by Glenice Mills
What we are witnessing taking place in Japan is catastrophic. This truly is a sign of the end of the age and we as Christians must be prepared for what is ahead.
I do not want to be negative, however, the Lord never said we would dodge what is happening in the world, but rather encouraged us that He would be with us THROUGH all our difficult times. Japan is experiencing its most difficult times ever in its history. It is as great if not greater than the bombings of the second world war. The repercussions are devastating.
The Lord showed me in January 2009 seismic activity in New Zealand and Japan with terrible loss of life. We are seeing this taking place now.
What we are witnessing is beyond our thinking, as our minds grapple with the gravity of the loss of life, but also the power behind the earthquake, resulting tsunami and problems with their nuclear power stations.
This is an earthquake of never before seen magnitude, 9 points on the Richter scale, and the ensuing tsunami was mind blowing. The tragedy is the resulting massive loss of life and the devastation and destruction of cities and whole regions. Unfortunately, Japan is a nation that has practiced the worship of false gods with their many religious temples. However, all these people are created in God’s image. The Lord loves them, and it grieves Him what they have been and are doing.
The Lord’s heart is always about bringing ones back to Him and this is opportunity for us to stand with and support them, as and how the Lord leads.
As I have been seeking the Lord about what has happened in Japan, He has shown me the shaking will impact and reverberate throughout the world’s economies. This is symbolic of the economic shaking that is taking place right now and going to take place in the coming months. There are very serious consequences economically to Japan but it is going to ripple out and have far reaching effects on all nations. The share market will be unstable and we will see a plummet in the value of stocks, particularly resource stocks.
This will flow on affecting Australia at the core of its economy. It will bring in a recession not seen before. It will be worse than the Global Financial Crisis as there is no known way of getting out of the economic mess. The false idolatry of love of money has been and will be pulled down as all nations are impacted.
There is much talk ‘out there’, and things written saying ‘the gods are angry’.
I venture to say God is judging some things and we will see many more things happen that are beyond our control because the hand of God is moving. People throughout the earth are questioning: what is happening, why are bad things happening? This is about the kingdom of God coming here on earth. It is about salvation, and bringing ones to the Lord.
There has been much talk about climate change. Man has been able to justify a lot of what is happening in the world, attributing it to climate change. However earthquakes cannot be attributed to this because it is a shifting of the tectonic plates deep in the earth. Earthquakes as defined in insurance policies are ‘an act of God’.
What is happening is an act of God, not of the false gods, but of God.
God’s heart has been and always will be about bringing ones back to Him. Japan as a nation has walked far from the Lord and His ways, but what has and is happening is opportunity for His truth to come to a desperate people. They are a prideful, superstitious people who have accomplished much particularly in the technology, electronics and car industry. They are a studious, learned people who have ‘worshipped their minds.’ The Lord has shown me there is a heart cry from the people at this time that says: “It is futile”. They are saying to themselves, ‘It has all come to nothing.’ They are also getting the revelation that the worship of their false gods is futile. These false gods will not save them. The Lord showed me the following Scripture for Japan.
Romans 1:20-23
"For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man - and birds and four -footed animals and creeping things."
This is opportunity for the redemptive power of the Holy Spirit to come upon a people who are beginning to have a revelation that all they believed in and held in high esteem has come to nothing.
Lord put a hunger in their hearts to know the truth, to get a revelation that only You, Lord can rescue them. Lord shine Your light into the deep recesses of their hearts, showing them where they have bowed to the lusts of objects and worshipped false idols instead of You. Help them Lord to get an understanding of Who they can trust, that You never leave them nor forsake them. Show them that You are with them in this time of desperate need. Burden them to cry out to You for their help and bring a release of a deep knowing of the love and comfort of the Holy Spirit.
In Jesus Name,
AMEN
