Posted on 11/22/2003 12:03:42 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
I'm not the most moral person on earth, nor am I the most religious, but even I can see how much we've been tempting God to abandon us.
If God leaves this country, our technology means nothing. Our riches, our innovations, our heritage, and even our determination would mean nothing without God's blessing. Ashes. Destruction. Humiliation. That is our future if we do not make it clear that we want God to rule over our land, to be welcome in every public building. God looks to the King to decide the kingdom's fate. The voter is the King. And the voter has treated God like a whipped dog. The voter once had the excuse of ignorance. But that excuse no longer cuts it. The Truth is clear now. Knowing right from wrong is not as difficult as it was in years past. This is one of God's greatest blessings, the internet. God has blessed us beyond imagining. If all of His blessings are to be misused, if the voter allows the spitting upon God to continue, we as a nation are in for some terrible shocks.
Some on this forum will never comprehend until it's too late. God no longer feels welcome here. As a friend recently told me, 'God is a gentleman. He will not stay in a house He is not welcome in.' He has one foot out the door, and once He leaves, we will lose the great blessings He has lavished upon us. His blessings have been slowly fading already, His blessed light upon our land dimming, a spiritual coldness setting in that no blankets can cure, and a blindness to future dangers. Once we had half of the world's GNP, just after WWII. As usual, we were spared from having our major cities burned and bombed, unlike many other nations throughout the world. Pearl Harbor, while painful, was nothing like what England, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and a host of other nations suffered. We turned to God in WWII. We prayed fervently. We united. Under God, we prevailed. A short time later, President Eisenhower added 'under God' to the Pledge of Allegience. Most Americans agreed with Ike that we should acknowledge the source of our nation's blessings.
But other people within this nation were determined to rid us of God. With some, it was semi-conscious, a yearning to see a world more accepting of hedonism. With others, it was part of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, replacing worship of God with worship of government to achieve 'utopia'. Others piled on to look 'sophisticated' in the eyes of their 'enlightened' and 'uninhibited' colleagues. And yet others believed that the 'fairy tales' of religion were getting in the way of science. These people united to form an anti-Christian force. The Anti-Christians dominated the think tanks. They dominated the universities. They bought up the television stations. They did their best to control Hollywood [largely successful with a few exceptions]. And they dominated most of the major newspapers. And they still do. At first, they had a pretty 'big tent', attracting creative thought and individuality. But as their power grew, they became more restrictive and controlling. When Ted Turner brought cable television to the world, they snatched him right up, welcoming him into their circle, and poisoning his mind against Christians. A bit naive, Ted Turner spoke his mind publicly, saying that all the fun people would 'be in hell', and that is where he wanted to go. He made jokes about the Pope, and he was alarmed to see a beach on his private island shrinking in size.
The Democratic Party fell under their control, largely due to FDR's fascination with socialist intellectuals and ideas. Thus arose the Triangle of Anti-Christian Power: the DNC, the Colleges, and the Media. Through the colleges, the Legal Branch was corrupted. Through the Media, the DNC had tremendous power, constantly pressing Christian Conservatism into the defensive. They enjoyed watching the internet in its infancy, a harmless toy, they thought, which tempted people with pornography, driving them further from God. [That was probably their worst mistake.] Even so, their power grew to the point that 40 million unborn infants were legally murdered, and tax money was used to pay for art that mocked Christianity in the most vile ways imaginable. Those are the subjects I will start with tomorrow-- Infanticide and the NEA [National Endowment of the Arts].
Actually He does. Perhaps He doesn't beg, but He certainly pleads. And He gives us time that we don't deserve. But the time will run out.
He'll send a prophet to Ninevah, renowned for it's wickedness, rather than destroy them. He sends warnings and will send more. Even the terrible judgements in the book of revelations are designed to try to get people to repent of their sins. But many won't.
He suffers repeated rejection, but He doesn't give up, not yet. He won't force. It must be our choice. And at some point, He knows we have made our choice and there will be no breaking through our darkness.
This is Hillary Clinton's MO, something she started learning as a young girl from an "enlightened" youth "pastor" in her beloved Methodist Church, later reinforced by her mentors in College.
This is fantastic Arthur, well thought out, well written, and frighteningly true.
Extremely well stated. Like it or not, the same Puritans who today have become objects of ridicule and scorn influenced the thinking that gave us the free republic in which we live. Is the God worshipped today according to contemporary whims and mores - the God frequently depicted as begging people to believe in Him - the same as the Sovereign Creator, Redeemer and Judge worshipped 250 years ago?
2 Chronicles 7:13-15
13. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain,
or if I command the locusts to devour the land,
or if I send pestilence among my people;
14. 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.
15. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto
the prayer that is made in this place.
Marxism is where we're headed, and all of these things - hatred of God, evolutionism, and devaluation of life, are intricately tied together:
* Darwinism (and other evolutionary theories to try to explain our existence without God) are put forth as "science" in our schools though they have not one single iota of scientific proof to support them. Thus they embrace support theories like Lyells' uniformitarianism. These theories are put forth as fact, since the alternative is based on "myth and superstition" from the "dark ages". The real reason: They don't want it to be true because they wish to live as they please without fear of divine retribution.
* Since man is just an animal, sexual promiscuity is portrayed as normal and even healthy. So is perversion - there's no God and therefore no absolute standard on which to judge anything perverse. (Of course, there's also, accordning to a consistent application of that worldview, no basis for transcendent truth, for the laws of logic or even mathematics. Is the number "1" an idea invented by man?)
* Abortionism is man's solution to problems resulting from the foregoing.
* Again, because man is just an animal and there is no God, quality of life supercedes sanctity of life. The elderly, the Terri Schiavos, and the mentally and physically handicapped are next on the chopping block: they are an inconvenience to other, healthier animals and an impediment to "group survival".
* What is most amazing: those opposed to God must borrow from Him the laws of logic to make their case against Him.
Be comforted, because in the end good will triumph over evil. Those who mock will be silenced. Those who kill with impunity will be shown for what they are. Those who call light darkness (the "Dark Ages") and darkness, light (the "Enlightenment), will be revealed as liars. God's Word and man's Divinely imprinted sense of justice all testify to this.
All of us must give an account before God, for every idle word spoken, for every secret deed, for every impure thought. And no, none of us are innocent, and that is the basis for the Gospel of grace.
I have a little bit different perspective on these present end times.
I try to remember that everything goes through God's hands first.
Evil can only achieve the heights allowed by God, and it can only enslave those who have not been wrapped and sealed in the power of His hand.
I don't think that evil is any more predominant in this nation than it has been; it's just more vocal, more open and attracts more attention.
God's people are fighting the biggest battle in mankind's history, and it's all according to God's plan.
There is a division taking place.
We see the ugly side of this division every day, but God's people are there; they're just not being seen.
God is not going to abandon us. He's getting us prepared for His Second Coming.
We have many battles to fight before Armageddon.
I agree.
Thank you, dear one.
Faith is walking with her walker and her cane.
She hasn't been in that dreaded wheelchair in two weeks, and I thank God for that miracle.
Thank you for your prayers.
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