(See the series here)
Are we witnessing the last
legs and laps of
Laodicean lackadaisicalness?
In many
respects, Church Americana correlates itself with the nation of Israel, both
ancient and modern nations. Conveniently, however, Church Americana
omits at least three extremely important correlations with ancient
Israel, correlations that speak to the current Laodicean Church trait - lukewarmness. (See
the series)
#3. Secular Israel: In
the run-up to God’s severe judgments noted earlier, ancient Israel and Judah were
significantly sinfully secular, though they often paraded as
theocratic nations. Many of God’s prophets, whom they slandered, banished and
killed, prophesied under God’s anointing, that:
(a) He would one day return a remnant of the people to the promise land,
(b) this remnant would one day embrace Jesus as Messiah, and thrive under His governance, and
(c) this revived, combined nation would live righteously.
So
how does this correlate with the Laodicean Church trait? These prophecies evidently include
rather lengthy time gaps over which God unfolds His strategic plan
across the ages. Notable in today’s world is that the modern state of Israel was
established 70+ years ago as a secular nation. All nations are
sinful to varying degrees. So is Israel, and it will continue to be until righteousness
rules when God unfolds the final part of His strategic plan. Despite the fact
that Israel is not yet under God’s theocratic governance, Church Americana tends
to embrace the secular Israeli government as ‘righteous’, even when it clearly defies
most well-known Jewish religious, Christian, and generally-accepted international standards. Since Israel is clearly
elected to play a special role in God’s redemptive plan for mankind and the Earth (including the path for Jesus to become a human),
but is not [yet] a Christian nation, Church Americana would do well to open
its eyes to broader implications of embracing Israel as righteous, and
therefore condoning practically any or most of her governmental actions as righteous. This
represents part of the blindness in the Laodicean Church age that Jesus mentions
in His conversation with Apostle John.
Why
does all of this seriously matter?
What if God has a certain target number of people for His Kingdom, people from
every tongue, tribe, nation and possibly generation, too?? No one knows whether
this may relate to the number (1/3) of angels He lost in satan’s rebellion. What
if we who are in the final parts of the church age, having largely lost
our love and fire for God and become lukewarm, may actually be slowing
down achievement of His target, much like the first generation of Jews
in the Wilderness of Sin slowed down His timely judgment of the Amorites?? (Genesis 15:16 hints that, after 4 generations, The Lord’s Grace to the Amorites/Canaanites would expire, and they would then be ready for His judgment, per Jeremiah 9:23-24.) Could there be much bigger, strategic reasons why Jesus
would be so adamantly concerned about lukewarmness in this age, in our day???
(See: Lost Angels Not for Like-Angels)
