THAT WE PERISH NOT

As God says in the book of Jonah:

“And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, ‘Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.’  So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD.  Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.  And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, ‘Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.’  So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.  For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.  And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,  ‘Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God:  yea, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.  Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?’  And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not." (Jonah3)  

Will we escape? We’re denying our children The Ten Commandments, we’re not reading Scripture to them; we’re not giving them “food for their souls”.

Will we escape?  We’re killing newborns. We’re defying God’s laws “For two, said He, shall be one flesh” and “For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife; they two shall be one flesh.”

Will we escape?  We glamorize violence. We don’t punish the guilty. We think it’s ok to sleep around, divorce at will, destroy the peace and safety and comfort of our children. They, in turn, turn to drugs and alcohol.  It is because we have selfishly neglected home and marriage and unselfish dedication to our God and families and nation.

Will we escape?
 
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14) .