Sharing Glory with Idols

Have you ever wondered why some people experience the miraculous more than others? Does it seem as though some people have a hotline to Heaven, while others can't get a prayer through?

I'd like to address some possibilities to consider. It is very interesting to compare cultures and their response to the gospel of Jesus. Those who are poor are nearly always more apt to receive the news of Jesus than those who are rich. That appears to be an unfair statement, but in this case, experience agrees with scripture.

Mat 19:23 MKJV
(23) Then Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you that a rich man will with great difficulty enter into the kingdom of Heaven.

Why is this the case? Jesus answers this as well:
Rev 3:17 MKJV
(17) Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

Rich people are just not needy people. The flesh tells a lie. It says, "All is well. Relax." And the spirit goes to sleep, not realizing the peril it is in.

But back to our question. Why does it seem as though God responds to some and ignores others?

We cannot deny that our nation has been immensely blessed. Most of this blessing has come 'after' the formation of the nation of Israel, for once it formed in 1948 we blessed their existence as a nation. As a result, God has blessed us - as He promised to do in Genesis 12:3. And He did not bless us 'just a little'. We have for decades consumed the majority of what the world has produced.

But now we turn our backs - publicly - on God and on Israel. What happens now? Hardship. Famine. Terror. Drought. Disaster. Pandemic.

Our reliance upon God is ending - as a culture. That means we rely upon other things. Idols. If we get sick, we rely upon medicines... or doctors... or science (please please please find a cure!). If we are impoverished, we rely up charity organizations or government programs. If we are lonely we look to church (ouch... that can be an idol?). If we are bored we look to sports. I'm not just pointing fingers outwardly, either. How many football games kept me up so late I didn't want to read my bible? I plead the 5th, but God knows.

Shift the focus to Ethiopia. An aids victim may get healed by a prayer of healing. A blind man might receive his sight. This stuff happens daily. Why? They have no faith that medicine will arrive, or that doctors will come, or that they could afford help if it were there. If you tell them God can heal, they believe. God doesn't like sharing His glory with idols.

This is not to say that medicine is bad. Idolizing it is. Putting it before God is.

Also notice that some nations are in continual drought or war or famine. WHY? Because if the 1% of Christians in those nations do pray for relief, 99% of the people give credit to idol gods. We are heading in this direction as a nation.

Then what should we do? Scripture says in 2 Chronicles 7:14 that if God's people who are called by His name will humble themselves, pray, and seek His face, He will heal their land. But He never says He will heal 'all' the land. Just their land. It's like living in the bubble of the Lord's protection. Put your faith in the One who is in control, first. Next, look at what He might be using for your provision - be it medicine, government, or science.

It's Here, Sooner Than You Think

For the few Christians who have not been stirred from their slumber of late, there are a few warning signs happening now that should bring sobriety. One world government is on our doorstep. How and why? The excuses are being made up and ratified for us. We are giving our sovereignty away each day. The Constitution is no longer of any effect. If those in power don't care for the wording, they change it. As a nation, we've already given in.

But really... how could they pull off a one-world government?

This is how they are currently planning to pull it off:

Copenhagen negotiating text: 200 pages to save the world?

Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke to an audience of over 700 at Bethel University in St. Paul recently and had this to say:

"At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed," Monckton told a Minnesota Free Market Institute audience on Thursday at Bethel University in St. Paul.

"Your president will sign it. Most of the Third World countries will sign it, because they think they're going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regimes from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won't sign it," he told the audience of some 700 attendees.

"I read that treaty and what it says is this: that a world government is going to be created. The word 'government' actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity.

"The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to Third World countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, 'climate debt' – because we've been burning CO2 and they haven't. We've been screwing up the climate and they haven't. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government is enforcement."


This is all okay. At some point, our nation has to give up its status as 'the' superpower. Jesus is not going to walk into Washington DC and set up shop. There comes a time when "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Messiah. He will reign forever and ever!" Rev 11:15