Judgment on the Land

By

Neville Salvetti©

People talk about judgment on the Land and mention 2 Chron 7:14 as the way prevent this judgement and to restore a nation, Is this correct?

The© talk about Israel having been restored as a nation after God’s Judgment removed them from their land. Is this correct?

It is obvious people do not understand these two things as they are approached incorrectly.

First of all it needs to be pointed out that judgment is just an evaluation. What is carried out is the sentence resulting from that judgment. In a sense it is a reward for behaviour in accordance with the principles of Gal. 6:7-8 (you reap what you sow).

In Leviticus 26:14-39 is the statement of what happens to a people who rejects God. Remember, God deals with people and not with inanimate objects such as land and its boundaries, The Land boundary is really not important as God deals with people and their geographical authority so that judgment may end up only on a certain ethnic group, clan or family.

The next restatement of these judgements is in Nahum near the end of Israel as a Biblical nation. When God reminds them of these punishments to show that He is just in destroy into the Nation of Israel as they have not kept His Laws.

The List in Nahum is more complete so I give it.

Judgment in Nahum (Final Warning)

Some of the judgments are mentioned in the book of Revelation and are more severe as they refer to the whole world.

While the warning was to Israel the principles applies to any ‘nation’, group of peoples, tribe, clan or similar.

If you do not follow God as a ‘nation’, and not just individually, then these disasters will happen to you. Satan will rule the ‘nation’ and you will be rewarded by Him (destroyed). Those who follow God will be protected and have their needs met (Mat 6:33) while all around them are being judged.

How do you stop these disasters happening to your ‘nation’?

God’s solution is found in2 Chron 7: 14 And the promise of repentance is found in Acts 3:19.

Who do the warnings apply too?

These warnings were given to the nation of Israel which ignored them and were destroyed as a political and Biblical spiritual power. We are under a New Testament so who does this warning and promise apply to now??

God does not recognise nations but only the two spiritual kingdom, those of God and Satan. Satan setup the nations for control purposes so he can use them for his purposes and control them easier. Satan is called the one who ‘weakens’ (causes discomfort) to the nations so any nations ruled by him will have a bad time and will never have God’s peace and only Satan’s discomfort.

God does not need to set up nations to make it easier to control them. God does not have a kingdom on earth, only people who serve Him. So when He talks about His people He can only be referring the Body (of His followers) and to no one else!

He cannot be referring Satan’s kingdom (the world) as He cannot bless that or any one following the principles of the world, who say they are part of His Body but are not following The Will of Jesus. He can only bless His followers as Gal 6:7-8 prevents him blessing evil (so that people do not reap what they sow) and by this contravene the principle in Gal 6:7-8.

God does not recognise denominations or similar. He only recognises two classes of people: those that follow Him and those that don’t follow Him.

So who does God spare from these judgments?

For God to Bless His people they must obey Him, This means not doing what Satan wants them to do and this is necessary for God to stop the punishments on the peoples of the Land.

According as leaders repent will be the halting or lessening of the Judgment sentences on their people.

The more of God’s people that repents the more of the area around them will be blessed by God and be spared judgment. God may still judge individual people in the area but the area generally will be spared.

No group is too small for God to bless. The only requirement is that they are His People. People who humble their self to seek God in all they do and seek His Face (His Will) in all they do.

The rulers who repent have been given an area of earthly authority to rule (as spiritual authority alone belongs to Jesus 1 Pet 2:25) and because of their godliness will influence all they have been given earthly authority over.

When these warnings were given to Israel, the political rulers were also the religious leaders. So God was referring to a structure where political and religious leaders were the same. We do not have this situation now as most political leaders are Godless and it is obvious they will not lead the repentance necessary to restore the Land. Only when Jesus returns to earth to rule will political and spiritual leadership be one and the same.

Now you know why we are to pray for leaders of nations so that they will be godly, lead the people in righteousness (as their example as well of this) and through this righteous leading preserve the land from Judgment. Looking at all the current political leaders I would say we are doomed and the Tribulation will be a natural Consequence of the lifestyle and leadership of the current leaders of the world’s people!

As you do what God tells you too you will be where he wants you to be and will be able to protect and provide for you (Mat 6:33). Salvation is individual so is His protection and provision for those who seek to develop the relationship they have with Him and who seek to obey His Will in all they do.

God also looks at the corporate level and as each part of the Body does what it is suppose to do the subgroup of the party they are in are blessed and through this bless the Body as a whole.

So what are you to do as a leader of a group? You lead by example and serve those you lead to be used by God to help develop the people into what Jesus wants them to be.

You are to ensure Gods’ law are applied to whatever you have legal responsibility for so that in all your decision making His principles are in the Land and Satan cannot obtain a foothold.

Looking at the Lawmakers of today once again I say that mankind is doomed and the Tribulation must occur as a natural consequence ( Gal 6:7-8) of the way the nations of the earth are governed.

The Tribulation does not occur because God is punishing the earth. The Tribulation occurs as a natural consequence of how leaders have ruled the earth (unknowingly under the direction of Satan) and a natural consequence of the principle in Gal 6:7-8.

In the book of Revelation you will note that these judgments are applied now to the whole earth and not just to groups of people.

The judgments in the book of Revelation are a natural consequence of evil and will occur when evil is fulfilled and judgment must occur and not be delayed anymore through God’s compassion preventing it as He gives people time to repent.

So what are you to do to judgment consequences on you and your family?

In the New Testament Jesus restated a principle That obedience brings blessing. If you obey God He will Bless you, This is the main principle behind Mat 6:33. Our motivation for doing this is love and not the avoidance of punishment (which was the motivation for obedience in The Old Testament When this principle was first stated).

God is bound to abide by the principles in His Word or He would be a hypocrite. If you obey Him you are rewarded. If you rebel and purposely disobey Him (sin) you reap punishment and if you do not repent you reap eventual destruction and loss of salvation.

So fulfil the requirements of Mat 6:33. Seek Jesus each day and develop the relationship you have with Him and The Father, seeking His Will in all things and He will protect and provide for all your needs regardless what happens to everyone or everything around you. That is His promise in Mat 6:33 and God keeps His promises.

Jesus said He would build His church (Body) and as each member of it obeys Him He is able to do what He needs to use them to do that. He is also able to use them to build revival. The Body is built out of individuals and as they obey Jesus they united as one by The Holy Spirit and able to do the work Jesus requires of the Body of which the healing of a nation is one.

It is as the whole Body makes itself available to Jesus is He able to use them to bring the surrounding people to repentance and revival, removing the lawlessness that requires the nation to be punished.

It is as The Body demonstrates The Kingdom of God with signs and wonders will people see there is something better than that which the world (Satan) offers them.

Has Israel been Restored?

Israel received all the judgment punishments and ceased to exist as a Biblical nation shortly after the warnings were restated in Nahum. It became a political nation (1948) again, still not longer qualifying as the people of God as Satan rules them because they have rejected God and the restoration is political only and not spiritual.

So has it been restored?

I quote the following scriptures:

v8-9 Israel is a nation overnight, brought forth by God and not man

v10-12 All will rejoice, there will be peace, and the Gentiles will go to h er

v13-14 He will comfort them, and they will rejoice

v26-27 is referring to people who follow Jesus and are not under the law as this heart of flesh and His Laws in them is a major difference between those under The Law and those who follow Jesus. They also will keep His Will.

v35-36 The heathen around Israel will know that God was responsible for their restoration.

I would not call the current Israel a place of peace and joy that all the nations will go too, especially with Satan using it as his headquarters in the Tribulation and Anti-Christ being there in the temple. I would doubt also that the heathen around Israel recognise Jesus as the one who restored Israel. The world does not recognise God as being involved in the restoration of Israel so why should its neighbours.

The descriptions in these verses appears to be a result of the Millennial return of Jesus so that the judgment on Israel is still current.

One day Israel is in the great Tribulation the next day Jesus is in her and she has peace. This appears to be the restoration referred to in Isaiah and Ezekiel.

So is the current restoration of God or Satan. Satan needs Israel and a Temple for his Antichrist to rule and he often supplies his version of things before God does.

The Bible indicates a spiritual restoration of Israel and not a political one, as is currently in Israel.

The bible says the following will occur:

None of this is in the current restoration of Israel so the restoration does not fit the one spoken of in The Bible.

God’s restoration is based on the nation repenting and Israel has not done so. This is another indication that this current restoration is not of God being purely political for the purposes of Satan.

When you can show that what The Bible says about Israel’s restoration apples to the current restoration of Israel then you can say it is of God. Meanwhile watch Satan use it to destabilise the world and set it up for his Antichrist who will amazingly bring peace to the world.

How does Antichrist bring peace?

Satan starts wars so all he has to do is stop them and give Antichrist the credit

Pray for the peace of Israel and Jerusalem but remember it will not come until it has peace with the Messiah when He rules in the millennium.

Christians and Government

Should Christians be in politics? Only of they want Godly leaders in government.

In the beginning of Israel’s history the religious leaders were the same as the political leaders. This meant Godly men ruled the nation. Satan stirred the people to ask for a king and from then on the nation only had problems with few periods of rule where the kings were godly.

Today the church and state are still separate but when Jesus returns they will be as one. While the church ignores politics and placing godly men in its ruling bodies the society will keep spiralling downhill until the final judgments occur and the nation is removed.

Christians will have only them self to blame for believing politics was not the domain of the church and for not putting godly leaders into politics so that they led the country in a godly way and the country avoided the judgments of God on it.

Epilogue

The church is waiting for God to work but God is waiting for the church to work so He can use it to bring revival. As The Body (true church) works and does what God wants it to do so God can work through it so that the ‘nation’ will be revived and the judgment will be minimised and possibly avoided.

It is up to each person individually and then as part of The Body as a whole to repent so God can use you them bring repentance, revival, restoration and Blessing, otherwise there will only be judgment on the peoples, individually and the ‘nation’ as a whole.