"Now Elijah the
Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I
serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at
my word. Then the word of the Lord came
to Elijah: Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine,
east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the
ravens to supply you with food there. So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the
Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. The ravens brought
him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and
he drank from the brook. Some time later the brook dried up because there had
been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him: Go at once
to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a
widow there to supply you with food. So he went to Zarephath. When he came
to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and
asked, Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink? As she
was going to get it, he called, And bring me, please, a piece of bread. As
surely as the Lord your
God lives, she replied, I don’t have any bread - only a handful of flour in a
jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take
home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it - and die. Elijah
said to her, Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a
small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make
something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: The jar
of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day
the Lord sends
rain on the land. She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there
was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of
flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the
word of the Lord spoken
by Elijah. Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill.
He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. She said to Elijah, What
do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my
sin and kill my son? Give me your son, Elijah replied. He took him from
her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on
his bed. Then he cried out to the Lord, Lord my God, have you brought
tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die? Then
he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, Lord my
God, let this boy’s life return to him! The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to
him, and he lived. Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the
room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, Look, your son is
alive! Then the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of
God and that the word of the Lord from
your mouth is the truth." I Kings 17:1-14
They selfishly and arrogantly sang to the world in
this way: "These are the days of Elijah ..." like saying "Observe in amazement, we will conquer this world, get out of our way...", instead of preaching
the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Yes, these certainly are the days of Elijah,
but not the days they imagined!
The days of Elijah that follow are these and nothing else!
The brook has dried up!
God was disgusted by the church of Laodicea,
represented by the 21st century church.
To those who no longer remember, these are the words
addressed to the sickening church in Laodicea: “To the angel of
the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither
cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor
cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, I am rich; I have acquired wealth and
do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched,
pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold
refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to
wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your
eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So
be earnest and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If
anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with
that person, and they with me. To the one who is victorious, I will
give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was
victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. Whoever has
ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 3:14-22
Where are those who falsely prophesied that the time
of revival was coming, it was just at the gates?
They prophesied of their vain arrogance, of their
Christianized imaginations, because in the Word of God there is no verse that
states that before the return of Jesus Christ there would be an outpouring of
the Holy Spirit on the face of the earth, if there were, Jesus Christ himself
would have warned in Matthew 24. On the contrary, he warns us of the time of
apostasy before his Glorious and Terrible return, which by the way, will not be
preceded by any secret rapture "Because the Lord himself will descend from
heaven with a loud cry, at the voice of archangel, to the sound of God's
trumpet." (I Thessalonians 4:16a) I cannot understand how secret an archangel
can be shouting to the world about Christ´s return and trumpets being blown! It
is, indeed, a disgusting church.
The brook has dried up!
The time for apostasy has come. And things will get
worse as the persecutions, which have already started, will get worse, and very
soon. But don't you worry, the false prophets lie, because when the great tribulation begins we will be caught up. "The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church," wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Was he crazy or did he have a clear vision of the end that awaits us? Was his death in vain, pointless his sufferings?
The woman, in the figure of Zarephath's widow,
represents the Church of Jesus Christ, who will have to learn how to make bread
to avoid starvation, using only flour and olive oil, as there will be no more readily available Bread on earth, but only hunger and hunger for the Word of God.
People will run back and forth after a few crumbs, but
the Word will no longer be readily available.
The flour that is the written Word and the olive oil
that is the Holy Spirit, will be the basic elements to be used from now on. The
rest God withdrew! Have you ever made bread without eggs, milk, salt, yeast,
etc.?
The Church will need to learn to use only these two
ingredients to live from now on, until the return of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Those who went after the seer and gnostics evangelists, the
prophets who falsely speak in the name of God, the sheep charmers, wolves in
disguise, will starve in the streets, on the roads, in the ditches, and will
die of thirst for the Water of Life!
The brook has dried up!
God got tired of the lunatic visions, the daydreams of
preachers of the message "the best for your life now, come and get it",
of the "gospel" of prosperity shamelessly preached by intellectualoid
pastors, gnostic leaders and guessing prophets that actually pastored nobody,
because they were too busy with their business, who led no one to anywhere, and
who prophesied what God had never put in their mouths!
Where is the prosperity so preached now?
The brook has dried up!
God, with a mere move of his little pinkie, allowing a worldwide disease in 2020, is judging the Church of Laodicea.
All those who used to market the Gospel of Christ are
confused, lost, desperately trying to make videos to put on YouTube in order to
continue their negotiations in the temple.
Well, that's over, and the brook has dried up!
May God have mercy on each one of us and that from now
on we can learn to make our daily bread, that if we humbly use the ingredients
that are lovingly provided to us, it will never be lacking, just as the flour
and oil will never run out for the Zarephath's widow.
Amen and amen.