WHAT IS WRONG WITH MODERN AMERICA? : PART 3
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Last Updated : July 23, 2006
Obedient King Josiah, Israel's Pagan Temples, America's Many
False Religions, Backslidden American Leadership, No God But
One, Covenant Of Circumcision, Ruth The Moabitess And Esther
Israelites Put Away Their Pagan Wives And Children, Abortion
- Modern Child Sacrifices, Past Feeling, Spiritual Blindness
False Complacency, Prostitution Of America, Raped By Lovers,
Babylon The Great, Foolish American Legislation, Burned By
Beast And The Ten Horns, America's Coming Judgment, Theories
Concerning Coming Judgment, Chastisements - Tokens Of God's
Love, Treatment Of God's Prophets, Delivering Our Souls,
Warning To Offenders, God Vindicates His Prophets, Psalm 91
I pointed out earlier that ancient Israel's obedience to the
Lord was extremely sporadic. As I mention in 'The Fruits Of
Disobedience, some of her kings were very obedient to the
Lord, while others were not. It should not surprise us then
that the good works begun by King Hezekiah did not endure.
Thus, only a few generations later, we find a young and
God-fearing King Josiah, at the age of sixteen, repeating
the very same acts which had bee done by other obedient
kings who had preceded him to the throne:
"Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. And he did that
which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the
ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right
hand, nor to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign,
while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of
David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge
Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves,
and the carved images, and the molten images. And they brake
down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images,
that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves,
and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in
pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the
graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. And he burnt
the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed
Judah and Jerusalem. And so did he in the cities of
Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with
their mattocks round about. And when he had broken down the
altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into
powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land
of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:1-7, KJV
While I can cite other examples of the scattered obedient
kings of Israel, the point I wish to stress here, is that
these men knew that if they truly wanted to please the Lord,
they had to obey the commandments which had first been given
to Moses, by stopping the sacrifices to the pagan gods, and
by tearing down the many altars which had been built in the
high places in order to worship these demons. In short, to
really please the Lord, they had to rid Israel of all of the
false religions and the temples associated with them. These
false religions were so rampant in Israel, that the Prophets
Jeremiah and Hosea were inspired to write:
"Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the
LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are
these." Jeremiah 7:4, KJV
"For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;
and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a
fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces
thereof." Hosea 8:14, KJV
Let us take another look now at modern America. Whereas the
Lord told the ancient Israelites to not marry the heathen,
and to not have anything to do with their false gods and
their false religions, is this what the leadership of modern
America has done? Quite to the contrary. When foreigners
come to American soil seeking political asylum or financial
opportunity, they are pleasantly surprised to discover that
they can also continue to worship the god, or gods of their
choice. In fact, America is so, so friendly, that one can
even be an antichrist atheist. It doesn't matter to Uncle
Sam. All that matters to the American government, is that
one will pledge his loyalty to America, that he will defend
her if called to do so, and that he will contribute to
America's wealth in some way. Anything else is considered a
secondary issue, and this is wrong, wrong, wrong! It was her
choice to follow the one true God which caused ancient
Israel to prosper and receive the blessings of the Lord; and
it was her choice to forsake Him and follow after other
false gods and religions which brought down His wrath upon
her time and time again!
Now let's be honest here. Can any of you really imagine Bill
Clinton, or any other American president, signing into law a
bill which will immediately outlaw all other religions and
forms of worship which are contrary to our Christian faith?
Can you imagine him signing any bill which will call for the
complete destruction of all Jewish synagogues, Muslim
mosques, Buddhist temples, etc., on American soil? Hardly;
yet that is basically what King Hezekiah, King Josiah, and
other good kings did in Israel. They did their best to purge
the land of these false religions, because they feared the
judgments of the Lord, more than they feared the opinions of
the people who might oppose such an edict; and some people
did oppose them, as we see in this verse concerning King
Hezekiah's edict:
"So the posts passed from city to city through the country
of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed
them to scorn, and mocked them." 2 Chronicles 30:10, KJV
Sadly, just like the majority of the leadership of ancient
Israel, most of America's leadership is too backslidden in
their faith to ever dare attempt such a thing. Most of them
are more interested in being politically-correct, and in
maintaining their public image, than in standing up for the
truth of God's Word. Keeping their jobs, and their high
salaries, takes precedence to obeying God's Commandments in
His Holy Book. To be accused of religious intolerance, or of
being a religious extremist, would absolutely ruin their
careers, so they prefer to tow the line of ecumenism and say
that all religions are good; and that in America, we must
simply learn to get along with each other, regardless of our
religious differences.
Because of this compromise, besides the Jews, Muslims and
Buddhists, we have many other false religionists like the
Wiccans, the Satanists, and various belief systems which
have crept in from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, besides
those which were already being practiced by the Native
Americans, such as Shamanism. Not only that, but some of
these religions now have their days of worship included on
the American calendar, and some of their customs are being
taught in the American Public School System.
What utter nonsense and rebellion against the Lord's Word!
Can you imagine if the Lord had told Moses to tell the
children of Israel 'Now, when you enter the land of Canaan,
you are going to find a lot of heathen people who worship
other gods besides Me. Now, you know that I am the only true
God, but don't you worry about them, or do anything to harm
them. Just learn to get along with them. Practice religious
tolerance'. Is that what the Lord told them? No! The Lord
said:
"...I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt
have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself
to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"
Exodus 20:1b-5, KJV
As I have made clear, the Israelites were to have absolutely
nothing to do with the heathen which inhabited the land of
Canaan. They were suppose to destroy them and to drive them
out! They were supposed to destroy their false temples and
altars, and get rid of all of the idols of their false gods.
They were not to marry the heathen, or to have any children
by them. The Bible tells us that the only condition under
which the ancient Israelites could intermingle with the
heathen, was if the heathen were circumcised according to
the covenant given to Abraham, and if they forsook their
false gods, and adopted the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
"And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among
you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in
the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is
not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he that
is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin
is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his
people; he hath broken my covenant." Genesis 17:12-14, KJV
One Biblical account which is an excellent example of this,
is the story of Ruth the Moabitess. Many of us are familiar
with the fact, that after Naomi's husband and two sons died
in the land of Moab, which is now a part of the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan, Naomi entreated her two daughters-in-law,
Orpah and Ruth, to return to their families, and to their
gods. While Orpah did as she was told, Ruth clave to her
mother-in-law, Naomi, and said:
"...Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from
following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and
where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God:" Ruth 1:16b, KJV
As we know, Ruth later remarried, and become the wife of an
Israelite named Boaz, who was the great grandfather of King
David, and thus an ancestor of Jesus Himself. Another clear
example is that of the story of Esther, who likewise married
the heathen king of Persia, and thus saved her people from
certain destruction. Please realize though, that these are
exceptions to the general rule. The norm was for Israelites
not to marry the heathen. Sadly, as I stated in part two, in
modern-day America, we see the exact opposite happening; and
America has become the melting pot of the world, in both a
religious and in an ethnic sense. As I explain in other
articles, in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, we see that the
people of Judah repented of their evilness, and put away
their pagan wives and the children whom they had begotten by
them, because their love for the Lord, and their desire to
obey Him was much greater:
"And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our
God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land:
yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. Now
therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away
all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to
the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the
commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the
law. Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also
will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it. Then arose
Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all
Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word.
And they sware...And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto
them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to
increase the trespass of Israel. Now therefore make
confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his
pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the
land, and from the strange wives. Then all the congregation
answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so
must we do." Ezra 10:2-5, 10-12, KJV
"In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of
Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: And their children spake half
in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews'
language, but according to the language of each people. And
I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of
them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by
God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their
sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for
yourselves. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these
things? yet among many nations was there no king like him,
who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all
Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to
sin. Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great
evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange
wives?" Nehemiah 13:23-27, KJV
If some strong Christian leader, or Prophet, were to come
along today, and if he were to tell American Christians to
forsake their unbelieving mates and families, how many of
them would be willing to do it? I would dare say very few.
Such a messenger would be viewed as an absolute fool, and
his message mocked, just as we saw earlier in the case of
King Hezekiah.
With all of these verses, I have now provided you with a
very clear picture of what the Lord expected of the ancient
Israelites. They were supposed to utterly purge the land of
Canaan of the heathen. The only exception seems to be if the
heathen were willing to forsake their pagan gods, and adopt
the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as their own. In like
manner, the Israelites were supposed to totally destroy all
of the altars and temples dedicated to the false gods. The
Lord required of them that they remain both ethnically and
spiritually pure in His sight. In both regards, they failed
on a grand scale, even participating in child sacrifices. As
I explain in other articles, such as 'Abortion, Birth
Control And Promiscuity', the child sacrifices continue in
America today; albeit in a more subtle form.
Just the other day, I was totally shocked to discover a web
site where it is claimed that a certain ex-minister performs
what is referred to as an abortion ceremony. During this
ceremony, the woman holds up a silver bowl which contains
the remnants of her aborted fetus, while the ex-minister
pronounces certain words over it, in which he asks God to
bless the woman and her family, for their willingness to
make the courageous decision to abort the baby. If this is
indeed true, surely it epitomizes the twisted, perverted way
in which some American Christians now view things. That a
minister would backslide so far from his Christian faith,
and do such a thing, almost defies belief; but as we saw in
part two, this is precisely what happened in ancient Israel
as well. They backslid so far from the Lord, they were so
spiritually blind, that the Prophet Isaiah told them that
their entire perception was upside-down. It was distorted.
It was reversed. They were living under extremely strong
delusion. The spiritual and political leadership were both
deceived, and they worked together to deceive the people as
well. They cried 'Peace, peace!' while the true Prophets
said war and destruction was coming because of their sins.
In thinking of this man, I am also reminded of the words
of the Apostle Paul, where he tells us that some people
are so far from the Lord, and living under such strong
delusion, that they are actually 'past feeling'. They are
numb to the Voice of God which is trying to convict their
evil hearts:
"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye
henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of
their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being
alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is
in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being
past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness,
to work all uncleanness with greediness."
Ephesians 4:17-19, KJV
Sadly, it seems that with each passing year, America is also
becoming more and more 'past feeling'. She is so drunk on
her own pride and self-confidence, that she has become deaf
to God's Voice crying out to her through His many scattered
messengers. Not only that, but similar to ancient Israel,
America has also prostituted herself with the pagan nations
and peoples of the world; and they have raped her, in order
that they might partake of her delicacies. Just like the
mysterious Babylon the Great who is graphically described
for us in the Book of Revelation, America has become a whore
in God's sight, who boasts of her fornications with the
merchants of the world. In her blindness, and her distorted
way of viewing things, just like that haughty whore John
describes for us, she says 'I sit a queen, and am no widow,
and shall see no sorrow'. Isn't this precisely what the
false prophets were saying before Israel was invaded in the
past?:
"How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her
heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no
sorrow." Revelation 18:7, KJV
Not only is America being raped from abroad, but she is
being raped from within as well. She has opened wide her
doors, and her lovers have come in by the millions. In fact,
they are now so multitudinous, that they have begun to take
over the country. The Jews have such an extremely powerful
lobby in Washington, D.C., that Israel has America wrapped
around her finger. While the Muslims may not hold very much
political power in America, nevertheless, Islam is still the
fastest growing religion in America today, and Buddhism has
also been embraced by many former Christians. To add to this
scourge of spiritual diseases, the Clinton Administration
has foolishly passed, or else is currently endeavoring to
pass, certain laws which not only protect these religions,
by making one guilty of a hate crime if he dares to say
anything against them, but which also protect the rights of
the gay and lesbian community as well; and as I explain in
the four-part series 'Homosexuality And Lesbianism: To The
Point', these people have a very specific agenda which they
are aggressively pursuing.
So you see, just like ancient Israel who was told to keep
herself pure and undefiled, but who then turned around and
disobeyed the Lord repeatedly, by committing spiritual
whoredom with her enemies, current-day America has done the
very same thing. She is literally sleeping with the enemy;
not to mention men with men, and women with women. The
question then, is how will it all end? If we follow the
Biblical example, the answer can only be one. Each time
Israel fell into apostasy, she was invaded by her foreign
enemies as a chastisement from the Lord. In the case of the
mysterious Babylon the Great, we are told that she will be
utterly burned with fire by the Beast and the Ten Horns, or
nations, who join with him:
"And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which
have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings
one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give
their power and strength unto the beast...And the ten horns
which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the
whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat
her flesh, and burn her with fire."
Revelation 17:12-13, 16, KJV
Following these examples, unless there is truly a great
repentance all across America, the only thing which can
possibly await her is severe judgment and destruction from
the Lord. It is not simply because I say so, but because
this is what God's Word seems to indicate. For the Lord to
not chastise America, would make Him seem unrighteous to
anyone who is familiar with His dealings in the Bible. For
Him to punish ancient Israel because of her apostasy, and
then ignore the many sins of modern America, who also calls
herself by His Name, would certainly seem like a clear case
of hypocrisy; thus, being the righteous God that He is, it
seems that judgment on America is imminent.
Exactly how soon, or to what degree, or in what form, this
judgment will come, I honestly do not know. As we have seen,
in the case of Israel, it was usually by foreign invasion;
and quite often, the Prophets would prophesy for many years
before the judgment would actually occur. While I do not
like to resort to too much speculation, I can tell you that
within some conspiracy circles, it is strongly believed that
the invisible powers which are the motivating force behind
the New World Order, are planning to use the United Nations
peacekeeping forces to invade America, as a result of some
internal emergency. Some people believe that this emergency
may be a by-product of the Y2K glitch.
Another school of thought suggests that America is indeed
Babylon the Great Whore; and that some day in the near
future, the Beast and the Ten Horns will indeed rain nuclear
fire down upon her. Even at this current time, articles
occasionally appear in the news which speak of the growing
nuclear threat from such countries as North Korea, Iran, and
other enemies of the United States. Whether such reports are
merely red herrings meant to distract the attention of the
American public from other more important issues, I really
don't know. At the same time, I am again reminded of the
words of the Patriarch Job who said:
"For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and
that which I was afraid of is come unto me." Job 3:25, KJV
Regardless of how soon, or in what form this chastisement
manifests itself, if we again look to the examples found in
the Bible, we must remember that no matter what the Lord
does, and no matter how harsh His judgment may be, it is
still a Divine Token of His Love; because as King Solomon
and the Apostle Paul wrote:
"Open rebuke is better than secret love."
Proverbs 27:5, KJV
"For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every
son whom he receiveth." Hebrews 12:6, KJV
What we can also learn from the Scriptures, is that in most
cases, the majority of the people do not take heed to the
counsel given by the messenger. As we saw earlier, in the
case of ancient Israel, rather than accept the Lord's many
warnings and repent of their sins, the political and
religious leadership tried to stop the message from being
delivered, or else they tried to neutralize the effect it
had on the people by vilifying the true Prophets of the
Lord, by calling them liars, deceivers, false prophets, and
traitors to their own country. In some cases, they used
their own false prophets to contradict the words of God's
true Prophets. Such was the case with the Lord's Prophets
Micaiah, Jeremiah and Elijah. Most of the Lord's Prophets
were persecuted and slain. While the Prophet Jeremiah seems
to have escaped death, he was vilified like the rest of
his contemporaries, and cast into prison on a number of
occasions, as I discuss in other articles.
That being the case, depending upon who reads this article,
I suspect that, as on other occasions, I will at the very
least receive a few pieces of hate mail, in which I will be
accused of being insane, or anti-American, or full of hate,
or religiously intolerant, among other things. However, such
messages do not move me. I simply read them and then trash
them. As with other articles I have written on this topic, I
will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that I have
obeyed the Lord, and delivered my soul; for as the Lord told
the Prophet Ezekiel:
"Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt
surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to
warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the
same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood
will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked,
and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked
way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered
thy soul." Ezekiel 3:17-19, KJV
Regardless of how the messenger and his message are received
by the people and their leaders, the Bible tells us that it
is utter foolishness to seek to harm the Lord's messengers.
Not only that, but we are told that God always vindicates
His Prophets, and the messages which they bear, when they
come to pass. Consider these verses:
"Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no
harm." Psalms 105:15, KJV
"And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then
shall they know that a prophet hath been among them."
Ezekiel 33:33, KJV
Just as all of the prophecies of the past have come to pass,
it is also a sure thing that those remaining will come to
pass as well in God's perfect time; and this may very well
include the judgment of America. It is my prayer that if
your heart is not right with the Lord, that you will soon
take the necessary steps in order to remedy the situation.
God is indeed very merciful and extremely long-suffering. As
Peter tells us, it is not His desire for any to perish, but
there must come a time when His judgments begin to fall. Are
you ready for them? I truly hope so. If not, please take
care of it today; and that begins with accepting Jesus
Christ as your Lord and Saviour if you have not already done
so. Once you have done that, please place your trust in Him,
and remember this:
"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall
abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the
LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I
trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the
fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee
with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his
truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be
afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that
flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in
darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A
thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy
right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine
eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even
the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall
thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For
he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in
all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest
thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon
the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou
trample under feet. Because he hath set his love upon me,
therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high,
because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I
will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will
deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy
him, and shew him my salvation." Psalms 91:1-16, KJV
With this Psalm, I will conclude yet another series. May the
Lord bless and keep all of His obedient children in the
troublesome times ahead.