Posted on 12/05/2022 7:17:08 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Is America nearing the end of the road as a nation? Have we reached a place similar to that of Judah just before Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and the temple?
Three times in the book of Jeremiah, the Lord tells the prophet to not pray for the people of Judah (Jeremiah 7:16, 11:14, 14:11). God’s judgment on the nation was certain at this point; praying would not change the final outcome.
Can we apply Jeremiah’s words to the U.S. as well? I believe we can.
God’s judgment upon America is not only certain, I believe it has already begun. Please know that I am not implying that revivals will no longer happen in the U.S. We should pray for people to come to the Savior and hopefully a great many will continue to receive His offer of eternal life.
What I am saying, however, is that there will not be a great spiritual awakening that will reshape America or change its downward trajectory. As a nation, we have rejected God and His ways just as Judah did during the time of the prophet Jeremiah.
The November 8, 2022, election in the U.S. confirms that as a nation, we are close to the end of the road. As expected, widespread cheating changed the outcome of many key races keeping the Democrats in control of the Senate as well as that of several state governorships. The slight advantage to Republicans in the House will not alter America’s continuing descent into darkness.
Abortion up to the moment of birth won big. In California, the ballot proposal to make the murder of preborn children part of the state’s constitution was up by 1.3 million votes the last time I checked. In Vermont, 77.4% voted in favor of enshrining the killing of innocents in the state’s constitution while 56.7% did so in Michigan.
There’s also evidence that many people went to the polls to voice their support of keeping abortion legal up to the point of birth.
THE ROMANS 1 PATH TO PERDITION Paul wrote these words in Romans 1:18:
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.”
What the apostle describes in the rest of the chapter aligns rather well with the past sixty years of American history. In Romans 1:28-32, we see the end result of rejecting God and His Word:
“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”
The U.S. has reached the end of the Romans 1 path to perdition. Signs of the “debased mind” described in the above verses abound throughout our culture as well as in the halls of our federal government.
A recent news story claimed that the Biden administration sent money to Ecuador for the purpose of putting on drag queen shows, which are a hideous and indecent repudiation of all that God’s Word says about gender and morality.
Newsweek’s efforts to fact-check this report resulted in the two disturbing paragraphs below:
In a statement sent to Newsweek, a spokesperson for the State Department said the agency supports "a wide range of strategic programs in Ecuador" that focuses on diversity and representation, and that the goal of the CEN program is to "promote tolerance" and "provide new opportunities for LGBTQI+ Ecuadorians to express themselves freely and safely."
"LGBTQI+ people across the globe deserve to live in societies free from targeted violence and discrimination. Recent data suggest an alarming and deadly rise in violence against LGBTQI+ persons in Ecuador," the spokesperson said.[i]
In other words, the report that the Biden administration funded drag shows in Ecuador was not only true, but it’s just a sampling of their efforts to promote abhorrent debauchery in other nations as well.
The corruption that defines the U.S. government extends to Republicans as well. Most, if not all of the GOP leadership support the globalists’ agenda while only a handful of its politicians speak out against the injustice and wicked behavior that abounds throughout America.
On November 16, 2022, twelve Republican Senators joined Democrats in ending debate on the “Respect for Marriage Act,” which establishes same-sex marriage into federal law. This ensures that it will become law.
An article on the Harbingers Daily website quoted Franklin Graham regarding the legislation:
“The deceitfully named Respect for Marriage Act will be voted on by the U.S. Senate this week, as early as Wednesday. The bill strikes a blow at religious freedom for individuals and ministries and is really the ‘Destruction of Marriage Act.’ Its sponsors remarkably claim it protects religious freedom. It does not. This disastrous bill sends a message to America that if you don’t agree with the left’s definition of marriage, you are a bigot.
THE NEARNESS OF THE SEVEN-YEAR TRIBULATION Another indication that America lies near the end of the road is the rapidly approaching Day of the Lord, or the seven-year Tribulation, in which all nations will experience God’s wrath. It will be the worst time in world history; comparatively very few people will remain alive at the time of Jesus’ return to the earth (Matthew 24:22; see also Isaiah 13:9-12).
There have been 63 million abortions in America alone and over one billion worldwide since it became legal. This alone accounts for the severity of the Lord’s future judgments that John witnessed and described for us in Revelation 6-18.
However, there’s so much more wickedness that places the trajectory of America squarely on a downward path as I have brought up in other articles.
Several decades ago, after Ruth Graham read the draft of a book that her husband was writing, she said, “If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”
Her words ring true today, abundantly more so. God will not be apologizing! Instead, the U.S. will suffer a fate similar to those two ancient cities.
Even if I did not believe in a pre-Tribulation Rapture, I would still warn people about the Lord’s impending judgment on America.
THERE IS GOOD NEWS, REALLY In the midst of all the bad news about the moral decline of America as well as the rest of the world, there’s much good news, really!
First, we know that Jesus is coming for us soon; there’s no better news for weary souls than that.
Regardless of our current circumstances, even if they happen to be fantastic, heaven will be so much better, it will be glorious. From the moment of the Rapture forward, we will enjoy immortal bodies and experience joy beyond our wildest imagination.
We will meet Jesus in the air and go to the place He has prepared for us. Can you imagine the excitement we will feel when we see Jesus face to face? Spend a few moments thinking about the reunions that will take place with loved ones and dear friends who are already with the Lord. Once we set foot in glory, we will instantly forget about our trials and hardships on earth.
Second, if you have not yet placed your faith in Jesus and His saving work on the cross, the good news is that you can know that you possess everlasting life (1 John 5:13). All those that call upon Jesus in faith are bound for glory; they will never experience God’s wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 5:9-10).
In my post, Jesus Is the Only Path to Eternal Life, I explain how you can know that God has forgiven all your sins because of the blood that Jesus shed upon the cross. He died in your place; He took the wrath we all deserve upon Himself. He paid the penalty for all of our sins, past, present, and future.
In 1 John 5:11-12, we find these comforting words about eternal life:
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Call upon the Savior while you have the opportunity; tomorrow may be too late. He alone is the path to eternal life (John 14:6).
“... you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”
The following verse comes to mind, and every time I verbally quote it to others, my voice breaks and my eyes tear up...
Zechariah 13:5-7
King James Version
5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Only an anti Semite would claim God has reneged on His Promise and is finished with the Jews.
No wonder some people believe that, they themselves have rejected God’s Grace.
——>God IS NOT a Covenant breaker!
Never said He was.
You Quoted Gen 15: Notice the word “seed”? We, as the REMNANT SEED, are heirs to the promise, those which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Because of disobedience and disbelief, LITERAL Israel is out. Any seed that doesn’t obey or believe, is cut off from the vine.
God gave Literal Israel 490 years to repent. They didn’t. It’s over for them as a chosen people.
Ahh, don’t it just, though?
Rubbing my eyes now.
Some verses just get ya, ya know?
——>YOU cannot keep the law of Moses.
I think the Holy Spirit would tell you otherwise.
(The U.S. has reached the end of the Romans 1 path to perdition)
This is unfortunately true.
I can’t believe it but there’s no denying it.
THE Holy Spirit has told me that Jesus, my Lord and Savior, has kept the commandments for me thus He has imputed HIS RIGHTEOUS to me when He birthed me from above. Apparently you ... not so much.
God is not a respecter of persons. It’s not about antisemitism at all. They chose disobedience and disbelief. They are done as God’s chosen people. There is now only one in Christ.
We are Blessed Sister.
And losing gravitation.
Midnight Cry
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T11KZFVXDsE
Check this one out also
Beulah Land
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJMKuczJgbU
“They are done as God’s chosen people.”
And I’m done with anti Semites. Don’t tag me anymore in your posts.
——>And I’m done with anti Semites. Don’t tag me anymore in your posts.
It’s an open forum/thread. And, if you and another poster are talking about me, I have every right to “tag” you, of course while following the rules and guidelines of the Forum.
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It requires thick skin. A poster must be able to make his points while standing his ground, suffering adverse remarks about his beliefs - or letting them roll off his back.
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Loved the first one, of course, Patriot.
BUT ... LOL ... I’ve been trying my best to get off of Brian Haney videos for the past 3 or 4 days! Just discovered and my neighbors probably hate me by now. LOL. He’s the first face I see on the second video. Too funny! Thank you so very much, Patriot, for the great music and laugh!
:>))
——>THE Holy Spirit has told me that Jesus, my Lord and Savior, has kept the commandments for me thus He has imputed HIS RIGHTEOUS to me when He birthed me from above.
Not sure what this gibberish-laced statement is supposed to mean, but if you are telling me that you have a pass on keeping God’s law, sin and judgement, LOOK AGAIN at Matthew 5:17-20 and Hebrews 10:26-31. Sorry, but you are wrong (So was your buddy Ravi).
“17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”
If God is done with Israel, then Jesus lied about the prophets.
——>THE Holy Spirit has told me that Jesus, my Lord and Savior, has kept the commandments for me thus He has imputed HIS RIGHTEOUS to me when He birthed me from above.
“Not sure what this gibberish-laced statement is supposed to mean”
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Wow. For you to call MHG’s statement “gibberish-laced” when it’s completely understandable by any saved person kind of tells a story about you, Phil.
His self imposed bondage has blinded his understanding.
1 Corinthians 1:17-19
King James Version
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Romans 3:20
King James Version
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
He would have been one of the hypocrites accusing Jesus of violating the Sabbath for healing the lame ON THE SABBATH.
Or for leaving the 99 sheep to rescue the one lost sheep.
You got that right! And he’d do it while he is at work earning money after playing on the internet during Sabbath!
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