Jonah's Warning

We all know the story of Jonah and the whale. God was going to destroy Ninevah and sent Jonah to tell the people they had 40 days to turn from their evil, God-less ways or they would be gone.

One comment I hear from from people today is that they really would prefer to be ignorant of the gloom that is fast spreading around the world. They don't really want to know the details or warning signs. Why would that be? Maybe it's because they don't want to be convicted by all the warnings that God is sending. Maybe we don't want to repent because it would mean we would have to realize that our wealthy, excessive, ungrateful lifestyles of the past 25 years would be exposed for what they are...worthless and not God-honoring.

I will post an article below that talks of Jonah and his message of warning. This paragraph hits it head on;

"Warnings abound, they are all around us. The Bible points out many but, since most people aren’t much into reading the Bible anymore, God had to resort to a more extreme method to get His warning across. Sure, in the past He has used natural disasters, weather anomalies, wars and rumors of wars. Today God used Satan to bring to America what might just be our final warning.What’s coming to the shores of America won’t be pretty and it won’t be anything softies will want to deal with, or even be able to deal with in their current state. Americans voted to take the easy way out of the problems confronting this nation. Little do they understand, that the problems facing this nation aren’t going away; they’ve just begun. Progression is the name of the game today, a progression of intensifying calamities befalling a once Christian nation that’s turned into followers of Satan. God can’t be happy with us and He’s no doubt going to express His lack of joy in ways we’ve yet to experience. “Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers…, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.” 2 Chronicles 7:22.

Our "other gods" in this country happen to be the god of Mammon...otherwise known as the god of wealth and possessions. Read the full article here; http://raptureready.com/featured/graham/g44.html

“if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14.

If most Americans don't want to know the warnings ("It's so depressing!")...how are we ever going to know to repent, pray and seek His face?