The hour of God’s judgment is upon the church. Jesus declared that this judgment would be unlike any other and that it would leave no stone unturned.
In this hour, Jesus is especially challenging the lukewarm church—those who have refused to do what He has asked them to do—to repent. They are out of time, so they must either do what the Lord has asked them to do or be called home. His cautions and admonitions will no longer be disregarded, nor will His patience and gentleness be interpreted as weakness. They will realize that what He says is a command rather than a request.
This is happening now; it is not something that will happen later.
God has been prompting a relative of mine to teach his children about God for the past two years. This is not what he has done. God informed him a week earlier, “Tell the boys about Me, or I will take you home.”
An acquaintance was informed, “that she must attend a certain church, that they have need of her there”. She declined. God also sent further warnings and messages, but these were also disregarded. When I heard of her untimely death last week, I was devastated.
A different young man, identified as a pastor, was instructed by his mother to go to a particular church rather than the one that God had designated for him. We found out two weeks ago that he passed away unexpectedly in an automobile accident.
Another woman, who put off doing what God had called her to do, was told she was living on borrowed time. She repented and quickly did what He asked of her.
The saints in this article that were taken home were kind, loving, hardworking people who were also relatives and close friends.
We are grieving.
When we hear judgment, we think of someone else, some other church. No, not this time, it is for everyone called by His Name.
“I know the message of repent or die is a common one for the age. However, I want to stress that this isn’t just another one to brush off. This is THE repent or die warning.”
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That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
Luke 12:47
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them in 2 Peter 2
2 Peter 221
And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. From Luke 12
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin…from John 15
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation. From Hebrews 10
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went unto his brothers wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing that he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. In Genesis 38
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not….(in 1 chron 10)
This morning I was talking to my husband about my adoptive father’s death several years. He was in ministry, but treated my mother terribly. It certainly seemed that the Lord must have warned him about this, but his behavior toward her showed no sign of repentance.
He died suddenly of a heart attack, and I was convinced it was because he was not repentant. I had forgiven him for things he had done to me, and in the end we had a good relationship. However, he just did not seem to be able to find it in his heart to be kind toward my mom, and the Lord finally took him.
“For God has not given us a spirt of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” 2 tim 1;7-
Anne Marie, please give the Scriputural references for this article.
Revelation 3:16, Ephesians 5:27, Revelation 2:21, 22, 23
The Lord was incredibly patient and gave years of warning through dreams, visions, and messages from other people in all of the circumstances detailed in the post. Even at the last hour, He was clearly saying He is going to take them if they didn’t repent.
Nevertheless, I still was astounded. He took them home.
Revelation 3:16, Ephesians 5:27, Revelation 2:21, 22, 23
Ananias and Sapphira come to mind.
Whew, that certainly fits.
Our time is definitely full of sudden deaths, but I don’t think what’s described above is how God works. I think this is a slander against our Lord.
It’s important to discern when there’s been a shift. When God is done asking and shifts to requiring man to do what He has asked Him to do.
And by the way, how long was the LORD long-suffering with Israel and Judah before sending them into captivity? 700-900-ish years? He also clearly warned them in Leviticus 26 of the benefits of obedience and the consequences of disobedience. That was VERY clear.
Now let’s fast-forward to today. The LORD has been exceedingly patient and long-suffering with disobedience and rebellion for 2,000 years post death and resurrection of Jesus, Is it not yet time for the consequences of disobedience? I would propose that it is and we’re all living on borrowed time if we so choose to continue in disobedience..
There is a massive difference between warning a people through prophets and warning one single person through “signs” and “intuitions” from friends and acquaintences. There is also an immense difference between how God interacts with people before the age of the Messiah and after.
Where in Scripture does it say rebellion is rewarded by God?
Boy you aren’t kidding,
Just my thought but because He gives ‘time to repent’ and sometimes it’s months, or even years, people think they have an option to obey or not obey or He has forgotten what He has told them to do. And when they hear God is judging they think it means He is judging other saints or other churches. Not them.
I’m telling you this judgement is different, really different. and the consequences.are severe.
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Your comment keeps coming back to me, very well stated.
It is very dangerous to not obey the Lord.Disobediece is as the sin of witchcraft.I know God is merciful and only he knows whether those who died suddenly who hadn’t obeyed him will even get to heaven.God won’t let one sin into heaven.
It is far better to repent everyday and if he shows us anything to attend to to obey quickly.
The people in my article were my family and friends and honestly I was shocked when He took them, everybody was. But He made it clear He had shortened time. They died prematurely, they had not finished their race. I don’t know what that translates to as far as their final destination. It’s heartwrenching and impossible to even think about.
I was prompted to write this post to warn others that WE ARE OUT OF TIME and to just do whatever it is He has asked of you, quickly.
Wow this really confirms what the Lord has been showing me over the last few years… since COVID actually. So many pastors and leaders are not teaching what the Lord is asking them to teach either. Another one dies just this week: https://youtu.be/CgGpPJDPnrM
Thanks for sharing about Jerry, I didn’t know.
Where did we learn to refuse to do what the Lord has asked? Who taught us to do that? When did we start to believe we could pick and choose which commands we would obey?
This is dangerous ground.
We’ve gotten off track but I believe this season of judgement against disobedience will help us find our way again.
Dying of old age is not equivalent of “being taken by the Lord” due to disobedience. Jerry Savelle was definitely not what I would consider to be a true or faithful shepherd, but death by ordinary causes is expected for all of us eventually. Were God operating as this article implies, he would have been “taken” long before he misled so many. I am sad so see so many commenters here jumping on board the “sudden deaths” of our time, for both faithful and unfaithful, being due to God punishing disobedience. Claiming that God is acting out of retribution when our pharmaceutical agencies and governments are knowingly murdering people, and when other factors such as ordinary old age are at work is a slander against God, and I think it’s an ugly one.