“America is dying! The country’s wound is incurable. It is now in the final throes of a terminal disease. The great empire is crumbling!” David Wilkerson
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken anymore? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Isaiah 1:4-8
So, How is America like ancient Israel?
America is a Mocking Nation
It is an ominous message of truth that Americans, even Christians, will rebel against. The Christian community will reject it because it has compromised its values with the world, it has wrapped itself in the flag of patriotism, and tolerance, and it has deceived itself with its pollyanna gospel of health, wealth and prosperity.
When God sent prophets to Israel and Judah, calling them to repentance, the people mocked the prophets. “We are God’s Chosen People,” they reminded the prophets. “God will never allow our nation to be destroyed.”
In its 3000 + years of history, Israel has been attacked 52 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, besieged 23 times and completely destroyed twice.
For the past 50 years God has been raising up prophetic voices in America voices like Dave Wilkerson, among others, calling this country to repentance. We have reacted in the same manner as the ancient Israelites. We have mocked the prophets by arrogantly reminding them that we are a “Christian nation.”
But the truth is that we are anything but a Christian nation. Our behavior as a nation makes a mockery of Christianity. We lead the world in every abomination known to man… abortion, alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, divorce, child abuse, violent crime, pornography, and yes, even child pornography. Worse yet, we export our violence and immorality to other countries through our sleazy movies and television programs. We have become the moral polluter of planet earth. And we are reaping what we have sown. The judgment of God is most certainly upon this nation.
As born again believers we need to be aware of and prepared for the wide reaching persecution that will come upon us in the weeks and months ahead. Unless, by the mercy of God, He raptures us out of here sooner than later, this persecution will eventually land on most of our front porches. It will touch many of our lives, our families, we will need to be prepared to lose everything, up to and including our very lives.
I’m not trying to scare anyone, well, actually I kind of am, but the fact is government sponsored persecution is already occurring in our nation in tiny varied pockets. It’s not being covered by national news outlets, but it is occurring and it will get much worse. It will. And we should all prepare ourselves.
God bless…
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