Without A Vision We Perish

Proverbs 29:18:

Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained,

But happy is he who keeps the Law. (NAS)

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint,

But blessed is he who keeps the Law. (NIV)

When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild.

But whoever obeys the Law is joyful. (New Living Translation)

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint,

But blessed is he who keeps the Law. (English Standard Version)

Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelations of God],

The people perish; But he who keeps the Law [of God,

Which includes that of man], blessed, happy, fortunate [and enviable]

Is he. (Amplified Version)

A vision, a revelation, divine guidance, prophetic vision are essential

For those who claim the Name of Christ.

Faith itself is a revelation of who Christ Jesus is and who He is to each of us.

It takes a revelation to accept Christ Jesus as Savior and Lord;

Understanding that He is the only Way, the only Truth and the only LIFE;

The only Gate to Eternal LIFE;

That He is Holy and His Word Flawless and Absolute.

It takes this revelation to overcome this world and the evil one who rules it.

Without this revelation we will perish; We will go to a devil's Hell.

The Way of Christ Jesus is not the best among alternatives,

He is the Only Way to Eternal LIFE and His Word defines that Way.

You live in a world in which most people have no revelation of God.

The are captive to their five senses;

Captive to the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life;

[That which they possess or have accomplished in view of others.]

Captive to their ruler, Satan.

Even many who claim the Name of Christ

Have no vision or revelation of God.

Therefore My people go into captivity

[To their enemies] without knowing it

And because they have no knowledge of God.

And their honorable men—their glory—are famished,

And their common people are parched with thirst.

Therefore Sheol—the unseen state, the realm of the dead--

Has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth without measure,

And [Jerusalem's] nobility and her multitude and her pomp and tumult

And [the drunken reveler] who exults in her descend into it.

(Isaiah 5:13-14 AMP)

What is this revelation we must have to belong to Christ

And to overcome this world and the evil one who rules it?

Isaiah had a revelation of God:

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a Throne,

High and exalted, and the Train of His Robe filled the Temple.

Above Him were Seraphs, each with six wings:

With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,

And with two they were flying.

And they were calling to one another:

'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His Glory.'

At the sound of their voices the door posts shook

And the Temple was filled with smoke.

'Woe to me! I cried. 'I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips,

And I live among a people of unclean lips,

And my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.'

Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a Live Coal in his hand,

Which he had taken with tongs from the Altar.

With it he touched my mouth and said,

'See, this has touched your lips;

Your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.'

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,

'Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?'

And I said, 'Here am I. Send me!'

He said, 'GO and tell this people:

'Be ever hearing, but never understanding;

Be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'

Make the heart of this people calloused;

Make their ears dull and close their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,

Understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.' (Isaiah 6:1-10)

Isaiah had a vision, a revelation of God and His Heaven

That would carry him through the rest of his life;

That would carry him into the Presence of God at the end of his days.

His sin was atoned for as our sin has been atoned for by the work of Christ

When we accept Him as Savior and Lord.

He answered the call of God on his life: “Here am I. Send me.”

We also must accept the call of God upon our lives.

We must proclaim this Great Salvation Christ has purchased for everyone

Who will believe it, receive it, and walk in it.

Most will never see or perceive.

Most have dull ears and have closed their eyes.

But there are those, like in the day of Christ;

Before and afterward who see and hear;

Who understand with their hearts and are healed. Hallelujah!

It is those we serve!

For those God has given us our Vision, our Revelation!

That the world would know that God the Father sent Christ Jesus;

God's only provision for Salvation.

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!