Enough is Enough

Cain, enough is enough. And God made Cain a fugitive and a vagabond, and He marked him. Noah, enough is enough. Prepare an ark, and God drowned the world. At the Tower of Babel, God said, enough is enough, and He scattered them on the earth. God looked upon the affliction of Israel and Egypt, and He said, enough is enough, and He freed them, and He broke Egypt. Samuel, enough is enough. I have rejected Saul from being king.

And His house and His potential dynasty was terminated from the kingship. Jonah, Jonah, enough is enough. Quit running from Me. And He prepared a great fish to swallow Him. Israel, enough is enough, and He sent them into Assyrian captivity. Judah, didn't you learn from your sister Israel? Enough is enough, and He sent them into Babylonian captivity. When is enough enough?

At what point will the cup be full and overflowing? When is enough enough? When God says so. When God says so. Notice something with me interesting in Genesis 15. God is talking to Abraham in Genesis 15, and He's talking about the land that is going to be His, the land of promise. But not yet, Abraham. Genesis 15 verse 16, He makes this statement to Abraham. And you know, the land is going to be yours. You're going to inherit all of this, your descendants. But not yet. But in the fourth generation, Genesis 15 verse 16, but in the fourth generation, they shall come here again.

Why should it be put off? Why can't it be now? God says, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Not yet full. Time and timing is in God's hands, and God determines when enough is enough. And when He does, He says, that's it. Enough is enough. And then I guess we could come up with the question, well, how does God say enough? I mean, how does He go about saying, enough? Enough is enough. Well, sometimes it's by what He allows to happen that He doesn't prevent. Sometimes it's as simple as He allows something to happen, He doesn't stop it. He doesn't prevent it. How does God say enough is enough?

Well, sometimes it's in steps and stages of diminishing and removing His blessings. Slowly, but surely. Because, see, diminishment and decline is slow, but it's sure destruction. And sometimes it can be cranked up as far as the speed. It takes a while for God to say enough is enough.

You read the accounts of His mercies and patience and forbearing and all that are shown in the Bible. And we know it takes a while for God to say enough is enough, and that even when He does say enough is enough, it might be for a while yet before the curtain actually falls or drops.

Even after God told Noah, Noah, enough is enough. Build an ark. Well, guess what? He still gave mankind 120 years, didn't He? 120 years. It's interesting that on a basic lifespan of a thousand years, because they were living basically a thousand years before the Flood for a number of reasons, but they were living basically a thousand years, and so 120 years, that's 12%.

That was basically 12% of a lifetime. If we were to take the basic lifetime of 80 years, just to use that as an example to make a point, and we took the basic lifetime of, let's say, 80 years, that would be 9.6 years or 9.5, almost a decade. Sometimes when God says enough is enough, it's still going to run for a while.

But who's right and whose privilege is it to say when enough's enough? The supreme sovereign, God the Father, who works through Jesus Christ, the rock Jesus Christ. So when will God say enough's enough, let's say, for the children's sake? I mean, when somebody says enough's enough, they're referencing something. When God says to Cain, enough's enough, or to Noah regarding the world, enough's enough, or Israel, enough's enough, Judah, enough's enough, Jonah, enough's enough.

When God says that, He's referencing something. Those statements on God's part, so to speak, enough's enough, they're tied to something. So let's just say, when will God say enough's enough?

For the children's sake, if we just focus on the children. I'm a father. My son, Jonathan, back there, he's a father. I have three children. The one who made me a father was my firstborn, Lee Ann. Jonathan then confirmed it. And Lauren confirmed it again, a second confirmation, a third, you know, or a third heavy one counted.

And then, Agilene figured that being confirmed twice was enough, and we didn't need to confirm it again. But for the children's sake, read with me Deuteronomy 12, verse 31. And this is in regards to the children.

Deuteronomy 12, there at the end of the chapter, God is telling them that when they go in and possess the land, there are certain things He doesn't want them to do, to be part of.

And in verse 31, there's a focus on the children. And in verse 32, there's a focus on the children.

M-O-L-E-C-H, Molech. Let's follow up on that a little bit. Leviticus 18, verse 21.

Leviticus 18, in verse 21. And you, and of course, this is before they go into the land. So there's more than once He has given this instruction to them in regards to the children. And you shall not let any of your seed, your children, pass through the fire to Molech.

Neither shall you profane the name of your God, I am the Lord.

In chapter 20 here, Leviticus 20, verses 2 through 4, Leviticus 20, verses 2 through 4. Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whosoever He be of the children of Israel are of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, because they were to be under the same law.

Fairness that gives any of His seed to Molech. How did He give him to Molech?

That precious little bundle of flesh and blood, your little daughter, your little sign. I don't know exactly how they fed the children to Molech as far as the mechanical way they carried it out, but I have read of it being like a statue of Molech made of metal, hollow inside, and a fire burning with upstretched arms. And they laid the baby on the arms in gravity. The baby rolled down the arms into the gaping mouth of the statue and fell down into the fire and was consumed. I don't know how they did it, except I know the children were turned into smoke and ashes.

That gives any of His seed to Molech. He shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones, and I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech to defile my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.

And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, if they won't carry out the execution when He gives of His seed to Molech and kill him not, say, God, hell, they're mechanical. You can't just accept this as okay. You're not doing it, but, oh, well, He's doing it. It's not my kid. No skin off of my nose.

One of the... probably the biggest church in America today is the Church of Acceptance. The religion of acceptance. And I think you know what I mean. What we are willing to accept as a nation anymore.

Okay. This is before they went into the land. Let's now go into the land. Let's go hundreds of years later to Jeremiah 32-35. Let's go down to the time of Jeremiah 32, verse 35.

Hundreds centuries have gone by.

And what was the practice of some? Not all. Jeremiah 32-35, and they built the high places of Baal, where it's you're in the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is right outside Jerusalem, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I, clearly God could have said, and specifically He could have said, commanded them not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to sin.

Do you travel around today and see any statues of Molech?

Do you see anybody anywhere in the nation, anywhere, offering their children in the fire to Molech? Well, I don't think so.

What about abortion? What about abortion? How about sacrificing your flesh and blood on the altar of convenience? Because, or let's say, the altar of convenience, how about burning them to the God of self? Because 99-point-something of all the abortions are done for self and convenience. Since Roe vs. Wade, January 25, 1973, and these were 2014 figures, this figure here I give is 2014. Up till that time, since Roe vs. Wade, abortions were estimated at 50 million, 55 million. They've got to be way above that right now. Let me just illustrate something. There's at least 60 million or more.

So, just to show how many babies have been burned on the altar to the God of self, I'm going to take nine states. I want you to picture Louisiana, Arkansas above it, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, late Tennessee across the top, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia. Let me give those nine again. Starting in the west, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee across the top there. Send in military units. Seal the borders. Seal the border around these nine states. Totally seal it. Nobody goes in, nobody comes out. Then send in military units and kill every single living being, human being, in these nine states. Kill every man, woman, child, baby, spare, not one. To when those military units come out, there is no living human being in these nine states. You will not have a match. You will not have equaled the number of abortions because in 2015, these nine states were just under, well, just a little bit over 53 million people. So, they're not even to this day, they would not be above 60 million people in these nine states. But then what about selling body parts, baby parts, organs, which is a much bigger business than what you and I may realize? Dr. Nukatola and Planned Parenthood, she got caught on an undercover video back in 2015 where she was sipping her wine and munching her salad. She was discussing selling baby parts to this undercover reporter that she didn't know was undercover. She talked about merchandising babies and all of that. One of these righteous judges blocked the showing of the video, which was incriminating to this, quote, doctor and Planned Parenthood. Nothing symbolizes, nothing represents innocence like a baby. So tiny, so helpless, so dependent, so unmarred. What a guilt it is upon those who destroy the babies, the fruit of the womb. At what point will God say, enough is enough? Do you think that God's not bothered by it? Do you think that God just says, oh well, that's just the way it is with those human beings. At some point, He's going to say, enough is enough. And if you haven't figured out the title of this sermon yet, I guess I ought to give it. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. The two major activities that are going on with the youth, the two major activities that are going on with the young today, the children, is number one, killing them. When you've got that many being killed in the womb or right up while the mother's in her labor pangs, full term, that's killing. That's more than killing. That's murdering.

The two major activities with the young, murdering, and it's not just the abortions.

How many young people today are killing young people?

And number two, corrupting them, corrupting them. Proverbs speaks of a corrupt generation. Proverbs 30.

Proverbs 30.

Verses 11 through 14. Proverbs 30. Verse 11.

When I read this, this corresponds with 2 Timothy 3 verses 1 through 5. I'm going to come back here with 2 Timothy 3 verses 1 through 5.

I have lived all my life. I grew up in the church. I've heard sermons. I've read the scriptures. I've heard the Bible read. I've heard prophecies preached. I've lived to the time that I see those things I heard preached when I was young, being fulfilled.

Things are rolling along, and they're rolling along very rapidly. But we read here in 2 Timothy 3, does this not describe the days and times that we're living in? This know also that in the last days, perilous times shall come. What makes the times perilous are the conditions extant that are now mentioned next. Men shall be lovers of their own selves. Covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful and holy. Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good.

Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Yeah, I'm spiritual. You hear that a lot from such turn away. And so, this generation that is mentioned back here in Proverbs 30, look at the outcome, verse 17.

The eye that monks at his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Do you know what that is saying?

The ravens and the eagles don't pick out the eyes of people who are alive.

They pick out the eyes. They literally pick out the eyes of the dead.

It's a dead generation. It's a generation headed towards death. It's basically talking about the type of generation the age will end on. And to this generation, God says, enough is enough. I said the second major activity is corrupting the youth. I won't ask for a show of hands of who saw back in 2013. Oh, I realize that's seven years ago. Well, that just means it's been seven more years of corruption to take place since that time. But back in 2013, again, I don't want to see a show of hands, but by rhetorical statement, how many of you saw, heard about, went to the video to see if you didn't see the actual MTV Awards ceremony. Where sweet little Hannah Montana, who had long since morphed out of sweet little Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus had morphed into something of far cry. After he built all that fan base and then morphed into something, even some of the fans in that packed audience were shocked. And this wasn't spur of the moment. It wasn't spontaneous because it had to be rehearsed. And those who produced the show and put on the awards ceremony, it was rehearsed. Miley Cyrus with Robin Thicke in a performance that was demonic, that was way over the top sexually, in the music that was done, and in the dance, everything. Let me just tell you what was being simulated. She was a female dog being mounted by a male dog. That's what they simulated in dance. You don't believe me? Go to YouTube, pull it up, and look for yourself. She even had her hair done here like two little dog ears on the front. I do know what I'm talking about based on the evidence. Just absolute corruption. And one of the lyrics of the song was, and the song had a demonic voice to it and all, it's our body. We can do what we want. That lyric was repeated. It's our body. We can do what we want. Corrupting the youth. This is seven years later. You think the corruption has died down or picked up? Let me read something to you, brethren. This is recent. Washington State mandates perversion at school, written by Alex Newman from the print edition of the New American. And I'm quoting from this article, when government schools start up again in Washington State, so-called comprehensive sexuality education, CSE, will be even more ubiquitous than before. Lessons in kindergarten will introduce children typically around age five to homosexuality, homosexual parenting, anatomy, including drawings of genitalia, and much more. From there, each year, the young children will move on to other lessons, encouraging transgenderism, sodomy, fornication, and every form of perversion imaginable. And now it is all mandated by state law.

The statute in question, which passed, the statute in question mandates, I need to back up, the abusive and obscene material is so outrageous that some opponents are now calling on parents to remove their children from public school as quickly as possible. The statute in question mandates radical sex education at every level through a child's education. Introduced in the legislature by sexual revolutionaries in mid-January by March 27, despite massive parental opposition, the legislation was signed into law by far-left Democrat Governor Jay Inslee. That was right around the time that schools were being shut down by government decree, but when they reopened next year, any parents who continue sending their children to public schools must understand that those children will be bombarded with unprecedented amounts of sex propaganda and perversion with devastating consequences. Consider that the material was so graphic that when it was discussed in the House of Representatives, a warning flashed on viewers' TV screens, quote, mature subject matter dash viewer discretion advised, end of quote. A brief review of the materials that will be used reveals why that warning was needed.

When lawmakers tried to quote some of the material, they got gaveled. You know, they got gaveled and silenced because it was so obscene. In fact, much of the material is so outrageous that not too long ago, adults would have been arrested and charged with a felony for exposing children to pornography and obscenity or for encouraging them to engage in raunchy sexual activities that will have been inconceivable in previous generations. Even today, outside of school setting, adults in many states could face felony charges for giving this sort of filth to children. And it's going to be part of their curriculum.

Killing our unborn, corrupting our youth. If the building block of society is the family, and it is, then you can't rebuild the nation without rebuilding the family. And that's not going to happen, brethren. We are witnessing the destruction of marriage and family. And at what point will God say, enough is enough?

You know, there came a point. There came a point in time with Sodom and Gomorrah where God said, enough is enough. And He destroyed them. And we know the account. Now, they will have an opportunity for repentance and cleanup and forgiveness and change in God's plan of salvation in the last great day. But in this age and time, it got so bad there, He literally just burned them out, wiped them out. And He made them an example. If you go to 2 Peter 2 6, 2 Peter 2, let me ask this. Is there anyone alive and breathing with a basically functioning mind today in America who at least doesn't recognize the name Sodom and Gomorrah?

Is there anybody that doesn't at least ring a bell? Oh, that sounds familiar. And most people know exactly what those names stand for. Peter said in 2 Peter 2 and verse 6, Peter said, and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow and doing what with them? Making them an example. They were meant to be an example. That's why God did it. The flood was God's doing. Wiping out Sodom and Gomorrah was God's doing.

Preparing the fish to swallow Jonah was God's doing.

Making them an example unto those that after, in the decades, in the centuries, in the millennials, that would come after Sodom and Gomorrah to look back and see that as an example.

And yet, on June the 26th, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court made homosexuality legal in every sense of the word by legalizing same-sex marriage, which is an oxymoron.

Same-sex marriage legalized for the entire United States of America. And then now, five years later, almost to the date, June the 15th, this past Monday, our Supreme Court, in a ruling of six to three, took it further. This is an article by Dr. James Dobson.

This says, Dr. James Dobson decries the Supreme Court's ruling that redefines sex under Title 7, June the 15th, 2020, in an outrageous ruling that should shake America's collective conscience to its core. The U.S. Supreme Court has redefined the meaning of sex under Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act to include, quote, gender identity and sexual orientation. Not only was this decision an affront to God, but it was also a historic attack against the founding framework that governs our nation. Our judiciary is constitutionally charged with interpreting the law, not making law. In its six to three ruling, the Supreme Court acted as a super-legislator and failed to carry out its primary duty to the American people, and we will all pay the price. Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and rightly so. Sex, as used in Title 7, means male and female, the two sexes that God created and the two sexes that is understood to be what you're talking about with sex until these times we now live in. Sex, as used in Title 7, means male and female, a simple fact supported by the overwhelming weight of legal authority. Any change to its statutory meaning must come from Congress, and Congress has refused to make such a change for the last 45 years. What gives six justices the right to decide otherwise, not the Constitution? Justice Alito was one of the three dissenting, and Justice Alito laid out the potential consequences of today's ruling. It says, the end of sex-specific bathrooms and locker rooms, allowing biological men to compete in women's sports and earning scholarships set aside for women, lawsuits against colleges that refuse to assign opposite-sex students as roommates, punishment for churches who require employees to adhere to biblical models of human sexuality, mandatory coverage for sex reassignment surgeries, better described as gender mutilation, and that's just the beginning. Dr. James Dobson, in finishing his thoughts on this decision, said, if there was any question that our country is in the midst of a spiritual war over its very heart and soul, this abhorrent decision removes any shred of doubt in one of the most difficult seasons for our nation. This is an incredibly dark day and must be countered with great prayer. There's a saying I've heard. I'm sure you've heard it, too. If God doesn't do something pretty soon, He's going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Let that sink in a moment. Think about that. If God doesn't do something pretty soon, He's going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

See, when enough is enough, there comes a point where God says, that's it. And He doesn't keep waiting. Obviously, that statement about if He doesn't do something pretty soon, He's going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. That is a statement that speaks to how bad things are getting. And Yahweh is going to do something, isn't it? We know that. How do we know that He's not already doing something?

Do we know that He's not already doing something?

He certainly sees the level of acceptance of sin. I remember seeing the phrase, this statement on a magazine, the courageous journey of Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Jenner.

And if you've done any just brief cursory reading about him, he's a very mixed up, scrambled individual in his emotions and his mind.

See, people don't want to hear the corrupt journey of Bruce Jenner. They don't want to hear that. The biggest church in America is the Church of Acceptance. And there are so many people who, even if they don't personally buy into this, they just accept, well, that's just their choice. That's an alternate lifestyle. Yeah, are there people like James Dobson and others who are trying to raise a warning and doing what they can? Are there conservatives that are really fighting these currents? Absolutely. But every year they shrink in number, and more and more the power is shifting to those who want what they want, no matter how corrupt and all it is.

You know, God one time destroyed all mankind except for the one family of eight with a flood. And what did he do in the aftermath of that flood? He gave a rainbow. He created the atmosphere after the flood in a way that there would be a rainbow. Noah, that rainbow is my sign, my guarantee, my symbol to you that never again, ever will I ever destroy the planet with a worldwide flood. And he didn't, and he won't.

And so, a very corrupt way of living that is totally contrary to God's design has chosen that symbol to put the rainbow across in Facebook and other places. And people who are not part of that community will post a rainbow a lot of times, showing acceptance, that's okay with me, that you do, you have that lifestyle. I don't want that lifestyle, but your lifestyle fuses as good as mine for me. No, he didn't flood Sodom and Gomorrah, did he? But he burned them.

Fire and brimstone, he burned them out. Yes, God is going to do something.

And how do we know that he's not already doing something? How do we know that?

I don't think we can say he's not doing something. Maybe God is already saying enough is enough, and sometimes, you know, God's enough is enough, does come in steps and stages. It's timed out. If you, as a Bible study assignment upon yourself, go back and read again sometime. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, those two chapters, Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, those are the blessings and cursings chapters, and they have totally direct meaning to us. Because in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, they do have to do with God saying enough is enough. The first half of those chapters have to do with our blessings, and then the second half have to do with our cursings as we lose those blessings, as they're taken away because of our national sins.

I want us to stop and consider something if we haven't considered it.

And you have to reach back a little ways.

What monument are building in America?

Pictured, represented, symbolized, stood for our global, global position of world power, prestige, and prosperity. After World War II, we were the nation. We were the sole superpower.

And since World War II, we have been the most... well, we've been most exceptional for a long, long time, but we have been the number one power since World War II.

What monument, what building in America, pictured, represented, symbolized our global position of world power, world prestige, world prosperity. Anybody want to venture a guess? The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. It's the World Trade Center in New York. The Twin Towers. Even physically, the towers towered above everything else. I remember seeing, after they came down, seeing a movie that had been made when they were, of course, had been up and featured them in the movie. And on that skyline there, those Twin Towers stood more than head and shoulders above everything else. Those Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, World Trade, of which we were number one.

That's why the saboteurs chose them as a target. That's why they were targeting what symbolized our greatness and brought those towers down. And that's why God allowed, you heard me say, allowed it to happen. God didn't do it. He didn't have to do it. He allowed it to happen.

They were chosen as a prime target. He allowed it to happen because of what it signified. It signified our global position in power, prestige, and prosperity. Folks, the destruction and collapse of those Twin Towers was a very significant event.

It was a harbinger of what was to come. I go back into enough history, church history, and all that you don't want to overmake something of 19 years, 19-year time cycles, but there are 19-year time cycles. For whatever degree and measure they have significance, that could be debated.

But there are 19-year time cycles. How long has it been come this September?

How long has it been come this September since those Twin Towers came down? 19 years.

There's even authorities out here right now even talking about maybe shutting the nation down again. There's a lot going on. Prophecies being fulfilled in more ways than one.

No, the collapse of the Twin Towers signified a turning point for America. It marked a turning point. America would no longer be in the ascendancy. And if you just look at all that's happened since 2001, we haven't been in the ascendancy. We plateaued in some ways at times for the most. And even when we started climbing here in recent times, look at how the props are being knocked.

No, America would no longer be in the ascendancy, but enter into our decline. And as I've said, President Trump in the White House gives us a bit of an economic reprieve. He cannot reach down into the fabric of the American family and clean out all the corruption and the rot that's going on. And there are not enough conservatives in this country anymore to clean up all the rot that's going on. Correlating this biblically, you can correlate it to Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, because there is a transition that goes on from the blessings to the cursings. And we have got one curse after another happening to us anymore.

And things are going to get worse.

God has not removed all protection from us as a nation, but His watching over us and protecting us in blessings are being removed, slowly but surely, and in some cases, pretty rapidly.

Ronald Reagan, who was one of the greatest presidents this nation has ever had, Ronald Reagan said, if we ever forget that we are one nation under God, we will be a nation going under. That's worth repeating. If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, we will be a nation going under. Ezekiel 7, verse 14. Ezekiel 7 and verse 14. He says, They have blown the trumpet, even to make already, and none goes to the battle, for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. It's interesting that in one of these prophecies, an end-time prophecy, he talks about a time where an alarm would be sounded to try to get things ready. None goes to battle. But the main point I want to point out here is for my wrath, God's wrath, is upon all the multitude thereof. Jeremiah 30. These scriptures that I heard long ago, I noticed when I started turning back to them, not that it's been since long ago that I've turned to them, but that the ink hasn't faded. Jeremiah 30, verse 7. Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob's, Israel's, Joseph's, Ephraim's, Manasseh's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. Why? Why does God say enough is enough? Let's go to Isaiah 3. Next, Isaiah 3, verse 9. Let me show you a certain measure of fulfillment of this verse.

Isaiah 3, verse 9. It says, The show of their countenance does witness against them. Notice this statement, and they declare their sin as Sodom. They hide it not.

They declare their sin as Sodom. You know, we have a term we use that comes from the name of the city of Sodom. It's called sodomy, and I won't get into any graphics because most of us know what I'm talking about.

On June the 26th, 2015, our highest court in the land, the Supreme Court, declared homosexuality, same-sex marriages, sodomy, totally legal throughout the land.

You think that's not a certain type of fulfilling of that verse? Absolutely. Chapter 1.

Chapter 1, picking it up. Well, verse 10, it's interesting. Now, God's talking to His people here, His people, His national peoples. And He says in verse 10, He says, Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of what? Sodom. Give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. How much plainer does it get? We are now championing the very things for which God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. And we're championing it. We're making it the law of the land. And so God says, you rulers of Sodom.

You're turning Israel into Sodom. You're turning Israel into Gomorrah. Now, backing up to verse 4, all sinful nation. Just think about what is going on that matches what we read here as we read through these few verses here and other verses.

All sinful nation. Verse 4, Chapter 1, laden with iniquity. Just loaded down with iniquity. A seed of evildoers. Children that are corruptors. They have forsaken the Lord. They provoke the lofty one, the holy one of Israel to anger. They're going away backward. Why should you be stricken anymore? You'll revolt more and more. The whole head, that's leadership. The head, that's leadership.

That's your rulers, your leadership. It's sick. Can you think in your mind and put a name on some very sick people in leadership? I'm talking about morally sick. Very morally sick and sick in other ways, too.

The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint. True strength. You know, we talk about our basic strength of being, of body. It's tied to the strength of our heart. As your heart weakens, you weaken. As your heart is stronger, you're stronger. The heart has to do with your energy levels and all. The whole heart is faint. It's weak. It's fading. And, of course, the heart can also have to do with the moral fiber. From the sole of the foot. That's the little people. That's the grassroots. That's the blue collar. That's us. You know, it's the little people.

From the sole of the foot all the way down to the grassroots, even to the head of the leader. There's no soundness in it. Wounds, bruises, putrefying sores. They've not been closed. They've not been bound up. They've not been mollified with ointment. Notice this. Your country is desolate.

Your cities are burned with fire. Any of that going on at all? Your land, strangers devoured in your presence.

Our borders are being flooded. And it is desolate and overthrown by strangers. It's just, you know, you read through this. The daughter of Zion is left like a cottage in a vineyard as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers as a besieged city. You know, the vines just take it over. Just cover it up. Just overwhelm it. Except the Lord of Host had left us a very small remnant, which this is reaching on out in time. And he'll step in at a future time to see to it that a remnant is spared. We should have been as Sodom, which was totally wiped out. And we should have been likened to Gomorrah, which was totally wiped out. And again, why? Isaiah 5. Isaiah 5.24.

Isaiah 5.24. Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the shaft, so their roots shall be as rottenness and their blossoms shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts. Every Supreme Court justice should have said, I will not be for that, because that is against the most basic law of God. These are intelligent men. They could have done that. But they're going to cave. And of course, who knows where some of their own affections lie in some cases. Because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel. We're seeing actions that show that God's Word and most basic moral law even is being despised. Verse 20. Woe to them that call evil good. And good, well that's evil that put darkness for light. You need to be enlightened.

You need to accept this. You need to come out of the dark ages. You need to accept this.

You don't need to be so darkened in your thinking. You don't need to be so narrow-minded. You need to come into the light when really they're asking to come into the darkness with them. That put darkness for light and light for darkness. That put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Isaiah 30 verses 9 and 10. Isaiah 30 verses 9 and 10. That this is a rebellious people. Lying children. We have got leaders now who will simply lie just alive. They don't know how not to lie. Again, I'm not painting all of them with the same brush, but I could name some names to where... How do you know if they're lying? If their mouth is open. It's that bad. Children. Children that will not hear the law of the Lord. Notice. Which say to the seers, Hey, hey, don't see.

We don't want any of God giving you eyes to see and you use those eyes to see. No, no, we don't want you to see. We want you to close your eyes.

Say not. And to the prophets, don't prophesy to us. Don't preach to us. Write things.

Speak to us smooth things. Prophesy deceits. Tell us what we want to hear.

Give us one of those good old stained sermons. Give us a feel-good sermon.

Jeremiah 5, 31. Jeremiah 5.

The prophets preach falsely and the priests bear rule by their means.

And my people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end thereof?

And Isaiah 9, verse 16. How true, true, true, true is Isaiah 9 and verse 16. For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Look at Washington State and what their agenda is for the children. Take him at age 5. Where do you think those kids will be at age 15? What do you think their beliefs will be? The ones where the parents don't pull him out of the school system.

Do we really realize where we are in prophecy? What's going on? And do we think, could God give us another 20, 30, 40, 50 years? He could, because he's God. He could cause it to stretch out somehow. He could work it where it would. But at this point in time, does it look like he's going to do that? It doesn't look like he's going to do that.

I know the bottom line for me and for you and for us is to keep our heads up, our eyes open, and be about our Father's business, both personally and what we're supposed to be individually, and in doing a work that is so, so necessary. We're at a time where so many of our national, I'll just say, so much of our national leadership at the national level, state level, local levels, are serving as instruments of diminishment and decline and destruction. So many are serving as instruments of curses, again, like the Supreme Court with these decisions. And you go to Isaiah 59 here, and I'm going to wrap this up here in a moment or two. Isaiah 59. You know, when I read these words in Isaiah 59 verses 1 and 2, "...behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear." God is beginning to say enough is enough, and definitely these words I just read are in the process of occurring.

And God will respond to the growing situation that is expressed in this same chapter in verses 14 and 15. And again, think about this in the times we're in with what is going on.

Verse 14, "...and judgment is turned away backward, justice stands away off, truth is fallen in the street, truth is fallen in the street, and fairness cannot enter. Yes, truth fails, and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey, and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment." I want to remind us of what God told Ezekiel, because it has very specific meaning for you and me. It's Ezekiel 9, 4, and you've heard it before, but let us never forget this in Ezekiel 9, verse 4. And the Lord said to him, "...go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, when God says, go through the state of Georgia, go through the state of Alabama, go through the state of Tennessee, go through Rome, go through Gadsden, go through Chattanooga, go through the midst and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry, mark a mark on those who are bothered, who sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. You want God to put His mark on you, because you want God to see that you're not part of the church of acceptance, that you really are bothered, and that you really do want to see His kingdom come, and His will truly be done on this earth.