THE CHASTENING AND COMING JUDGMENT.

“Those whom I love I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent”- Rev. 3:19
There is a great chastening of the Church that is coming. It is a chastening that is geared toward reformation, restoration and re-awakening. Equally the gavel of judgments will soon come down heavily on the world.
God is permitting a great persecution to come upon the end time Church to make her rapturable.
God’s judgments are coming upon the nations to drive many to seek the true God and surrender to Him.
All that men have put their trust on; all that men have looked to for safety; all that men have relied on or looked to for back up, God will cause them to fail and disappoint men. People or nations that have relied on the arm of flesh will be so disappointed, disillusioned and left in the cold. The many that do not turn to God will be destroyed.
The purging and pruning of God will appear merciless, but it is a necessary measure or else many will not return back to God - they will be lost to hell. This is not God’s will and would not please Him in any way.
Salvation by compulsion through the mighty and outstretched hand of God is not alien to the scripture. The Bible records in Luke 14:23: “And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the high ways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”
Pestilences, economic disasters: wealth devaluation, unprecedented hardship and lack, natural disasters: earthquakes, land slides, flash floods, cyclone, tornadoes and hurricanes happening at such unseen proportions and devastations, bewilderment and confusion will drive many to seek the true God. Many will cry out for deliverance but only a remnant of them will be saved by the blood of Jesus.
God gave me a revelation in which I saw people practically diving into the kingdom and joining the family of God- It was a sort of “a dive for your life” in which survival is hinged on. This is God’s invitation by fire by force in order to save many from destruction.
It is certain many will become born again in such manner. It is written: “For thou, O God hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried, thou bringhtest us into the net; thou laids affliction upon our loins. Thou have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou bringhtest us into a wealthy place” (Psalms 66:10-12).
Ever since God sent out His invitation through His Son, His Prophets, His Apostles and Disciples and now us; men always spurn and ridicule His invitation.
The Church of God now depicts the Laodicea church. It is nauseating to God and makes God really sad. God by His Spirit has promised to cleanse His Church in a similar manner Jesus cleared the temple with a whip of heathen and pseudo – believers.
All sorts of merchandising now goes on in the Church in the name of “breakthrough” and “miracles”; all sorts of sermons are taught and preached in the name of “prosperity” and “blessings”; Christians do all sorts and go any lengths for ecclesiastical titles and positions; Christians give their leaders all sorts of “gifts” in order to curry favour and to remain in their good books. And the attitude of the leaders: Senior Pastors, Bishops, General Overseers and Superintendents etc are: for as long they are paying their “tithes” and giving their “offerings” and the church is “growing” we are satisfied and there is no problem. God says, “I will visit my Church and cleanse it.”
Jeremiah 7:8-15 says: “But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. “Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! Declares the LORD. “Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. While you were doing all these things, declares the LORD, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer. Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim”.
We have now entered a new phase in God’s agenda – a frightening one for that matter, therefore God in His mercy and righteous judgment will begin to save those he has foreknown. It will be hash and possibly brutal - a necessary whipping on the back.
I must say this now, you do not have to be compelled to be saved or join the family of God. Why don’t you walk into the hands of Jesus freely now. The chastening and judgments is coming!
Maran'atha