Danger Ahead

Tidbits of Truth: Danger Ahead!
What is it that America needs to fear? Is it radical Islam? Is it a nuclear Iran? Is it complete government control of every aspect of our lives? Or is it cancer or some other incurable dreaded disease that is about to break out in some widespread epidemic?
Perhaps all of these things are concerns of ours, but “to me” nothing is more concerning than to imagine living in a nation that becomes one that is no longer is a recipient of the blessings of God!
In II Samuel 21, God literally cut off the rain to the entire nation of Israel. So, for 3 years running, Israel experienced famine throughout the land. When David sought God as to why these natural calamities had befallen his kingdom, God informed King David, “This is because of Saul (Israel’s former king), and his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.”
Joshua had made a deal that the Gibeonites (although not true Hebrews) would have the right to live in the Promised Land. Saul, because of his own personal prejudices, attempted to massacre the very same people that had received that promise…and he almost succeeded.
His wicked actions in murdering those innocent people were the direct cause of God releasing the natural disasters that now plagued the nation during David’s reign.
And more especially, because no one was willing to stand up to defend those innocent people… and because no one was willing to demand righteousness and integrity of their national leaders… this made these sins not just the personal sins of the national leadership, but they also became national sins for the entire nation. Sins ignored, and sins “swept under the rug” were now the root cause of God shutting off the rain!
***If national sins, which were sanctioned by national leaders, and ignored by the populace, brought about the judgment of God upon the nation of Israel, what does this imply that is soon coming to America?***
I’m sure that most of you saw at least some portion of the news reports this last week, as it highlighted the anarchy that literally ran rampant over much of an American city. What began as a peaceful protest of thousands of citizens over the controversial death of Freddie Gray (while he was in police custody) soon turned into absolute mayhem.
In a single night, almost 150 vehicles were torched, more than 200 homes and businesses were either looted or burned to the ground, and more than 100 law enforcement officers (while serving in the line of duty) were grievously assaulted and injured while rioters pelted them with bricks and stones.
I could hardly believe my ears when I saw the city’s own mayor make a public announcement made that, “Room had to be made so that the rioters could have the right to destroy.” While at the same time, she gave the order for law enforcement to “Stand Down” an order that gave free reign for the hoodlums and thugs of that city to pillage, steal, burn, and destroy at will.
Now I do not know all the details of that situation. I do not know the guilt or innocence of those charged in the Freddie Gray case. But I do know this: That since the passing of Roe V. Wade in 1973 that the more than 55 million babies lives have been destroyed right here in America (and continue to be destroyed at a rate of more than 3,000+ a day), and I know that none of those babies have ever cheated anyone, ever stole anything, and none of them ever committed any crime of any kind! I can assure you that “THEIR” innocent blood continues to cry out to God daily.
America, as a nation, we now have leaders that seemingly want to endorse every type of sin humanly imaginable. We make pornography available to our children (What kid do you know who doesn’t now have a cell phone that’s connected to the internet?)…our nation now openly sanctions same sex marriage, we encourage our youth to be sexually permissive, we have entire states where the use of narcotics have been legalized, and we encourage adults to steal food out of the mouths of their own children by convincing them they can win it big on the lottery.
If God sent judgment on the nation of Israel because her leaders put their seal of approval on sin…and because her people refused to speak out against those sins…WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE AMERICA TODAY?
America be warned, God’s blessings made us what we are, and where will be if God chooses to pour our His wrath upon us instead?
Maybe you are saying, “But Pastor, what can we do?” So here it is: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turning from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.” AMERICA BE WARNED! Willful sinning and the shedding of innocent blood still requires God’s justice and releases His judgment!
Just a Thought,
Pastor Ken Jones