It isnot fun havig to write that the natio is under God's judgment. I dread it, I try to avoid it, but I know it is the truth and avoiding it puts me at odds with god. Writng about it probably puts me at odds with ltos of people I'd raher not be at odds with, some good solid conservatives, but I don't want to be the kkind of coward who wants the praise of men at the expense of god's praise. If He is bringing judgmetn against America, and I know He is, it has to be said because there are things that can be done and unfortnatrely they don't always coincid witht e things the conservatives are doing right now, even though in a way the effort is to do something in roughtly the same direction. That's the hard part. Supporting Trum p is dsupporting a lot of right things, righteous thihngs opposed to evil thihngs, things that cry out to be done to protect the country. The problem is that if those evil things are coming against us because we are under God's judgmetn for our sins as a nation then we aren't going to be able to succeed. You can't fight God and win. He is giving us mercy, lot o f mercy and I inhope He continues, I hope He'll let us win the midterm elections, I hopep He'll let us keep Trump and let Trump continue to succeed. But if we are under His judgmetn and we are not directly dealing with that fact, and we aren't, then we are going to continue to be under His judgment and all the effotts to right the wrongs can only have a very limited success and always be on the verge of being defeated. We could very well be deaefeated becausae we are under God's judgmetn and nboody is taking that into account.
The evils arrayed against us are real evils. Real threats by real evils. Islamic jihad is a real threat by a real evil ideology. An Islamist nation is a real threat based on ahtat evil ideology, an ideology that wants to rule the world for its evil relgion. Of coure all these evildoesers thingk they are in the right, they think they are the righteous ones. Nine eleven was God's judgmetn on us, a judgment we ignored so that's why it has continued , why Islam has only grown in favor and power over us sincew then, but that certainly does not make the perpetrators right and righteous, it just makes tem toolds of God to carry out His judgment against us. They will be judged in turn. When He broughtthe Assyrians and the Babylonians against His people Israel they were His tools of judgmetn against them and they did great damage to Isarael, but that didn't make them right in God's eyes, just tools for His puprposes. There was nothing right about the flying of planes into the twin towers but nevertheless it was decreed by God as judgment against a sinning nation.
A nation that started out strongly Christain. That makes a differentce. GThe more you are given the greater your resonsibility. We were once strong representatives of the living God, the God of the Bible, but over the years we degenerated until in the last half cewntury or so we must clearly be seen as having made ourselves Gods enemy in many ways. Atheists think that's wonderful of course but then they are puaart of why we are being judgmed. Supposedly we are growoing out of religion, it's just an oldfashioned or primitive idea once useful to the human race perhaps but fundamentally false and we can only benefit and become materrure human beings by giving it up.
The problem is that that is falsek. God is real, as real now as He ever was and He stil acts as He's always acted toward human beings. It's all there in the Bible for us to learn from. NOtrhing happens withiout God. If evil things happens that can't happen without God just as good things happen because of Him. Hes omnipotent, H'es omnisicent, He's eomnipresnet. Nothiong happens withouit Godl Even the evil that comes against us. Satan may be its immediate agent, or proximate cause, or evil human beings, jihadists or God haters or America haters or atheists or whatever, but they are still all in God's power and not able to act unless He is willing that they act according to their own motives. Yet in the end those with evil motives will be condemned for their evil motives. Being a tool of God's dcertainly doesn't convfer righteousness on a person. YToy u still have to repent and become a follower if you are to be saved.
Scripure says, I know it is in the prophet Amox but I couldn't get the right address from asking Alexis, just somewhere in Amos it says, "If there be ewvil in a city will not the Lord have done it?' Yw YYes that is in the Bible. God did the evil if there is evil in a city, and that scripture certainly describes the evil of the attack on the WTC, evil in a city and won't God have done it?
There is another scripture verse, in Isaeiah somewehre, in the fiftyies I think, chapters I mean, maybe the forties, where God says and I can't remember the first part, He does good or soemthing like that but I'm sure that's not the workdding, and evil: I Am God, I do good and I do evil. Somethig like that. God is in charge. Somewhow the Church doesn't keep that in mind or make the use of it that should be made of it. Evil comes upon us because of sin . ththere is no other reason for it. Jesus could not die becauase He was perfectly righteous. If you are perfectly righteous you cannot die. Deahth is the wagews of sin. Sin is why we experiencew all kind s of unpleasant things, not all physical but cerainly the pysical pains and injuries and calamities and death as well. the wages of swin sin is death. That 's what it says. By one man sin entered thw wrold and death by sin. GThat was Adam. But by one mad now we can have eternal life if we acknowledge His sacrificewd, His death in our place to pay for our sins, then and then only can bwe be saved from our sins. There is no other way. Sin brings calamity anbd death. Someone had to pay the price we owe, take on HImslef the calamity anbd death that we owe for our sins. Jesus did that so that we don't have to.
This happens to be ouhow reality is structured. We live in a moral medium as it were, a soup, an atmophere, we are encased in it, it rules us every moment though we have no sense of it. Righteous ness brings belessings, sin brings death or cursings. That's what God tells us throygygh Moses too when He gave Moses the tablets of the Law on Mount Sinai. Of course we enlightened aAMericans have gthrown them out, torn them down adn rid ourselves of such primitive stupidities, but they go on jdugmeing us nevertheless. They should be posted in every institituion of the country, and eveyone should know them. God said in giving the Law to His people the Israelities, that He was giving them a choice between belssing and cursing, life or death. Obey the Law and you will be blessed, otherwise you will be cursed.
Well, we are living iin a fallen world, a world damaged becaUZE OF the sin of our first pparents, and we ourselves have inherited their sin nature as a result of that Fall. We therefore have astorong tendency rtoward disobeying God. As one result of the Fall we lost the faculty that they had had before the Fall, that was the means by which they were able to communicate dirctly with God. Without that faculty it is as if God doesn't sexist at all because we have no way of apprehending Him sincew we lotst that faculty. So we sin and sin and sin and sin. nAnd if we rebelliously reject the whole idea of God we may si even more than the natural person does without any rebellious motive. We are sinners and we earn all ikinds of calmaitieis and death by it.
And over the eyars America has become a place where some sins are perretty much a way of life. Divorce for instance. God concdemns diveroce. Pornography. Yes ALL KINDS OF SEXUAL SINS. aBORTION BY WHICH MILLIONS ARE MURDERED VEVERY YEAR. gOD hears their blood crying out from the ground as He heard the blood of Abel. The travesty of same sex marriage is a big one. We just put that on the record of national sins quite recentlyu. It's bringing more of those evil things against us that we are trying to fight because but can't fight forever als lon as we do nothing to correct the sins.
We are under God's judgmetn. Treum p is a mercy from God but Trump can't overturn God's judugmetn. That takes apisirtual change of heart on the part of a great number of Americans. Read the prayer the prophet Daniel give in SDaniel Nine. He repentsfor the sins of Israel that brought on their judgmetn of exile in Babylon. He repents for his own sins fand for the sins of the nation, he acknowledges the sins and asks for mercy. That's the least Chrsitsnians should be dowing. doing. I'm typing a lot of afalse letters, sorry. My findgers seem to ahve some other message i mind. But I am still trying to talk about God's jdugmetn and what we can do about it. Ideally we would trun back our laws that are the legalization of sin against God, but at least we can pray and confess and repent of whatever our own part in them my be or may have been.
Judgment is deaht and edestruction. It couldn't be happening to us if we were in the right wiyh God. Obviously we are not. Obviously we have a long list of sins by now that are bringing itg down on us.
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