Yes, Mark Levin, I'm afraid you are right, we definitely are losing this best of all nations, yes we don't seem to have the will to do what it would take to save it, yes the Islamists are taking over and we are passive in the facte of it, yes yes yesm, I'm afraid so.
But why? All you have is people power, what the Bible calls "the arm of the flesh" while God is left out in the shadows somewhere. But why are we so weak? Why are the Islamists getting power over us? Because the nation is under God's judgment. hristians at least should know this ut often even Christians don't think along these lines.
When God gave Israel the Law, His Law, He told them He was giving them the choice of blessing or cursing, life or death. Therefore schoose life, he said. Obedience brings life, proserity, safety from enemies, peace with neighbors; disobedience brings many evils which are sketched out in both Levirtius and Deutreronomy. TRo be ruled over by those who hate you is the one that keeps reverberating in my head, but the list of curses runs the gamut of every kind of loss, loss of sterrength, loss of prosperity, economic failures, I think even harsh weather although that isn't spelled out there atthat I remeber, all these tornados we are having, the heavy winter that just pastsed, wildfires. Hardly eanybody even prays against these things any more that I know of, but then I may not be in the right place to know about that.
The rise of Islam over us is definitely God's judgment. After nine eleven you'd have expected Islam to fall into disrepute but instead it's only risen in the esteem of some Americans and gained power in the country through even the election of Islamists to Congress of all things. As I recall there was a time when they were forgbidden to hold public office but then that was rescinded and now they can and can exert their hatred of America from within our own government.
We can decry this all we want, we can make as much effort as we are up to against it, to spread the word, to get people out to vote in the Midstrerms, but as Mark L:evin says, we really don't have the will for it, do we? EWven Christians don'e have the will for it and we are the ones who should know enough babout how God works to be in a position to call on Him and work through Him and not depend on our own weak flesh. I don't know how many churches are dedicating themselves to praying for the country, I hope many, but what4ever it is, it isn't enough. Some churches even won't support a political stance at all on the idea that their job is o preach the gospel and nothing more, not to get involved in politics. Makes me wonder what they think it means to be asaalt and light in the world.
It could be that we are too far under judgment to be able to change cthings now anyway, but we don't know that and surely we should try. How can you plreach the gospel in a country dominated by people who hate Christianity anyway? Should we just sit back and let it come to that? Sure, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church and it's a powerful scenario when it happens, but why invite it when we've gbeen given a country in which we've had the freedom to poreach it withouit bloodshed? Of course we've been losing that for some decades now too, anyhbody noticed? But we just go about our business as if the nation weren't falling down around us.
So what's needed? At least prayer by every true Christian is needed, and a lot of prayer, prayer that includes repentance for our owsn sins and confession of the sins of the nation which is the reason we are unde God's judgmetn. We may not be able to do much about those sins right now but we need at least to express the will to do somethig about them. How is it that we have a law that allows two men or two women to live together calling themselves husband and wife? That's just one egregeious offense against God that needs to be pushed back. Praying against it is the only place I know of to start. And of course abortion. It's no longer A NATIONAL LAW BUT EVEN AS IT'S GONE BACK TOT EH STATES THERE HAVE BEEN MORE ABORTIONS THAN EVER AND THOSE COUNT AAGAINST THE NATION TOO, MILIONS OF MURDERED HUMAN BEINGS CRYING OUT TO gOD FROM THE GROUND. j What's needed is lots of prayer by every true Christain.
I've often wondered if our having given up on the requriement for women to dcover our heads in church is a reason God has not given us a revival in a long long time. I don't count thyeye charismatic "revivals" as revivals, I mean a real Holy Spirit inspired revival. Nobody much talks about the head covering. If it's bropught up it's dismissed as legalism. It's awfully clear that whether Paul's arguments for it make a lot of sense to us, and some of them are pretty hard to understand, that nevertheless I see no doubty that he meant we are to cover our heads. Some thing where he said at the end of that passage, if there is contention we hae no such rule means he took it all back after sixteen verses of srgugment for it but I find that pretty lame, and the fact taht the churches all rquired women to cover our heads in church for two thousand years ought to be enough of an argument against such reasoning. Just the fact that we gave it up in the sixties or thereabouts ought to e reason enough to recognize that it was the wrong thing to do. I've go to awhole blog on it if anybody wants to see some of the arguemtns.
So it might be that we should cover our heads for this prayer, for this prayer for the wountry. Perhaps it would make a diffedrence. And we can pray for revival at the same time. Badly badly do we need revival in this country. Real Revival, the kind they had in Wales at the turn of the twentieth centry or in the Hebrides in the forties. I think the one in Saskatchewan in the seventies wewas a real revival. I don't know if they were dovering their heads then or not, but the ccount of it given in an interview with Pastor McCled that may still be on You BTUbe makes it wound like a true Holy SPirit revival. It wasn't in the US, but Canada and I think that was the last one on the continent. They started out with people signing up to pray for fiteen minute periods around the clock, each member of t3h congregation signing up for a particular fifteen minute period. They didn't think they could pray any longer than that b tut they did at least manage to et all the time slots covered. It's a possible plan a church could follow to get things rolling.
It may be too late no matter what we do, but we have to do something.
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