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America’s Provocation Of
God: The Cost of Judgment
 

By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

WASH—Aug 30—KIN—In the wake of one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the American mainland, insurance actuaries are already trying to calculate the cost of Katrina, currently estimating between $19-25 billion, but the cost of judgment upon the United States is far greater and veiled to the eyes of actuaries as well as to most Americans and even to most Christians.

Until the secular humanism revolution in the early 1900’s, natural disasters and wars were regarded by men of God as judgments upon the nation for unrepentant sin. An earthquake, a tornado, a hurricane, an outbreak of disease, even wars, such as the Civil War, was regarded as the judgment hand of God. In fact, many were called “Acts of God” even in legal papers such as insurance documents. Pastors would call their congregations to prayer and fasting. Presidents, such as Washington and Lincoln called the nation to prayer and fasting from time to time.

Today, if anyone in the clergy dare merely suggest that God’s judgment may be upon the nation, they are verbally tarred and feathered with such words as “crack theology,” “religious zealots,” “religious fanatics,” or worse—and this is from the Christian community. Many of today’s seminary sanitized theologians prefer to not believe that God would judge a nation for the sins of leaders or individuals. And many of them refuse to admit a connection between the spirit world and the physical world, the intersection of which is prophecy.

But the cost of judgment on America will soon be even obvious to the blindest eye. Consider that a generation of wringing every drop of God out of a once fervently God fearing society has resulted in our public schools teaching only evolution, handing out condoms and birth control pills, promoting homosexuality, shutting down effective abstinence programs because of the influence of the National Education Association and Planned Parenthood, encouraging and assisting teens girls to receive abortions without the knowledge of their parents, and the list goes on and on.

This is only one small segment of American society gone awry. Consider: abortion on demand killing over 1.5 million pre-born babies a year; States actually considering something called homosexual marriage; Acknowledgement of God in the public square being prohibited by judicial fiat; And dividing the covenant land of Israel in favor of a Palestinian state. These are all issues that most Christians born before 1910 would have sworn would never happen in their lifetime.

God has plenty of reason to judge America. Fortunately, His mercies are plentiful and His grace is endless. But America is under judgment, and there is a pattern similar to that of Babylon as prophesied by in Jeremiah 50 and 51.

First, America is the wealthiest nation in the world. But how long can this nation sustain spending billions of dollars in not only military operations, but also the subsequent rebuilding programs? For example, in Iraq alone, the United States is spending $37 million dollars to help establish women’s rights programs. The U.S. is spending $15 billion in AIDS prevention, $500 million for Mother and Child HIV Prevention, and $84 million to support Afghan elections. You name it; America is spending money on it. Many of these are worthwhile programs, but a drain nonetheless on the tax base, especially over a sustained period of time.

Meanwhile, energy prices are escalating. The direct cost of energy continues to rise with no relief in sight. And this single item, currently at record levels for American consumers, will have a rippling impact on the entire economy and the society as time wears on. Food prices, transportation resources, clothing costs, housing costs, construction costs, electricity costs are just a few of the areas where the average American will find his home budget suffering with extraordinary expense. The wealth of this nation is at stake, drained by the war on terror.

The United States also has been hit each year with increasing numbers of natural disasters. Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, droughts have all had an impact on the physical and financial well being of Americans. This year’s hurricane season is the most active on record. Wells are going dry in the Midwest as the corn and soybean crops whither under the summer sun.

Another Babylonian-type judgment can be seen in the illegal invasion of immigration across the Southern borders of the United States—something no Administration has handled since President Ronald Reagan. Some half a million people a year comes into the nation illegally. They stay; have children, and our government pays for their medical benefits, the education of their children and more. Jeremiah 51:14 says, “Surely I will fill thee with men, as with locusts, and they shall lift up a shout against thee.”

The situation has gotten so bad that the governors of Arizona and New Mexico have called states of emergency and are trying to find new ways to protect their borders. Conservative columnist and former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush because, in Buchanan’s words, the president is not upholding the Constitution because he is failing to protect the states from invasion (Article IV section 4).

Every time the United States pressures Israel to give in to the Palestinian terrorists, there is yet another warning fired across the bow of America, yet politicians and theologians alike refuse to consider that God’s disapproval may be in play. It holds true for advancing homosexuality or abortion or promiscuity or failure to allow the acknowledgment of God in public.

Fact is judgment is upon America. It has come in the form of Islamic terrorism, an attack on the wealth of the nation, through natural disasters and from the borders. And until those in charge wake up, and/or the Republic rises to demand a change, the judgments will become more and more pronounced. The Lord said in Jeremiah 25:6, “provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no evil.” And Jesus said in Matthew 4:7, “It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”

America as a nation must understand that God makes the rain fall on both the unjust and the just alike. In these times when judgment falls, those with eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts to receive must reach out to others, and in the way of Christ, show them their ways that they not bring upon the nation more judgment.

Whenever the nation, which was dedicated to Jesus Christ as far back as the Pilgrims, goes against God, the hand of Him is lifted allowing Satan to sift the people. And it starts out gentle, but gets harsher each time until the people finally understand and repent. It’s a message that no one wants to hear in these modern days, but these pressures and disasters will become increasingly worse until the people become a II Chronicles 7:14 nation: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
 
 

Maranatha!
Deborah
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