It’s Monday about 3 PM and I am waiting for the afternoon showing of Titanic in the Theater across the street from our apartment. I think I was nudged by God to go. I was early and as the 11:30 AM people came out, I went in and watched the hundreds and hundreds of names scroll down the screen.

It’s a big deal to have your name on the screen. I remember a man at one of the house churches a few years ago bragging about having his name in the credits of some "important" movie. Big deal - it was to him anyway.

Matt was cleaning up between the shows and it was good meeting a brother in Jesus. He has a rock band and travels around the area - mostly in "churches." He obviously hasn’t given up his day job yet, but I suspect Jesus will soon put him in the full time ranks.

Sitting here is something like being in a "church house" for an early morning prayer meeting. The faithful few are gathered to acknowledge and pay their respects to the god of this world and his insidious hold on the minds and hearts of the masses of America.

I remember that just a few weeks ago on the highest holy day for the screen worshippers, Titanic swept the Oscars. Many of the little idols were garnered by this huge success at the box office. I was grateful to have another commitment and couldn’t watch. I usually enjoy the music and pageantry of things like that, but then feel sick inside at the realization of how little all this has to do with Jesus and His Kingdom, and His soon return.

Now I’ve seen it, and believe it is truly a timely, prophetic message to America. When the Titanic’s dead carcass was found lying in it’s briny sheol, the captain of the search vessel said, "Well, I’ll be God-damned." When beautiful Rose returned to the scene as a regal aged woman, she said, "Well I’ll be God-damned."

These words are lightly bantered about in our pagan culture, and few find them shocking. However, God finds them shocking, and disgusting, and prophetic.

America, hear the word of the Lord:

"You are so proud and arrogant. You think nothing can stop your great progress and scientific breakthroughs. You are so rich and prosperous and haughty and blind to the poor and outcast. You are so smug and self-reliant, so out of touch with Me and with reality. You claw and scratch to get ahead of your brothers and sisters, and don’t realize that I would rather be at the party below decks. You are running full speed ahead into the end of life on this earth as you have known it. Turn to Me, and live.

"You have joined ranks with the scoffers who ridicule My imminent return. You act as if you had a covenant with death and cannot be harmed. You don’t care what is done by those who are to model Me, as long as the economy grows. You live in a constant state of denial that this world’s ways are eternal and nothing, at least nothing in your lifetime will change. Be sure of this, I will return at the appointed hour. Turn to me and live.

"Prepare to meet your God. Set your house in order. Finish the necessary works. Let the unimportant go, but do those things you know should be done before I return. Stop thinking of your life, and consider others as more important than you. Turn to me and live."