" (Zechariah 10:1).

          God came to Amos and said, "Tell the people I'm tired
          of their silly festivals and their flag-waving. I'm
          sick of their solemn assemblies. I'm now seeking a
          people who will look to me for an outpouring of
          righteousness." "But let judgment run down as waters,
          and righteousness as a mighty stream" (see Amos
          5:21-24). The mighty stream of God's righteousness is
          going to run through narrow channels - only through
          those who yearn for Him! As I sought the Lord for this
          message, I trembled with the fear of God. I prayed,
          "Lord, show me the real secret behind those who live
          holy, godly lives. What makes them able to overcome
          their lust and sin and walk righteously with You, year
          after year? What is it that, while the world is going
          to hell, makes them shine brighter and brighter?"

          The answer: Holy men and women who walk in
          righteousness all share the same awesome fear of God.
          They have more than a vision of His grace and love.
          They know a dread of His utter holiness - that no evil
          shall endure His presence!

          "In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence.... The
          fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from
          the snares~of death" (Proverbs 16:26-27). "By the fear
          of the Lord men depart from evil" (Proverbs 16:6). "It
          shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he
          prolong his days... because he feareth not before God"
          (Ecclesiastes 8:18). "Sanctify the Lord of hosts
          himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your
          dread" (Isaiah 8:18).

          Those who continue blindly in their sin have been
          hardened from the fear of God. Isaiah asked, "O Lord,
          why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and
          hardened our heart from thy fear?" (Isaiah 63:17). God
          answered, "Because you so loved your sin, I gave you
          over to it. You didn't want to be delivered, you didn't
          want My fear. So I closed your heart to it."

          Jeremiah said, "You sin because the fear of God is not
          in you!" "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and
          thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and
          see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast
          forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in
          thee, saith the Lord God of hosts" (Jeremiah 2:19). The
          prophet is saying, "Your sin is a terrible, bitter
          thing - and it's going to destroy you, because My fear
          is not in your heart."

          Dear saint, I pray that God puts His dread and fear in
          your heart. God means His Word! He once told Moses, one
          of the meekest men in the world, "Since you've sinned
          against Me before the people, you will not enter the
          Promised Land." (Thank God, He took that meek man into
          the true Canaan!). If the Lord did that with a holy
          Moses, what will He do with us on the earth at this
          time? He's saying an absolute "No!" to your sin and
          lust!

          If you are guilty of anything that has to do with
          adultery, fornication or a secret affair, God is saying
          to you, "My judgment is coming. And I'm going to have a
          people that are righteous and pure. Seek Me, and I will
          rain down My righteousness on you. I'll cleanse you.
          Just call on Me and seek Me with all your heart, and
          I'll pour out My rain on you." Before His final
          judgments fall, God wants to bathe you in His precious
          blood and His Word.

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          Box 260, Lindale, TX 75771 USA.

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