When Josiah became king, he was 8 years old.\u00a0 He did not know that there was anything wrong with the kingdom that he inherited.\u00a0 The temple, all the priests, and everything related to the worship of and obedience to God, was in a decrepit condition.\u00a0 The nation had fallen into idolatry and it had been that way since before he was born.\u00a0 Like all young people, he thought the dilapidated, sordid, disorder was normal.\u00a0 However, Josiah at 18 years of age begin to seek God.<\/p>\n
Discovering the truth<\/strong> When Josiah turned 20, he called the elders and other religious figures together, and made a \u201ccovenant before the\u00a0Lord, to follow the\u00a0Lord\u00a0and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all\u00a0his\u00a0heart and all\u00a0his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book.\u201d\u00a0 Then Josiah cleaned house.\u00a0 He tore down all the idols, burned and otherwise destroyed all the false altars, and even defiled their places with the powdered bones of dead men.<\/p>\n Our nation is in the same raunchy condition spiritually and secularly.\u00a0 We are a wicked nation that is becoming increasingly wicked.\u00a0 Just the fact alone that our nation has sanctioned and committed the murder of over 57 million babies, with many professing Christians sanctioning the slaughter, makes it cursed by God.\u00a0 In the nation that was founded by Christians on Christian principles, we are now developing policies that are aggressively against God, His Son Jesus Christ, and anyone who devoutly follows Him.<\/p>\n A Deceived Generation<\/strong> Their leadership is defiled.\u00a0 They prefer to resemble the emissaries of Satan rather than someone set apart (sanctified) as an anointed man or woman of God.\u00a0\u00a0 With body piercings, tattoos, secular fashion, and using the language and mannerisms of the world system, they present bondage in their messages.<\/p>\n The younger generations have thrown off scriptural restraints, discarded every righteous restriction, and have leaped headfirst into apostasy.\u00a0 They are not knowingly subjects of Satan. \u00a0They do not knowingly worship at his altars, imbibe his polluted spirituality, and knowingly reject the Holy Spirit and the voice of truth.\u00a0 They do it because they are deceived.<\/p>\n They sit under \u201crock star\u201d pastors, novices who have no substance and blatant heretics.\u00a0 Their messages are designed to entertain, but not to convict or offend.\u00a0 The messages are a mixture of humor, pop psychology, and strange interpretations of the Scripture stretched to cover the heresy.\u00a0 If they quote a bold exhortation from God\u2019s word, it is applied to anyone who disagrees with their aberrant paradigm.<\/p>\n Some\u00a0Youth are Waking Up!<\/strong> They may realize that the longing in their soul\u2014that is never satisfied by the churches they attend\u2014is a longing for God and truth.\u00a0 They may recognize that the unsettled feeling, and the sense of dread, is because they worship in a diabolical environment, empty of the righteous presence of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n When that occurs, some of them are going to rise up in righteous protest.\u00a0 They are going to begin exhorting their friends and challenging the evil.\u00a0 This army of youth will be powerful because they have been in the shadowland, feasted with demons, and known the emptiness of the entire paradigm of Christian worldliness.<\/p>\n A Mighty Youth Army<\/strong> It is a job for the Remnant to pray for this uprising of godly young people.\u00a0 We need to pray that they truth will burn like fire shut up in in their bones and words of truth like flames on their tongues.\u00a0 We must pray that they will not be discouraged when they realize the devastation that they were born into and not be dismayed at the task ahead.\u00a0 We must pray that they do not compromise when they realize how alone they are in the world system and Christianity.\u00a0 We must pray that they will be content to be accepted by God.\u00a0 We must also accept them and encourage them to be Josiah and Hilkiah in their generation.\u00a0 Praise God for His immeasurable wisdom and power!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Josiah became king, he was 8 years old.\u00a0 He did not know that there was anything wrong with the kingdom that he inherited.\u00a0 The temple, all the priests, and 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\nHilkiah, who was the priest, should have known what was right.\u00a0 However, he may have also have been raised in the degradation.\u00a0 As the highest spiritual leader, he was presiding over a totally apostate nation, and no one had ever told him. \u00a0\u00a0However, when King Josiah turned 18, Hilkiah quite by accident found the Book of the Law.\u00a0 When he has it read to King Josiah, the young king became outraged.<\/p>\n
\nHowever, let\u2019s focus on Christianity.\u00a0 Christianity is in unpredicted apostasy.\u00a0 Most of the younger generations have never know it any different.\u00a0 The cancer of apostasy is eating the fabric of righteousness and spitting out the bones of truth mixed with lies.<\/p>\n
\nHowever, some of the youth are becoming edgy.\u00a0 \u00a0They are the ones who long for God.\u00a0 They know something is wrong, but not many of them know exactly what it is.\u00a0 They are actually reading the Bible and studying what they read.\u00a0 Even in the mangled text of modern, hip, bibles, there is some truth.\u00a0 One day they may, as Hilkiah, eventually discover an accurate translation.\u00a0 Upon reading it to themselves and other young leaders, they may come to the realization that they have been deceived and cheated out of their inheritance, which is the legacy of the life and experiences of godly people.\u00a0 They will realize that they are being cheated out of a true relationship with God, His Son Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
\nI do not know how large this army will be or what effect if any it will have on the apostasy.\u00a0 When they come out of their dark places, they may discover that the older sector of Christianity has apostatized down a different path.\u00a0 Maybe they will begin meeting in small house churches. \u00a0They may take over dilapidated and declining churches that are closing their doors at the rate of several hundred each month.\u00a0 One thing is for certain, their voices will be heard.\u00a0 God will make their leaders all like prophets.\u00a0 They will stand in the faces of the \u201cSteven Furticks\u201d and \u201cPerry Nobles\u201d of this generation and boldly rebuke them.\u00a0 It may be what those apostate leaders fear the most a youth uprising against them and their high places.<\/p>\n