you hear this a lot just repent and God will be "for" America.. 2 Chronicles 7:14 and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Ok. Who is God addressing? ISRAEL. So if we put ourselves on equal footing with Israel, being the adopted sons through our faith in Jesus Christ, when will we accept the curses? Covenant breaking, worshiping other gods Deuteronomy 11 13 So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— 14 then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. 15 I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. 16 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. 17 Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you. 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth. 22 If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— 23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. 24 Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. 25 No one will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go. 26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse-- 27 the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; 28 the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. We are not Israel, We have no such covenant with God. We are a gentile nation ( pagan;heathen) who, because our founders were believers in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, wrote laws based on biblical laws and principles, It was a great start, but it has not stopped sin, nothing stops sin, it is our nature, and now, in a growing crescendo since WWII, we have abandoned the God of our fathers ( also a lift of terms from Israel in the OT) and made gods of our own understanding. Why would God bless . ..that? We are just one of many, something close to 200 nations around the world,bigger, wealthier, powerful yes, but still an ethnic (at least in shared values as taught,,until recently) and political arrangement of humans, We have a government, something God intended for the good of mankind, to reign in evil, and when that function stops a government becomes a woe for the people. ( Yes a Jewish proverb ...a proverb can have more general application, but I'll get to gentile nations in a minute) Proverbs 29;2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. Romans 1 indicts pagan belief....which Paul carefully explained to his new gentile followers, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: T32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Every one stops at the sex things, just don't want be seen a homophobic,but that is only the beginning of what humans do without God. Living for lust of any kind, drugs sex power...leads one to justify continuing, and as you see, leads to a reprobate mind. Unable to discern truth, and therefore, to find God. Disobedience leading to insistence on such things being "good" to proclaiming pleasure in all the deceit and wickedness, (like the actress who bragged about her "best" abortion?) to punishing those who do not go along with what they want,insisting those who disagree must join them in their pursuits, (every person who has been in AA can tell you,, yeah that's the way it is) This is the way that leads to tyranny. I suppose it makes them stop and think, and that is uncomfortable, I am not sure of the interaction of human guilt vs the whispers of the Holy Spirit.Can the Holy SPirit still operate when the conscience has been seared? This is how most of mankind has lived. throughout history. Christians are to pray for government, that it be good, so they may live quiet and godly lives, (Timothy). We have rights, and can exercise them in this country at this time in history. God can use earthly conditions for whatever His purposes are,, he made the rules after all, We know he sets up kings and removes kings; and all gentile nations will face his wrath, culminating in the War of Armageddon. ( we fight Israel, God ends it.) For the unsaved in America, they will continue to live in superstition, anger and fear, we are called to bring them the gospel message the only place where Jew and Gentle meet equally before the Lord, in the Body of Christ, And in our prayers, we can change things, we can ask for God;s mercy,, I watched Irma lessen and lessen, and I know the prayers were rising up to God. This does not make the Caribbean islands more "wicked" it just makes them more vulnerable to hurricanes,. God made a promise to all mankind after the flood,actually He made it with every animal too, the whole world... Genesis 22"While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat,And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease." Genesis 9:14 It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16"When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."… I see the hand of God in the preservation of life in recent disasters, The willingness of people to work together to help all those harmed, I hope it is the same in Mexico, and other places...the election over several recent cycles of good officials who did their best to save their people ( it didn't just happen with one election, they were in place) Please come out of pagan belief set your eyes on God; your prayers on God, let Him use you in proclaiming the truth, in saving souls from the horrible lives they have created for themselves. Instead of gossip and hatred, let us sow seeds of the only love that actually changes things,,,, God's love. If these events are warnings of the breakdown of order and nearness of the Tribulation, then we don't have much time But for us who believe, , oh what joy awaits! |
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