Passing over the Jordan in flood
How come it always looks like the ungodly are advancing and God’s people aren’t?
But this is why the Lord commands us, “Walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7). Here, “walk” means whatever we say and do and think.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/shouldnt-we-be-seeing-progress
In his essay, Mark Rushdoony reminds us, surveying the Old Testament, that God has always saved His people in unexpected ways. But He doesn’t like it when we doubt His promises!
“Every generation” Mark writes, “has some very real fearful events and our perhaps more than any in the West for some time, but our comportment should be in terms of our faith, not doubt and fear.”
The villains in the story come and go–Assyrians, Babylonians, Mongol invasions, Third Reich, Soviet Union, etc., etc.–but Christ’s Church is always growing.
They should be more demoralized than we are!
The Red Sea and Jordan Crossing are among my favorite OT stories. God had His people camp for three days along the Jordan River at flood levels to test their faith. Why are we surprised when God tests our faith?
I think it’s because we so often flunk.
What a superb post by Mark Rushdoony. No “last days” or “end times” doom and gloom pessimistic message, the world is getting worse and worse, thus, the rapture must be close at hand. No, none of that, just a reminder of what our God can do. That He is always victorious, and when His people believe and trust, great things can and will happen.
Most of the time, from the news media, all we read or hear, is doom and gloom, just the events they want us to know, and the wonders God is doing today are never reported, nor do we hear about it, such as the post reported by Lee, “Revival Takes Off at Asbury University.” I didn’t know about this, did you? These kinds of things are happening all over the earth at this time in history, but most are never reported, and censured by the powers that be. As I presented in my book, “Israel, Rapture, Tribulation” victory is ours (Christians), not defeat by an antichrist in the near future, but victory by God’s Church, in time on this earth (for it is written in His Word).