A Prophetic Look at October 13, 2016

I did not write this, a prophet MUCH greater than me did.  He wrote it before I was born but it describes exactly what the USA looks like by the eyes of the prophetic on this very day.  This IS a rebuke.  This is in opposition to the way many carry on in this day.  If you don't see yourself in this.. you are deceived. We need repentance which means turning away from Dead WORKS  and Dead WORDS.

It's time to call our our rebellion and misled lives.  You can't turn on the radio or TV and not hear the drumbeat of wanton lives and lies in our culture.

The prophet speaks and bonus points if you can identify the prophet:

Your wrongheaded lives has caused a split between you and God. Your sins got between you so that he doesn’t hear your praise and prayer any more. Your hands are drenched in blood, your fingers dripping with guilt, Your lips smeared with lies, your tongue swollen from muttering obscenities. No one speaks up for the right, no one deals fairly.

They trust in illusion, they tell lies, they get pregnant with mischief and have sin-babies. They hatch snake eggs and weave spider webs. Eat an egg and die; break an egg and get a snake! The spider webs are no good for shirts or shawls. No one can wear these weavings! They weave wickedness, they hatch violence.

They compete in the race to do evil and run to be the first to murder. They plan and plot evil, think and breathe evil, and leave a trail of wrecked lives behind them. They know nothing about peace and less than nothing about justice. They make tortuously twisted roads. No peace for the wretch who walks down those roads!

Which means that we’re a far cry from fair dealing, and we’re not even close to right living. We long for light but sink into darkness, long for brightness but stumble through the night. Like the blind, we inch along a wall, groping eyeless in the dark. We shuffle our way in broad daylight, like the dead, but somehow walking. We’re no better off than bears, groaning, and no worse off than doves, moaning. We look for justice—not a sign of it.

Our wrongdoings pile up before you, God, our sins stand up and accuse us. Our wrongdoings stare us down; we know in detail what we’ve done: Mocking and denying God spreading false rumors, inciting sedition, pregnant with lies, muttering malice. Justice is beaten back, Righteousness is banished to the sidelines, Truth staggers down the street, Honesty is nowhere to be found, Good is missing in action. Anyone renouncing evil is beaten and robbed.

And I can say with confidence, THUS SAITH THE LORD