God wants us to return to Him with true remorse and humility to make Jesus Christ our Lord.

Joel 2:12

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Through the Holy Spirit, Joel prophesies in chapter 2 that the global culture of the beast is unlike anything ever seen in human history. Click here to read the post in Joel 2:1-11 and also in the post on Joel 1:1-3. Joel conveys the message of the Holy Spirit in the following verses, calling us to turn away from our sins and return to God through Jesus Christ.

“Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” Joel 2:12

When someone embraces Jesus Christ as their Lord, they turn away from the entity in this world that gives them what to feel, think, say, and do. That entity replaces the human conscience and enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people. This leads to widespread signs of psychopathy in the world.

To turn to God, we must humble ourselves before Him as the Lord of our life and renounce the self-centered attitudes that make us put our own will above the authority of God, the Creator. To turn to God, we must confess that we are sinners who need Jesus Christ and reject the attitudes that show no remorse, guilt, or need for the forgiveness of sin. To turn to God, we must live by the Spirit, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2

We must resist the indifference, anarchy, and hostility that pervade this world. Many people across the globe have forsaken God and embraced the ungodly global culture, as quoted, “All who dwell on the earth will worship him…” Revelation 13:8 The word “him” refers to the beast that is associated with the image and the mark of the beast. The global culture is groomed to accept the mark of the beast through their words and actions.

Fasting means giving up anything that distracts us from God, makes us deny Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, and keeps us away from the Holy Spirit. We should dedicate our lives to God every day through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit.

When we weep and mourn before God, we show our humanity, our compassion for others, and our sorrow for our sins. These feelings draw us to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and to welcome the Holy Spirit into our hearts. Through this, we reflect God’s mercy, grace, salvation, and eternal life in Jesus Christ. “And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh…” Ezekiel 11:19

Traits of psychopathy surface from the rejection of Jesus Christ and the suppression of the human conscience, and makes people have a heart of stone. Those infected do not care about the feelings and thoughts of others, because they are under the influence of the thing giving them what to feel and think.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11