GOD IS WITH US
by Rev. R.H. Sawyer

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As the young man Jacob went on his way to Padan-aram, he heard the Lord say to him, “Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest;” after twenty years, Jacob tells us that God was with him, and that his material blessings, wives, children, cattle, all that he possessed, came to him as a result of the presence of his God. Hear him say to his uncle, Laban: “Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.”

The Protector Of Nations And Men

The only hope of security, prosperity and peace, for the individual and the nation lies in the realization that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”

This definite statement, as recorded in the 46th Psalm concerns Israel as a nation. It is evidently intended as a message of assurance to the people of Israel in the time of the great tribulation in the last days. There are many references, in both the Old and New Testaments to “The time of Jacob’s trouble,” when the nations of the world will be arrayed against the Israel nations, and the Psalmist reveals to Israel their one hope, and source of help, in this time of universal distress: “The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

“The Lord of Hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

“He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth ...

“BE STILL, and KNOW that I am God; I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

“The Lord of Hosts IS WITH us the God of Jacob is our refuge.”

The prophet Isaiah records this message of assurance from Jehovah to his NATION in the last days: “Hearken unto me, my people, and give ear unto me, O MY NATION, for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of the people… I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou that shouldst be afraid of a man that shall die ... and forgettest the Lord thy maker ...”

Any intelligent reader of the newspapers of today must admit that the Israel nation is expending billions of dollars in a vain effort to stay the advancing influence of a man who is feared by the Christian nations of the world.

That the nation has forgotten God, and blindly disregards the definite promises he has made to protect them from the combined heathen nations of the world, is the only explanation of the various, and unworkable plans that are being offered by a confused, and fear-filled leadership today.

The Anglo-Saxon-Celtic nations are facing the greatest crisis in human history, and yet they are either ignorantly, or wilfully disregarding the message of hope and salvation which has been openly recorded for three thousand years, and is undoubtedly intended these times of threatened disaster. It requires no stretch of the imagination to realize that the words of Almighty God as recorded in Deuteronomy, the fourth chapter, twenty-ninth and thirtieth verses were addressed to our people today: “If thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

“When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, EVEN IN THE LATTER DAYS, if thou turn to the Lord thy God ... He will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which He sware unto them.”

Let all God’s people unite in seeking the Lord, saying with the Psalmist: “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”