Posted: 07/29/2015 at 5:37pm
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Mercy
in Judgment
By
Ron McGatlin
Spiritually speaking there is a time to bow low with face
to the ground. And there is a time to stand tall with face toward heaven and
hands lifted high.
The glory of the LORD is coming down in the presence of God
in and amongst His people now in this time. Even in the midst of great darkness,
the light of God’s glorious presence will shine brighter in the purified hearts
and lives of His kingdom people.
Upon coming into close proximity with the reality of the
glorious presence of God, the first reaction of people with impurities in their
hearts and lives is the “fear of God.” The fear of God is the BEGINNING of
wisdom. It is not the final state of the wisdom of God. There is always a
worshipful respect for God. However, His perfect love removes fear and replaces
it with an intimate love relationship as a pure-hearted holy child of Father
God.
Every person with impurities, whether born again or not,
seeing and experiencing the living manifested presence of God will respond to
the fear of the awesomeness of God by either submitting to Him or running from
Him. Those who pull away from Him will often later attack and seek to do away
with the people of His presence. Those who will repent for the impurities in
their hearts and lives will bow low before Him with their faces toward the
ground. They may have already been “saved” and on their way to heaven through
the blood of Jesus. However, that is not the issue here.
The issue is that the blood of Jesus actually does
cleanse us from ALL sin, not just positional but in the practical reality of
our lives now. That is more than a free ticket to heaven when we die. The issue
is being emptied and cleansed of all sin and self-lordship that hinders the
full will of God from being done in our lives on earth. The issue is being one
with God, becoming of His nature and character to establish His kingdom on
earth. The issue is becoming fully one with Christ Jesus and losing all self-ownership.
Becoming one body, one Spirit with Jesus, bone of His bone and flesh of His
flesh.
Taking
up Our Cross
Through our repentance of laying down our lives before
Him, we really do experience taking up our cross and being truly crucified with
Him. The life we live beyond that point is not our life but His resurrected
life in us. We take on His blood line. His DNA is imprinted in every cell of
our bodies. THERE ARE NO IMPURITIES IN HIS LIFE in us. We are set free through
our crucifixion and made alive in the resurrected life of Christ Jesus in us by
the Holy Spirit.
The time of bowing low with face to the ground and the
time of standing tall before His presence with face toward heaven and hands
lifted high might be within one day for an individual or it may be a process
over time. However, for a group either a family, tribe, or nation it may be a
longer season as the individuals must come together spiritually into one
accord. All must bow low before the Lord in one accord. Otherwise there must be
separation. The division will be between those who will bow and those who will
not bow unto the Lord God. The sheep will be divided from the goats.
The person or nation who will come to the glorious
presence of God and bow low unto God will afterward be able to stand tall in
the presence of God to receive and show forth the fullness of His glory.
Can
America and Other Nations Be Saved?
For the sake of a pure remnant of seed people within the
nation, the inevitable judgment of a wayward nation may find mercy to restrain
the judgment for a season. However, if over time the seed finds no good soil in
which to grow in the nation, the judgment will come. God loves the world and
His people too much to see it continue in the devastation of ungodliness
forever. The ungodly nation will come to an abrupt end.
The nation of America and other nations will be saved if
they will bow in repentance and arise to stand tall in the presence and
strength of God.
This is not complicated. And of course this is not about
a religious form or formula. It is the spiritual work of God through Christ
Jesus by the Holy Spirit preparing His manifest sons to restore the Garden of
Eden life on earth and all that was lost in Adam, the kingdom of God
functioning on earth.
The judgment
of the darkness contains the mercy of God.
O
Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive Your work in the
midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. (Habakkuk 3:2)
Everything in the world must eventually bear the imprint
of the glory of God. Every knee must bow and every tongue confess the glory of
God, either in submission or in judgment. In the fullness of God’s kingdom on
earth, all of the world must be in perfect alignment with the imprint of God’s
glory.
Righteousness is perfect alignment with the will and ways
of God.
The weight of the glory of God must mold the entire world
into the brilliance of the glory of God’s righteousness. Nothing that defiles will
be allowed in the fullness of kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Man’s continued rebellion of turning unto his own ways
apart from God must be corrected. God has poured out His love and bountiful provisions
and yet many have turned away from Him. Extreme pressure through severe
judgment contains both the wrath and the mercy of God in providing the final
opportunity for multitudes of rebellious people infected with darkness to turn
to God and be cleansed. If allowed to continue without God’s corrective
cleansing judgment, the earth cannot become the kingdom of God.
People infected with darkness see darkness as
enlightenment. They see light as inhibiting darkness.
The religious people of the first century saw Jesus and
His message as darkness because they were infected with darkness. Jesus said
they were of their father the devil.
John 8:42-44: Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and
came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My
speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the
desires of your father you want to do.
Many religious people and the systems they have built and
followed have been infested with darkness for many centuries. This is why
religion has failed to see and prevent the darkness invading our nations and
taking them over. This is why religious systems are tolerating and in some
cases embracing the darkness. The failure of the nation of America is directly
attributed to the failure of the religious systems to manifest the imprint of
the glory of God on earth. This is also why judgment has already begun at the
“house of God.”
1 Peter 4:17: For the time has come
for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
We can fully trust that everything God has ever done or
will ever do is righteous and good in the whole scheme of all knowledge and
wisdom.
Some folks want to blame the devil for all that they
consider to be bad. And certainly the devil has a part in the underlying cause
of the evil situations. However, THE REAL AND FINAL BLAME FOR THE CLEANSING
JUDGMENTS FROM GOD IS THE REBELLIOUSNESS AND DISOBEDIENCE OF MANKIND and
specifically the rejection of being formed in the love and glory of the image
of God
God has fully provided everything that mankind needs to
withstand the temptations of the devil and to completely rid the world of his
evil ways of deception. The devil is defeated and even a small child has the
potential of total power over him in Christ Jesus. It is totally man’s fault
and especially the redeemed people who have the power of God available to them
that the world is in such darkness and defeat by the enemy of God and man.
It is the love and mercy of God that is sending judgment
to cleanse and eventually restore mankind back to the full image of God to rule
and reign with Him in His kingdom on earth.
If we are seeking to keep our affluent lifestyles or our
nations and cultures, we are missing the mark and seeking the wrong kingdom.
However, if we will seek the kingdom of God and His righteous way of being and
doing with our whole hearts, all these things will be added to us.
God is lifting His hedge of protection from America and
other nations because He simply cannot protect and empower the works of
darkness.
His protection to preserve the righteous in spots and
separated groups within the nations will remain in place. The seed will be
preserved. However, everything must change. Life as we have known it in the
past will not exist in the future. All evil mixtures of darkness and light will
be dissolved. There will be pure light completely separate from total evil
darkness.
The pure light people will eventually stand tall in the
supernatural strength of Almighty God. Then the people of darkness and all that
lifts itself against God will be dissolved. The kingdom of God shall reign on
earth as in heaven.
Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good
pleasure to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32)
Ron McGatlin www.openHeaven.com basileia@earthlink.net
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