Who knows if the Lord will forgive us?

Joel 2:14

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 “Who knows if He will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him—A grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?” Joel 2:14

The current world system is doomed to be destroyed by God’s wrath, unless He decides to show mercy. Who knows if He will be forgiving? However, He has given us a promise: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may remain there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.” 2 Chronicles 7:14-16

Many people in today’s world do not treat their bodies as sacred temples of the Holy Spirit. Rather, they worship the thing that has corrupted God’s dwelling place, their bodies, and gives them their feelings, thoughts, actions, and words. It acts as if it is God in God’s house, our bodies., “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click here for a post on the “man of sin”. Despite the events of the first six trumpets, “… the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.” Revelation 9:20-21

Some people may appear to be sorry within the troubles they face, but they only care about themselves and do not feel any regret or shame for their offenses against God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. John the Baptist encountered such people and said, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance…” Matthew 3:7-8

People should not only feel sorry for the harm that befalls them and their cherished global culture, but also demonstrate the fruits of repentance in their spirit and soul. These fruits include recognizing God the Creator as the authority in our life, admitting that we are sinners who need forgiveness of our sins through Jesus Christ, accepting the Holy Spirit and a life of Holiness, and living for the Gospel of Jesus. The fruits of repentance should radiate from our spirit to reveal the mercy, grace, salvation, and eternal life of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Jesus Christ echoes the words of John the Baptist from the previous paragraph, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matthew 7:21-23 That also describes the first of the seven churches in Revelation 2:1-7. The church has abandoned Christ’s Gospel, yet persist in performing charitable acts, as though they were serving Jesus Christ.

A clear statement from Jesus Christ is that there is no forgiveness for blaspheming the Holy Spirit. “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.” Matthew 12:31-32

Before his conversion, the Apostle Paul committed many sins and blasphemies against Jesus Christ, such as killing and imprisoning Christians. However, he remained open to the Holy Spirit when he encountered the bright light on the road to Damascus. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit means rejecting God and Jesus Christ completely and irreversibly. If Paul had blasphemed the Holy Spirit, he would have spurned the light that he saw, he would have cursed God, and he would have persisted in persecuting Christians.

We live in a time when the Holy Spirit is being removed from this world and people blaspheme against the Holy Spirit as part of the ritual of the global culture. The Holy Spirit is the one who holds back lawlessness and antisocial behavior, as it is written, “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” 2 Thessalonians 2:7-10 Click here for a post on the “lawless one”.

The global culture is influenced by the thing that shapes their feelings and thoughts, which override and replace the human conscience. This allows the image of the beast to live and speak through the masses of the global culture who constantly blaspheme the Holy Spirit. The absence of the human conscience enables the traits of psychopathy to spread globally. People have become self-centered as they reject the authority of God the Creator and elevate their own authority. They do not feel any regret, guilt, or need to acknowledge that they are sinners who need forgiveness through Jesus Christ. They view the Holy Spirit as an enemy to resist, exploit, manipulate, and dominate.

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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