WHERE ALL THE PROPHETS AGREE!

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This may surprise many if not most of you. The prophets and prophetic voices to the Church today, all agree when it comes to the attack on the World Trade Center.

"What?" you ask. "How can you say that? I've read many perspectives and they don't all agree!" you persist.

But I maintain that NOT ONLY THE PROPHETS but apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists virtually ALL agree.

Let me explain.

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TO THE HEART

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God is interested in the heart of the matter. Imagine for a moment the tremendous evangelism that has gone on through the decades and even centuries by the thousands of denominational groups. From every "tongue" on the earth, Jesus has brought souls to Himself. And the whole time He was doing it, denominations have quarreled and pointed fingers saying, "you have to believe what we teach, the way we teach it, or you're wrong."

In the meantime, there have been more who have come to Christ, through the POWER of Christ-- in the World over the last 10-20 years, I'm told, than in all the years since the creation of the world combined. We are in the throws of revival--and yet the best has not even been seen yet.

The Bible teaches that God is not mocked. What we sow, we reap. So revival has been growing because a great deal of sowing has been done and God keeps His promises. We argued, but we sowed. God blessed and we reaped HIS BLESSINGS. I think there are words that describe that. "Mercy" and "Grace" are two of them.

But in these same 20 years, great darkness has multiplied on the earth. We see things on Television that would never have been THOUGHT to be allowed, only 20 years ago.

Sounds like Isaiah 60, doesn't it?

"See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you." Isaiah 60:2

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THE SEPTEMBER 11 FACTOR

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The fighting hasn't stopped among God's people. We're a quarrelling bunch, wouldn't you say? We often prefer to major on what we disagree with, rather than on what God is doing in our corporate lives together. Like many of you, it can be completely frustrating to see our own children quarrel among themselves. Yet it can be so delightful when we see them all working and playing together. There's no pleasure like seeing children, completely different from one another, simply enjoying each other, in spite of the differences. We are God's children!

Since September 11, we've discovered a new area to quarrel about.

On September 11, the enemy, allowed by God apparently, was able to, without detection, perpetrate the worst terrorist act in U.S. History on our shores.

ALL THE PROPHETS AGREE (and this is not rocket science) ON THIS ONE THING.

"God allowed it--because He didn't stop it." There is unity on this point. But other differences have emerged.

The different camps have differing theories, or even varying revelation as to aspects of how or why this happened?

Some say, "God is bringing judgment. This was God's hand against a sinful and perverse nation."

Yet other groups say, "It's a combination of both. God is angry and He therefore didn't stop the attack, and therefore, He 'caused' it, in effect."

Finally, it's been said that God is not angry or bringing judgment to America. But is simply causing all things to work together for good.

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THERE'S A BOTTOM LINE TO ALL OF THIS

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But all the prophets completely agree on one thing--- the solution--the ultimate response to September 11.

Though prophetic voices are from many camps, they are giving a clear signal (as are pastors and teachers) of what our response should be. And they DO all agree.

They are ALL quoting the same scripture, in fact. Here it is:

2 Chr 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

And it's caused me to wonder why so many diverse articles are written trying to get one camp to see the truth that another camp is saying. This is a diversionary tactic by no less than Satan himself. ..

"Get their eyes off of the solution and get them to arguing about the specks in their brothers' eye," one can almost hear Satan telling his demonic ranks.

Meanwhile, the victimized Church becomes increasingly victimized--and more and more distracted.

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TAKE A BREATH!!

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Hold it! Stop and take a breath. We all actually stand in perfect agreement.

Our land needs healing! Our people need healing. The prescription has been written by the Great Physician. Time to go to the heavenly pharmacy . . .

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

We have land and people to be healed and forgiven. . .

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THE PRESCRIPTION, THE INSTRUCTION, THE SOLUTION, THE RESPONSE--IS THE SAME

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So . . . if you are convinced that the September 11 attack was God's anger toward the Church ... humble yourselves and pray and turn from you wicked ways and He will heal your land. You can't humble others, you can only humble yourself.

. . . if you are convinced that the attack was God's anger at the U.S.A for abortion and homosexuality and perversion? Humble yourselves and pray and turn from your wicked ways and He will heal your land. You can't humble others, you can only humble yourself.

. . . if you are convinced that God allowed this but that His heart is for compassion and healing? Humble yourselves and pray and turn from your wicked ways and He will heal your land. You can't humble others, you can only humble yourself.

. . . if you are convinced that Satan seized opportunity and that God would never have allowed this except for Satan's right and that God is NOT judging the Church OR America . . . Humble yourselves and pray and turn from your wicked ways and He will heal your land. You can't humble others, you can only humble yourself.

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THE PROPHETS ALL AGREE

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You see, the prophets all agree! They are ALL quoting the same scripture. It's perfectly acceptable to hold the view that you have about September 11. Believe me, your friends will continue to hold theirs. I'm not sure many minds have been changed as to "the cause" of September 11--- SINCE September 11. . .

But the good news is, God hasn't changed His mind either. It's in the History Book-- the Bible, and the genetic code of Followers of Christ . . . it goes like this:

2 Chr 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

And remember, you can't humble others,

. . . you can only humble yourself!