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Is America at the End of the Road?
Jonathan Brentner ^ | 11/15/22 | Jonathan Brentner

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).


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To: Philsworld

Wow. What does the SDA claim is the unpardonable sin?


1,241 posted on 12/26/2022 8:22:01 AM PST by SouthernClaire (And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God ~ Job)
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To: Philsworld
Look closer, and what you believe to be God’s fingerprints, are actually Satan’s.

The creator of all things is actually the cause of all things. Satan could not have killed six million Jews in the holocaust without God’s permission. God’s fingerprints are even on Satan.
1,242 posted on 12/26/2022 9:05:38 PM PST by Seven_0 (You cannot fool all of the people, ever!)
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To: Seven_0; MHGinTN

The creator of all things is actually the cause of all things. Satan could not have killed six million Jews in the holocaust without God’s permission. God’s fingerprints are even on Satan.

I am ALREADY acutely aware of this. However, you miss my point, which is that God has given Satan the AUTHORITY to wreak havoc and deceive. It is not God that is actually doing wreaking and deceiving. But He allows it, as earth’s history plays out for all to see.

The video sermon you watched, by Stephen Bohr, gave a crystal clear scriptural message that LITERAL Israel is out. They are done, forever. The quoted texts in that video support it. You and your friends create a false narrative because of your belief in the false PTR doctrine, LITERALLY created by the Antichrist power, the Papacy. I showed you irrefutable proof of that. Oh, but it can’t be true, right? You heard it from a SDA cultist. So, where did I get that information from? I got it from the same bible that we all read, the same one the Reformers read from, and all backed up by the REFERMATION and history. Every one of you deny the reformation movement and their clear biblical/historical realization that the Papacy is the Antichrist power. It can be none other.

http://www.redeemerfw.org/resources/reformers_antichrist.pdf

You have these persons to thank, primarily, for your false beliefs:

Francisco Ribera (Jesuit)
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (Jesuit)
Michael Walpole (Jesuit)
Manuel De Lacunza (Jesuit)
Edward Irving
Margaret McDonald (ecstatic utterances)
John Nelson Darby

http://www.biblelightinfo.com/antichrist.htm

Satan works through earthly powers. He tried to exterminate Christians during Pagan Rome (and Christ as a baby). Then, he stepped it up with their predecessor, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. They were responsible for more deaths by any power in the history of the earth. They tortured, murdered, slaughtered, or otherwise were responsible for, CONSERTATIVELY, 200-300 million deaths, through wars, persecution, banishment, etc… 1260 years of trying to stomp out true Christianity.

Satan couldn’t kill TRUE Christians fast enough. The rule of the Papacy ended in 1798, EXACTLY 1260 years from it’s receiving power in 538. The end is coming and he has been setting up the biggest deception ever, and that’s the PTR lie. All of you have fallen for it. You refuse to believe the truths of bible, that expose that lie, and the REFORMERS that lived, preached, AND DIED for it. Your beliefs are based on Satan’s lies. You don’t think that a biblical scholar/researcher, like Ken Johnson, doesn’t know about Catholic Futurism and the formation of the PTR doctrine? Of course he does. Have you ever heard he, Andy Woods, or anyone on Prophecy Watchers, ever discuss it? No! THAT MAKES THEM LIARS by omission, and not to mention the lowest of false teachers.

Satan caused (given the authority by God) the deaths of 6 million Jews to further his lie of Literal Israel and the PTR? Yes. (Child’s play for Satan) He will do ANYTHING to make it seem like the PTR is truth. In so doing, billions of Christians will lose their salvation in the end, because they will be going through the tribulation and the MOTB. Their false teachers have lied to them.

To make matters worse, your side believes in the OSAS/OJAJ lie, and your REFUSAL to believe in God’s Holy Sabbath, as part of his Holy law, as mandatory and binding. That will, in fact, be the deciding test of the MOTB. Not accepting Sunday will mean you give up everything, run for your life, and possibly die. That will also mean that everything the SDA church/EGW stands for is proven to be true. The SDA church is the ONLY church to preach that biblically sound MOTB message. It’s going to be a sad time for the SDA/EGW false Christian haters of this forum, for sure. They will either have to FINALLY honor/keep God’s Holy Sabbath, and admit that the SDA church is the Remnant Church, and EGW was a true prophet, or they will lose their salvation. Tough choice for them/you. The PTR will never come.

FYI, Stephen Bohr also has a terrific sermon on God’s wrath, for all those out there who insist that that the PTR takes them away from it (pure idiocy). See below.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=stephen+bohr+God%27s+wrath&view=detail&mid=3EA380D8E09864CBD5D23EA380D8E09864CBD5D2&FORM=VIRE


1,243 posted on 12/28/2022 7:43:36 PM PST by Philsworld
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To: Seven_0

here’s the URL for that last video on God’s wrath, if preferred:

https://youtu.be/rXdwmpVx9hA


1,244 posted on 12/28/2022 7:49:39 PM PST by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld; MHGinTN; Seven_0

To which law pertains the following, 10 Commandments or Ceremonial Law, Phil?

Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Rom 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.


1,245 posted on 12/29/2022 1:13:50 PM PST by SouthernClaire (And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God ~ Job)
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To: Philsworld
The righteous will live and reign with Jesus in heaven for the period of 1000 years, and judge the wicked. How do I know this happens in heaven and not on earth? Good question-

From your article.
Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
When does this happen?
1,246 posted on 03/08/2023 10:00:38 AM PST by Seven_0 (You cannot fool all of the people, ever!)
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