Continuation of the Two Cups of God Study.

Let his eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. (Job 21:20 NKJV)

            Seeing can be a terrible thing.  It can also be a wonderful thing!  If they see their destruction coming that gives them a few moments to ask forgiveness.  Just as the city of Nineveh was warned and turned from their sin.  The burning wind of God’s judgment caused them to bow and seek forgiveness.  A taste of what was to come was enough to call them to God.

            Later Nineveh would fall back into sin and the city would be destroyed.  For judgment is only an opportunity to seek God.  If we just seek forgiveness and don’t seek the face of God we will turn back to sin as the fear recedes.  Then destruction will only be delayed, not ended.

            Every day strengthen your relationship with God!  When I did marital counseling people would tell me that they worked so hard to not get divorced.  I would tell them if they center on a negative the probability is they will achieve the negative.  But if we work for a positive like improving our relationship with God and each other the probability is that we will achieve a better relationship and that will lessen the chance of divorce.

"Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Drink, be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you."‘ (Jeremiah 25:27 NKJV)

            If we do not turn back the Cup of God’s Wrath will in the end destroy us.  It will make us drunk with sin until we become so drunk that we fall to rise no more.  We will then become prey to each other as well as outside invaders.

            We can go so far as to believe that evil is good and good is evil.  Then we are beyond hope for we cannot know to repent or to even cry out. 

            Some have tried to call killing unborn children a woman’s right to their own body.  Others have stated that homosexuality is okay and just a different life style.  But God will not be mocked.  Calling evil good and good evil will not make it so!

            God despised those who offered their children into the fires for their own success and pleasure.  How can He accept our sacrifice?  God destroyed Sodom at least partly for its sexual sin so how can God now accept it as an alternate lifestyle?

            Let us not get drunk with our own wisdom and vomit our sin and bring destruction to ourselves and others.  For then we will fall into destruction! 

"For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury." (Revelation 18:3 NKJV)

            To me this shows why God must judge.  When we accept sin and it becomes part of who we are God must judge us so that others don’t fall into that same sin.  Sin is like an infectious disease that spreads faster than a cold and is more dangerous than the plague.

            We have institutionalized sin to the point that many are making fortunes exploiting people through drugs, pornography, sexual slavery, and many other sins.  We export those sins to other nations through our entertainment industry and by our no longer just national industries.  We also export sin and woe by our purchase of drugs from other lands empowering the evil in those lands.

            It is interesting that when the Jews worshipped other god’s God called this the sin of adultery and fornication.  In our desire for “luxury” we have created a new god and become adulterer’s to God.

God must bring judgment or the sin will only grow to the point that there is no hope for humanity.