Collision Course

When I was 21 years old I was involved in an accident that almost killed another person.  I was playing in a college soccer game in the district playoffs my junior year at Midwestern State University in 1991. We found ourselves going up against Hardin Simmons University from Abilene, Texas. At one point in the second half I found myself jumping into the air to head the ball back towards our front line about 35 yard away from our opponents goal. When I began my descent back down all of the sudden the lights turned off. The next thing I knew I was trying to pick myself off of the ground, barely conscious. I didn't know what had happened or what hit me. I tried to stand up only to find myself just collapse back down to the ground. Two of my teammates came and helped me to my feet and got me to the sidelines where the trainers and medical staff could take a look at me.

While they were helping me off the field I heard one of my teammates say, "Look at that guy!" I couldn't turn around as I was barely conscious. I found out later, post concussion, that after I had jumped up to head the ball, while coming down, another player from the other team had jumped with me and in the process the left side of my skull made full contact with the back side of his head on the way down. The other player was knocked completely unconscious. He stopped breathing, swallowed his tongue, began going into convulsions and started foaming at the mouth while turning blue in the face. If the paramedics had not been there to revive him it would most likely have killed him.

As we start 2011 we enter into our annual time of looking forward.  I have thought long and hard for a few weeks as to how the Lord would have me start out writing. And in the process I have come to the conclusion that there are some things that need to be said about the United States and the direction it is ultimately heading in. I feel like I have been hiding in a closet and avoiding talking about things that should be obvious to everyone. America, and subsequently the world, is on a collision course with complete and total collapse. The skull of America is about to receive an unforseen blow that is going to cause it to stop breathing, swallow its tongue and go into mouth-foaming convulsions. The only difference between America and the player that I banged heads with is that there will be no paramedics to revive and restore it. The scripture says the following about Samson:

"He awoke from his sleep and thought, 'I'll go out as before and shake myself free.' But he did not know that the Lord had left him." Judges 16:20

The Lord had left Samson, but he was not aware of it. I believe God has left America, but most within her do not know it. Most do not believe it could ever happen. In the coming weeks I want to share some things with you that I feel the Lord has shown me over the years. We are going to cover doctrine, prophesy, counsel and current events. We are going to talk of the following subjects over the next several blogposts:

• The Shadow World
• Ezekiel 14 and Four-fold judgment.
• Macroeconomics 
• Leviticus 18
• The Broken Hammer
• The Last 5 Kings of Israel and Judah
• Josiah's Reign and the Prophet Jeremiah
• Ezekiel 21:15 and Nahum 3:13
• Jereboam II and the Prophet Amos
• Prophetic Confirmation of Leviticus 18
• The Boy Prophet, Efim Gerasemovitch Klubniken
• The Purpose of 2011
• The Current Spiritual Climate
• The Fear of the Lord and Wisdom...Building an Ark

The list may change. I don't know exactly if things will come out in that order. But I feel that it is important to know, for both you and your loved ones, that life as we know it in both America and subsequently in the world is about to change dramatically. Our lives as Christians always change, hopefully for the better. But the world is changing in a very bad way. Understand, I don't write this with any sense of joyful contentment or feelings of "I told you so!" My wife and I have two young boys that we are trying to raise along with one that is already grown and out on his own. I have 11 neices and nephews. I want to believe that this world we live in will be stable and growing for generations to come. But I don't think that is the case. I believe the Lord has shown me differently over the last 20 years or so.

Things are already changing in America in case you haven't noticed. And it isn't for the better. America and most of the world have been in spiritual free-fall for well over a century now and especially over the last 40 years. You don't believe it? I am going to show you. I am going to show you that the current state of our country is exactly in line with the nation of Judah during Jeremiah's and Ezekiel's ministry. I am going to prove it doctrinally and then I am going to point out how God has already confirmed it through His prophets and various signs in the natural realm.

America is already experiencing the four-fold pattern of judgment as discussed in Ezekiel 14. He is already breaking the staff of bread. He is already cutting off America's food supply and raising up the wild beasts.  It's already started. And right now, as Christians, we need to be cutting lumber, swinging the hammer and coating our Ark with pitch inside and out. Remember the following verse:

"The prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it." Proverbs 22:3 & Proverbs 27:12

The same verse is written in two different places in Proverbs. It must have been important for Solomon to say it twice. This isn't a time for us to put our heads in the sand. This is the time to fear the Lord, hear the Lord, and trust God for his provision and protection for ourselves, our spouses and our children. But it starts with acknowledging what is happening, acknowledging what the Lord has been saying about it, and asking the right questions in prayer and then moving with a sense of urgency to prepare for what is about to happen not only to America but subsequently most nations in the world. Now is the time to hear God and move in obedience without reservation. Now is the time. It's time.

There is more to come. Watch for more posts. It will all make sense when I map it out and connect some dots.

In Christ,
J.E. Blackshear
http://www.miraclesinmerida.blogspot.com/.