God's Heart For Our Nation and the World

GOD’s Message came to me: 

• “Son of man, when a country sins against me by living faithlessly... 

even if Noah, Daniel, and Job—the Big Three—were alive at the time, 

• it wouldn’t do the population any good. 
• Their righteousness would only save their own lives.” 
• Decree of GOD, the Master.

Ezekiel 14:12-14 The Message Eugene H. Peterson

—prerogative wrath. 

• The intense anguish of the godly is that in the final issue 
• they are decreed by God to stand with Him 
• instead of with those who are going the wrong way. 

It is not, 

• “No matter what happens to the crowd, 
• we will be all right”; 
• the point is that the saint longs - 
• would go through condemnation itself, 
• if only men might be saved. 

And now, if you will only forgive their sin; 

• But if not, erase me out of the book you've written. (Exodus 32:32). 
• If there were any way I could be cursed by the Messiah 
• so they could be blessed by him, 
• I'd do it in a minute. (Romans 9:3).

We only see these great truths bit by bit, 

• the peril is to shut up our minds 
• and say there is nothing in them.

Adapted Excerpt From

Notes on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel

Oswald Chambers