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The Storm Just Ahead

ByBrooks Alden February 24, 2018
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The Storm Just Ahead

From James 5 of the Amplified version of the Bible, we read beginning at verse one the following warning from God Almighty. “Come now, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries – the woes – that are surely coming upon you. Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are completely rusted through, and their rust will be testimony against you and it will devour your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days. [But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out (for vengeance), and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts. [Here] on earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to [the pleasures of] self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the (innocent) righteous [man, while] he offers no resistance to you.”

James is warning all such men, Christian or otherwise, not because they are rich but because they have failed in their stewardship. Today we can look at our political leaders, our corporate leaders and our ecclesiastical leaders and easily come to the conclusion that they too have failed. Whereas God intended wealth to be employed for the good of mankind, it has basically ended up in a relatively few hands and has been hoarded. The word ‘privatization” is a buzz word in government circles to justify turning over more of the electorate’s asset base to private hands and thus set in motion more of the endless confiscation of wealth from the individual. James talked about the cruel defrauding of poor farm labourers and here we can substitute Mr. Average Israelite who has been burdened down by excessive tax, etc., all against the law outlined in Deuteronomy 24:14. The self-indulgence of our leaders is certainly visible, and James warns that they are just fattening themselves up for the slaughter. Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) 34: 21-22 are well worth noting, “The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood. He that taketh away his neighbour’s living slayeth him; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.” (emphasis mine) This would relate to verse 6 of James 5 and as you reflect upon it, think, for example, of the tens of thousands of jobs that have been taken from our people and exported to third world nations by men and women in charge on large corporations. Time will tell if the Trump changes will unfold as announced and on what basis the jobs and the trillions of offshore dollars will return.

James turns to those who are being affected by those oppressors and basically tells them that these events that are taking place are prophetic and that they must be patient, for by this time, the Judge is standing at the very door. Here is how James words it in verses 7-9. “So be patient, brethren, [as; you wait] till the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. [See how] he keeps up his patient [vigil] over it until it receives the early and late rains. So you also must be patient. Establish your hearts – strengthen and confirm them in the final certainty for the coming of the Lord is very near. Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you [yourselves] may not be judged. Look! The Judge is [already] standing at the very door. [As] an example of suffering and ill-treatment together with patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord – as His messengers.”

So, the situation we see in the world today, brought about primarily because of leaders who have failed in their stewardship, has been permitted to worsen year in and year out by God who is probably letting them self-destruct with their own medicine. The situation is akin to a series of trains going in the same direction at breakneck speed and having no grasp of the vast abyss that is ahead of them. They reach for power at any cost and by past and present stewards have created such dangers in the world that it is frightening to contemplate what could happen. From a military standpoint, the instinct to create empires has brought about a nuclear proliferation of stupendous magnitude, North Korea is a good example, yet always are nations seeking greater and greater destructive powers. Wars are being fought at the drop of a hat, regardless of the human cost or the greater burden placed upon those who foot the bill, the ordinary taxpayer.

Here in the Israelite west the economic engine has been traveling at such reckless speed over the past decades that it has all but tapped the resources of the populace, having trapped them in a sea of debt and taxation so deep there is no way out. Newly emerging powers are being granted every concession possible to underwrite the staggering financial needs, but it is to the point that even those nations fear the unrestrained printing presses of the central banks and are partially fleeing to gold, silver and other currencies. Yet, even they don’t know whether to pass or punt as such things as the derivative bomb, the housing bubble, oil prices, war costs, huge trade and current account deficits collectively threaten to bring about the greatest financial explosion the world has ever witnessed.

The ecclesiastical train is the sorriest train of all because it carries the stewards who have been very instrumental in the breakdown of the social fabric of our nations. They traded responsibility for comfort and I suspect they will be among the most harshly dealt with when the Lord Jesus Christ returns.

What are we to do beside having patience and knowing that Jesus Christ is already standing at the door making ready for His entrance? The geographic changes that are happening throughout the entire globe are very likely witness of His pending arrival. James tells us to pray, for one another and ourselves. He gives us the example of Elias, to demonstrate the power of prayer and ends up emphasizing the mission we have to bring our brethren back into fellowship with Christ.

God bless us all as we go forth.


Editor: As you read this article, you might think “Well, that may have been true of yesterday, but President Trump has started a fire that will make America great again and the fire will soon spread to all the Israel countries. That, already, corporations are changing for the better through employee bonus plans and glossy plans for the future”. Yet, does a leopard really change its spots and will the new tax reductions for corporations simply wet their appetites for greater downstream profits and concessions for rebuilding America? Don’t get me wrong, I think President Trump really has asperations to be a great president, but can he outlast the knives that are out for him. And in any event, can America really be great again if the nation does not return to what made it great in the first place, that is, a great belief in the Lord God Almighty and a return to His Laws and Commandments. With the racial and religious make-up of America and other Israel nations today, is it even possible? No, maybe there will be a brief honeymoon, but the Bible tells us otherwise.

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Brooks came to the message in 1991 and began writing for Thy Kingdom Come in 2001. His subjects are varied, although prophecy is his favourite. He is a former bank executive and businessman and is now a business consultant. He has authored several books and articles on the Israel Truth and is a regular speaker on the subject. He is co-editor of the magazine and has been a Board Member with the Association for a number of years. Brooks believes that more than any other time in the Christian era is it more important to sow the seeds of the Israel Truth and the Gospel of the Kingdom. He thinks that as in the days of Hosea, Israel today is being swallowed up and the future is dimmer and dimmer without the Lord Jesus Christ as our Beacon. As iot was with Hosea, we True Israel must reach that point where we will say, “Come, and let us return unto the Lord ……he will heal us … and he will bind us up.” All the signs suggest there is not much time.

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