JONAH AND THE CAPTAIN

Word of the Lord this day to Jim Hammerle

Jonah and the captain

     When Jonah was in direct rebellion to my command he went the opposite direction away from my will, plan and purpose. He did as he pleased without considering collateral damage. What he did not realize was that rebellion is a spirit that reaches out of the human soul and grabs innocent bystanders who are completely unaware. The first mate, the captain and the crew were all unaware that their passenger was in a battle with his creator and they were about to be the collateral damage. I chose the storm to make my unwilling servant willing.
       He was going in the water with or without the ship. Jonah suddenly realized that in his war with Me many innocent lives were about to be lost. He quickly confessed and knew the remedy. By surrendering to the divine storm he surrendered to Me. He decided suicide was better than taking the captain down with Him. He knew I was going to win the battle. In his mind he was committing suicide but In My mind he was committing genocide of the Ninevehites.
     Many of my children today are doing the same thing by excusing their sin and ignoring my word that warns, "the soul that sinneth it shall die". Many are willing to take their chances as Jonah did without considering collateral damage. Children and grandchildren are going down with the ship, suffering death to the forth generation. The sins of a rebellious pastor will take the church down. The sins of a parent will bring the children down. The sins of a CEO will bring a company down. The sins of a government will take a nation down.
     I was not showing as much mercy to Jonah as I was to Nineveh. My plan called for Jonah to go to Nineveh and My plan was to be fulfilled. His willingness to to commit suicide was his saving grace. He was willing to die alone to save the lives of others, which is true repentance.
         It is better for a father bound by pornography, if he will not seek deliverance, to leave the home and separate from those he loves, than to take them all down with him. Anyone in leadership should exercise love for those he or she leads and resign before the storm takes them all down. If sin private or public is not dealt with it will grab hold of as many as it can so the collateral damage is great.
      I see the misery of the innocent and will remember it on that day. I cannot bless sin, or rebellion, as a result many families live in poverty not recognizing the hidden sin that is causing it. Remember Achan's sin.
I hear the cries of My sheep who are suffering when they have done nothing wrong, but are the victim of another's hidden sin. Be sure I will right this wrong.
     The worst thing you can ever imagine is for a stumbler of the innocent, to meet Me on judgment day. Oh how they will wish they were never born. Better they commit suicide than meet Me with innocent blood on their hands.
Jonah 1:4-5,12 (KJV)
But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. [5] Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. [12] And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Matthew 18:6 (AMP)
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in and acknowledge and cleave to Me to stumble and sin that is, who entices him or hinders him in right conduct or thought, it would be better (more expedient and profitable or advantageous) for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be sunk in the depth of the sea.
Exodus 34:6-7 (KJV)
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord , The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, [7] Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation .
Ezekiel 34:9-10 (KJV)
Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord ; [10] Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Proverbs 14:11 (KJV)
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Proverbs 29:12 (KJV)
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
1 Samuel 15:22-23 (KJV)
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. [23] For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord , he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Ezekiel 18:4 (KJV)
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.