O Haughty Nation -- Your Time Has Come 3/16/2011

O Haughty Nation – Your Time Has Come 3/16/2011

O haughty nation – I have made you but you think you made Me. What you have, I gave you, yet you did not honor Me. You became great in yourself and you rejected Me. You despise Me and think you can manipulate Me. You think I am your servant.

You worship the works of your own hands and delight yourself in your own greatness. You say: I have grown strong by My own power and I rule the world!

You are an abomination to Me. I will vomit you from My mouth and you will be desolated. Your woes will come on you like a woman in travail. You serve your own lusts and in your arrogance you think you can order Me around.

I have prepared for you a platter that will make you convulse and I will make you drink gall because you have despised Me. You rejected My warnings and despised My messengers – you will not shrug off my retribution. Your haughtiness will punish you.

You will yearn and thirst but your desires will not be quenched. You will pant like a dog because you care more for your dogs than for Me. You will call out to me but I will not hear. You will run to your soothsayers that intoxicated you with the lies that you love to hear.

You did not accept the reproof when I sent it to you. You did not repent of your SELF whom you worship and did not glorify ME who made you. My Name will be honored among all nations but you have made a mockery of Me

Woe to you who glorify yourself and despise your Maker. You will reap the fruit of your desires – what you sowed you will reap.

5”The LORD is righteous within her;
He will do no injustice.
Every morning He brings His justice to light;
He does not fail.
But the unjust knows no shame.
“I have cut off nations;
Their corner towers are in ruins.
I have made their streets desolate,
With no one passing by;
Their cities are laid waste,
Without a man, without an inhabitant.
“I said, ‘Surely you will revere Me,
Accept instruction.’
So her dwelling will not be cut off
According to all that I have appointed concerning her.
But they were eager to corrupt all their deeds.
“Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD,
“For the day when I rise up as a witness.
Indeed, My decision is to gather nations,
To assemble kingdoms,
To pour out on them My indignation,
All My burning anger;
For all the earth will be devoured
By the fire of My zeal.
“For then I will give to the peoples purified lips,
That all of them may call on the name of the LORD,
To serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

Who will be safe?
Those who KNOW ME
who KNOW MY VOICE
and LISTENED
will be prepared and sheltered
I know to preserve those
who tremble at MY VOICE
who ANSWER, WHEN I CALL
who GO WHERE, I SEND THEM
and DO, WHAT I TELL THEM

Those who disregard Me will perish.

“Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD's anger.” Zephaniah 2:3