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“Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” 1 Corinthians 10:11
The Kingdom of Judah was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, Emperor of Babylon in 586 B.C. because of the idolatry of the people and the refusal of the king to listen to the Word of God in the mouths of His prophets, chiefly Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Today, our own nation is rapidly descending into a godless socialism that will bring the judgment of God upon us swiftly and perhaps without remedy.
There are several comparisons with Judah and Israel that might arouse a spirit of repentance among Christians if heeded.
First, after a period of intense struggle and war, the 12 tribes of Israel were united and a period of great prosperity ensued under the reign of David and Solomon aound 1000-950 B.C. David, the warrior-king established a united kingdom under the provisions of the Mosaic Covenant. Solomon ruled by divinely inspired wisdom under conditions of unparalleled peace and prosperity. Solomon's son Reheboam refused the counsel of his father's advisors, raised taxes and alienated his subjects so greivously that they seceeded into a separate kingdom (Israel, also referred to as Joseph or Ephraim in scripture) which was destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.
Solomon reigned as a king of kings although his marriages to foreign wives and his willingness to entertain their pagan shrines in Israel became a deadly stumbling block for the people.
After the chastening of two world wars and the great depression, our grandparents raised our parents with strong values of religion and patriotism. Church attendance in the U.S. hit its peak in the 1950s. Our parents indulged us in the materialism of their day, as American prosperity soared. We raise our own children in unprecedented wealth - a generation that has rarely wanted for any material satisfaction.
In the 1950s the Eisenhower administration enshrined "In God We Trust" on our currency and "One nation under God" in our Pledge of Allegiance. While these values remain strong among a majority of Americans, they are under attack from socialists everywhere.
Israel wanted a king in order to be like the nations, even though God had chosen them to be a 'holy nation, a kingdom of priests' with Him as their King. This craven bent towards mediocrity and idolatry is at work in America today. President Obama apologizes for American Exceptionalism everywhere he speaks abroad. His message to the UN included pledges to minimalize the role of the U.S. as a global leader and to operate as 'one of many equals.' This is part of his marxist agenda that if achieved, will hasten the wrath of God against us.
Israel wanted to be 'inclusivist, tolerant and multi-cultural' by synchretizing the Covenant worship prescribed by the LORD with the pagan practices of the gentile nations they envied. Synchretism brought down the Kingdom as the gentiles observed the weakness of the peoples' commitment to the God of their fathers and moved in for the kill. The same thing is happening in the U.S. today because of the weakness of orthodox Christian belief in our churches. One of the reasons godless liberalism is so rampant in the U.S. is that the Churches are so weak in their proclamation. Where can we go to hear any word today that renounces sin and warns us of the judgment of God?
Bizarre and perverse heresies have rotted our proclamation from within. Our churches have been deceived by mind science, psychology, health'n'wealth hucksters, homosexuality, no-fault divorce, environmentalism, and abortion 'choice.' The mother of all these heresies is so-called theistic evolutionism which destroys belief in God the Creator and Sustainer of the universe and replaces it with fantastic myths and man-made models that bleed the faith dry of its vitality. Theistic evolutionists are the enemies of the Sacred Scripture tearing its revealed truths in shreds and ridiculing the supernatural miracles and prophecies chronicled within.
The churches in Europe are nearly abandoned as they embraced theistic evolutionism a generation ago. Their birth rates have fallen well below the replacement rate - Europe is dying. Europe is socialist (albeit with some semblence of democratic underpinnings) and its economy is contracting. In order for socialism to succeed anywhere, it must be the law everywhere. Huge capitalist economies like ours attract investment and create wealth - and drain away assets from socialist states. Hence, socialist nations want America to join in the international socialist movement where a world government can control private industry (and eventually economies) and make the world 'fair and just for all.'
It is Almighty God who ordained divine laws protecting private property. The Catholic Church has unequivocally renounced all forms of socialism as inherently evil. The Church stands between free men and global socialism. That is why socialist dictators from Stalin to Mao to Kim Il Sung to Hugo Chavez ruthlessly persecute the Church. The National Socialist Party (Nazi) of Germany persecuted Jews for the same reasons - a diabolical adherence to evolutionary theory (Hitler's eugenics) and a utopian plan to rule the world through socialism required the People of the Bible to be eliminated.
Today, Barack Obama wants to lead the United States to become 'like the other nations' (sound familiar?). For his socialist policies to become law, he must eliminate the Catholic opposition to socialism. The apostasized Church did most of the heavy lifting for him when the University of Notre Dame bestowed an honorary law degree upon the man with the most radical abortion policy in our nation's history last May. Catholics, Jews and Protestant Christians are actually embracing socialized health care as a 'Judeo-Christian' position - even though it sets the stage for even greater government control of our once free people.
Theistic evolution provides the weakening of Christian belief that allows for wholesale co-option by secularists and statists. Through this pernicious synchretism between Christianity and paganism, standards for morality and decency have tragically plummeted and we now have slain 50 million innocent children in their own mothers' wombs legally.
We have also filled the world with the spirit of fornication through our mass media, most disgustingly through our movie industry. Our videos, movies, music and live entertainment wreaks of the fornication message and pollutes other nations. Because of this, the judgment of God is coming.
Because of the grave evil of slavery, this nation was judged with a brutal civil war that claimed nearly a million slain. That number is miniscule compared to the judgment coming for the guilt of slaying 50 million innocents through abortion.
Barack Obama spent 20 years learning 'Liberation Theology' at the Trinity Church of Christ under the leadership of Jeremiah Wright. There he learned that America's only hope is to 'fundamentally transform' into a socialist state and make economic reparations to those whom white capitalists had exploited for 400 years. If this were merely a political ideology it would be dangerous; seeing it is Obama's religious faith, it is potentially deadly to the long term prosperity of the U.S. Constitution and our Republic.
Barack Obama, whether by cunning or naivete is leading us down the road to international socialism. His radical abortion policies pose a grave danger not only to innocent children but to the nation at large which is under the judgment of God. His surrender of American sovereignty to globalist designs will cause our enemies to close in on us and seize what they can. The only question that remains is will we still possess the will to fight when all these things come to pass. A generation spoiled by materialism, with faith weakened by theistic evolutionism and families decimated by fornication, adultery and abortion may simply surrender to tyranny and turn on its own conscience: the religious believers in their midst.