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Wake Up America

Today’s Date is 09/25/2022

It is Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year festival, it is marked by the blowing of the shofar, and begins the ten days of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur. It is indeed a time of inner renewal and divine atonement.

By the time you read this, the Jewish New Year festival will be done, but the timing of this prophesy is not strange at all. I hope that each one who reads this feature article is as moved by this godly message as I was.

I have searched the Scriptures that speak of God's judgment upon men and nations. And I have discovered certain "flash points" of His judgment, moments when the blood cried out from the ground and God had to move!

I believe God is speaking to America right now through His word to Ephraim. You see, Ephraim is a type of any nation lifted high in its beginning. It represents any people who are blessed above all others and prospered, is powerful, influential, feared, and respected when in God's favor.

Ephraim was the largest, most prosperous, and powerful of Israel's twelve tribes. They had been brought to fruitfulness by the goodness and mercy of God. But God brought Ephraim down to the pits of poverty because of habitual evils!

The Bible warns us: "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our warning, upon whom the ends of the world are come" (1 Corinthians 10:11). God is saying, "Search the Scriptures, and go to the prophets. See what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah. Find out why I sent the Flood. Learn why and when I send My judgments!"

I went to these passages, and I discovered a pattern. And that is, if we sin in the same way they did, we're going to pay the same price they all did! God rained fire on Sodom and Gomorrah as "a curse unto those that after should live ungodly" (2 Peter 2:6). And if America continues in ungodliness, God will send fire from heaven on us as well, a nuclear rain!

Hosea gave many reasons for God's impending judgment on Ephraim. But there are three that relate directly to America:

1. There Was No More Truth, Mercy or Knowledge of God in the Land! (Hosea 4:1).

At one time Ephraim had been an evangelistic tribe, on fire for the Lord. But the wicked Jeroboam was now king, and he went wild after idols. He set up golden calves at each end of the nation and he made it legal to worship these idols.

Sin began to creep into the nation and soon everything degenerated. Prophets were mocked. The houses of God were shut down. Ungodly priests and false teachers were given office and they spent their time deceiving the people and removing all true worship of Jehovah God.

Their removal of God from their midst birthed a merciless society of unruly children and sensuous adults. Now there was only "swearing, and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break out and blood touches blood" (Hosea 4:2). The people had "broken out" from every godly restraint that held their society together. Under Jeroboam, Ephraim was wholly given over to idolatry, yet the law itself defended their apostasy!

I ask you: Have you ever in your lifetime seen such immorality and sin as are "breaking out" in America right now? Yet what should we expect in a nation that pushes God aside and that mocks truth and ridicules righteousness that hates God and despises Christ?

Should we be alarmed that in the past 75 years crime has gone up 520 percent in our schools? We now live in a day when metal detec-

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tors are installed in school entrances. Our kids go to class fearing gunfire in the halls!

2. The More They Prospered, the More They Sinned!

History has proven again and again that the more powerful and prosperous a nation becomes, the more the people tend to turn away from God. When prosperity came to Ephraim, they abused their abundance: "As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore, will I change their glory into shame"

(Hosea 4:7).

Our fathers who framed the Constitution agreed that all of America's blessings came "from God and His Christ." They warned that America would fall into corruption and shame if God was ever rejected. Oh, how far we have come from that today! Now God is making His judgment clear: "I'm going to change your glory into shame!"

Our economy is in shambles. In the past 75 years America has gone from being the world's greatest lending nation to the number-one debtor nation.

Do you think all this is just natural that this decay eating away at America is mere happenstance? No! God said, "You have forgotten Me! And in the height of your prosperity, I will come upon you and cast the shadow of shame over every proud thing you gloried in!"

3. God Says, "I'm going to judge You Because of Deep Corruption Caused by Rampant abominations!"

God's wrath is upon us because most Americans have lost their values! There are masses of people who would not move an inch to defend America against an enemy aggressor, yet they would gladly lay down their lives to defend abortion rights.

America was once renowned as a defender of truth and justice. Now, we have become defenders of baby killers and perversions. It is at this point that God moves! "Therefore, He will remember their iniquity, He will visit their sins" (Hosea 9:9). When God says, "I'm going to visit you!” He means a visitation of sudden judgment! This abomination is unclean in God’s kingdom. Now we are facing an epidemic that requires constant cleaning of hands! Is this a coincidence, I think not!

America's problems could be turned around overnight, if only we would repent as a nation and cry out to God, "Forgive us! Come back to us, deliver us and we will put our lives in Your hands so you can clean ours!"

I believe God would put an end to covid. The economy would become robust again. The job market would recover. Crime would go down and America would regain all its lost ground!

Yet the attitude of America's courts and government toward God is, "Don't touch us! We don't want you here!" How foolish! How unwise can a people be?

2. All That Was Once Fruitful Will Become Barren, Withered and Dead! (Hosea 13:15)

God once promised to "command (His) blessing" upon those who "would hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments" (Deuteronomy 28:1, 8). He told Ephraim, "If you'll just walk in My commandments and if you'll honor me and obey My Word, I will command My blessings upon you!"

Like Ephraim, America has been above all else fruitful. We sing of "America, the Beautiful" of "spacious skies" and "fruited plains." But rampant sin has brought on a curse of barrenness! God says: "Though He is fruitful among His brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness and His spring shall become dry, and His fountain shall be dried up: He shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels" (Hosea 13:15). God is saying that He will spoil all our precious resources!

For Ephraim, the east wind that blew in from the wilderness was the great Assyrian army. The Assyrians swept over the nation and plundered it, carrying away its wealth and leaving it desolate, a beggar nation.

America will also experience "a withering wind from the Lord!" His wind is blowing right now and it's withering the stock market, the economy, marriages, and schools. All are being withered and made dry! We are no longer the most productive, but instead have been helpless to stop the withering and decay of our once-great institutions and corporations. We have lost our influence. America is now the tail and not the head!

When God's wind blew on Jerusalem, the city was left empty and dry! "He turned rivers into a wilderness, and the water-springs into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein" (Psalm 107:33-

34).

What lies ahead for America? A withering of all things! God's wind is now blowing, and He is doing what He said He would do, spoiling our treasures.

Take Hope Because There Are Bright Clouds on the Horizon for a Holy Remnant!

During all the withering judgments, God is going to cause a holy remnant to grow and flourish. Listen to God's message to Hosea: "I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for My anger is turned away from Him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree. We're going to be a people bearing

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fruit, spreading our branches full of Christ! This prophecy has to do with both natural Israel and a holy remnant. The Spirit will fall as dew upon God's called, and they will grow on the vine, a people dependent on the Lord, bearing fruit, while the ungodly wither and die.

God is calling out His remnants, ones He purposed a calling long before they were born for a time such as this. I believe that they are being notified as I speak. They will be getting a fresh mindset. You will recognize them by their fruit. The Transformation will soon happen. While some in beach waters, they will move oceans by the power of God flowing in them.

Remnants, Respond to His Calling!

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the

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measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

The New Man

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Do Not Grieve the Spirit

Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:11-32

Christians are going to have to live on the Word of God: so that you can receive from The Holy Spirit, Who is wise and understands these things? For the ways of the Lord are right and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein".

If you know God is in control, you can lie back in His arms and say, "Thank You, Jesus." You can rest in the knowledge that God has everything under control.

Hallelujah!

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