Gruesome prophecy and consequences….

 Gruesome prophecy and consequences….

The Bible isn’t necessarily a g rated book…not by a long shot…

There are bad , evil things, events, problems, prophecies, people..as well as great wonderful people, promises, amazing events…

Sometimes we tend to just want  the good and skip the grizzly gruesome stuff…I know I do…I want the peace and prosperity, the wonderful promises, the good people…but the isn’t the balance of the Word…there is good with the bad…the battles with the triumphs…all there for teaching and reproof for our faith growing times…

Reading to my husband in his dying days, I read the Psalms…I wanted comfort…but, even as David wrote of God’s comfort, he wrote of hard times…times we may not understand…times we my not want…I am glad He goes with me….

Thank YOU…

  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,and the flame shall not consume you.

Isa.43.2

 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 

but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Rom.5.1-5, Rom.5.8,Rom.5.11

 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

2Cor.1.7

 Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Jas.5.7,Jas.5.10-11

Prophecy and fulfillment….

 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 

They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. 

They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. 

They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you. Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. 

Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 

The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. 

For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

Deut.28.49-57

 Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels. As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?” Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.” When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body. He said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!”

2Kgs.6.24-31

Time….

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nNjvUjwRm1o&pp=ygUEVGltZQ%3D%3D