We'realldoomed wrote:
"It is your destruction, O Israel, that you are against Me, against your help." (HOSEA 13:9)
Everyone recognizes the problems we face in our nation. Few, if any, argue that things are getting better. There is a solution to our dilemma, just as there was for Israel's. But Israel rejected the true solution in favor of quick and easy fixes which were no fixes at all. They mocked and ridiculed the solution and were destroyed for it.
"Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord."
How quickly control was lost. Though the apostasy was slow, little by little over several generations, the leaders insisted that everything was O.K. The false prophets were proclaiming "peace, peace" when there was no peace. The damage to the moral and spiritual fiber of the nation continued to accumulate until the collapse came, sudden and quick. In our own situation, it seems as if the digression is quickening as more and more of our institutions are losing control.
"My God, we of Israel know Thee."
Today, the majority of Americans claim to believe in God. But it is an empty claim if one is not willing to obey God. One who will lie, cheat or steal and then proudly boast of his belief in God is only deceiving himself. The same polls in which the majority say they believe in God will also show that the majority do not respect His word as they should. If they did, then the Scriptures would settle moral and doctrinal issues for them, but as it is, many more people are willing to say they believe in God than are willing to live their lives according to the Scriptures.
"With their silver and gold they made idols for themselves."
We are little different from them. They made idols out of silver and gold while we have made silver and gold our idol. Materialism is a horrible, demeaning affliction. Any society where things become more important than people and a person's success is measured more by his possessions than his relationships with others is clearly on the wrong path.
"They sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind."
We can never really escape the consequences of our actions. Think about how much of the hardship and suffering that exists today is a direct result of sinful behavior! The cry goes out for compassion, but when one responds compassionately by advising a return to the moral standards and principles as taught in the Word of God he is soundly renounced. We, as a nation, have sown the wind. We are now beginning to reap the whirlwind.
"Though I wrote him ten thousand precepts of My law, they regard it as a strange thing."
Isn't that how people regard God's law today in our own nation? As a strange thing? Of course it is. And those who try to live by it are strange people. People say they long for the day when they could feel safe walking down the street, when they could keep their doors unlocked, when people were more honest and helpful and still felt a sense of brotherhood, when schools were safe for our children, when drugs were almost unheard of, and when there was a prevailing sense that things were good and getting better. But that was back when the word of God was not regarded as a strange thing. Why cannot people see that there is an obvious connection?
"Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right. and the righteous will walk in them, But transgressors will stumble in them." (Hosea 14:9).
Fundementalist Christians are so easy to troll.
