{"id":4696,"date":"2021-11-24T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2021-11-24T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:06:57","slug":"when-god-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4696","title":{"rendered":"WHEN GOD SAYS &#8220;NO&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When God says NO, when does He say YES again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God always has a remnant, praying&#8212;praying for revival, praying for repentance, praying for a return of God&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But WHEN?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it becomes a matter of God&#8217;s perspective of time, versus our perspective of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After God&#8217;s people in the Bible turned away from following Him for too long, He said NO to them, and sent them into captivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For sure, there would have been the remnant praying faithfully, before and during the horrible trek to Babylon, to see God&#8217;s blessing and mercy again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it would be seventy long years before God&#8217;s NO would change to His YES, and His chosen people returned to their promised land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In America today, God said NO on November 3, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Christians, myself included, prayed faithfully and fervently for a reversal from God, because we knew the Babylon tyranny that was sure to follow, here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now a year later it is clear that God is not ready to change His NO to America, to a YES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persecution and martyrdom is common experience for Christians living under evil tyranny, without divine deliverance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible says the martyrs cry from under God&#8217;s throne, &#8220;How long?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In light of America&#8217;s long-term trust in God, and God&#8217;s responding blessing beyond measure on America&#8212;the current wholescale turn away from God nationwide, and open hostility toward Christianity by the leadership&#8212;we can expect severe and prolonged judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judgment will continue until everyone can see it is from God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God says NO, when does He say YES again? God always has a remnant, praying&#8212;praying for revival, praying for repentance, praying for a return of God&#8217;s favor. But WHEN? So it becomes a matter of God&#8217;s perspective of time, versus our perspective of time. After God&#8217;s people in the Bible turned away from following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}