Good morning,
While
I was reading the news last week, I suddenly realized that we are not
just dealing with history in the making. We are also dealing with
really ancient prophecy being fulfilled in front of our eyes. Moses,
who wrote the first five books of the Bible over 3,000 years ago was far
more than a leader and a historian. Moses was also a prophet who wrote
out God’s standards for blessing and cursing those people who would
claim to follow him as their God. Just before he died he wrote out what
people could expect if they would follow God with all their hearts.
Blessing and wonderful rewards would be theirs as long as they stayed
true to their promises to follow their God. He also warned them that if
they turned away from him to other god’s he would turn away from them
and bring a curse on their country and his people. What Moses prophesied
for the people who would turn away from him then is still in force for
us today.
Moses described the people then as a senseless
nation who were foolish and without understanding. They were living in
denial of their responsibility to the God who had given them life and
had made them his special people. They were making all their plans about
life and success as though they were in control of life and their
fate. Moses then prophesied that instead of blessings and rewards he
would give them up to his anger and their enemies. Instead of his
people being able to chase their enemies by the thousands, now one
person would be able to chase a thousand of them, and two people would
put ten thousand of them to flight. Have you noticed that earlier this
year two men had hundreds of people running away from their bombs at a
race, one man with his gun shut down a whole town on the east coast and
last week one man shut down a major airport on the west coast. Just one
or two are doing what Moses said we could expect them to do when the
Lord gives a people up because they have turned away from God. America
is not Israel, but our country was founded on the guidelines of the
Bible and now we have foolishly turned away from him. May the Lord help
those of us who have stayed true to our God, also stay committed to
sharing God’s love and forgiveness with those who will turn back to
following our eternal God.
Deuteronomy 32:28 “But
Israel is a senseless nation; the people are foolish, without
understanding. 29 Oh, that they were wise and could understand this! Oh,
that they might know their fate! 30 How could one person chase a
thousand of them, and two people put ten thousand to flight, unless
their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Roy Wisner
