Below is a transcript of our latest video production, which you can watch here: http://signmovies.com/?tab=news&vid=20150103WelcomeTo2016
Another year has passed without the return in power and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with that, as with every day He does not return, additional opportunity for you to repent and worship God in Truth. As Christ said “…except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:5).
That message is as relevant today as it was when Jesus uttered it. You are daily surrounded by terror, as we repeatedly tell you, and which you were reminded of in our 2015 roundup. Your terror comes from every corner – weather events, your children, your husbands, your wives, police departments, military veterans, your government officials, foreign nations, terrorists, your own minds, and many other sources. Ultimately, your terror comes from only one place – God Almighty, your creator. Yes, God is your terrorist (Lev. 26:16).
Terror all around you within and without, in a constant, nonstop 360 degree bubble will continue throughout 2016; while I make no claim to being able to give you specifics about how this terror will manifest itself on a daily basis, I suggest you look to 2015 and look for more and worse. We told you at the end of 2014 there would be more and worse, and any objective view of 2015 validates that prediction. It wasn’t a hard one to make, since you will not put down your rebellion, kneel, and kiss the Son (Psa. 2:12). It isn’t a hard prediction to make for 2016 for precisely the same reason. There is no evidence in front of our eyes that this (or any) nation is prepared to go the way of Nineveh (Luke 11:32) and repent, so the only other option is for the God of Eternity to keep rebuking you as He has promised.
We pray for this terror to surround you, and we thank God that it is so. Many of you who claim to be Christians find that idea repulsive, callous and un-loving. To you who think such things, I say as Jesus did to Peter, “get thee behind me, Satan” (Matt. 16:23). With that kind of thinking, you brazenly demonstrate that you savor the things of this earth, like the admiration of your fellow man, and not the things of God, like the Truth. You who have difficulty with that notion also demonstrate your lack of seeing things spiritually, showing yourselves able only to see things carnally.
Our prayers on these matters are not prayers of vengeance or causality. They are prayers seeking the promises of God be fulfilled, a thing which all men are commanded to pray for when Jesus teaches us to pray “thy will be done” (Luke 11:2). God Almighty has declared and decreed that these things are His will, and for you to pray for them not to happen is a rebellion against it. “….they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up” (Hos. 13:16). These are the words of God, not our words. He has declared that your soldiers will be sent home in body bags and your children killed in their youth, or as you love to say it “before their time”.
These prayers we issue to God for these things to happen, I again say, are NOT out of a vengeful, spiteful, callous, hateful heart. Our prayer is that these events in all their tragedy, their trauma, their terror, might have some effect on the heart of at least one soul out there walking the earth, some soul who will see these things and remember that Christ said “except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:5) and seek repentance from God. Indeed, were this entire nation to seek God as one man, the way Nineveh did, you wouldn’t see a happier bunch of people. We don’t see a lot of hope for that, but Jonah walked amongst a country that was so lost in its perverseness, so steeped in its national pride that they had a mere 40 days before they were to be destroyed. The foolishness of that preaching “…yet 40 days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jonah 3:4) was the catalyst that God used to turn the heart of the king and thereby that nation to repentance for their atrocious sins.
America is in no less a dire strait. While we don’t have as specific a message as Jonah, we know the countdown clock is running. You trample over each other racing to the next sin, whether that’s fag marriage, the mass murder of unborn children, the deification of body mutilation, calling it things like ‘gender identity’ or whatever tomorrow’s nonsense may be, you run to it like pigs to the freshly filled trough. We see no real hope for you in this matter, but that doesn’t mean we don’t pray for some soul to be plucked forth from the burning ashes and made to follow Christ while there is still time to repent. Indeed we pray for it.
2016 promises to be a very wild ride. Your economy is as fragile as a Fabergé egg; every government and crook on the planet is apparently spying on you and trying to hack into all things digital to use your digital perversions against you; the weather is increasingly being used by God to punish you; your soldiers are STILL coming home in body bags; your children still rebel against you and all authority, driving an increasingly corrupt law enforcement community to beat them, bloody them, and send them to their graves; you still walk in fear of being shot in every major city in the nation and increasingly every tiny burgh as well; several states are still on fire and it looks like it’s going to only get worse; El Nino is raging; and all you can do is complain about Uber’s surge pricing when you can’t manage to stay sober on New Year’s Eve.
Get on your knees, America, if not as a nation, as individuals. Beg God to forgive you your sins and grant you the gift of repentance. It is your only hope.
Welcome to 2016!