The Enemy Within

The Old Testament talks about various punishments God promises to bring upon the nation of Israel if they willfully abandon His commandments, and begin to practice various sinful activities that He has forbidden. If I remember correctly, I think it's somewhere in Deuteronomy, perhaps the 28th chapter, but I'm not certain. It talks about various ways in which God promises to bless their willful obedience, or curse their willful disobedience; leaving it up to them to choose to obey, or not, with promises of consequences for their collective choices. I'm not trying to state categorically that those same principles apply to us in present day America, but the consequences for their disobedience sure bare similarities to what we see in the world today. I'll not try to convince the reader, I'll just enumerate the coincidences and let you decide if they are applicable, or not.

God has made it clear to those who believe in His word (the Bible) that all Homosexual behavior, as with adultery, and other forms of fornication (which is any sex outside of marriage) is a special degree of sin that he refers to as "an abomination". Does anyone really have the temerity to believe that God is too "stupid" to recognize the difference between heterosexual, and homosexual unions and call them both "marriages"? Does the U.S. Supreme Court really believe that they can overrule God's perspective, and trick him into blessing a perverse union, simply because we have legally called it a "marriage"? Such arrogant decisions, smacking of a belief that what the Supreme Court pronounces is more important than what God has already pronounced, thousands of years previously, can only be equated to poking one's finger in God' eye! Do you suppose that God will stand for this long? I don't! And as far as breaking their vows to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" (which clearly states that any authority not expressly contained in the Constitution is reserved for "the States, and the people" [meaning the local voters]). Since the Constitution is silent about any aspect of licensing marriages, the authority to do so is to be left up to the States, and local governments. Therefore, these assenting Supreme Court Justices have broken their vows, which should be considered an impeachable offense, but fat chance they will be so punished in this life, though I'd hate to be in their shoes in the next life! And the same is true for those Justices who voted for Abortion to be "legal", in the Roe v. Wade decision. The Supreme Court has been reluctant to recognize the clear "wall of separation" between federal and States Rights ever since the racist southern states used this clause to justify their "Jim Crow" racist laws, which were overthrown by the Supreme Court. They apparently feel that the clause in the Constitution was voided by their decision, and not simply the racist laws. All this leads me to be very pessimistic concerning the restoring of America's government to any form of Constitutional correctness. What with the prophecied rise of the Antichrist's one-world government, it seems that we can expect America's status as a world-leading power to be significantly diminished, to make room for "his satanic majesty". In the short term, I suppose we'll have to expect some Democrat will win the 2016 presidential election, in order to destroy America's influence in the world, which Obama has already greatly started. (God save us from a president Hillary, or worse!) Right now I think a revival would be spiritual, only, and the church will probably be raptured to heaven before a vote to restore America's righteousness cold take place.

Foremost in my position is the promise of God that their disobedience would mean that their enemies would begin to prevail over their armies, whereas if the obeyed God, He would cause them to prevail against their enemies. Also, their disobedience would bring about an infiltration of their enemies into their society, making it necessary to fight their enemies within, and without their homeland, simultaneously. Do you sense a parallel with the rash of home-grown, or so-called "Lone Wolf" terrorist attacks we've seen in America today? I certainly do! And the Obama Administration must agree, since they refuse to even categorize these acts as "terrorism", perhaps for fear that a statistical rise in terrorism for their years in office will leave a black mark on their "legacy". A bit late to be concerned about their "legacy", if you ask me, but well deserved at least.

This leads me to suggest that America is heading, not "toward" God's judgment, as many have been preaching for years, but into it! We're there, folks, and what are we going to do about it? There's only one effective solution, and that's collective repentance, before it's too late! And the only way to get a whole nation to repent of their individual, and collective sinful disobedience is through a Holy Spirit breathed Revival. And that's more than a bunch of faithful church-goers showing up for a week's worth of singing and preaching in a circus tent. A real revival can only be brought about by the earnest, "effectual, fervent prayer of (righteous people)", which the Bible assures us that it "availeth much". And that does not give those of us who don't feel very "righteous" an excuse to sit around and wait for others to do the praying for us. The Bible makes it clear that none of us are "righteous" in our own selves, but that if we are "born-again" through asking Jesus to forgive us of all our sins, and save our souls, we become the "righteousness of God, in Christ, whose (we are)". Therefore we take on the righteousness of Jesus Himself, and we approach the thrown of God confidently, believing that whatsoever we ask the Father (God), in His (Jesus's) name He will grant us. And if enough of the believers will cry out to God to send a great revival upon this country, we may see hope for this nation, yet!!!

At least for the people. And may God have mercy upon the members of this government, and those who are duped into voting them into office!!!