In view of all that is happening in our nation and around the world, I found this to be a message for such a time as this:

THE LORD’S MERCIES
by David Wilkerson

In ancient Israel, the ark of the covenant represented the mercy of the LORD, a powerful truth that came to be embodied in Christ. We are to receive His mercy, trust in the saving blood of His mercy, and be saved eternally. So, you can ridicule the law, you can mock holiness, you can tear down everything that speaks of God. But when you mock or ridicule God’s mercy, judgment
comes—and swiftly. If you trample on His blood of mercy, you face His awful wrath.

That’s exactly what happened to the Philistines when they stole the ark. Deadly destruction came down on them until they had to admit, “This isn’t
just chance or happenstance. God’s hand is clearly against us.”

Consider what happened when the ark was taken into the heathen temple of Dagon, to mock and challenge Israel’s God. In the middle of the night, the mercy seat on the ark became a rod of judgment. The next day, the idol Dagon was found fallen on its face before the ark, its head and hands cut off. 1 Samuel 5:2-5

Beloved, this is where America should be today. We should have been judged long ago. I say to all who mock and challenge the mercy of God: Go ahead, try all you want to bring Christ’s church under the power of secularism or agnosticism. But if you mock the mercy of Christ, God will cast all your power and authority to the ground.

Jeremiah says, “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassion' fail not.” Lamentations 3:22

Yet when men make a mockery of that great mercy which is Christ, judgment is sure. It is only the mercy of the LORD that delays judgment. And right now America is benefiting from that mercy. Incredibly, our country is in a race with the rest of the world to remove God and Christ from society. Yet the LORD will not be mocked; His mercies endure forever.

"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:9

We are not to despair over the present condition in America. We grieve over the awful corruption, mockery and sin, but we have hope because -

GOD IS IN CONTROL.!.