Prophecy
The Dead Tree
Shared by Patricia Backora, author of the book
Tough Love in Christ's Millennium
Which you can order online from: http://www.publishamerica.com
Psalms 37:35; Jeremiah 17:7-8; Mark 11:12-14; 20-21; I Peter 5:8
When Adam first sinned against Me in the Garden, was it not through wilfully partaking of the fruit of the forbidden tree? Indeed, sin makes inroads through deception, for satan deceived Eve into partaking of it first by drawing her attention to the beauty and alluring fragrance of that fruit. He told her that I was being selfish and unfair, reserving the best for Myself, and giving her and her husband only that which was inferior. Thus, satan was able to introduce a spirit of prideful competitiveness into a world which had previously been governed by harmonious cooperation with Me.
The fruits of that one act of disobedience proliferate even today, six millennia later. Everyone outside My Spirit of Love is ultimately motivated by self-interest and greed. Lust and warfare abound. People refuse to come to Me because they prefer the darkness and hate the Light.
Even professing Christians treat My Word like a buffet table. They claim heaping helpings of prosperity, health, and all the good and pleasant things of life. But many look askance at Scriptures which exhort men to a holy life, charity toward their brethren, and fidelity in marriage. These godly admonitions are dismissed as legalism by lascivious backsliders.
I have had to judge many precious saints and take them out of this world because false teachers misled them into thinking that fleshly immorality is OK so long as you remember to say ¡°I¡¯m sorry, Lord,¡± after each sin session. Through their attitude and example heretics say that My Word is no longer relevant, and only feelings (or absence of them) matter. Yet very few realize that it is the devil who makes husbands and wives lose feelings for each other. He is constantly out on the prowl, seeking careless souls to devour.
These reprobates straddle the border, one foot in the world, the other in My Kingdom. They inhabit imaginary gray areas, ducking My penetrating Light which exposes their ¡°lifestyle¡± as ugly, repulsive sin.
Sin put My only-begotten Son on the Cross. How dare people say I withhold My best from them? I spared not My own Holy Child from shame and spitting, from scourging, humiliation and crucifixion. I spared not My own heart on that awful, but victorious day when My precious Son triumphed over the powers of hell through His own obedient Sacrifice of Himself. This world could have been obliterated out of existence, and My Son rescued from His tormentors, but He wanted to save every repentant descendant of Adam.
Yet so many lukewarm believers refuse to make even the smallest sacrifices of obedience. Many reason: The Lord wants me to be happy and fulfilled as an individual. Only he or she can make me complete. So why remain chained to a husband or wife who no longer appeals to me?
My people, do not deceive yourselves. I never change. Hopping from one bed to another is a vile, filthy abomination in the world, and even more so among believers. Such transgressors shall not go unpunished.
Even professing believers have been attracted to that massive, overspreading tree of sin which dominates the landscape of the world. Its very size and influence are intimidating to those who should be making a firm stand for truth in these closing days before Tribulation wrath descends upon the earth.
Behold, they think in their hearts, sin is so firmly entrenched in this earth that it can never be uprooted. Look at the sheer enormity of our foe!
Yea, the wicked one spreads himself out like a green bay tree. His roots and branches spread out in every direction to fill the entire earth. In pride and greed he puffs himself up, competing and seeking to dominate. Even believers can easily be overawed by his all-pervasive influence and power in worldly society, even as Israel was intimidated into inaction by the sight of the giant Goliath.
But I have cursed that evil tree. It is a dead tree. The fig tree cursed by Jesus was stripped of its life force the moment He uttered those fateful words of judgment. At first sight, nothing had happened to it. But the next day, as he and his disciples were passing by, they saw that it had dried up from its roots. The world system dominated by Lucifer is already cursed, and it is soon to perish. Those who take shelter beneath its already-rotting branches are in danger of being crushed by them as they break off and fall.
The sap of life no longer nourishes a dead tree. Neither leaves nor fruit appear on its lifeless limbs. It is fit only to be a habitation of birds, until such time it is chopped down and cast into the fire as fuel.
I have promised that the righteous who are planted beside the River of Life shall never be moved by the evil one. Their leaves shall be green, and they shall never cease to yield fruit. The heat and the drought of this world shall never affect them, for their strength is in Me, saith the Lord Almighty.
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An ugly barren blot on the landscape is a dead tree and is of no use to man or beast, as you so say Patricia. How we need to seek the Lord for mercy, forgiveness and enabling, to go forward into a lost and dying world for Him. May our blessed Saviour challenge many through your inspired writings. Amen.