As I was singing The Battle Hymn Of The Republic yesterday at Church In The Park, the gravity of the words hit home to me—for THEN, and for NOW, as well as for SOMEDAY.
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SOMEDAY, Judgment Day, The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord—Like “lightning unloosed”, like stomping out grapes in a vat before sorting out the juice and the pulp in the “winepress”, God’s “grapes of wrath” will “trample out” justice that all creation has been waiting for, for six thousand years.
“God’s mills grind slowly,
But they grind exceeding small.
While with patience He may linger
Yet in justice He grinds all.”
God will right all that’s wrong—all evil and evildoers will be judged, and be sent to hell.
Too late for mercy—too late to beg for mercy.
“Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.”
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THEN, Slavery, Civil War—God’s “grapes of wrath” over American slavery, stored up for only so long—He personally “stomped them out” in the “vintage” (the vat) and “loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword”—blood shed across America, by Americans, by God ?
What caused the Civil War ?
Where was God ?
God showed up, with justice, and we paid the terrible price.
? Once and for all ?
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[I saved “for now” for last, to draw attention to where we are today]
NOW, X X X America’s National Sin X X X, Judged—A thousand times worse than slavery—Consequences (God’s judgment) worse than civil war—“stored up wrath” of God, scary beyond comprehension—No wonder God wiped out the Canaanites, with ‘innocent’ casualties, by command—
What for ?
For heinous murders of babies, sacrificed to ‘gods’.
Sixty million babies murdered in America, sacrificed to _____, AND IT ISN’T STOPPING ! ! !
Abortion is the worst of the worst in human history, and we forget God’s just judgment.
BUT GOD does not forget, HE has not forgotten, HE will not let this go, HE will not leave this alone.
We got a reprieve in the 2016 election.
We got a reprieve in the 2022 SCOTUS overturn of Roe.
We got a reprieve in the 2024 election.
And yet—
” ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
—–Abraham Lincoln
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half death and half life.
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Read this now, slowly, in light of the above:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword.
His Truth is marching on.
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