VIOLENCE
When God once said to me “Israel has sinned!” and showed me His sign like an eagle over the local church I believe He might have meant the complicity of His Church, His People, in the violent genocides that unbeknown to me then had just been happening in Africa. (This was at the end of 1994 and start of 1995.) The response of God was the wars in the Balkans and then later the Gulf and the sudden increase in the UK and Europe and the USA of mass survelillance and spying and monitoring the accompanied those wars. God does not condone atrocities and does not turn a blind eye to complicity even when it is His people who are complicit. Enoch said this (chapter 91):
“Love uprightness and walk therein.
And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart,
And associate not with those of a double heart,
But walk in righteousness, my sons.
And it shall guide you on good paths,
And righteousness shall be your companion.
For I know that violence must increase on the earth,
And a great chastisement be executed on the earth,
And all unrighteousness come to an end:
Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,
And its whole structure be destroyed.
And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
And all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence
And transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.”
God punishes severely those who mete out severe violence. We see Ebola on the increase after terrible times of violence in the Congo region. Exactly five years ago we saw worse Ebola plague in West Africa after terrible times of violence there. Do not let yourselves be complicit in extreme violence. God does not ignore it, especially when it is caused by His Church.
