We need to keep in mind . . .
our HOPE IS IN CHRIST ALONE.
There is no other hope.
Not for us as individuals. Not for our families. Not for our beloved Republic.
And there is NO HOPE TO RETURN TO STATUS QUO of the last 200 years in any way shape or form.
There is NO hope to return to business as usual.
There is NO hope to mix light and darkness.
There is NO hope to continue to pollute the sanctuary.
There is NO hope to do our own thing in this land and pray God will tolerate it and bless it or at least endure it and allow it to continue. THAT WILL NOT BE THE CASE.
The land itself is about to vomit up the evil plaguing it. No amount of prayers will prevent that.
There will be no safety, no peace, no stability and no hope apart from Jesus The Christ.
And He is not going to be relating to us nor to the USA as suffering servant Lamb. He is relating as LION OF JUDAH.
There is NO COMPROMISE with the LION OF JUDAH. It is all or nothing.
There is no hope to hang on to "CHRISTIAN AMERICA" fantasies with business as usual.
There is no hope to hang on to CHURCHIANITY as usual.
There is no hope to cling to RELIGION as usual.
There is no hope from going through RELIGIOUS MOTIONS as usual.
There is no hope from putting other things first as usual. God Alone must be first.
There is no hope from leaning on a rotten post of vain imaginings, fantasies and RELIGION as usual. We MUST lean only on the everlasting arms of Jesus.
There is no hope that even earnest fasting and prayer will make a righteous silk purse out of the sow's arse that D.C., Hollyweed, Madison Avenue, . . . etc. have so vividly become.
Even our good works must be kept on God's altar. Even our best efforts, our best . . . filthy monthly rags . . . of our works of righteousness must be continually offered up to God on His altar as nothing . . . CHRIST ALONE, CHRIST'S BLOOD ALONE IS SUFFICIENT.
GOD IN US ALONE WILL DO.
GOD IS NOT INTERESTED in business as usual in the USA nor in the world.
God is increasingly and increasingly rapidly interested in being about trashing the old world in the fires of his fury at sin. Anything and everything and anyone and everyone clinging to that sinful world will be trashed with it.
Even clinging to the sinful components of the sinful world in the name of patriotism and The Republic will be trashed.
America without God is a suicidal, murderous disaster in the hands of the king of hell and his Jr Minister of Destruction--Othuga. All such are doomed.
There will be no such thing as a Righteous America with a side order of a little recreational sinning.
This chapter of the online book about the spiritual Pearl Harbor etc. is correct. Take heed.
http://www.cryfromthewall.com/chapter18PearlHarbor.html
God The Father will insure that the Bride of Christ is spotless. One either eagerly cooperates or is out of the boat and into the sea of the fires of hell.
There is nothing inherently righteous about any American nor about America. GOD ALONE MAKES ANY OF US AND ANYTHING RIGHTEOUS.
And ALL THE CHAFF, ALL THE DROSS, ALL THE UGLINESS OF ALL SIN WILL BE CONSUMED IN THE FIRES OF HIS FURY.
Even 'looking back' at what has been . . . will be eternally hazardous. Looking back will risk being counted unworthy for Heaven.
We are used to the AMERICAN STANDARD being the world's paragon standard of good.
Those days are gone, to whatever degree they ever were true.
God is calling us higher to HIS STANDARD. NO OTHER STANDARD WILL DO.
It is NOT to our credit that any group or religion or nation could point the finger at the filth out of Hollyweed, the filth out of D.C., the filth out of Madison Avenue, the filth out of our media, the filth out of even so many of our churches as the current hallmarks of America's reputation.
No amount of prayer, sackcloth, ashes, fasting or God forbid, even cutting ourselves, will cause God to put lipstick on sin and call it beautiful.
THE ONLY WAY TO REDEMPTION IS CONFESSION, REPENTANCE AND FORSAKING ALL BUT GOD ALONE. THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE BEST. CHRIST ALONE WILL DO.
GOD IS NOT INTERESTED IN AN OVERHAUL. God is shredding to the Foundational elements and rebuilding. Any foundation other than Christ will also be shredded. CHRIST ALONE WILL DO.
Any goal other than Christ alone will be trashed, come to naught, be costly to even contemplate.
The America that survives will be CHRIST'S ALONE. He will not share His glory. He will not share His primacy.
I knew I recognized that blue font, hello Quix, good post ...
BTTT and well said.
"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."
Psalm 118:8
HOORAY, MAGNIFICENT POST, QUIX. ONE OF YOUR FINEST. GOD BLESS YOU.
I understand the yearning for the America that was, but the America that was was an America which, with a few exceptions, honored God and obeyed Him and did not deliberately spit in His face and deliberately and arrogantly break His commandments and enshrine into law that which He detests and has called abominations.
The America that was can never be again because the common culture that existed, the culture that had at its core a reverence for God and an acknowledgment that God is sovereign, is gone- too far gone.
It is a horrible tragedy, but we are at the point where each man and woman needs to examine what they will do with Jesus Christ because that is what it has come down to and where we are at. Everything is crumbling and falling down, and the only thing that any of us will have, in the not-too-distant future, is our faith and security in Christ. And if you don't have that faith and security, you have nothing. Nothing.
That's what it has come down to.