The Threshing Floor: Heads Up America: Heads Up Church:

Kim Kraemer
Sometimes we must cut through the chase and say things the way they are. :)
First I would like to say that for several weeks now the very lives of children in America have really been on my heart.  Anyway it’s been more the little ones, a sense of real danger pre-school elementary groups.  Then came the anthrax situation and as horrible as it may be it is not the one we need to be real focused on. Don’t get me wrong we definitely need to PRAY.  Pray we have been doing 24-7   our hearts are crying out to GOD for Mercy and Deliverance and that our Nation America will REPENT and Turn around back to GOD YAHveh not around and into ALL these False gods which you here so much propaganda about, yes you know how peaceful and wonderful they are. Anyway In all of this we have GODS Peace and Assurance that HE IS IN CONTROL.  For those who do not know our Church is only 7 miles from the Chemical Depot. Therefore Psalm 91 is quite comforting. :) Anyway yes it is the one with the stuff that kills quickly and then not so quickly. The end result is death if you do not have the serum to counter it. In which probably 99.9% of the people do not have.  The one CNN made sure ALL the world knew and the other Depots around the Country. Makes you wonder whose side they are on. OK! OK!  Please do not yell at me :). I am being open and honest about my feelings concerning the LACK of wisdom the media seems to have. No Matter who's life they put at risk all in the name of free press.  OK you have probably heard this before.
Getting to the reason of this writing.  After watching President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair Pressing vexing Israel to give up their GOD GIVEN Land I was very, very troubled and disquieted in my spirit.  The LORD had said to me that HE was driving President Bush and the Nation to their knees through the many things that had been happening and that it would reveal what is in the heart of man.  What's in your heart? Do we Americans have a TRUE REPENTIVE HEART? Have We Turned Back to GOD (YAHveh)? Are we sorrowful for the way we have treated GOD? Driving HIM from our Lives, Homes, Schools, Govt.,

after what GOD showed me in this passage I believe that President Bush has displeased the LORD concerning Israel no matter how good he feels his intentions are towards them.  It is not wise to VEX with Fear or harm Israel to do so invites the wrath of GOD!  We must Stand with the Jews No compromise Not Ever over Jerusalem.  It is very possible that we Americans will suffer the consequences if we Vex them by pushing them to do something that they will not do ever. They will Never give up Jerusalem. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.  If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Psalms 137:5-6 (KJV) See Notes: 

My real concern has been an outbreak of Smallpox. I heard the LORD Say that if there were a Plague of Smallpox it would Kill many children.  I asked my Doctor about Smallpox because I knew my age group was one of the last to receive the inoculation and definitely they had stopped giving it before my children were born 27 years ago.  She told me that it was very deadly and horrible to Say the least.  Then last Friday GOD said to me while we were in Intercession "Threshing Floor"  so we went over to (2 Samuel 24) we find there King David Displeases GOD concerning Israel. We also find the anger of the LORD kindled against Israel and satan has provoked King David to number Israel to see how many there are. [Once again the anger of the Lord flared against Israel, and he (satan) caused David to harm them by taking a national census. "Go and count the people of Israel and Judah," the Lord told him. 2 Sam 24:1 (Living)] We see where King David's Commander -in -chief entreats him not to do this terrible thing, to no avail [So the king said to Joab, commander-in-chief of his army, "Take a census of all the people from one end of the nation to the other, so that I will know how many of them there are."3 But Joab replied, "God grant that you will live to see the day when there will be a hundred times as many people in your kingdom as there are now! But you have no right to rejoice in their strength." But the king's command overcame Joab's remonstrance; so Joab and the other army officers went out to count the people of Israel. 2 Sam 24:2-4 (Living)] It took them 9 months 20 days (note: just about the time to conceive and deliver a baby) [Having gone through the entire land, they completed their task in nine months and twenty days.2 Sam 24:8 (Living)] We also find 3 Choices GOD gave to him and from the 3 King David was to Choose the Punishment that the nation would bare. (but alas David asks GOD to choose it)  We must remember it is not in the Power or the Strength of a Nation we are to LOOK for our deliverance, for our victory in the Battle, It is to GOD.  We are to Rejoice in Gods Strength.  He gives the victory. He gives the increase.  After King David does this dreadful deed, his conscience begins to bother him.   GOD sends the Prophet Gad (King David's Seer) to the King and this is what GOD had to Say about it..  [But after he had taken the census, David's conscience began to bother him, and he said to the Lord, "What I did was very wrong. Please forgive this foolish wickedness of mine."  The next morning the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, who was David's contact with God. The Lord said to Gad, "Tell David that I will give him three choices."  So Gad came to David and asked him "Will you choose seven years of famine across the land, or to flee for three months before your enemies, or to submit to three days of plague?  Think this over and let me know what answer to give to God."  "This is a hard decision," David replied, but it is better to fall into the hand of the Lord (for his mercy is great) than into the hands of men."   So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel that morning, and it lasted for three days; and seventy thousand men died throughout the nation. 2 Sam 24:10-15 (Living)]  Now the Word says GOD not satan SENT the Plague.  Next we see GOD Repents of what he has done as the death angel is about to Touch Jerusalem  GOD SAYS it is enough! And the angel of the LORD is by the THRESHING PLACE.  Now we see King David interceding to the LORD saying I am the one who sinned against you not these sheep, turn your anger against me and my family.
GOD requests an offering after David repents and intercedes.  King David goes to DO what GOD requested.
[But as the death angel was preparing to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord was sorry for what was happening and told him to stop. He was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite at the time. When David saw the angel, he said to the Lord, "Look, I am the one who has sinned! What have these sheep done? Let your anger be only against me and my family."  That day Gad came to David and said to him, "Go and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." So David went to do what the Lord had commanded him. 2 Sam 24:16-19 (Living)]
Next we see the Jebusite fearful for his life crying out to King David and the conclusion of the events.
[When Araunah saw the king and his men coming toward him, he came forward and fell flat on the ground with his face in the dust. "Why have you come?" Araunah asked. And David replied, "To buy your threshing floor, so that I can build an altar to the Lord, and he will stop the plague."  "Use anything you like," Araunah told the king. "Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and you can use the threshing instruments and ox yokes for wood to build a fire on the altar. I will give it all to you, and may the Lord God accept your sacrifice." But the king said to Araunah, "No, I will not have it as a gift. I will buy it, for I don't want to offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that have cost me nothing." So David paid him for the threshing floor and the oxen. And David built an altar there to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And the Lord answered his prayer, and the plague was stopped.2 Sam 24:20-25 (Living)] (note: is it possible that King Araunah was the last Jebusite King allowed to stay there after King David had captured it?)  KJV puts it this way and if you received the last message on HIS GLORY LIST you will remember The LORD SAID, Not a TIME of Retreat but to ENTREAT! We must ENTREAT The LORD and ENTREAT the lost to COME to The LORD at this TIME. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.2 Sam 24:25 (KJV)  There is so much here that GOD is Saying in this scripture concerning our Prophetic TIME Table. For example Jebusites are robbers of our goods. GOD has been SAYING to the Church it is TIME Drive out the Jebusites..  Threshing Floors were the Place where the Grain was Threshed.  Threshing (Hebrew (D^ush), to trample out, (havat) to beat out or off, (darekh), to tread, to tread down) Threshing Floors were often on Hills so that WHEN the NIGHT WINDS BLEW,,it would BLOW AWAY THE CHAFF.  out of the GRAIN!  In this scripture we see this Jebusite owns the Threshing Floor where King David is to erect the Altar of Sacrifice to GOD and David buys it from him, even when the Jebusite tempts King David buy saying he could have it! OH WOW WOW WOW Church! Think about that a minute. Our redemption Draws Nigh!  Prophet John The Baptist Said   "Turn from your sins . . . turn to God . . . for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming soon." Matt 3:2 (Living) "And even now the ax of God's judgment is poised to chop down every unproductive tree. They will be chopped and burned. Matt 3:10 (Living) He will separate the chaff from the grain, burning the chaff with never-ending fire and storing away the grain." Matt 3:12 (Living)  He will separate chaff from grain, and burn up the chaff with eternal fire and store away the grain."  He used many such warnings as he announced the Good News to the people. Luke 3:17-18 (Living)  We Must ENTREAT the LORD concerning the Repentance of America that HE WILL turn HIS Favor upon us and per chance we escape far worse than just Anthrax. 

 FOOTNOTES:
For the Lord God says: "I am gathering the people of Israel from among the nations and bringing them home from around the world to their own land, 22 to unify them into one nation. Ezek 37:21-22 (Living)   They shall live in the land of Israel where their fathers lived, the land I gave my servant Jacob. They and their children after them shall live there, and their grandchildren, for all generations. Ezek 37:25 (Living) And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting pact. I will bless them and multiply them and put my Temple among them forever. And I will make my home among them. Yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  And when my Temple remains among them forever, then the nations will know that I, the Lord, have chosen Israel as my very own.” Ezek 37:26-28 (Living) But when you come to destroy the land of Israel, my fury will rise! For in my jealousy and blazing wrath, I promise a mighty shaking in the land of Israel on that day. All living things shall quake in terror at my presence; mountains shall be thrown down; cliffs shall tumble; walls shall crumble to the earth. Ezek 38:18-20 (Living) I will summon every kind of terror against you," says the Lord God, "and you will fight against yourselves in mortal combat! I will fight you with sword, disease, torrential floods, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone! Thus will I show my greatness and bring honor upon my name, and all the nations of the world will hear what I have done and know that I am God! Ezek 38:21-23 (Living) Those who trust in the Lord are steady as Mount Zion, unmoved by any circumstance. Just as the mountains surround and protect Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds and protects his people.  For the wicked shall not rule the godly, lest the godly be forced to do wrong.  O Lord, do good to those who are good, whose hearts are right with the Lord; but lead evil men to execution. And let Israel have quietness and peace. Psalms 125:1-5 (Living) Grace, Peace, Mercy, Kim Kraemer. 
This was posted on Fri Aug 2 15:04:12 2002 by Kim Kraemer