God judges people in two ways. First, He protects those who love him, and obey his commandments from those who don't, and those who wish to harm those who do. Second he judges those who descended from His obedient believers, but have strayed from the ways of their ancestors, or were once obedient but have strayed from their former faith, and obedience. I strongly suspect that we in America today, along with many other people around the world, fit into this second category. We descended from a people that He brought out of persecution in various countries, primarily European, and have enjoyed the prosperity that comes from His provision for a people that was predominantly obedient to his principles. While His judgment for those who belligerently hate Him, and His people, can be very swift, and thorough, like I believe the Russian Armies of "Gog", and their Muslim allies are rushing head-long to experience (as described in Ezekiel 38, & 39; and which I have expounded upon at length), His judgment for the second type can be slow, and incremental, creating both the opportunity for repentance for those who are sensitive enough to recognize His Hand in the details of His judgment, before they experience worse disastrous judgment, and also the opportunity for those who stubbornly prefer to chalk their troubles up to blind "coincidence" that merely must be endured until everything is all right again. Then when something worse befalls them they are twice as dumbfounded as to the cause.
As I said, America was founded by peoples who knew what it was like to live in countries that either hated God outright and anyone who loved Him, or mostly hated those who believed in a form of obedience that differed from their own beliefs. Even when their children sinned God gave them time to repent, without judging them as a nation, such as when we introduced slavery into our lifestyle, He gave us nearly two hundred, and fifty years to see the evil in that, before He purged us of that with the bloodiest war in our nation's history. Today, we still have those who refuse to learn from that horrible error: we have White Klansmen-types who believe that black people are inherently inferior, and must be kept down, contrasted by Blacks who believe, as our brilliant President seems to, that we as a country must eternally pay for the sins of our fathers, and that today's descendants of the former slaves are to be the perpetual recipients of that debt, simply because they exist. The concept of righteous entitlement is universally held by many Blacks, when all they are truly entitled to is the Constitutional right to freedom of opportunity to lawfully earn for themselves whatever happiness the Declaration of Independence describes for them, not that the Government is obligated to purchase it for them, and if it can't, or won't, that they have the moral right to steal enough for themselves. We are so collectively bound up in our separate forms of greed that we may be facing a race-war in the not-too-distant future, and indeed the recent beheading in Oklahoma may have stemmed from that kind of race-based hatred when a young Black man presumably found the teachings of the Koran to be more convenient to his selfish prejudices, and if some white woman dared to argue with him, she would be worthy of beheading, according to his newly held beliefs. I don't know if his victims were white, but I strongly suspect that they were, and that they may have been arguing from a Biblical perspective, as the Book of Revelation speaks of a time when believers will pay for their faith with their heads, and be rewarded for their faith in heaven. And I don't mean with 72 virgins, as the suicide bombers of the Muslim Terrorists seem to use as their motivation. One has to hope that they receive 72 of the oldest, and ugliest, naggingest, crones God ever created to spend the rest of eternity listening to, as punishment for their sins!
So, my point is that we have plenty to repent of, in America, not only our racial prejudices, but abortion, sexual immorality, crime of every kind, both violent and non-violent, and allowing our government to run an endless bill of inflationary spending, to the point of making our currency all but worthless.
As I said, God may be giving us time to repent of our collective sins, whether we supported the sinful acts of our government, or were simply unable to stop it. If we are going to be judged as a nation, we can rest assured that He knows who tried to resist these sinful actions, and who supported them, and will somehow mete out His judgment accordingly. But the pain of it all will be felt by all of us, to some degree, and the sad thing is that it is all so unnecessary. I'm certainly not trying to suggest that America was holy in the past, but that our populace had an overwhelming understanding of the difference between right and wrong, even if they didn't always apply those beliefs to their own lives, they steadfastly kept their government for running rampantly out of control, as we have today.
The only question remains, will America wake up, and repent, before God's judgment destroys what's left of America as we know it? The Bible talks of incremental judgment, in the form of plagues of disease, such as Ebola, and now the Enterovirus that is infecting our school-aged children. There is also the threat of invasion of our enemies, such as the drug-cartels' easy access across our southern borders, not to mention the obvious threat of I.S.I.S. terrorists, and a Nuclear Iran. These may be coincidences, if you prefer to believe so, but I do not!!!
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