What got me started on this theme of Amerian's being under God's judmgnet was the recognition that what we are all mostly engaged in is purshing back the effets of God's judmgnet hat have already come upon the nation. The MAGA movement is all about reotring America to our former prosperity and strength and standing in the world, and it certainly seems a righteous caue when you see how the forces arrayed against us, even our own govenemtn, have been working to destroy us, from within as wel as from without. Open borders and massive illegal immigration are destroyers, they are also the product of corrupt lawless and evensheer evil ideologues. Pushing all that back seems certainly to be a righteous thing to do that would amount to a genuine restoration of the best of America. the problem is that at the same time I was reminded of how Nine eleven was GOd's judgment on the nation, although few ever acknowledged that and many denied it, even many pastors of Churchers you would think would know the Bible well enough to get that uch right at least. God protestc people who obey Him, He brings peace and prospertyithyto nations who follow His law, but desruction and judgment to nations who transgress His law. That message is on just about every page of the Old Testament, it would be hard to miss it.
We never repented of our national sins in response to the attack on the WtC. Like Israel in Isaiah nine:ten we simply went about rebuilding what God had destoroyed, even with more duarable materials. At the end of that passage God 's hadnd is said to be stretched out still because they didn't repent, but simply ignored Him, even perhaps ignoring the whole idea that they were under judgment, went about using human means to solve what they regarded as a human problem. But the problem has a higher level to it. It did then and it does now in America as well. A supernatural level. God was punishing Israel for their sins and wanted them to repent and turn to Him. Same thing with us. The WTC was a waring blow. It could have been much worse. It was a call to repentance and ot one word was said to that effet by anyone in public positiojn or power. If I'm wrong I'd love to know it but I certainly don't remember anyting of the kind. We sang a lot of God Bless America and went about rebuilding the World Trade Center and eery year we remember the calamitywith never a glance at God's role in it. People seem to assume that Hefeels about it the way we do. GBig istake.
I'd rather not think that MAGA is just a way of circumentin t our responsibility to God but I'm afraid that's what I've concluded over these last wfew days of thinking about it. God is having mercyu on us in all this, that's for sure. I suppose we could say that wemrica has had such belssings in the past back when we were a truly CHristiabn nation, that we still have blessings on the books we haven't yet run out of. That could be. But we've been piling up sins for quite a while now too and it's just a atter of time before they outrun the blessings.
And I don't mena to say that I now that's the best way to think about it, it's just one way that makes sense and might be true. B ut I suppose we could be more on the brink of disaster through God's judgment than any of us can guess.
There's SO much more to write but I have to stop for a while.
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