His-story. Learn from it

God has put several things on my heart to read and study lately. The latest of these is:

3¶The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

If i did not tell you whom these verses were concerning you could almost say it was America today.

However, it was Obadiah talking of Edom .

It is truly amazing how things never change. Even then people were people.

It is amazing how many of the Old Testament prophets paint a picture of things that could be said of today's world.

Obadiah is a book of 1 chapter, 21 verses. A short book but a necessary one. It is an eye opener.

I could not help but see today's world as I read through it.

I do not know why God has laid these things on me, but truly it is quite Beneficial and ,at the same time, sorrowful to read the prophets. 

Perhaps the greatest benefit is the history, yet the greatest sorrow is that we have not learned from this history.

Now while we have revivals, meetings,

And things of God still going strong here in America, we have lost our national voice. We have given up our place of leadership and have allowed ourselves to be marginalized.

There is plenty of Good News in America on the underside but looking at the topside will depress you if you let it:

Gender identity?

Bathroom usage now a debatable thing?

Perverts running rampant in the open.

Violence.

Earthquakes.

Famine.

All these things will depress a true christian mainly because sin grieves us. Pain, death grieves us as we worry about the lost. As we worry about the state of our nation's collective soul.

There is Good News, God is still on the throne.

There are people who still love God and work for Him.

His Spirit is still at work.

His Word is still preached.

But we must read and learn from History, His-story.

For the sake of 10 righteous men Sodom and Gomorrah would have been saved. Yet they could not find 10.

Read the prophets.

Learn from history.

Before we become history.