GOD’S WAY FOR A TIME LIKE THIS. 11 July 2023 c
Dear Fellow Citizens of South Africa,
It is no different today than in Nazi
Germany or with the Rwandan or the Armenian genocides. Millions are being taken
to be killed, we are aware of it, we see it, we read about it, we ourselves will
be among those killed and it seems we are unable to stop it. Our court cases,
even interdicts, criminal charges, social media wars, keyboard wars, protests, etc.
go nowhere and the mass murders are continuing and are even mandated, promoted
and expanded. Worst of all, but about which little is done, is abortions continuing
now for 26 years and after millions of killings! Even more things are put in
place exactly to control and kill more of us - e.g. 5G, digitization, graphene,
hydrogels, heavy metals and aluminium in water, food and air, etc. We are all going down and will suffer and
even be killed with the unborn and vaxed as things are going.
If I look secularly or humanly at the
world, there is no answer or hope. But if I have a Biblical worldview, I have a
purpose and hope….
If I read Revelation, a final apocalypse
and doom seem inevitable.... But, I believe, as with Nineveh and Sodom and
Gomora, God has things we can and should do nonetheless, which may change our
fate in the short term and eternally. God would have spared Sodom and Gomora if
there were only 5 righteous men in the city. However, He spared righteous Lot. God
spared Nineveh when the people seriously repented. But if it is God’s will that
we die, as the disciples and MANY Christians through the ages have died despite
their faith in God, we are OK as long as we did God’s will.
What IS God’s will? Revelation says
difficult times will come and no one will be able to buy or sell if we do not
take the mark of the beast, but here we need the wisdom of saints. Please apply your minds and prayers and share
what you believe this wisdom is i.e. what we can and should do in times like
these. These are my insights.
As in the
whole universe and in nature, God has given rules and laws by which everything
works and is maintained. He has given
the same for man, but gave man the freedom to choose if he will do according to
everything God spoke, or not. Jesus said: “It is written, "Man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of
God." If we do not obey EVERYTHING God said, we cannot live, we
are not truly living and we are dead. Tragically, we all have chosen to believe Satan and our own
minds, and we have allowed those around us to reject God’s commands, to murder
the unborn and to suffer in poverty. These evils flourish because good men like
you and I do nothing. Therefore the mess. The mess we are in, are by our own
choosing and allowance. We do not deserve any favours or help from God after we
have ignored God and the death-cries of the unborn for 26 years now and after we
have ignored the suffering of the lowly for many decades. Actually, we all
deserve suffering and death for this - and God’s judgement.
Worse still, every sin and wrong thought,
word and deed despise and reject God. What we have done to the least and the
unborn, we did to God. We also allowed our God to be “aborted” from society and
from our hearts with every sin. Worse still, God sent us a DELIVERER from sin,
Jesus Christ, but with every sin, we also despised, denied, rejected, disobeyed,
pierced and killed in our own hearts.
What shall we
do? We need to sorrowfully confess our guilt, repent deeply and make things
right with God, with Jesus and with man - and then DO God’s will. What is God’s
will now going forward?
Firstly, we
cannot accept and be silent or passive or withdraw in the face of injustice for
then we are accomplices and we allow the rejection of God and His commands, the
crucifixion of Jesus and the injustice to men.
Secondly, our
present strategies, i.e. court cases, key board wars, protests, etc. seem to go
nowhere. We cannot keep on doing the same things and expect different results.
So what else?
What is God’s will?
I have come to
the conviction that my efforts up to now were not the way God has laid down for
us. God has said how we should do
things. It is best captured in Jesus’ words in the Great Commission in Matt 28 before
He ascended to heaven and in what happened in Acts 1-4.
Jesus
said: Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All
authority is given to Me in Heaven and in earth. Therefore go and teach
all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all things, whatever I commanded you.
And, behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the world. Amen.
Act
1:8 But you shall receive power, the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you
shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria,
and to the end of the earth. Act 1:9 And saying these things, as
they watched, He was taken up. And a cloud received Him out of their sight.
Joh 17:23 I
in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the
world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me.
It is
because I / we Christians failed and neglected to do the above that our world
is in such a mess. The disobedience, apathy, divisions and denominations
amongst Christians made them of little to no effect. We must confess this and repent
deeply.
Each one
who now decide to repent and follow JESUS, the DELIVERER from sin, needs to obey
ALL the things He taught us AND His Great Commission i.e. to make people His
disciples and to teach them to obey ALL He commanded. We need to start with our
neighbours in our streets and move further and further in our neighbourhoods
and our towns. My / your challenge is to be salt and light in perfect unity
with my fellow believers in my neighbourhood. Then the world will see and
know that God indeed did send Jesus, the Deliverer from sin. In this way we
seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, we fight the evil spirits
in our own hearts and in our communities – and the rest will follow.
Eph
1:22 And He has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head
over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who
fills all in all. God will do all for us through
the church, which is the body of Jesus and fullness of God on earth! Think of the
implications of these words.
As a
community and congregation of believers in a neighbourhood, we need to gather
locally according to 1 Cor. 12-14. Name your group 1Cor 12-14 ……….. (street name or
neighbourhood, city, district, province) that we may find each other. Only together
locally can we form a strong local bullwork against the evil plans of the
globalists and far better fight, oppose, resist and stop abortions, evil and evil
laws, porn, the vaxing, sex education, condom distribution, 5G deployment,
digitization, crime, etc. and even ensure clean water, food and air locally and
in our towns. If needed eventually, we can barter amongst ourselves without
needing digitization.
These groups can then identify people to
represent them and their Biblical values in local and national government under
“BIBLICAL VALUES”. Any believer in any little town or neighbourhood in SA must start
doing the same. If we do this in many neighbourhoods and little towns, the
country can be changed and the mess can be stopped. This is also the end goal
of the Christian political parties, the new Time2Rise movement and others, but
they omit parts of what I mentioned above. We need to do according to every
word God has spoken if we want to live.
If we don’t
do the above, we disobey God’s prescripts, our fights are carnal (physically
focused), we remain individual activists interacting on the internet with other
individual activists all over the country whilst neglecting our neighbours, we
remain divided in our groups and denominations, we remain powerless, we have no
effect in our surroundings, towns and country and we cannot defend our
communities or the vulnerable against evil – as is currently the case.
If it is
indeed the end-times and time for God’s judgement and the great tribulation and
if we need to die, we have nothing to fear because we have done God’s will.
That is another of Jesus’ commands: Mat_10:28 And do not fear those
who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who
can destroy both soul and body in hell. Sin and disobedience are our
problems. This is what we must fear and fight, not first and only all the
physical threats we are facing.
Eph
6:24 Grace be with all those
who love / agapé / sacrificially love our Lord Jesus Christ / Anointed
Deliverer in sincerity. Amen.
Faan
Oosthuizen. sdoosthuizen@xsinet.co.za
