The Judgment Of God Is At Hand!

The Spirit of the Lord spoke to me this morning and said 3 things to me.
1. Look up for your redemption draweth nigh
2. Even the Stork knoweth her time.
3. Least it come upon you unawares.

That was my lead of the Spirit to get into the Word of God. (For those of you who find the King James offensive, sorry, but that’s what I was raised on since salvation, so that’s how the Holy Spirit prompts me.)

Luke 21:28
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

What “things” is Jesus referring to here?
(Before all the things listed He said they will persecute the children of God.)
False Christs, false prophets
Wars and commotions
Nation rising against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom
Great earthquakes in divers places (divers means: various)
Famines and pestilences
Fearful sights and Great signs from Heaven
Jerusalem shall be surrounded by enemies
Signs in the Sun, moon and stars
The nations of the earth will be in great distress (bewildered & confused)
The sea and the waves will roar
Men’s hearts will fail them, they will be overcome by fear
The powers of Heaven will be shaken

Jeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

How sad “God’s people” didn’t understand that His judgment was coming.
In chapter 7 you will see what God had pre-warned them of:

23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

And did they pay heed?

24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

And folks they didn’t listen to the prophets that God sent to warn them either.

If you continue in Chapter 8 you will see how it was back in Jeremiahs time:

They had rejected the Word of the Lord.
They were totally given over to covetousness; in other words they were overtaken with the cares of the world.
From the Priest to the Prophet they were deceivers.
They were promising good things, and peace.
They had no shame neither could they even blush.( In other words they had no sense of shame.)
Therefore the Lord told them that He would destroy them.
He told them He would take away everything which He had given them.
God told them that He was hurt because His people were hurt, Israel had been led astray.
Jesus Christ feels the same way today about His sheep that have been led astray.

Now if this doesn’t mirror the time in which we are living today what does?

Luke 21:34-36
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Folks we need to break of our entanglements with this world, those things that distract us from what God has called us to do.