You Say Repent, I Say 'Party On Dude'

"Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth. Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.” But the Lord of hosts revealed Himself to me, “Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you Until you die,” says the Lord God of hosts." (Isaiah 22: 12-14 NASB)

We are living at the threshold of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to judge the world and to save his elect. God's servants are crying loudly to all the inhabitants of the world "wake up! Get ready! Turn from your sins before it is too late."

The cry of Jonah to Nineveh is the same that is now given by those evangelists of the last days. "Lord God is going to destroy this place." "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." (Jonah 3: 4)

"So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not." (5-10)

What a difference between the reaction of the people to God's call to repentance in Isaiah 22 and his call to repentance in Jonah 3!

In the former case, the people responded to doing the very opposite of repenting. They gave in more to their pleasures and lusts. They mocked God's warning. In the latter case, they repented in sackcloth. The first put on party clothes, gay attire, but the latter put on sackcloth.

How is the world reacting to the warning message and to the call of repentance? Like those mentioned in Isaiah or like those in Nineveh?