If when I get to heaven and an apostles approaches me to ask what it was like in those end days that they were inspired of God to write about I might have this to say:
Think with the mind of Christ as to what righteousness looks like and then think of the opposite and that is the world during those end times, that opposite!
Babies murdered for convenience, families nearly completely destroyed, teens committing suicide because they didn't know what gender they were, godly people persecuted for not fitting into the evil culture that was dominant.
Families rejecting believers for living out the life they chose, that was to love Christ above all else.
Homosexual marriage and shacking up was validated and encouraged while divorce and remarriage was rampant.
The schools were teaching children to reject the gender they were born with and intimidated to accept it or be treated with contempt. Bullying was rampant among every aspect of this life.
Christians were called bullies for standing for Christ while the real bullies were elevated to "special" status for daring to be evil without restraint. Lying was continual everywhere, especially against those who told the truth.
This list could go on for many pages. Is it not clear by now that America is never coming back!!!!! When a nation becomes this evil there is no returning to righteousness, if the nation actually ever was righteous as a whole.
Remember the roaring twenties, the bootleggers, the slavery, the lust for fame and fortune? Remember the women's sufferage movement, the abortion rights, the proliferation of pornography and filthy television as well as the movies? Remember the fashions that undressed a woman as far as she could go in public? Remember when you might have been chastised for telling a young "Christian" woman she should not wear bikinis on the beach or that she should not be staying out late at the house of her boyfriend?
There have always been more authentic believers in America than any others country of the world, but this nation as a whole has not been Christian as so many wish to believe.
My parents went to church every week and yet I saw no evidence of love for Christ in our home, just the opposite.There were plenty of "social rules" but there was no godliness, the joy and kindness was absent most of the time.
I fear this was the case with many families who attended church every week. There was a "form of religion" but no power of Christ in these lives. Cultural Christianity has been the norm in our country since the very beginning. Most who came to this country did not come for religious freedom, they came for a better life with greater opportunities to become wealthy.
God has used this country to further the gospel, however now we are seeing a false gospel coming from the churches, a gospel that does not save nor cleanse.
We are not better than other countries spiritually, how can we claim that when we distribute to nearly all of the world most of the pornography it uses. Our babies are being murdered every day. Most "Christians" are living superficial selfish lives of pleasure thinking they are blessed by God because of their material wealth.
We are a prideful lot, full of arrogance and self seeking, Christ is only attached to our plans because He makes us feel safe. This nation is not as safe as it thinks. When our spiritual lives are a mess we cannot expect God to further bless a nation that has mocked, demeaned and rejected Him.
Perhaps this could be said of America too:
Deuteronomy 32:18
"You neglected the Rock who begot you, And forgot the God who gave you birth."
Ezra 8:22
"For I was ashamed to request from the king troops and horsemen to protect us from the enemy on the way, because we had said to the king, "The hand of our God is favorably disposed to all those who seek Him, but His power and His anger are against all those who forsake Him."
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