When G-D Spoke....

In my last blog I asked you a question; do you think that all that is happening is a coincidence? I also hoped that I left you with the idea that G-D is trying to get our attention by whatever means is necessary. What I didn’t know at the time was that Egypt, Tunisia and other nations in the Middle East were going to explode in the way that they have. I didn’t know that there was going to be another massive snow storm here in the United States nor did I know that Australia was going to get pounded on with a category 5 cyclone dumping as much as 3 feet of water into areas that are already flooded.. I am not one who makes it a habit of preaching doom and gloom to people, but I will write about the things that I believe that G-D is impressing on my heart, even if that means that none of you ever read it or even listen to me. I read Isaiah chapter 6 and Isaiah asks G-D how long he should prophecy and G-D told him that he should continue to do so until there is no one but a remnant of people left in the land. I do not consider myself to be like Isaiah, though I too am a man with an unclean heart and lips, but I will continue to write as long as I am allowed and G-D impresses upon me what needs to be said.

The thought did occur to me though that there are some of you who may be thinking that all G-D needs to do is to speak to us and we will listen. I grew up with people that believed that when the end was near we would all see the signs of the end and return to worshipping G-D, we would go from our worldly sinful ways back to the worship of G-D in time to be saved. For those of you who have thought that way; its time!

When G-D spoke.

If you go to the beginning of Exodus 19 it says “In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.”  It was now just three months since they had left Egypt and they were at the foot of the mountain of G-D. What you need to keep in mind is that the children of Israel had just experienced miracle after miracle straight from the hand of G-D. They had heard as Moses warned Pharaoh what was to come if he didn’t let the children go. They witnessed the destruction of the land and experienced the awe, and, I am sure, fear that came from that first Passover. They witnessed His presence in the cloud by day and the fiery pillar by night. They saw the water part before them and they witnessed the destruction of  their enemies at the hand of G-D, but now G-D was about to do something very different for them, not only were they going to “see” His presence on the mountain but they would hear His voice. There was going to be no doubt in their minds whatsoever that He was there with them and He was on the mountain. Go to verse 10.

10 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. 11 And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12 You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. 13 Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain.”
14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.”
16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain (some translations say that it was the people who quaked) quaked greatly. 19 And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. 20 Then the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 

There was absolutely no doubt about G-Ds presence and the people were afraid. Perhaps one of the reasons that G-D does not speak to us anymore, like that, is because we don’t have a proper fear of G-D. We make fun of G-D; we disregard His presence and all of His creation we write off as evolution or myth. Why should He speak to us, as a whole, when we don’t really believe that He is real?

Egypt didn’t believe in the G-D of Israel either, yet they found out just how real He was through, what some might call, natural disasters, and those so called “natural disasters” were also an attack on the “gods” of Egypt. Are we any different then them? We don’t fear G-D, we have no respect for His power or His commandments and we make fun of those who do. We write off His creation as being nothing more then evolution and we hold fast to the gods of science and so called reason. In case you hadn’t noticed those gods of ours are under serious attack. Science can’t explain why all these massive storms are occurring, one group will say its global warming, another will say its cooling, and yet another just covers all their bases by calling it climate change. The bottom line is that they are clueless. Every day these so called greats of science have to come up with new theories of evolution as they discover new things that they can’t make fit into their mold.

The gods of reason can’t begin to explain all the chaos in the world. We blame parties and systems. We point fingers at various groups and nations that we disagree with and say that they are the cause. We blame the schools, the churches and synagogues everyone and anyone who even thinks a little differently then we do. They are the cause of all the problems and if we would just worship at the altar of reason we can work all our problems out. What do you base the conversation on? If we are but mere accidents of the universe and there really isn’t any right from wrong or moral absolutes how can we make any kind of rational, reasoned out decisions that might help solve the chaos? When you throw out G-D and His laws chaos takes over.

So what do you think would happen if G-D was to roll back the sky and write His message to the world? Most people would look at that and think it was good CGI or it was some sort of hoax and ignore it. If we already have His written word with the law and the prophets and we ignore it, what good would a massive display in the heavens do?

The children of Israel experienced G-Ds presence in a way that has not happened since and yet they forgot as well. When they finally get to the Promised Land, they refused to go across the Jordan because they were afraid of the people there. They were giants and they were afraid. They collectively forgot that G-D had delivered them from much worse and He had promised them that He would deliver this land to them. As a result that entire generation died off over a time span of 40 years as they wandered in the desert.

Is this going to have to happen to us before we again become a people of the book and true followers of G-D? Is this entire generation of people going to have to be killed off while our children wander in the desert, before we once again embrace the things of G-D, His law and the prophets? The prophets make it clear that there is a massive amount of destruction coming before His kingdom is established, and it speaks of those that survive in the nations finally coming to Him in Israel, to the Mountain of G-D.

Do we really need to go the route of Egypt or can we learn from Mt. Sinai? Shouldn’t we take a serious look at what’s going on in the entire world and ask that simple question; is G-D telling us something?

The children of Israel failed to go across to the Promised Land because they chose not to listen to G-D. They had the signs and wonders, they had the voice of G-D speaking to them in the wilderness yet in they refused to go and it cost that generation everything. Are we going to do the same? It’s really no question that He is speaking to us it’s that we are refusing to hear.

Pray for the nations.

Shalom,

Ignacio