J. J. Hall
“Author, Scholar, Janitor; Mostly the Janitor!” (Psalms 84: 1
Obadiah’s Cave: The Left IS “Woke.”
“Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.”(Joel 3:12)
Humanity is fully engaged in one of two directions. One very small group is responding to the call of Jesus Christ. As Paul has written: “Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.”(Ephesians 5:14) The response is not simply that of intellectual assent but extrudes a lifetime of informed obedience: “Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it.”(Matthew 7:13-14) The calling and the grace to obey is a work of God’s sovereign grace. He calls and He empowers. We simply “wake up” to our Lord’s methodology and His disposition of Love! Truly, He does not want any to perish. Even a reprehensible sinner like myself can be called to repentance!
Then there is another, rather large body of people. They are equally awakened to the call of God. Even in the throes of unimaginable wickedness, as outlined in Isaiah Chapter 1, the call is clear to them. To a people whom God says: “Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.” (Isaiah 1:5) He also invites: “Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18). Yet in this group the offer of regeneration is refused, not with a “No, not now” attitude that wants a few more days of self indulgence, but a “Hell no, I won’t go” that turns the heart against their Creator, rejects His blessings and a life in eternity with Him. Being on the road to perdition, they understand their plight fully! “And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.” (Isaiah 22:12-13) So sold to sin and at war with God, in the face of His judgment they will yearn for their “safe space.” “And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:” (Revelation of John 6:16)
You who are on the left gladly quote Scripture to forward your evil agenda! Like everything else you assume the power to even manipulate God's Word! Yet discerning Christians are not fooled. Jesus Christ is certainly not. You are “woke” and shouting “No” to the Lord just as the prophet Joel anticipated many ages ago in the Scripture reference above! What you do not understand is that the The Lord, Himself, has awakened you! Your marching cadence of “abortion rights”, LGBTQ, Communism, Statism with the plethora of idols will guide you into the valley of decision. Even as you advance to your own destruction, His hand is extended to you and pleading, “Let us reason together...” Hear the call and for your own sake let God’s sovereign grace change your direction!
May the Lord bless You and Keep you!
