A Warning to the United States of America
by Jason Lovelace
Key Scripture:
Judges 2.16-17
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Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of
those that spoiled them. And yet
they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other
gods, and bowed themselves unto them:
they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying
the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
The United States has long been a bastion of Christian ideals, religious
freedom, and liberty. Everywhere
U.S. Military Personnel have gone, fought, bled, and died, freedom has come on
their heels, including the freedom to worship as one chooses.
Unfortunately in these days of post-modernistic personal subjectivity,
anything Christian has become more and more ridiculed, more and more
marginalized, and seen more and more of Christian Freedoms curtailed n the name
of Separation of Church and State.
Could the USA be in God’s crosshairs for judgment?
As Israel was judged, time and time again by God for her many trespasses,
could God be warning the USA that such is coming to her?
The USA: Founded on Religious
Freedom…
Like it or not, believe it or not, nor view it as really true, the United States
of America was founded as a place where the worship of God was to be free.
The second permanent colony in the USA was established specifically for
the purpose of allowing the Puritans to worship God without the interference of
the British Crown. In every
subsequent colony, religious freedom, the freedom to worship God as one chose,
was established. The freedom to
worship God is also an inherent and unalienable right of all Americans, as
written in the Declaration of Independence and established n the Constitution of
the United States of America in 1789.
In the first two centuries of the United States’ existence as a nation,
God was freely prayed to, Jesus Christ freely spoken of, the Bible freely
taught, and worship freely allowed in the US Public forum.
Anywhere and everywhere one could travel in the USA, God – though not
always followed nor obeyed, was, at the very least, respected.
Even early TV Shows, movies, and literature, even if God wasn’t mentioned
directly, nor given the proper obedience, He was respected for being God, even
in such characters as Otis the town drunk of Mayberry from the
Andy Griffith Show.
They Went a Whoring After Other gods…
A question: Is the USA still a
Christian Nation? Is Christianity
and Christian Values, and Jesus Christ, still the primary driving force in US
Culture today? Looking at American
Mainstream Media, one can soon and easily see that the USA is no longer the home
to Christian Values that she once was.
Today, US post-modern culture continually mocks and marginalizes values
that fly in the face of what is fun, desired, and looked upon as civilized.
Fifty years ago, a woman who was found to be with child by someone she
was not married to, was viewed as one with clouded morals at the very least.
In these days, single mothers are the new heroines, supported and upheld
as examples of undying courage, unparalleled strength, and models to others.
Single motherhood is just one symptom of a culture that has made sex and
sexual desire one of its gods.
Another example is abortion on demand.
In ancient Canaan, the god Molech required the adherent to sacrifice his
or her (or their) firstborn child on the altar.
In today’s world, more and more expectant mothers are sacrificing their
unborn children on the altar of sexual freedom, convenience, and self.
More and more of the USA’s workforce and working-age population are
sacrificing their values, their consciences, and their families on the altar of
big money, corporate power, and/or financial success.
It is easy to see that the USA is now a country where every other god
under the sun is given privilege and place.
Just as Ancient Israel under the judges, and later, the kings, which
turned away from God, the USA has also turned away from the God of her
forefathers.
Freedom To Worship or Freedom From Religion?
In 1962, the United States Supreme Court, in the landmark case
Murray v. Curlett, made the decision
to remove administration-sponsored prayer from Public School.
Since that time, Jesus Christ and the freedom to worship his name have
taken a long and hard slide downward.
Where even into the late 1950s and even into the `60s, God was at the
very least respected in US society at large, the long slide that leads us to
these post-modern 21st century years now sees anything about God, any
mention of Jesus Christ, and any quote from the bible ridiculed, mocked, and
marginalized to the point that church by and large has become more of a social
club than a soul-saving station.
This is a fact that is most glaringly seen in mainstream media outlets.
Hollywood rarely – if ever – presents the viewing public with anything
that remotely uplifts the name of Jesus Christ.
Quite often in modern motion picture production, the villain is some
crazed maniac who happens to claim being saved and quotes Scripture verbatim.
In television, Biblical ideals – once revered and respected — are now
mocked, decried as ancient and unnecessary, with only the old, the feeble, the
mentally challenged, or the ignorant being portrayed as believing in such.
More and more in radio and modern music, every kind of filth and sin is
glorified, while God is mocked, moral values defamed, and Christian values torn
to shreds and cast out. Where
homosexuality was once dealt with as a mental illness, it is now accepted even
in many mainstream US Churches. Sex
outside of marriage, once decried as totally sinful and immoral by the Church,
now has seen some denominations declare that no matter what is done to teach
them otherwise, teens cannot control themselves and have given allowances for
sexual activity aside from marriage (mainstream media long ago cast aside sexual
restraint and sexual purity as something unable to be accomplished [with the
former] and only for spinsters and prudes out-of-touch with reality [for the
latter]). God has slowly been
replaced by something else, and that something else is bringing forth wretched
fruit.
God is Still a Judge!!!
In these post-modern days, people who are exposed to or presented with their
sins usually retort with, “Doesn’t Jesus say ‘Judge not lest ye be judged’?
How dare you judge me?!?”
Yet the fact of the matter is, these people go on their merry ways totally
oblivious to the glaring fact that God will one day judge them, should they
remain unrepentant of sin. The
Bible is rife with example after example of the Lord God passing judgment and
carrying out sentence against the children of Israel for turning away from him.
Time and time again, after warning them through his word, through
prophets, and through even miracles, God was forced to move his hand of judgment
against Israel precisely because of their continual rejection of him.
History is further rife with nation after nation being reduced from
golden-age glory to ashes of destruction because her people turned away from
Jesus Christ, rejected the Bible, and changed from God to false gods.
From Ancient Rome, which persecuted the church of Jesus Christ, to the
United Kingdom of Great Britain, which once boasted a queen who read her Bible
and prayed daily (Queen Victoria) to a nation where Islam is gaining serious
ground on the church (which has all but ceased in being the soul-saving station
she was ordained to be centuries ago).
God still allows disaster when nations reject him; he still pulls his
hand of protection away from countries – though historically Christ-loving –
which have turned away from him.
Conclusion – For the USA, It’s Just the Tip of the Iceberg.
Many in the United States of America asked this question after the September 11th,
2001, terrorist attacks: “Is God
Judging the USA?” For the USA,
those terrorist attacks – as tragic and devastating as they were – were just the
very tip of the iceberg. The
judgments carried out on Israel, on Egypt, and on every other nation mentioned
in the Bible as having turned away from God, are very graphic in nature, and
such has yet to fall on the United States.
For decades, the United States was the bastion of Christian Values, the
haven for all those who desired to be free to worship God without Government
interference. As stated above,
however, all things Christian are now being herded into a corner and into an
area of society that may well be the point of no return.
The USA has replaced the God of her Founding Fathers with the false gods
of self, convenience, lust, power, sex, and greed.
If we, as the citizenry of the United States, do not turn back to God,
worse judgments – far, FAR worse – than what we saw on 9/11/01 will take place.
God – as he has done with every other nation in history – will remove his
hand of protection, and the USA will surely fall just as Rome and every other
adanced, technological civilization has fallen when they rejected God.
Only a Holy Ghost Revival, the likes of which have not been seen since
the 1800s, can possibly save the USA at this point.
When Israel turned, she was saved, but when she continued down the path
of idolatry and godlessness, she suffered.
It will be the same for the USA if we don’t change out ways.
Prayer
– Father, we need revival! Bring it
to us, the USA, we pray, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Verse to Remember:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray,
and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
– 2nd Chronicles 7.14