The Consequences of Disobedience to God – a great article by William Newton Wordsworth

Jesus warns us in this parable, “that those who hear His sayings and do not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand and when the storms came, it fell, and “great was its fall.” Matthew 7:26,27

Since becoming a Christian in 1995, God has shown me the cost of disobedience to Him through personal experience and scripture.

It truly is as Moses warned the Israelites before they entered the Promised Land – that if they obeyed God’s commands, He would bless them and they would flourish. However, if they disobeyed Him, they would be cursed, and suffering would come upon them (Deuteronomy 28).

This principle is repeated throughout the Old Testament and remains true today. God has great mercy and compassion, but persistent disobedience brings serious consequences. God showed me that this still applies today to the nations as it does to people in an extremely powerful way:

In 2010, while praying with my wife, Kelly, and our son, Vincent, God said to me, “Tomorrow I am going to make a major statement.” By a vision I was shown that this statement would be physical in nature. Then God said, “For Me it will be nothing, but for man it will be big.”

The following day, Vincent was monitoring the news for “God’s major statement” that we all knew was coming. Then the news broke that a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, in one of the worst so called natural disasters in modern history. Over 300,000 people died, and up to a million were left homeless.

Our Father then led Kelly and me to discover why He brought this calamity upon the Haitian people. That they persist in disobedience to Him through voodoo and occult spiritual practices, which are against His Commandment to have no other gods before Him (Exodus 20:3) and are an abomination to Him (Deuteronomy 18:9–14).

Fear of the Lord Helps Us to Obey God

It is important for us to remember that God our Creator has not changed to accommodate the modern beliefs of people. His Commandments remain the same, and He still requires individuals and nations to obey Him. It is we who must change, not God.

The “fear of the Lord” is not terror, but a deep awe and reverence for God. It comes from recognising who He is – the Creator of the world, the universe, all of the living, including humanity. It also comes from realising what He will do if we persist in wickedness.

Jesus warned us to “fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).

This reverent fear of God’s power helps us to obey Him. Obedience to Him leads us to receive the abundant life that Jesus came to bring us and avoid the calamities that follow disobedience.

Since the 2010 earthquake, the people of Haiti have continued the widespread practice of Voodoo as their national religion, and they have experienced ongoing suffering — further earthquakes, cholera outbreaks, poverty, political instability and gang warfare. This ongoing tragedy can serve as a stark reminder to us that whether we have fear of the Lord and obey Him, has serious consequences for our life, our nation and the world.

Now is the Time to Get Right with the Lord

God guided me in prayer that the approaching storm Jesus warned me about began in earnest with the Covid Pandemic. I believe we are now living in what Jesus referred to as “end times”. The signs of the “beginning of sorrows” that He spoke of to His disciples (Matthew 24:4–8) are increasingly evident.

We are now living in a spiritual war in which revelations of widespread evil are occurring.  This troubles many people. However, Jesus warns us that it is God whom we must fear, not man.

For Christians, this is the time to look deeply at ourselves. Those who have grown complacent toward God, “who say in their heart that the Lord will not do good and nor will He do evil” (Zephaniah 1:12-13), have a window of opportunity to repent and turn wholeheartedly to Him before the long-prophesied return of Jesus to judge all.

Now is the time to stand with Jesus on the Rock of Ages, to be passionately seeking to be right with God, to do His will, to resist evil in our own lives and the world — that He will know us on His return.

I was guided by God in a prayer during the pandemic to write the book Warnings from the Living God. It is written to help people understand the storm we are now in and to be spiritually prepared for what is to come. The promise of Jesus that He made two thousand years ago remains today: those who will stand with Him and “endure to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:13).

“Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways.”
— Psalm 128:1

William Newton-Wordsworth is correct, we are living in the Biblical prophesied end-times and most Bible believing Christians are aware of it. There were 300 prophecies of Jesus first coming and the Pharisees and Sadducees did not get it and sadly even though there are almost 2000 prophecies of Jesus Second Coming and His Millennial Kingdom (http://www.millennialkingdom.net) many in the institutional churches are not getting it. Why? I believe it is because of evolution and belief in billions of years that most do not believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. If this is your problem go to either http://www.creation.com or http://www.answersingenesis.org.

About the Author: Williams Newton-Wordsworth