The church needs disaster like they need the air to breathe. Disaster is the only thing that can keep them from hell. Nothing they do is great, as they think it is. They could build a church with five million people. The bigger the church, the more He despises it, for it is just that much more filled with doctrines of demons, religiosity, and sin. If they come to their senses, they will thank Him for the catastrophe that saved them from themselves. Right now they don't think they will go through catastrophe. They think they will be raptured away from His wrath.

The catastrophe WILL COME. Then they will cry out - finally - to God. But He will not speak in response, for they have been unfaithful, and have brought harm to the lambs who really did want to know Jesus. They became obstacles to His will. Then will begin the famine of hearing His words that is foretold in Amos. They will have to lie down in the dust of repentance until He returns. They should be thankful that He brought disaster on them. They won't be welcomed with open arms, as they expect to be. If they repent, it is only just that they repent. They should have repented long ago.

"The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land-- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it." (Amos 8:11, 12)

Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done. This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, if one feeds them, they proclaim `peace'; if he does not, they prepare to wage war against him. Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them. The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God." (Micah 3: 4-7)