As a nation we are going down for the count as a free nation because of our open rebellion against Christ and righteousness.
We have acted the way Israel acted when God said;
Matthew 15:7-9"…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”…
Divorce and remarriage accepted nearly completely.
Abortions: babies murdered at the rate of 4000 a day, now over 56 million killed since 1973.
Gender confusion, the newest craze of America.
More babies born out of wedlock than in marriage.
Movies that depict evil as good, while pornography is rampant. America is the largest distributor of filth than any other country.
Homosexuality rampant, while 10,000 people ride through the streets naked with children watching.
Ball games taking over church services, while rock bands dominate the attention at "worship" in the modern gathering.
The list is very long, all the sins that America enjoys and defends as "freedom to do evil" has become her god.
We have added Christ to our man made celebrations as though they were ordained by Him, when in fact He hates them.
Amos 5:20-22 "…20 Will not the day of the LORD be darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it? 21"I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies. 22"Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.…"
The violations of the principles of God as described in the Word of God are so many it is impossible to count. Almost every believer I know is practicing rituals and holidays that would anger God. They fight to argue their validity while ignoring the scripture with which we warn, to justify their sin under the misguided manipulative language of love and "do not judge."
We have ignored the warnings about violating nearly every command of God, while claiming to follow them.
One way the devil has worked, has been to add Christian words out of context to pagan and rebellious man concocted ideas, causing people to feel justified in their defiance.
So many superficial believers think as long as a "god word" comes out of someone's mouth, that means they are saved. There is no sense of "questioning all things" as God tells us to do, discerning good from evil.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
The church as a whole has so little discernment they cannot even tell if something is in the Scripture or not, because they are not reading it, praying over it and seeking God to enlighten them. Is it any wonder why our culture that calls itself Christian is a stench in God's nostrils or that the blessings of God are methodically being removed.
The family in America is nearly destroyed. Most people have so much chaos in their genealogy they don't know how many grandparents they have. Now the children are being raised to believe they can choose which gender they want to be.
When we have stopped listening to God, He will stop blessing and has! We have not yet seen the devastation, we still have our money, places to live and are fat with enough food.
I am convinced that until those things are hard to come by, we are not going to see the folly of our own defiance. By the time we do, it will be too late to recover, and I believe that time is now.
However, there is hope beyond this country in the next existence if only those who have lived by their contempt and revolt, will repent (change their mind toward God), confess their sin of rebellion against Him, asking to be changed by Him, then will they be saved for eternity, the life that far surpasses anything we think we have on this earth.
This life, no matter how wonderful for some, is dung compared to the love of Christ and the place He has prepared for those who love Him. When our eyes are opened to His love, His ways and our sin, we see clearly how ugly our way was and how lovely His way is.
Romans 11:33 "33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways! "
When my eyes were opened to truth, all the sin I loved became ugly to me. My new desires were for those of the Lord's, I began to think like He thinks, desiring what He desires. He changed me, it was not my doing, but all His.
Ephesians 2:10 "10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life."
Do you want to be born again, changed into a new creation by Christ? Just ask Him to do it in you, save you from your sin and hell. Then your eyes will see with new eyes.
Your circumstances may not change, but you will perceive them differently. Your life will begin new challenges to grow and develop that desire within you. Often it means having to lose the old friends, the family who will be against your choice and a loss of many things we used to want, but no longer.
2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:…"
