well I’m not a prophet and I’m not the son of  a prophet I do have a prophet’s name I cannot   tell you what God is going to do with this time  of sheltering but I can tell you what God has   done during and after times of sheltering in the  past and once you review the truth of history   as I described it below I think you’ll know what  he’s going to do this time to God sheltered Noah   and his family for one year in the ark until  Noah emerged to become the father of all the   nations of the world God sheltered Jacob in the  home of his uncle Laban when he needed to escape

the wrath of Esau his brother and 20 years later  Jacob emerged with a new family new wealth and   a new identity he became Israel the new name  for God’s chosen people God sheltered Joseph   from his seventeenth year to his thirtieth but  his slavery and prison became the school where   God prepared him for greatness God sheltered Moses  in a remote desert for forty years but Moses came   forth to liberate the Jewish people from Egypt  God sheltered Naomi in the barren land of Moab   until she nearly became bitter but she and her  daughter-in-law Ruth traveled to Bethlehem to

participate in one of the greatest love stories of  history God sheltered David for 15 years after he   had been anointed king of Israel and when they  would finally assume the throne he was a man   after God’s own heart and he gave us many of the  Psalms God sheltered Elijah by the brook Cherith   and after the sheltering Easter Delon against the  prophets of bale on caramel God sheltered Jonah   for three days and three nights in the belly of a  whale and when the sheltering was over Jonah went   to Nineveh and preach history’s greatest revival  God sheltered Daniel for seventy years in Babylon

where he wrote this old testament book bearing  his name outlining the future of God’s dealings   with his people God sheltered Esther while in  the palace of the Persian King and she saved   her people from destruction God sheltered the  disciples in the upper room for ten days until   the Holy Spirit descended in dramatic fashion to  form and fashion the church God’s sheltered Paul   in the Arabian desert for three years and when  he came back he turned the world upside down   God later sheltered Paul in a Roman prison and by  the time the Apostle was free he had written the

prison epistles Ephesians Philippians Colossians  and Philemon God’s sheltered the Apostle John on   the Isle of Patmos and the book of Revelation  the greatest prophetic document of all time was   given to us lastly and most incredibly God’s  sheltered Jesus in a tomb for three days and   on the third day Jesus came forth in power  to bring salvation to the whole world so no   I don’t know all the details about what God is  going to do but what I do know is what he hasn’t   done and that is what we can count on the God  who sheltered his people in biblical days won’t