Yes, but if you read the description of the great whore, it is pretty descriptive of us. There have been many civilizations that sound like the description, but they weren’t in the right timeframe. It’s just an interesting idea to me, that I would like to explore. We are awfully proud of ourselves.
We’re the latest possibility down the block.
Our question is what shall we do, seeing ourselves looking like that in the mirror.
We can’t speak to all ages — God has no grandchildren — but by the grace of God we may still be able to speak to our own age, and stave off the situation. Perhaps the ultimate age of the Whore will be when there isn’t any more significant Christian presence to buck the turning of this rich land into that profligate Whore. Maybe the Whore is a worldwide, collective phenomenon and to pin it on just one country isn’t even fair.
Again I believe the existence of the warning is to prod the children of God into action in obedience to the Lord. When the Lord lets the Whore crash, she will, whatever it is. Perhaps (peradventure as the KJV puts it) our obedience here will still stave that off. But if not, He will still keep His promises to us.
We’re the latest possibility down the block.
Our question is what shall we do, seeing ourselves looking like that in the mirror.
We can’t speak to all ages — God has no grandchildren — but by the grace of God we may still be able to speak to our own age, and stave off the situation. Perhaps the ultimate age of the Whore will be when there isn’t any more significant Christian presence to buck the turning of this rich land into that profligate Whore. Maybe the Whore is a worldwide, collective phenomenon and to pin it on just one country isn’t even fair.
Again I believe the existence of the warning is to prod the children of God into action in obedience to the Lord. When the Lord lets the Whore crash, she will, whatever it is. Perhaps (peradventure as the KJV puts it) our obedience here will still stave that off. But if not, He will still keep His promises to us.
And I speak again of today. God wants us to act while it is still today and we are still in position to do so. Another age will come when scoffing will take over. I’ve been oppressed by scoffing spirits. I’ve not always turned in a great performance when I have been thus oppressed, other than just hanging in there and looking personally to the Lord, laying low and resting. But even the Elijahs of the world had times of fainting after great exertions, and that is where the mercy of the Lord was shown.
To continue the dialogue, pride is indeed the danger, and if, to speak hypothetically, Donald Trump and his supporters had no interest in God or Christ, that would be the logical end of where we would go — to become a proud Whore.
This does not (thank God, thank God, thank God) appear to be the case!
Donald’s vision started out with a “role for Christians.” Well, their role as assigned by God is as earthen vessels of the supernatural Christ. God tossed Donald a package and didn’t initially spell out to him exactly what would be in it when it was unwrapped. But the bible sure spells it out to us.
I do not believe the age of the Whore is yet here. We’ve flirted with it, but the Lord has been raising up a standard.