Page 6 - Prophetic Word Newsletter Archive 2011

“FOR THE LORD HAS SPOKEN THIS WORD:
THE EARTH MOURNS AND FADES AWAY,

THE WORLD LANGUISHES AND FADES AWAY;
THE HAUGHTY PEOPLE OF THE EARTH LANGUISH.

THE EARTH IS ALSO DEFILED UNDER ITS INHABITANTS,

BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS, CHANGED THE ORDINANCE,
BROKEN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. THEREFORE THE CURSE HAS DEVOURED THE EARTH,

AND THOSE WHO DWELL IN IT ARE DESOLATE.” Isa 24:3-6

Simply put, “the world is a mess.” Notice that Isaiah’s prophecy places the responsibility of the earth’s
defilement squarely upon the shoulders of its inhabitants. We are dealing with a people problem. The
ongoing sinful habits of the inhabitants are the source of the earth’s present defilement and curse. It is
most ironic that mankind believes the lie that man began in ignorance (as apes) and is ever moving to
a place of supreme knowledge. (If true, how is it that the situation is getting worse rather than better?)
However, the Bible states that man began as a created being with God-given supreme knowledge, but
is presently moving to a prideful place based on willful ignorance:

“…ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW GOD, THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIM AS
GOD… BECAME FUTILE IN THEIR THOUGHTS, AND THEIR FOOLISH
HEARTS WERE DARKENED. PROFESSING TO BE WISE, THEY HISTORY
BECAME FOOLS…THEREFORE GOD GAVE THEM UP TO
UNCLEANNESS, IN THE LUSTS OF THEIR HEARTS…EXCHANGED THE OF THE BEHAVIOR
TRUTH OF GOD FOR THE LIE, AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED OF MANKIND
THE CREATURE (Satan) RATHER THAN THE CREATOR (God) … ON THE EARTH

FOR THIS REASON GOD GAVE THEM UP TO VILE PASSIONS…AS
THEY DID NOT LIKE TO RETAIN GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE, GOD
GAVE THEM OVER TO A DEBASED MIND…BEING FILLED WITH ALL
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, SEXUAL IMMORALITY, WICKEDNESS,
COVETOUSNESS, MALICIOUSNESS, FULL OF ENVY, MURDER,

STRIFE, DECEIT, EVIL-MINDEDNESS; THEY WERE WHISPERERS, BACKBITERS, HATERS OF GOD,
VIOLENT, PROUD, BOASTERS, INVENTORS OF EVIL THINGS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,
UNDISCERNING, UNTRUSTWORTHY, UNLOVING, UNFORGIVING, UNMERCIFUL…”
Excerpts Rom. 1:21-32

The above quotation is a vivid summary of what man has been, and continues to be, in his existence
on earth. Now let us add a prophetic picture of what man will be like in what the Bible prophetically
calls “the last days” prior to the return of Christ to the earth. Here is the Amplified version:

“BUT UNDERSTAND THIS, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS WILL COME
(SET IN) PERILOUS TIMES OF GREAT STRESS AND TROUBLE [HARD
TO DEAL WITH AND HARD TO BEAR]. FOR PEOPLE WILL BE
THE FUTURE LOVERS OF SELF AND [UTTERLY] SELF-CENTERED, LOVERS OF
MONEY AND AROUSED BY AN INORDINATE [GREEDY] DESIRE
BEHAVIOR FOR WEALTH, PROUD AND ARROGANT AND CONTEMPTUOUS
OF MANKIND BOASTERS. THEY WILL BE ABUSIVE (BLASPHEMOUS, SCOFFING),
ON THE EARTH

DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNGRATEFUL, UNHOLY AND
PROFANE. [THEY WILL BE] WITHOUT NATURAL [HUMAN]
AFFECTION (CALLOUS AND INHUMAN), RELENTLESS (ADMITTING
OF NO TRUCE OR APPEASEMENT); [THEY WILL BE] SLANDERERS
(FALSE ACCUSERS, TROUBLEMAKERS), INTEMPERATE AND LOOSE
IN MORALS AND CONDUCT, UNCONTROLLED AND FIERCE,
HATERS OF GOOD.
[THEY WILL BE] TREACHEROUS [BETRAYERS], RASH, [AND] INFLATED WITH SELF-CONCEIT.
[THEY WILL BE] LOVERS OF SENSUAL PLEASURES AND VAIN AMUSEMENTS MORE THAN AND
RATHER THAN LOVERS OF GOD. FOR [ALTHOUGH] THEY HOLD A FORM OF PIETY (TRUE
RELIGION), THEY DENY AND REJECT AND ARE STRANGERS TO THE POWER OF IT [THEIR
CONDUCT BELIES THE GENUINENESS OF THEIR PROFESSION].

AVOID [ALL] SUCH PEOPLE [TURN AWAY FROM THEM].”
2 Tim 3:1-5 Amplified Bible