Joel 1:4. What the swarming locusts have left, the crawling locusts have eaten.
Author: R New
I'm a 1959 Baby Boomer which has allowed me to see drastic changes in the Christian landscape. I grew up going to Church every Sunday, in those days the Bible still had strong roots in America. In my 20's, I participated with the Church in public meetings. There were about eight of us who would go out to a street corner or public park to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There were horns, a bass drum, singing, and a short Salvation message from the Bible. Suddenly, that all changed. The city passed ordinances to prohibit that type of public "solicitation." Today, it seems almost illegal to mention the Gospel to the younger generation.
I retired at the age of 62. As a person living for the testimony of Jesus Christ, I always felt like a salmon swimming against the current. Work was always a struggle between trying to be a decent individual while dealing with "progressive" and "left wing" changes at the workplace.
It's clear that there is a force in the world that is quietly eliminating the Gospel of Jesus Christ while making Christians look like enemies of humanity. At the same time, there is a force in the world that has power over physiology and is able to form thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It is definitely against Jesus Christ.
John 3:16 is something I always want to cling to, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." I know the suffering of spiritual assault that hinders a constructive lifestyle & when frustration & anger seems to be the sole option - I know we can survive through the Cross of Christ. We have a home in the Kingdom of Heaven waiting for us.
Humanity has never experienced what is happening in the world today.
Joel 1:1-3.
The phenomenally powerful global culture destroys the earth in quest of their worldly Garden of Eden.
Joel 2:2b.-9. The Holy Spirit gives Joel a description of the global culture of today.
The Holy Trinity of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is desecrated by the global culture.
John 5:19.
Jesus Christ is persecuted for being equal to the only real God.
John 5:18.
Jesus Christ and His Father, God, works together in this world to bring spiritual healing.
John 5:17.
Zephaniah tells how Israel, the governing system, courts, and churches are corrupt but through Jesus Christ there is Salvation and eternal life.
Zephaniah 3.
Jesus Christ came to save and to heal to give us a home in the New Jerusalem.
Zephaniah 3:18-20.
The Lord gives us reason to rejoice in the eternal City of Zion.
Zephaniah 3:14-15.
Jesus Christ restores a pure language to reconcile us to God to make us His people.
Zephaniah 3:9-13.