It Comes in the Dark of Night

Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth.
Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before Him with joyful singing.

Know that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Enter His gates with thanksgiving
And His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him, bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His lovingkindness is everlasting
And His faithfulness to all generations.
 
Psalm 100

The picture does not well relay the size and gravity of the fire

I was woken up at 1:30 A.M. Monday morning by numerous large explosions too close to home, enough to get me out of bed and out for an early morning walk.
Exploding propane tanks and stored ammunition is what I heard that sounded like WW III had begun.

(I'm used to  gun shots, and barking dogs in the night, and they don't get me out of bed, but this rated my rapt attention)

Police and many, many fire trucks from surrounding small towns were already at this rather large compound when I arrived and they all ran out of water before the fire was extinguished.
By the time the tankers returned with water the fire reared up again.
That's  the downside of living in the country with distant fire hydrants. The fire trucks run out of water before the job is done and it pretty much a volunteer force.

This is how some of us meet our neighbors.

This is just a preview of what is coming. The things we/you depend on will not be around or unable to get the job done in your time of need.
It will come in the night when you are comfortably, sound asleep, and wake you up with the unwelcome reality that will destroy the delusions that have been fed to us by the devil, his media, his politicians, and his followers.

That's why we need to make sure our foundation is solid, built on the 1 Rock, the Only Dependable Rock.

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24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 

Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.  The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

28 When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching;  for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

Matthew 7:24

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The rot and decay are already here and so are the hungry vultures

  hat tip - noodles 

Rats, Public Defecation And Open Drug Use: Our Major Western Cities Are Becoming Uninhabitable Hellholes

Officials at Los Angeles’ City Hall are considering ripping all of the building’s carpets up, as rats and fleas are said to be running riot in its halls.

Is it just a coincidence that cities turning into hellholes such as Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore and others are governed by Democrats?

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Satan on the northern border of Israel

Hezbollah has plans for Israel on the Golan

According to Syrian reports, IDF tanks on Monday evening fired artillery rounds at "a demolished hospital" in Syria's southern Quneitra province near the border with Israel, causing material damage. It was also reported that Israel hit a military observation post in the border village of Jabta Elhashab. Some reports say the post belonged to "local activists," but it more likely belonged to Hezbollah, which is trying to regain its hold in the Syrian Golan Heights.

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Australia Outback Ground Temp Measured at 392 degrees Farenheit

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hat tip - noodles

God, the all-seeing One

“Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?” Proverbs 15:11

Suggested Further Reading: Jeremiah 17:9,10

God knows the heart so well that he is said to ‘search’ it. We all understand the figure of a search. There is a search-warrant out against some man who is supposed to be harbouring a traitor in his house. The officer goes into the lower room, opens the door of every cupboard, looks into every closet, peers into every cranny, takes the key, descends into the cellar, turns over the coals, disturbs the wood, lest anyone should be hidden there. Up stairs he goes: there is an old room that has not been opened for years,—it is opened. There is a huge chest: the lock is forced and it is broken open. The very top of the house is searched, lest upon the slates or upon the tiles some one should be concealed. At last, when the search has been complete, the officer says, “It is impossible that there can be anybody here, for, from the tiles to the foundation, I have searched the house thoroughly; I know the very spiders well, for I have seen the house completely.” Now, it is just so God knows our heart. He searches it—searches into every nook, corner, crevice and secret part; and the figure of the Lord is pushed further still. “The candle of the Lord,” we are told, “searches the inward parts of the belly.” As when we wish to find something, we take a candle, and look down upon the ground with great care, and turn up the dust. If it is some little piece of money we desire to find, we light a candle and sweep the house, and search diligently till we find it. Even so it is with God. He searches Jerusalem with candles, and pulls everything to daylight. No partial search, like that of Laban, when he went into Rachel’s tent to look for his idols. She put them in the camel’s furniture and sat upon them; but God looks into the camel’s furniture, and all.

For meditation: God does not need a search-warrant or a torch to search your heart (Hebrews 4:13). What does he see there?