Why Do We Turn Away?

October 8
I began reading in Deuteronomy today. It’s one of my favorite books of the bible. What amazes me about the book is all the promises God made to Israel and all they had to do to live well and continue receiving His blessings was to obey His laws, statues, and ordinances, and to love Him. I have a hard time understanding how any people could experience what they experienced first-hand and so quickly turn away from following His laws. Get this, God told them He would even water their crops, that they would not have to irrigate the land like they had to do in Egypt. He promised to send the rain at just the right time every single year so their crops would be perfect and abundant. In spite of this incredible blessing He promised to shower down on them, they disobeyed, worshipping the gods of the nations God destroyed before them because they had done all the abominable things with their gods. The nations whom God dispossessed were bigger, stronger, and mightier than Israel, but God told Israel He would go before them and put the fear of them into the people of the land. Israel defeated those mightier than they, yet they sought after and worshiped the gods of the nations they defeated. I find that incredibly strange, then I look at America. God blessed us and helped us defeat King George III in the Revolutionary War. He kept us from imploding during the Civil War. He made us mighty, world heroes during WWI. He did likewise even more so during WWII. Korea was a disaster; Viet Nam was worse; Grenada, Bosnia, Desert storm, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, are all wars we might have been wise to stay out of. I’m not second guessing our leaders, it just seems we might have been able to help citizens help themselves more and sacrificed less of our own soldiers in wars in countries whose citizens don’t really like us much. It seems, America, like Israel has forgotten the overwhelming blessings God has poured out on us.

Those of us who claim to be followers of the God of creation have been standing by idly for decades allowing evolutionists, feminists, homosexuals, and perverts of all kinds to take over both public education and the halls of Congress. Our children are being bombarded with lies and half truths about such critical things as our origin and normal sexual lifestyles, marriage, and fidelity. The last year I taught I got ill listening to the number of students who openly bragged about the beautiful children their brothers and sisters were having out of wedlock. God is not pleased with America. He is not sitting idly on His throne wondering how He can fix us. His judgment is coming on this country and it’s coming soon. The only ones who can stay His mighty hand of judgment are falling asleep. God’s prophets are speaking but no one is listening. I am appalled at the reaction of Christians in the little community where I live when anyone speaks out against the way a local bar is debasing women. When anyone writes a letter to the editor suggesting evolution is not a science, local Christians disappear into the woodwork. The only God in America no one is allowed to worship is the God of creation. Barak Obama is part one of a much larger scenario that is coming on this country if we don’t wake up fast, get on our knees, prostrate ourselves before our God, and seek His forgiveness for our apathy and personal sin. Four years ago I would not have believed this country would fall for the lies, ignorance, and unbridled deception Barak Hussein Obama was able to perpetrate on its citizens. Like Israel, God is withdrawing His blessing and bringing earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, mine collapses, tornadoes, erupting volcanoes, and snow storms in epic proportion. We murder unborn children, promote prostitution, homosexuality, bestiality, bribery of public officials, let murders run the streets, and ignore the plight of orphans, widows, the blind, sick, and the lame. Our religion is worthless. Our God is angry.