Going with the Flow

It's all happening so stealthily that even the would be opposser is going with the flow. Yet it's having the effect of a huge wave of destruction.
"Going with the flow" is neatly wrapped in the package of "we gotta' live". And to some degree yes we do "gotta' live, but we don't gotta' flow with just ANYTHING.
There are some that are paying attention but it's been happening way longer than we'd care to admit.
People thought, and still do, that it would never happen in this country where pride abounds. Did we forget that "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." (Pro_16:18)?
Oh we get upset and make a fuss when some new law passes. But soon enough life goes on and we conform.
We all thought we were safe since we cling to the phrase "one nation under God". Which God though? The term "God" is just a title. It needs to be defined in some way to know which God is being referred to. We've taken for granted that we all agree on the same one just because we all say "God". Especially if we all say "God" AND hold the bible. It's gotta' be the same one right? Most likely. But why are we all so different in how we worship and serve that one God?
Simple.
We disregard His instructions/Torah and go off trying to interpret His words in our own understanding. Just as the Apostle Peter said would happen in 2Pe_3:16. Or worse, according to someone elses understanding. Somewhere along the walk we started believing we can do unto Him anyway WE choose. No matter how little off course it is. How does that add up to "ONE GOD" and "ONE TORAH(instructions)" for all? "Deu_6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: Num_15:16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you."
If you get off course by the slightest degree, long into the journey you are WAY OFF.

We are all so divided yet some how we try to convince our self that it's just little personal preferences and not a big deal . OR we think WE are the ones that are doing it right and everyone else must be wrong.
The ONLY RIGHT WAY is exactly how Father Yahweh sanctified it. It's as clear as a bell in His written word. BUT, even He says He would cause those that don't love His truth to believe a lie.

The very fact that we've done each our own thing is the very reason we are getting ready to face those things we thought we'd never see. Not to mention the things we are already winking at.

Do we overlook the scriptures that refer to latter days when His people wake up and realize that they've inherited lies? Or do we assume that surely that is for someone else? Cause, no doubt "I'm not wrong" we presume, especially if we are doing it the way it's always been done so it must be right.
If ANY of us have not searched with all of our being prayerfully and stedfast we just might still be believing some of those lies.
You can read a verse of scripture, or MANY, every day. Go to services every week. Preach or listen to preaching. Do good deeds of kindness. But that does not constitute seeking with your whole heart, mind and strength. That's just routine. Yahweh tells us even the prophets prophesy falsely and the pastors have muddied the waters. (see Ez. 34 ) It's prophetic of our day. Are we testing what we're hearing in the churches? Are we trying the spirits? We can't go on good deeds. Plenty of non believers do good deeds.
Scripture defines believers/saints as those who have the testimony of Yahshua/Jesus, AND keep the commandments, AND you will know them by their fruits. We always need to rightly divide the word instead of taking just choice verses to try to sum up a matter.

We don't want to hear negative things. We don't want to hear it in reference to our physical or spiritual lives. We want good times and blessings. And we seek out those who will tell it to us.

We prefer to leave any doom and gloom for someone we deem "needs to get a life". Evidently we think our Savior and the apostles and maybe a few more are the only ones suppose to suffer worldly persecution. Or else maybe we think persecution is when someone stays away from us because we go to church or when we hear someone calling church folk "religious" or whatever the latest derogatory statement is. If that's the case we haven't a clue to what persecution really is.
Meanwhile what we want more than anything is to have that all American dream. You know, the one we see portrayed on television. Or at best, the one "we see" from the outside looking in at the passer by. Too bad for us most of it's only superficial and we only learn that later rather than sooner.
We cannot claim to believe in the God of the bible, what we call the written word of the one God, Yahweh, of all creation, and consciously ignore the events happening around the world. Within or outside of those who profess to believe.

If we choose to follow Yahweh, we need to see how temporary this world is and take inventory in regards to where we've been doing the most investing.
If anyone would like to know what's really going on they need to read the scriptures FROM THE BEGINNING and they would soon see there's a cyclical pattern with man and his defiance of Yahweh's commandments.
We are in the last cycle before the millennial reign. These "wars and rumors of wars" are about control. And religion is a tool that is being used to advance it. It's being done in the name of peace. It's being portrayed as what appears to be the right thing. BUT, it is also part of the judgement of Yahweh upon His people who have gone astray doing their own thing and claiming they do it unto Him.
So while many are giving all the credit to man and some secret plan as they spend the majority of their time concerned with this world, Yahweh is in control. And just like he turned the heart of Pharaoh, He's turning the hearts of those He has raised up for such a time as this.
Yahweh creates ALL.
"Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Isa 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isa 45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it."
According to scripture ONLY a REMNANT will be saved alive. But even so, we MUST be to a point in our relationship with our Father Yahweh and Beloved Yahshua that we are willing to die even as He did.
Don't think so fast that His death was to give you freedom to sin. Or to treat it as no big thing.
"Heb_10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? "

Sin is the transgression of Yahweh's commandments. And Sha'ul/Paul says because we are saved by grace through faith alone and nothing that we have done, "Rom_6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" Rom_3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."

So if sin, transgression of Yahweh's Torah/law, is in your life willfully you NEED to GET IT OUT.
It's just not worth going with the flow to continue to sin against the will of the One whom we seek to give us eternal life.
Shalom