I Am Going To Apologize To Humanity For The True And Living God … No, Not Really!

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In this segment I am going to apologize to humanity for the True and Living God… the consuming fires, and imprecatory prayers found in the Bible.  No, not really, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ does not apologize for God.  An imprecatory prayer is a prayer to God to punish, harm or do evil to an enemy of God. Imprecatory prayers are in the Bible and they are there for a reason.  Because at times there are completely and perfectly appropriate or otherwise The Lord of Hosts would not have put them there. Ecclesiates 3:1  To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. There is a time to love and a time to hate. Eccl. 3:8.

David wrote imprecatory prayers in the Psalms. And, remember what God said about David: 1 Kings 15:5 David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Say for example since 1980 the generation we live in, world-wide, slaughtered 1.3 billion innocent babies by abortion.  I didn’t say thousand, hundred thousand, million, or a hundred million. I said 1.3 billion.  A large sports stadium holds about 80,000 people.  If you placed one dead baby in each seat you could fill 16,250 stadiums with the rotting carcasses of those innocent babies.  That number, comes from www.numberofabortions.com.  Since you got up this very day, by the time you go to sleep at night more than 90,000 babies will have been aborted today.

Are imprecatory prayers appropriate in that situation? You bet they are.  The only reason you are alive and hearing my voice is because your parents did not abort you. How dare this generation, prevent another generation from having the most important thing anyone can have that is… life.  You take it for yourself, but prevent others from having what you have.  And that is just the start of this generation’s awful sins.

These prayers are cries of God’s people for vengeance and recompense on those that troubled them, those that vexed their righteous souls day by day. They are against the people who cruelly mocked them, abused, misused them and did so not for an hour but decades.  Remember, 2 Thes 1:6 It is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you.  Imprecatory prayers are not personal vendettas but reflect justice that God will render for crimes against God.

So what are some of these imprecatory prayers in the Bible from the righteous against the enemies of God?

May God destroy them (Psalm 5:10), break the arms of the wicked (Psalm 10:15), dishonor, confound and  kill them (Psalm 31:17-18), send angels to chase and persecute them (Psalm 35:5), let death seize them and take them down to hell (Psalm 35:15), break their teeth (Psalm 58:6), shoot arrows at them so they are cut in pieces (Psalm 58:7), burn them with fire (Psalm 83:14), persecute them with the tempest (hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunami’s) (Psalm 83:15), let their children be fatherless and their wife a widow (Psalm 109:9).  I have not even gotten started could, I would need 30 more minutes to even start to do this justice there are so many places.

And, don’t think these are just in the Psalms.  No…turn their reproaches upon their own heads (Nehemiah 4:4) revenge me of mine persecutors (Jer. 15:15), forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger (Jer. 18:23), bring upon them evil and destroy them with double destruction (Jer. 17:18).

And, don’t think they are just in the Old Testament.  Paul at Rom 11:9-10 quotes David’s imprecatory prayer from Psalm 69 … And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.   Paul at 1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha (a curse of destruction at the Lord’s coming). I would they were even cut off which trouble you (Gal. 5:12), Paul says at 2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works.  Rev. 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Imprecatory prayers are a part of the Christian’s armor and weaponry.  Amen.

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