Sermon Series: Special Multi-Part Studies

Things to Remember Until - Part 2

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Professor: John Weaver

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Date: 2026-01-25

Synopsis: In this sermon, John Weaver continues his series on things believers must remember 'until'—until God's purposes are fulfilled. He focuses on the third point: remembering the judgment of God until it strikes. Using Deuteronomy 32, Psalm 10, and other passages, he explains that God's judgments are often progressive, preceded by warnings, and culminate in sudden destruction. He applies this to economic and political signs, urging believers to interpret current events through Scripture, prepare wisely, and find comfort in God's ultimate justice.

[John Weaver] Well, let's open our Bibles today to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 32. Deuteronomy, chapter 32.

[John Weaver] Now, last week, I wrote a message, part one on things to remember until. So this is the second message in that things to remember until. So if you look in Deuteronomy, chapter 32 and verse four to begin with, the Bible says he is the rock. His work is perfect, for all His ways are judgment, a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is He. Now if you'll skip down to verse 39. He says, See now that I, even I am He, and there is no God with me, I kill and make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven and say, I live forever.

[John Weaver] If I wet my bittering sword and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to mine enemies and reward them that hate me. I will make mine errors drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, and that with the blood of the slain of the captives, from the getting of revenges upon the enemy." So, before I give you the third point today, I'm going to take just a few moments So I pointed out in the previous message that there are some things that we need to remember, although we do not necessarily want to remember them. Many of these things are etched upon our minds in such a way that we cannot forget them.

[John Weaver] First of all, it's impossible to forget what the wicked are doing and how they are persecuting the church, how they are indeed fleecing the sheep, they are defaming, they are attacking our Heavenly Father, they are attacking Christians, this church. You remember the passage there in the Bible where God said, He that toucheth thee, talking about his people, toucheth the apple of my eye. And the apple of the eye is the pupil, it's the most sensitive part of the body.

[John Weaver] And so our Lord says they can't touch us without touching him as well. And of course you remember there in, let's see, Acts chapter 9, when Saul was on his way to Damascus and the Lord struck him and he said, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? He was persecuting God's people, but our Lord said, you're persecuting me as well. And so when we look around and see the wicked prospering and how they are successful seemingly, it does grieve us. We grieve over their apparent success and over their apparent prosperity as well.

[John Weaver] even though it is temporary. And we looked at this last week in Psalm 73, when Asaph said it like this, when I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood their end. So clearly then, there is an end coming to the wicked, that is for sure. The second thing I pointed out is that there is a remembrance of our sins and our transgressions against our Heavenly Father.

[John Weaver] In fact, it was interesting that we have been commanded to remember these things. And I gave you two passages, particularly, there were more, but the first one was Deuteronomy chapter 9, verses 7 and 8, where God said, remember and forget not how thou provokest the Lord thy God in the wilderness. from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. Also in Horeb, you provoked the Lord to anger, so that the Lord was so angry, he would have destroyed you. And then, of course, when you get to the book of Ephesians, chapter 2, which I mentioned, he said, wherefore remember that you being in times past Gentiles, in the flesh who were called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands, that that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope without God in the world. So it says you've got to remember who you were, what you were, what you were doing.

[John Weaver] It's kind of like when God found Abraham, Now, I know that Abraham is called the friend of God. But yet when God found Abraham, he was in Ur of the Chaldees and he was an idolater.

[John Weaver] Now, it would be absolutely wonderful. If we could just simply forget each and every sin, but that is absolutely impossible, even though our sins are forgiven. And I've showed you verse after verse last week. Even though God puts them behind his back, even though God does not remember them against us anymore, we still have memories of our sin and our rebellion against God. Now, God leaves those memories in us for a reason. And in fact, usually we think sometimes We may have forgotten some sins, and we may forget them temporarily, or we may forget them for a short period of time, but all of a sudden, they come back into our minds like a flash of lightning in a very nauseating way.

[John Weaver] So let me show you, if you would, in your Bible, so Psalm 51, and look, if you would, what David said concerning his sin. Look at it in Psalm 51, and let's read the first three verses. Psalm 51, look at verses 1 through 3. David says, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

[John Weaver] So he wants to be washed, he wants to be cleansed, and he was. Then he said, For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me. In other words, I can't forget it. I did it. I wish I had not done it, but it is there. You have forgiven me, but my sin is ever before me.

[John Weaver] Now, here is the difference between the wicked and the righteous. The wicked man remembers his sins. And he relishes them. He enjoys turning them over in his mind. He glories in those sins. But yet, as a saint, when our sins come into our minds, we grieve over them, we agonize over them, and we wish that we had never engaged in those sins. And we end up confessing those sins over and over and telling our Lord how sorry we are for sinning against such a loving, gracious, and kind Heavenly Father. So there are some sins that you and I can forgive and forget and overlook and probably never come back into our minds for a long time because we view those sins as small and insignificant. But there are other sins that constantly attack us and they come into our minds we cannot erase them. And when they come back into our minds, it then gives us another opportunity to repudiate those sins, to hate those sins, to despise them, and to cry out against them.

[John Weaver] So we would have the perfect opportunity again to confess our ignorance, our depravity, our wickedness, and acknowledge that we've sinned against our Heavenly Father and His law. In other words, we learn through our memory to hate those sins that we committed.

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 97 and look, if you would please, at verse 10. Psalm 97 and verse 10. Here's what God commands. He says, ye that love the Lord hate evil. He preserved the souls of his saints. He delivered them out of the hand of the wicked. So ye that love the Lord hate evil. And that would mean the evil that you committed as well. The evil that's in your heart, the evil that's in your life. You hate it. Then if you'll turn right over to the book of Proverbs and look in chapter eight and verse 13. Proverbs chapter 8 and verse 13. Look what he says. For the fear of the Lord or the fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride, arrogancy and the evil way and the forward mouth do I hate. So God says that the fear of the Lord is in us. We will hate evil. We will hate pride. We will hate arrogancy. Anything that's against God and contrary to God.

[John Weaver] we will hate. So last week I gave you these two points. We are to remember the wicked until and then we are to remember our sins until. And the fact is we will remember our sins until we have glorified bodies and a renewed mind. Until then the remembrance of our sin is for our humiliation and for our realization of our impotence our inability and it leads us into our entire dependence upon God himself.

[John Weaver] Now the third point I want to cover today is this. We must remember the judgment of God until.

[John Weaver] Now I read Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 4 and then on down. And when you think about the judgment of God We normally do not even concentrate or think about the judgment of God until it strikes. There is a problem that exists in the minds of the lost and oftentimes in the minds of Christians as well, and that is simply this, that just because God does not strike instantly Just because God does not strike immediately, then we assume that God is not going to judge and God is not going to strike. We fail to take into account the patience of God, the mercy of God, and the long-suffering of God. We fail to take into account the warning signs.

[John Weaver] I want you to listen. I'm going to show it to you. We fail to take into account the warning signs that we are given before God strikes in judgment. And see, God moves in his time and not in our time. God moves in his way and not in our way. His judgments, according to Deuteronomy chapter 32 and verse 4, are holy, just, and righteous. They are also perfect. And sometimes when we do not see God acting in our time the way we want him to, or acting in the way that we want him to, then we tend to think, well, God is not going to work. God's not going to judge. Now let me show you. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Psalm 10. I'm talking about this sinful thought pattern that somehow God is not going to strike the wicked and not going to judge. Well, this is in the mind of the wicked, and sometimes those Christians who are ignorant learn to think like this as well.

[John Weaver] But look, if you would please, in verse one, David says, Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to watch. Look what he says from verses two through eleven. He's talking about the wicked. The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. He says, let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasted of his heart's desire. That is, he glories in all of those wicked things and blessed the covetous whom the Lord hated or abhorred. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God. God is not in all of his thoughts.

[John Weaver] His ways are also grievous. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all of his enemies, he puffeth at them. He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud. Under his tongue is mischief and vanity. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages. In the secret places doth he murder the innocent.

[John Weaver] His eyes are privately set against the poor. He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor. He does catch the poor when he draweth him into his net. He crouches and humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He has said in his heart, God hath forgotten. He hideth his face. He will never see it.

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to note, if you would please, verse 1. You just read from verses 2 through 11 with me all of the wickedness of the wicked. And how the wicked said, God doesn't see this. God doesn't know about this. God is not going to judge me. Now look at verse 1. David asks, Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? In other words, Lord, what are you doing?

[John Weaver] So this is a paraphrase of his questions. Lord, what are you doing? Why are you waiting? Are you going to allow the wicked to get away with this? Why don't you do something? Why don't you do something now? I mean, this is happening to us now in time and in history. In fact, there are scriptures, and I will show them to you, that David is so distressed that he even thinks God is asleep.

[John Weaver] For instance, if you go down to verse 12, look what he says in Psalm 10, verse 12. Arise, O Lord. The Lord, you're sitting down. You're relaxing. Arise, O Lord. Oh, God, lift up thy hand for getting up the humble. I said, Lord, stand up and do something.

[John Weaver] Now, let me show you. Look in your Bibles to Psalm seven and verse six, because again, he says it like this. Psalm seven, verse six. Arise, O Lord, in thy anger. Lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies and awake for me to the judgment that thou has commanded. He said, God, I'm not asking you to do something different or difficult. I'm asking you to do that which you have commanded, which you have ordained. So he says, awake, awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. Now, turn right on over to Psalm 35 and look, if you would, at verse 23. Psalm 35, verse 23. Now he says it like this. Stir up thyself and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Stir up thyself and awake. In other words, Lord, get excited over this. I need help. Stir yourself up and awake. Now, if you will turn over to Psalm 44, look at it, if you would please, to verse 23. Look what David says.

[John Weaver] Psalm 44 verse 23. Awake! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise and cast us not off forever. He says, God, you're asleep. Lord, you need to wake up. The wicked are running rampant. Do something. You see, the problem is you and I are impatient. And God is known for his patience. We are unwilling to wait. We want to see something done now. Let me make a statement and you think about this. God is the slowest individual with whom you will ever be connected.

[John Weaver] What did he say one day is a thousand years? A thousand years is one day. Time relates to us. It does not relate to God. God is omnipresent. God is everywhere at one time in the totality of His person. He is omniscient. He is omnipotent. He is eternal. God knows when to strike. And God knows how to judge. And so God will judge in His way and in his time.

[John Weaver] Now, there was a people in the Bible who were known as the Amorites. The Amorites were exceedingly wicked people. They were vile to the integrity. They were not just idolaters. They were vile individuals. In fact, I have read concerning archaeologists who have been exhuming some of the remains of the Amorite cities when they saw some of their drawings and some of their paintings and they were physically nauseated because it was so absolutely sickening. So let me show you something about the Amorites.

[John Weaver] If you will turn in your Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter 15. Genesis 15. You know the story that God told Abraham that he and his descendants would be in a foreign land or in a strange land for 400 years. So have you ever asked why Israel had to go into Egypt for 400 years? Here's why. Watch this. Genesis 15 verse 13. And he, that is God, said to Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years. And also that nation whom they shall serve, that would be Egypt, will I judge and afterward they shall come out with great substance.

[John Weaver] In other words, you're going to be in servitude. You're going to be in slavery. And I'm going to judge that nation. And when you come out, you will be coming out a wealthy people. And he tells Abraham in verse 15, and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation, four hundred years, they shall come out hither again. Here's why.

[John Weaver] For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Let that sink in. God gave these wicked people an additional 400 years. And when he brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, he put a sword in their hand and said, kill every one of them. Did they not deserve to die prior to the 400 years? And the answer is absolutely. But it was in the mercy of God that he waited an additional 400 years until they were to be exterminated by Israel. There's the patience of God. He allowed these people to sin against him, to rebel against him, and to despise him for an additional 400 years. That's the patience of God. Now let me show it to you in relationship to his covenant people.

[John Weaver] If you would turn in your Bibles to the book of Jeremiah chapter 24 and let's begin reading there with verse 1 and read through verse 10. I want you to watch this. Jeremiah chapter 24 beginning there with verse 1. Look at this. The Lord showed me and behold two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord. After that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

[John Weaver] One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs, very good, and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place unto the land of Chaldeans for their good. For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land, and I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up, and I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

[John Weaver] And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil, surely thus saith the Lord, so will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes and the residue of Jerusalem that remain in this land and them that dwell in the land of Egypt and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their heart to be a reproach and a proverb and a taunt and a curse in all places whether I shall have driven them. and I will send the sword and the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers."

[John Weaver] Now, I want to explain something to you. Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem twice. The first time he came in 597 BC. He just simply took some of the princes, the king, some of the leading men, and the carpenters, anyone that had any ability, he took them over into Babylon. The rest he left. When he came back in 586, some say 587, he completely destroyed the city. He took Zedekiah, put out his eyes, but before he put out his eyes he killed all of his children in front of him. He literally destroyed the city. Most of the people that were left were killed. Very few were taken into Babylon. A few of the very poor was left just to keep the land. But I want you to note something. The first time Nebuchadnezzar came, he carried all these people into Babylon. Can you imagine now the people who were left in Judah and Jerusalem saying, phew, man, I'm lucky. I'm blessed. Whatever they said at that time, I escaped. I was not taken into Babylon. I'm still here in the land.

[John Weaver] Oh, what did God say? God said, I took that original group into Babylon for their good. I will restore them to the land. I'll give them a heart to know me. I will be their God, they'll be my people. But these others, I'm going to send them for their hurt. They will be destroyed wherever they go. I will send a sword after them.

[John Weaver] Now, here you have anywhere from 10 to 12 years between these two times that Nebuchadnezzar attacked. Here's my question. Those people that were left in Judah and Jerusalem, who were wicked, Do you think the thought ever entered into their minds? You know, it was a warning that those people were taken into captivity. I wonder if Nebuchadnezzar is going to come back. I wonder if he's going to destroy this city. I'm just simply pointing out the fact these people had 10 or 12 years to at least think about something and they never ever did. And God said, I am going to destroy them. So the people never paid any attention to the warnings. Now, let me just say this.

[John Weaver] When we think about God's judgment, and we don't like to think about it continually, I can assure you, but when we do think about God's judgment, we normally think that God strikes instantly, suddenly, and it's over with. But God's judgments are not always sudden catastrophes. They may end up that way, but they are always preceded beforehand with warnings, admonitions, and exhortation. The problem is, even as Christians, many times we just simply do not pay attention to the warning signs. We just let everything escape because we do not we do not know how to observe when you think of God's judgment on Solomon Gamara you say well God did that suddenly well yes he did in one sense of the word but you remember before God destroyed Solomon Gamara he sent two angels there

[John Weaver] Lot took them into his house. And the men of Sodom were so wicked they surrounded the house and they wanted those two men that they might know them. And when Lot went to the door, they jerked him back in, slammed the door, smoked men with blindness. I wonder if it ever thought, anyone in that city thought, what? How did all those men get smitten with blindness instantly like that? And then the angels had to take Lot and his wife and his daughter by the hand and snatch them up and lead them out of the city. Did anybody ever think, wow, I wonder where Lot went? No.

[John Weaver] So there were warning signs and then God's judgment hit. When you read about the flood, Did you know that Noah preached 120 years before God sent that flood? Noah was building that ark all that time. And the Bible says specifically 120 years. So they ignored Noah's preaching for 120 years. They ignored the warnings. They ignored the building of the ark. And then all of a sudden, Here came the flood. Now, I told you this before, probably the people were just so incredulous at Noah's preaching. Noah said, look, rain is going to fall from heaven. God's going to open the fountains of the great deep. There's going to be a flood. Well, number one, there'd never been a flood. Number two, At that time, rain did not fall from the sky. Read the Bible. The Bible says a mist came up out of the earth and watered the earth. They had never seen rainfall. No one said it's going to happen. But they totally, totally ignored everything that he said. They're warning signs.

[John Weaver] Now, here's an interesting thing. When you look at the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, In that chapter, you have the blessings of God upon obedience. And also in that chapter, you have the curses of God upon disobedience. And interestingly, the first 14 verses deal with the blessings of God. And then from verse 15 to the last verse, I think it's verse 68, there's all the cursedness and when you read Deuteronomy 28 and I want you to turn there and we're not going to read all of that but when you read Deuteronomy 28 there's an interesting observation because the title of the message is remember the judgment of God until and the little word until does not occur when God is talking about the blessings. It only occurs when God is talking about the curses and the judgments. Now, I want you to look at this with me. If you'll look in your Bible to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, let's begin there with verse 20. We're going to look at several verses, but look at this.

[John Weaver] In fact, you can see verse 19, Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, Cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. So all of this now is dealing with God's curses upon disobedience. In verse 20 he says, The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly. because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

[John Weaver] Now stop there just for a second. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, and vexation, and rebuke in all that thou sendest thy hand unto, or to do, until. In other words, here all of the cursing, vexation, and rebuke is happening slowly, progressively, gradually, and it keeps going until They're destroyed. Verse 21, the Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee until he have consumed thee from off the land whether thou goest to possess it. In other words, you've got a pestilence. It's there. It's slow. It's progressive.

[John Weaver] But all of a sudden. You're going to be consumed off the land.

[John Weaver] Now, look in verse 24. He says, the Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust. From heaven shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed, until thou be destroyed. What's he going to do? He's going to send a drought. And the only thing that's going to fall from heaven is going to be dust. It's kind of like the great dust bowl out in Oklahoma. Years and years ago, and I don't know if you've ever seen any of the videos or or pictures of those dust storms.

[John Weaver] In the Middle East, I mean, it is unreal how they black out everything. And this is what God said, I'm going to do this until thou be destroyed. He's not going to just send one great big dust storm and it's over. He's going to send a number of dust storms until. If you'll skip down to verse 48, look at verse 48. He says, Therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies, which the Lord shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in the world of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have destroyed thee. In other words, it's going to be progressive. It's going to be slow. It's going to be gradual, but it's going to end up in sudden destruction. Wow. Now skip down to verse 1551. Or verse 51, let's start there. He's talking about the fierce nation that comes against them. In verse 51, what will he do? He shall eat up the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed.

[John Weaver] Now, the enemy can't eat everything at one time, but it's going to take time. He said he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed, which also shall not leave thee either corn or wine or oil or increase of thy kind or flocks of thy sheep, until he hath destroyed thee." In other words, it's going to be progressive, but it's going to end up in destruction. He said in verse 62,"...and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates with thy high and fenced walls, and thy high and fenced walls shall come down, wherein thou trustest throughout all thy land, and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee." Note, if you would, he shall besiege thee until In other words, it is going to be a progressive, slow besieging of the city, but it's going to fall and it will come down suddenly. Now, look in verse 61. He said, also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Then will the Lord bring upon thee until thou be destroyed."

[John Weaver] In other words, it'll be constant and continual and progressive sicknesses and plagues of one kind or the other until thou be destroyed. So if you will notice then, the curses here actually appear slowly, surely, and steadily, and yet they build with a crescendo until all of a sudden it appears to be catastrophic. So, let's ask the question. Were these curses progressive or sudden? And the answer is both. They were progressive because most people never paid any attention to them. And then all of a sudden, they were destroyed.

[John Weaver] If you'll look in your Bibles to the book of Joshua, turn over a few books, Joshua chapter 23, and look if you would at verse 15, because now Joshua is going to verify everything I've just said. Joshua chapter 23, verse 15, he says, Therefore it shall come to pass that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you. And of course, he gave it to them gradually, steadily. OK, progressively, he says. So shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things until he destroyed you from all this good and which the Lord your God had given you. So those curses are going to come slowly. steadily and progressively until. And then it's going to be sudden destruction. So we have to remember God's judgment until. We have to be conscious of, we have to be aware of the judgment until it occurs because once it occurs it is sudden destruction. Once God's judgment occurs it's too late for remorse It's too late for repentance and it's too late for restoration.

[John Weaver] Judgment is not an easy and delightful subject upon which we are prone to think. In fact, we ignore all of these warning signs and exhortations God gives us. You have to remember Proverbs 22 in verse 3. I want you to listen very carefully to this verse. Here it is. Proverbs 22 in verse 3. A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished. The prudent man, that is the wise man, sees what is coming and thus he prepares and he hides himself, he protects himself, he protects his family, but the simple, they just walk on until they're destroyed. What is the difference between the prudent man and the simple man? The prudent man looks ahead. The prudent man observes. The prudent man prepares. The simple say, well, everything will work out.

[John Weaver] Don't have to worry about it. Don't have to do anything. Nothing's going to happen to us. No, no. I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Proverbs chapter one. In Proverbs chapter 1, you have wisdom crying out. Look if you would, Proverbs chapter 1, beginning there with verse 20. Proverbs 1 and verse 20. Look at this. I want you to see how it goes from a progression to suddenly.

[John Weaver] It begins slowly, builds crescendo, and then it happens. So look in Proverbs 1 and verse 20. Wisdom crieth without. She uttereth her voice in the streets. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the opening of the gates, that is publicly, in the city she uttereth her word saying, here's what she's saying, how long you simple ones Will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.

[John Weaver] Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my Spirit upon you. I will make known my words unto you, because I have called, and you refused. I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded. Look at this. But you have said that it gnawed all my counsel. You wouldn't listen. You would have none of my reproof.

[John Weaver] Now what's God going to do? I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. Why? For they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.

[John Weaver] They would have none of my counsel. They despised all of my reproof. shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices, for the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them." So in light of that, let me ask you a question or two. Have you ever noticed how easily we dismiss from our minds the implications of everything that happens around us, how easily we dismiss from our minds drought, famine, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, financial setbacks, sickness, disease, family problems, and a host of other problems. We just think that's just happening and we just assume somehow that everything is going to work itself out and we are never ever going to be in any problems.

[John Weaver] We never consider the fact that God is sovereign, that God is the controller of everything, and God allows his providence to bring things in our lives for our warning, for our admonition, and for our exhortation. So I'm going to try to explain some things. Have you thought any at all about the fact by the end of this past week one ounce of silver was 103 bucks. One ounce of gold was 5,000 bucks. I remember Well, you could buy silver for three and four bucks an ounce. I remember when you could buy gold for 180 an ounce. So now we're seeing 103 bucks an ounce for silver. Some are saying silver is going to 300 and 500. Some are saying that gold is going to 10,000 an ounce. Those who have silver and gold are saying, praise the Lord, glory to God, let it go.

[John Weaver] Those that don't say, boy, I wish I'd had some. Now, what are the implications of this? Just stop and think. What are the implications? Is this part and parcel of God's exhortation to us? Is this part and parcel of God's warning? Is this part and parcel of God's judgment? What is it telling us? First of all, it is telling us that our Federal Reserve notes are absolutely worthless. It's paper. It's unbacked by nothing. It's unbacked by nothing. It's unbacked by zero zilch. It's just paper. And the Weimar Republic in Germany, they took their paper money and were plastering the walls with it. It was worthless.

[John Weaver] And I told you before, and some of you may remember it, but Adels and I, 63 years ago when we were married, you could buy a gallon of gas for a quarter. But of course, that was a quarter of that silver in it. That junk silver quarter today is worth over 37 bucks. What are we seeing? We're seeing that the Federal Reserve note is worthless. And I know I've told you this, but I still smile every time about it. One of my favorite stories about the Weimar Republic is the German woman who had a wheelbarrow filled, I guess with Deutschmarks or the paper money, whatever it was called at that time, to go into the bakery to buy local bread with a wheelbarrow full of money. On the way to the bakery, there was a fight in the street. People were crowded around. and she was curious and so she set her wheelbarrow down, started parting through the people so she could see who was fighting. When her curiosity was satisfied, she turned around and someone had dumped all of her money out and stolen the wheelbarrow.

[John Weaver] The wheelbarrow's worth more than all the money in it. If you look on the internet and you see Zimbabwe, there are people sitting there with stacks of money four feet tall, and three or four feet thick, and they can't even buy a loaf of bread with it. And several of our men have 100, was it a trillion? 100 trillion bills. In other words, it's a paper bill. It's worth 100 trillion, I would say dollars, but it's not dollars, whatever. You can't even buy a cup of coffee with it.

[John Weaver] The second thing that we're seeing is this. It's not just that the Federal Reserve note is worthless. It's also teaching us that silver and gold is real money. That's biblical money. That's historical money. Thirdly, if we are paying attention, it means what few Federal Reserve notes we might have, we might be and trying to start swapping some of them for things that we really need like non-hybrid seeds and hand tools that we can garden with and things that we can protect our families with and whatever we need to put back because it's getting worse and worse and your money is going down in value. The higher gold and silver gold, the lower the Federal Reserve notes go. It's just that simple.

[John Weaver] I want to point something out. God does use his judgment to destroy a nation economically. When that economic nation or that economy in that nation is fraudulent, and ours certainly is fraudulent. To show you how ignorant people are, I stopped at a gas station to fill up my vehicle and it was 16 bucks is all it took to fill it up. So I walked up to the little girl and I gave her 20 bucks and there was no one behind me and so she handed me four ones back and I held it in my hand I looked at it I said something's wrong. She said what do you mean something's wrong? I said Well, I gave you one piece of paper, and now I've got four times what I gave you. I got four pieces of paper. She said, but you gave me a 20, and I gave you a 1.

[John Weaver] I said, oh, I misunderstood. I said, you mean it's the number that makes this valuable? I said, give me that 10. I'm going to change all of these to a 20. She said, no, no, no, you can't do that. I said, well, why not? You told me it was the number that made it valuable. Is it the paper that makes it valuable or is it the number?

[John Weaver] She never did catch on. It's worthless. We take it and other people take it only because we have confidence in it right now. But when that confidence is gone, don't hand me that stuff, I'll take a half a fried chicken. Or I'll take a bushel piece. I'll take something. Don't give me that paper stuff. You see what I'm saying?

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to look in your Bibles to the book of Isaiah chapter 19. Isaiah chapter 19. And I want you to see that, in fact, I've got five messages on this. Titled How God Destroys Nations. And one of the ways that God destroys nations is through their economy, because their economy is wicked. So look at Isaiah chapter 19, beginning there in verse 1. He says, the burden of Egypt. Now he's going to destroy Egypt, but watch this. The burden of Egypt, behold, the Lord rides upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt and the idols of Egypt shall be moved in his presence and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. Now pay attention.

[John Weaver] And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. And they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, sin against sin, and kingdom against kingdom. Look at the riots going on in our country. Okay? All right, watch this. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof. In other words, everybody's going to be confused, confounded. And I will destroy the council thereof, and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have permitted spirits, and to wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over in the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. Now watch, and the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up. You don't have any fish, you don't have any commerce, no traveling up and down the rivers. And they shall turn the rivers far away, and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up.

[John Weaver] The reeds and the flags shall wither, which were used economically. The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, gardens, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angled into the brooks shall lament, and they shall spread nests upon the waters, they shall languish, not catching anything. Moreover, they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded, and they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, in all that makes sluices and ponds for fish." It's all gone.

[John Weaver] Surely the princes of Zoan are fools. We could change that to Congress. The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How say you unto Pharaoh, I'm the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings. God uses, God uses judgment. on our economics that are fraudulent. They are worthless. If you took the time to read Revelation 18, you would find the fall of commercial economic Babylon.

[John Weaver] And what are they crying? Alas, alas, that great Babylon has fallen in one hour. She has come to nothing.

[John Weaver] Now let me give you a truth. Here we go. Do you realize? There are three promises in the Bible for long life. Everybody knows the first one. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. And you will find that repeated in Ephesians chapter six. where he says, children, obey your parents and the Lord for this is right, honor thy father and thy mother if your days may be long upon the earth. Believe it or not, the second promise of long life.

[John Weaver] Is how we treat animals. Animals are God's creation, just like your God's creation. And God forbids us to kill a mother and her young on the same day. If you will turn in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 25, I will show you the third promise for long life. It may surprise you. Notice if you would, Deuteronomy 25 and let's begin reading there with verse 13. Look what he says.

[John Weaver] Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, great and small, that is to cheat, but thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have. Why? Verse 15, that thy days may be blith'n in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Now he said in verse 14, thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures of great and small. In other words, you can't cheat in any way whatsoever. You can't steal. You can't defraud. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be length in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

[John Weaver] Do you realize that inflation is theft? Fraud is theft. deceit is theft, and God says I'm promising long life for those who have an honest economic system. The Bible says in Proverbs 11 in verse 1, a false balance is an abomination of the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. The Bible says in Proverbs 16 in verse 11, a just weight and balance are the Lord's, all the weights of the bag are his work. God not only destroys people economically, He will destroy people politically as well. He just said, we just read it in Isaiah 19, he'll turn neighbor against neighbor.

[John Weaver] Has it dawned on you what is happening in Minnesota? Has it dawned on you what is happening in Michigan? In Texas? In New York? You say, but we're in the South. May I tell you? The same people that are causing all the turmoil and problems in the North, they have people like that in the South as well. And when you have George Soros' open society paying those people to riot and to protest, I read where this woman, this Renee Good, who was killed. She was being paid to protest.

[John Weaver] Now, look how our country's been invaded. All I'm trying to say is this. We need to be aware of the warning signs that God is giving us, not only in regards to economics, but in regards to politics, in regards to what is happening in this country, these are for our admonition, for our warning. We need to be learning what we need to be learning. We need to be preparing for whatever we need to be preparing for. We need to understand God's judgment does happen, and yes, it does happen catastrophically and suddenly, but before it does, there's all these warnings, all these signs, And most people totally ignore them.

[John Weaver] Now, let me very quickly make some applications. The first one is this. We need not search the world to find God's judgments. They are everywhere. The problem is we're just simply blind to them. We don't interpret them as God's judgments. God controls the weather. Read Job 37. Read Jeremiah. Jeremiah said there's none that can give rain except God. None of the idols can give rain. The truth of the matter is this. We need to read our Bible and when we look around at the world, we need to see what is happening through the lens of Scripture. We're not doing that. If you look in your Bibles very quickly to Psalm 105 and verse 7, here's an interesting verse. Psalm 105 and verse 7. Look at what the Bible says. Psalm 105, verse 7. He is the Lord our God. His judgments are in all the earth. We just need to open our eyes and see them scripturally.

[John Weaver] The second thing is this. God's judgments are indeed a comfort to his people. God is not going to allow the wicked to escape. They will be judged. Many will be judged in time and in history. A few will not. Some will get judged in eternity. David said it like this in Psalm 119 and verse 52. He said, I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord, and they have comforted me. How in the world can the judgment of God comfort you? Well, you know, that it pays indeed to be obedient and righteous and holy, and that God will indeed judge the wicked, they shall not escape. You know the Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter 5 in verse 24, the sins of some men are open and beforehand going to judgment, and some they follow after. There are some men who seemingly get away with wickedness and sins in this life.

[John Weaver] That is, they're never exposed. They're never really caught. But God says they will be caught in judgment. But most people get caught in time and in history. One thing for sure, judgment is coming. And so you can be patient and you can comfort yourself with this truth. So let me close with this one passage. Nahum 1 verses 1 through 2. Write that scripture down. Nahum 1, 1 through 2. Here it is. God is jealous and the Lord revengeth. The Lord revengeth and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet. What did he say? He will not at all acquit the wicked. They shall not escape. So we need to remember God's judgment until and when I say until until it strikes. Because once it strikes. It's too late.

[John Weaver] It's over. After 120 years, it's over for those anti-Diluvians. After a day and a night, it's probably over for those people of Sodom and Gomorrah and the people of the blood. We just need to open our eyes and see what is happening through the lens of Holy Scripture. We are being judged as a nation. We are being judged as a people. And it will increase in intensity. We just need to pay attention.

[John Weaver] Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we ask for your grace and your mercy, your goodness and kindness. Open our eyes that we may see. Open our ears that we may hear. and our minds and our hearts that we may receive thy word and thy truth. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Are there any questions or comments? Yeah, I've got a comment. All these imtels remind me of a woman in our park who had a shirt a couple of years ago and it said, Noah was a conspiracy nut until it started to rain. Yeah, that's a fact.

[John Weaver] I'd like to make to show how important honest money is. After the revolution, Washington wrote a letter to Jefferson, who was ambassador to France. And he said, Jefferson, I would have never believed it, but nearly all the ills of this young nation disappeared when we went back to money of substance. So there was far less corruption, crime, inflation. And I told people, what an ounce of gold would buy you in 1860, roughly an ounce.

[John Weaver] A whole complete new wardrobe. If you've got $4,900 today, you can pretty much buy a new wardrobe. So paper money, by definition, is inflation. Is paper money. That's a fact. That's a fact. All right. Anyone else? Frank, anybody on that end? No, we're just marveling at how true God's Word is every day. It seems to get more and more clear. Amen. Amen. Well, we need to keep our eyes open, that's for sure.

[John Weaver] And tell those boys they better be protecting those grandbabies. Absolutely. All right. Lord willing, we'll be dismissed again in prayer. Father, dismiss us with your love and grace. In thy name we pray, Amen.

Things to Remember Until - Part 2

John Weaver | SermonAudio

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Speaker	John Weaver
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Date	2026-01-25
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Book	Book 193: Things to Remember Until — Chapter 2
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Introduction and Review

Weaver reviews the first two points from the previous message: remembering the wicked until their end, and remembering our sins until glorification. He reads Deuteronomy 32:4,39-42 to set the stage for the third point.

Well, let's open our Bibles today to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 32. Deuteronomy, chapter 32. Now, last week, I wrote a message, part one on things to remember until. So this is the second message in that things to remember until. So if you look in Deuteronomy, chapter 32 and verse four to begin with, the Bible says,

Scripture Reading — Deuteronomy 32:4

"He is the rock. His work is perfect, for all His ways are judgment, a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is He."

Now if you'll skip down to verse 39, He says, "See now that I, even I am He, and there is no God with me, I kill and make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven and say, I live forever."

"If I wet my glittering sword and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to mine enemies and reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, and that with the blood of the slain of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy." So, before I give you the third point today, I'm going to take just a few moments. So I pointed out in the previous message that there are some things that we need to remember, although we do not necessarily want to remember them. Many of these things are etched upon our minds in such a way that we cannot forget them. First of all, it's impossible to forget what the wicked are doing and how they are persecuting the church, how they are indeed fleecing the sheep, they are defaming, they are attacking our Heavenly Father, they are attacking Christians, this church. You remember the passage there in the Bible where God said, "He that toucheth thee," talking about his people, "toucheth the apple of my eye." And the apple of the eye is the pupil, it's the most sensitive part of the body.

And so our Lord says they can't touch us without touching him as well. And of course you remember there in, let's see, Acts chapter 9, when Saul was on his way to Damascus and the Lord struck him and he said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" He was persecuting God's people, but our Lord said, "You're persecuting me as well." And so when we look around and see the wicked prospering and how they are successful seemingly, it does grieve us. We grieve over their apparent success and over their apparent prosperity as well. even though it is temporary. And we looked at this last week in Psalm 73, when Asaph said it like this, "When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood their end." So clearly then, there is an end coming to the wicked, that is for sure. The second thing I pointed out is that there is a remembrance of our sins and our transgressions against our Heavenly Father.

The Command to Remember Our Sins

Weaver expands on the second point, showing from Psalm 51 that David's sin was ever before him, and that saints grieve over remembered sins, learning to hate evil as commanded in Psalm 97:10 and Proverbs 8:13.

In fact, it was interesting that we have been commanded to remember these things. And I gave you two passages, particularly, there were more, but the first one was Deuteronomy chapter 9, verses 7 and 8, where God said, "Remember and forget not how thou provokest the Lord thy God in the wilderness. From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. Also in Horeb, you provoked the Lord to anger, so that the Lord was so angry, he would have destroyed you." And then, of course, when you get to the book of Ephesians, chapter 2, which I mentioned, he said, "Wherefore remember that you being in times past Gentiles, in the flesh who were called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands, that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope without God in the world." So it says you've got to remember who you were, what you were, what you were doing.

It's kind of like when God found Abraham. Now, I know that Abraham is called the friend of God. But yet when God found Abraham, he was in Ur of the Chaldees and he was an idolater. Now, it would be absolutely wonderful if we could just simply forget each and every sin, but that is absolutely impossible, even though our sins are forgiven. And I've showed you verse after verse last week. Even though God puts them behind his back, even though God does not remember them against us anymore, we still have memories of our sin and our rebellion against God. Now, God leaves those memories in us for a reason. And in fact, usually we think sometimes we may have forgotten some sins, and we may forget them temporarily, or we may forget them for a short period of time, but all of a sudden, they come back into our minds like a flash of lightning in a very nauseating way.

So let me show you, if you would, in your Bible, Psalm 51, and look, if you would, what David said concerning his sin. Look at it in Psalm 51, and let's read the first three verses. Psalm 51, look at verses 1 through 3. David says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 51:1-3

"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin."

So he wants to be washed, he wants to be cleansed, and he was. Then he said, "For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me." In other words, I can't forget it. I did it. I wish I had not done it, but it is there. You have forgiven me, but my sin is ever before me.

Now, here is the difference between the wicked and the righteous. The wicked man remembers his sins, and he relishes them. He enjoys turning them over in his mind. He glories in those sins. But yet, as a saint, when our sins come into our minds, we grieve over them, we agonize over them, and we wish that we had never engaged in those sins. And we end up confessing those sins over and over and telling our Lord how sorry we are for sinning against such a loving, gracious, and kind Heavenly Father. So there are some sins that you and I can forgive and forget and overlook and probably never come back into our minds for a long time because we view those sins as small and insignificant. But there are other sins that constantly attack us and they come into our minds we cannot erase them. And when they come back into our minds, it then gives us another opportunity to repudiate those sins, to hate those sins, to despise them, and to cry out against them.

So we would have the perfect opportunity again to confess our ignorance, our depravity, our wickedness, and acknowledge that we've sinned against our Heavenly Father and His law. In other words, we learn through our memory to hate those sins that we committed. Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 97 and look, if you would please, at verse 10. Psalm 97 and verse 10. Here's what God commands. He says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 97:10

"Ye that love the Lord hate evil. He preserved the souls of his saints. He delivered them out of the hand of the wicked."

So ye that love the Lord hate evil. And that would mean the evil that you committed as well. The evil that's in your heart, the evil that's in your life. You hate it. Then if you'll turn right over to the book of Proverbs and look in chapter eight and verse 13. Proverbs chapter 8 and verse 13. Look what he says. "For the fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride, arrogancy and the evil way and the forward mouth do I hate." So God says that the fear of the Lord is in us. We will hate evil. We will hate pride. We will hate arrogancy. Anything that's against God and contrary to God.

we will hate. So last week I gave you these two points. We are to remember the wicked until and then we are to remember our sins until. And the fact is we will remember our sins until we have glorified bodies and a renewed mind. Until then the remembrance of our sin is for our humiliation and for our realization of our impotence, our inability, and it leads us into our entire dependence upon God himself.

Remembering the Judgment of God Until

Introducing the third point, Weaver notes that people often assume God will not judge because He delays. He reads Deuteronomy 32:4 to emphasize God's perfect, holy judgments.

Now the third point I want to cover today is this. We must remember the judgment of God until. Now I read Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 4 and then on down. And when you think about the judgment of God, we normally do not even concentrate or think about the judgment of God until it strikes. There is a problem that exists in the minds of the lost and oftentimes in the minds of Christians as well, and that is simply this, that just because God does not strike instantly, just because God does not strike immediately, then we assume that God is not going to judge and God is not going to strike. We fail to take into account the patience of God, the mercy of God, and the long-suffering of God. We fail to take into account the warning signs.

I want you to listen. I'm going to show it to you. We fail to take into account the warning signs that we are given before God strikes in judgment. And see, God moves in his time and not in our time. God moves in his way and not in our way. His judgments, according to Deuteronomy chapter 32 and verse 4, are holy, just, and righteous. They are also perfect. And sometimes when we do not see God acting in our time the way we want him to, or acting in the way that we want him to, then we tend to think, well, God is not going to work. God's not going to judge. Now let me show you. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Psalm 10. I'm talking about this sinful thought pattern that somehow God is not going to strike the wicked and not going to judge. Well, this is in the mind of the wicked, and sometimes those Christians who are ignorant learn to think like this as well.

The Impatience of the Righteous and the Patience of God

Using Psalm 10, Psalm 7:6, Psalm 35:23, and Psalm 44:23, Weaver shows David's distress at God's apparent delay. He contrasts human impatience with God's patience, illustrated by the Amorites (Genesis 15:13-16) and the 400-year wait.

But look, if you would please, in verse one, David says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 10:1-11

"Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"

Now, I want you to watch. Look what he says from verses two through eleven. He's talking about the wicked.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 10:1-11

"The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. He says, let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasted of his heart's desire. That is, he glories in all of those wicked things and blessed the covetous whom the Lord hated or abhorred. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God. God is not in all of his thoughts." "His ways are also grievous. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all of his enemies, he puffeth at them. He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud. Under his tongue is mischief and vanity. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages. In the secret places doth he murder the innocent." "His eyes are privately set against the poor. He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor. He does catch the poor when he draweth him into his net. He crouches and humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He has said in his heart, God hath forgotten. He hideth his face. He will never see it."

Now, I want you to note, if you would please, verse 1. You just read from verses 2 through 11 with me all of the wickedness of the wicked. And how the wicked said, God doesn't see this. God doesn't know about this. God is not going to judge me. Now look at verse 1. David asks,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 10:1-11

"Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"

In other words, Lord, what are you doing?

So this is a paraphrase of his questions. Lord, what are you doing? Why are you waiting? Are you going to allow the wicked to get away with this? Why don't you do something? Why don't you do something now? I mean, this is happening to us now in time and in history. In fact, there are scriptures, and I will show them to you, that David is so distressed that he even thinks God is asleep.

For instance, if you go down to verse 12, look what he says in Psalm 10, verse 12. "Arise, O Lord. The Lord, you're sitting down. You're relaxing. Arise, O Lord. Oh, God, lift up thy hand for getting up the humble." I said, Lord, stand up and do something.

Now, let me show you. Look in your Bibles to Psalm seven and verse six, because again, he says it like this. Psalm seven, verse six.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 7:6

"Arise, O Lord, in thy anger. Lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies and awake for me to the judgment that thou has commanded."

He said, God, I'm not asking you to do something different or difficult. I'm asking you to do that which you have commanded, which you have ordained. So he says, awake, awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. Now, turn right on over to Psalm 35 and look, if you would, at verse 23. Psalm 35, verse 23. Now he says it like this. "Stir up thyself and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord." Stir up thyself and awake. In other words, Lord, get excited over this. I need help. Stir yourself up and awake. Now, if you will turn over to Psalm 44, look at it, if you would please, to verse 23. Look what David says.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 35:23

Psalm 44 verse 23. "Awake! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise and cast us not off forever." He says, God, you're asleep. Lord, you need to wake up. The wicked are running rampant. Do something. You see, the problem is you and I are impatient. And God is known for his patience. We are unwilling to wait. We want to see something done now. Let me make a statement and you think about this. God is the slowest individual with whom you will ever be connected.

What did he say? One day is a thousand years? A thousand years is one day. Time relates to us. It does not relate to God. God is omnipresent. God is everywhere at one time in the totality of His person. He is omniscient. He is omnipotent. He is eternal. God knows when to strike. And God knows how to judge. And so God will judge in His way and in his time.

Now, there was a people in the Bible who were known as the Amorites. The Amorites were exceedingly wicked people. They were vile to the integrity. They were not just idolaters. They were vile individuals. In fact, I have read concerning archaeologists who have been exhuming some of the remains of the Amorite cities when they saw some of their drawings and some of their paintings and they were physically nauseated because it was so absolutely sickening. So let me show you something about the Amorites.

If you will turn in your Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter 15. Genesis 15. You know the story that God told Abraham that he and his descendants would be in a foreign land or in a strange land for 400 years. So have you ever asked why Israel had to go into Egypt for 400 years? Here's why. Watch this. Genesis 15 verse 13.

Scripture Reading — Genesis 15:13-16

"And he, that is God, said to Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years. And also that nation whom they shall serve, that would be Egypt, will I judge and afterward they shall come out with great substance."

In other words, you're going to be in servitude. You're going to be in slavery. And I'm going to judge that nation. And when you come out, you will be coming out a wealthy people. And he tells Abraham in verse 15,

Scripture Reading — Genesis 15:13-16

"And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation, four hundred years, they shall come out hither again."

Here's why.

Scripture Reading — Genesis 15:13-16

"For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."

Let that sink in. God gave these wicked people an additional 400 years. And when he brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, he put a sword in their hand and said, kill every one of them. Did they not deserve to die prior to the 400 years? And the answer is absolutely. But it was in the mercy of God that he waited an additional 400 years until they were to be exterminated by Israel. There's the patience of God. He allowed these people to sin against him, to rebel against him, and to despise him for an additional 400 years. That's the patience of God. Now let me show it to you in relationship to his covenant people.

Warnings Precede Judgment: The Two Baskets of Figs

From Jeremiah 24, Weaver explains that the first captivity was for the good of the exiles, while those left behind were warned for 10-12 years before destruction. People ignored the warning signs.

If you would turn in your Bibles to the book of Jeremiah chapter 24 and let's begin reading there with verse 1 and read through verse 10. I want you to watch this. Jeremiah chapter 24 beginning there with verse 1. Look at this.

Scripture Reading — Jeremiah 24:1-10

"The Lord showed me and behold two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord. After that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon." "One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs, very good, and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place unto the land of Chaldeans for their good. For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land, and I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up, and I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return unto me with their whole heart."

"And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil, surely thus saith the Lord, so will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes and the residue of Jerusalem that remain in this land and them that dwell in the land of Egypt and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb and a taunt and a curse in all places whither I shall have driven them. And I will send the sword and the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers." Now, I want to explain something to you. Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem twice. The first time he came in 597 BC. He just simply took some of the princes, the king, some of the leading men, and the carpenters, anyone that had any ability, he took them over into Babylon. The rest he left. When he came back in 586, some say 587, he completely destroyed the city. He took Zedekiah, put out his eyes, but before he put out his eyes he killed all of his children in front of him. He literally destroyed the city. Most of the people that were left were killed. Very few were taken into Babylon. A few of the very poor was left just to keep the land. But I want you to note something. The first time Nebuchadnezzar came, he carried all these people into Babylon. Can you imagine now the people who were left in Judah and Jerusalem saying, "Phew, man, I'm lucky. I'm blessed." Whatever they said at that time, "I escaped. I was not taken into Babylon. I'm still here in the land."

Oh, what did God say? God said, "I took that original group into Babylon for their good. I will restore them to the land. I'll give them a heart to know me. I will be their God, they'll be my people. But these others, I'm going to send them for their hurt. They will be destroyed wherever they go. I will send a sword after them."

Now, here you have anywhere from 10 to 12 years between these two times that Nebuchadnezzar attacked. Here's my question. Those people that were left in Judah and Jerusalem, who were wicked, do you think the thought ever entered into their minds? You know, it was a warning that those people were taken into captivity. I wonder if Nebuchadnezzar is going to come back. I wonder if he's going to destroy this city. I'm just simply pointing out the fact these people had 10 or 12 years to at least think about something and they never ever did. And God said, "I am going to destroy them." So the people never paid any attention to the warnings. Now, let me just say this.

Progressive Curses Leading to Sudden Destruction

Weaver examines Deuteronomy 28, noting the word 'until' appears only in the curses. He shows how curses like pestilence, drought, and siege are progressive but end in sudden destruction. Joshua 23:15 confirms this pattern.

When we think about God's judgment, and we don't like to think about it continually, I can assure you, but when we do think about God's judgment, we normally think that God strikes instantly, suddenly, and it's over with. But God's judgments are not always sudden catastrophes. They may end up that way, but they are always preceded beforehand with warnings, admonitions, and exhortation. The problem is, even as Christians, many times we just simply do not pay attention to the warning signs. We just let everything escape because we do not know how to observe. When you think of God's judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, you say, well, God did that suddenly. Well, yes, he did in one sense of the word, but you remember before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, he sent two angels there.

Lot took them into his house. And the men of Sodom were so wicked they surrounded the house and they wanted those two men that they might know them. And when Lot went to the door, they jerked him back in, slammed the door, smote men with blindness. I wonder if it ever thought, anyone in that city thought, "What? How did all those men get smitten with blindness instantly like that?" And then the angels had to take Lot and his wife and his daughter by the hand and snatch them up and lead them out of the city. Did anybody ever think, "Wow, I wonder where Lot went?" No.

So there were warning signs and then God's judgment hit. When you read about the flood, did you know that Noah preached 120 years before God sent that flood? Noah was building that ark all that time. And the Bible says specifically 120 years. So they ignored Noah's preaching for 120 years. They ignored the warnings. They ignored the building of the ark. And then all of a sudden, here came the flood. Now, I told you this before, probably the people were just so incredulous at Noah's preaching. Noah said, "Look, rain is going to fall from heaven. God's going to open the fountains of the great deep. There's going to be a flood." Well, number one, there'd never been a flood. Number two, at that time, rain did not fall from the sky. Read the Bible. The Bible says a mist came up out of the earth and watered the earth. They had never seen rainfall. No one said it's going to happen. But they totally, totally ignored everything that he said. They're warning signs.

Now, here's an interesting thing. When you look at the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, in that chapter, you have the blessings of God upon obedience. And also in that chapter, you have the curses of God upon disobedience. And interestingly, the first 14 verses deal with the blessings of God. And then from verse 15 to the last verse, I think it's verse 68, there's all the cursedness. And when you read Deuteronomy 28, and I want you to turn there and we're not going to read all of that, but when you read Deuteronomy 28 there's an interesting observation because the title of the message is "Remember the Judgment of God Until" and the little word "until" does not occur when God is talking about the blessings. It only occurs when God is talking about the curses and the judgments. Now, I want you to look at this with me. If you'll look in your Bible to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, let's begin there with verse 20. We're going to look at several verses, but look at this.

In fact, you can see verse 19, "Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out." So all of this now is dealing with God's curses upon disobedience. In verse 20 he says, "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me." Now stop there just for a second. "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, and vexation, and rebuke in all that thou sendest thy hand unto, or to do, until." In other words, here all of the cursing, vexation, and rebuke is happening slowly, progressively, gradually, and it keeps going until they're destroyed. Verse 21, "The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it." In other words, you've got a pestilence. It's there. It's slow. It's progressive.

But all of a sudden, you're going to be consumed off the land. Now, look in verse 24. He says, "The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust. From heaven shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed, until thou be destroyed." What's he going to do? He's going to send a drought. And the only thing that's going to fall from heaven is going to be dust. It's kind of like the great dust bowl out in Oklahoma. Years and years ago, and I don't know if you've ever seen any of the videos or pictures of those dust storms.

In the Middle East, I mean, it is unreal how they black out everything. And this is what God said, "I'm going to do this until thou be destroyed." He's not going to just send one great big dust storm and it's over. He's going to send a number of dust storms until. If you'll skip down to verse 48, look at verse 48. He says, "Therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies, which the Lord shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in the want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have destroyed thee." In other words, it's going to be progressive. It's going to be slow. It's going to be gradual, but it's going to end up in sudden destruction. Wow. Now skip down to verse 51, let's start there. He's talking about the fierce nation that comes against them. In verse 51, what will he do? "He shall eat up the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed."

Now, the enemy can't eat everything at one time, but it's going to take time. He said, "He shall eat the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed, which also shall not leave thee either corn or wine or oil or increase of thy kind or flocks of thy sheep, until he hath destroyed thee." In other words, it's going to be progressive, but it's going to end up in destruction. He said in verse 62, "And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates with thy high and fenced walls, and thy high and fenced walls shall come down, wherein thou trustest throughout all thy land, and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee." Note, if you would, he shall besiege thee until. In other words, it is going to be a progressive, slow besieging of the city, but it's going to fall and it will come down suddenly. Now, look in verse 61. He said, "Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee until thou be destroyed."

In other words, it'll be constant and continual and progressive sicknesses and plagues of one kind or the other until thou be destroyed. So if you will notice then, the curses here actually appear slowly, surely, and steadily, and yet they build with a crescendo until all of a sudden it appears to be catastrophic. So, let's ask the question. Were these curses progressive or sudden? And the answer is both. They were progressive because most people never paid any attention to them. And then all of a sudden, they were destroyed.

If you'll look in your Bibles to the book of Joshua, turn over a few books, Joshua chapter 23, and look if you would at verse 15, because now Joshua is going to verify everything I've just said. Joshua chapter 23, verse 15, he says,

Scripture Reading — Joshua 23:15

"Therefore it shall come to pass that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you."

And of course, he gave it to them gradually, steadily. OK, progressively, he says.

Scripture Reading — Joshua 23:15

"So shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things until he destroyed you from all this good land which the Lord your God had given you."

So those curses are going to come slowly, steadily and progressively until. And then it's going to be sudden destruction. So we have to remember God's judgment until. We have to be conscious of, we have to be aware of the judgment until it occurs because once it occurs it is sudden destruction. Once God's judgment occurs it's too late for remorse. It's too late for repentance and it's too late for restoration.

The Prudent Man Foresees Evil

Citing Proverbs 22:3 and Proverbs 1:20-33, Weaver contrasts the prudent who prepare with the simple who ignore warnings. Wisdom cries out, but when judgment comes suddenly, it is too late.

Judgment is not an easy and delightful subject upon which we are prone to think. In fact, we ignore all of these warning signs and exhortations God gives us. You have to remember Proverbs 22 in verse 3. I want you to listen very carefully to this verse. Here it is. Proverbs 22 in verse 3.

Scripture Reading — Proverbs 22:3

"A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished."

The prudent man, that is the wise man, sees what is coming and thus he prepares and he hides himself, he protects himself, he protects his family, but the simple, they just walk on until they're destroyed. What is the difference between the prudent man and the simple man? The prudent man looks ahead. The prudent man observes. The prudent man prepares. The simple say, "Well, everything will work out." "Don't have to worry about it. Don't have to do anything. Nothing's going to happen to us." No, no. I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Proverbs chapter one. In Proverbs chapter 1, you have wisdom crying out. Look if you would, Proverbs chapter 1, beginning there with verse 20. Proverbs 1 and verse 20. Look at this. I want you to see how it goes from a progression to suddenly.

It begins slowly, builds crescendo, and then it happens. So look in Proverbs 1 and verse 20.

Scripture Reading — Proverbs 1:20-33

"Wisdom crieth without. She uttereth her voice in the streets. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the opening of the gates, that is publicly, in the city she uttereth her word saying, here's what she's saying, 'How long you simple ones will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.'" "Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my Spirit upon you. I will make known my words unto you, because I have called, and you refused. I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded. Look at this. But you have said that it gnawed all my counsel. You wouldn't listen. You would have none of my reproof."

Now what's God going to do?

Scripture Reading — Proverbs 1:20-33

"I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. Why? For they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord." "They would have none of my counsel. They despised all of my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices, for the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them."

So in light of that, let me ask you a question or two. Have you ever noticed how easily we dismiss from our minds the implications of everything that happens around us, how easily we dismiss from our minds drought, famine, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, financial setbacks, sickness, disease, family problems, and a host of other problems. We just think that's just happening and we just assume somehow that everything is going to work itself out and we are never ever going to be in any problems.

Economic and Political Warning Signs Today

Weaver applies the principle to current events: rising gold and silver prices reveal the worthlessness of fiat currency. He references Isaiah 19 to show God judges nations economically, and notes political turmoil as a warning.

We never consider the fact that God is sovereign, that God is the controller of everything, and God allows his providence to bring things in our lives for our warning, for our admonition, and for our exhortation. So I'm going to try to explain some things. Have you thought any at all about the fact by the end of this past week one ounce of silver was 103 bucks. One ounce of gold was 5,000 bucks. I remember, well, you could buy silver for three and four bucks an ounce. I remember when you could buy gold for 180 an ounce. So now we're seeing 103 bucks an ounce for silver. Some are saying silver is going to 300 and 500. Some are saying that gold is going to 10,000 an ounce. Those who have silver and gold are saying, "Praise the Lord, glory to God, let it go."

Those that don't say, "Boy, I wish I'd had some." Now, what are the implications of this? Just stop and think. What are the implications? Is this part and parcel of God's exhortation to us? Is this part and parcel of God's warning? Is this part and parcel of God's judgment? What is it telling us? First of all, it is telling us that our Federal Reserve notes are absolutely worthless. It's paper. It's unbacked by nothing. It's unbacked by zero, zilch. It's just paper. And the Weimar Republic in Germany, they took their paper money and were plastering the walls with it. It was worthless.

And I told you before, and some of you may remember it, but Adels and I, 63 years ago when we were married, you could buy a gallon of gas for a quarter. But of course, that was a quarter of that silver in it. That junk silver quarter today is worth over 37 bucks. What are we seeing? We're seeing that the Federal Reserve note is worthless. And I know I've told you this, but I still smile every time about it. One of my favorite stories about the Weimar Republic is the German woman who had a wheelbarrow filled, I guess with Deutschmarks or the paper money, whatever it was called at that time, to go into the bakery to buy local bread with a wheelbarrow full of money. On the way to the bakery, there was a fight in the street. People were crowded around. And she was curious and so she set her wheelbarrow down, started parting through the people so she could see who was fighting. When her curiosity was satisfied, she turned around and someone had dumped all of her money out and stolen the wheelbarrow.

The wheelbarrow's worth more than all the money in it. If you look on the internet and you see Zimbabwe, there are people sitting there with stacks of money four feet tall, and three or four feet thick, and they can't even buy a loaf of bread with it. And several of our men have 100, was it a trillion? 100 trillion bills. In other words, it's a paper bill. It's worth 100 trillion, I would say dollars, but it's not dollars, whatever. You can't even buy a cup of coffee with it.

The second thing that we're seeing is this. It's not just that the Federal Reserve note is worthless. It's also teaching us that silver and gold is real money. That's biblical money. That's historical money. Thirdly, if we are paying attention, it means what few Federal Reserve notes we might have, we might be trying to start swapping some of them for things that we really need like non-hybrid seeds and hand tools that we can garden with and things that we can protect our families with and whatever we need to put back because it's getting worse and worse and your money is going down in value. The higher gold and silver go, the lower the Federal Reserve notes go. It's just that simple.

I want to point something out. God does use his judgment to destroy a nation economically. When that economic nation or that economy in that nation is fraudulent, and ours certainly is fraudulent. To show you how ignorant people are, I stopped at a gas station to fill up my vehicle and it was 16 bucks is all it took to fill it up. So I walked up to the little girl and I gave her 20 bucks and there was no one behind me and so she handed me four ones back and I held it in my hand I looked at it I said something's wrong. She said what do you mean something's wrong? I said, "Well, I gave you one piece of paper, and now I've got four times what I gave you. I got four pieces of paper." She said, "But you gave me a 20, and I gave you a 1."

I said, "Oh, I misunderstood. I said, you mean it's the number that makes this valuable?" I said, "Give me that 10. I'm going to change all of these to a 20." She said, "No, no, no, you can't do that." I said, "Well, why not? You told me it was the number that made it valuable. Is it the paper that makes it valuable or is it the number?" She never did catch on. It's worthless. We take it and other people take it only because we have confidence in it right now. But when that confidence is gone, don't hand me that stuff, I'll take a half a fried chicken. Or I'll take a bushel piece. I'll take something. Don't give me that paper stuff. You see what I'm saying?

Now, I want you to look in your Bibles to the book of Isaiah chapter 19. Isaiah chapter 19. And I want you to see that, in fact, I've got five messages on this, titled "How God Destroys Nations." And one of the ways that God destroys nations is through their economy, because their economy is wicked. So look at Isaiah chapter 19, beginning there in verse 1. He says,

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"The burden of Egypt."

Now he's going to destroy Egypt, but watch this.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"The burden of Egypt, behold, the Lord rides upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt and the idols of Egypt shall be moved in his presence and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it."

Now pay attention.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. And they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, sin against sin, and kingdom against kingdom."

Look at the riots going on in our country. Okay? All right, watch this.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof."

In other words, everybody's going to be confused, confounded.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"And I will destroy the council thereof, and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over in the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. Now watch, and the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up."

You don't have any fish, you don't have any commerce, no traveling up and down the rivers.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"And they shall turn the rivers far away, and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up."

"The reeds and the flags shall wither," which were used economically.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, gardens, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angled into the brooks shall lament, and they shall spread nests upon the waters, they shall languish, not catching anything. Moreover, they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded, and they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, in all that makes sluices and ponds for fish."

It's all gone. "Surely the princes of Zoan are fools." We could change that to Congress. "The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How say you unto Pharaoh, I'm the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings." God uses, God uses judgment on our economics that are fraudulent. They are worthless. If you took the time to read Revelation 18, you would find the fall of commercial economic Babylon.

And what are they crying? "Alas, alas, that great Babylon has fallen in one hour. She has come to nothing." Now let me give you a truth. Here we go. Do you realize? There are three promises in the Bible for long life. Everybody knows the first one. "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." And you will find that repeated in Ephesians chapter six, where he says, "Children, obey your parents and the Lord for this is right, honor thy father and thy mother if your days may be long upon the earth." Believe it or not, the second promise of long life.

Is how we treat animals. Animals are God's creation, just like your God's creation. And God forbids us to kill a mother and her young on the same day. If you will turn in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 25, I will show you the third promise for long life. It may surprise you. Notice if you would, Deuteronomy 25 and let's begin reading there with verse 13. Look what he says.

"Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, great and small," that is to cheat, "but thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have." Why? Verse 15, "That thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Now he said in verse 14, "Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures of great and small." In other words, you can't cheat in any way whatsoever. You can't steal. You can't defraud. "But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Do you realize that inflation is theft? Fraud is theft. Deceit is theft, and God says I'm promising long life for those who have an honest economic system. The Bible says in Proverbs 11 in verse 1, "A false balance is an abomination of the Lord, but a just weight is his delight." The Bible says in Proverbs 16 in verse 11, "A just weight and balance are the Lord's, all the weights of the bag are his work." God not only destroys people economically, He will destroy people politically as well. He just said, we just read it in Isaiah 19, he'll turn neighbor against neighbor.

Has it dawned on you what is happening in Minnesota? Has it dawned on you what is happening in Michigan? In Texas? In New York? You say, but we're in the South. May I tell you? The same people that are causing all the turmoil and problems in the North, they have people like that in the South as well. And when you have George Soros' open society paying those people to riot and to protest, I read where this woman, this Renee Good, who was killed. She was being paid to protest.

Now, look how our country's been invaded. All I'm trying to say is this. We need to be aware of the warning signs that God is giving us, not only in regards to economics, but in regards to politics, in regards to what is happening in this country, these are for our admonition, for our warning. We need to be learning what we need to be learning. We need to be preparing for whatever we need to be preparing for. We need to understand God's judgment does happen, and yes, it does happen catastrophically and suddenly, but before it does, there's all these warnings, all these signs, and most people totally ignore them.

Applications and Comfort

Weaver urges believers to see God's judgments everywhere through Scripture (Psalm 105:7), find comfort in God's justice (Psalm 119:52), and remember that God will not acquit the wicked (Nahum 1:1-2). He closes with prayer.

Now, let me very quickly make some applications. The first one is this. We need not search the world to find God's judgments. They are everywhere. The problem is we're just simply blind to them. We don't interpret them as God's judgments. God controls the weather. Read Job 37. Read Jeremiah. Jeremiah said there's none that can give rain except God. None of the idols can give rain. The truth of the matter is this. We need to read our Bible and when we look around at the world, we need to see what is happening through the lens of Scripture. We're not doing that. If you look in your Bibles very quickly to Psalm 105 and verse 7, here's an interesting verse. Psalm 105 and verse 7. Look at what the Bible says. Psalm 105, verse 7.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 105:7

"He is the Lord our God. His judgments are in all the earth."

We just need to open our eyes and see them scripturally.

The second thing is this. God's judgments are indeed a comfort to his people. God is not going to allow the wicked to escape. They will be judged. Many will be judged in time and in history. A few will not. Some will get judged in eternity. David said it like this in Psalm 119 and verse 52. He said,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 119:52

"I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord, and they have comforted me."

How in the world can the judgment of God comfort you? Well, you know, that it pays indeed to be obedient and righteous and holy, and that God will indeed judge the wicked, they shall not escape. You know the Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter 5 in verse 24, "The sins of some men are open and beforehand going to judgment, and some they follow after." There are some men who seemingly get away with wickedness and sins in this life.

That is, they're never exposed. They're never really caught. But God says they will be caught in judgment. But most people get caught in time and in history. One thing for sure, judgment is coming. And so you can be patient and you can comfort yourself with this truth. So let me close with this one passage. Nahum 1 verses 1 through 2. Write that scripture down. Nahum 1, 1 through 2. Here it is. "God is jealous and the Lord revengeth. The Lord revengeth and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet." What did he say? He will not at all acquit the wicked. They shall not escape. So we need to remember God's judgment until and when I say until, until it strikes. Because once it strikes, it's too late.

It's over. After 120 years, it's over for those antediluvians. After a day and a night, it's probably over for those people of Sodom and Gomorrah and the people of the flood. We just need to open our eyes and see what is happening through the lens of Holy Scripture. We are being judged as a nation. We are being judged as a people. And it will increase in intensity. We just need to pay attention.

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we ask for your grace and your mercy, your goodness and kindness. Open our eyes that we may see. Open our ears that we may hear, and our minds and our hearts that we may receive thy word and thy truth. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Are there any questions or comments? Yeah, I've got a comment. All these emails remind me of a woman in our park who had a shirt a couple of years ago and it said, "Noah was a conspiracy nut until it started to rain." Yeah, that's a fact.

Study Guide

Major Themes

The Patience and Timing of God's Judgment

Summary: God's judgments are often delayed, leading people to assume He will not act, but His timing is perfect and His patience allows for warnings.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'God is the slowest individual with whom you will ever be connected... God knows when to strike. And God knows how to judge.' He cites the Amorites' 400-year wait (Genesis 15:13-16).

Progressive Warnings Before Sudden Destruction

Summary: God's judgments often build gradually through curses and signs before culminating in sudden catastrophe, as seen in Deuteronomy 28 and historical examples.

Evidence: Weaver notes the repeated 'until' in Deuteronomy 28 curses: 'The Lord shall send upon thee cursing... until thou be destroyed' (v.20). He says, 'the curses here actually appear slowly, surely, and steadily, and yet they build with a crescendo until all of a sudden it appears to be catastrophic.'

The Need for Spiritual Perception of Current Events

Summary: Believers must interpret economic and political turmoil through the lens of Scripture, recognizing them as God's warnings and judgments.

Evidence: Weaver asks, 'Have you thought any at all about the fact by the end of this past week one ounce of silver was 103 bucks... What are the implications of this? Is this part and parcel of God's exhortation to us?' He references Isaiah 19 on economic judgment.

The Comfort of God's Judgment for the Righteous

Summary: Remembering God's judgments brings comfort to believers because it assures them that wickedness will not ultimately prevail and that God is just.

Evidence: Weaver quotes Psalm 119:52: 'I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord, and they have comforted me.' He explains, 'you know, that it pays indeed to be obedient and righteous and holy, and that God will indeed judge the wicked, they shall not escape.'

The Remembrance of Personal Sin Leading to Hatred of Evil

Summary: God leaves memories of sin in believers to produce humility, dependence, and a genuine hatred of evil, in contrast to the wicked who relish their sins.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'the wicked man remembers his sins, and he relishes them... But yet, as a saint, when our sins come into our minds, we grieve over them... we learn through our memory to hate those sins that we committed.' He cites Psalm 97:10 and Proverbs 8:13.

Key Arguments

God's delay in judgment does not mean He will not judge.

Summary: The apparent prosperity of the wicked and God's patience often lead people to think judgment will never come, but Scripture shows God will act in His time.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'just because God does not strike instantly... then we assume that God is not going to judge and God is not going to strike.' He uses Psalm 10 to show the wicked's false confidence and David's impatience.

God's judgments are preceded by clear warning signs that most ignore.

Summary: From the flood to Sodom to the captivities, God gave ample warning through preaching, events, and progressive curses, but people refused to heed them.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'God's judgments are not always sudden catastrophes... they are always preceded beforehand with warnings, admonitions, and exhortation.' He cites Noah's 120-year preaching and the 10-12 year gap in Jeremiah 24.

The word 'until' in Deuteronomy 28 curses indicates progressive judgment.

Summary: The repeated use of 'until' in the curses shows that God's judgment is often a slow, steady process that builds to a climax, not an instant event.

Evidence: Weaver points out, 'the little word "until" does not occur when God is talking about the blessings. It only occurs when God is talking about the curses and the judgments.' He reads verses 20, 21, 24, 48, 51, 61, and 62.

Economic collapse is a form of God's judgment on fraudulent systems.

Summary: Rising precious metal prices and fiat currency devaluation are modern warnings of God's judgment on dishonest economic practices, as seen in Isaiah 19.

Evidence: Weaver states, 'God does use his judgment to destroy a nation economically. When that economic nation or that economy in that nation is fraudulent, and ours certainly is fraudulent.' He references the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe.

Honest weights and measures are tied to national longevity.

Summary: Deuteronomy 25:13-15 promises long life in the land for using just weights, showing that economic integrity is a matter of divine blessing or cursing.

Evidence: Weaver reads Deuteronomy 25:13-15 and says, 'Do you realize that inflation is theft? Fraud is theft. Deceit is theft, and God says I'm promising long life for those who have an honest economic system.'

Believers must actively prepare and not be like the simple who ignore warnings.

Summary: Proverbs 22:3 and 1:20-33 teach that the prudent foresee evil and hide themselves, while the simple pass on and are punished; this applies to spiritual and practical preparedness.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'The prudent man looks ahead. The prudent man observes. The prudent man prepares. The simple say, "Well, everything will work out."' He urges swapping paper money for tangible goods.

Scripture References

Deuteronomy 32:4

Context: Read at the opening to introduce God's perfect, just character as the foundation for remembering His judgment.

Deuteronomy 32:39-42

Context: Read to show God's sovereign power over life, death, and vengeance, setting the stage for the judgment theme.

Psalm 51:1-3

Context: Cited to show David's sin was ever before him, illustrating that saints remember sins with grief, not relish.

Psalm 97:10

Context: Quoted to command hatred of evil, including one's own past sins, as part of the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 8:13

Context: Quoted to reinforce that the fear of the Lord involves hating evil, pride, and arrogancy.

Psalm 10:1-11

Context: Read to show the wicked's false security and David's question about God's apparent distance, highlighting impatience with God's timing.

Psalm 7:6

Context: Quoted to show David's plea for God to awake to judgment, reflecting human impatience.

Psalm 35:23

Context: Quoted similarly to show David urging God to stir Himself and awake to his cause.

Psalm 44:23

Context: Quoted to show David's bold language: 'Awake! Why sleepest thou, O Lord?' emphasizing the felt delay.

Genesis 15:13-16

Context: Read to illustrate God's patience: the Amorites were given 400 years before judgment because their iniquity was not yet full.

Jeremiah 24:1-10

Context: Read to show the two baskets of figs: the good figs (exiles) were for good, the bad figs (those left) were for destruction, with a 10-12 year warning.

Deuteronomy 28:20-62

Context: Examined to show the repeated 'until' in the curses, indicating progressive judgment leading to sudden destruction.

Joshua 23:15

Context: Quoted to confirm that as good things came progressively, so evil things would come 'until' destruction.

Proverbs 22:3

Context: Quoted to contrast the prudent man who foresees evil and hides with the simple who pass on and are punished.

Proverbs 1:20-33

Context: Read to show Wisdom's call, rejection, and the sudden calamity that follows when it is too late.

Isaiah 19:1-10

Context: Read to demonstrate God's judgment on Egypt through economic collapse, civil strife, and ecological disaster.

Deuteronomy 25:13-15

Context: Read to show the promise of long life for using just weights and measures, linking economic honesty to national blessing.

Psalm 105:7

Context: Quoted to assert that God's judgments are in all the earth, urging believers to see them through Scripture.

Psalm 119:52

Context: Quoted to show that remembering God's judgments of old brings comfort to the righteous.

Nahum 1:1-2

Context: Quoted in closing to affirm God's vengeance, slowness to anger, and certainty that He will not acquit the wicked.

Historical References

The Amorites' 400-year grace period before judgment

Context: Weaver explains that God delayed Israel's entry into Canaan for 400 years because 'the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full' (Genesis 15:16), showing divine patience.

Nebuchadnezzar's two attacks on Jerusalem (597 and 586 BC)

Context: Weaver describes the first captivity as a warning; those left in Jerusalem had 10-12 years to repent before the final destruction, but they ignored the sign.

The Flood and Noah's 120-year preaching

Context: Weaver notes that Noah preached for 120 years while building the ark, but the antediluvians ignored the warning until the flood came suddenly.

Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction

Context: Weaver points out that before the sudden judgment, angels struck men with blindness and led Lot out, but no one heeded the warning signs.

Weimar Republic hyperinflation

Context: Weaver tells the story of a German woman whose wheelbarrow was stolen while the money was dumped, illustrating the worthlessness of fiat currency.

Zimbabwe hyperinflation and 100 trillion dollar notes

Context: Weaver mentions people sitting with stacks of money that couldn't buy bread, and some owning 100 trillion dollar notes as souvenirs of worthless currency.

Dust Bowl in Oklahoma

Context: Weaver compares the dust storms of Deuteronomy 28:24 to the historical Dust Bowl, illustrating progressive environmental judgment.

George Soros' open society funding protests

Context: Weaver references a woman named Renee Good who was paid to protest, implying outside agitation in current political turmoil.

George Washington's letter to Jefferson on honest money

Context: In a post-sermon comment, an attendee mentions Washington wrote that the nation's ills disappeared when they returned to 'money of substance.'

Important Quotes

God is the slowest individual with whom you will ever be connected.

Significance: Emphasizes the vast difference between human impatience and God's patient, perfect timing in judgment.

God's judgments are not always sudden catastrophes. They may end up that way, but they are always preceded beforehand with warnings, admonitions, and exhortation.

Significance: Central thesis of the sermon: judgment is progressive with clear signs before the final sudden destruction.

The wicked man remembers his sins, and he relishes them. He enjoys turning them over in his mind. He glories in those sins. But yet, as a saint, when our sins come into our minds, we grieve over them, we agonize over them, and we wish that we had never engaged in those sins.

Significance: Highlights the contrasting responses to remembered sin between the wicked and the righteous, showing the sanctifying purpose of memory.

I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord, and they have comforted me.

Significance: Psalm 119:52 quoted to show that recalling God's past judgments brings comfort by assuring believers of ultimate justice.

He will not at all acquit the wicked.

Significance: From Nahum 1:2, used as a closing assurance that no wicked person will ultimately escape God's judgment.

Do you realize that inflation is theft? Fraud is theft. Deceit is theft, and God says I'm promising long life for those who have an honest economic system.

Significance: Connects economic dishonesty to divine judgment and the promise of Deuteronomy 25:15, applying it to modern fiat currency.

Discussion Questions

Why do we often assume God will not judge when He delays? How does Psalm 10 challenge that assumption?

Context: Weaver discusses the wicked's false security and David's impatience in Psalm 10.

In what ways have you seen God's progressive warnings in your own life or in the world before a sudden consequence?

Context: The sermon emphasizes the pattern of gradual curses leading to sudden destruction in Deuteronomy 28.

How can remembering our past sins lead to genuine hatred of evil rather than despair or false guilt?

Context: Weaver explains that God leaves memories of sin to teach us to hate evil, citing Psalm 51 and Proverbs 8:13.

What current economic or political events might be warning signs of God's judgment, and how should we respond as believers?

Context: Weaver applies the principle to rising gold/silver prices and civil unrest, urging preparation and spiritual discernment.

How does the promise of long life for honest weights (Deuteronomy 25:15) apply to our personal and national economic practices today?

Context: Weaver links economic integrity to divine blessing and judgment, using the example of fiat currency.

In what ways can remembering God's past judgments bring comfort rather than fear to believers?

Context: Weaver quotes Psalm 119:52 and explains that it assures us of God's justice and the ultimate fate of the wicked.

What does it mean to be a 'prudent man' who foresees evil and hides himself (Proverbs 22:3) in practical terms today?

Context: Weaver contrasts the prudent with the simple, urging preparation and attention to warning signs.

Applications

Interpret current events through the lens of Scripture

Summary: Believers must open their eyes to see God's judgments in economic, political, and natural events, recognizing them as warnings from God.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'We need to read our Bible and when we look around at the world, we need to see what is happening through the lens of Scripture.' He cites Psalm 105:7.

Prepare practically for coming economic hardship

Summary: In light of fiat currency devaluation, believers should consider swapping paper money for tangible goods like non-hybrid seeds, tools, and precious metals.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'we might be trying to start swapping some of them for things that we really need like non-hybrid seeds and hand tools... because it's getting worse and worse and your money is going down in value.'

Hate evil, including personal sin, through remembrance

Summary: When past sins come to mind, use the opportunity to repudiate them, confess, and cultivate a genuine hatred of evil as God commands.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'when they come back into our minds, it then gives us another opportunity to repudiate those sins, to hate those sins, to despise them, and to cry out against them.' He cites Psalm 97:10.

Be patient and trust God's timing for judgment

Summary: Instead of demanding immediate justice like David, believers should rest in God's perfect timing and long-suffering, knowing He will not acquit the wicked.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'God knows when to strike. And God knows how to judge. And so God will judge in His way and in his time.' He references Nahum 1.

Find comfort in the certainty of divine justice

Summary: Remembering God's past and promised judgments should comfort believers, assuring them that wickedness will not ultimately prevail.

Evidence: Weaver quotes Psalm 119:52 and says, 'you know, that it pays indeed to be obedient and righteous and holy, and that God will indeed judge the wicked, they shall not escape.'

Practice economic integrity as a witness and for blessing

Summary: Use just weights and measures in all dealings, recognizing that honest money and fair trade are tied to God's promise of long life and national stability.

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Things to Remember Until - Part 2

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Well, let's open our Bibles today to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 32. Deuteronomy, chapter 32.
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Now, last week, I wrote a message, part one on things to remember until. So this is the second message in that things to remember until. So if you look in Deuteronomy, chapter 32 and verse four to begin with, the Bible says, "He is the rock. His work is perfect, for all His ways are judgment, a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is He." Now if you'll skip down to verse 39, He says, "See now that I, even I am He, and there is no God with me, I kill and make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven and say, I live forever."
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"If I wet my glittering sword and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to mine enemies and reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, and that with the blood of the slain of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy." So, before I give you the third point today, I'm going to take just a few moments. So I pointed out in the previous message that there are some things that we need to remember, although we do not necessarily want to remember them. Many of these things are etched upon our minds in such a way that we cannot forget them.
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First of all, it's impossible to forget what the wicked are doing and how they are persecuting the church, how they are indeed fleecing the sheep, they are defaming, they are attacking our Heavenly Father, they are attacking Christians, this church. You remember the passage there in the Bible where God said, "He that toucheth thee," talking about his people, "toucheth the apple of my eye." And the apple of the eye is the pupil, it's the most sensitive part of the body.
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And so our Lord says they can't touch us without touching him as well. And of course you remember there in, let's see, Acts chapter 9, when Saul was on his way to Damascus and the Lord struck him and he said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" He was persecuting God's people, but our Lord said, "You're persecuting me as well." And so when we look around and see the wicked prospering and how they are successful seemingly, it does grieve us. We grieve over their apparent success and over their apparent prosperity as well.
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even though it is temporary. And we looked at this last week in Psalm 73, when Asaph said it like this, "When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood their end." So clearly then, there is an end coming to the wicked, that is for sure. The second thing I pointed out is that there is a remembrance of our sins and our transgressions against our Heavenly Father.
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In fact, it was interesting that we have been commanded to remember these things. And I gave you two passages, particularly, there were more, but the first one was Deuteronomy chapter 9, verses 7 and 8, where God said, "Remember and forget not how thou provokest the Lord thy God in the wilderness. From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. Also in Horeb, you provoked the Lord to anger, so that the Lord was so angry, he would have destroyed you." And then, of course, when you get to the book of Ephesians, chapter 2, which I mentioned, he said, "Wherefore remember that you being in times past Gentiles, in the flesh who were called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands, that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope without God in the world." So it says you've got to remember who you were, what you were, what you were doing.
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It's kind of like when God found Abraham. Now, I know that Abraham is called the friend of God. But yet when God found Abraham, he was in Ur of the Chaldees and he was an idolater.
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Now, it would be absolutely wonderful if we could just simply forget each and every sin, but that is absolutely impossible, even though our sins are forgiven. And I've showed you verse after verse last week. Even though God puts them behind his back, even though God does not remember them against us anymore, we still have memories of our sin and our rebellion against God. Now, God leaves those memories in us for a reason. And in fact, usually we think sometimes we may have forgotten some sins, and we may forget them temporarily, or we may forget them for a short period of time, but all of a sudden, they come back into our minds like a flash of lightning in a very nauseating way.
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So let me show you, if you would, in your Bible, Psalm 51, and look, if you would, what David said concerning his sin. Look at it in Psalm 51, and let's read the first three verses. Psalm 51, look at verses 1 through 3. David says, "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin."
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So he wants to be washed, he wants to be cleansed, and he was. Then he said, "For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me." In other words, I can't forget it. I did it. I wish I had not done it, but it is there. You have forgiven me, but my sin is ever before me.
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Now, here is the difference between the wicked and the righteous. The wicked man remembers his sins, and he relishes them. He enjoys turning them over in his mind. He glories in those sins. But yet, as a saint, when our sins come into our minds, we grieve over them, we agonize over them, and we wish that we had never engaged in those sins. And we end up confessing those sins over and over and telling our Lord how sorry we are for sinning against such a loving, gracious, and kind Heavenly Father. So there are some sins that you and I can forgive and forget and overlook and probably never come back into our minds for a long time because we view those sins as small and insignificant. But there are other sins that constantly attack us and they come into our minds we cannot erase them. And when they come back into our minds, it then gives us another opportunity to repudiate those sins, to hate those sins, to despise them, and to cry out against them.
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So we would have the perfect opportunity again to confess our ignorance, our depravity, our wickedness, and acknowledge that we've sinned against our Heavenly Father and His law. In other words, we learn through our memory to hate those sins that we committed.
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Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 97 and look, if you would please, at verse 10. Psalm 97 and verse 10. Here's what God commands. He says, "Ye that love the Lord hate evil. He preserved the souls of his saints. He delivered them out of the hand of the wicked." So ye that love the Lord hate evil. And that would mean the evil that you committed as well. The evil that's in your heart, the evil that's in your life. You hate it. Then if you'll turn right over to the book of Proverbs and look in chapter eight and verse 13. Proverbs chapter 8 and verse 13. Look what he says. "For the fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride, arrogancy and the evil way and the forward mouth do I hate." So God says that the fear of the Lord is in us. We will hate evil. We will hate pride. We will hate arrogancy. Anything that's against God and contrary to God.
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we will hate. So last week I gave you these two points. We are to remember the wicked until and then we are to remember our sins until. And the fact is we will remember our sins until we have glorified bodies and a renewed mind. Until then the remembrance of our sin is for our humiliation and for our realization of our impotence, our inability, and it leads us into our entire dependence upon God himself.
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Now the third point I want to cover today is this. We must remember the judgment of God until.
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Now I read Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 4 and then on down. And when you think about the judgment of God, we normally do not even concentrate or think about the judgment of God until it strikes. There is a problem that exists in the minds of the lost and oftentimes in the minds of Christians as well, and that is simply this, that just because God does not strike instantly, just because God does not strike immediately, then we assume that God is not going to judge and God is not going to strike. We fail to take into account the patience of God, the mercy of God, and the long-suffering of God. We fail to take into account the warning signs.
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I want you to listen. I'm going to show it to you. We fail to take into account the warning signs that we are given before God strikes in judgment. And see, God moves in his time and not in our time. God moves in his way and not in our way. His judgments, according to Deuteronomy chapter 32 and verse 4, are holy, just, and righteous. They are also perfect. And sometimes when we do not see God acting in our time the way we want him to, or acting in the way that we want him to, then we tend to think, well, God is not going to work. God's not going to judge. Now let me show you. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Psalm 10. I'm talking about this sinful thought pattern that somehow God is not going to strike the wicked and not going to judge. Well, this is in the mind of the wicked, and sometimes those Christians who are ignorant learn to think like this as well.
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But look, if you would please, in verse one, David says, "Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"
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Now, I want you to watch. Look what he says from verses two through eleven. He's talking about the wicked. "The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. He says, let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasted of his heart's desire. That is, he glories in all of those wicked things and blessed the covetous whom the Lord hated or abhorred. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God. God is not in all of his thoughts."
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"His ways are also grievous. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all of his enemies, he puffeth at them. He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud. Under his tongue is mischief and vanity. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages. In the secret places doth he murder the innocent."
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"His eyes are privately set against the poor. He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor. He does catch the poor when he draweth him into his net. He crouches and humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He has said in his heart, God hath forgotten. He hideth his face. He will never see it."
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Now, I want you to note, if you would please, verse 1. You just read from verses 2 through 11 with me all of the wickedness of the wicked. And how the wicked said, God doesn't see this. God doesn't know about this. God is not going to judge me. Now look at verse 1. David asks, "Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?" In other words, Lord, what are you doing?
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So this is a paraphrase of his questions. Lord, what are you doing? Why are you waiting? Are you going to allow the wicked to get away with this? Why don't you do something? Why don't you do something now? I mean, this is happening to us now in time and in history. In fact, there are scriptures, and I will show them to you, that David is so distressed that he even thinks God is asleep.
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For instance, if you go down to verse 12, look what he says in Psalm 10, verse 12. "Arise, O Lord. The Lord, you're sitting down. You're relaxing. Arise, O Lord. Oh, God, lift up thy hand for getting up the humble." I said, Lord, stand up and do something.
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Now, let me show you. Look in your Bibles to Psalm seven and verse six, because again, he says it like this. Psalm seven, verse six. "Arise, O Lord, in thy anger. Lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies and awake for me to the judgment that thou has commanded." He said, God, I'm not asking you to do something different or difficult. I'm asking you to do that which you have commanded, which you have ordained. So he says, awake, awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. Now, turn right on over to Psalm 35 and look, if you would, at verse 23. Psalm 35, verse 23. Now he says it like this. "Stir up thyself and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord." Stir up thyself and awake. In other words, Lord, get excited over this. I need help. Stir yourself up and awake. Now, if you will turn over to Psalm 44, look at it, if you would please, to verse 23. Look what David says.
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Psalm 44 verse 23. "Awake! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise and cast us not off forever." He says, God, you're asleep. Lord, you need to wake up. The wicked are running rampant. Do something. You see, the problem is you and I are impatient. And God is known for his patience. We are unwilling to wait. We want to see something done now. Let me make a statement and you think about this. God is the slowest individual with whom you will ever be connected.
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What did he say? One day is a thousand years? A thousand years is one day. Time relates to us. It does not relate to God. God is omnipresent. God is everywhere at one time in the totality of His person. He is omniscient. He is omnipotent. He is eternal. God knows when to strike. And God knows how to judge. And so God will judge in His way and in his time.
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Now, there was a people in the Bible who were known as the Amorites. The Amorites were exceedingly wicked people. They were vile to the integrity. They were not just idolaters. They were vile individuals. In fact, I have read concerning archaeologists who have been exhuming some of the remains of the Amorite cities when they saw some of their drawings and some of their paintings and they were physically nauseated because it was so absolutely sickening. So let me show you something about the Amorites.
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If you will turn in your Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter 15. Genesis 15. You know the story that God told Abraham that he and his descendants would be in a foreign land or in a strange land for 400 years. So have you ever asked why Israel had to go into Egypt for 400 years? Here's why. Watch this. Genesis 15 verse 13. "And he, that is God, said to Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years. And also that nation whom they shall serve, that would be Egypt, will I judge and afterward they shall come out with great substance."
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In other words, you're going to be in servitude. You're going to be in slavery. And I'm going to judge that nation. And when you come out, you will be coming out a wealthy people. And he tells Abraham in verse 15, "And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation, four hundred years, they shall come out hither again." Here's why.
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"For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." Let that sink in. God gave these wicked people an additional 400 years. And when he brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, he put a sword in their hand and said, kill every one of them. Did they not deserve to die prior to the 400 years? And the answer is absolutely. But it was in the mercy of God that he waited an additional 400 years until they were to be exterminated by Israel. There's the patience of God. He allowed these people to sin against him, to rebel against him, and to despise him for an additional 400 years. That's the patience of God. Now let me show it to you in relationship to his covenant people.
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If you would turn in your Bibles to the book of Jeremiah chapter 24 and let's begin reading there with verse 1 and read through verse 10. I want you to watch this. Jeremiah chapter 24 beginning there with verse 1. Look at this. "The Lord showed me and behold two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord. After that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon."
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"One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs, very good, and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place unto the land of Chaldeans for their good. For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land, and I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up, and I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return unto me with their whole heart."
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"And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil, surely thus saith the Lord, so will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes and the residue of Jerusalem that remain in this land and them that dwell in the land of Egypt and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb and a taunt and a curse in all places whither I shall have driven them. And I will send the sword and the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers."
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Now, I want to explain something to you. Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem twice. The first time he came in 597 BC. He just simply took some of the princes, the king, some of the leading men, and the carpenters, anyone that had any ability, he took them over into Babylon. The rest he left. When he came back in 586, some say 587, he completely destroyed the city. He took Zedekiah, put out his eyes, but before he put out his eyes he killed all of his children in front of him. He literally destroyed the city. Most of the people that were left were killed. Very few were taken into Babylon. A few of the very poor was left just to keep the land. But I want you to note something. The first time Nebuchadnezzar came, he carried all these people into Babylon. Can you imagine now the people who were left in Judah and Jerusalem saying, "Phew, man, I'm lucky. I'm blessed." Whatever they said at that time, "I escaped. I was not taken into Babylon. I'm still here in the land."
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Oh, what did God say? God said, "I took that original group into Babylon for their good. I will restore them to the land. I'll give them a heart to know me. I will be their God, they'll be my people. But these others, I'm going to send them for their hurt. They will be destroyed wherever they go. I will send a sword after them."
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Now, here you have anywhere from 10 to 12 years between these two times that Nebuchadnezzar attacked. Here's my question. Those people that were left in Judah and Jerusalem, who were wicked, do you think the thought ever entered into their minds? You know, it was a warning that those people were taken into captivity. I wonder if Nebuchadnezzar is going to come back. I wonder if he's going to destroy this city. I'm just simply pointing out the fact these people had 10 or 12 years to at least think about something and they never ever did. And God said, "I am going to destroy them." So the people never paid any attention to the warnings. Now, let me just say this.
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When we think about God's judgment, and we don't like to think about it continually, I can assure you, but when we do think about God's judgment, we normally think that God strikes instantly, suddenly, and it's over with. But God's judgments are not always sudden catastrophes. They may end up that way, but they are always preceded beforehand with warnings, admonitions, and exhortation. The problem is, even as Christians, many times we just simply do not pay attention to the warning signs. We just let everything escape because we do not know how to observe. When you think of God's judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, you say, well, God did that suddenly. Well, yes, he did in one sense of the word, but you remember before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, he sent two angels there.
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Lot took them into his house. And the men of Sodom were so wicked they surrounded the house and they wanted those two men that they might know them. And when Lot went to the door, they jerked him back in, slammed the door, smote men with blindness. I wonder if it ever thought, anyone in that city thought, "What? How did all those men get smitten with blindness instantly like that?" And then the angels had to take Lot and his wife and his daughter by the hand and snatch them up and lead them out of the city. Did anybody ever think, "Wow, I wonder where Lot went?" No.
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So there were warning signs and then God's judgment hit. When you read about the flood, did you know that Noah preached 120 years before God sent that flood? Noah was building that ark all that time. And the Bible says specifically 120 years. So they ignored Noah's preaching for 120 years. They ignored the warnings. They ignored the building of the ark. And then all of a sudden, here came the flood. Now, I told you this before, probably the people were just so incredulous at Noah's preaching. Noah said, "Look, rain is going to fall from heaven. God's going to open the fountains of the great deep. There's going to be a flood." Well, number one, there'd never been a flood. Number two, at that time, rain did not fall from the sky. Read the Bible. The Bible says a mist came up out of the earth and watered the earth. They had never seen rainfall. No one said it's going to happen. But they totally, totally ignored everything that he said. They're warning signs.
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Now, here's an interesting thing. When you look at the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, in that chapter, you have the blessings of God upon obedience. And also in that chapter, you have the curses of God upon disobedience. And interestingly, the first 14 verses deal with the blessings of God. And then from verse 15 to the last verse, I think it's verse 68, there's all the cursedness. And when you read Deuteronomy 28, and I want you to turn there and we're not going to read all of that, but when you read Deuteronomy 28 there's an interesting observation because the title of the message is "Remember the Judgment of God Until" and the little word "until" does not occur when God is talking about the blessings. It only occurs when God is talking about the curses and the judgments. Now, I want you to look at this with me. If you'll look in your Bible to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, let's begin there with verse 20. We're going to look at several verses, but look at this.
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In fact, you can see verse 19, "Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out." So all of this now is dealing with God's curses upon disobedience. In verse 20 he says, "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me."
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Now stop there just for a second. "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, and vexation, and rebuke in all that thou sendest thy hand unto, or to do, until." In other words, here all of the cursing, vexation, and rebuke is happening slowly, progressively, gradually, and it keeps going until they're destroyed. Verse 21, "The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it." In other words, you've got a pestilence. It's there. It's slow. It's progressive.
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But all of a sudden, you're going to be consumed off the land.
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Now, look in verse 24. He says, "The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust. From heaven shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed, until thou be destroyed." What's he going to do? He's going to send a drought. And the only thing that's going to fall from heaven is going to be dust. It's kind of like the great dust bowl out in Oklahoma. Years and years ago, and I don't know if you've ever seen any of the videos or pictures of those dust storms.
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In the Middle East, I mean, it is unreal how they black out everything. And this is what God said, "I'm going to do this until thou be destroyed." He's not going to just send one great big dust storm and it's over. He's going to send a number of dust storms until. If you'll skip down to verse 48, look at verse 48. He says, "Therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies, which the Lord shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in the want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have destroyed thee." In other words, it's going to be progressive. It's going to be slow. It's going to be gradual, but it's going to end up in sudden destruction. Wow. Now skip down to verse 51, let's start there. He's talking about the fierce nation that comes against them. In verse 51, what will he do? "He shall eat up the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed."
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Now, the enemy can't eat everything at one time, but it's going to take time. He said, "He shall eat the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed, which also shall not leave thee either corn or wine or oil or increase of thy kind or flocks of thy sheep, until he hath destroyed thee." In other words, it's going to be progressive, but it's going to end up in destruction. He said in verse 62, "And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates with thy high and fenced walls, and thy high and fenced walls shall come down, wherein thou trustest throughout all thy land, and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee." Note, if you would, he shall besiege thee until. In other words, it is going to be a progressive, slow besieging of the city, but it's going to fall and it will come down suddenly. Now, look in verse 61. He said, "Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee until thou be destroyed."
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In other words, it'll be constant and continual and progressive sicknesses and plagues of one kind or the other until thou be destroyed. So if you will notice then, the curses here actually appear slowly, surely, and steadily, and yet they build with a crescendo until all of a sudden it appears to be catastrophic. So, let's ask the question. Were these curses progressive or sudden? And the answer is both. They were progressive because most people never paid any attention to them. And then all of a sudden, they were destroyed.
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If you'll look in your Bibles to the book of Joshua, turn over a few books, Joshua chapter 23, and look if you would at verse 15, because now Joshua is going to verify everything I've just said. Joshua chapter 23, verse 15, he says, "Therefore it shall come to pass that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you." And of course, he gave it to them gradually, steadily. OK, progressively, he says. "So shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things until he destroyed you from all this good land which the Lord your God had given you." So those curses are going to come slowly, steadily and progressively until. And then it's going to be sudden destruction. So we have to remember God's judgment until. We have to be conscious of, we have to be aware of the judgment until it occurs because once it occurs it is sudden destruction. Once God's judgment occurs it's too late for remorse. It's too late for repentance and it's too late for restoration.
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Judgment is not an easy and delightful subject upon which we are prone to think. In fact, we ignore all of these warning signs and exhortations God gives us. You have to remember Proverbs 22 in verse 3. I want you to listen very carefully to this verse. Here it is. Proverbs 22 in verse 3. "A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." The prudent man, that is the wise man, sees what is coming and thus he prepares and he hides himself, he protects himself, he protects his family, but the simple, they just walk on until they're destroyed. What is the difference between the prudent man and the simple man? The prudent man looks ahead. The prudent man observes. The prudent man prepares. The simple say, "Well, everything will work out."
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"Don't have to worry about it. Don't have to do anything. Nothing's going to happen to us." No, no. I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Proverbs chapter one. In Proverbs chapter 1, you have wisdom crying out. Look if you would, Proverbs chapter 1, beginning there with verse 20. Proverbs 1 and verse 20. Look at this. I want you to see how it goes from a progression to suddenly.
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It begins slowly, builds crescendo, and then it happens. So look in Proverbs 1 and verse 20. "Wisdom crieth without. She uttereth her voice in the streets. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the opening of the gates, that is publicly, in the city she uttereth her word saying, here's what she's saying, 'How long you simple ones will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.'"
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"Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my Spirit upon you. I will make known my words unto you, because I have called, and you refused. I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded. Look at this. But you have said that it gnawed all my counsel. You wouldn't listen. You would have none of my reproof."
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Now what's God going to do? "I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. Why? For they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord."
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"They would have none of my counsel. They despised all of my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices, for the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them." So in light of that, let me ask you a question or two. Have you ever noticed how easily we dismiss from our minds the implications of everything that happens around us, how easily we dismiss from our minds drought, famine, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, financial setbacks, sickness, disease, family problems, and a host of other problems. We just think that's just happening and we just assume somehow that everything is going to work itself out and we are never ever going to be in any problems.
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We never consider the fact that God is sovereign, that God is the controller of everything, and God allows his providence to bring things in our lives for our warning, for our admonition, and for our exhortation. So I'm going to try to explain some things. Have you thought any at all about the fact by the end of this past week one ounce of silver was 103 bucks. One ounce of gold was 5,000 bucks. I remember, well, you could buy silver for three and four bucks an ounce. I remember when you could buy gold for 180 an ounce. So now we're seeing 103 bucks an ounce for silver. Some are saying silver is going to 300 and 500. Some are saying that gold is going to 10,000 an ounce. Those who have silver and gold are saying, "Praise the Lord, glory to God, let it go."
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Those that don't say, "Boy, I wish I'd had some." Now, what are the implications of this? Just stop and think. What are the implications? Is this part and parcel of God's exhortation to us? Is this part and parcel of God's warning? Is this part and parcel of God's judgment? What is it telling us? First of all, it is telling us that our Federal Reserve notes are absolutely worthless. It's paper. It's unbacked by nothing. It's unbacked by zero, zilch. It's just paper. And the Weimar Republic in Germany, they took their paper money and were plastering the walls with it. It was worthless.
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And I told you before, and some of you may remember it, but Adels and I, 63 years ago when we were married, you could buy a gallon of gas for a quarter. But of course, that was a quarter of that silver in it. That junk silver quarter today is worth over 37 bucks. What are we seeing? We're seeing that the Federal Reserve note is worthless. And I know I've told you this, but I still smile every time about it. One of my favorite stories about the Weimar Republic is the German woman who had a wheelbarrow filled, I guess with Deutschmarks or the paper money, whatever it was called at that time, to go into the bakery to buy local bread with a wheelbarrow full of money. On the way to the bakery, there was a fight in the street. People were crowded around. And she was curious and so she set her wheelbarrow down, started parting through the people so she could see who was fighting. When her curiosity was satisfied, she turned around and someone had dumped all of her money out and stolen the wheelbarrow.
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The wheelbarrow's worth more than all the money in it. If you look on the internet and you see Zimbabwe, there are people sitting there with stacks of money four feet tall, and three or four feet thick, and they can't even buy a loaf of bread with it. And several of our men have 100, was it a trillion? 100 trillion bills. In other words, it's a paper bill. It's worth 100 trillion, I would say dollars, but it's not dollars, whatever. You can't even buy a cup of coffee with it.
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The second thing that we're seeing is this. It's not just that the Federal Reserve note is worthless. It's also teaching us that silver and gold is real money. That's biblical money. That's historical money. Thirdly, if we are paying attention, it means what few Federal Reserve notes we might have, we might be trying to start swapping some of them for things that we really need like non-hybrid seeds and hand tools that we can garden with and things that we can protect our families with and whatever we need to put back because it's getting worse and worse and your money is going down in value. The higher gold and silver go, the lower the Federal Reserve notes go. It's just that simple.
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I want to point something out. God does use his judgment to destroy a nation economically. When that economic nation or that economy in that nation is fraudulent, and ours certainly is fraudulent. To show you how ignorant people are, I stopped at a gas station to fill up my vehicle and it was 16 bucks is all it took to fill it up. So I walked up to the little girl and I gave her 20 bucks and there was no one behind me and so she handed me four ones back and I held it in my hand I looked at it I said something's wrong. She said what do you mean something's wrong? I said, "Well, I gave you one piece of paper, and now I've got four times what I gave you. I got four pieces of paper." She said, "But you gave me a 20, and I gave you a 1."
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I said, "Oh, I misunderstood. I said, you mean it's the number that makes this valuable?" I said, "Give me that 10. I'm going to change all of these to a 20." She said, "No, no, no, you can't do that." I said, "Well, why not? You told me it was the number that made it valuable. Is it the paper that makes it valuable or is it the number?"
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She never did catch on. It's worthless. We take it and other people take it only because we have confidence in it right now. But when that confidence is gone, don't hand me that stuff, I'll take a half a fried chicken. Or I'll take a bushel piece. I'll take something. Don't give me that paper stuff. You see what I'm saying?
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Now, I want you to look in your Bibles to the book of Isaiah chapter 19. Isaiah chapter 19. And I want you to see that, in fact, I've got five messages on this, titled "How God Destroys Nations." And one of the ways that God destroys nations is through their economy, because their economy is wicked. So look at Isaiah chapter 19, beginning there in verse 1. He says, "The burden of Egypt." Now he's going to destroy Egypt, but watch this. "The burden of Egypt, behold, the Lord rides upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt and the idols of Egypt shall be moved in his presence and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it." Now pay attention.
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"And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. And they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, sin against sin, and kingdom against kingdom." Look at the riots going on in our country. Okay? All right, watch this. "And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof." In other words, everybody's going to be confused, confounded. "And I will destroy the council thereof, and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over in the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. Now watch, and the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up." You don't have any fish, you don't have any commerce, no traveling up and down the rivers. "And they shall turn the rivers far away, and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up."
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"The reeds and the flags shall wither," which were used economically. "The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, gardens, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angled into the brooks shall lament, and they shall spread nests upon the waters, they shall languish, not catching anything. Moreover, they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded, and they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, in all that makes sluices and ponds for fish." It's all gone.
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"Surely the princes of Zoan are fools." We could change that to Congress. "The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How say you unto Pharaoh, I'm the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings." God uses, God uses judgment on our economics that are fraudulent. They are worthless. If you took the time to read Revelation 18, you would find the fall of commercial economic Babylon.
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And what are they crying? "Alas, alas, that great Babylon has fallen in one hour. She has come to nothing."
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Now let me give you a truth. Here we go. Do you realize? There are three promises in the Bible for long life. Everybody knows the first one. "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." And you will find that repeated in Ephesians chapter six, where he says, "Children, obey your parents and the Lord for this is right, honor thy father and thy mother if your days may be long upon the earth." Believe it or not, the second promise of long life.
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Is how we treat animals. Animals are God's creation, just like your God's creation. And God forbids us to kill a mother and her young on the same day. If you will turn in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 25, I will show you the third promise for long life. It may surprise you. Notice if you would, Deuteronomy 25 and let's begin reading there with verse 13. Look what he says.
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"Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, great and small," that is to cheat, "but thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have." Why? Verse 15, "That thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Now he said in verse 14, "Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures of great and small." In other words, you can't cheat in any way whatsoever. You can't steal. You can't defraud. "But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
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Do you realize that inflation is theft? Fraud is theft. Deceit is theft, and God says I'm promising long life for those who have an honest economic system. The Bible says in Proverbs 11 in verse 1, "A false balance is an abomination of the Lord, but a just weight is his delight." The Bible says in Proverbs 16 in verse 11, "A just weight and balance are the Lord's, all the weights of the bag are his work." God not only destroys people economically, He will destroy people politically as well. He just said, we just read it in Isaiah 19, he'll turn neighbor against neighbor.
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Has it dawned on you what is happening in Minnesota? Has it dawned on you what is happening in Michigan? In Texas? In New York? You say, but we're in the South. May I tell you? The same people that are causing all the turmoil and problems in the North, they have people like that in the South as well. And when you have George Soros' open society paying those people to riot and to protest, I read where this woman, this Renee Good, who was killed. She was being paid to protest.
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Now, look how our country's been invaded. All I'm trying to say is this. We need to be aware of the warning signs that God is giving us, not only in regards to economics, but in regards to politics, in regards to what is happening in this country, these are for our admonition, for our warning. We need to be learning what we need to be learning. We need to be preparing for whatever we need to be preparing for. We need to understand God's judgment does happen, and yes, it does happen catastrophically and suddenly, but before it does, there's all these warnings, all these signs, and most people totally ignore them.
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Now, let me very quickly make some applications. The first one is this. We need not search the world to find God's judgments. They are everywhere. The problem is we're just simply blind to them. We don't interpret them as God's judgments. God controls the weather. Read Job 37. Read Jeremiah. Jeremiah said there's none that can give rain except God. None of the idols can give rain. The truth of the matter is this. We need to read our Bible and when we look around at the world, we need to see what is happening through the lens of Scripture. We're not doing that. If you look in your Bibles very quickly to Psalm 105 and verse 7, here's an interesting verse. Psalm 105 and verse 7. Look at what the Bible says. Psalm 105, verse 7. "He is the Lord our God. His judgments are in all the earth." We just need to open our eyes and see them scripturally.
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The second thing is this. God's judgments are indeed a comfort to his people. God is not going to allow the wicked to escape. They will be judged. Many will be judged in time and in history. A few will not. Some will get judged in eternity. David said it like this in Psalm 119 and verse 52. He said, "I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord, and they have comforted me." How in the world can the judgment of God comfort you? Well, you know, that it pays indeed to be obedient and righteous and holy, and that God will indeed judge the wicked, they shall not escape. You know the Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter 5 in verse 24, "The sins of some men are open and beforehand going to judgment, and some they follow after." There are some men who seemingly get away with wickedness and sins in this life.
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That is, they're never exposed. They're never really caught. But God says they will be caught in judgment. But most people get caught in time and in history. One thing for sure, judgment is coming. And so you can be patient and you can comfort yourself with this truth. So let me close with this one passage. Nahum 1 verses 1 through 2. Write that scripture down. Nahum 1, 1 through 2. Here it is. "God is jealous and the Lord revengeth. The Lord revengeth and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet." What did he say? He will not at all acquit the wicked. They shall not escape. So we need to remember God's judgment until and when I say until, until it strikes. Because once it strikes, it's too late.
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It's over. After 120 years, it's over for those antediluvians. After a day and a night, it's probably over for those people of Sodom and Gomorrah and the people of the flood. We just need to open our eyes and see what is happening through the lens of Holy Scripture. We are being judged as a nation. We are being judged as a people. And it will increase in intensity. We just need to pay attention.
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Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we ask for your grace and your mercy, your goodness and kindness. Open our eyes that we may see. Open our ears that we may hear, and our minds and our hearts that we may receive thy word and thy truth. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Are there any questions or comments? Yeah, I've got a comment. All these emails remind me of a woman in our park who had a shirt a couple of years ago and it said, "Noah was a conspiracy nut until it started to rain." Yeah, that's a fact.
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I'd like to make to show how important honest money is. After the revolution, Washington wrote a letter to Jefferson, who was ambassador to France. And he said, "Jefferson, I would have never believed it, but nearly all the ills of this young nation disappeared when we went back to money of substance." So there was far less corruption, crime, inflation. And I told people, what an ounce of gold would buy you in 1860, roughly an ounce.
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A whole complete new wardrobe. If you've got $4,900 today, you can pretty much buy a new wardrobe. So paper money, by definition, is inflation. Is paper money. That's a fact. That's a fact. All right. Anyone else? Frank, anybody on that end? No, we're just marveling at how true God's Word is every day. It seems to get more and more clear. Amen. Amen. Well, we need to keep our eyes open, that's for sure.
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And tell those boys they better be protecting those grandbabies. Absolutely. All right. Lord willing, we'll be dismissed again in prayer. Father, dismiss us with your love and grace. In thy name we pray, Amen.
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Things to Remember Until - Part 2

John Weaver | Freedom Ministries

In this sermon, John Weaver continues his series on things believers must remember 'until'—until God's purposes are fulfilled. He focuses on the third point: remembering the judgment of God until it strikes. Using Deuteronomy 32, Psalm 10, and other passages, he explains that God's judgments are often progressive, preceded by warnings, and culminate in sudden destruction. He applies this to economic and political signs, urging believers to interpret current events through Scripture, prepare wisely, and find comfort in God's ultimate justice.

Introduction and Review

Scripture Reading — Deuteronomy 32:4

"He is the rock. His work is perfect, for all His ways are judgment, a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is He."

The Command to Remember Our Sins

Scripture Reading — Psalm 51:1-3

"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin."

Scripture Reading — Psalm 97:10

"Ye that love the Lord hate evil. He preserved the souls of his saints. He delivered them out of the hand of the wicked."

Remembering the Judgment of God Until

Introducing the third point, Weaver notes that people often assume God will not judge because He delays. He reads Deuteronomy 32:4 to emphasize God's perfect, holy judgments.

The Impatience of the Righteous and the Patience of God

But look, if you would please, in verse one, David says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 10:1-11

"Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"

Now, I want you to watch. Look what he says from verses two through eleven. He's talking about the wicked.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 10:1-11

"The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. He says, let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasted of his heart's desire. That is, he glories in all of those wicked things and blessed the covetous whom the Lord hated or abhorred. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God. God is not in all of his thoughts." "His ways are also grievous. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all of his enemies, he puffeth at them. He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud. Under his tongue is mischief and vanity. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages. In the secret places doth he murder the innocent." "His eyes are privately set against the poor. He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor. He does catch the poor when he draweth him into his net. He crouches and humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He has said in his heart, God hath forgotten. He hideth his face. He will never see it."

Scripture Reading — Psalm 10:1-11

"Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"

In other words, Lord, what are you doing?

Now, let me show you. Look in your Bibles to Psalm seven and verse six, because again, he says it like this. Psalm seven, verse six.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 7:6

"Arise, O Lord, in thy anger. Lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies and awake for me to the judgment that thou has commanded."

Scripture Reading — Psalm 35:23

Psalm 44 verse 23. "Awake! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise and cast us not off forever." He says, God, you're asleep. Lord, you need to wake up. The wicked are running rampant. Do something. You see, the problem is you and I are impatient. And God is known for his patience. We are unwilling to wait. We want to see something done now. Let me make a statement and you think about this. God is the slowest individual with whom you will ever be connected.

Scripture Reading — Genesis 15:13-16

"And he, that is God, said to Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years. And also that nation whom they shall serve, that would be Egypt, will I judge and afterward they shall come out with great substance."

Scripture Reading — Genesis 15:13-16

"And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation, four hundred years, they shall come out hither again."

Here's why.

Scripture Reading — Genesis 15:13-16

"For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."

Warnings Precede Judgment: The Two Baskets of Figs

From Jeremiah 24, Weaver explains that the first captivity was for the good of the exiles, while those left behind were warned for 10-12 years before destruction. People ignored the warning signs.

Scripture Reading — Jeremiah 24:1-10

"The Lord showed me and behold two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord. After that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon." "One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs, very good, and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place unto the land of Chaldeans for their good. For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land, and I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up, and I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return unto me with their whole heart."

Progressive Curses Leading to Sudden Destruction

Scripture Reading — Joshua 23:15

"Therefore it shall come to pass that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you."

And of course, he gave it to them gradually, steadily. OK, progressively, he says.

Scripture Reading — Joshua 23:15

"So shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things until he destroyed you from all this good land which the Lord your God had given you."

The Prudent Man Foresees Evil

Citing Proverbs 22:3 and Proverbs 1:20-33, Weaver contrasts the prudent who prepare with the simple who ignore warnings. Wisdom cries out, but when judgment comes suddenly, it is too late.

Scripture Reading — Proverbs 22:3

"A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished."

It begins slowly, builds crescendo, and then it happens. So look in Proverbs 1 and verse 20.

Scripture Reading — Proverbs 1:20-33

"Wisdom crieth without. She uttereth her voice in the streets. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the opening of the gates, that is publicly, in the city she uttereth her word saying, here's what she's saying, 'How long you simple ones will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.'" "Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my Spirit upon you. I will make known my words unto you, because I have called, and you refused. I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded. Look at this. But you have said that it gnawed all my counsel. You wouldn't listen. You would have none of my reproof."

Now what's God going to do?

Scripture Reading — Proverbs 1:20-33

"I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. Why? For they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord." "They would have none of my counsel. They despised all of my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices, for the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them."

Economic and Political Warning Signs Today

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"The burden of Egypt."

Now he's going to destroy Egypt, but watch this.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"The burden of Egypt, behold, the Lord rides upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt and the idols of Egypt shall be moved in his presence and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it."

Now pay attention.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. And they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, sin against sin, and kingdom against kingdom."

Look at the riots going on in our country. Okay? All right, watch this.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof."

In other words, everybody's going to be confused, confounded.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"And I will destroy the council thereof, and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over in the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. Now watch, and the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up."

You don't have any fish, you don't have any commerce, no traveling up and down the rivers.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"And they shall turn the rivers far away, and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up."

"The reeds and the flags shall wither," which were used economically.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 19:1-10

"The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, gardens, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angled into the brooks shall lament, and they shall spread nests upon the waters, they shall languish, not catching anything. Moreover, they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded, and they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, in all that makes sluices and ponds for fish."

Applications and Comfort

Scripture Reading — Psalm 105:7

"He is the Lord our God. His judgments are in all the earth."

We just need to open our eyes and see them scripturally.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 119:52

"I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord, and they have comforted me."

Things to Remember Until - Part 2

John Weaver | SermonAudio

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Speaker	John Weaver
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Subject	Sermon Series
Course	Sermon Series: Special Multi-Part Studies
Genre	Sermon
Date	2026-01-25
Dictation Name
Book	Book 193: Things to Remember Until — Chapter 2
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Lecture Guide

Outline

Introduction and Review: Weaver reviews the first two points from the previous message: remembering the wicked until their end, and remembering our sins until glorification. He reads Deuteronomy 32:4,39-42 to set the stage for the third point.
The Command to Remember Our Sins: Weaver expands on the second point, showing from Psalm 51 that David's sin was ever before him, and that saints grieve over remembered sins, learning to hate evil as commanded in Psalm 97:10 and Proverbs 8:13.
Remembering the Judgment of God Until: Introducing the third point, Weaver notes that people often assume God will not judge because He delays. He reads Deuteronomy 32:4 to emphasize God's perfect, holy judgments.
The Impatience of the Righteous and the Patience of God: Using Psalm 10, Psalm 7:6, Psalm 35:23, and Psalm 44:23, Weaver shows David's distress at God's apparent delay. He contrasts human impatience with God's patience, illustrated by the Amorites (Genesis 15:13-16) and the 400-year wait.
Warnings Precede Judgment: The Two Baskets of Figs: From Jeremiah 24, Weaver explains that the first captivity was for the good of the exiles, while those left behind were warned for 10-12 years before destruction. People ignored the warning signs.
Progressive Curses Leading to Sudden Destruction: Weaver examines Deuteronomy 28, noting the word 'until' appears only in the curses. He shows how curses like pestilence, drought, and siege are progressive but end in sudden destruction. Joshua 23:15 confirms this pattern.
The Prudent Man Foresees Evil: Citing Proverbs 22:3 and Proverbs 1:20-33, Weaver contrasts the prudent who prepare with the simple who ignore warnings. Wisdom cries out, but when judgment comes suddenly, it is too late.
Economic and Political Warning Signs Today: Weaver applies the principle to current events: rising gold and silver prices reveal the worthlessness of fiat currency. He references Isaiah 19 to show God judges nations economically, and notes political turmoil as a warning.
Applications and Comfort: Weaver urges believers to see God's judgments everywhere through Scripture (Psalm 105:7), find comfort in God's justice (Psalm 119:52), and remember that God will not acquit the wicked (Nahum 1:1-2). He closes with prayer.

Major Themes

Key Arguments

God's delay in judgment does not mean He will not judge.

The apparent prosperity of the wicked and God's patience often lead people to think judgment will never come, but Scripture shows God will act in His time.

Weaver says, 'just because God does not strike instantly... then we assume that God is not going to judge and God is not going to strike.' He uses Psalm 10 to show the wicked's false confidence and David's impatience.

God's judgments are preceded by clear warning signs that most ignore.

From the flood to Sodom to the captivities, God gave ample warning through preaching, events, and progressive curses, but people refused to heed them.

Weaver says, 'God's judgments are not always sudden catastrophes... they are always preceded beforehand with warnings, admonitions, and exhortation.' He cites Noah's 120-year preaching and the 10-12 year gap in Jeremiah 24.

The word 'until' in Deuteronomy 28 curses indicates progressive judgment.

The repeated use of 'until' in the curses shows that God's judgment is often a slow, steady process that builds to a climax, not an instant event.

Weaver points out, 'the little word "until" does not occur when God is talking about the blessings. It only occurs when God is talking about the curses and the judgments.' He reads verses 20, 21, 24, 48, 51, 61, and 62.

Economic collapse is a form of God's judgment on fraudulent systems.

Rising precious metal prices and fiat currency devaluation are modern warnings of God's judgment on dishonest economic practices, as seen in Isaiah 19.

Weaver states, 'God does use his judgment to destroy a nation economically. When that economic nation or that economy in that nation is fraudulent, and ours certainly is fraudulent.' He references the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe.

Honest weights and measures are tied to national longevity.

Deuteronomy 25:13-15 promises long life in the land for using just weights, showing that economic integrity is a matter of divine blessing or cursing.

Weaver reads Deuteronomy 25:13-15 and says, 'Do you realize that inflation is theft? Fraud is theft. Deceit is theft, and God says I'm promising long life for those who have an honest economic system.'

Believers must actively prepare and not be like the simple who ignore warnings.

Proverbs 22:3 and 1:20-33 teach that the prudent foresee evil and hide themselves, while the simple pass on and are punished; this applies to spiritual and practical preparedness.

Weaver says, 'The prudent man looks ahead. The prudent man observes. The prudent man prepares. The simple say, "Well, everything will work out."' He urges swapping paper money for tangible goods.

Scripture References

Deuteronomy 32:4: Read at the opening to introduce God's perfect, just character as the foundation for remembering His judgment.
Deuteronomy 32:39-42: Read to show God's sovereign power over life, death, and vengeance, setting the stage for the judgment theme.
Psalm 51:1-3: Cited to show David's sin was ever before him, illustrating that saints remember sins with grief, not relish.
Psalm 97:10: Quoted to command hatred of evil, including one's own past sins, as part of the fear of the Lord.
Proverbs 8:13: Quoted to reinforce that the fear of the Lord involves hating evil, pride, and arrogancy.
Psalm 10:1-11: Read to show the wicked's false security and David's question about God's apparent distance, highlighting impatience with God's timing.
Psalm 7:6: Quoted to show David's plea for God to awake to judgment, reflecting human impatience.
Psalm 35:23: Quoted similarly to show David urging God to stir Himself and awake to his cause.
Psalm 44:23: Quoted to show David's bold language: 'Awake! Why sleepest thou, O Lord?' emphasizing the felt delay.
Genesis 15:13-16: Read to illustrate God's patience: the Amorites were given 400 years before judgment because their iniquity was not yet full.
Jeremiah 24:1-10: Read to show the two baskets of figs: the good figs (exiles) were for good, the bad figs (those left) were for destruction, with a 10-12 year warning.
Deuteronomy 28:20-62: Examined to show the repeated 'until' in the curses, indicating progressive judgment leading to sudden destruction.
Joshua 23:15: Quoted to confirm that as good things came progressively, so evil things would come 'until' destruction.
Proverbs 22:3: Quoted to contrast the prudent man who foresees evil and hides with the simple who pass on and are punished.
Proverbs 1:20-33: Read to show Wisdom's call, rejection, and the sudden calamity that follows when it is too late.
Isaiah 19:1-10: Read to demonstrate God's judgment on Egypt through economic collapse, civil strife, and ecological disaster.
Deuteronomy 25:13-15: Read to show the promise of long life for using just weights and measures, linking economic honesty to national blessing.
Psalm 105:7: Quoted to assert that God's judgments are in all the earth, urging believers to see them through Scripture.
Psalm 119:52: Quoted to show that remembering God's judgments of old brings comfort to the righteous.
Nahum 1:1-2: Quoted in closing to affirm God's vengeance, slowness to anger, and certainty that He will not acquit the wicked.

Historical References

The Amorites' 400-year grace period before judgment: Weaver explains that God delayed Israel's entry into Canaan for 400 years because 'the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full' (Genesis 15:16), showing divine patience.
Nebuchadnezzar's two attacks on Jerusalem (597 and 586 BC): Weaver describes the first captivity as a warning; those left in Jerusalem had 10-12 years to repent before the final destruction, but they ignored the sign.
The Flood and Noah's 120-year preaching: Weaver notes that Noah preached for 120 years while building the ark, but the antediluvians ignored the warning until the flood came suddenly.
Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction: Weaver points out that before the sudden judgment, angels struck men with blindness and led Lot out, but no one heeded the warning signs.
Weimar Republic hyperinflation: Weaver tells the story of a German woman whose wheelbarrow was stolen while the money was dumped, illustrating the worthlessness of fiat currency.
Zimbabwe hyperinflation and 100 trillion dollar notes: Weaver mentions people sitting with stacks of money that couldn't buy bread, and some owning 100 trillion dollar notes as souvenirs of worthless currency.
Dust Bowl in Oklahoma: Weaver compares the dust storms of Deuteronomy 28:24 to the historical Dust Bowl, illustrating progressive environmental judgment.
George Soros' open society funding protests: Weaver references a woman named Renee Good who was paid to protest, implying outside agitation in current political turmoil.
George Washington's letter to Jefferson on honest money: In a post-sermon comment, an attendee mentions Washington wrote that the nation's ills disappeared when they returned to 'money of substance.'

Important Quotes

God is the slowest individual with whom you will ever be connected.

Emphasizes the vast difference between human impatience and God's patient, perfect timing in judgment.

God's judgments are not always sudden catastrophes. They may end up that way, but they are always preceded beforehand with warnings, admonitions, and exhortation.

Central thesis of the sermon: judgment is progressive with clear signs before the final sudden destruction.

The wicked man remembers his sins, and he relishes them. He enjoys turning them over in his mind. He glories in those sins. But yet, as a saint, when our sins come into our minds, we grieve over them, we agonize over them, and we wish that we had never engaged in those sins.

Highlights the contrasting responses to remembered sin between the wicked and the righteous, showing the sanctifying purpose of memory.

I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord, and they have comforted me.

Psalm 119:52 quoted to show that recalling God's past judgments brings comfort by assuring believers of ultimate justice.

He will not at all acquit the wicked.

From Nahum 1:2, used as a closing assurance that no wicked person will ultimately escape God's judgment.

Do you realize that inflation is theft? Fraud is theft. Deceit is theft, and God says I'm promising long life for those who have an honest economic system.

Connects economic dishonesty to divine judgment and the promise of Deuteronomy 25:15, applying it to modern fiat currency.

Discussion Questions

[Question]

Why do we often assume God will not judge when He delays? How does Psalm 10 challenge that assumption?

[Context]

Weaver discusses the wicked's false security and David's impatience in Psalm 10.

[Question]

In what ways have you seen God's progressive warnings in your own life or in the world before a sudden consequence?

[Context]

The sermon emphasizes the pattern of gradual curses leading to sudden destruction in Deuteronomy 28.

[Question]

How can remembering our past sins lead to genuine hatred of evil rather than despair or false guilt?

[Context]

Weaver explains that God leaves memories of sin to teach us to hate evil, citing Psalm 51 and Proverbs 8:13.

[Question]

What current economic or political events might be warning signs of God's judgment, and how should we respond as believers?

[Context]

Weaver applies the principle to rising gold/silver prices and civil unrest, urging preparation and spiritual discernment.

[Question]

How does the promise of long life for honest weights (Deuteronomy 25:15) apply to our personal and national economic practices today?

[Context]

Weaver links economic integrity to divine blessing and judgment, using the example of fiat currency.

[Question]

In what ways can remembering God's past judgments bring comfort rather than fear to believers?

[Context]

Weaver quotes Psalm 119:52 and explains that it assures us of God's justice and the ultimate fate of the wicked.

[Question]

What does it mean to be a 'prudent man' who foresees evil and hides himself (Proverbs 22:3) in practical terms today?

[Context]

Weaver contrasts the prudent with the simple, urging preparation and attention to warning signs.

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