AMERICA…SCATTERED ISRAEL = ABRAHAM’S SEED

What happened to the blessings the United States of America had in the past? The most prosperous nation in the world has resorted to borrowing money to stay in business; borrowing more than the gross national product of a year in 2011; with government officials unable to get together to solve problems. Is this a blessing or cursing according to Deuteronomy 28?

Floods, forest fires, drought, sandstorms; famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places (Matthew 24:7). Famine in Africa, with millions of people misplaced in overflowing refugee camps. Tropical storms/hurricanes traveling up the eastern coast of the U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico (Luke 21:25), with multiple deaths and destruction, millions of people without electrical power, roads and bridges washed away. The cost of rebuilding the infrastructure is staggering.

What is the answer? Faith in government or Faith in our Heavenly Father Yahweh? Repent, ask for forgiveness of our sinful acts (Matthew 3:6). He said if we would return unto Him, He would return unto us. He will do it, if we do it. Do we need a national day of prayer to return unto Yahweh? What if individuals got down on their knees and cried out to Yahweh every day? America, wake up! Who is coming to your aid?

Let’s go back to the beginning and look again at Yahweh’s plan for His creation. Genesis 12:2, 3 – And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. And, again in Genesis 26:4, 5 – And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

This same promise of blessings is written in Deuteronomy 28:1 – And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Yahweh thy Elohim, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Yahweh thy Elohim will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

Yahshua reaffirms these promises in Matthew 6:30-33 – Wherefore, if Elohim so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first His kingdom and righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Returning and Rest. Isaiah 30:15-18 – For thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. And therefore will Yahweh wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Yahweh is an Elohim of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

The message of waiting upon Yahweh for direction in times of despair or in times of trouble is revealed in verse 21 of Isaiah chapter 30 – And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

We must remember Yahshua’s words in Matthew 7:13, 14 – Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. John 14:6 – Yahshua saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Verses 12-15 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be esteemed in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments.

When we accept Yahshua the Messiah and the plan of salvation and keep His Father’s commandments, He has a bonus gift for us: the Comforter, the set apart Spirit as we read on in John 14:16 – And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

The natural disasters listed above should be viewed as a wakeup call or message to return to the scriptural way of life: repentance, accepting our Savior Yahshua the Messiah, keeping the commandments of Yahweh, treating or loving our neighbor as ourselves.

The book of Jonah gives the example of Yahweh using the wind and storm (a mighty tempest) in persuading Jonah to go and warn Nineveh to repent of their wickedness.

Does the world need another prophet raised up in 2011? Would the world listen and heed to one? We know Yahweh’s two witnesses in Revelation 11 will have power over the rain and power to smite the earth with plagues. Yahshua left us a warning message in Matthew 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13. We need to read and reread these chapters to keep informed and abreast on what to expect now and in the future.

Dear readers, it is time to return to the Mighty One of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and receive the blessings of obedience.

Samuel A. Graham