Alarm

 

    Alarm is a state of alertness.  It is when you are aware, watchful, and paying careful attention to what is going on around you.  You are tense due to a warning or loud sudden noise.  Alarm can cause fear, disturbance, excite you, calls attention, awakens you, or provides warming.

    Alarm can cause a physical reaction. It can put your heart into a flutter, race, or cause pain.  Jeremiah heard his enemies cry.  He knew it was going to happen, but when it did he still went into a state of alarm because no one wants to hear war cries.  He knew the desolation that was happening and how much would be destroyed.  It was crushing.  All because God's people would not recognize Him as God.  The alarm of war is soul crushing.  Do not be foolish and seek the evils of war.  Instead be wise and seek knowledge.

    The people that are not God's people will not inherit eternity in Heaven.  People that worship other gods, including self, will not be a part of God's family.  One day, sooner than any of us think, God will sound his alarm for battle.  The world will become a desolate place of ruins.  Cities will burn.  God will take back what is His.  God was talking about the Ammonites in this passage, but Revelations reaffirms that this will happen to entire world one day.  It does not pay to ignore God.

    The alarm was sounded in Jerusalem on the Holy Mountain.  It was an alarm for fear and trembling because the day of the Lord was upon the nation.  When God comes in wrath it brings darkness and gloom.  The clouds are thick and black.  There will be a sudden dawn that spreads across the mountains. as a great and mighty arm appears.   It was a vision never seen before.  It is an army that will make the strongest people look weak..  God's judgment brings destruction.  We should all be alarmed by that truth.  It is time to wake up and get our lives and souls in order.

Jeremiah 4:19-22, 49:1-2, & Joel 2:1-2