Flip To The End Of The Story

On our trip to Indy and back we read the entire book, The Mystery of the Shemitah, by Jonathan Cahn.  Actually, I read the entire thing out loud to Brad because I knew he was leaving again as soon as we returned home today for a trip to Pennsylvania and I really wanted to finish the book :)  This is the same author that wrote the book, The Harbinger.  It was soooo interesting.  I think believers should read it because some of the things he has uncovered are astounding.  Basically, the Shemitah is the seventh year in a cycle....just like the Sabbath is the seventh day in a week and a day of rest consecrated to the Lord....the Shemitah year is supposed to be a whole year of rest consecrated to the Lord for the Jewish people (and land) where all debts are cancelled and the land is not tended.  Every gate is supposed to be opened during that seventh year and all land given to GOD to be shared by all people....there are no "owners" during that year, but GOD HIMSELF.  Jonathan Cahn has done a lot of research on what the Shemitah means....really to the extent that he is able to show how a staggering amount of our world's key historical events....wars, economies, the rising and falling of nations....blessings and judgments seem to be closely correlated to the Shemitah years....where God seems to be weighing nations on a scale in a kind-of "year of reckoning".  I am one who can get totally interested in these ideas and dates...and want to interpret the signs.  If I am not thinking about that, I can get totally overwhelmed with the state of our nation....how far we have turned away from God and where we are headed with increasing speed.

BUT,

the times and dates are not as important as MY TRUE REPENTANCE and my frustration over the state of our nation is not as important as the STATE OF MY FAITHFULNESS.  We often wonder why God waits....how bad does it have to get before HE comes?

He is patient to allow for repentance...that is soooo MERCIFUL!  His blessings and protection over nations prove that HE is GOD....but, for the same reason, HIS warnings and judgments shake nations....to prove HE is GOD.  Everything that happens, whether it is at a global, national, or personal level happens in order to strip away the things we may be idolizing in order to reveal 

HIS SOVEREIGNTY....when our hearts are soft, we can see HIM in all our blessings, but when we harden our hearts against GOD and HIS STATUES, the only way to wake us is with shaking.

If we flip to the end of the story.....For those of us that are believers, the last Shemitah will be a complete cancelling of our debt to sin...an acknowledgement that our sustenance comes completely from GOD...and that the GREATEST KINGDOM, the one that will never pass away, HAS COME.

So, it wasn't a dream, I really did get to go to a Piano Guys concert last night :)  BARELY, THOUGH because their truck with all their sound equipment and piano broke down 5 hours from Indy....so, they really debated whether or not to cancel....but, they prayed :) and decided to go on with their show with whatever they could improvise and borrow from the venue.  It was still an amazing show....they are so talented.  I know I have linked this song to a post before and I know it is not a "Christian" song per se, but, to me....I think of it that way because only GOD could claim to love me for a thousand years and actually mean it.  So, here it is again :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvDn7JSWuwM