Mary,
You wrote, “When the
Lord said to "come out of her my people", does He mean to
literally leave America or is He telling us to divorce
ourselves from the rampant wickedness and sickness that
has reached up unto heaven and demands His judgment?”
Perhaps it is
all three:
1)
There are
some that the LORD may want to actually leave the country,
however he will make a way for them and clearly lead them,
not letting them guess
2)
He wants all
of us to separate from the world, as well as from
wickedness in our lives and in some of the churches
3)
At some
point, he will call out the assembly, to meet him in the
air
There have
been too many YouTube videos, or blog postings, where
people claim that the LORD explicitly told them to warn us
to come out of Babylon, but they coincidentally never are
told to explain to us how to come out of Babylon or to
where – they always seem to leave that part as an exercise
to reader, or listener. It would be the same if air-raid
sirens from the ‘50s and ‘60s started going off – there
are essentially no more Civil Defense air raid shelters –
people in a panic would start going in all different
directions, no one knowing where to safely go, and some
are there screaming, “Run!”, “Run!” Anyway, that is the
image in my mind that I have of these self-proclaimed
prophets, who tell the Christians, “Run!, Flee!, Come out
of Babylon, now!”, because they claim that the LORD gave
them clear, exact, detailed instructions to say that, but
somehow they never seem to receive instruction from the
LORD to give people any direction at all of where to flee
to. Lot, his wife, and two daughters, were brought out by
hand, and then told where to go. Jesus said that they in
Judaea should flee into the mountains. The children of
Israel were led by a pillar of smoke by day and a pillar
of fire by night. He is not going to first tell his
children to run, but then to leave them to panic as they
scramble to figure out, on their own, where to run to. It
would be like leaving all the Christians in the US in a
condition like Saul:
I Samuel 28:6 And when Saul enquired of
the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams,
nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
What did Saul do
next?
I Samuel 28:7 ¶ Then said Saul unto
his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit,
that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants
said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a
familiar spirit at En-dor.
He figured
out on his own, how to get spiritual direction without the
LORD, and clearly that was not a good thing to do. So also
would it be for us to find some strange way to interpret
an answer that the LORD is not giving us. He clearly
showed us that all of us should come out of the world. He
also clearly showed us that there will be a blessed hope
(rapture). So what is not clear? The third one, whether to
come out physically from the US. If the LORD has given a
clear call to some, like he has done to the missionaries
that he has called and sent from the US to other places,
then they will know what to do, when to do it, and where –
he will guide them – he won’t leave them like Saul to
figure it out for themselves. Those who have been called
out, should go out. However, there may yet be some more
who are called to physically come out of the country, and
they will know for sure that the LORD is calling them out,
and where they should flee to – of course, if that is
going to be any of us, we would prefer that the LORD give
us ample time to pack our stuff, sell our house, and do
some advance check-out of the place where we would go to -
however, Lot was not given much notice - also in the
Olivet discourse, Jesus talked about people who only have
enough time to come from their housetops or fields and
flee, without any time to go back and get any of their
stuff. There may be some of us, who may, like those
people, or like Lot, get a sudden command to flee, and to
be told where to flee to – unless the blessed hope happens
first, which of course, would be wonderful.
Gino