In just the last 7 days, the number of people subscribing to this blog rose to 80. No big deal. But, yesterday the number fell..
I will preface my remarks by saying that when I started this Substack blog, the Lord told me to NOT look at the ‘stats’. I know why. When we see a LOT of followers, we run the risk of writing to please them, or the ancient risk of pride. When watchmen see few followers, they run the risk of discouragement, doubting themselves.
At the end of the day, if you’re a watchman, it’s better to not know the numbers, and just keep doing as you’re told.
From time to time I disobey and look at the blog stats. (I get tempted when my email pings - ‘You have a new subscriber’.) I did notice recently when the rolls rose to 80. And I did notice yesterday, somone dropped out. The roster dropped to 79. That means, someone felt strongly enough about something I wrote, to take the time to cancel their free membership.!
I didn’t even have to ask him. While looking at the reduced subscriber number, I wondered ‘Which of the things I said, offended someone so strongly that they took the time to eliminate their subscription? (Nothing new, I offend all the time, but I did wonder)., The Lord answered for me. He brought immediately to mind: ‘You called Kim Clement and Dutch Sheetz ‘false prophets’. Bingo.
Now that they’re gone, the subscriber who was offended likely won’t read this. They’re a ‘loose shingle’. Folk like that, who might debate or discuss, don’t. They disappear. But I will tell anyone who IS reading this, that these 2 men, Dutch Sheets and the late Kim Clement, are just 2 of many false prophets that will be called on the carpet before God in that Day for facilitating America’s fall.
These are just 2 of many false prophets that will be called on the carpet before God in that Day for facilitating America’s fall.
You may wonder, how is this so?
Because they have swapped the vital mandate of a prophet - from calling men back to God in repentance - to cushioning men’s time in this world via prosperity and smooth sayings. David Wilkerson used to call these ‘pillow prophets’, taken from the Lord’s own name for them. Prosperity is message that no prophet, nor the Lord himself ever expounded. (In fact, peace wasn’t either. He said himself, ‘I come not to bring peace’ but a sword’. Huh. I thought he was the ‘Prince of Peace’? Yes. For his disciples. He brought us and left us peace.1 In fact, the very platform that also destroyed Israel?.. Comfort. (Have you heard Moses’ song lately?)
Every prophet in the Bible, starting with MOSES, then David, Elijah, Daniel, Nehemiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Habakkuk, Jonah, Micah, Peter, Paul, James, John,.. preached accounting for sins.. issuing in REPENTANCE. You cannot find the prophets ever saying that - Israel’s troubles were somebody else’s fault.
You cannot find them ever saying that Israel’s troubles were somebody else’s fault.
I highlighted Moses, because he was the FIRST and the strongest. Take a few minutes and read Leviticus chapter 26 and you’ll see what I mean. Then read Deuteronomy 28.
GOD’S JUSTICE
God deals the nations, as a fathers with his son, as He also does with men; giving them repeated chances to respond to an escalating level of punishment and hardship.
Leviticus 26 is a template for all ages, of Divine Quid Pro Quo.
Leviticus 26 itemizes many times the Lord warning His people of punishment for sins, and many times He promises to turn from His wrath, if a man - or nation - repent.
The quid pro quo of God’s justice, runs like a silver threat through Scripture; without the slightest compromise for sin - until Christ came. Yet even Christ taught the man - ‘Now, go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee’.
‘Now, go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee’.
Grace still is never construed to be a compromise, or permission to sin; Grace is a ‘2nd and 3rd and 4th chance proposition - with a view in mind to returning to obedience’. So is mercy. But the patience of God has its limits.
At the end of the day, the nations are treated as God treats men. They obey God, and they shine as stars, and live in goodness and safety. If they sin - they fall.
And - IF they cry out to God.. He hears them, and sends redeemers; deliverers, watchmen and prophets. But He will not compromise with sin. Jehovah is a HOLY God. The message of the watchmen and prophets is always the same - REPENT.
‘REPENT; TURN FROM SIN, LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON THEE.’ unquote.
Leviticus 26 describes a creshendo of 8 punishments for sins from mild to dreadful.
Sickness
Plagues
Animal dangers
Pestilence
Captivity
War
Extreme Famine (to where parents are eating their children)
Utter destruction of all cities and domiciles.
Eventually, Israel saw all of these consequences, on account of their 59 acts of idolatry and rebellion. The worst of it became their Babylon Captivity. Yet the ONLY reason their fate progressed from #1 to #8, was their failure to repent.
Israeli recidivisim was legendary.
According to the Apostle Paul, though, this wasn’t even the end of it. When Israel got as far as rejecting the Messiah, and forbidding the gentile nations also to receive him, the ‘wrath of God came upon Israel to the uttermost’.
They have still not seen the end of it, which is what will commence when antichrist enters Jerusalem in the near future.
‘Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.’ II Thessalonians 2:16
Jumping off the pages in the Leviticus 26 warnings, are the FOUR times2 God said: ‘But IF ye will NOT hearken unto me,…’
‘And IF ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me… then I will walk contrary to you’.. Leviticus 26:14, 18, 21, 27 …I.e. QUID PRO QUO x 4
The blessed message of Leviticus is in 26:1-13 - and mirrors Deuteronomy 28 exactly.
IF a man, or nation, obeys God, they’ll be blessed rising up and sitting down, blessed in their basket and in their store, blessed in their bodies and their animals; no harm will come to them, and their land shall yield all manner of fruits - and realize its increase right on schedule.
Though, Moses wrote in Leviticus and Deuteronomy that that failure to obey God renders the opposite result, AND, that if the ulterior results manifest, REPENT! REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT REPENT!
The message could not be more clear; and it has never changed.
IF they shall CONFESS their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me.. (Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, etc..) LEVITICUS 26:40 & 42
Leviticus 26: Verse 40 is a PAINTING of REPENTANCE.
Daniel’s magnificent prayer in chapter 9, rings resolutely down through the millennia as a clarion call to Repentance. His plaintive prayer to God of remorse for the sins of his people, did not win Daniel his freedom, but it brought the angels of God to him, to impart divine skill and understanding.
Nehemiah’s heart of Repentence led to the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, the removal of the reproach - and the rebuilding of the nation.
Other prophets, Jeremiah and Micaiah, wound up in prison for preaching truth..
Others were killed.
TRUTH WAS - AND STILL IS - A VERY UNPOPULAR THING.
BUT ISRAEL FAILED TO REPENT and FELL INTO JUDGMENT
THE USA
BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO SEE THE PARALLELS OF ISRAEL AND THE USA, LETS ADDRESS ONE FINAL AND CRITICAL POINT - THAT IS SUMMARIZED IN LEVITICUS 26; AND JEREMIAH 50:9 - SAYING:
I will walk contrary to you.
I will send wild beasts against you.
I will break the staff of your bread.
I will bring the sword against you.
I, I, I, I WILL DO THIS; ME; GOD. It may look like an assembly of nations from the North, but I SENT THEM.
How do the clergy miss this?
FAST FORWARD TO THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA
In the United States short lifespan, we have already seen the FIRST FOUR of Leviticus 26’s consequences for our protracted rebellion. So friend, YOU can know the future, as Isaiah told us:
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,..” Isaiah 46:10
Then HE SAYS -
‘MY counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure’
and the very next verse is:
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth MY counsel from a far country:
yea, I have spoken it,
I will also bring it to pass;
I have purposed it,
I will also do it.
How can anyone look around them and say ‘an enemy hath done this’?
But the ‘prophets’ say “GOD - (the One who renders to each man and nation what they deserve) - IS AGAINST OUR ENEMIES’”. “HE WILL SMITE THEM.” When His Word puts it as plain as the nose on your face, that what we see is what HE IS DOING.
The United States has behaved herself like apostate Israel for so many years, that the Leviticus 26 list of 8 consequences, is nearly exhausted..
You don’t have to be a prophet to see that for the United States - according to the Scriptures - the last 4 pins to fall will be: war; captivity; extreme famine; and utter destruction of the nation. Leviticus lists it, and Jeremiah 50 & 51 establish it. Because we have never repented.
We are careening towards the final 4 consequences.. with NO BRAKES ON, BECAUSE FALSE PROPHETS LIKE KIM CLEMENT, AND DUTCH SHEETS, AND HIGH PROFILE MINISTERS WITH PROFOUND INFLUENCE LIKE JOYCE MEYER, TD JAKES, CREFRO DOLLAR, JOEL OLSTEEN, AND MANY OTHERS - LET THE AIR OUT OF THE BRAKES.
I wonder if half the congregations in the nation have any idea where we’ve missed it. But the CLERGY should know. And they should preach it. If they can’t understand the Book, they can ASK at His mouth. But we know why they don’t preach the truth that would turn this Titanic… Because it doesn’t fill pews, and sell books.
You think I’m hard on Dutch Sheets? Not as hard as the Lord is going to be. If he has any true Bible wisdom, he’ll repent while it’s still day.
In 2005, Dutch Sheets wrote a book called ‘Releasing the Prophetic Destiny of a Nation’. It’s filled from cover to cover with what he claims GOD HATH SAID. Yet nothing that God allegedly said is true today. Here’s an example. Speaking at a 50 State tour in 2004, Sheets quoted the Lord God as saying this:
‘Salvation is coming to My House’. (!?) ‘The White House will become a Light House with a burning fire, branding nations for eternity for the next four years!” and ‘These next four years will be known as the longest four years in American history, because of what I will accomplish!’
Well, I don’t remember anyone ever calling the George Bush years, the ‘longest years in American history’, except perhaps in Iraq - where Bush went in and did ‘burn a fire’, and ‘branded that nation’, devastating a country that had never in its history attacked the United States, killing upwards of 2 million Iraqis in he process. I can imagine Bush’s 4 years were the longest for Iraq.
Sheets spoke for God of Louisiana, saying: ‘You have allowed me to bring a knife into this state, and I will perform circumcision. I am cutting away what has been held in place, and what has influenced and caused you to miss prosperity’.
MISS PROSPERITY? Do you believe God prophesied prosperity over Louisiana?
You’d think it would have happened then. Except Louisiana went from #40 nationwide (out of 50 states) in 2004, in the rank of ‘per capita income’, to #43 - further down on the list - in 2022. I don’t think the Lord God missed it. I think Sheets did.
Sheets’ book from cover to cover is about PROSPERITY.. a subject that no Bible prophet ever proselytized. In fact, Abraham, Moses, Elijah and Daniel ALL REFUSED graft; REFUSED rewards; and REFUSED PAYMENTS for their prophesies.
Moses WARNED explicitly against covetousness.
Prosperity was never the message of prophets.
Repentance was, and still is.
Remember John? ‘REPENT - THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.’
Remember Jesus? ‘REPENT - THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.’
So what’s the problem, you may ask, with Sheets touring the states, preaching golden messages to lift spirits?.. Take a look around you. That’s what.
If Sheets and Clement were prophets, they are in danger of the warning in Ezekiel 33:6, that if they don’t sound the warning, and men die - blood is on their hands.
‘But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.’ Ezekiel 33:6
I DID SEE THE SWORD COMING, AND HAVE BEEN THAT WARNING ANYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN, FOR YEARS NOW, THAT JUDGMENT WAS PASSED ON AMERICA, AND THE SENTENCE IS BEING EVEN NOW CARRIED OUT.
What might have saved this nation from the FREE FALL that we’re still in, is the same factor as was for Israel - Repentance.
Repentance for what?
For idolatry; making calves of gold to replace God.
For swapping the Gospel message for wealth and comfort; (when the Lord said rather - ‘Take up your cross, and follow me’);
For rampant Rebellion against God;
For medical, and military, spiritual, and economic crimes* against humanity throughout the earth, (Which President Bush - (you know,.. the man who would illuminate nations) - played a starring role in; Except his illumination was by way of shells exploding).
(*In fact, it is for these final 4 crimes that the Bible speaks to America’s destruction in Jeremiah 50 & 51, Nahum 3, Isaiah 24, and Revelation 18)
ALL Men are going to answer for their lies. But I would not want to have to explain to the Lord in that day, why I failed to tell the truth that might have saved a nation.
VJCB
John 14:27
Leviticus 26:14, 18, 21, 27