“THE LAST FIRST!”

Mark 10:23-31                                                      (ESV)

“23 And JESUS looked around and said to HIS disciples, "How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of GOD!"

24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But JESUS said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of GOD!

25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of GOD."

26 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to HIM, "Then who can be saved?"

27 JESUS looked at them and said, "With man it is impossible, but not with GOD. For all things are possible with GOD."

28 Peter began to say to HIM, "See, we have left everything and followed YOU."

29 JESUS said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for MY sake and for the gospel,

30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

31 But many who are FIRST will be LAST, and “THE LAST FIRST”."”

Mere WORDS cannot describe the grief felt over the departure of over three thousand lives on September 11, 2001.  But I also pledged to myself that I would never allow the sacrifice painful desertion of the four brave souls that were left in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012!  All Americans should be valued enough to at least an attempt to save them, whether we think it will be futile or not.  

We have become SO Biblically and Spiritually illiterate that we can’t SEE when “the enemy” is right in our midst.  JESUS, GOD IN THE FLESH, said in Mark 10 that those who are FIRST will be LAST, and “THE LAST FIRST”!  We tend to assume that because we aren’t BLESSED according to what WE THINK others are, that we aren’t FAVORED IN HIS EYES?  The fact of the matter is, satan has to be restrained or he would reek terrible tragedies that we cannot even imagine!  

For instance, when Joseph was sold into slavery in Genesis 37:12-36, he did not immediately become second in command of Pharaoh.  He had Ted to experience tremendous difficulties before he was placed where GOD could use him for HIS GLORY.  In Exodus 14, the new Pharaoh understood the “FIRST will be LAST” concept, and fully!!!  

America has become arguably the most powerful nation in history, but we have lost sight of WHO allowed us to ascend to the heights that we now enjoy.  Being a PROPHET is not a gift that I have been blessed with, but my limited understanding of Scripture does not include the United States of America in it.  Unless we “...humble themselves, and pray and seek MY face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”(Chronicles 7:14). 

GOD can (and does!) use the weak to shame the strong, and HE uses the foolish to shame the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27), so don’t think HE isn’t able to humble America.  We need to EARNESTLY PRAY that we will return to HIM and HIS PRINCIPLES with great haste.  HIS acts of humility aren’t comfortable.  HE PROMISES “But many who are FIRST will be LAST, and “THE LAST FIRST”!