The prophetic trouble of America
America is in deep trouble. Informed Americans know it. The current regime is in its sixth year of systematically destroying the nation. Governors try to fix some of the problems at the state level, but federal courts overturn them. The people try to fix some of the problems at the state level through referenda and the courts overturn them. There are laws on the books and the occupant of the Oval Office refuses to enforce them. Congress, the Senate controlled by the “president’s” party and the House by ineffectual back-boneless Republicans, either use empty words and convoluted logic to support the “president” or use empty words to appease Americans while pointing out problems without solutions. We are in trouble.
There is a huge list of axe swipes at the tree of liberty perpetrated by the courts, the White House and the Congress. Domestic issues such as marriage, spying on citizens, harassing citizens, border security, unemployment, deficit spending and out right tyranny are in the news almost everyday. International issues such as support of the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, the Taliban, funneling taxpayer dollars to those who kill our soldiers, sending badly needed jobs overseas, allowing nuclear weapons that can destroy our nation to be developed and held by madmen also adorn the news like the earrings worn by the Ishmaelites and the crescents on their camels in the time of Gideon. We are in trouble.
Americans appear like as Jesus said in Matthew 24:38-39, “For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark. And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away…” Our people, our nation, our leaders seem so self indulged with life, the games of life, the symptoms rather than the cause, that we are unable to begin to understand what is befalling us. Perhaps we have to suspend our disbelief or step outside the powers of persuasion surrounding us to see the truth that is fallen in the streets. People, we have entered a captivity that seems like freedom, but it is so far from God it cannot be free. We are in trouble.
In the wisdom of Christ in Matthew 15:14, we have leaders as the Pharisees of old who are “blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” Our courts, our congress, our presidency is blind to the principles of God; to the natural consequences of abandoning God’s word; to the flood of judgment that may be gathering like a storm cloud over the nation. We have depended too much on hirelings who do not care about you and me and they are deceiving and being deceived. We are in trouble and it will take the full measure of prayer, repentance, and bold action to lift this nation up from the pit of destruction and set it back on the rock of salvation.
