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. 7 He 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 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 its 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 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.
Jesus
placed His power and authority 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 pray against this
darkness. In the Name of Jesus, the Body of Christ has power over
every demonic power and the very power of Satan himself. He can do
nothing but cower in the darkness when we invoke 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 will be cast down
and give way for the Mighty Lamb of God. Thanks be unto God who
always gives us the victory over all things in the Name of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Praise God forever!
Amen and amen.
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