This is a message I've wanted to write but haven't been sure how to go about it. It's a message I wish could be read by the entire nation. WQow, does that sound arrogant. But I do. I think God would \\\\\has inspired it, but if nobody reads it then I'll know He didn't. That's OK. It's been on my ind and I want to be in His will so if I'm not then I'm not. My mistake and that 's that.
This started up in my head aboua week ago, or was it two, with something Mark Levin said on his radio show. How strange it is that Islam has only sgrown in influence in this country isince Nine Eleven twenty five years ago, something I've written about here from time to time. Yes it's strange but my explanation has always been that it's because we are under God's judgment. The attack on the World Trade Center was God's judgment on us but we did nothibng about it except blame our human enemies and comfort ourselves as well as we can.
God's judgment on a nation is a punishemnt for violating His law, for sin in orther words, national level sin. When you understand that you are i violation of god's Law you don't ignore it, you repent. You want the juydgment to go away, God's judgments ar hard to bwear. The aattack on the WTC was very mild by comparison with what He could have done and we should have taken it to heart and tried to repair our relationship with HIm. But nothing of the sort happened.
ot Not many at the time recnized it as God's judgment on the nation. A few did, David Wilkerson comes to mind and I now there were some others but I'm notsure who any more. IMostly what we heard from the Christain pulpits of America, however, was denials that God had anything to do with it, that God doesn't do such things, that God has nothing but sympathy for us in our suffering. Well, God surely does have suympathy for us in that suffering, but at the same time He was trying to get our attention so we could address the real reason the attack happened. Sure, our enemies hate us tand on thehuman level that'saenough of ane explanation. But on God's level those humans werejjuust His agents of judgment.
AThis perspecive comes fro thje Bible. Ony a biblically educated Christian would get what I'm talking about. In the Old Testament Godd is shown to have puished His people Israel in many ways over time, mostly by bringing enemies to attackand destroy. Assyria came gainst the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom of Judea was carried off captive by Nebuchadnear to Babylon where they remained captirves for seventy years.
wasWhen God gave His law to the people through Moses He gave the warning that they would be blessed and prospered if they obeyed it but cursed and punished if they did not. The title I put on this post comes from Leviticus 26where some of the blessings and cursings are spelled out. Being ruled over by they who hate you has always stood out in my mind as particularly frightening although of course famine and disease and murdering armies aren't a pleasant thought either.
The people sinned against God's covenant from the begining. All thorugh the Book of Judges, soon after the people were stetttled in the land, they had trouble with the Midianities and the Philistines. When they were given a leader, such as gideon and Samson and others, and recognized their sin, GOd gave gthem relief from their enejies. But wards continued thorughtout their history. And it was clear that it was because of the sins of the people that they occurred. When the demolition of the northern kingdom by Assyria and then the captivity of the southern kingdom by Babylo came around, they had been warned many times over that they were at odds with God and needed to repent. Isaiah and Jeremiah gave such warnings, although all the prophets
There is always a strong note of assurance at the same tine that God wants to bless the people, that if they will at least adcknowledge their sin and return to Him He will relent and bless them again. they are His people after all andHe loves them. That is why He is warnig them. they commit idolatries and He punishes them but alwayso says Return to Me.
America is not GOd's Chosen People in any way that can be compared with Israel, but on the other hand Christians are His people and America was a Chrsitain nation from its inception. Besides that the Bible makes it clear that God rules over all the nations of the earth and brings judgmetn against them too. N Nineveh was an Assyrian city and God sent His prophet Jonah to warn them theat they were going to be punished for their sins.
In America we're pretty weeak on the prophetic warning program. It
s not a theme you hear much from any pulpit, a few but not many. Jonathan Cahn who opastors a Messianic Jewish Christian church, wrote a book title the Harbinger in which he pointed out soe uncannuy parallels between a paassage in Isaiah nine and events following the attack on the WTC. In Isaiah nine God has sesent punishemtn on Israel and they are repotrted to say: The bricks are fallen but we will reuilding with hewn stone; the sycamores are destroyed but we will replant with cedars. Instead of repenting for the sins that had brought the judgment, they put all their effort into trepairn ght edestruction caused by the judgmetn of God, using stronger materians to proetect against fursther destruction, hewn stone over bricks, cedards which are hardier than sycamores. the passage goes on to say that it certainly didn't do anything to bring the judgment to an ends end: for "His hand is stretched out still."
And what I am saying is that His hand is still stretched out in judgmetn over the nation of America. WQe never did anything to repent of our sins aaoinst God, even to acknowledge them, what we did, as Jonathan Cahn points out, is rebuild the ETC, layeing, guiess what, a hewn stone for itsfoundation; and in a chaurch yard that was close to the disaster a sycamore tree was destroyed, and the chuyrch replaced it with a confier, a hardier tree like a cedar. That's the uncanny parallel Cahn pointed out.
So here we are with Donal Gtrump as pResident and he is doing a great job of making america great again, really remarkable, and we have to regard thisa as God's mercy oi our nation. He is working ahard to restore the nation after years of its being destroyed by various poilitices of the Democratic party, open borders that brought even criminals int who have raped and killed citizens and people who have benefited from our services paid for by American citizens and gotten us into trade deals that only hurt us and weakened our military and I know there is a long list but my ind keeps going off it. Anyway the idea ishouild b dlear enough. This is what Trump is doing a gerat job of cofrecting. And again, this can only be God's mercy on the nation.
But will it hold? I know a lot of us on the Right are worried that we'll lose Republican seat in Congress wqith the upcoming midterm elections and that would be a big setback for Trump's policies. Unfortunately it's pretty much an established pattern that the incumbent administration loses at the midsterms, and even thoguhj trump is doing marvelously well it could happen this time too, and then we'll see more thof the left's destructions just take over, including impeachemewnts of Trmp that of course he doesn't deserve. He hasn't deserved anythig they've thrown at thim that they call justice, ti's all made up political warfare, but it creates chaos and confusion and what needs to be done to gfix things doesn't happen and gets set back.
Ghe left' hasn' stopped its destruction , in fact increased it, since Trump came into office for his secdon term. They seem to be destermined to destroy the nation alogheter. And the fact that they seem o have that much ability to succeed at is t as they pobviously have, and lahalf the nation aggreeing with them, mostly because they hear only what the leftwing media want them to thear, the fact that they have that much power is what makes me thingk it's go tsomething to do with God's judgment on the nation. hen God is happy with a nation He prospers andblses it, He doesn't allow enemies, internal or externalt to harass and destroy it. We aren't quite at the point therehwere They who hate you will reign over you but if we are under God's judgmetn and we do nothing to push it back as usual, it could happen.
What can we do? Well, for starters Chrsitains ALL Chrsitans should be praying our hearts out with fasting where possible. And part of the parayer should be gthe acknowledgment that the natio is deserving of God's judgmetn. We need to lay our snis before Him and convfess them and do what we can to turn them back, but at least the acknoweldgement would be a start and He would listen.
So, what are our sins? I'm sure I don't have enough of a sense of them myself, but when I asked Him to spell them out I got a few I couldn't have listed myself, they just didn't occurrer top me. I easily tthink of the effect of the Sixties with all its liberation movements, sexual liberation, gay liberation, women's libseration. I think there was some cause for womn to object but the probjme is it got pushed by the Marxist point of view tand brought in anayalysis of Patriarthchy and all that which is really an attack on Chrsitainity. But the liberations in general were really just one big Sin LIberation movement. After the sixties it became comon for people not to get married but just live together and if that only lasted a few monehts they might go n to someone else and so on. All that is a big violation of God's Moral Law. Gay Marriage which only came about recently is a direct violation of God's ordinance of marriage between a man and a woman. Marriage itself has been udner attack in the nation. But we seem to have become all too accepting of it . It;s just the way things are these days, we've adapted to, we hardly ever thing k of it as wrong at all, and of course for most people the idea of sin would be preposterous anywaya, the idea that we are offending God just utterly ridiculous. But if we are, and I know we are, God is continuing to bring judgment against us for thesae among other sins.
WHn I askewd God to remind me of our sins He brought divorce to my ind which isn't one I would have thoguht of, but Jesus makes it clear in the sermon on the mount that God hates divorce and that remarriage is adultery. I think it was in the fifties though I'm not very sure of dates, that laws pertaining to divorce were strongly relaxed and divroce became way too easy. I think I recall that out of ten of my daughter's friends, nine had divorced parents. It's no small sin. And I might as well add here that tihte idea that there is any justivation for divorce in God's eyes is wrong. There is this idea that there is a special exception for sexual sin but that's just a rmidsreading of the text. Jesus sayid that divorcing one's wife jexcept for the sin of formination, causes her eto commit adultery. This is ead as if it said that fornication is an exception which is very strange sinsce what it says is tht if he cause is fornication then she isn't comitting adultery if she remarries, which is bovious,m rbecause she's already commiitted adultery. It's a simple grammatical point. I can think of all kinds of reasons a couple shouldn't stay tohgether, esepcially in the case of violence and abuse, but I think scripture doesn't aallow divoerce even in those cases. I can'at argue in favor of it, I just think that's the case. God wants marriage to remain marriage. Children need an insact family foe one strong reason but tht'smy own easoning. Anyway I'm not going to argue it just say that it's clear that scripture does j The only justification for divorce given in scripture seems to be if a believer is marriage d to an unbeliever and the unbeliever wants to seprate, that's the only one I know of. But again I'm not arguing any of this, I just want to say that he rampant divorce in the nation is no doubt oe of the reaosns we are under God's judgment.
Another He brought to my id was the Scopes trial. Evolution. Hm. Evolution as the scientific law of the land. Hm. Of course it is a complete denial of the exisgtence of God or cousrse we'd be under judgment for that. It's an idolatry.
How about Jim Crow. We paid for slavery but Him Crow stood for years and although it came to an ened we may still be under jdugmetn for it. Same with aborion. The Supreme Court recently finally removed Roe v Wade from its position of national sin and threw it back on the states where it has somehow continued with even greater numbers of abortions than before. All that shed blood is certainly crying out to god for redress.
So I'm thinking all this noisy drestructive activity against the peace of the nation by the Left is a congtinuation fo God's judgmetn and if we want it to stop it isn't going to be done through politics or any human menas, ti's going to take our recognition that the nation is junder God's judgment aAND AT LEAST OUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF WHATEVER SINS WE ARE AWARE OF THAT Sorry caps lock onm, at least acknowledge the sins. Daniel confessed the sins of the Israelities in His prayer i Daniel Nine, each of us can do the same for America. I guess only the born again Christains wer e really able to do this but if we all do it with real conviciton and fewrvor He may listen.
I know I made a mess of this wih typos, I just hope they don't make the gthinkg unreadable. Sorry sorry orry, I can feel them happebing under my findgers but I can't do anything about them because of my blindndess. Sorry.
Butr I would really like this message to get out to a lot of people. I hope I'm not the only oe giving it but I haven't heard it coming from anywhere else lately.
faithswindow@mail.comept if he
