"In her heart she boasts, 'I sit as a queen; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn.' Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her." (Revelation 18:7-8)
I received a troubling vision recently where I saw the Statue of Liberty at night in all her enormous glory suddenly begin leaning to her left before she fell into the New York Bay and sank underwater. I believe that this vision is a warning from God to the United States of America that unless our nation repents of its multiplying sins, it will soon fall from its glory as the greatest, most prosperous and free nation on earth.
Certainly, there are those who will blame much of America's current woes on President Barack Obama who will likely be considered as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history, assuming that future generations will be around to study history. Though Obama's sins are legion and his ineptitude is alarming, he isn't responsible for America's moral collapse--her people are. Since the end of World War II, America has been traveling down the endless road of moral and spiritual depravity. Nearly every major statistic underscores America's moral decline since the late 1940s from the explosion of violent crime in her cities to skyrocketing out-of-wedlock births, rising divorce rates, rising rates of sexually-transmitted diseases, rising high school dropout rates and declining academic test scores and literacy rates.
And then there are the moral sins of abortion, sexual perversion, persecution of Christians and endless forms of witchcraft and idolatry. Since the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, over 40 million unborn babies have been slaughtered. And certainly, abortion is legal in many other nations throughout the world. But for a nation that is still considered by many to be a Christian nation, that is an abomination in the sight of a Holy God. And if you don't believe that God is going to judge that sin, you're either delusional or living in denial.
Since the mid-1970s, homosexuality has been transformed in America from a forbidden lifestyle condemned by the Bible and declared an emotional disorder by the American Psychiatric Association to "an alternative lifestyle." And since that time, even many Christian churches have ignored their own scriptures to embrace that lifestyle by marrying homosexuals and ordaining them into their clergies. Those who resist the Gay lifestyle on biblical grounds are frequently ostracized, impugned, marginalized and even threatened with incarceration.
America's moral slide coincides with her abandonment of God and His Son Jesus Christ. Though America has more churches than any other nation on earth, her churches have become religious mausoleums where form supersedes function and the biblical gospel has been shelved for an empty social gospel that has no influence on human hearts and consciences. For proof of that, travel through any major inner-city in America where you'll see an abundance of churches surrounded by gangbangers, pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, alcoholics and drug dealers. For the most part, America's churches are dead and the nation reflects that reality.
And so, America desperately needs to repent of her many sins and quickly. If not, she is doomed. Listen to the words that the Lord spoke to the ancient prophet Ezekiel; words that apply to modern America: "Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:30-31)
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