Are you ready to fight?

As I am writing this ladies, it is the eve of the Beth Moore Simulcast at Oak Hill and SO MANY of you have been working AMAZINGLY hard to make this big day a success.  I personally want to thank you for ALL that you have done for this special day, especially to Jaybrena and Terry.  You all simply amaze me and I call myself VERY blessed to have you all as friends and sisters in Christ.  I simply cannot wait to see what God is going to do in the lives of so many women tomorrow during this incredible event.  I hope as you are reading this at some point on Saturday, you will find yourself eternally changed for having gone to the simulcast!  Since I know that all of us will probably be tired :) I am going to keep my post relatively short!

During chapters 49 and 50, we find ourselves in the middle of Jeremiah proclaiming God's judgment on several nations.  These two chapters focus on the nations of Ammon, Edom, Damascus (Syria), Kedar, Hazor, Elam, and Babylon.  As I have been studying the book of Revelation with my high school Bible class, we are constantly amazed at the fact that people are SO BLINDED to believing in this amazing God of ours.  Even when they have SEEN God's judgment happen in the book of Revelation and have actually experienced it for themselves, they still refuse to believe in our Lord!  Chapter 9 of Revelation says this in verses 20-21:

"The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshipping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.  And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts."
                              

This quote comes after the 6th Trumpet judgment of God and it is utterly terrifying.  But so are the judgements that God is proclaiming against these countries here in the book of Jeremiah and yet we see the that people STILL continue to do these types of wicked things all the way through to the end of time as revealed in the book of Revelation. 

So...what in the world are we to do with this information?  After all, I am not sure how one could think we are NOT getting close to the events revealed at the end of the Bible when we are about to remember that HORRIBLE and TERRIFYING day 10 years ago when people flew large airline jets into buildings killing thousands of innocent people!!!  WE need to be ready as Christians for the fight that we are facing and we need to be equipping our young people for the fight that is only going to get worse in their lifetimes.  It is a battle and we need to be armed and ready!  Would you send your child off to a war and not teach them how to defend themselves and how to fight?  OF COURSE NOT!!!  So why would we do this with the spiritual battles that they (and we) are facing when this battle is not just for lives or land or hate, but this battle is for the very souls of people for all eternity!  ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT????