A WARNING TO THE SUPREME COURT, THE CHURCH, PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE UNITED STATES

A Warning of Dire Consequences to the Supreme Court, the Church, President Obama and the people of the United States

Note:  As always when I begin these blog posts, they take time to write, edit and finish.  At the bottom of the blog posts, you will see the day started, days updated and then at the end I will write when I feel it is finished. 

It is amazing to me that something that seems so 'common sense' has become the point of demise for our nation.  The act of homosexuality and marriage of same sex partners is so unnatural, immoral and evil.  How did we ever get to this place of legalizing it and accepting it?  Well, we know that Satan is very patient and he has masterminded this entire scenario for the demise of a nation.  Why does Satan want to see America destroyed?  Because Satan knows that the church in North America, directly related to the blessings of this nation could easily impact the world for the cause of Christ.  We have enough money, technology, means, and people to win the world for Christ.  (And I know that previous sentence can never happen unless God draws the soul and the Holy spirit convicts the soul, John 6:44)  Thus, Satan sets about to stop us in our tracks. 

How does Satan do this?  How has he always done it?  He brings sin before the sinner, so that when they engage in iniquity, they provoke the Lord God to anger, punishment and judgment.  He did it in the Garden of Eden, for the sole purpose of destroying God's created perfection.  He did it to the world in the days of Noah, that they 'continually practiced evil' before the Lord.  Thus causing the world to be flooded except for Noah, his wife, 3 sons and their wives, as he was the only one that was found righteous in the eyes of the Lord.  Throughout the bible there are numerous examples over and over again of this truth.  It is very easy to see why such judgments and punishments happened to God's people, to families, to individuals and to whole nations; they forsook the Lord and provoked Him to anger with their choices of sin and evil. 

If you bring Old Testament truths to modern day reality to people, even in the churches, it is not accepted nor approved of.  But God  (probably one of the most intriguing attributes of God) is immutable; He changes not.  Malachi 3:6, "For I am the Lord, I change not".  And so, the Lord God, Who changes not, is still the same for us in 2013 as He was 3000 years ago.  And it would do well for us to learn this truth before it is too late.  The basic truth of Scripture, of God and life for men is that the 'wages of sin is death'.  God not willing for men to die in their sins, has made a way for everlasting life in Christ Jesus.  But men 'loved darkness rather than light' and choose to reject God and His precious Son, thus provoking Him even further. 

Now this nation has seen great revivals of God's power and mercy covering the land.  We have seen great advancement in the world through technology, by the military, politics, and influence.  But so had Israel and Judah.  During the days of King David and King Solomon, Israel was dominant.  And it is stressed in the scripture that it was this way, because David, 'did that which was right in the sight of the Lord with all his heart'.  And Solomon began this way and was elevated in wisdom, riches and power; until, he turned away from 'doing that which was right in His sight'.  And thus, provoking the Lord, God rent the kingdom from his son, Rehoboam and raised up someone else to rule over Israel.  And throughout the entire chronicles of the kings of Israel and Judah, we see this 'hit and miss' attitude of wholly serving the Lord. 

I would like to bring to your attention a close parallel found in II Chronicles 28, in regards to King Ahaz, the children of Judah and the response from the Lord, in comparison to President Obama, the United Sates and our future with regards to 'same sex marriage' and the pending decision by the Supreme Court. 

Ahaz was a wicked king,  His son, Hezekiah, brought about a great revival to Judah and Jerusalem during his reign and days.  It is much hoped for that in these days God would send a revival to the church, thus impacting the United States and the world.  But there was a long progression of evil leading up to Hezekiah, long before Ahaz came to his evil reign. 

We start with II Chronicles 26, Uzziah is made king and begins to do well in his reign as king.  He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.  However, you quickly discern in the Scriptures the noted difference between, when a king does as his father did before him and doing that which David did.  David served and feared the Lord with all his heart and God honored him for that.  But most of these kings, following their father before them, did not serve the Lord whole heartily.  And when in our Christian experience, we do not serve the Lord with all our hearts, we leave room for Satan, self and sin to come in and do damage. 

King Uzziah was no different.  We read that after he became strong, he took upon himself to do the priest job of offering the sacrifice.  He had no business in this.  And when the priests confronted him that he was not allowed to do this, he became angry.  Pride is a great folly to many of us.  Anger usually comes from the root sin of pride.  The pride in a man's soul to not humble themselves keeps many trapped in sin. 
v. 19, 'Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense:  and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead'

following this verse, we see this progression of evil begin toward Ahaz.

v. 21 'being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord'

I would submit to you that this is the first step away from God and allow gross evil to become the law of the land.  Our nation has seen an utter departure from the church.  The knowledge of God and the fear of God is absent due to people by masses not attending church anymore to hear the Word of God or learn of Him.  Now the issue of preachers not preaching the Word or teachers not teaching the Word we will deal with later.  But for now, look and see that the beginning of provoking the Lord God to anger, when a nation so blest by God, departs from His house of worship and giving Him proper thanksgiving and praise.  What our nation has forgotten is, that gifts and blessings of the Lord are given and can be easily taken away.  Life is given, and can easily be taken away.  "I am the Lord God; I kill and I make alive"  Deuteronomy 32:39

Now comes King Jotham, son of Uzziah, father to Ahaz.  A very short chapter (chapter 27) of his being king, but another lesson to be learned in departing from the Lord and allowing evil to become law of the land. 

v. 2, "he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did:  howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly."

Now what do we see?  Uzziah was cut off from the house of the Lord due to his sin and leprosy.  But Jotham, has no reason to not attend church.  He simply chooses to not do it.  'He entered not into it'.  He would not go to worship the Lord.  And as a king, his example is set before the people.  A continual progression away from God and that which He commanded to do.  There is much in similarity with our nation here.  Following WWII, there was a great need during the war and times for God to help us.  People went to church.  The nation relied on God and they knew Who God was.  And yet, over the next several decades, a generation chose not to go anymore.  There became a status of no need for God.  From the 1960's into the 1980's there was this slow erosion of the need for church and for God.   But there did become a healthy appetite for money, entertainment, and materialism.  All of which began to pull the time, interest and people away from the Lord's house and bring them into the devil's agenda.  The absence of God permeates with the presence of Satan.
then we began to see and become more aware of evil and immoral actions happening in families, communities, and across our nation that we never had to deal with publicly and openly before.  Drugs, sex, and immorality became a rampant, soaking evil across the population.  Affecting near and far, with its evil influences to rob us of God's protection, blessing and mercies and replace them with His fury, wrath and judgment. 

And as we have seen leaders lose the 'fear of  the Lord' they became gods unto themselves.  Another case for provoking the Lord to anger and wrath.  And people, with advancement of technology was able to see and know more and more about personal and public lives of leaders and we saw the evil of men to exalt sin over righteousness; evil over good; and darkness rather than light.  And the 'people have done more corruptly each geneartion'.  It has become the tongue and cheek phrase, 'if this generation is this bad, I can't imagine what it will look like in 20 years'.  I say, tongue and cheek, for if we really believed this, we would respond. 

And this brings us to King Ahaz (chapter 28). . .

v. 1, "and he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father; v. 2 for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. v. 3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burn his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. v. 4 He sacrificed also and burn incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree."

The first verse of this chapter, declares him to do evil against the Lord.  And then the next verses give description of his evil acts and choices to provoke the Lord to anger and wrath.  Four verses of sin, iniquity of the deepest sort of heathenism.  What happens when evil prevails?  What happens when sin abounds?  God responds in fury. 

v. 5 Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. . .And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel. . .v. 19 For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz, for he made Judah naked and transgressed sore against the Lord. 

You would think he would humble himself and seek for mercy.  No, the pride of men's heart, causes them to shamelessly spiral into deeper sin and to greater destruction.  Satan fulfills his objective set out to do, destroy the Lord's blessed people.  Israel and Judah were apart of the children of Abraham, who had received a covenant from God.  Anything pleasing and blessed by God, immediately becomes a target for Satan.  He crafts, he devises, he attacks, until he can destroy it.  Slow erosion of good, righteousness, and morality with holiness, and service to the Lord is what he wants.  He causes men to faint, to lose heart, to lose priority and to stop doing that which is right in the sight of the Lord.  You see in all this it was not an overnight campaign, but 3 generations to erode the house of the Lord and shut off the mercies of God from His people. 

And if these evil acts were not enough, we read in further of Ahaz's assault against God and His ways for the nation. 

v. 22 "And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord:  this is that king Ahaz. v. 23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus. . . But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.  v. 24  And shut up the doors of the house of the lord and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem."

--Uzziah sinned and got cut off from the house of the Lord;
--Jotham refused to go to the house of the Lord;
--Ahaz shut the doors of the house of the Lord;

And so likewise, our nation has followed the same pattern of continual evil.  The next generation becomes worse and more wicked than the previous.  Which brings us here to date.  That just a few decades ago, same sex relationships were forbidden, on the law books as illegal and pronounced by a majority, especially in the church and as society as a whole,  that this evil cannot have a place in society without bringing its own destruction.  Everyone, it seemed, knew the account of Sodom and Gomorrah and their passion of lusts that caused the entire cities to not be able to produce 10 righteous souls.  Thus rendering it to the destruction from its own lust and evil passions. 

And where are we in this nation? 

We are headed to the same end.  A nation to be destroyed, because evil was chosen over good;  darkness over light; sin over holiness and God was removed and lusts prevailed.  The only reason men and women desire same sex relationships is the lusts of their own heart and flesh.  And as Paul said, 'There is no good thing in my flesh'.  'All of us are corrupted by the flesh and in the flesh'.  There is no victory in this flesh except in Christ Jesus, Who is the Son of God, came in flesh, lived in flesh to overcome sin and the price tag of sin -- death.  His death on the cross conquered Satan's devices and plans and made a way for us to be delivered from flesh to everlasting life in Him and with Him. 

That message of salvation has been proclaimed, and given to the masses across this land.  Now it is not apparent how many truly understand the cross, being born again and coming after Him.  All that has been changed with the departure of the population quitting church.  And the church has forgotten that since they will not come to them, they must go to them and tell them the 'good news of Christ'. 
And yet, when I ask many a soul, 'has anyone ever asked you about your soul? has anyone ever explained salvation to you? has anyone told you the truth about what happens when you die and meet God?'  Oh, so few can say 'yes'.  The vast majority do not know the way of eternal life.  They are still children of the devil.  Believing his lies and following his ways that everything is okay and it will all work its way out. 

The lesson of Ahaz and the people of Judah should be taught and learned:

1. To the Supreme Court - your folly from 1973 has not been forgotten;  Your decision to allow the murder of 55 million babies is 9X worse than Hitler did to the Jews in World War II.  And now upon your power to make same sex marriage the law of the land okay in the eyes of men, it is not okay in the eyes of the Lord God Almighty.  Your decision may be far worse than 55 million.  It may be the destruction of 330 million and a nation to be removed from the earth.  Give place to reason, to God, to our future, there is no place for sin and abominations like this in our society.  We will meet the same fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.  We will reap the fury and wrath of God for going against what He has already proclaimed to be evil.  You are not God, you are men and you are to instruct and lead  the ways of men that they should fear the Lord God.  He Who holds our breath and your breath in His hands is to be feared and obeyed.

2.  To the church - we allowed this with our backsliding and compromising;  WE have the Word of God before us and should have seen the days of Uzziah and Jotham before we got to this wretched time of King Ahaz.  Who would be so foolish as to provoke the Lord to anger?  yet, our generation seems bent on it.  Let us labor, let us pray and seek His face for mercy in this time of wrath.  WE have been neglectful, forgetting and lapse in our place for Him in this world and time.  Therefore, let us confess, repent and humble ourselves before Him seeking to be renewed and empowered from on high.  Cast off any works of darkness and put on the armor of light.  the church in this nation has had enough money, talent, people and opportunity to easily have reached the world for Christ with His Gospel.  But we have been self-consuming, wasteful and neglectful of our purposes.  We, who should have known better did not do better.

3.  To President Obama -  you wrote the Supreme Court in favor of sin?  You had the arrogance to match King Ahaz for his acts of provoking the Lord?  You have daughters, do you not care for their future?  You are the one here that asked the Supreme Court to bless and legalize sin and it is the work that could bring about our undoing.  And as the given place ordained by God Almighty for you to rule as president.  You are to lead rightly, and you have not done so.  You have done that which is wicked in the sight of the Lord and you are leading a nation to hell.  'Where much is given, much is required', and you will be required to answer before the Lord for your days as president. 

4.  To the people of the United States - our choices, reactions and priorities are leading us to our own undoing.  It is hard to comprehend just how much we will have to account for during these days.  Blessed beyond measure; filled to overflowing; and given much in every fabric of life.  And what have we done with it?  Have we reached the world for His purposes and cause?  Or have we filled our bellies and sat down with the motto, 'eat drink and be merry', while a world langusihed for what we knew to be right and good in His sight?   Ahaz did not die in this chapter that we have looked at; but 120,000 died and 200,000 were carried away by the enemy.  'deathbeds are coming' to a nation that will not serve the Lord God and fear Him and all His ways. 

When you provoke the Lord, you will reap His fury.  In His wrath and fury, there may still be the time for God's people and especially His intercessors to pray, 'O Lord, in wrath remember mercy'.  Let this be our prayer before it is too late.

Began:
3/1/13
Updated:
3/1/13


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