WARNING SIGNS- WILL YOU GIVE ATTENTION TO GOD?

Please pray that the world will NOT push against Israel. Much of the world's chaos and judgement is coming due to it's opposition to God and his redemptive plan for Israel which is part of his bigger redemptive plan for everyone and everything. God's word is very clear about it

• “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him (Jesus Christ-Yeshua Ha-Maschiac) whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn." Zechariah 12:10

Is God's redemption not the single most important issue to face our individual souls, communities, and the nations? and we run from and deny it........we rebel against it????

• "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son (Jesus Christ-Yeshua Ha-Maschiac), that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

Has anything made you weep lately? How about bitter weeping? Have you ever cried over and mourned the loss of your child or someone so connected to you that it impacted your physicality and emotions to the point that you could do or think nothing? If so you KNOW the all consuming power that love and grief and sorrow and longing can have over you. If not, you can at least KNOW this by watching others grieve who long for their LOVED ONE to be near again. We watch from afar the devastation in Japan and do we feel their pain? We must if we are really alive in our spirit! Are we immune to the same devastation in our land? No and we ought to humble ourselves and seek God for his will and guidance in these times.

The all consuming power that love and grief and sorrow and longing bring when losing a loved one is the same motivation and meaning behind the seriousness and critical nature of God's desire to redeem you and all the people and nations in the world. God is so serious about your Life and Death because they are eternal forever statuses. He cannot bear to lose you to your sin nature forever, and so he did something to save you. The question is will you respond? We need to see things in the right perspective or we are lost. God allows our axis to shift and he allows earthquakes to rock this world. He allows molten ash and solar flares to burn this earth away. He is not causing it he is allowing it.

Will we give God our attention?

God's words are true. Those are the words that are in his BIBLE. God has per se been screaming at everyone for centuries to wake up because these things are inevitably coming upon the world. His message is that NO ONE is innocent. NO ONE is good. NOT ONE. All are sinners and turn away and fall short of the glory of God. And there are many different consequences to this. Ultimately, the wages of sin is death....eternal separation from God which is in a literal Hell. How foolish of us if we disregard this warning from the loving and holy God and blame him for such devastations in the world! As if it is his fault people are dying because of tsunamis and earthquakes and famines. We say well only God can stop an earthquake from happening therefore he can prevent the death. This is true but we must not blame God if it happens because in actuality he is lovingly warning us of the inevitable consequences of sin in our lives and of the world. There is a critical more important perspective at play here that God is emphasizing.

• "For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now." Romans 8:22


• "Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come." Matthew 24:7,8


• "Those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” Luke 13: 4,5

Where is God's love in all this? I beg your attention friend! God's love is so great and he has already done what is necessary to save the world and you from your guilty sinful nature. Instead of getting mad at God, or becoming afraid of him, or ignoring the issue humbly begin to consider the words of God about his son Jesus. Listen to the Holy Spirit who convicts you of your sin while at the same time giving you hope by pointing to Jesus and his sole purpose for coming to this earth. This is not hard. The only thing that makes it hard is the pride of life. If you are wanting to know God and this salvation he provided for you through Jesus Christ then ask for grace and mercy from God so that you can begin to hear and see it.

• The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both. Proverbs 20:12


• Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Mark 4:9

Dear friend this is the good news! Jesus came, he died and he rose again for us! That means you personally!

• "Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus." Acts 8:35


• "Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:11-21


• The LORD is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him in truth." Psalm 145:18

This is important and there is nothing more important then for you to hear this good news and for you to confess your sin to Jesus, repent and turn from your sins and believe that Jesus died and rose again for you. Don't delay. God has warned what is going to happen in the future and we are starting to see what the warning is all about. The warning is repent from your sin for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

• "On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it." Zechariah 12:3


• "Like a lion, Israel crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to arouse her? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel, and cursed is everyone who curses you." Numbers 24:9


• On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness." Zechariah 12:4

Is the quake in Japan a signal to the world to stop putting pressure on Israel?

I am amazed, yet again, of how this quake near Japan is falling in line with reoccurring patterns. Patterns that follow when anyone or any nation is willing to condemn Israel's right to exist, or their right to their land, or their right to build on their own land, or put any pressure on them to divide their land.

I just watch and sometimes can't believe the consistency of these patterns over the past number of years. The same thing happened to Australia recently. Our hurricane Katrina was connected to these kinds of pressures on Israel.

I was unaware of these stances of Japan's Official Government position toward Israel prior to the earthquake and right up to the very day of the earthquake.

January 11, 2011:


Statement by Mr. Seiji Maehara, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, condemns the demolishing of a part of the Shepherd’s Hotel in E. Jerusalem to construct housing for Jewish people
Japan condemns the demolishing of a part of the Shepherd’s Hotel in East Jerusalem with a view to constructing new housing units for Jewish people.
 Japan does not recognize any unilateral measures that prejudge the final resolution on pre-1967 borders, nor does Japan recognize the annexation of East Jerusalem by Israel. In this regard, Japan urges Israel to refrain from any unilateral act that could change the existing conditions of East Jerusalem. Yutaka Iimura, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for the Middle East, who was in Israel, has already informed Israeli Government officials of Japanese views.
 Japan once again strongly encourages both the Israel and the Palestinian sides to focus on the goal of a two-state solution, which is important not only for the Middle East but also for the international community as a whole; to act in such a way that mutual trust will be developed; and to continue efforts for peace tenaciously.
February 8, 2011:


Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Japan, on measures by Israel on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

Japan welcomes the series of economic measures announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Quartet Representative Tony Blair on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Japan hopes that based on this announcement, measures will be fully and promptly implemented for economic growth as well as for the improvement of the social and living conditions in the Palestinian territories, particularly the Gaza Strip. Japan will pay close attention to any developments surrounding this matter. Japan also hopes that these measures will enhance the mutual trust between the Israeli and Palestinian sides, although they are not a substitute for negotiations for Middle East peace. Japan, for its part, calls upon both parties to exert further efforts for the resumption of peace negotiations.
February 10, 2011:


Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Japan, concerned over housing in E. Jerusalem for Jewish people

The Government of Japan is concerned about the Jerusalem municipal planning committee’s approval of a plan to build housing units for Jewish people in the Sheih Jarrah of East Jerusalem. Such act goes against the efforts by the international community to resume the negotiations. The Government of Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of the territories in the pre-1967 borders nor Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem. Japan urges Israel to refrain from any unilateral act that the current situation in East Jerusalem.
March 11, 2010:


Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan deplores the decisions of the Government of Israel to give permission to construct in East Jerusalem and the West Bank

The Government of Japan deplores the decisions of the Government of Israel to give permission for the construction of 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem in addition to 112 units in West Bank just after the Israeli and Palestinian leadership’s acceptance of the start of indirect talks. The Government of Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of Jerusalem and the territories in the pre-1967 borders

March 11, 2011:


Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis by 4 inches

With Love,
Hank

"In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father's will that even one of these little ones should perish." Matthew 18:14
"The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent." 2 Peter 3:9