A Stay Of Execution

         
                     There is a word below from a brother living in America .   A blog he wrote recently, and I consider it a confirmation to the recent things I have felt in my spirit and related to you in my previous blogs .  The Lord has given us a stay of judgement for a time of testing .  It is a time of repentance and getting into the presence of God daily.    Getting alone in our closets and waiting on the Lord .     There was women waking from a dream just days before the election said the Lord spoke to her that there would be five days of grace coming for this nation.   And I know there are many people that have been praying faithfully for this very thing , That our father would give us Grace and Mercy ,    a stay of judgement for the lost yet to come and the ones living in sin not living a faithful life before the Lord .  As I was praying one morning I was reminded of Lot and his living in Sodom , just as today .      The bible says that Abraham standing before the Lord ask if there be fifty righteous will you spare the city .  The Lord said if there be fifty yes I will spare the city  .      Abraham pleaded with God all the way down to ten if there be ten Lord will you spare the city .    The Lord said if there be ten I will spare the city .  God was merciful to Lot and his family yet they had to be dragged out of Sodom by there hands Angels were sent to deliver Lot and his family  .

Gen 18:32 ASV - And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.
Gen 19:29 ASV - And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
It says that God remembered Abraham and his pleading for mercy for the souls of men , Lot and his family .  There was only one righteous soul in Sodom it was Lot ! and God brought them out by the hands of angels .

2Pe 2:6 ASV - and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 ASV - and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked.   Are we living in a place like Sodom today is judgement of God still coming to this nation .  The word in Matt 24 says yes and his mercy has been extended to this nation for a season with this recent election .

Rev 22:10 ASV - And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 ASV - He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.
Rev 22:12 ASV - Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.

   A stay of execution    by Michael Boldea Jr.

A stay of execution does not a pardon make. I realize that for the individual being walked up the gallows, feeling the rough noose slipping over his head and feeling it tighten around his neck the distinction is meaningless at best, but once he has had time to process, once he has had time to assess, once he has time to come to terms with the reality that he will live to see another sunrise, eventually, inevitably, he will be confronted with the unyielding reality that sooner or later the walk down the gallows will commence anew, and the feel of the tightening rope will once more be a reality.

What happened in America last night was a stay of execution. It was not a pardon. We must be very clear about this because I know as surely as I am sitting here that the voices will begin to chirp anew insisting that God has somehow forgiven a nation that never repented of its sins, and that He has somehow restored a nation that has never humbled itself. Just because we managed to dodge a protracted, painful, and pernicious suicide by political correctness last night, it does not mean that we have somehow come into fellowship with God anew as a nation.

It simply means that God has shown this nation grace, He has stayed its judgment for a season, and if true change is not evident beginning with the church and sweeping out from there, when next He weighs us, when next He will be called upon to once more decide whether He will stay our execution or allow judgment to be poured forth, we will be judged not only for what we are profoundly guilty of up until this point, but also for the season of grace we will have once again squandered from here on in.

Yes, I do believe last night was an act of sovereign grace. If this election had gone the other way, I am certain we would have been at war with Russia within six months of Madame Chairman Rodham being sworn in, and that the persecution against the household of faith would have been accelerated to a breakneck speed. ­­­

A merciful God has once more shown this nation mercy, and now it is up to us to decide what we will do with the mercy we’ve been given. It is up to us to decide what we will do with the reprieve and stay of execution that was handed down by the Judge of the Universe.

This is just the first of many critical moments we will have to face as a nation, and if you think it will be rainbows and kittens from here on in you are fooling yourself.

So, yes, take a second, breathe a sigh of relief, say a prayer of thanks, enjoy the sunshine on your face, but then roll up your sleeves and get to work. Not tonight, not tomorrow, not next week, not whenever we get around to it and we have nothing left on our agenda.

The countdown clock has already started ticking, and in what will seem like the blink of an eye this nation’s case will once more be up for review. What we do from this point to that will determine whether we still have a future, and whether our stay of execution will once more be extended.

Do I believe that we’ve avoided judgment altogether? No, I do not, but the best we could have ever hoped for was a reprieve, a delay, a season of grace wherein we could return to the purity of simply being about our Father’s business and preaching Jesus unashamedly once more.


We have so much work to do, and time is shorter than we might think.

With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.