AWAKE XI - A:
The Death of a Nation
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." - Jeremiah 1:5
What this is telling us is that God had a plan that. He had foreordained even before Jeremiah was born...even before he was formed in his mother's womb. Jeremiah's prophetic ministry included warning the Israelites of impending doom for their idolatry which included murdering their children.
America has attempted to thwart God's plan in at least 31 million babies. How many of those babies might have grown to be a great leader, a prophet, or one to discover the cure for a deadly disease, or to bring peace among nations? We will never know because they have been sacrificed to the god of this world, rather than being allowed to live the life God had planned for them. How sad it is for us left behind to never know the joys those 31 million people would have brought to our lives. How sad it is for us who are left behind to suffer the rising attitudes of hate and intolerance brought on by those who willfully killed their offspring.
Jeremiah's warning to the Israelites is equally applicable to America today. Either we turn from our wicked ways and return to God, or we too are doomed to disaster.
One of the first significant things Bill Clinton did as President of the United States was to launch an all-out assault on the unborn. His comment on his executive orders was, "our vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal but rare." But his actions made abortion as a method of birth control anything but rare.
In reality, Bill Clinton issued orders and supported legislation that expanded the number of abortions performed. We murder our babies as a means of birth control, and society applauds it as progress.
Politically Correct Murder:
Abortion has become a politically protected choice in America. Those who challenge the issue from a perspective of morality are ignored or scoffed, and those who protest are marginalized or jailed. Certainly the unborn babies of America and throughout the world have suffered an unparalleled defeat with Bill Clinton's Culture of Death and even though he may support abortion, he'll never make abortion the right thing to do. Will Hillary possibly carry it to nth degree if she is elected?
Like the loving parent who gently shakes a child to wake him up, God is shaking the world today in an attempt to wake us from our slumber. And like the child who doesn't wake up immediately, the shaking becomes a bit more firm and serious. If America and, for that matter - the world doesn't wake up soon, that shaking will become stronger and more severe. What will it take to wake up America? Our tallest buildings have been toppled. Our shorelines have been battered, and a major U.S. city has been flooded, turning thousands of Americans into refugees and just last month, almost the entire West coast was on fire.
The faithful, as they see the intensification of the signs around us, will know that the day of the Lord's return for them is quickly "approaching" (Hebrews 10:25) and will be those who stand firm in their faith through all the end-time distress (Matt. 24:13). They will be the ones who have applied the power of Scripture to all the little problems of daily living: anger; frustration with employment; parenting; marital relationships; forgiveness; etc. The Scriptural teaching is that we must faithfully surrender to God in the small things of life before we graduate to the next level of experiencing God's provision:
"Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things." [Matthew 25.21]
Others they will have become so comfortable with their life of tolerance, compromise, convenience and appeasement that to accept the lies and deception of an Antichrist will not be difficult for them. There will be two kinds of Christians in these last days: the wise and foolish.
There will be one group of believers who will not fall - they will be able to withstand every demonic onslaught that comes on them. Nothing will be able to move them when the storm comes. There will be another group of Christians whose fall will be great - total, complete, devastating collapse of everything.
NEXT Week (Dec. 6th) I will post the conclusion to "The Death
of a Nation"
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