God's Judgment on Hollywood? Reality Check on the Prophets Saying So.

God's Judgment on Hollywood? 
Reality Check on the Prophets Saying So. 

I see a lot of people on social media commenting that the Pacific Palisades fire in California is God's judgment. I haven't seen my followers claiming such things in my news feed, thankfully and I would rather not see that.

When catastrophe strikes it is not the time to start pointing a finger and crying that the judgment of God has fallen. It is not Judgment Day yet! That is when God will judge the works of everyone. 

In the verse of Isaiah 54: 17 that I use a lot, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD" 

The prior verse 16 says: "Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc." 

To me that says God has satan and his demonic fallen legion on a leash. They are allowed - like in the book of Job - to traffic in the areas of a person that have not been perfected in God. Those are the places that the enemy of our souls has legal access to bring catastrophes and evil into. 

Just before Yeshua/Jesus laid His life down as a sacrificial lamb, He told His disciples that satan was coming - but had NOTHING in Him. This is what He was talking about: Yeshua had NO AREAS within Himself that the devil had legal access to enter and bring catastrophe of evil upon Him. The rest of us have those areas and that is why the description of the body of Messiah/Christ in the last days is "as a Bride without spot or wrinkle" - so purified that we also will have NOTHING in us that gives demons legal access to traffic. 

Hard to imagine, I know. I have never had even the hope that it could be the case - not just for me, but for any of us! But lately in the scriptures, the Holy Spirit has been opening my eyes little by little to God's plan to do that work in us - in a world of gross darkness He is purifying us. I began to get this a few weeks ago as I read Revelation 11:1-13. Read it. When I did, my eyes flew open to the possibility of us being what is spoken of in the symbolism of "the two witnesses." I immediately thought of Ephesians 2:15, of how God was going to make two "one new man" in Messiah. God is going to join Messianic Jews and Gentile Christians into such a unity we will move together as one in Christ. Like the "two witnesses."

The whole passage of Revelation 11:1-13 is bursting with a description of a bride who is without spot or wrinkle, and in the end, like Yeshua/Jesus, laying down her life. Like Jesus did, not life taken from him, but laid down. It will appear to the people on earth rejoicing their deaths that the haters of God won, but then after 3 1/2 days lying dead in the streets of Jerusalem, God will call them to rise from the dead and come to Him. They will be resurrected like Yeshua/Jesus was in the eyes of all. 

Now I will take 2-steps back because I know that was a lot to take in. This is why Jesus says we should not be pronouncing the fires in California as the judgment of God, from Luke 13:1-5 

1 At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way? 3 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” 

Be careful about proclaiming that God's judgment has befallen someone. Do you think people living in Pacific Pallisades were worse sinners than Americans in every state? Jesus says the point when we see such things is to repent of OUR OWN SINS, not to feel self-righteous about the sins others are experiencing calamity for. 

No matter how righteous you think you are, you have sinful impurity in you too and it gives satan legal access to sift you like wheat. That was the point of Job's experience. He was righteous, but he had things in Him that were not pure that even he didn't realize. His friends were much worse. Their self-righteousness was a stench in God's nose, but He still told Job that the remedy to his woes was to pray for his fair-weather friends. Let that be a warning to us all.