[bulldogs]

Right on Arthur. Maybe we will all have to move to Miconesia and hope God finds us there.

[The Mayor]

Bump to ya!

[xzins]

Good introduction.

I'm curious about the next installment.

Thanks.

[Lexinom]

You've presented a very eloquent summary of our time.

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.

This could be said even more strongly. God is sovereign, in control over everything. He provides the very laws of logic by which we (and His enemies) can even engage in rational discourse. I posit the departure of our nation from its Christian and Puritan roots is, in fact, a judgment of God against us, not merely our pushing him out of the public sphere (which is not possible for man to do).

Does this "naïve" verse from St. Paul's epistle to the Romans not describe our situation in striking detail? Read it carefully:

1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Only the blind, the so-called "enlightened ones", would be foolish enough not to see how everything described here is become manifest in our own day.

[MissAmericanPie]

To a Christian, we are heading into the times that the Bible records the prophets of old would have loved to have been a part of. My knees are knocking together a little to hard to appreciate that biblical scripture much, but I try to scrape together the courage neccessary to face that "something wicked that this way is coming".

We are also told we best be busy sowing those seeds of Christianity because the time is coming when no man can sow them. The time when all we can do is endure to the end, and that end will most likely be death.

Will that be in our lifetime? I couldn't hazzard a guess. I only know one thing, I'm going to follow Him where ever He leads.

[Gone_Postal]

This is good I will be looking foward to read on

[hope]

"'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".

Thus the entire reason for the Gospel...When we choose to seperate ourselves from God we seperate ourselves from all that He has for us individually and even as a nation... It is the same way in death...WE choose where we are going to spend eternity. In the presence of All things God has created for us or total seperation from even the light of day that was created by Him...Imagine the worst dark, cold, lonely place. Or Imagine if you can...

Rev 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Rev 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.

Rev 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

Rev 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name [shall be] in their foreheads.

Rev 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

[SkyPilot]

Best vanity post in quite awhile. Thanks.

[suzyq5558]

I'll be waiting for your second installment. a very true synopis of what has been happening here for past fifty yrs.

[jla]

Some on this forum planet 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.

AW!M...You've hit on a very important point here.
If people reject the rules of our Creator, He isn't one to stick around to beg 'n plea for their acceptance. And He certainly will not mollify, amend, or change His ways.
Yet, (some) humans will always be arrogant enough to think they know better than their Creator.

[TheCrusader]

Great post Arthur. I am reminded of this New Testament prophesy:

"But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it." (2 Timothy 3: 1-5)

[Mike Darancette]

Jesus doesn't mind being persecuted or being an underdog as long as someone believes. And, I do.

[Cicero]

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

--Deuteronomy 30:19

God gave the Jews a choice: Obey the Covenant and be blessed, or disobey it and be cursed. When they went astray they were punished with the Babylonian exile. Then because they repented a saving remnant was blessed by their return.

Christians have, essentially, the same choice as the Jews. Choose God and life, or reject God and choose death. It's an individual choice, but it's also a national choice.

Ours has in many ways been a chosen and a blessed land. More recently, however, our leaders and many of our people have fallen away. God has allowed the Culture of Death to prevail for 30 years.

It would be presumptuous to imagine that He will allow it to prevail forever without withdrawing His favor.

[ladyinred]

With others, it was part of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, replacing worship of God with worship of government to achieve 'utopia'.

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.

[KriegerGeist]

We do have a solution:

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.

[Cvengr]

Long time, no see,..Good to see you again.

[BooBoo1000]

Thank you for your post, you have hit the nail on the head.

We used to be a nation of Christians praying and obeying God, now we are so much mud. Just wandering around with no anchor to hold us fast to the truth.
Thank you for your post , and God Bless you..

[The Drowning Witch]

Well said. Looking forward to the next chapter.....
Witch

[Nea Wood]

Excellent. Right on the money. Looking forward to the next chapter.

[mollynme]

This is why we Americans must continue to fast and pray for our nation.