Based on Hosea 8 (New King James Version)
“Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law. Israel will cry to Me, ‘My God, we know You!’ Israel has rejected the good; the enemy will pursue him. ‘They set up kings, but not by Me; they made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. From their silver and gold they made idols for themselves—that they might be cut off. Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them—how long until they attain to innocence? For from Israel is even this: a workman made it, and it is not God; but the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. ‘They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; it shall never produce meal. If it should produce, aliens would swallow it up. Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the Gentiles like a vessel in which is no pleasure. For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers. Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them; and they shall sorrow a little, because of the burden of the king of princes. ‘Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, they have become for him altars for sinning. I have written for him the great things of My law, but they were considered a strange thing. For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt. ‘For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his palaces.’”
The most serious problem that exists today is the corruption that is in every place where His Truth is known, because it is not followed, but rather discarded. The vast majority of man today seeks to do his own will, and not God's will. Who knows the Truth? Almost everyone. Through the work of God and those faithful ones throughout the centuries, it can now be said that almost everyone knows the Truth, that there is an Almighty God and that His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, died for the sins of all humanity. Who doesn't know what the cross means? So, they do know what that means, they know the Gospel, no matter how much they have tried to pervert it, change it, and remove it from every possible place.
Unfortunately, instead of man clinging to Christ and His Word, false prophets and teachers have arisen now more than ever within the so-called people of God to pervert or use His Truth for their own carnal convenience. And this is what God says: “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: ‘A dog returns to his own vomit,’ and, ‘a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.’” 2 Peter 2.
Will God have mercy if the vast majority of those who know His Truth, knowing that God exists and knowing the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, prefer to reject Him and do as they please? Can God have mercy on the creation He made, rebelling in the way they do, who knowing the truth, prefer to believe and follow things that offend him? If man persists in following the course they have, if they do not repent, the evils we have will continue to worsen. We know that we are already in the last times, but everything will happen more quickly. They may blame environmental problems, or chemicals, or global warming, or anything else, but all the evil that is happening to us is because God is allowing it when He sees the great rebellion of man. And all their money, power, or their technology will not be able to change anything, but rather, everything will get worse, as long as such rebellion and evil continues. And the worst of all is that human beings will make their own way to hell (because hell does exist) by rejecting the only way to salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ and His Truth. God is a merciful God, but He is also consuming fire. The only ones who will be saved, not necessarily from the events that come on this world, but in eternity, are those who do the will of God, those who repent and convert from all their sins (not just some) and receive and treat the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lord that He is. Otherwise, there is no salvation, neither from what is already in the world, nor from what is coming, nor even less, from the coming judgment where we will all give an account, without exception. As it is written: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” Matthew 7:21. So then, what are you doing with God’s truth in your life? Lord bless! John. God bless Israel