Our troubled world: Let’s continue the discussion

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Monday, June 20th, 2022

by Ken Pullen

A CROOKED PATH

 

I recently received an email from a sister in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, a friend:

 

As you know, throughout the Old Testament, the Lord our God used various ancient pagan groups to bring disaster (Sword, Famine, Pestilence: Judgment) upon the Israelis.   For quite some time I’ve been thinking that He used Bolsheviks/Marxists and Hitler’s National Socialists to bring disaster upon an apostate Christendom (location of the announcement of God’s death) and upon Eastern Europe, particularly apostate Orthodox Russia.

Now it’s our turn.  It is not inconceivable that He is using the demonically controlled apostate crowd—various church leadership (within the entire denominational spectrum), Democrats, Leftists, and Ruling Class in general.

I further believe that the Western European church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Protestant church here in America served as hands of restraint.  With the fall of these lands, the hand of restraint will be removed.   Just as there is something left of Christendom and Orthodox Russia, so there will be something left of the U.S.      

But insofar as we can see there will no longer be a hand of restraint upon the world.   So….will this create the conditions for the end and how long will be it before the end?   We have no answers.

Any thoughts? 

Linda

 

Here is my reply:

My Dear Sister in the faith of our Lord,

I would like to use the discussion begun here as a piece for A Crooked Path. If that’s okay with you.

I was watching a talk given by John Woodhouse this evening with my wife, and he was speaking on 2 Kings 5 and Naaman. This was a continuation of his speaking about 2 Kings and while it isn’t read much or preached on it directly relates to our times and our troubled world.

Naaman is a perfect Biblical example of what you brought up in this email conversation.

Right in verse 1 of 2 Kings 5 it clearly, plainly states the Lord had given Naaman the victory in the battle concluding 1 Kings. Naaman was an important person in Syria. Big shot. Commander of the king’s army. Highly revered.

Also the poster person for paganism and Baal worship. And the Lord was with Naaman in the battle against Ahab and against the armies of Israel. His chosen people.

As Woodhouse spoke, reading first from Romans 1 in his first talk about this, the people thinking they were wise became fools. And due to their evil turning from Him they were given over. By God. To their wickedness — with direct and dire consequences.

Adam and Eve were given over. Cain was given over. All the people in the times of Noah except his family were given over. The Israelites in the desert after the Lord worked to free them from Egypt’s slavery were given over due to their disobedience and not one person that originally left Egypt entered the Promised Land. Due to God’s wrath at their saying with their lips, they knew Him and would obey, but always falling away, always turning from Him to their disobedience.

As you wrote and I mentioned a bit all this is present in recent history of the 20th century and what is happening presently.

The people are foolish. The people are fools who have turned from God to their own ways, to evil’s ways.

And God has given them over.

It may cause many professed believers to have a short circuit in their minds when reading the account of Naaman, a right proper big man in Syria, as pagan a nation as it can be, the land of Baal being given victory in battle over His chosen people Israel, but that is what God did.

Used Naaman and the pagan army of Syria to discipline His very disobedient children. As their loving Father who only wanted to bless them and have them prosper if only they would cease their constant rebellion, love of the world and what was popular among the pagan, heathen nations around them.

And God used a pagan Baal worshipper to slay the king of Israel, a wicked king who took as his wife Jezebel, and the people in the kingdom of Israel in the north were unrecognizable as God’s people in their worship of Baal and their paganism taking over what they knew was right. Paganism and evil, the people became visible evil in their denial of, turning from God. Going from light to darkness. From life and mercy and salvation to death and destruction.

Because they would not submit, obey, repent and turn to the Lord.

Being utter fools. The greatest foolishness on earth — denying God, turning from God, being disobedient to God which always leads a person to some form of paganism as their worldy worship even though they refuse to see this truth.

Anyway — I’d like to use our discussion as the foundation for my elaborating on the truth everything —EVERYTHING — is about the state of mankind in our nation.

Will people come to believe, even though at first rejecting the truth, as Naaman did? To cure his leprosy?

Your brother in Christ,

Ken

 

I asked my sister and friend if she would mind if I carried our discussion over to ACP and elaborated on it more, as this is the crux, the element needed in building the right, strong, foundation to understand, to grow, to withstand the times.

As God works, John Woodhouse, a man of God, was able to be in America last month at the Basics Conference 2022. I will be referencing his wonderful words as he was led by the Holy Spirit in my feeble attempt to discuss our troubled world in the hope a few people find this and perhaps it begins to change their heart, their mind, and the way they may have been thinking about things, or if they haven’t been thinking about matters as they ought to be.

As my friend, Linda began this discussion; the Lord our God used various ancient pagan groups to bring disaster (Sword, Famine, Pestilence: Judgment) upon the Israelis.   For quite some time I’ve been thinking that He used Bolsheviks/Marxists and Hitler’s National Socialists to bring disaster upon an apostate Christendom…

All events in world history, none escaping, God is Sovereign over all. Not controlling us like a puppeteer pulling our strings. Every thread in the fabric of history, beginning in the Garden of Eden, throughout every word and chapter in the Old Testament, to the New Testament, to this very moment you find yourself here has to do with man and woman’s obedience to God or our disobedience to God.

Does a man, a woman recognize God for Who He is and submit, honor, give all the glory to, and obey? Or reject? Thus they are given up by God. [see Romans 1].

Want to see our troubled world of 2022 clearly?

Here’s the truth about our troubled world:

“Claiming to be wise, they became fools, for there could be anything more foolish than this… they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for something else…therefore God gave them up.”

“The truth of our troubled world was once the truth about the nation of Israel. And that’s what the second book of Kings is all about.” 

~John Woodhouse [excerpted from the talk found in the first video below]

From the beginning, the disobedience of man has led to every trouble in our world. Resulting in the world’s most tragic historical event, the sin of man destroying Paradise, his relationship with God, and bringing death and every woe to this world.

Bringing about every historical event in God’s Word, which far too few read, study, know, and can apply to their thinking and living when required. Thus a preponderance of the professed being more of the world than of the Word.

And, yes, all this is directly linked to ancient and CURRENT pagan groups, the Bolsheviks/Marxists and Hitler’s National Socialists, the world wars, famines, the rise of violence, and the making lawless the laws.

The people HAVE BEEN GIVEN OVER by God to their wickedness. Not because God has any part of sin or evil, heaven forbid! No way! But as a loving God, and a jealous God, and Jesus who created all that is known, and by Their will, their mercy, their grace every person with breath, every person with a heartbeat each of those breaths, every one of those heartbeats occur solely by the will of God.

Do you think of that daily? If ever? Well, that is a fact. That is a truth far too many avoid.

There is little or no thought given to God, Jesus, and the Word of God.

Let alone much understanding or obedience.

In past history, so many times, when God’s people strayed and turned to the world, being given over to their innate reprobate, wicked, evil minds the Lord our God has been patient. Kind. Longsuffering. Forgiving to THOSE WHO REPENT AND TURN BACK TO HIM.

But there is coming a time when any and all that are given over by God to their reprobate, wicked sinful hearts and minds will not have time to repent. They will have fallen into such an abyss of evil and darkness their hearts are so dead and cold they will not have any desire arise in them to repent, to recognize, and turn to the Lord.

If the Lord does not shorten the days even the elect would be lost due to where our troubled world is swiftly undertaking.

What passes for most of Christianity is perverse to the Lord. How can I write such a thing? Look around, listen, and learn of the Great Falling Away, the increase of antichrists teaching an unsound doctrine, a false gospel, a different gospel than the one we are taught in the Word of God.

There is a reason we have every word within the Old Testament. Why do so many ignore these words of instruction and spiritual growth if turned to and written on our hearts?

There is a reason everything in history happens. Most of the events are due to the level of sin and evil within the hearts and minds of men and women.

Yes, it’s our turn.

Our people, our nation, and our leaders have been given over by God to their reprobate, wicked, evil minds.

Not because God has anything to do with evil, but because of their open, blatant, arrogant, and foolish disobedience and God’s knowing their hearts and minds are forever lost. A terrible knowledge. A pain to God beyond any pain any person can know or endure.

But the wickedness, evil, and foolishness of men and women make this so. Not because God desires this, but God is immutable. God is very clear. Turn to Him, submit, obey, and do not suppress the truth, do not abide in the world, do not repudiate the Word of God and accept, know, and obey His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ faithfully and be saved. Do not fall, do not stray, be separate from the world and obey and keep from being given over.

All others? They are given over. They are lost. They are the walking dead.

It’s always been like this. It remains so.

There is no having our cake, loving the world, being a friend of the world, and eating it too.

We are either obedient to God and His Word. Or we are fools. Given over. Lost. Dead.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans 1:16-32 — English Standard Version

I hope and pray each person finding themselves here will humble themselves, submit to the Lord, and believe in every word within the Word. Repent. Ask forgiveness. Honor God with the honor He demands and requires as God. And do not waver. Grow in spiritual understanding, wisdom, and strength by a strong prayer life and spending more time in the Word of God than thinking necessary.

Less time consumed of and by the world looking to men and women as a solution.

More time going to the only solution. To everything. God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God.

Each person makes choices of who and what to follow and believe.

Most turn to themselves, other people, things — evil, thus turned to  Satan, to paganism, to Baal which still exists.

Few turn to God.

Really? How can this be?

“Claiming to be wise, they became fools, for there could be anything more foolish than this… they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for something else…therefore God gave them up.”

The world exists to suppress the truth.

Our prayer for our troubled world is:

“Lord have mercy…”

Coming to our senses, coming to repentance.

I also pray you will now open and watch the speaking of John Woodhouse regarding these matters, our troubled world and why, how, and what, and who — and making clear what we all need to do in our troubled world.

I would not attempt to assign a time, any time to how much time we have left. To do so goes against the Word of God, and to all those that have assigned a time, a day, an hour, and all those thinking they can do so? Or fall prey to Satan doing this under the guise of coming from a knowing Christian? Woe to you! If you are not clear on this, do not know the Scripture text pertaining to this and no one knows the hour and no one ought to attempt to declare the time of the Lord’s return that would be some good Bible homework to discover that in Scripture and write it on your heart.

I would never attempt to assign a time — but I do know this using the sense the Good Lord gave me, the mind the Good Lord gave me and being keen to observe and spend time in His Word — unless we the people truly repent, truly ask mercy and forgiveness, unless we turn back to the Lord and from the world? As in perhaps no other time in world history? With the speed at which events are occurring and evil grows? And the rise of false teachings along with the Great Falling Away? I cannot see as many in the world speak of what the next 1,000, or 100 years will be like. At the rate of embracing evil and turning from God we have adopted over the past 50 years, and such accelerating ever faster with greater erosion, perversion, and decline? I can’t imagine this world having another 100 years remaining.

Not without a true, massive repentance from we the people to the Lord our God for our sin, our turning from Him and the Lord Jesus Christ, our turning from the Word of God, our corrupting the Word of God, for our embracing or permitting all the wickedness and evil we have permitted. And now embrace. Now exalt. Now worship.

JOHN WOODHOUSE’S TALK BEGINS AT THE 19-MINUTE AND 49-SECOND MARK IN THIS VIDEO:

https://youtu.be/X47MRKOzGDk

 

JOHN WOODHOUSE’S TALK BEGINS AROUND THE 15-MINUTE AND 12-SECOND MARK ON THIS VIDEO:

https://youtu.be/XnNsGxU9P_A

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