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Passive-Aggressive Hate!

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The devil would love to silence me when I’m telling others to go to God and listen for His voice. When God wants me to have a strong word so that a seed is planted so deep that the devil can’t dig it up, it’s not unusual for the hearer to be offended. But please hear me. The devil is NEVER going to send someone to tell you to go listen to God with priority. That’s the opposite of what Satan wants. He’s counting on you being offended.

Love is not passive. Hear me again. Love is not passive. Being tolerant of ignorance or rebellion is not love. It’s passive-aggressive hate. I read that term this week and it hit me that some Christians, who refuse to listen to God in prayer, are really more entrenched in passive-aggressive hate than they are in God’s love. God is a God of justice. He doesn’t ignore injustices. He doesn’t ignore evil. He doesn’t choose to have blind justice. And He hears every word of gossip. He won’t tolerate it. And He hears every excuse. He is not passionless.

So, if God loves you enough to send someone to you to tell you that you need to listen to God in prayer, maybe that could challenge you rather than offend you. Yes, I want you to be offended if you expect to be excused from having a relationship with God, or being obedient to Him. The devil knows that Bible better than you will ever know it and he is counting on you locking God up in a book that he can help you misinterpret time and time again. That’s why there are so many denominations of the Church that have contradictory doctrines to each other. The Catholic church uses that same Bible to get their congregants to pray to Mary or dead saints. Please don’t believe me. Ask God yourself if you should pray to other than God. I’m shaking my head here wondering what it will take to get you to sincerely seek God and obey Him.

Again, go tell God on me. I want you to. I know that I will obediently continue to tell people that God is not mute and He is not locked up in the pages of a book that you can lord yourselves over. The devil is never going to like it … it shows up as offense for those who want God locked up in a book and mute. I expect it and I’m not afraid. God calls me “Mighty Warrior” when I tear down altars to false gods. I know who I am and whose I am.
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The Prophetic Counsel of the Ages

If God suddenly asked you to deliver a message to this generation, would you want to know what type of messages God typically delivered through His prophets for comparison? I did. So I put together two magazines that point to the messages that God chose to reveal through His prophets.

My first magazine to focus on the history of God’s messages was entitled “In God We Trust” and the second was “The Prophets”. For the next few days, we will examine those texts to pull the common thread for wisdom today.

The attached page, “Warnings from the Prophets” can give us insight into God’s anger directed at His own people for their adultery against Him by bowing down to false gods. Why might they have been repeatedly foolish enough to provoke God to wrath in that way? Could it have been that they didn’t understand who God was or the power that He had to punish them in their rebellion or waywardness?

Listen to this warning about false religion from Jeremiah “This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: ‘Stand at the gate of the LORD’s house and there proclaim this message: ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!’ If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.  But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, ‘We are safe’—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the LORD.’” (Jeremiah 7:1-12 NIV)

That last part was echoed by Jesus when He formed a whip and chased out the money changers in the temple courts. “So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, ‘Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!’ His disciples remembered that it is written: ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’” (John 2:15-17 NIV)

The attached page “Tear down the altars to false gods” provides a sampling of Bible passages that demonstrate how easily their religion turned bogus when their audience was not the one and only God. It should stand as a reminder that God is watching and will send messengers to deal with false doctrines in the churches. What does God have to do to get their attention? Is His wrath all that they will understand?

In summary, does it sound like God routinely sent prophets with hard words about their false religious practices or are the prophets known for bringing a word of encouragement? Right, they were beaten, imprisoned and killed because they brought words that itching ears wanted to hear (sarcasm). As I have said before, God doesn’t need anyone’s permission to deliver whatever words He wants through whichever messenger He chooses.

Source: The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “In God We Trust” (dated June 2022, pages 10 and 15)