 |
 |
|
|
|
|
If you were patrolling your unit's perimeter and found an obvious weak spot wouldn't you alert your CO and other members of your unit so something could be done? This is exactly the spot folks who read the Bible are in with respect to the United States. In the Bible, God tells us that he rewards or punishes nations in the present according to whether they follow or foresake His moral rules. The verses that could be cited to demonstrate this principle are many, it appears in every Old Testment prophet and is repeated in the New Testament. God states it explicitly in Jeremiah 18:7-9:
America's Founding Fathers understood this principle well. In fact, George Mason specifically recited it at the Constitutional Convention concerning slavery. Mason said: "As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities." America's first Abolitionist Societies were founded by some of the same men who signed the Declaration and Constitution. And after 90 years of persuasion was not effective in ending slavery, God did indeed bring a calamity upon the U.S.: the Civil War. In our day, America - we - have grieved God by enshrining almost every sin into our law. We no longer recognize a day of rest; suits for adultery are no loner recognized in most states and fornication is accepted - no, celebrated - behavior; legalized theft forms the basis of programs which the Constitution does not authorize - from social security to drug giveaways - and armies of lobbyists representing our covetousness swarm the capitol to get us our "fair share" of our fellow citizens' property; our leaders lie to us with impunity, and our businessmen follow their example. But this list does not recount our worst sins. Through legalized abortion - a woman's right to "choose" to kill the child God has put in her womb - America has brutally butchered over 40 million human beings. This number far exceeds Hitler's accomplishment and matches if not beats the millions slaughtered by Stalin and Mao. America is very likely the nation that has killed more innocents than any other nation in history. On June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court officially rewrote the Constitution and Declaration of Independence to change the basis of our law from the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" cited in the Declaration to consent. Whatever two people agree to - homosexuality, assisted suicide, you name it - is now beyond legal challenge if the Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas is followed. The Supreme Court's decision may well be the sin that ends God's patience with us, and not just because it legalizes homosexuality. Homosexuality is an abomination to God, but the Bible is clear that every sin is an abomination to God. What is really at issue in the debate over homosexuality is whether we will continue to recognize the purpose of sex as the physical manifestation of a spiritual union between a man and woman brought together by God or allow sex to become conduct that every individual may decide to engage in when and how they please. In other words, the homosexual debate frames the question of our national sin more honestly than any issue has to date: will God remain God or will we make man out to be God. In all of our other national sins - even abortion - we have pretended to allow sin in order to avoid some evil. We steal for programs like social security and medicare to "help the poor" even though the programs truly hurt the poor. We allow women to "choose" because of rape, incest, or possible medical threats to the woman. It doesn't matter that our reasons were lies, at least we tried to make up some lies that made our sins look like we were trying to do good. That's not true with homosexuality. The question of whether we will allow homosexuality was honestly framed as whether man may gratify his desire for sin as he chooses or whether America will preserve some semblance of respect for God's rules. When we chose to abandon God's rules, we chose to make ourselves God. This is the greatest sin of all. What is the difference between carving an idol out of wood and claiming the idol commands you to sin or dispensing with the idol and just saying you want to sin? In our day, we don't bother carving the idol, we just do as we please. Have we any reason to expect that God will deal with us differently than He did with Israel and Judah when they rejected Him? God punished Israel and Judah by bringing an external military force against them, just as He punished the Canaanites when He drove them out of the Promised Land to give it to the Jews. Could Islam be the force that God is preparing to bring against us if we do not turn back to Him? Whether it is Islam, the Chinese, or someone not even on the radar scope yet, we are certainly begging for God's judgment. |
|