Posted on 11/09/2002 6:46:06 PM PST by GoldenEagles
Our country was established as a Judeo-Christian nation and we honored God. He blessed us: With great prosperity; with protection in time of war and trouble.
Now, we have turned our face away from Him as a nation. Honoring God has become generally illegal. As a nation, we have repealed the sabbath. Murder is rampant; and it is ok with the nation as long as it is by the mother. Everybody lies--we call these lies white. Stealing is so common, you can't get the cops to write a report. Adultery is ignored. You want to hear the name of the Lord in vain? Turn on your TV set on any channel during prime time.
A man shall not lie with a man as with a woman for it is an abomination to God--certainly clear enough to me.
As a nation, we are embarked on a systematic effort to divorce children from their parents--father and mother are viewed, not with honor, but as institutionally irrelevant.
Our tax system is founded on the principle of coveteousness.
In the spring of 609 BC, Israel (Judea) got a wake up call when Nebuchadnezar showed up and took away about 2000 sons of prominent citizens as hostages.
America too got a wake up call on September 11, 2001.
But you can't just say "God Bless America" and expect God to make everything alright--if as a nation, we mean it, we have to do something about it. Honor God--bring him back into the home and into the public institutions. Stop taking His name in vain. Condemn adultery. Punish stealing. Reform the education system and restore the family. Restore the Sabbeth. Punish abortion and perjury, and reform the tax system. If we don't do that, "God Bless America" is just another hollow media tool.
If we don't do that, God will destroy America as He did Israel in 588 BC. Maybe He will just remove the blessing of His protection from our enemies and permit them to destroy us as He permitted Nebuchednezar to destroy Israel.
Check out this link: Glorious Sunset Presages New Day for America
I think God has a few other problems with America besides mothers murdering unborn children.
America has many problems, and they all reduce down to one common denominator. And that is, the Children of God have become aliented from God to such an extreme, that they aren't even sure that the most precious creation that comes into this world, the child in the womb, is God's creation.
The abortion problem, actually represents the apex of alienation from God. Therefore, the first step towards reconciliation has got to be protecting the life of the unborn child in law. Though, I would concur with you that restoring prayer to the public schools would also be a very important step, that might even help the people come into a greater awareness of the value of the life in the womb.
"We're on a mission from Gahd."
god speaks thru his inspired word. What is your inpiration?
I thought I explained that in my "editor's note" above.
Though I could add the following as further background.
God illuminates the heart and mind of the devoted soul, over the pathway of daily devotion. Any Child of God, who establishes such a pathway, and keeps it open, again through daily devotion, setting aside at least a couple of hours every day for prayer, which might mean giving up some t.v. shows, experiences a return flow of insight and illumination from time to time.
But, but there is serious disagreement in this country about which day is the Sabbath . . .
This belongs on the religion forum.
This thread has to do with subjects that are in the news, and part of the political discourse in this nation, namely, terrorism, abortion, and the role of God in public affairs.
I believe this thread should stay exactly where it is.
In some circles it is considered presumtious to sign God's name to a piece of one's own writing.
I anticipated that objection, and sufficiently answered it in my "editor's note" above.
With all due respect, among believers, we ought to be able to agree on which day is the Sabbeth. As many times as the calendar has been changed, we have dropped days out; added days in; recharacterized and renamed the days; identification of a particular day as the shabbat is no longer possible. God's direction is that "six days shalt thou labor but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." (Ex 20:9-10).
As a lawyer, if I just picked up the book and tried to decide which day to use as the Sabbath, no doubt it would be Saturday--and it would be a positive thing if all of Gods people, Christian and Jew alike, settled on Saturday. But I don't see setting aside Sunday as the most important problem either.
If your comment is directed to the institutional problems we would have setting aside a day when we would honor God as a nation, that is a problem and maybe is an argument that we should agree that as God's people, we ought to unite on a specific day, like maybe Saturday. I really don't find much authority in God's Word to use any other day (although I am a member of a Nazarene Church; and at the moment have been attending a Baptist Church every Sunday for the last two and a half years).
Point is that as part of a national understanding of an effort to return to God, agreeing on which day we set aside as the Sabbath is something we ought to be able to do.
Keep it here, catch the grief.
The catholic church and eastern church would never go along with a Saturday sabbath.
So it is the Jews and SDA people who go for Saturday and most of the rest of us for Sunday.
Perhaps my views are unorthodox, but to me Saturday is still the sabbath and Sunday is the Lord's Day. Of course, when I am in religious mode, I usually go to church on Sunday, but catholics can observe a Saturday sabbath now by attending mass on Saturday evening . . .
And so it goes. Jesus said he was Lord of the Sabbath.
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