Hmm A lot of questions... Having questions can be a wonderful thing if
it causes the person with the question to search for the real answer. I
have noticed a lot of people in this day we are presently living in that
pose questions however, with no intent or perhaps even any desire to
find the answer. It's a strange ill affected day we live in when posing
questions serves to insulate us from the answer.
I'm not Radio
Shack who's slogan used to be "You have questions. We have answers..."
But I do have a small measure of "technical" expertise from years of
experience mostly learned the hard way and by sheer unmerited favor.
Unmerited favor? Yes, I totally blew any chances at any formal "higher"
education during my days of drug use, "free loving" and outright
rebellion.
I wasn't rebelling for the sake of a cause. I was
merely using the "cause" for an excuse to express my own rebellion and
the rebellion of the spirit* influencing me at the time. We would do
well in the day we are living in to pay attention to that statement and
consider what is actually motivating us in all we do.
Of course
I didn't know that then because rebellion comes with it's own
blindness. It's a package deal. The real problem I found out the hard
way was that rebellion is a spirit thus having spiritual influence and
able to spread that influence from person to person, social group to
social group, even nation to nation. I was "led" into drugs (and a lot
of other things) by others but it was the rebellion in me that embraced
them (and those things) as a "good" thing. Rebellion attracts rebellion.
Just like those that want to know the truth are drawn to each other.
That being said, I will try my best to express answers to some
questions particularly regarding 9-11 and the "God's
'Judgement' of America." To understand that we need to know some things
first:
The Almighty God vs other "gods"
(Beware the blame game...)
The Almighty God (Yahweh to the Hebrews) created the universe, created
man with the intent of expressing His love - as a companion. He has been
involved with man throughout the total history of mankind. Even though
man fell from his relationship with God, He intervenes in the affairs of
mankind and each of us constantly. Unfortunately because of man's
blindness and rebellion, we are not able to clearly see that
intervention. With God are also an enumerable number of spiritual beings
that He created to serve Him. He is without a doubt the most powerful
being in the universe.
Throughout most of man's history there
have always been many "gods" besides The Almighty God. Most of them
figments of imagination sometimes represented by carved images. None of
them have any power at all.
Satan was once a prince in the
Kingdom of God. He fell under his own delusions and attempted to
overthrow The Almighty God. His deception and rebellion was so thorough
and powerful that he managed to convince 1/3 of the ministering spirits
in Heaven to rebel against God. He lost his position in Heaven and
together with those spirits that followed him in his rebellion against
God, were cast down to the earth. Contrary to common misconceptions and
representations of him, he does not have horns (and angels do not have
wings). The scripture says he comes to deceive, presenting himself and
an "angel of light." Now take notice that he is also called "the god of
this world, the father of all lies, the evil one."
*He and his
spirits are spirits of deception and rebellion and they affect mankind
to even further evil and rebellion against God.
Judgement:
"Judgement" is not just a club slamming into someone's head (or a
nation's head). It is, first and foremost, "the revealing of the truth"
as only God can see it. It is actually going on long before we ever
"see" it come to pass.
All of the human race is already under
the "Judgement of God." That didn't happen last week, last month, last
year or even a few centuries ago. It happened early on in the beginnings
of the human race when the earliest man made a pretty bad choice that
was contrary to God's command. The results of that choice carries on
endlessly down through time and all the generations of man. We are born
under the judgement of God. We all have the ability to do good and to do
evil. Apart from God, none of us has the ability to fully restrain the
evil in us. God was only looking after man's best interests when He told
man not to ingest the fruit of knowing both good and evil. He didn't
say, "If you eat of this I will -kill- you." He said, "if you eat of
this the result will be death and separation from Him."
We are
all born of and into sin. And we all add to that condition of mankind by
the actions we take in our lives. We all "pass on" the results of those
actions to future generations. It's a little bit like an expanding
nuclear chain reaction that only stops only when it has run it's course.
Man was never created to be separated from God or to die. We are all
born separated from God and from the moment of our 1st breath, we are
heading towards our death. God doesn't have to "do anything" at all for
that "judgement" to be accomplished. This condition of man was not a
choice on God's part but a choice (and our own subsequent personal
choices) on man's part.
Mercy
God loves His creation
and man. He very often intervenes in the affairs of man and nations restraining that
(evil) which would happen without His intervention. If God were to remove His mercy and
restraint of evil influences from the earth, we would find out in short
order just how "good" we are NOT...
God's greatest act of mercy and
unearned favor was to allow His only begotten Son Jesus to be crucified
as a substitution for the sin and evil of mankind. That door
of mercy is open to "whoever shall come let them come." When our eyes
are opened to the truth that our hopeless (and horrible) end in eternal
death is the result of our sin (and the sins of all mankind) and we come to God for mercy in the name
of Jesus, "God is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse us of all
sin." We are yanked out of the cycle of sin and death that is terminal
in humanity and given a new life, we are made into a new person. An eternal person.
So what about 9/11 and "The Judgement of God on America"?
Long before the twin World Trade Center towers came down on 9/11/2001, they were considered an impressive world renowned symbol of the financial power of the USA in the world. God allows things on earth some times to reflect what He is saying. Man chose to admire those twin towers as representative of financial power. God says doing so made them an idol and financial power is and always has been to God a false god. (Mammon) Of all the false "gods" that have been on the earth, Mammon has been worshiped in essence by more nations and people than any other "god." To some degree or another, we have all served that false "god" at some time in our lives. Jesus said something of note about Mammon, "You cannot serve God and Mammon. You cannot serve two masters. You will either love the one and hate the other or... (visa versa)" That is true of us as individuals and that is true of nations.
Those twin towers were a symbol of something that is anything but admirable to God. I would go so far as to say they were a very dishonorable thing. A symbol of evil. There is a scripture that says, "That which is highly esteemed in the sight of man is an abomination to God."
