The Earth is Defiled

Monday morning I awoke and heard the following verse in my heart:

"When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness." Isaiah 26:9

And as I meditated on that verse I heard this one as well:

"The earth is defiled by it's people. They have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; it's people must bear it's guilt." Isaiah 24:5

The earth is defiled by it's people. How? Through disobedience to God's laws. Sin has defiled the earth.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and the Word Health Organization (WHO) estimate that there are almost 42 million abortions occurring worldwide on an annual basis. They also say that the number was actually higher in 1995 at an estimated 46 million abortions worldwide in that year alone. If these stats are anywhere near accurate then we could probably assume that in the last 25 years, since 1986, over 1 Billion abortions have occurred in this world. That's one billion, or roughly 15% of the world's current population.

1,000,000,000 = One Billion

Nine zeros. That number is staggering to me. When a murder occurs in a town or neighborhood it makes the news. But one billion in roughly 25 years? Humanity no longer values life. And God knows this is true.

"Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord." Isaiah 26:10

The book of Romans continues to define the issue.

"Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know. There is no fear of God before their eyes." Romans 3:15-18

"For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by it's own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." Romans 3:20-22

Man has been swift to shed blood. Ruin and misery has marked his ways. He does not fear God. God's creation is frustrated and in bondage to decay. Creation is groaning, even up to the present time. And now it appears that the creation itself is rejecting humanity and it's actions.

"The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of it's rebellion that it falls - never to rise again." Isaiah 24:20

Earth is rejecting humanity by trying to shake her off. Look at the following chart:

The chart was put together by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and tracks earthquakes from 1900 to 2008 with a magnitude of 6.0 or greater. See the rate of increase? Just as an added punch, the number of earthquakes in 2009 in that range of magnitude was 52. That would exceed the vertical scaling on the above chart by 26 percent if it was added on.

The ground itself is cursed because of sin. It started with Adam. The Lord God told him....

"Cursed is the ground because of you;..." Genesis 3:17

God spoke to Moses about it just to clarify the issue.....

"Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants... And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you." Lev 18:25,28

"Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made fro the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Do not pollute the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the Lord dwell among the Israelites." Numbers 35:33

The Lord continued to remind the people of these principles in the Psalms, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.

"They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood." Psalms 106:38

"There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers." Proverbs 6:16-19

"...one sinner destroys much good." Ecclesiastes 9:18

And yet the Israelites did it anyway.

"Surely these things happened to Judah according to the Lord's command, in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done, including the shedding of innocent blood. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive." 2 Kings 24:3,4

King Manasseh's sin exceeded even the Amorites, that Nephilim-laced culture, whom God had destroyed at the hands of Joshua.

"Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites...Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil than the Amorites who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols." 2 Kings 21:9,11

So he rebuked them through his prophets...

"I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable." Jeremiah 2:7

"On your clothes men find the lifeblood of the innocent poor, ..." Jeremiah 2:34

"They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent." Jeremiah 19:4

"Prepare chains, because the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of violence." Ezekiel 7:23

"The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice." Ezekiel 9:9

"Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices and say, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.'.....See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood....In you are slanderous men bent on shedding blood." Ezekiel 22:2-4, 6,9

And he commanded his prophets to stop praying for the well-being of his people.

"Do not pray for the well-being of this people. I will destroy them..." Jeremiah 14:11

All the while he also spoke of the impending destruction of the the world around them, of nations and key cities.

• In Isaiah 14-24 he speaks of the destruction of Assyria, Moab, Damascus, Cush, Egypt, Babylon, Edom, Arabia, Tyre, Jerusalem....the entire earth.
• In Jeremiah 25 he tells the nations that they will be destroyed along along with Jerusalem. All the towns of Judah, Egypt, Uz, the Phillistines, Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon, Dedan, Tema, Buz, Arabia, Zimri, Elam and Media....all the kingdoms of the earth.
• In Ezekiel 25-35 he prophesies against Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, Egypt, Lebanon and Jerusalem.

He destroyed them all. He started with the Judeans, the one nation who he had dispensed the most grace upon. He started with the most prominent of nations at that time, Israel and Judah, and worked his way down the list because, truth be told, all nations were doing the same thing. So he caused disaster to spread from nation to nation.

"See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all who live on the earth, declares the Lord Almighty. .....He will bring judgment on all mankind and put the wicked to the sword,........Look! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth." Jeremiah 25:29,32,33

He just had to start with the nation to which his name was attached. His Name was being profaned through Judah's disobedience. 

"But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out." Ezekiel 20:14

Why? Because they had conformed to the standards of the nations around them.

".....You have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you." Ezekiel 11:12

Does this have application today? What nation in the world today has had Christ's name attached to it, both presently and historically?

And if a nation like that really existed, and God was going to start judging nations, would he start with that nation in a time of global judgment? Who would that nation be? And does that nation have the blood of the innocent on it's hands? Is the land of that nation defiled? Has that nation conformed to the standards of the world around it, in spite of it's historical blessings with regards to both physical protection and financial provision?

".....You have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you." Ezekiel 11:12

Have we answered those questions before? See Here. The Ring of Fire is starting to explode with activity. See Here for it's symbolism.

Do not love the systems of this world saints. Let's not pin our hopes on worldly things.

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. The world passes away and the lust thereof but the man that does the will of God lives forever." 1 John 2:15-17

Receive the message. Know the doctrine that confirms the prophecy that has been laid down for us. Know the Doctrine.

"If any man chooses to do my will he shall know the doctrine." John 7:17

Knowing the consequence for shedding innocent blood, for both individuals and nations, is part of our doctrine in Christ. Know the doctrine.


JEB