Watchman Radio Hour

The preaching of the cross has power. We are trying all the wrong things to solve our problems. This country is under judgment because of our sins and we are not going to be able to solve all our problems. Some things may get worse. God will not be silent while we go on sinning against Him. We cannot separate ourselves from God and continue to be blessed as a nation. We need the powerful preaching of the Word of God to come back and fill this land. Only then will here be hope. We need to go back and learn from previous generations. Our land became great because of God's blessings on us not because we are a great people. We were considered a great people because God blessed us. He blessed us because our forefathers were faithful and honored Him. This generation is turning away from God and we will pay the consequences unless God intervenes as He has in the past and sends a true spiritual awakening into our midst. We need the preaching of the cross to saturate this land. May God send such preaching in our day.

What we need today is powerful preaching in this nation. This nation will be great again when powerful preaching returns. We are not going to solve our great problems until powerful preaching comes back. The nation is in a moral and spiritual decline. This is our great problem. Many of our problems are an indication of God's judgment upon us and are the result of our moral and spiritual decline. Only when the powerful preaching of the Word of God returns to this land will we see our nation turn around and be a better place. When George Whitefield preachied in America in the 18th century, thousands were converted and the nation as a whole was changed. May God send such preaching back again to this land.

The preaching of the gospel can change whole peoples and nations. God is able to do marvelous things in our day. We must lift up the cross. Our cause is not lost in Europe or America or anywhere. We have the power of the gospel which cannot be stopped. Though Satan storm at us with all his might, he will not win. The victory is ours. Satan and all his forces cannot defeat the church and our gospel. We must never give up!

We have exchanged the glorious God for worthless idols. The evidence is abundant for all to see. Whether its immorality in the movies or same sex marriage or a total neglect of the Christian Sabbath, more and more we are exchanging our glory for worthless idols. Multitudes attend worship services in the sports arena on Sunday, but they are not worshiping God. They are worshipping idols. We have rejected God's plan for marriage and set up our own plans. We have rejected God's morality and set up our own. We have ejected the glorious God and set up another in His place.

The nation's sins are exposed. This nation is becoming more and more bold in sinning against God We are doing things our forefathers would have been ashamed of. If we persist on our present course, great judgement lies ahead. We cannot keep rebelling against God and His moral law and get away with it.

The gates of Zion are open for the nations to come in. Today, there are nations and peoples who are not yet Christian. There are nations that need to be reclaimed for the gospel. Our goal should be nothing less than to lead every nation, every people group to Christ. That does not necessarily mean that every single individual in those nations will become Christian but it does mean that the nation as a whole will acknowledge Christ. It means that the kingdom of God prevails in that nation. I do believe that in former days, this could be said of America. Today, we are doing our best to secularize the nation and separate our nation from God. Yet, this has not always been. Generations of the past honored the Christian religion and embraced it as their own as a people. This can be documented very clearly in our history. We must pray that not only America but all nations may become Christian and that the people of those nations will embrace Christ as Lord and Savior.

We should seek the prosperity of Zion. This is not in the health and wealth sense as some preach today. This is in a spiritual sense. We should seek the Revival of the church and its influence on the world for good in our day. This seems to be the focus of the OT prophets. It is true they prophesied about the destruction and captivity of Jerusalem but at the same time they always gave hope and pointed to another day when Zion would be glorious in this world. The message of the OT prophets was so different from modern doom saysers who seem to give no hope for the church in this age. The OT prophets focused on the future glory of Zion and so should we.

The Lord will build his church to completion. As Zerubbabel would build the temple in Jerusalem, so the Lord Jesus will build His Spiritual Temple, the Church. He will bring it to completion. It will be glorious.

We wonder why we are having troubles and we seek all kinds of secular solutions. Yet we never even consider that we may have become a land of idols. We have turned our backs on God and replaced Him with our idols. When we do that, God is not silent. He speaks and He acts. We cannot turn our backs on the God of our fathers and expect to continue under God's blessings. We keepl saying "God bless America". Yet, we refuse to give up our idols and to acknowledge the God we want to bless us. God's blessings have been abundant on this nation already. We have been blessed more than any nation in the world. Yet, those blessings will cease if we do not as a nation turn from our idols and turn back to God.

Jesus plainly told his audience that some of the ones standing before him would not taste death before they would see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. In other words, it would be in their lifetime. Jesus would come in His kingdom in their lifetime. That was in the first century. That is past not future. So, we can say for certain based on this verse that Jesus has already come in His kingdom and He did it in the first century during the lifetime of many who were hearing Him speak.