It is the mystery in the Harbinger
that the harbingers of judgment that appeared in the last days of ancient Israel have now appeared
on American soil: some in New York City,
some in Washington DC,
began the same way with a strike on the land,
September 11, 2001 the strike what was
birthed in the Middle East and carried
out by terrorists.
As with Israel, it was carried out by the Assyrians.
And then all the harbingers manifested one after the other.
But the template of the harbingers
focuses on the Northern Kingdom.
Samaria
which is mentioned actually right there just before Isaiah 9:10,
it says this is linked to
Samaria the capital city.
That's where the temple of Baal had been built.
It was the Northern Kingdom that was especially then worshiping Baal;
the kingdom of Ahab and Jezebel.
If Baal was there
at the time of the harbingers,
could there be a sign of Baal also manifest in America,
the place where the harbingers have now been manifested?
It would not seem to be possible really or likely.
In the modern world we don't worship idols and gods but of course we do.
We don't call them that.
But America has its American idols and gods.
Baal is the god of a nation that had once known God,
turned away from God. America has turned, is turning away from God...
rapidly.
And Baal was the god of fertility and gain.
America has turned to the god of gain:
materialism, prosperity, Baal.
Baal was the god of carnality and sexual immorality,
licentiousness,
the god of carnality.
And so America has turned
to sexual immorality, carnality.
And the worship of Baal
as it held that sexual sin was to be
made holy and sanctified and celebrated, so too America
has celebrated its sin.
As Baal was the god by which Israel
called evil good and good evil so
and that in the same way they persecuted
and marginalized and vilified
the people of God, the righteous.
So too America
is embarking on vilifying the people who stand true for God.
As Baal was
there the nation, the the the god of Israel,
Baal was the god by which they, they shed the blood of
their children. So America too has shed the
blood of its children, the blood of 60
million unborn children.
And as the worship of Baal took turns for the worse,
became more powerful at times,
increased in brazenness as in the days
of such kings as Ahab,
queens as Jezebel,
so America is witnessing now the
intensification of these principles.
In the days of America's founding by the Puritans,
the leader, Puritan leader John Winthrop,
wrote a sermon called "A model of Christian charity"
in which he penned the words
which would endure through American history.
He wrote "we shall be
as a city on a hill."
We shall be. He wrote of America as being founded after the pattern of ancient Israel.
He said "if we follow God thus
the Lord will be our God,
will delight to dwell among us,
as His own people. He will command a blessing upon us,"
he's using the, the phrases that were said to Israel,
"in all our ways we'll have, He'll command a blessing
that we shall see much more of his wisdom,
power and goodness and truth than
formally we've been acquainted with.
We shall find that the God of Israel is among us
when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies,
when He shall make us a praise and glory
that men shall say of succeeding plantations
may the Lord make it like that of New England."
And this would come true.
America would be blessed as John Winthrop said,
as much as we follow God,
where it could resist a thousand of its enemies.
America would become more blessed than any nation on earth.
But he also gave something that is overlooked: a prophetic warning.
He said "Beloved,
there is now set before us life and death, good and evil,
in that we are commanded this day to love the Lord our God and to love one another,
walk in His ways, keep His commands,
commandments and His ordinance and His laws and the articles of our covenant
with Him that we may live and be multiplied, that the Lord our God
may bless us in the land where we go to possess.
But
if our hearts
shall turn away
so that we will not obey but shall be seduced
and worship other gods
our pleasure
and profits,
and serve them,
It is propounded to us this day we shall
surely perish out of the good land where we
pass over this vast sea too possess it."
"If we shall turn away
that we will not obey but we shall be seduced
and worship other gods, our pleasure and our profits,
and serve them."
Winthrop was using the pattern of ancient Israel when he spoke of
America serving other gods, our pleasures
and profits would conform
would point to, especially of all, the god Baal.
Not that it would be named at that time
if this prophecy or this warning came
true; not that it would be called Baal
but it would be Baal, the spirit of Baal
nonetheless.