“Every Kingdom Divided against itself is brought to Desolation" - Writer and Author Ronald Nelson

BIBLE MEDITATION:

But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. Matthew 12:25

ENCOURAGING WORD:

Several ancient nations, notably Israel and Judah, experienced desolation due to internal divisions and subsequent conflicts. These divisions led to the fall of their kingdoms and exile of their people, resulting in a period of desolation as their lands were abandoned. The Old Testament, particularly in the books of Kings and the prophets, details how these divisions weakened the nations and made them vulnerable to external forces. 

Fortunately for Israel, God’s chosen People, they would later be brought back to their home land just as Jesus prophesied back in; Amos 9:14-15; “I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the Lord your God.”

For those of you that are not familiar with this prophecy, it took place on May 14, 1948. So much for replacement theology, which is taught in the Lutheran sect of Christianity. I could expand on this last statement, but that is not what this teaching is about. America is destined for desolation without a doubt. You have to be blind to not see what is happening here in America. We are truly divided politically, but more-so and more devastating is that our country is divided spiritual. As alarming as this is to me, it doesn’t surprise me. What is happening in America had been prophesied by prophets of old long ago.

2 Timothy 4:3; “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears;”

For those of you that are asleep during these days, this event is in full force today in our world, but especially in America. Regardless of what is being taught in our liberal colleges, America was founded on Christian principles and Biblical values. I would go as far as to say, that 95% of our college professors are Atheists and indwelled with Satanic spirits. They have to be, you can’t have a soul and then teach everything that goes against the Word of God. Satan knows his time is coming to an end and he is doing all he can to deceive as many people as he can. The Bible clearly states that the biggest issue in the end days will be deception. Satan is very good at what he does. I’ll share a bible verse that clearing states what I just said.

1 Corinthians 6”9; “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,”

Notice, four out of these five abominations against God are sexual. I believe it is pretty safe to say, since most people enjoy sex, that these sins are practiced by about 90% of the world population. Let me explain what each of these actually mean.

Fornication: Sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other.” For all of you that are living out of wedlock with a member of the opposite sex, you fall into this category. It clearly states that all who practice these life styles will not inherit the kingdom of God. These are Gods words, not mine. So, do you say that you believe in God, and then deliberately sin against Him. Don’t be deceived, you are not saved if you are living in one of these life styles. No excuses. When you stand before God at the ”White Throne Judgment” God will not accept any excuses for why you deliberately disobeyed Him. Your eternity will have been sealed.

Adultery: Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than that person's current spouse or partner.”  This one pretty much lines up with fornication. Any kind of sexual activity outside the bounds of marriage between a man and a woman is an abomination (something regarded with disgust or hatred) to God. God’s Word is very clear on this topic. God will not let any kind of sinful activity slide when you stand before Him at the “White Throne Judgment.” If you enter the white throne judgement, without repenting of your sins, you will be cast into the “Lake of Burning Fire” for all eternity. There will be no excuses.

The third sin mentioned in 1 Corinthians 6:9; is Homosexuality:  Again, this is an act of sexual immorality and another abomination against God. For those of you that have all kinds of excuses why you feel it is okay, know this first and foremost, you were not born this way. If you feel that you were born this way, then that is the cross that you have to bare. Everybody has a sinful desire of some kind. Let me give you couple examples of what I am referring to. First of all, almost every man born of woman is an adulterer at heart. Listen to what Jesu has to say about this.

Matthew 5:28; “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you deny this, then that makes you a Liar, also another sin against God.

Men have a built in desire for woman, but that doesn’t give them the right to openly act on that nature. Here’s my point, Men are born to have an attraction to the female persuasion. Most men have that cross to carry, especially in the days in which we live. Women are the aggressors in today’s world and that makes it more difficult to abstain from sex outside the bounds of marriage. Women, if you cause a man to lust over you, then you are equally guilty of that sin. In other words, be careful how you dress. If you’re not in the business, don’t advertise. Men have to fight off that desire because we know it is a sin against God and nature. I know what I am talking about on this subject. I was probably as bad as one can get in this area of sin in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. If Jesus would have come back while I was living this life style, I would have been left behind the face the horrors of the upcoming tribulation period and potentially the wrath of God. I thank God that He got my attention about 20 years ago. I can honestly say, I am glad I am not in my 20’s, 30’s, 40’s or even 50’s. I believe that this particular sin is going to be the deciding factor of whether you serve Jesus or the flesh, you can’t have it both ways. That is why the Bible says, few will be that find the way. How many people that are having sex, are not married? I would be willing to guess that probably over 50% of all those in a relationship are not married. And since marriage is between a man and woman, those that are gay and think they are okay because they got married and are righteous with God, are not.  

It’s the same thing with men who are attracted to men and women who are attracted to women. It is a sin to act on it just as it is a sin to act on fornication or adultery. Another example is as follows. Through out time , there have been many serial killers. All these serial killers have had a desire to murder people as they wish. Were they born serial killers, no, it was a decision that they made through out life. Somewhere along the line, they took a wrong turn towards evil, just as a homosexual or any other sinful act of mankind. How about a kleptomaniac, they have a desire to steel, does that give them the right to take things that don’t belong to them?  Know this, God loves all of us regardless of what we do, but He has called us to repentance and to turn from our sinful ways. God will forgive anyone of us if we turn our hearts to God, repent of our sins and become born-again into the Holy Spirit.  

The fourth one on this list is Sodomy: Anal or oral copulation with a member of the same sex, or copulation (to engage in any kind of sexual intercourse) with an animal. This one should be obvious. God did not create our back ends to be penetrated. Sorry to be so graphic, but it needs to be understood by those that just don’t get it.

The pleasures of life fall right into Satan’s plan to destroy as many souls as he can. You may argue this all you want, but all you have to do is look at what is happening in our world. You will pay dearly for all of those that corrupted youinto believing all the lies that are endorsed by colleges and schools in America as truth. I know so many young adults that went into college with a Christian background and then came out atheists with a completely different view on life. A bad view I might add. Results speak for themselves. This kind of activity has especially escalated into what we see today, especially in the last couple decades. I need to share something very important that is a misconception about Bible studies. There are those that believe if they stay ignorant and don’t read the Bible, they will not be held accountable for their sins. Let me say this with absolute honestly, Ignorance of the law will not stand up in heaven any more than it does in our society today. For example, If you are going 55 miles per hour in a 25 miles per hour zone, and you get stopped, is the cop going to believe you if you say, I didn’t see the 25 mile per hour sign. Unless the cop has compassion on you at that moment, your ignorance of the law will not help you. God put out His word for all of us to read and learn, if you decide not to read the Bible, that will not excuse you from what is written in it. Are you getting the point. Now, you may think that because I am sharing this information with you, now you are held accountable. Not true. I’m sharing this with all that will listen and learn so that they can be saved. A lot of people despise me for what I am doing, just as the Pharisees and the Sadducees despised Jesus for teaching the truth. Jesus taught the truth because He loved mankind and wanted every body to be saved. I’m doing the best that I can to share the message of salvation to those that I love because I want them to be saved. I’m not doing this to gain points in heaven, I’m already saved. There is nothing that I need do to be saved, Jesus already did everything for me.

Now, lets get into the big division in America. Like I said, its not a political division, it is a spiritual division. There are those that support evil and there are those that stand for what is right according to the Bible. If you don’t know what side you are on, let me answer that for you. You are most likely on the side of evil. Let me say right up front, neither side is perfect, but there is one side that is totally doing the work of Satan. Without mentioning which party stands for what, I’ll share a few political agendas on the evil side. If you support abortion, gay marriage or anything that I mentioned in; Corinthians 6”9; then you are on the spiral side of evil. There are no if, ands or buts about it. If you support those that leaglize abortion, you will be held account for every murdered fetus there ever was. In other words, your eternal dwelling will have been decided. These two are definitely a debated issue in our country. Satan’s plan is to annihilate humanity so there will be no one left to petition Jesus to come back. Let me share a Bible verse that validates what I just said.

We read in; Matthew 23:39; “for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ ”  

Jesus is saying this to the Jews. So, the number one priority of Satan's is to annihilate the Jewish people. You can tell by history that Satan has tried that many times. All through history, Satan’s goal was to destroy Isreal, but if you have any brains, you will notice that God has always kept a remnant of the Jews alive. Satan will not have victory over the Jews. Now, how does Satan try to decrease the world population, easy, abortion and gay marriage. Gays don’t reproduce; they recruit. If every body was gay, the world population would not exist in 100 years and Satan would win. No more people, no one to petition Jesus to come back and there would be no people to come back too. Another way for Satan to decrease the world population is through abortion. Kill all the babies that we can and over time there would not be many left to populate the world, once again, Satan wins. These are only two ways Satan is trying to destroy mankind, who do you serve. One more way I need to mention is by war. Satan creates situations where people hate each other and then decide to kill as many enemies as they can. All Satan’s plan. Where do you stand. Our country is divided right in half on two of these issues. The question that you need to ask yourself, whose agenda are you serving, Satan’s or Gods. There are no more options. So, its pretty safe to say, if you support the evil agenda of the demonic side, then please don’t call yourself a Christian. If you do, then you are using the name of the God in vain. You just keep falling deeper and deeper into sin with every step you take supporting evil.

Another way our country is divided and maybe the most devastating to the future of America is our stand with Israel. Our nation is great because of our support of Israel as a nation. Our current administration is Israels greatest ally. When, and I don’t mean if, I mean when we turn against Israel, judgment with come swift and harsh to our nation. Our nation will become a third world country over night. Just look at our colleges today.  Antisemitism is rearing its ugly. We actually have colleges that support the demonic satanic enemies of Israel. Hamas and Hezbollah are as evil a people as can possibly be as far as human standards go. If you support either one of these terrorist groups, you are indwelled by Satan and there is no hope for you eternally. You are supporting Satan’s agenda to destroy mankind. Here is the problem, you won’t hear the truth of how badly Israel is being persecuted and by what standard they are being killed. I won’t expand on it because it is so gruesome, that I can’t put it into words. Also, a more destructive way of how our churches of today view Israel. The two mainline denominations are anti-Israel in there own corrupt ways. You will never hear a sermon from the Old Testament that refers to Israel in any churches of today. The whole Old Testament is written to and about Israel, not the church as the Lutheran sect of Christianity proclaim. Big mistake, the Jews are still Gods chosen people and God has a plan to bring His people into a land of Paradise as He has promised throughout the scriptures. There are going to be some horrible times for Israel in the next decade, but after the seven year tribulation, Jesus will deal with the evil and set up His one thousand year Millennial Kingdom where the Jews and Gentiles will live together in perfect peace, ruled by Jesus Christ Himself. The Lutherans teach that God has forsaken Israel and all the promises to Isreal were passed onto the Gentiles. Big, Big lie from the pit of hell! Think about this. When the Jews rejected Jesus as their Messiah, God did temporarily proclaim judicial blindness to the Nation of Israel, but it was only temporary as we read in the following Bible verses.

Romans 11:1-2; “ I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,” This is written by the Apostle Paul.

Matthew 23:39; “ for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

The days are coming during the tribulation when things will be so bad for the Jews that they will get on their knees and call out to Jesus Christ for forgivness and their eyes will lifted from the blindness that they were under for the last 2000 years.

Let me end with this, there is a day coming when Jesus is going to remove the born-again believers from this unbelieving world and all that will be left will be those that rejected Jesus and supported evil. Those that have chosen this path will get exactly what they hoped for. They will think they gained victory over the Christians, but it won’t be long before all hell breaks loose on earth. Just so you understand, this will be a horrible time for those that are left behind. Let me share some verses from the Word of God, that make it very clear what you are in for if you reject Jesus Christ during the time that we are currently in.

Matthew 24:21; “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be” To put this into perspective, how many people died in all the wars that we had, how many Jews were tortured and killed just because they were Jews. All of these are the works of Satan. The tribulation is going to make the Holocaust look like a walk in the park. Do you want to be here?

Then Matthew goes on the say in Matthew 24:22; “And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.” Matthew is telling us that if Jesus didn’t return at the end of the tribulation, there would be no human being left to come back to. Man would kill man until there would be one man left standing, and that would be Satan. Does that sound like it is going to be a time where you want to be here? This is going to be a time that will be worse than you could ever imagine.

So, now with all this being said, take a good look at yourself and as this question, which kingdom do you want to spend eternity in. There are only two choices, how you view Jesus Christ and how you treat Gods chosen people. Keep the following verse in mind before you answer that question.

Genesis 12: 1-3; “Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you, I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” This promise happens to be an unconditional promise to the Jews.

For those of you that feel God has forsaken this promise to the Jews, read the following verse; Hebrews 13:8; “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” If you believe that God has cast off the Jewish people, then also keep this in mind. Why would God keep His covenant with us. The sins that we are committing here in America make every other nation look like saints in comparison. If God did indeed, cast off Israel, then I can assure you that He will cast off America as well. Judgment to America is coming soon, so make the right choice. You will not get a second chance, for those that believe in purgatory. “No such Place”

So, give your life to Jesus today and know for certain where you will end up. The Bible tells us we can be certain as to where we spend eternity. If you don’t know, then you are probably on the wrong side of salvation. Don’t buy all the lies that are being taught from the pulpits of today in America. You won't know for sure unless you read the Bible for yourself. Read the Bible as if you were taking a final exam, and the test is tomorrow. It just might be.

Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing! …To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Don’t be deceived!