Dear friends,

We are just a few weeks away from our Seattle, Gathering of the Eagles. This Mini-GOE will be power-packed and ultimately prepare and lay the ground-work for 2015. Since the first notice went out, just eight days ago, nearly two-thirds of our available seating was taken further revealing the importance of this time together. God is speaking to His people and they are responding! This will be the last meeting until 2015. After this, we will scale back to a small crew in order to allow families to spend time with one another prior to the start of what will surely be a very busy year.

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Nita is continuing her message entitled “Never Give Up!” Week 2. 

I want to talk to you for a second about why we are in the mess we are in. I was sitting and reading the Book of Leviticus, Chapter 10, when suddenly I began to experience what happened with the sons of Levi. God judged Nadab and Abihu for two reasons:

First, He judged them because they were both rebellious at heart. They did not want God's government on their shoulders. What they were doing in the priestly office, they were doing to satisfy the demands of their lineage which had fallen upon them through Aaron, not because they had the fear of God in their hearts. They had apparently been drinking before they prepared themselves for their duties. That seems hard to believe since they had already taken seven days to be consecrated and ordained, locked in the tent of meeting until the seven days were up. However, Moses' reproof seems to indicate this was the case. What I experienced was their rebellious heart and unwillingness to submit to God's authority and His authority upon Moses.

Secondly, because rebellion marked their ways, they would not believe or obey His holy Word. Further, they would teach this rebellion to the people of Israel. This is why God smote them. To read that passage in Leviticus 10 and to see the strong judgment that God cast against them in a moment's time can just shake you in your boots. It can just shake you to think that God would do that. It isn't until you understand that these men had hearts of such deep rebellion and hatred for God's authority and His authority on Moses that it would actually have spoiled the vine of Israel immediately had God not dealt with it. He was trying to teach the people the fear of God. Being a priest of God is very serious.

Rebellion and disbelief of His holy Word has caused the very foundations of the earth to tremble, shake, and become unstable. I experienced the very thing that is described in Psalm 82:5. The earth began to teeter, totter, undulate, and sublimate until everything from the ground to the heavens above was moved into instability. I felt the utter instability of the whole earth as though it was being rocked by a massive earthquake because of the deviation from God's holy Word. There was no stability anywhere. The only stability was in His truth. Personally, I felt desperate to bury myself in His truth and never disobey even the least of His commandments. If God would have let this rebellion and hatred for God's truth continue, it would have bound Israel in the same instability as the rest of the world. Of course the world was already in this instability, but God was trying to bring His people out of Egypt and give them a place.

There was an earthquake in California a couple of weeks ago where they talked about seeing the rolling earth during that earthquake. I've been in that kind of earthquake. It brings about a particular manifestation that you don't see in typical earthquakes. That is what I felt when I felt the instability of all the earth. It was like standing on a live earthquake.

Now think about this. The whole earth was in an instability as if earthquakes were taking place everywhere. Yet God brought His people out of Egypt in such stability that even the waters parted at the sound of His voice. His people walked through the waters on dry land twice. That is stability. The earth wasn’t commanding the people, but the man commanded the earth with the voice of God. Earthquakes were taking place all over, you might say, but everywhere the people of God walked, following the cloud of God, there was such stability that nothing could be denied them. They went to the desert to find water. They went to the water to find a dry and barren ground upon which to walk to safety. Where there was no food, the elements of nature sent a wind and the food came. Do you hear the stability? They were without want. Their needs were met. The slippers on their feet did not break down. The clothes they wore lasted forty years. Now, if you ever wondered if they wished they had deodorant, I don't think they did. I think God even took care of that for forty years. He gave them bread so that they did not hunger. They really wanted for nothing for forty years.

Here we are, many generations later, and we're dealing with earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, typhoons, and tornadoes. We're dealing with every wicked thing and one wonders why. Back in the days of Moses, the only time they saw earthquakes was when God got mad and swallowed up a whole generation of people because of their sin. So what is happening? Why are the Elite capable of stirring up all the stuff they are stirring up in the Middle East and in Europe? It's because His people, who are called by His name, do not humble themselves, repent, and seek His face. (2 Chron. 7:14) Unfortunately, it doesn't work if there are just 15 or 20 people. He needs His Church to turn from their wicked ways and seek His face. 

I want you to consider something for a moment: what happened on the hill in ancient days? God talked with Abraham. He told Abraham what He was going to have to do with Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham's heart was stricken with grief. His nephew lived down in Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham tried to talk the Lord into foregoing this judgment, and he kept talking to Him and got very daring. I heard a preacher ask once, "If he would have gone down to zero, if there was no one righteous, would God have saved the city just because Abraham prayed?" The minister said, "He would have. Abraham just didn't have the faith." I thought, “You don't know God.” There was a point when the Lord would have, for so few, forestalled judgment and complete wrath under the worst possible circumstances, but there is a point where He will not because their cup is full. That was the case in those cities.

I want to say one more thing before I get into the body of this. God will have mercy on whom He will have mercy. It is not ours to judge. If one nation fills a cup very full, very early, and it is destroyed because of it, then that is God's privilege. It is His decision what He does with the people of earth, right? But He says, "If you will, I will." And we don't ever doubt the goodness of God. We don't ever give Him a hard time because He is not good enough. We just thank Him for the mercy He is giving us in this nation. 

We deserve destruction. That's what we deserve and you probably know that, right? If God does not deal with us, then He may have to apologize to Israel. There is a place, however, where God wants to put us in the cleft of the rock, and He wants to hide us there until He passes over and does what He has to do. What He could do is destroy America, but He's not going to. He won’t because He asked us to pray and we obeyed. All of the intercessors across America and other nations that have prayed for America will be blessed some day because they obeyed and they prayed.

God loves America, and whatever He has to do to discipline this nation He will do with great pain. In Isaiah, it says that when His people are afflicted, He is afflicted.

Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

In all their affliction, He was afflicted. Isn't that an amazing truth? The Lord may discipline a nation, but He suffers.

In Him,

Nita

Thursday November 6th, 2014