A Call to Repentance
Dave Hunt
It is now nearly 500 years since October 31, 1517.
We need a new Reformation-this time more biblical and thorough. We are drowning in "political correctness." Having changed from a president who couldn't define "is," we have one who persists in calling Islam "peace" in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary. What the Bible clearly calls sin is whitewashed as "alternate" styles of living. Nothing is wrong, so nothing is right. The church has joined the world, the gospel has been compromised, and we think God doesn't care. Elijah's words come across 3,000 years of history to rebuke us as he did Israel:
How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: but
if Baal, then follow him. (1 Ki 18:21)
More than 90 percent of Americans claim to believe in God. About 80 percent
call themselves Christians. But when asked to define God, the answers range
from "Mother Earth" to a "higher power." Even many who claim to be born
again deny that Jesus Christ is the "only way to God." About 70 percent of
Americans, 64 percent who call themselves born again, and 40 percent of
self-proclaimed evangelicals reject the idea of absolute truth. And most of
those who claim to believe in absolutes have fallen victims to a universal
reluctance to speak the truth.
In a prophetic description of our day, God warned: "And judgment is turned
away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the
street, and equity cannot enter....And he that departeth from evil maketh
himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him..." (Is
59:14,15).
Even the church has forgotten that the God of the Bible is "the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob" (Ex 3:15,16, and 11 more times). No matter what
one thinks of Jews, God chose them as a "special people unto himself, above
all people that are upon the face of the earth" (Dt 7:6), the "apple of His
eye" (Dt 32:10; Lam 2:18; Zec 2:8). He gave them the land of Canaan "from
the river of Egypt unto...the river Euphrates" (Gn 15:18) to be their
"everlasting possession" (Gn 17:7,8; 1 Chr 16:16-18, etc.), promising that
Israel's latter end would be better than her beginning (Ezk 36:8-38;
37:21-28, etc.), and that she would never cease to be a nation (Jer
31:35,36). He declared that the land of Israel was His land never to be sold
(Lv 25:23) and that all nations would be punished for dividing His land
(Joel 3:2). This is God's Word!
World leaders (including professing Christians, President Bush and
Condoleezza Rice) have openly defied God by dividing His land, giving most
of it to Arabs who fraudulently call themselves "Palestinians," claiming
that Israel is occupying their land. In fact, they have stolen land God gave
to Israel. (See Judgment Day.) Forgotten is God's promise to Abraham: "I
will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in
thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" (Gn 12:3). Both the world
and the church have spurned this promised blessing and are calling God's
curse upon themselves for their treatment of Israel! We call upon Western
leaders and Muslims to repent of their atheism, false gods, and rebellion.
God might then have mercy on today's world as He did on Nineveh.
Like politicians, religious leaders, too, defy God. In 2002, D. James
Kennedy, R.C. Sproul, and dozens of others declared that Israel has no
special title to land in the Middle East, having been replaced by the
church. They claimed that all of God's "land promises specific to Israel in
the Old Testament were fulfilled under Joshua." One trembles at their
defiance of God, who has said: "Behold, the days come...that they shall no
more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt; but, the Lord liveth, which led the seed of the house of
Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven
them; and they shall dwell in their own land" (Jer 23:7,8).
The obvious fulfillment of such promises today (not in Joshua's day) rebukes
those who say that the church has replaced Israel! In the last 60 years,
Jews have returned by the millions to Israel from more than 100 nations.
Those who deny God's promises to Israel for today need to repent!
Dave Hunt
It is now nearly 500 years since October 31, 1517.
We need a new Reformation-this time more biblical and thorough. We are drowning in "political correctness." Having changed from a president who couldn't define "is," we have one who persists in calling Islam "peace" in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary. What the Bible clearly calls sin is whitewashed as "alternate" styles of living. Nothing is wrong, so nothing is right. The church has joined the world, the gospel has been compromised, and we think God doesn't care. Elijah's words come across 3,000 years of history to rebuke us as he did Israel:
How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: but
if Baal, then follow him. (1 Ki 18:21)
More than 90 percent of Americans claim to believe in God. About 80 percent
call themselves Christians. But when asked to define God, the answers range
from "Mother Earth" to a "higher power." Even many who claim to be born
again deny that Jesus Christ is the "only way to God." About 70 percent of
Americans, 64 percent who call themselves born again, and 40 percent of
self-proclaimed evangelicals reject the idea of absolute truth. And most of
those who claim to believe in absolutes have fallen victims to a universal
reluctance to speak the truth.
In a prophetic description of our day, God warned: "And judgment is turned
away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the
street, and equity cannot enter....And he that departeth from evil maketh
himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him..." (Is
59:14,15).
Even the church has forgotten that the God of the Bible is "the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob" (Ex 3:15,16, and 11 more times). No matter what
one thinks of Jews, God chose them as a "special people unto himself, above
all people that are upon the face of the earth" (Dt 7:6), the "apple of His
eye" (Dt 32:10; Lam 2:18; Zec 2:8). He gave them the land of Canaan "from
the river of Egypt unto...the river Euphrates" (Gn 15:18) to be their
"everlasting possession" (Gn 17:7,8; 1 Chr 16:16-18, etc.), promising that
Israel's latter end would be better than her beginning (Ezk 36:8-38;
37:21-28, etc.), and that she would never cease to be a nation (Jer
31:35,36). He declared that the land of Israel was His land never to be sold
(Lv 25:23) and that all nations would be punished for dividing His land
(Joel 3:2). This is God's Word!
World leaders (including professing Christians, President Bush and
Condoleezza Rice) have openly defied God by dividing His land, giving most
of it to Arabs who fraudulently call themselves "Palestinians," claiming
that Israel is occupying their land. In fact, they have stolen land God gave
to Israel. (See Judgment Day.) Forgotten is God's promise to Abraham: "I
will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in
thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" (Gn 12:3). Both the world
and the church have spurned this promised blessing and are calling God's
curse upon themselves for their treatment of Israel! We call upon Western
leaders and Muslims to repent of their atheism, false gods, and rebellion.
God might then have mercy on today's world as He did on Nineveh.
Like politicians, religious leaders, too, defy God. In 2002, D. James
Kennedy, R.C. Sproul, and dozens of others declared that Israel has no
special title to land in the Middle East, having been replaced by the
church. They claimed that all of God's "land promises specific to Israel in
the Old Testament were fulfilled under Joshua." One trembles at their
defiance of God, who has said: "Behold, the days come...that they shall no
more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt; but, the Lord liveth, which led the seed of the house of
Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven
them; and they shall dwell in their own land" (Jer 23:7,8).
The obvious fulfillment of such promises today (not in Joshua's day) rebukes
those who say that the church has replaced Israel! In the last 60 years,
Jews have returned by the millions to Israel from more than 100 nations.
Those who deny God's promises to Israel for today need to repent!
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