Preface: I posted this for the first time on December 17, 2019. the very next day the House of Representatives would impeach President Donald Trump. Seven weeks later on February 4, 2020....President Trump would give a State of the Union address and bask in the glory that he was proclaiming of himself....for he was riding high and his reelection seemed certain....the very next day the Republican majority Senate rubber-stamped his acquittal in his impeachment trial.....(I should say first impeachment trial)....but God's latest judgment upon us and upon the world was just being unleashed....a tiny virus. Regardless of where and how it originated.....or who made what mistakes....the deaths and the political chaos and the monstrous debt accrued and the further dividing of an already mortal wound of division in our society....regardless of all this.....and anything else you can think of....and the aggregate of it all...and all future misery and possibly war that comes from it....it was and is pure judgment from God.....because we had forsaken Him who was the source of every blessing and every protection that we ever had....and because we had gone after other gods....and when confronted with this we say...."What? Where have we gone after other gods?"
"Where Have We Gone After The Baals?"
"For my people have committed two evils:They have forsaken Me,
The fountain of living waters,
To hew for themselves cisterns,
Broken cisterns,
That can hold no water."
These are words from near the beginning of the book of Jeremiah. Israel....the northern tribes....had long since fallen...and been taken captive....just like half of our nation had been taken captive by communist and suicidal ideologies....and now it's our turn....selfish and arrogant and spiteful. We thought we had a more practical way....might and power....rather than relying on the spirit of the LORD of hosts.
"Have you not done this to yourself,
By your forsaking the Lord your God,
When He led you in the way?"
Yet we still picture ourselves as some kind of remnant....why we're the remnant of the pilgrims don't you know...."A shining city on a hill..."....and the intellectual heirs of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln!" No we're not....we don't bear any resemblance to the pilgrims and Puritans....and we're the heirs of Hamilton and Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt at best.
"And my inheritance you made an abomination.
The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?'
And those who handle the law did not know Me,
And the prophets prophesied by Baal
And walked after things that did not profit."
God is not angry with us....maybe them....but not us!
"How can you say, 'I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the Baals'?"
Yet we utterly refuse to bow down.....to trust only in Him....or to honor the Word of God. If things get rough....we'll have some national prayer day or something....'God bless America!"
"But in the time of their trouble they will say,
'Arise and save us.'
But where are your gods
Which you made for yourself."
O God....what have we possibly done that you could be angry with? We can say Merry Christmas again!
"Yet you said, 'I am innocent;
Surely His anger is turned away from me.'
Behold, I will enter into judgment with you
Because you say, 'I have not sinned'."
"For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust,
And you shall not prosper with them."
Addendum: Take this survey on your own....and it's a survey where you don't have to ask any questions....just observe. As you are in conversation with other Christians....and let's limit it to the finest Christians that you know....even add your pastors into it....think back as far as you can on this also....and there will not be one instance where any of our brothers and sisters in Christ actually made a comment on Jesus coming back right now....because it would be the furthest thing from their minds. They can surely count the days before the 2022 mid-terms and 2024 general elections....and they obviously read the same news on the absolute horrors of where we are heading....and the real threats of persecution for those who do not compromise their Christian beliefs.....and keep in mind what is happening to our children's minds....and the words of Jesus concerning leading children away from Him....(a recent poll found that 43% of millennials do not even believe in God)....but the actual hoping for the imminent return of Jesus Christ with His mighty angels....is pure fanaticism to them. They would rather believe an alien step off an interstellar spacecraft....than Jesus Christ return right now in judgment! One last thing....forget the pre-trib rapture in this equation....for it is not only incorrect.....but has turned out to be a negative influence on us where we use it to claim belief in the possible-near return of Christ....but have absolutely no passion for it....nor so we spend any time even thinking about our Savior's return to this violent and profane world.
