Please forgive me, but I have to get a bit serious with this article.  I know—I hear it all the time, that we just put our hope and trust in God. And
good Christians everywhere use that phrase whenever events occur that upset things.  But let me put it this way: we trust Him for food on the table,
but we still have to get out and earn the money to buy the groceries, and we still have to go get to the store to load them in our vehicle, and still
have to unload them, store them, and eventually cook and eat them.  That is our part.  It is not just sitting back inside its shell that moves the
turtle. Our America is crumbling apart before our very eyes.  That is a fact.  And it wouldn’t be so alarming if we had leaders with backbones rather
than voices that spit out promise after promise but never delivered the goods.  Spines made of wet noodles.
 
I wish I could marshall thousands of transport ships to dock and receive all the people who hate our country and ship them off to la-la land. Instead,
we are opening our borders to whosever will, regardless of laws and restrictions that were laid out by those who escaped la-la land
to establish a homeland on what constitutinal laws God has used to bless our country.  Millions have given their lives to defend our freedom---freedom
that we’ve taken for granted.  And in the name of freedom we have ignored the restritctions that guarantee its survival.  Without God, we are
finished.  God is love.  But God is also a God of laws.  Whenever we push them aside, we will always pay a price.
 
Ignorance among Christians themselves is part of the problem: they justify sin “because we are under grace, not the law”.  But there is a far greater responsibility under grace; we cannot frustrate it to conform to what we want and desire.  That is doing the very thing we accuse our president of doing.  What is happening today is the result of our yielding to personal greed and living a life of convenience.  50+ million of the unborn have been aborted (those who God says He knew before they were ever born).  Our flags are torn, thrown in the streets and set afire. Television commencials depict the most obscene gestures, say words out loud that a decade ago were forbidden.  Ponography, drug use, murder, abuse, and lying are no longer items to worry about---“let them work themselves out.  Just leave things alone”.
 
Here is what I see, dear Doves:  This next year our eyes will see our Babylon crumble.  Not just economically either.  Weather changes, the earthquakes, the volcanoes, the attacks from both within and without will exceed anything we’ve ever imagined.  We are witnessing "the Jeremiah age” in our very lifetimes.  And we ourselves know whether or not we would believe his message or that we reject it.  Our very survival will depend on that decision.
 
People do not like hearing this message and always have.  To most, this is “fear mongering”, because  warning is not the popular thing to do.   But I
know that the Word of God tells us to “fear God”, because knowing His righteousness, yet our refusing to honor His ways in our lives will remove His
protecting hand.
 And we did it to ourselves.
 
Mary E. Adams
meamin@mtaonline.net
www.maryeadams.com