In the past God has punished Israel for their sin. In Ezekiel 5:15 He said “You (Israel) shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes.” God has also punished other nations. In Isaiah 34:5 He said “For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.” Since God has punished nations before, will He punish America?
Anne Graham Lotz (Billy Graham’s daughter) says “absolutely.” In 2017 She said “A few years ago I was teaching through the book of Joel when the ancient words of his prophecy came up off the page. I knew with hair-raising certainty that God’s severe judgement was coming on America! “I have taught Joel several times since. Each time has served to confirm with deep conviction that God is warning America of impending disaster and destruction.”
John Piper says maybe. Piper said “It would not be unwarranted, to suppose that God would bring to ruin the nations that follow a course of corruption the way the Canaanites did.”
In Revelation God warns the church of Ephesus. In Revelation 2:5a God says “Remember therefore from where you have fallen.”
So let’s look at America’s course of corruption and see how far have we fallen?
Why is the Liberty Bell called the Liberty Bell? Because Leviticus 25:10 is written on the Bell …proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: It was rung in 1776 to proclaim liberty. It was also very common in early America to see Biblical quotes in homes and in public.
Let’s look at what the lives of our government leaders were like when our country was formed? It was common for our founding fathers to attend church together and pray together. Early congressional prayer meetings would put most all of our church meetings today to shame. We have a hard time just praying in public because we don’t do it often enough.
The first time I prayed in public was at my mother’s bedside when she was dying of cancer. She was only in her late 40’s and I was in my late 20’s. She would just say, “Ronnie let’s pray” and I would honor her request even though I was extremely anxious about it.
When John Adams was asked if we could win the revolution he stated “we can if we fear God and repent of our sins.” John Hancock declared a day of prayer and fasting.
We today do not truly understand the depts. of our sin. We think we are pretty good, especially when we compare ourselves to others.
The pre revolution American war motto was: No king but King Jesus. This was proclaimed by the prewar Colonial Committee of Correspondence. Can you imagine our government proclaiming that today?
Nearly half of the original signers of the declaration of Independence had a Bible or Seminary degree and nearly all of the framers were members of Christian churches. They actually started the present day Sunday school movement and Congress approved the first English Bible printed in America. John Adams said “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.” John Quincy Adams said “that it (USA) laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.” George Washington said “Religion and morality are the two most important pillars.”
The Bible was by far the most quoted source of all the early writings. Actually 34% of all quotes in their writings came from the Bible.
Noah Webster who has been called the “Father of American Scholarship and Education” stated that “The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society.”Dr. Benjamin Rush in 1791 warned not to remove the Bible from public schools. John Jay (The first chief justice of the Supreme Court) said “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers; and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
Let’s look at the downward trend of the US Supreme court
- In 1892 said “This is a Christian Nation”
- In 1947 they started to exclude public religious expressions
- In 1962 they stopped voluntary prayer in schools
- In 1963 they removed Bible reading in schools
- In 1980 they removed the 10 commandments from schools
- In 1985 they stated that you could not pray silently in schools
In removing the 10 commandments they said a student might see them and they might obey them – WOW! But now the largest group of internet porn consumers is children from 7 – 17 years old. One out of ten porn consumers is under the age of ten. If that doesn’t scare you then I don’t know what will.
The divorce rate was declining before 1962 and from 1962 to 1991 has increased significantly.
Violent crime has increased 470% from 1963 to 1991. It has been said that the Supreme Court is “a national theology board,” as it determines the moral values of our country.
Is God’s Judgement Coming on America? If so, when? John Piper states that it is when our sin has become big enough as God tolerates sin to a point. Piper stated that one of the reasons God delayed the Israelites in Egypt for 430 years was because “The iniquity of the Amorites (Canaanites) is not yet complete” Genesis 15:16.
So God could be delaying judgement on America until He can no longer stand it.
John Piper states that there is a remarkable sequence of sins in Leviticus 18:20-25 that sounds very much like the progress of iniquity in the modern Western world. Moses writes that by these iniquities “the nations, which I am driving out before you, have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Let’s look at the sequence:
1. Adultery: Leviticus 18:20 “Andyou shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.”
Adultery is now accepted as a way of life and most often celebrated as a robust form of sexuality, open marriage etc. Adultery is now so accepted we don’t even talk about it from our pulpits. Living together is common, now even in older adults
2. Child Sacrifice: Leviticus 18:21 “You shall not give any of your children to offer themto Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.”
Abortion continues to be legal and is now around 700,000 per year in the USA. 50 million abortions have been performed in America since 1973.
3. Homosexual Intercourse: Leviticus 18:22 “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”
Homosexuality has grown in acceptance. Even Christians think you are born that way. The older community has changed significantly in the last 20 years in their acceptance of homosexuality. It seems like TV programs always portray them in a positive light and Christians as radical or weird.
4. Bestiality: Leviticus 18:23 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.”
John Piper (2014) asks “Will the approval of bestiality be next? Probably He said “Last week, the Huffing Post reported a woman finding on her boyfriend’s phone pictures of him having sex with her dog.” Piper continues to say “Our reaction to this is probably about the same as most people’s reaction to so-called homosexual “marriage” 50 years ago. Is there any good reason to doubt that in 50 years the laws against bestiality will have fallen the same way laws against homosexual intercourse have fallen in recent years? (And as for marriage Wikipedia already has an entry on “human-animal marriage) We now treat our animals as humans… this is not a big leap!!!! Sorry for this, but we need to know where we are headed.
What do you think will stop the coming of God’s judgement on America?
Revelation 2:5 states “Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.” Again, if we don’t change God will probably bring judgement on America just as He told the church at Ephesus.
So……….
- Remember where we came from
- Repent and go back to the way we used to live or God will remove everything He has given us and will bring judgement on us.
John MacArthur says that to remove your lampstand means that God’s judgement would bring an end to the Ephesian church
We need to stop tolerating our nation’s immoral behavior.
It is time to fight back!!!
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