Joel
1:1, “The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their
children, and their children another generation. 4 That which the
palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust
hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm
hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and
weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for
it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation is come up upon my
land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a
lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7He hath laid my
vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and
cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.”
Joel
viewed this plague of locust as an invading army descending upon the
nation of Israel as the judgment of God. The call had been given to
repent and return to the theocratic rule of the Lord God Jehovah.
Israel had refused and rebelled against God and God’s messengers.
Our
world is descending into this pit of darkness at an alarming pace. We
are now observing disorder and dissension at every level of
governance. It began at the national levels and is bleeding down into
the regional and local levels. It is affecting the small communities
and individual families.
The
calamity and chaos will not stop! It will not go away! It will
invariably come to your house and to mine unless the problem is
addressed. As a people, we have a deep seated spiritual problem! It
goes down deep into the soul, embedding itself in the very heart of
every human being. The root of the issue is SIN and an unwillingness
to REPENT and TURN from that SIN. This plague and every plague of
darkness draws it’s strength from SIN and REBELLION.
No
person or group of people are immune from this disease of
indifference, hatred and darkness that has invaded our land. This too
is like the plague of locust described in the book of Joel. This
plague will continue moving deliberately, methodically and with
absolute certainty unless it is challenged by the Power Of Heaven.
The Church, the Body of Christ must rise up in the power of Almighty
God, in the power of His Holy Spirit that indwells these mortal
bodies. We must rise up in the name above every name, the Name of
Jesus Christ, and CHALLENGE this demon from the pit of hell. Jesus
said in Mark 16:17, “And these signs shall follow them that
believe; IN MY NAME shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with
new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover.”
Jesus placed the Power Of Heaven
within the Body of Christ to address every ill of our ailing society.
We must rise up in the power and authority of Jesus Christ and
address the chaotic state of our world! We must rise up in prayer in
the Holy Ghost and STAND against this darkness. In the Name of Jesus
the Body of Christ has power and authority over every demonic power
and the very power of Satan himself. He can do nothing but cower in
the darkness when the BLOOD bought Child of God invokes the Name of
Jesus. Jesus’ blood has conquered him and he knows he is defeated.
Philippians 2:10, “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the
earth;” Hell and the depth of everything in it must be cast down
and give way for the Mighty Lamb of God. Praise God forever and
thanks be unto God who always gives us the victory over all things in
the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!
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