Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Is this just poetry?

If we believe that God could/did bring an entire nation out of Egypt, feed them in the desert, and bring them safely into a new land, establishing them on the land by His power and watchful love, should we not also believe that what is now happening in America is the work of His hands?  He who slew the Egyptians for the destruction of Israelite children later on allowed the Jewish people to be destroyed and brought into captivity by the Babylonians.  Whereas once the Egyptians destroyed Jewish children, now the Jews were sacrificing their own children to Moloch like the pagan nations around them.

And America, brought across the sea out of an evil and adulterous nation, firmly established in peace and righteousness, now also sacrifices its unborn children to pleasure and convenience.  If the blood of Abel cried out to God for justice, how much more the blood of 6 million innocent children?  If the Civil War was the price we paid for enslavement of Africans, what will be the price for the genocide we carry out daily? 

We have become a blind and sinful nation, and now we are being punished by the very idols we worship:  the dollar fails, the grain dries up, our convenience disappears.  The plagues of Egypt are upon us, and still we do not see and amend our ways.  Is Jesus now weeping over America because we did not know the time of our visitation?

Is it too late for us as a people to do what is right?  Is destruction inevitable? Will God preserve us for the sake of ten just men and women?

Deuteronomy 8:7ff.
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey, a land where bread will not be scace and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.  Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.  Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your heards and flocks grown large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery....You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me."  But rememer the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant....

If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.  Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.


2 comments:

  1. Which is worse:
    To give an innocent unborn child back to God or to give birth knowing that you will lead this child to sin through neglect and abuse? Would suicide while pregnant be better than abortion for those who have no God in their lives?

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  2. ...for those who have no God in their lives...you are right: there is only death. Either I die or I kill the ones I am supposed to love and nurture. "The wages of sin are death," St. Paul says. We think that's over-dramatizing, but it is reality. If we think of sin as turning God out of our lives, rather than as "bad acts," then death is the only thing left. Abortion is the national symptom of our having rejected God as Guide. "Ye shall be as gods," says Satan. And so we are, now choosing whether we ourselves will die or whether we will impose death on someone else. I guess my question is, "Is it too late for us to turn now and choose life for both mother and child?"

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