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Religion Title: When a nation murders 57 million babies & ignores gathering storm of Radical Islam, the state of the union is not “strong.” (Costa Mesa, California) – “America, for all that we have endured; for all the grit and hard work required to come back; for all the tasks that lie ahead, know this: The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.” So began President Obama on Tuesday night in his 2015 State of the Union address to the nation and to a Joint Session of Congress. He was not the first American President to declare the state of the union “strong.” But with all due respect, the President is wrong. When a nation murders 57 million innocent babies, the state of the union is not strong. When a nation overtaxes and overregulates and over burdens the economy and drives manufacturers and other businesses overseas and leaves 92 million Americans out of the labor force with no jobs and few prospects to get a good-paying job, the state of the union is not strong. When a nation heaps $18 trillion of national debt on the backs of our children and grandchildren, and keeps creating more and more national debt with no end in sight, the state of the union is not strong. When a leader ignores the rising threat of Radical Islam — does not take decisive action to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, does not take decisive action to crush terrorist movements like al Qaeda and ISIS, and refuses to even mention “Islam” or “Islamism” or “Radical Islam” or even “al Qaeda” is his address to the nation — the state of the union is not strong. My goal in saying this is not to score partisan political points. Rather, I am deeply concerned about the future of America. Indeed, at this critical hour, let us consider Ezekiel 33:1-9 and how it applies to us and our times. 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, 3 and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows on the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’ 7 Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a message from My mouth and give them warning from Me. 8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand. 9 But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life.” Ezekiel was a Hebrew prophet writing more than 2,500 years ago. He was part of the Jewish people that had been conquered and captured by King Nebuchadnezzar and were now living in the Babylonian Empire. And the Lord came to Ezekiel and called him to be a prophet — to hear the word of the Lord, and then to speak it to the people. In this passage, the Lord says very clearly that He has raised Ezekiel up to be a “watchman” for the people. That is, his responsibility is to see threats and dangers that are approaching with God’s help and insight, and then warn the people about those coming dangers. He is also supposed to warn individuals about their sins, that they might repent of those sins and turn to the Lord with a humble heart for forgiveness. But the Lord tells Ezekiel that it is not simply his job to be a “watchman.” The Lord will raise up and appoint other watchmen over time. And it is the responsibility of such watchmen to see threats and dangers and sins and warn the people, or they will be held to account by the Lord Himself. Christians — and especially Christian pastor and leaders — must be clear-eyed about three grave threats that we face. 1.The threat that America is not just in a season of decline, but that we face implosion — collapse — outright judgment. 2.The threat that America and parts of the Church will turn against Israel & the Jewish people. 3.The threat that Christians in the West will ignore or turn a blind eye to the existential threat posed by Radical Islam to our country, and/or to the barbaric slaughter and terrible persecution of Muslims as well as Arab Christians in the Middle East by Radical Islamic jihadists like Iran, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. Let’s briefly consider each point in light of Ezkiel’s words. 1. THREAT #1: America is not simply in decline. We are heading for collapse, implosion, judgment. There are many reasons for this, including a massive and crushing national debt with no end in sight, the implosion of families through divorce and out-of-wedlock-birth and the assault on traditional marriage, violent crime, drug use, pornography and so forth. I wrote about this in more detail in my 2012 non-fiction book, Implosion: Can America Recover From Its Economic & Spiritual Challenges In Time?, so I won’t take time here to go into detail. But consider one number: 57 million. America is heading for divine judgment for murdering 57 million unborn children. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in Poland. As I stood in an actual gas chamber that was used to systematically murder so many Jews, political prisoners and others, it was a horrifying experience. I’m Gentile on my mother’s side, and Jewish on my father’s side, and standing there thinking about how the Nazis created these murder factories to kill six million Jews was one of the most painful experiences of my life. But as I stood in that gas chamber, I could not help but think of how my own country, America — a country I love so dearly — has created murder factories to kill millions of people, as well. I was born in 1967. In my lifetime — since 1973 — the American people have legally murdered more than 57 million babies. If this is not stopped soon, we will reach 60 million. Think about that. If we really get to the point that our nation has systematically murdered 60 million human beings, we will have murdered 10 times more people than the Nazis killed of the Jews. Now we know how God judged Germany and the Nazi regime through a crushing defeat in World War II, and we believe that the Nazis deserved such judgment. What do we think is going to happen if continue to murder millions of children? We are going to face the judgment of God. It is extraordinary that it hasn’t happened already. Poster Comment: Will you and I faithfully teach and preach the word of God to the nation? Will America hear the word of the Lord that we have strayed far from the teachings of the Bible and allowed our land to become polluted with abortions and pornography and violence and wickedness of all kinds? Will we admit how far we are from God’s plan and purpose for our lives? Will we confess that our hearts are far from Jesus Christ and plead with the Lord for His mercy and grace and forgiveness? Will we fast and pray and earnestly seek God’s face, and implore Christ to give us a Third Great Awakening? Or will we ignore the word of the Lord and continue in our sins and watch our nation continue to decline, or even implode? Joel Rosenberg
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#1. To: A K A Stone, out damned spot, TooConservative, Vicomte13, BobCeleste, Don, GarySpFc (#0)
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"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
I agree. But let's be clear: by 1988, Reagan's last year in office, the nation had already murdered about 25 million babies. It was murdering babies at the present rate during his Presidency also. So if this is the standard: that the nation has gone Molechite and is slaughtering it own children by the millions, then America has not been strong since 1973, and never will be again. I don't agree with that assessment. Strength is a matter of physical and economic power. Assyria was strong. So was Babylon. So was Rome. When they demolished the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel, and demolished the Temple forever, they were very strong. Hitler's Germany was incredibly strong. Pressing millions of Jews into gas chambers and slaughtering millions didn't happen because the Germans were weak, but precisely because they were strong. America is pretty strong, like the other evil nations of history. But with all of the evil we do, we've set ourselves up to be the beacon on the hill - not as a symbol of virtue, but as a flaming pyre of disaster, visible to the whole world when God smashes us to pieces. We speak of the fall of Nineveh and Rome, but the fall of America will be more staggering and stunning. We have sown the wind, and now we shall reap the whirlwind, and we richly deserve to on account of all of our dear offenses. Now, it is to be hoped that we would, as a nation repent. But America is a democracy, and the will of the majority is that we should murder babies at will, so that our women can be whores without consequence, and our men can be horny dogs without consequence. Without VISIBLE consequence. The consequence to each murderer is dire and utter and total, and there's no going back from it. The only possible atonement comes after forgiveness, and forgiveness requires repentance, and there will be none.
Poetic and discerning.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
And incredibly sad. We had everything. We were born into everything. This was the most powerful country in the world, with freedom for most - should have been all, and we could have fixed that, and even were fixing it. But then we became drunk with power, embarked on imperial wars, refused to really address the inequalities we had imposed in our midst, and started cutting babies to pieces to serve sexual convenience. And we imported drugs to cover the moral revulsion and shrieking agony of conscience.
The failed leaders are liars and scumbags. So are their cop-thugs. Same with their bureaucracies.
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