God is not done dealing with the leaders of our nations

It is interesting that the King of Israel, Joram, instead of repenting and looking for the solution in Jehovah and acknowledging that they have sinned, does the opposite and is filled with anger and blame Elisha and by extension I would say blame God also for the misery your nation is living in.

Let me focus on the person of the King of Israel. The king is an unjust man, a man devoid of piety, he is not a God-fearing man, he has done evil in the eyes of God, he is an impious ruler practically and partly because of the impiety of that king who contaminates his people This nation is in the crisis it is in.

This king understands that, that there is a connection between the punishment of God through this country that is surrounding Samaria, the Syrians and the sin that is in the people of Israel. And for this reason, when he realizes the terrible situation his nation finds itself in when listening to these women speak in that way, he is filled with anger against the prophet Elisha and says: "So God do to me and even add me if my head Elisha son of Zafat remains on him today. "

Why does the King of Israel react in this way and blame Elisha for what is happening in his nation? I believe that because he knows that there is a connection between the move of God in his nation represented by the prophet Elisha and this terrible situation that the Israelites are going through.

And we can see that this is the case many times in these times. When there is terrorism, when there are terrible cataclysms of nature, when there are wars, people ask: Where is God and how can God allow these things and why is there so much violence in societies if God exists? And instead of looking at themselves and recognizing their own injustice, which is what has caused the judgment of God to come on the nations, these people accuse God himself of being unjust, of not taking care of His creation, of allowing bad things to happen. happen instead of acknowledging: we have sinned and we have to repent and seek mercy in the hands of God.

The Bible says that when King Joram listens to these women and sees what is happening, some citizens realized that he had silicon under his shirt. This impious king is still using an image and a spiritual resource because keeping silicon was like a way of fasting, it was a way of spiritual sacrifice, of expressing repentance, mourning; to seek God's mercy, to express pain before God.

That is to say: it is curious that this man who is impious on the other hand has also there as a germ there of faith and belief in God. And it is what is happening in our times, that there are many rulers who renounce God and apparently reject God, reject the things of religion, reinforce laws that we know are impious and that bring the just judgment of God on the nations. However, there is also there a kernel that can still be exploited, that can be used.

In the depths of their hearts they know that God exists and it is that little point of faith which the Church has to try to spur and intensify and make grow. I believe that still in the nations, there is still something in the nations, there is still some fear of God in our rulers that we can treat, like a little flame that is almost there dying and we want to blow so that it grows.

And the Church is being called at this time to speak to the heart, to speak to that instinctive fear of God that is in the rulers and in the leaders and in the nations, in the people as well and that we use that little flame. It has not completely died down yet, we have to wake it up and call it to life once again because God wants to do something important.

Many times that core of faith that is hidden there is going to manifest itself through anger and rejection and resistance, but secretly there is a need for God as well. We have to believe that God is doing something, there is something out there in the nations that can still be used to call our nations to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. We have to believe that God has not finished dealing with the leaders of our nations and also with the people in general.

How interesting that this king recognizes that in Elisha there is power to change history. Of course, he blames him for being the cause of evil, but at least he recognizes that there is power in him. May the time come when the rulers have to fear the Church and know that the Church has the power of God to even declare God's judgment on the nations so that they will repent.

Right now we have the opposite: a powerless Church, a Church that nobody takes into account, a Church that nobody respects and even less fear because we do not have the power of God and we have to ask God to lower His prophetic power so that we can again to disturb the nations with the Word of the Gospel. May God continue to bless you, we will continue in our next segment.