Changes

Out of the Box

The weather is turning cooler.  My knee exercises are most important before rising; so are the turning side to side exercises for my back.

And the world is changing as well.

I've read some good books lately.  All the authors are world renowned and their books translated into many languages.  They all think outside the box.  They take facts that I knew and studied for years and look at them from a totally new perception - outside the boxes I had put them in. 

The books were pointed out to me by my friends and since they are all best sellers on the world book market, I feel safe to quote them.  No, I did not ask permission from anyone, this is my opinion alone…

I started with "The Harbinger" by Jonathan Cahn.  It touched a nerve. 

For a long while now I felt a major change in the air; as if something dark and sinister is looming closer, daily.  Praying partners, specifically from Israel and North America, voiced similar feelings and prayer times were getting quieter and harder to get through.  It seemed as if a force was stopping our call to God.

The warnings given by J. Cahn were strengthen in my mind by the writings of John Hagee in "Four Blood Moons". 

Again, America is warned to return to God; again behaviors contrary to biblical principles are being pointed as the culprit for the coming destruction, and again the facts presented are explained in a new light all together, outside the box.

Today, I am reading John Cahn second best seller, "The Mystery of the Shemitah".  Warnings are written all over it - America and the world has to return to God. 

We are in the year of the Shemitah.  I cannot change the world, but with knowledge comes responsibility; I am responsible for my own actions and responses.  It is rather difficult to apply this issue personally.  How do I behave while this disaster is looming over our heads?  I live in Israel, my family and friends are all over the globe; my dearests are in Canada.  What do I tell them?  Can I advise them?  I believe and follow God, do they? 

I am reading books that are hard for me to understand; what the bottom line in them for me is the fact that I will be affected by the coming changes.  When a nation is destroyed, when a people go to exile, when an empire is losing its status as a world power, when financial institutions go broke - the little people, the working class, the children and the parents suffer with the changes.  The warnings might be written on a global scales for the global community, but when nations go through changes, the individuals are killed, maimed, loose homes, forced to migrate, separate from families and fight for their lives.  Such changes affect me, you, the neighbours.

What can be done?

Can we change the political and cultural rollercoaster that is moving our governments?  Canada is before an election, do all Canadian recognize the relationship between their future and "a man after God's heart"?  Would the American People lobby their officials until prayers return to schools and the Ten Commandments are reinstituted?  Can Israel unite behind its leaders yet force them to be honest and care for the people that elected them instead of their own glory?

After reading the "Shemitah" I am glad that for years we insisted on "no debt policy".  The bank can easily confiscate our home if they need money and our mortgage is not paid up.  Living a simple life is an advantage.  Can people change their financial habits and living conditions fast enough to weather the coming changes?

A home in Israel helps me to feel safe; I am on my promised land among my people.  Knowing God and recognizing His voice is the best shelter I've got.  He lets me know how to function daily; during global changes He will continue to direct and I will still know His voice.  Would others heed the warnings and learn to recognize the voice of God?

Eitan Shishkoff, in his book, "What About Us?" writes an end-time message which calls to the gentiles to take a part in Israel's revival.  He quotes verse after verse written to the gentiles who know God, pointing them to their task during this looming global disaster.  Although he does not issue a global warning he does give a godly solution.  He speaks of a friendship between Gentiles and Jews which will "achieve the fullness of His all-inclusive plan".

It might not be the only way out of a coming disaster, but it's a start.

287th Day of Praise -

I praise you God for your Word, your teaching, and your wisdom that allow us to understand global events and help us to find our individual ways inside them.  I thank you God that you made a way for us to believe in you, to understand your will and to be close enough to you so we can hear your directing voice.  I also thank you God for your prophets who put a pen to paper and warn us of things to come. 

With God all things are possible,

Orith