Category: Judgement

Judgment Has Come (March 11, 2025)

Today, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:

Today judgment begins. Son of man, you are to say the following to My children. I have no words for the world, for their destruction is imminent and certain.

“My children, children of the One, True God, of Yahweh, God of Israel, Who became flesh in the Person of Jesus, your Messiah—the true Lord of the heavens and the earth… Judgment has come. The time of repentance is at its end. For those who have cared for My prophets during the season of My calling out for change, remorse, and transformation, you will be cared for and blessed. For those who have hoarded during a season of want and who have neglected My prophets during a season of mourning, you will be abandoned in the days to come.

“I am the LORD God of heaven and earth, and I have sentenced the church which is called by My Name to endure a season of purging and of fire. I will chase the false prophets from My pulpits and the predators from the leadership of My sheep. I will no longer tolerate the soft-spoken or the deceitful whisperers of false doctrines and empty promises. Only those who proclaim My Word in its fullness and who display My mercy and compassion in their witness will be upheld in these days.

“The church of My Apostles has fallen into sin and disrepute, and I will no longer leave those who lead My people to their own devices. As I brought judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, as I brought judgment on the earth in the days of Noah, as I brought judgment on the leaders of Judaism in the days of My Apostles, so now I bring judgment on the church which is called by My Name. What comes next is from My hand and by My will. I will not use a surrogate, nor do I call My faithful ones to lift up their arms. I Myself will act. I Myself will dispatch My heavenly hosts. I Myself will judge those who have misled My sheep, preyed upon My people, and enriched themselves in My Name. No more will I show mercy or compassion. No more will I forbear. Now I will act for the glory of My Name and for the justification of My righteousness.

“I have been slow to anger and abundant in steadfast loyalty all these generations. Plagues and punishments have come sporadically, always meant to call My people to repentance and to raise their awareness of their waywardness. But now, in the days to come, My own hand will act against those who have blasphemed My Name—who have said in My Name things I have not said and who have commanded in My Name things I have not commanded and who have done in My Name things I have not desired, nor did they ever come into My mind to request. Flee false prophets and deceitful teachers before Me, for if you stand you will be wiped away. I will do this Myself by the breath of My nostrils and the utterances of My mouth.

“Jesus is coming to place all things under His feet. No more will My people say, ‘Where is this coming He promised? Where is this justice He guaranteed? Where is this righteousness He has demanded? For all things proceed as they have from the beginning of creation until this day.’ No more shall you speak these lies out of your own imaginations, for I have been patient with you, willing that none should perish but that all should come to eternal life. But, you have named My mercy negligence, and My patience evidence of non-existence. You have thrived under My compassion, and your nations have grown powerful during My centuries of forbearance. But you are not grateful, and you have not increased in righteousness. The longer I have shown you mercy, the more I have allowed you to discover, the more wickedness has consumed you. No more shall I forbear. No more shall I show mercy. What comes next comes from My hand. These are My locusts, and I will not repay the wicked for the years they will eat. Only those who have repented, only those who have called upon the Name of Yahweh in earnest, only those who have hungered and thirsted for true righteousness in their hearts and true justice upon the earth will be repaid in the years that follow. So I have spoken, and My words will not be withdrawn.

“Tremble those who do wickedness; tremble those who have spoken lies and falsehoods in the Name of Yahweh—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; tremble those who have led My people into rituals and systems of their own imaginings and those of their forebears. For My judgment comes now to purify My people of the false worship of their ancestors. Return to My Torah and to the teachings and example of My Son. Add no more and take away only what you have added. Discover what has been removed, and you will be blessed after the season of judgment has passed. The earth now stands bare before Me. The nations of the earth stand ready for judgment. The Church of Jesus Christ must be made holy, and I, the LORD God will cleanse My people Myself.

“Awaken, hardened sheep of Abraham; awaken, O exiles of Jacob; awaken, O My people Judah, for your Messiah has come. Your long exile is nearing its end, and I am coming to reclaim you from the four corners of the earth to which I have scattered you. Your hardening has made a way for the Gentiles to come to Me, and your suffering has meant salvation for the nations. I will repay these long years the locusts have eaten, if you will return to Me. I have bound you over to disobedience so that I might have mercy on you forevermore. Hear My cry, My children. The end of all things draws near. And now I act as I did millennia ago when I freed you from slavery to the Egyptians. Your slavery to the nations is nearing its end. These plagues are for your deliverance, and for the deliverance of those I have called from the Gentiles.

“Do not fear, My people, for the judgment is for your salvation and the desolation of the nations is for your transformation. Heed the Word of the LORD, My people. Live as sheep among wolves; innocent before Me in the midst of this crooked and depraved generation. Heed My teachings and My example which I gave to you when I tabernacled among you in the Person of Yeshua ha-Mashiach. Mourn for those who have rebelled and blasphemed, for in the days to come they will reap what they have sown. But rejoice for those who love Yahweh their God with all their heart, soul, and strength, for the day of your deliverance is at hand. The Word of Yahweh has spoken.”

Cause & Effect

J. Thomas Johnson – March 2, 2023

Sometimes I assume I have to choose between what is natural and what is supernatural. If an occurrence has a natural explanation—that is, if something can be explained according to the normal patterns of life on earth or of the universe generally—, then I am tempted to assume that it occurred naturally. If an occurrence has no clear natural explanation, then I am tempted to consider supernatural involvement. This all seems very reasonable to me, but I am becoming increasingly aware of how unbiblical this way of reasoning may be.

Recently I’ve been considering the fall of the walls of Jericho in Joshua chapter six. The Scriptures tell us that God told the Israelites to march around the city once each day for six days. Then on the seventh day, the Lord told them to march around the city seven times, with the priests marching before the Ark of the Covenant blasting the trumpets the whole time. Following the seventh time around the city, after the priests had released a long blast from the ram’s horn, the people were to shout a great shout, and the walls of the city would fall. The Scriptures tell us that this occurred precisely as God had described, and the Israelites took the city. What the Scriptures don’t say is whether anything ‘natural’ occurred at the same time.

For what I consider to be dubious reasons, most contemporary critical scholars have rejected the Bible’s date of Israel’s conquest of Canaan (i.e., 1406 B.C.) and have preferred a date of 1250 B.C. There is little archaeological evidence of a major settlement in Jericho in 1250 B.C. But, during the period in which the Bible indicates Israel came into the land, there is evidence of such a settlement. Assuming that the Bible is right both about the dates and about the events surrounding the fall of Jericho, how precisely might the walls have fallen?

Biblical historians who accept the Bible’s dating for the conquest of Canaan have suggested that an earthquake (or a series of earthquakes) might have led to the wall’s collapse. The Jordan River Valley is part of a large fault line sometimes called the Syrian-African Rift. In the last 2,000 years earthquakes have been recorded as causing landslides that have blocked the Jordan River’s flow and as having done substantial damage to human-made structures. Since the conquest of Jericho was preceded by the miracle of the Jordan River’s waters stopping for Israel to cross over, some historians have suggested a large earthquake followed by several aftershocks might have led to the fall of Jericho’s walls.

We don’t know if that is what happened, but if it were, would that mean these were not miracles—that is, that God was not involved? No. Permit me to explain.

According to the Scriptures, life is unnatural. According to Genesis, the natural state of things is lifelessness, formlessness, emptiness, darkness. God imposed life on lifelessness by speaking. For Christians, the universe is not natural, but a miracle, and life along with it. Order and life have been imposed on disorder and lifelessness by God. Nature is supernaturally sourced and supernaturally maintained.

Perhaps, then, it is not surprising that the Scriptures often describe events as both natural (that is, as consequences of cause and effect) and as supernatural (as intended by God). How many earthquakes might Jericho have withstood during its history? We don’t know. However, on that day in the late 1400s B.C. God did not allow the walls to remain standing. Was this a consequence of building on a fault line? Yes. Was this judgment? Yes. Was this the fulfillment of God’s promise to Israel? Yes. As Christians we don’t choose between these interpretations. They were all true simultaneously.

Consequences of poor decisions are both natural and forms of divine judgment. The earth has been created in such a way that God can bring judgment through its design. God does not need to circumvent creation in order to use it for His purposes. God can and has worked through the very mechanisms of nature that He has created and that He maintains. As has always been true and remains true today, consequences can be both natural and forms of divine judgment simultaneously. Perhaps we should look for God’s communications and activities in the natural consequences of our choices and not only in the inexplicable or exceptional aspects of life on earth.