What About America?

There are some wonderful promises in God’s Word concerning nations and repentance. One of them is Jeremiah 18:7, 8:

“At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.”

Another one is 2 Chronicles 7:14:

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

We can see the working out of this wisdom all through Israel’s history. They would sin and God would bring judgment and they would repent. But during Manasseh’s reign a line was crossed, and that line was the abundant shedding of innocent blood. Yes, Manasseh repented, God forgave him, and I believe he is in Heaven, but the land had to be cleansed. Numbers 35:33 declares, “…for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”

I believe it will be the same for America. Regardless if America repents and experiences revival, I believe judgment is coming. The land has to be cleansed.

Some will say, “But Sodom would have been spared if ten righteous would have been found. God said in Genesis 18:32, ‘…I will not destroy it for ten’s sake’. And there are millions of righteous in America!” Yes, that’s true, but greater light requires greater responsibility. That standard of ten righteous withholding judgment for a whole city is for a people that have been shown very little light. In Ezekiel 14:12-21, the LORD told Ezekiel that when he brings judgment upon Jerusalem that the “righteousness” of an individual would deliver only that individual. “Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness,” Ezekiel 14:20. The difference in the standards was because of the different amounts of light. Israel was given much more light than Sodom. Some might propose that if Ezekiel had interceded for Jerusalem like Abraham did for Sodom, God would have spared Jerusalem. But that is not the case. In Jeremiah 11:11-14 which was about six years previous to the time when God spoke to Ezekiel. In that passage the Lord told Jeremiah not to pray for them because he would not listen.

When Jesus left Nazareth and moved his ministry to Capernaum, Matthew 4:14-16 says:

“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet saying, The land of Zebulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."

The light the people saw was Jesus ministering in word and deed. Yet even though the people of the area around Galilee saw great light they refused to repent. In Matthew 11:20-24, Jesus singled out three of the cities around Galilee for judgment:

“Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. And thou Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.”

The conclusion: the argument that God will not judge America because of the tens of millions of “righteous” Christians is not applicable because this is a standard for a community that has been shown little light. The question I now ask is, How much light has America been shown? Time and space will not permit me to go into the volumes of information that reveals the amount of light.

Not long ago, it was common knowledge that America was a Christian nation, so much so that the Supreme Court of 1892 in the case of The Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S. gave this testimony:

“This is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation…There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people… in Updegraph v. The Commonwealth, it was decided that, ‘Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law…not Christianity with an established church…but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.’ And in The People v. Ruggles, Chancellor Kent, the great commentator on American law, speaking as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said: ‘The people of this State, in common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice…We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of those impostors [other religions].’ And in the famous case of Vidal v. Girard’s Executors, this Court…observed: ‘It is also said, and truly, that the Christian religion is a part of the common law…’ These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.”(2).

Then we look at present day America. We have rejected the light that has been revealed to us throughout our history. The over all Christian influence in this country is the light and ungodly forces are on a mission to remove everything Christian from our institutions. Prayer and Bible reading have been removed from our public schools, and the theory of evolution is now taught as fact. The Ten Commandments have been removed from our schools and our courthouses. What are the fruits of these actions? Divorce without grounds is rampant in this country.

Living together without being married, i.e. fornication, is an accepted lifestyle. Homosexuality is an accepted lifestyle. Child sacrifice, which has been a protected form of murder in this country since 1973, has been made more abhorrent with the addition of Partial-Birth Abortion. Saints, the light is going out.