America In Crisis Part Ten

We have come to a dangerous hour in our nations history. Never has America been surrounded by more enemies who would do us harm if given the chance. Our people have known in the last decade the despair of continuous war. Our economy seems to be one jolt from possibly total collapse. It was in evaluating these realities coupled with an uncertain future that drove me to my knees in prayer before God. I diligently began to search the scriptures seeking the answer to one question. When does God bring judgment on a nation? I believe in studying the judgments he brought on Egypt during the time of the Exodus I found my answer.

God brought ten deliberate judgments on the nation of Egypt. In previous essays we have examined the first nine. We have seen when a nation turns its back on God they become obsessed with every evil passion the human heart can conceive. This leads to an increase in the influence of the demonic in that nation. The people become consumed with an unsurrendered ambition. Anything goes as long as my personal power, wealth, and influence are increased.

America has undergone such a change as we see our people and many of our leaders abandon the principles of decency and moral conviction as outlined in the word of God. The underpinnings of our economic system have been shaken to the core. Our people and leaders are confounded by an inner conviction of hopelessness and despair. Their hearts are moved with fear by the voices that swirl around their heads based on an inner conviction that things have already gone to far.

Our people have been overwhelmed by the diversity and magnitude of the problems confounding our nation. Yet in the light of all this the hearts of most of our citizens remains unfazed. Having long ago rejected the absolute values given in scripture their hearts remain hard. Instead of falling on our face, and confessing our national sins before almighty God, in the pride and arrogance of open rebellion we are determined to go our own way come what may.

When a people refuse to repent as Egypt did long ago God will bring one final judgment that is so terrifying in its construct that even the hardest of hearts will be broken in submission to the divine will. In the final plague God brought a judgment of death in the land.

5 All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt, from the oldest son of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the oldest son of his lowliest servant girl who grinds the flour. Even the firstborn of all the livestock will die. 6 Then a loud wail will rise throughout the land of Egypt, a wail like no one has heard before or will ever hear again. (Exodus 11:5-6 NLT)

Egypt had undergone in the first nine judgments severe hardships and so has this nation. I have outlined in these essays many comparisons between the United States and the nation of Egypt in the time of the Exodus as written by Moses. God is a God of love. His hands are extended in mercy to all who will listen to his call. I believe millions of Americans in this hour will turn their hearts back to God. I have not predicted anything in these essays.

I have no inner insight of coming judgment. What God brought on Egypt was a plague of such proportions that every home awoke the next day and found their first-born dead. God has in the past brought an affliction down on a people of quick sudden death. The world of our day has so many ways of bringing this about. I am not predicting this, but in my heart of hearts,it is past time for America to turn from its wicked ways before it is everlastingly to late.