Musing – If America is no longer a Christian Nation; What’s Next?

Hebraic Musing – If America is no longer a Christian Nation; What’s Next?

Are we still the Christian nation we once were?  Where are we now?  Has our nation turned away from God?  What does the Bible say about a Nation turning its back on God?   We need to distinguish between an individual turning his/her back on God vs. a Nation going against God’s will.  Salvation is for an individual, based on choice.  But, people in rebellious nations experience consequences.

Three things happen when a nation rejects God and sheds innocent blood.  Is America guilty on both counts?

How is America rejecting God?  In the recent musing about recognizing Ungodliness, we identified Drugs, Gambling, Debt, Gender confusion, Abortion, Suicides, Evolution teaching, Education abdication, Religious Co-existence, Freedoms of Choice & Speech, Free Love, Broken families and Entitlement mentality.  Enough said?

How are we shedding innocent blood?  Abortion clinics, witnesses “committing suicide,” foreign ambassadorial staff slain, school & public shootings and euthanasia.  And are the lives of people being destroyed when their reputations are corrupted by unsubstantiated accusations by lies from the media?

So, what three things can America expect according to the Bible?

1. Rulers who hate us –  A summary of Psalm 106:33-42 says the Israelites rebelled against the Spirit of God; they disobeyed, worshipped idols, adopted customs of other peoples, shed innocent blood and defiled themselves.  And in the final verses 41-42  “He handed them over to the nations, and their foes ruled over them.  Their enemies oppressed them and subjected them to their power.” NIV   Our Judeo-Christian heritage is under attack.

2. Laws that enslave us – Ezekiel 20:24-25 “because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes [lusted] after their fathers' idols.  I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by.” NIV   How many laws do we now have that are enslaving us or preventing us from freedom of expression or obeying God’s laws?  Furthermore, today’s laws no longer apply to the likes of Epstein, Clintons, Bidens, corrupt leaders & politicians…to name just a few examples

3. Rights taken from us – Isaiah 5:20, 23, 24b   “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.… who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.… for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.”  Why do homosexuals want to be called “Gay”?  Why is sex now “free”?  Bibles and prayer are no longer allowed in schools!  Speech must be PC!  Women’s rights pre-empt newborn rights!  And on and on!  Are we Christians in America being surrounded by arrogant, militant paganism?  National sovereignty is Biblical but socialism/globalization is taking over.

Timothy warned us of these days.  “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.  They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”  2 Tim. 2:3-4

Jeremiah warned the Israelites.  Does this apply to us?  “But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,  then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.”  Joshua 23:12-13  Is America guilty of these crimes?

Points to ponder   or   RSVP

Do we see the forces seeking Globalization, socialism or the “New World Order”
trying to overcome the National Sovereignty foundation of our nation?

Who’s driving the Globalization movement?   i.e. trying to rebuild the Tower of Babel?

Is persecution around the corner?

 “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray…” 2 Chron.7:14

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd                          January 21, 2020

Author: “Hebraic Insights – Messages exploring the Hebrew roots of our faith” 
“Biblical Marriage (by Yosef)”   Weekly “Hebraic Musings”

Note – Some excerpts from “3 Terrible Consequences when a Nation Rejects God”; https://benhambrothers.com/