Jonah 3:1-10 – 1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”
3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city—a visit required three days. 4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned.” 5 The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. 7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh:
“By the decree of the king and his nobles:
Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. 9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.
They believed God and made a true change. Do you see that in this land right now? I see it just getting worse and worse. Most Christians won’t even vote for a man of God if he runs for President. They have a million excuses, but that’s what they are. Our problems are not economic, they’re spiritual. The reason we have economic problems is our love of money and overall very little love for God.
God doesn’t like to judge and destroy lands and people. They just become so evil and stray so far away from Him that He has no choice but to rid them of the land. Yes people become worse as they get further away from God. That’s why God didn’t have the Jews go into certain lands until the appointed time. They hadn’t become evil enough yet.
He spared Nineveh and they were an evil people on their way to judgment just from turning from their ways. How much more will He rapture the church before the wrath comes down on the earth?
America became great, because it focused on the God of the Bible as #1. Now its main focus seems to be trying to push Him out of everything.