Surviving the Seismic Quake

I truly believe we have just witnessed the spiritual end of an era: the end of the time of the gentiles. If true, we then are in the time of the Jews. I do not claim to be a prophet, but I feel it is time to consider what it will look like if things continue as they are. The end of the time of the gentiles is a momentous marker.

Another such momentous marker was the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All of humanity died with Him on the cross, and when He rose, He ushered in a new human race. Now, if we receive Jesus as our Savior and Lord into our hearts to be our life, then we take into our spiritually dead bodies the life of the Son of God and are “born again.” We are alive.

These are huge events and, for the most part, entirely overlooked as momentous at the time.

But these are events that guide and shape our lives – the hidden ones. Do we really think in normal times, the blatant and overwhelming evidence of corruption would not have been considered by someone with the authority to at least question it? Of course, the authorities would have looked into it immediately. But with mountains of evidence, no one would even consider the evidence. It is like those $600 hammers the government buys. Incomprehensible. Something else is going on: a silent seismic shift.

THE MARKER

Trump’s presidency marked the end of an era: like a glorious “going out” party. We had four years of plenty and peace. Truly, I was hoping for eight years, just like many of you. Even though he was persecuted during his entire presidency, he stood for righteousness and godliness in government. But I knew something was amiss when I heard that Obama sent Kerry to the heads of government right after Trump took office and urged them not to cooperate with him. I heard that Obama promised that Trump would be “out” after one term. In other words, “the fix was in.” Trump could have won 100% of the vote, and the results would have been the same. The “fix was in.”

But dear children of the living God – this could not have happened except that God Almighty allowed it. Times have changed, and it seems our Father is ready to bring about the next step in His glorious plan. He can wait no longer for the One New Man. He is lonely for His children, and therefore He will allow conditions that will shake the Jews loose from an economy that has been extremely good for them. They are already saying to one another: “Is it time to go (to Israel)?

The world that lies under “the deception of the evil one” is rejoicing but the outcome for America seems bleak indeed. Yet the political outcome could drive the Jews back to their home and, after all, we, His children, long for our “elder brothers” to come home.

BUT WHAT NOW?

First, we need to listen to our God for His directions. According to the Word, we need to give a good, hard look at what the callings of a Christian are. Have we been trying to use God’s power to reform a world that the Bible says is under the sway of the evil one? Remember that in the list of those wearing “black hats” showing that they are of the enemy are “the world, the flesh, and the devil.” Jesus did not come to earth to reform the governments of the world. He came to save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). He was not a national liberator as most Jews expected, but rather a spiritual liberator, and as He is, so are we in this world. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17).

Like 9/11 changed the whole world and not just America, so January 20, 2021, will mark a silent change, profound in its results.

But we who are His children who are alive at this time to serve our Heavenly Father, have a question: “What is Daddy doing, and how may I align myself with His desires?” We do not wish to be found fighting against our Father’s way of rescuing His firstborn (Exodus 4:22).

Jeremiah 16:15-16

¹⁵ “But, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

¹⁶ ‘Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.’”

The evangelists have traveled the whole world calling all who can hear, to come to Christ – Jews included. But now, I feel, we have moved into the era of the hunters.

FROM GENTILES TO JEWS

This would be a massive change in the whole world – especially America, the most powerful gentile nation. There needs to be a reason for the Jews to leave such a very comfortable economy, where they are held in respect and high esteem.

But what would drive the Jews back to the land of their forefathers?

Ezekiel 36:24-27

²⁴ For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the lands; and I will bring you into your own land. ²⁵ Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. ²⁶ Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and follow My ordinances. ²⁸ And you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God.

The salvation of the Jews and the raising up of the ONE NEW MAN (both Jew and gentile) is heavy on our Father’s heart. Since both Ezekiel and Jeremiah tell of the time of the Jews being removed from the lands and driven to Israel for their salvation, can we who are already children of the living God have any response but to rejoice?

OUR ATTITUDE

If we understand the tremendous period of time in which we are privileged to live, we can cooperate with our God and turn our faces to the jobs He gives to each of us to fulfill. We can even rejoice in the coming adversity. (We probably won’t rejoice that much, but at least we will understand and therefore cooperate instead of trying to bring back our idea of the past.) We have kingdom jobs to do down here – those assigned by our Heavenly Father. Let us be about our Father’s business, as our Lord did on earth.