Divine judgment

This won't be a popular post with many people, but it's one that needs to be made. Throughout the Old Testament the writers of various books made it very clear that to turn away from God's commands and moral codes brought great harm to nations and people. For those who do not accept the Bible as God's Word to mankind, history teaches the same lesson. Show me one atheist nation that prospered. Not one nation or kingdom that rejected God has remained powerful.

Compare that to the short history of America. Revisionist historians will not admit it, but we were a nation founded upon Christian principles. Our Founding Fathers were overwhelmingly Christian. I'm not saying they were perfect, but over and over again they expressed their Christian beliefs and values in the statements they made in both oral and written communication. We achieved our independence over a much stronger nation and went on to become the most powerful nation on earth.

We have made our mistakes. Serious ones. Slavery, a Civil War, the unjust treatment suffered by Native Americans and widespread discrimination are just some among the many major mistakes we've made as a nation. At the same time, we have seen God move in our nation as He poured out the First and Second Great Awakenings, numerous revivals led by ministers such as Billy Graham and others and strong churches that faithfully proclaimed the teachings of God.

Today, our nation is at a crossroads. Our churches have less and less influence in today's America. We have abandoned God as a nation. We have turned away from biblical teaching even in many of our churches and seminaries and substituted human philosophy and health and wealth preaching. Many of our people, even within our churches, do not know what the Bible says or how to apply it to their lives. As a result, America is going in the same direction as those godless nations before us.

America is in a state of confusion and chaos. We are confused about gender identity, marriage, and who should go to what bathroom. College students melt down if they hear something that hurts their feelings. Riots break out if an election doesn't go the way people had hoped. People demand that baby seals be protected while also demanding the right to abort their own children. The drug epidemic continues to destroy families and individual lives while costing the nation billions of dollars, and there doesn't seem to be any way to address the problem except to talk about pouring more money into "education." California is burning, hurricanes and other disasters are destroying people's homes and entire cities. Our list of problems continues to grow larger and larger with no end in sight, and yet we still refuse to turn back to God. In fact, for anyone to even suggest that we need God as a nation brings contempt and ridicule.

The Bible tells us God is not mocked, and what a person (nation) sows that shall he also reap. If we sow to the wind we will reap the whirlwind, and if anyone thinks America is not reaping a whirlwind right now they are not paying attention. The Bible also tells us that if God's people will humble themselves and pray, confessing their sins, that God will hear and heal their land. This is what the church needs to be doing now if we want to experience another revival that will return our nation back to God. Without such revival America will experience divine judgment just as the nations before us have experienced.