That in turn, oftentimes, has led to adultery. According to Jesus, an illegitimate marriage is ADULTERY (Mt. 5:32, 19:9). Just this form of adultery through an illegitimate marriage has to be so widespread that it would be shocking if we knew the statistics.
Besides all of these, there are all the other sins, too numerous to mention, from one end of the gamut to the other. People sin and then brag about their own wickedness.
For the most part, the spiritual leaders of America are heretics, who have misrepresented God, the gospel, the meaning of grace, the vital need to repent and dozens of other chief subjects in the Bible. Again, these people are preaching a counterfeit gospel, which is deceiving multitudes and ruining the country.
The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: "It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses." (Isa. 3:14)The horrible spiritual complection of the present day so-called church and our country began with savage wolves behind the pulpits posing as Christian leaders. The pastors in the vast majority of the cases, here in the USA, are just like the false prophets in the Old Testament, who are trying to make the people feel secure as they teach security and prosperity in sin and lukewarmness.
The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water - the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night. As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!" (Rev. 8:7-13)When nuclear war will occur is not known. When, and if, it will hit America is likewise unknown, but know this: America is not mentioned in the book of Revelation and especially not seen as the great power it thinks it is at this moment.
When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? (Amos 3:6)But people have been taught about a God who would never do this. Unlike the true God of the Bible, their concept of God doesn't have him as a killer God. God has slaughtered multitudes of people because of sin. Multitudes - millions over the course of time, but most seem blinded to this truth! (Please see our article entitled, Yahweh The Killer God.)
"I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. "I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up. People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. (Amos 4:6-8)Why wasn't there anyone to lift up Israel? Because God was now her enemy because of her sins."Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up." (Amos 5:2)
Seek the LORD and live, or he will sweep through the house of Joseph like a fire; it will devour, and Bethel will have no one to quench it. (Amos 5:6)What does it mean to seek the Lord?
Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth. The LORD did not hesitate to bring the disaster upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything he does; yet we have not obeyed him. (Dan. 9:13,14)Notice: God didn't hesitate to bring disaster on them! That is because God is righteous. But there is more:
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you. When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you. (Josh 23:15,16)God is a righteous God who gets angry over sin. He sends trouble and death because of sin.
So Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah and to all those living in Jerusalem: "For twenty-three years - from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day - the word of the LORD has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened. And though the LORD has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention. They said, 'Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and your evil practices, and you can stay in the land the LORD gave to you and your fathers for ever and ever. Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not provoke me to anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.' 'But you did not listen to me,' declares the LORD, 'and you have provoked me with what your hands have made, and you have brought harm to yourselves.' Therefore the LORD Almighty says this: 'Because you have not listened to my words, I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,' declares the LORD, "and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin. I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp. This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years" (Jer. 25:2-11).God is slow to get angry, but He does get angry enough to kill. For decades people have been saying that America needs to repent, but just like Israel they continue in sin. No doubt some will think, "But that was in the Old Testament and it's not relevant for us today," however they are wrong. Notice what happened to Israel is the same way God will deal with us under the New Testament:
For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert. Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry." We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did - and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test the Lord, as some of them did - and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did - and were killed by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. (1 Cor 10:1-11)
If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. (Jer. 18:7,8)Read the book of Jonah. That is exactly what happened to the city of Ninevah. They repented and God didn't destroy Ninevah. But God did destroy Jerusalem because they were dealt with by God and they refused to repent. Prayer for America isn't enough! America must repent. God is righteous. God doesn't change.
May God bless America again, but how can He, according to the Scriptures, if its abominations continue.
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