Will God Judge America Part III
Ezekiel 16-17
In Chapter 16 we see God using the images of a young baby growing into a mature young women. God is reminding Jerusalem that He had raised her from a lowly state to great glory as His bride. God has done the same thing to the United States. He has raised it from the lowly station of a colony to great glory as one of the most powerful nations in the world. As a nation we are to serve Him. At one time God was very close to the United States. Every thing we did we did it with God’s involvement. We became a client nation where we worked to spread God’s word. But just as Jerusalem did so has the United States done, we have walked away form our first love. God no longer holds the place of honor in our nation. We are to concerned with being politically correct. We don’t want to seem to radical in holding to the belief that the Bible is just as relevant today as it was back then. That it is God’s thoughts, His mind so to speak. We have betrayed our Lord our God by prostituting ourselves by seeking alliances with pagan nations such as the Islamic world and atheistic governments. We have become more concerned with what they think about us than what God thinks about us. As individuals we are more concerned with what everyone thinks about us than about what God thinks about us. Or government even strives to become like them in our culture, language, law and religious beliefs. We are pushing God further and further aside trying to create a false peace.
Oil is the driving force in the world’s economy today and it is found mostly in the Arab world. Islam is the religion of the Arab world and it is a religion that worships Satan. He is their Allah. Allah is in no form or fashion the same as my God. The Allah of the Koran is hateful and spiteful. He does not love His followers. Where God is love, mercy, and grace He loves each and every one of us. In fact He loved us so much that He sent His only begotten son to die on the cross for our sins. Allah did nothing for His people. My Jesus assures me of my salvation Allah can not assure His followers. And lastly we know it is a false religion because Mohmmad claimed to be a prophet of God. He claimed to the last that none will come after Him. He said Jesus was a great prophet but not the Son of God. Already Islam is standing over an abyss with nothing to support it because we know from God’s word that the only way to salvation is through Jesus Christ. There is no other name under Heaven by which you may be saved. Mohammad added to the word and we know that Jesus said it is finished. The work is complete there is no need for further revelation Jesus accomplished all, fulfilled all. There is nothing left to be done.
No wonder that there is conflict between Christians and the children of Satan. They don’t know they are Satan’s children but that is the truth. We are not doing what we were chosen to do. Verses 8-14 explains that Israel was to be the channel that God would use to communicate His message of salvation to the world. And to do this He gave Israel special privileges and training to do that work. The United States was also given special privileges as a client nation because we also were to spread the Gospel message of salvation. He has blessed us with an abundant food supplies, He has enriched our nation and churches greatly so that we could have the resources to spread the word. But just like Israel these advantages and resources became a great source of pride and vanity. We no longer remember that it is God who made us what we are today. We use our advantages and resources for our selfish pursuits never thinking how foolish and dangerous that is.
We are just like Israel. We have grown to maturity and went off chasing after the world to give ourselves too. God loved Israel and He loves us and we like Israel have turned away from other nations and false Gods. We as a nation is great but we have forgotten the one who has made us great. This is a picture of spiritual adultery. We have turned away from the one who truly loves us to sleep with the world. Why just look at the news. We take pains to remove any symbol of God from our governments, schools, and politics. We and world make fun of any leaders who openly proclaim their devotion and adherence to God and His word. They believe we are archaic for following an archaic religion. Our nation is making Christianity a crime. If you don’t believe just look and see. All over America Christianity is the only religion where laws are specifically passed to reduce its importance and acceptance all over the land even here in the bible belt. Why wouldn’t He judge America? He judged Israel how are we any more special than Israel? We are not. In fact we have become more defiled than Israel.
The Israelites defiled their temple and we defile our temples with drugs, adulteress sex, alcohol, abortion and so forth. If it feels good do it is our motto. It is okay for a woman to have an abortion it is their bodies and they should be able to do with it what they want. Well doing with it what they want is what got them pregnant in the first place. It is not the babies fault that she is pregnant it is hers she made the decision to sleep with the man who fathered her child. But we sacrifice thousand of children a day for the convience of a woman’s lifestyle. It is not all about what she wants what about what the baby wants. Do you think he would really choice not to be born? Why don’t we stand on a tall temple and throw our unwanted children into a fire like they did in the ancient world under pagan worship. Every day in America crime continues to increase because we have continued turn our backs on God. Our disgrace is so great that other nations especially Islamic are holding us up an example of how not to behave. They are fighting to keep their children from listening to the music that our children listen to and to keep our culture out of their nation. We are out doing them in evil. We know better because we have God’s word and because of that God will hold us to a higher standard than Sodom. He will call us worse that Sodom. He destroyed Sodom for being proud, lazy, and ignoring the needy.
But God also said if the people turned back to Him He would forgive them. No one is beyond God’s reach. He still wants us to come back. He is calling us.
We are putting our hope in an alliance with governments. We look to them for protection. But they will fail us. They will be faithful. They will serve their best interests. We can’t continue to trust in the world. We must repent as a nation and return to God. Only God can give us true hope. He has planted His twig, Jesus Christ, whose kingdom will grow and become a shelter for all who come to Him.
What about you are you serving Him? Is He calling you to come to Him today? What is it God wants you to do? Are you seeking Him today? Are you a part of the problem or a solution to the problem?
