Kenya Is a Land Under God’s Judgment

Kenya is a land under God’s judgment. The country of Kenya is in a sense where the people of Israel were during the time of the judges.

“Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges 21:25

Why? Lack of fear of God in the land, a famine of God’s Word; apostasy. Turning from God’s laws.

“Where there is no vision [no revelation of God and His word], the people are unrestrained [out of control]; but happy and blessed is he who keeps the law [of God].” Proverbs 29:18

When God’s voice and fear are absent in a land, chaos follows. It is not about a multitude of churches or preachers but about what they are preaching or doing. Israel had many priests, but God constantly rejected them because they refused to speak truth to the people, and the priests often were complicit and “bought.”

When prophets and priests turn rogue and preach only what people want to hear, God turns his face from the land. When prophets are “bought” and tell kings what they want to hear for profit and gain, and the kings hate true prophets because they bring hard words, like in the time of Ahab and his false prophets and one true prophet (Micaiah, 1 Kings 22), God abandons a people.

The only solution for Kenya is true, heartfelt repentance like Nineveh did (not national prayer breakfasts and prayers for show; God is not that cheap) and a return of the church to preaching the true gospel and full counsel of the WORD of God and righteousness.

Prosperity gospels and cultural gospels cannot save anyone or help people fear God and live in his ways or obey his commands.

The church has preached to people’s needs for years, but that’s not what people need to hear. People need to KNOW GOD, his gospel, and his righteousness and learn his laws and commands in every area of life. God always seeks obedience, not performance. People who don’t KNOW or obey God’s laws will always destroy themselves.

When Israel turned away from God’s laws, destruction always came upon them in the form of poverty, hard times, famine, being handed over to their enemies, increased violence, inhumanity, anarchy, rebellion, death, people turning against each other, and idolatry. A time came in Israel when they became more wicked than the nations they had overthrown (during the time of Manasseh). They did abominable things.

Kenya is among the nations leading worldwide in pornography and gambling, and the land is filled with the blood of abortion even in the church, rape, drunkenness, and murder, and the church is filled with corruption and immorality and false doctrine, yet we think a few religious prayers will force God to hear us. We are in a bad state spiritually, and God’s own hand is against this nation. It is not the president but God. God works by raising situations and kings against a people in judgment.

“You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.” Psalm 50:21

There is nothing new under the sun, and the path for Kenya is not an easy one, nor a short one. People try to rush what God is doing by calling for one-hour prayer meetings and such things, but it never works that way. When God is dealing with a people at the core, it takes time and it takes pain, and he cannot be rushed because God is interested in genuine change, which can take decades. The journey ahead is tough.

The solution for Kenya is true repentance, starting with the church and actual change in the psyche of the church and people. Otherwise, all the religious prayers and activities we keep doing are a band-aid over a deep wound that’s been caused because the glory of God has departed from the land because of lawlessness. Sin is the real issue.

We may hate the truth because it’s bitter, and we still want to say we are a “Christian” nation, but God sees very differently, and it’s only agreement with God and humility that begins to turn a nation’s heart back to God. God does not see a Christian nation when he looks at Kenya.

At an individual and church level, we can pray and repent and ask for mercy and for God to bring back his fear in the church and nation. God deals with nations but also individuals. Individuals who repent are spared even when a nation is being judged. When God had made up his mind that Israel was finally going into exile in Babylon because of their deep wickedness, not even the righteous King Josiah, his repentance, righteous rule, and bringing the law of God back could stop it because the rot was deep, but God spared Josiah.

At a larger level, change will not happen as quickly as people think in Kenya, nor is a new king the solution because the rot is deeper.

When God has decided to judge a land, no one can stop it, sometimes not even prayer, because he knows only judgment will reach the stubborn people.

Repent!

“And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:2-3

Jeremiah 6:13-19, 26

“13For from the least to the greatest of them,
everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
and from prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.
14They have healed the wound of my people lightly,
saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
when there is no peace.
15Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
No, they were not at all ashamed;
they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,”
says the Lord.
16Thus says the Lord:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘WE WILL NOT WALK IN IT.’
17I set watchmen over you, saying,
‘Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘WE WILL NOT PAY ATTENTION.’
18Therefore hear, O nations,
and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
19Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,
the fruit of their devices,
because they have not paid attention to my words;
and as for my law, THEY HAVE REJECTED IT.
26O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth,
and roll in ashes;
make mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.”

Jeremiah 7:1-20

“1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord. 3Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. 4Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’ 5“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, 6if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 7then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

8“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, 10and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘WE ARE DELIVERED!’—ONLY TO GO ON DOING ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS? 11Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? BEHOLD, I MYSELF HAVE SEEN IT, declares the Lord. 12Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. 13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and WHEN I SPOKE TO YOU PERSISTENTLY YOU DID NOT LISTEN, and when I called you, you did not answer, 14therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. 15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.

16“As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. 17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 19IS IT I WHOM THEY PROVOKE? declares the Lord. IS IT NOT THEMSELVES, TO THEIR OWN SHAME? 20Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.”

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