So we were because of your presence, Yahweh.

How many of you have walked with God for many years? How many of you expected to see his salvation come to the earth during those years? How many expected to see lives changed by faith in Jesus and the infilling of the Holy Spirit, but instead have seen the friends of your youth join themselves to the rampant idolatry which has overtaken the earth in these last days? How many of you have seen old church couples you once fellowshipped with divorce or walk from the faith? How many of you struggle to maintain your own vessel so that you yourself do not become disqualified in the faith? How many of you understand that we who walk by the Spirit have indeed been barren these many years, that our ministries have birthed nothing but wind, and that we surely have brought no deliverance and no lasting salvation to the world?

The video I posted a few days ago entitled “Do Not Judge” paints a grim picture of the world we live in, a world characterized by death and devoid of all that is holy. I have watched this picture grow blacker and blacker each year since I began to follow Christ in 1977. I often wonder, how much darker can it get? When will our Muslim president release Islam to behead the Christians in America? When he has successfully taken the guns from everyone that would defend them? I do not say this to promote gun rights or to suggest you ought to own a gun for your own self defense. Did Jesus walk around with a sword to protect himself from the Jews who wanted to kill him? No, when his time came to die he turned his cheek and let them do what they would with him. And so it may be with us… but I hate to watch evil prevail and prevail and prevail, and I hate to think that I have no real power to change that evil. I hate a world filled with injustice and unrighteousness. I so wish that God would move in the earth and fulfill his promises to his people.

Ps 97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

Pr 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Am 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Yes, it may yet be that God will be gracious to the ever dwindling remnant, but if not “Let us also go [on to Jerusalem with Jesus, New Jerusalem for us], that we may die with him.” (John 11:16)