Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

This message is for such a time as now, and it could very well be your final warning. Repent, America, and be saved, for judgment is at our door.

America the Battlefield
March 25, 2014
by Timothy A. Pope


As the kings of the earth race headlong into the build-up of a third World War—as the nations of the world rise up against America Babylon and her abominations from without, setting themselves in array against her; as the domestic enemies of liberty make war against the people and creation, subverting the laws of God and of nature from within—the divine hand of protection is retracted from us and judgment is imminent.

America has already fallen, and God's righteous hand of protection and blessing has already been removed from our midst. It is only a matter of time until the countless enemies our arrogant national leadership have taunted and enraged, descend upon our weakened and divided citizenry. For God so warned that when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Why We Will Be Judged

We have departed from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. We have yoked ourselves to the Babylonian system, becoming partakers of her sins and thus receivers of her plagues.

We have not rendered unto God what is His. Nor have we kept just weights and measures. We have not been good and faithful servants, sowing responsibly what the master has entrusted us with. We have instead sown our seed and entrusted our provisions to liars and thieves, never discerning their fruits nor learning from their mistakes. Thus, our futures have been stolen from us, and so have our children's futures, and their children. Our insurmountable debt can mathematically never be paid off, we are beholden to foreign communist governments who are buying up our debt and infrastructure. Our debt-based currency, which is no longer backed by anything of intrinsic value, has already collapsed, and is merely being propped-up by criminal tactics that would make those behind the Great Train Robbery blush. Not to mention the fact that most American's homes—unbeknownst to their owners—have been packaged, re-packaged, and bought and sold a hundred times over to an unknown foreign entity using the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS), which at least one federal judge has ruled to be an illegal business model. They don't know that someone somewhere owns the title deed to their home and are waiting for seizure.

The high walls surrounding our stately and costly church buildings, which have been turned from houses of prayer into dens of thieves, have no room for the desperate poor and homeless, the widows and the orphans, and they are turned away from an uncompassionate church body who don't want to be compelled out of their comfort zone as they pay for that fresh cup of hot coffee and kick back in that padded pew to be entertained. After all, because iniquity abounds, the love of many waxes cold.

We have given ourselves over to the sexual sins that cut us off from God's grace. Recent polls and research conducted by ChristianNet, Focus on the Family, and Christian Counseling Today, revealed that 34% of churchgoing women, 50% of all Christian men, and 54% of pastors admit struggling with addictions to pornography and sexual perversion.

There is also the in-your-face goal-driven agenda throughout the Executive office, Justice Department, Supreme Court, district courts, and educational institutions, to make homosexuality not only acceptable, but preferable to the God-ordained relationship between a man and a woman, even though gays comprise only 3% of the American populace. This is in direct alignment with the 45 declared communist goals, which were read into the congressional record on January 10, 1963.

Luke 17:28-30 tells us that "as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed." Historically, homosexuality is the defining sin that trigger's God's judgment upon kingdoms, nations and empires. Where are the mighty men and women of God standing against this onslaught by the millions? The LGBT hordes are emboldened and are taking to the streets to promote their sin and sell it to the world. Where are the Christians to meet them and stand for Jesus? Make no mistake. We are in a war. Time to muster for duty!

We watched on television as our elected "representatives" illegally invaded sovereign nations in the name of "democracy" to seize energy supplies and rare earth minerals such as crude oil, natural gas, precious metals and others, for distribution, and for profit and gain. For the love of money is the root of ALL evil.

We cheered and waved American flags and brandished yellow ribbons as America's bravest men were used as pawns in foreign policy, ignoring George Washington's most humble plea in his farewell address to "avoid attachments and entanglements in foreign affairs" at all costs.

Our backs are turned from those patriotic veterans and wounded warriors who bravely sacrificed so much to the defense of the United States of America (at least in their humble opinion), for an amount up to and including their lives, who are now discarded on the trash pile of history. We have also ignored the plight of our active duty servicemen who are killing themselves in record numbers—suicide rates which far exceed combat deaths—not being able to live with what they're being ordered to do to innocent people overseas. Didn't you know that we are the new revised Roman Empire? All you have to do is follow the money trail. It leads directly to the "Holy Roman Empire."

We shied away from addressing the assault of pedophilia sweeping over the land—the promotion of child rape, organizations devoted to the furtherance of adult-child sexual relations, sympathy for pedophiles, declaring pedophilia to be a sexual-rights revolution, the sexualization of our children including teaching masturbation to 5-year-olds, telling parents what their children need to know about sex and when, and forcing children to be denied their privacy, and exposing them to nudity and transgenderism. This is merely the tip of the iceberg. 1 Corinthians 6:9 warns: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind..." and Matthew 18:6 affirms that, "whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

We remained indifferent to the imprisonment, persecution, and wholesale slaughter of faithful professing Christians worldwide.

The Church body has allowed the Lord's name to be blasphemed. Timothy warned that in the last days, men shall be blasphemers. In America, only Jesus' name is used as a cuss word, not Adolf Hitler's name, not Napoleon's name, nor the prophet Mohammed. Martin Scorcese's award-winning movie The Wolf of Wall Street received unusual international publicity. The feature film starring Leonardo DiCaprio broke the world record for its liberal use of expletives. The "F" word was used 506 times, an average of every 21 seconds. The "S" word 70 times. And God's name was blasphemed 28 times. Muslims would never allow Hollywood to use their prophet's name as a curse. No, they respect their prophet, and they expect others to respect him as well. Why do Christians not respect their Messiah's name as much? Instead, we pay Hollywood to do it for us.

We have turned a blind eye while our tax dollars subsidized the genocide of nearly 57 million unborn children. We watched as they were passed through the fires of Molech and raised not our voices as their innocent blood cried out to God from the ground. America wants the blood of the innocent, and those of us who haven't raised our voices in opposition to it have entered into a blood covenant with child sacrifice, the other abomination which incites the Lord's wrath.

The Watchmen Have Warned

As William Penn forewarned, "Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants," and God will not be mocked. Therefore, we the people who stamped out God's law from our hearts, homes, schools, courts, state houses, and nation, are going into a long dark night of captivity and bondage. Yes, we are going into slavery. The prison camps are already built and waiting to receive us. Just as the wickedness of God's chosen people brought them to ruin and 400 years of devastating servitude to a lawless tyrant, we too will be ruled by a pharaoh—a cruel taskmaster—who will take our liberty and force us to make bricks with no straw.

And as the mighty men and women of God, the watchmen on the wall, saw the sword coming and blew their trumpets, desperately warning the people of danger, their warnings to repent and turn from our wicked ways collectively fell on deaf ears.

As so much is expected of the followers of Jesus, when the trumpets of the watchmen go unheard and unheeded, and as our collective conscience is seared as with a hot iron, the judgment must first begin at the house of God. And if it first begins with us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Our leaders and our citizenry as a whole have become more wicked than the Israel of old before the Babylonian judgment. Some of the religious systems of today are just as corrupt and debased as they were then. If pure paganism and immorality have not been allowed, the bowing to mammon has become the throne to which they worship. Many of the so-called prophets are loudly declaring peace and safety, when in reality there is no peace and safety when a people turn their backs on the righteous ways of the living God. Just read the words of Jesus concerning the last days in your Bible: Matthew chapter 24, Mark chapter 13, and Luke chapter 21.

Judgment is Imminent

If you are found in the judgment that is coming to Babylon, you will be judged along with it. Revelation chapter 17 gives us this fearful truth. You may be found in Babylon in the last days, but Babylon must not be found in you! Let it be known that I the author include myself in these charges. With these revelations unfolding, I have been desperately fleeing from the sinful desires of my old self and repenting.

Those with eyes to see and ears to hear know that God is calling on His people, trying to get Babylon out of them, just as much as when He first delivered the Israelites of old from out of Egyptian bondage.

Will the consuming waters of judgment that are upon us drown us as it did the Egyptians, and those who perished in the flood of the ancient world, or will it deliver us through the tribulation as God intends?

And if you are counting on a secret pre-tribulation rapture to magically whisk you away from trouble, then you are under a strong delusion. The false rapture doctrine wasn't taught by the church until John Nelson Darby manipulated the western evangelical organizations in 1830 with his teachings. Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Scofield Reference Bible added to God's Word the heresy of Darby's teachings. From then on, the rapture doctrine was widely accepted among Bible colleges, universities, seminaries, and Protestant church denominations. Interestingly, America is among the only nations which have adopted Darby's rapture deception.

Truly, we are not appointed to wrath, but we will not be taken out of tribulation. No, we will be delivered through it, as the countless examples set forth for us in the Scriptures profess.

I share this message with love, for love is the greatest of all commandments. In the 22nd chapter of Matthew, one of the Pharisees asked Jesus which of the commandments was the greatest in the law. Jesus answered:

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

Have we forgotten how to love? Thankfully, as the Lord's righteous anger burns hot against his people in our unrepentant sin, there love and there is hope.

A Sermon for the Ages

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, written by American Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, is remembered as the most famous sermon ever preached on American soil.

Jonathan Edwards is known as America’s greatest philosopher, but he would laugh at this description. For Edwards, biblical exposition was the soul, sinew, and marrow of his life and purpose. He had no interest in philosophy for its own sake.

The sermon was preached to Edwards' own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, and again on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. Edwards accepted an invitation to preach at his neighboring town of Enfield during the height of the Great Awakening (1740–42), one of the most intense outpourings of God’s Spirit in American history. The fire of God was falling everywhere, and despite the fact he had delivered "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" to his own congregation with little effect, Edwards felt led to preach it again at Enfield.

Edwards' techniques were unimpressive. He always read his sermons in an even voice, but with great conviction. He shunned shouting and theatrical antics. Impressing the listener with the power of truth and his desperate need for God was Edwards’ goal.

Nothing in his style or presentation could account for what happened that day at Enfield. An eyewitness, Stephen Williams, wrote in his diary: "We went over to Enfield where we met dear Mr. Edwards of Northampton who preached a most awakening sermon from these words, Deuteronomy 32:35, and before the sermon was done there was a great moaning and crying went out through ye whole House… 'What shall I do to be saved,' 'Oh, I am going to Hell,' 'Oh, what shall I do for Christ,' and so forth. So yet ye minister was obliged to desist, ye shrieks and cry were piercing and amazing."

Williams continued, "After some time of waiting the Congregation were still, so yet a prayer was made by Mr. W. and after that we descended from the pulpit and discoursed with the people, some in one place and some in another, and amazing and astonishing ye power of God was seen, and several souls were hopefully wrought upon that night, and oh ye cheerfulness and pleasantness of their countenances." (Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards, A New Biography, Edinburgh, Scotland: Banner of Truth, 1987, p. 169).

History records that many who heard Edwards' famous sermon in Enfield trembled, fell on their faces and cried out to God for mercy. Others fainted. Over 500 people were converted that day in 1741.

The text for Edwards' sermon is inspired from the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 32, verse 35:

It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.

Listen to this message of hope—the compassionate admonition of a loving father whose children have gone astray—a last desperate plea from our Lord to repent and be saved, for the time is about to be fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Only those who have a stirring in their spirit, who understand that we are on borrowed time—those who discern the signs and the times—will heed the clarion call. For, as Isaiah cried out that though the people are as numerous as the sands of the seashore, only a remnant will be saved. This message was never more important than at this moment in history:

Introduction by Max McLean (1:42)

Full Sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (43:50)

Download the official MP3 file of Max McLean's full sermon (43:00) for $10.95 here.

Download the full PDF transcript of Jonathan Edwards' sermon text here.

There is another call to repentance worth sharing. It is a compilation showing how far the church has fallen from the Biblical standard and the early church that Jesus built. It is a 10-minute video titled Wake Up Church, and depicts excerpts by mighty men of god, David Wilkerson, Keith Daniel, Carter Conlon, Jim Cymbala, and Leonard Ravenhill.

A sermon by the late great evangelist, Leonard Ravenhill, entitled The Judgment Seat of Christ (1:19:58), provides more powerful spiritual nourishment for the days ahead. Also, pastor David Wilkerson's A Call To Anguish (7:23), will call the elect to revival in a way that you won't see in the modern apostate churches of America.

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. (Acts 3:19)

We are out of time. Heed the lateness of the hour.

The Signs of the End of the Age

The blood moons approach on April 15th. Four blood-red total lunar eclipses will fall on the Jewish feast days of Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015. The same back-to-back occurrences happened in 1492, 1948 and 1967, all three profound historical years of the fulfillment of Jewish biblical prophecy.

In the spring of 1492, during the Spanish Inquisition, shortly after the Moors were driven out of Granada, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain expelled all the Jews from their lands and thus, by a stroke of the pen, put an end to the largest and most distinguished Jewish settlement in Europe. In 1948, the Israelites prevailed in the Arab-Israeli war of independence against unbeatable odds. Likewise, in 1967, Israel defeated insurmountable odds again during the 6-Day War to become a nation, fulfilling biblical prophesy.

Why is this important? Because the scriptures forewarn us of the signs of the coming of the Son of Man. Revelation 6:12 states: "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood." Moreover, Acts 2:20 forewarns us that "the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day." Matthew 24:29 cautions that, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light..." And a great deal more biblical references explain the prophetic signs in the heavens.

The global stage is being set for the largest game of Risk ever played. The Gog and Magog war of Ezekiel 38 and 39 is fast approaching. Alignments are being made. Betrayals are being forged, double-, triple-, and quadruple-crosses are being waged against once trusted allies. Wars and rumors of wars are being fomented. People are dying in massive numbers and incalculable amounts of money are changing hands. The world is being re-shaped, the balance of power transferring from the West to the East. The West is imposing sanctions while nuclear war is threatened by the madmen on all sides. Russia got kicked out of the G8. China is preparing to go to war with the United States. Israel is closing its embassies and consulates worldwide for the first time in history.

A new world order, global governance, one world government, one world economic system, and one world religion are becoming daily talking points among nations, politicians, economists, global financiers, and religious leaders. Pope Francis and the Vatican are issuing false heretical proclamations claiming that atheists will be redeemed and enter into Heaven with the elect of God. World religious leaders are spearheading the modern Ecumenical Movement to merge the world's religions into one super state. "Chrislam," the theological merging of Christianity and pagan Islam (whose god is a moon demon), is being supported and encouraged by everyone from apostate pastors Rick Warren, Joel Osteen and Robert Schuller, to Glenn Beck and the Pope.

Rich men, it is written in Ezekiel 7:19, will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed. Their precious things will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord, and none of their riches will satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels, because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. Likewise, in James 5:3, regarding those who have heaped treasure together for the last days, their gold and silver is to become cankered, and the rust of it shall be a witness against them. As the global economic crisis is just beginning to catch fire, this prophecy becomes more and more of a reality to come to fruition at any moment. All that is needed to light the tinder box is one spark. Likewise, all that is needed for the house of cards to crumble is the slightest breath of wind. Our treasures stored on earth won't save us. Our preparations and planning and contingencies for catastrophe won't see us through. None of it will do any good in the coming storm. Only to be hidden in the secret place of the Most High God will save us from the all-consuming wrath of the Lamb.

The gospel of Matthew foretells that there will be earthquakes in various places. The Ring of Fire is roaring to life, and there are expected to be great earthquake swarms of historic significance in the coming months and years.

Luke chapter 21 tells of the sea and the waves roaring. Research physicist, marine architect, and former senior FBI systems analyst, Stan Deyo, has written extensively about the worldwide earth changes, floods, tsunamis, and the forthcoming Cumbre Vieja Volcano collapse and resulting tsunami.

Jesus said that the generation who witnesses these things shall not pass away until all these things are fulfilled. The reasons written about in this article are those reasons why God judged the whole world with a flood. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the coming of the Son of Man.

And when the nukes fall on us; when we are smote for our iniquities and the cities of America Babylon burn as Sodom and Gomorrah for our arrogance and unrepentant sin; when no flesh is left alive save that God shortens those coming days; when His terrible wrath is poured out upon all who have rejected His call, will your spirit be prepared to enter into God's grace and mercy?

The time of Jesus' second coming is at hand. It is upon us now, and He could come at any second.

Are you ready to face the Judgment Seat of Christ?

If not, say this prayer:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I'm sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness.

I believe that your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn away from my sin. 

You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9, that if we confess the Lord our God and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we shall be saved.

Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With all my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved.

Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore, Lord Jesus, transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not unto myself.

Thank you Jesus for dying for me, for having mercy upon me, and for giving me eternal life.

Amen!

If you just said this prayer and you meant it with all your heart and you have sincerely repented of your sins, you are now saved and are born again. You may ask, "Now that I am saved, what's next?" First of all, you need to get into a bible-based church and study God's Word. Open a Bible and seek the Lord in humble prayer, asking Him to reveal to you His Truth according to His will.

Once you have found a good church with other faithful followers of Jesus Christ, you will want to become water-baptized in accordance with God's commandments. By accepting Christ, you are baptized in the spirit, but it is through water baptism that you outwardly show your obedience to the Lord. Water baptism is a symbol of your salvation from the dead. You were dead but now you live, for the Lord Jesus Christ has redeemed you for a costly price—His death on the cross.

Spread the Truth

If you were convicted by this message, please share it with anyone and everyone who needs to hear it. Jesus gave the Great Commission to his disciples, telling them what must be done by his followers:

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. (Matthew 28:19-20)

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