What Is Wrong With Modern America? : Part 2

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MODERN AMERICA? : PART 2

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Published On : November 2, 1999

Last Updated : April 19, 2009

Guilt Of The Jews, Hosea Married A Whore, Israel Lost Her
Fear Of God, Sin Of Trusting In Ourselves, Self-Confidence
Leads To Disobedience To God, God's Warnings To Israelites,
Not Because Of Their Own Might Or Goodness, King David's
Foolish Census, Israel's Fall Into Apostasy, Self-Imposed
Delusion And Intentional Deception, Upside-Down Distorted
View, Blood Of The Lord's Prophets, God Sends Delusion,
Israel And Judah Invaded, Startling Parallels To Modern
"Christian" America, King Hezekiah's Call To Repentance

As I concluded in part one, despite the many miracles in the
land of Egypt and in the wilderness; in spite of the many
victories in battle given to them by the Lord against their
pagan enemies; and even though God saw fit to bestow upon
them many physical blessings, the ancient Israelites went
from being the most God-fearing people upon the face of the
Earth, to being the most rebellious and anti-god nation the
world has ever known; and in my opinion, they remain in that
condition to this very day, perhaps only overshadowed by the
United States of America. My reason for saying this, and it
is indeed quite Scriptural, is very simple. Those people who
know the truth, and who have consciously rejected it, are
more guilty in God's sight, than those who have never heard
it to begin with. As Jesus said of the unbelieving Jewish
leadership of His day:

"If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had
sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin."
John 15:22, KJV

At this point, some of you might be wondering exactly how
such a thing could possibly have happened. What caused a
people who was at one time so highly favored by the Lord,
to become viewed as a whore in His sight, as we saw earlier
from the words of the Prophet Ezekiel? Before answering this
question for you, it might interest you to know, that it was
so important to the Lord to graphically illustrate His sore
displeasure with the bad attitude and backslidden spiritual
condition of the children of Israel, that He even told the
Prophet Hosea to marry a harlot. Consider this verse:

"The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the
LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms
and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great
whoredom, departing from the LORD."
Hosea 1:2, KJV

In His mercy, God was using every means at His disposal, in
order to try to shock the wayward Israelites into realizing
the gravity of their backslidden condition. So how did they
arrive at such a condition? Well, believe it or not, the
answer is very simple; and in fact, I have already given it
to you. Allow me to remind you again of the wisdom of Kings
David and Solomon:

"Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he
shall bring it to pass."
Psalms 37:5, KJV

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good
understanding have all they that do his commandments: his
praise endureth for ever."
Psalms 111:10, KJV

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him,
and he shall direct thy paths."
Proverbs 3:5-6, KJV

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the
knowledge of the holy is understanding."
Proverbs 9:10, KJV

In short, the Israelites made two major mistakes. First;
once they had grown into a large nation in the land of
Egypt, and then became firmly established in the land of
Canaan, successive generations began to lose their fear of
the Lord. They hadn't personally seen the powerful miracles
which had been done in Egypt, or the miracles which God had
wrought in the wilderness. Neither had they experienced the
decisive victories which had been won with the Lord's help
during the conquest of Canaan. As I mentioned in part one,
they had undoubtedly heard of the Lord's awesome might and
delivering power through the stories which had been passed
down to them, just as the entire pagan world of that region
had heard, but it may be that their relationship with the
Lord wasn't quite as personal as it had been with their
forefathers. I would dare say that in the absence of such a
multitude of miracles, it required more faith on their part
to keep on believing in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

When any person, or any nation, begins to lose the fear of
the Lord, two other things also begin to happen. The loss of
Godly reverence is soon accompanied by the temptation to
trust in ourselves and in our own wisdom and might, instead
of in the Lord as we should. This temptation can ultimately
result in disobeying the Lord's commandments; and as I have
already mentioned, when the Israelites did it, they did it
with full abandon. Let's take a look at some of the facts.

When Moses gave the people God's instructions regarding how
they were to conquer the land of Canaan, he told them very
specifically to utterly destroy and drive out the heathen
nations living in Canaan, and to cast down their high places
of pagan worship, and to destroy all of the idols of their
false gods. This was for several reasons. First of all, as
the following verses clearly reveal, according to the Laws
given to Moses, anyone who worshipped a pagan god was worthy
of death. Second; the Lord commanded the Israelites to do
these things in order to protect them from falling into a
spiritual and physical snare, and thus losing their
spiritual and ethnic purity:

"He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only,
he shall be utterly destroyed."
Exodus 22:20, KJV

"But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I
speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an
adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall go
before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the
Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. Thou
shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them,
and quite break down their images. And ye shall serve the
LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water;
and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There
shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land:
the number of thy days I will fulfil. I will send my fear
before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou
shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their
backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which
shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
from before thee. I will not drive them out from before thee
in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of
the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will
drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased,
and inherit the land. And I will set thy bounds from the Red
sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the
desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of
the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out
before thee. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with
their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make
thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will
surely be a snare unto thee."
Exodus 23:22-33, KJV

"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; Then ye
shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before
you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their
molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and
dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it."
Numbers 33:51-53, KJV

"And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy
God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon
them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be
a snare unto thee . . . And the LORD thy God will put out
those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest
not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field
increase upon thee. But the LORD thy God shall deliver them
unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction,
until they be destroyed. And he shall deliver their kings
into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from
under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before
thee, until thou have destroyed them. The graven images of
their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire
the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee,
lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the
LORD thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into
thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou
shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it;
for it is a cursed thing."
Deuteronomy 7:16, 22-26, KJV

"When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations. There shall not be found
among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a
charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard,
or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an
abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations
the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou
shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. For these nations,
which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times,
and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath
not suffered thee so to do."
Deuteronomy 18:9-14, KJV

It is also interesting to note that the Lord warned them to
not think for a minute, that any of the victories which
would be won, would be wrought by the power of their own
hand, or even because of their own goodness. In fact, Moses
very clearly told them that they were a stiff-necked and
rebellious people, and that the reason for which the Lord
was going to do these things for them, wasn't because of
their own goodness, but rather because the heathen were so
wicked. Consider these verses:

"Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not
keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day: Lest when thou hast
eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt
therein; And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy
silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is
multiplied; Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget
the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land
of Egypt, from the house of bondage; Who led thee through
that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery
serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no
water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of
flint; Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy
fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he
might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; And
thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand
hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the LORD
thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth,
that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy
fathers, as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do at
all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and
serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day
that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD
destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye
would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God."
Deuteronomy 8:11-20, KJV

"Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he
which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall
destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face:
so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as
the LORD hath said unto thee. Speak not thou in thine heart,
after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before
thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me
in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these
nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. Not
for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine
heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the
wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them
out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which
the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not
this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou
art a stiffnecked people."
Deuteronomy 9:3-6, KJV

As I have already made clear, in spite of these many clear
warnings from the Lord, those foolish Israelites turned
around and slapped God in the face. They failed miserably at
everything He had commanded them to do, or not to do. Only a
few hundred years later, after the death of Joshua, and then
Caleb, and then during the times of the Judges, they began
to marry those very same heathen whom they were supposed to
drive out and destroy; and if that wasn't bad enough, they
also began to adopt their false religions and their false
gods as their own. As we saw in part one, it got so bad,
that they were sacrificing their very own children to them.

David and Solomon both said to trust in the Lord, and in His
wisdom, but the Israelites did the exact opposite. In fact,
as I explain in other articles, in spite of the fact that
King David was so loved of the Lord, he fell victim to these
very same sins; and it is because of the lessons which he
learned through his bitter experiences, that he was inspired
to write some of the things which he did. Many of us are
familiar with the story of David and Bathsheba, and how
David leaned to his own understanding by both committing
second-degree murder, and then adultery. This event in his
life, and the repentance which followed, resulted in David
writing Psalm Fifty-One, which has been a blessing, and a
model prayer, used by many of us today.

Another incident which I mention in other articles concerns
how in a moment of weakness, and human foolishness, David
went against the wise counsel of his general, Joab, and took
a nation-wide census of Israel. The reason why this act was
such a sin before the Lord, is because David was supposed to
be trusting in God for his military victories, and giving
Him due credit for the same. Taking a census of Israel was a
clear sign that David was beginning to trust in the arm of
the flesh instead; that is, in the power of his fighting
forces. Ironically, in the twentieth Psalm, David also
wrote:

"Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will
remember the name of the LORD our God."
Psalms 20:7, KJV

As a result of this foolish disobedience, we are told in the
twenty-first chapter of the first Book of Chronicles, that
the Angel of the Lord smote seventy thousand fighting men
throughout Israel. Following are some of the key verses from
this interesting story:

"And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel. And David said to Joab and to the rulers of
the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan;
and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. And
Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so
many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not
all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this
thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.
Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and
came to Jerusalem . . . And God was displeased with this
thing; therefore he smote Israel. And David said unto God, I
have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but
now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant;
for I have done very foolishly . . . So the LORD sent
pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy
thousand men. And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to
destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and
he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that
destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel
of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the
Jebusite."
1 Chronicles 21:1-4, 7-8, 14-15, KJV

As I mentioned a moment ago, the loss of Godly fear is soon
accompanied by the temptation to trust in ourselves, and in
our own wisdom, instead of in the Lord; and this temptation
ultimately results in disobeying the Lord in some way; which
is exactly what David did. As I explain in other articles,
such as in the aforementioned "The Fruits Of Disobedience",
as well as in "The Children Of God And Politics", the very
fact that the Israelites even had an Earthly king over them,
was due to disobedience on their part, and their wayward
desire to be just like the pagan nations which surrounded
them. In other words, they weren't content with just having
the Lord as their Eternal King in the Heavens; they wanted
to blend in with their enemies and adopt their customs. So
the spirit of pride and disobedience which first reared its
ugly head shortly after the Israelites were liberated from
Egypt, ultimately resulted in their downfall and destruction
by their enemies. As King Solomon wrote:

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit
before a fall."
Proverbs 16:18, KJV

From their on-again off-again obedience during the times of
the Judges, to rebellious Saul's repeated disobedience and
loss of the kingdom, to David's various sins of the flesh,
to Solomon's steep fall into pagan idol worship in his old
age, the situation just continued to deteriorate more and
more as the years progressed. As we saw in part one, the
Prophets Isaiah and Hosea wrote "ye will revolt more and
more" and "And now they sin more and more". Again, what a
sad story for a people who had been so close to the Lord.

What I find most alarming about this situation in ancient
Israel, is that the Jewish leadership, as well as the common
people, were living in denial of the truth. They knew that
they were totally backslidden from the Lord; yet they
continued to go through the motions of serving Him; so that
on the surface, things appeared quite normal. The truth of
the matter was entirely different, and God's true Prophets
knew it, and even wrote about it. The Prophet Ezekiel, for
one, clearly exposed what was going on behind closed doors.
While the politically-correct, false prophets and priests
were lying to the people, and telling them "Peace, peace;
all is well", the true messengers of the Lord were warning
them of imminent invasion and destruction by a very cruel
and violent enemy, because of their sins against the Lord.

This delusion by the Jewish leadership was intentional; they
were purposely trying to deceive the people into believing a
lie; and yet, as I shared with you in part one, this is what
the people wanted to hear. They didn't want to hear of their
wayward condition. They didn't want to be told that God was
soon going to judge them harshly through an invasion by a
foreign power. They wanted to be overcome by a false spirit
of complacency and lulled to sleep. As Jeremiah said:

"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will
ye do in the end thereof?"
Jeremiah 5:31, KJV

Imagine that! "My people love to have it so"! Those foolish
people wanted to be blinded to the truth by their deceptive
leaders! They wanted to see things in reverse! About one
hundred and fifty years earlier, the Prophet Isaiah said of
them in the prophecy I shared with you earlier, "Surely your
turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay". In other words, Isaiah was telling them that
the Lord knew that they were purposely twisting the truth,
and in fact turning the truth upside down and presenting a
lie as the truth; and soon He would expose their wicked
deception, and smash them in the fires of His hot judgments,
like a marred potter's vessel which is utterly useless. In
fact, twenty-four chapters earlier in this same book, Isaiah
wrote of them:

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter
for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
Isaiah 5:20, KJV

So you see, that is the spirit of strong delusion which
existed in the land of Israel for literally hundreds of
years; and as I explain in other articles, it existed right
up until the time of Christ, and strongly manifested itself
through the self-righteous Scribes and Pharisees, who were
constantly attacking the Lord, just as their forefathers had
persecuted and slain all of the Prophets of truth who had
come before Him. It is for this very reason that Jesus said
of His enemies:

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye
build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres
of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our
fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the
blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto
yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed
the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you
prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye
shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in
your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That
upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of
Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple
and the altar."
Matthew 23:29-35, KJV

For more on this topic, please read such articles as
"Revelation's Babylon The Great Whore". The point is, for
literally hundreds of years, the rebellious Israelites had
been living under a cloud of strong delusion, because once
one rejects the truth, there is no room for anything but
delusion and deception. As Isaiah also wrote in one of the
final chapters of his book:

"I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer;
when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before
mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not."
Isaiah 66:4, KJV

The Israelites feared foreign invasion more than anything
else, and that is exactly what the Lord brought upon them.
It wasn't long after Isaiah wrote the previous lines, that
the Lord strongly chastised the northern kingdom of Israel
through the Assyrian invasion. In like manner, it was also
forty years after Jeremiah began to prophesy against the
southern kingdom of Judah, that the Lord likewise punished
them through the invasion by the forces of Babylonian King
Nebuchadnezzar, which left Solomon's Temple destroyed, and
Jerusalem in ruins. It should also not surprise us then,
that hundreds of years later, Jesus would quote from
Isaiah's writings, in order to expose the same deceitful
spirit which characterized the false Jewish religious
establishment of the First Century:

"He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied
of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth
me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."
Mark 7:6, KJV

So it is clear then, that the delusion in Israel was so
strong, that the political and religious leadership, and the
people, had a totally twisted, perverted view of the world,
and of their relationship with God. They were so deceived,
that they didn't even realize how far they had strayed from
Him; and it all began when they lost their fear of the Lord,
and became haughty, self-confident and started trusting in
their own wisdom, strength and military might, which
ultimately resulted in them compromising their faith with
the pagan nations around them. As we saw in part one, the
Prophet Ezekiel fully exposed the self-confidence of the
ancient Israelites when he wrote in part:

"But thou didst trust in thine own beauty . . ."
Ezekiel 16:15a, KJV

By this time, some of you may be wondering what all of this
talk about the sins of ancient Israel has to do with the
title of this article. For those of you who are in tune to
God's Spirit, I am sure that you already see the startling
parallels to the Endtime, and particularly to the spiritual
condition of modern-day America. In fact, if you happen to
be a regular reader of my articles, then you may realize
that I really haven't said anything new, but am merely
reiterating certain points I have already made in other
articles, some of which I have already mentioned.

For those of you who have not yet understood, just as the
spirit of deceit and delusion existed in ancient Israel, and
was promoted by the very leadership which claimed to worship
the true God of Heaven, we have leaders in America today who
make the very same boasts. They are false leaders, and false
spiritual shepherds; and yet, sadly, just like the ancient
Israelites, so-called Christian America loves to have it so;
because unlike Moses of old who was willing to forsake the
pleasures and sins of Egypt in order to serve the one true
God, many Americans prefer to be fed the lie that they are
blessed by God, and the greatest Christian nation upon the
Earth, while at the same time, they kick Him out of public
schools, out of government, and teach and practice many
things which are totally contrary to His Word. Moreover,
they continue to enjoy their over-indulgent, sinful, and
materialistic lifestyle at the expense of the oppressed poor
of the world who are forced to work in "sweat shops" for a
meager wage, in order to earn their living. Consider the
following verses:

"But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,
deceiving, and being deceived."
2 Timothy 3:13, KJV

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears;"
2 Timothy 4:3, KJV

"By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be
called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to
suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season;"
Hebrews 11:24,25, KJV

Exactly how close are these parallels between the history
and sins of ancient Israel and modern-day America? Consider
the following shocking truths. According to American history
books, the United States of America was founded upon the
principle of the freedom of expression. This expression is
particularly manifested through political ideology, as well
as through the freedom of religious worship. While some of
the forefathers arrived in America seeking for financial
opportunity, others sought to escape from the religious
persecution which was rampant in Europe at the time, due to
such things as the Inquisition by the Roman Catholic Church.

Many of us have been taught that America was founded upon
Christian principles, just as ancient Israel was founded
upon belief in the one true God of Heaven. Just as it took
only a few hundred years for Israel to forsake her God, can
we honestly say that America has done any differently? The
Israelites were specifically told to drive out and destroy
their pagan enemies, which they not only failed to do, but
ended up marrying them as well. Look at modern so-called
Christian America. Has she done any different? By no means!
Today, rather than keeping themselves pure from pagans and
pagan belief systems, Americans are marrying Jews, Muslims,
Buddhists, etc., and adopting their religions as their own,
instead of holding to their Christian heritage. If American
Christians truly consider themselves to be God's people,
just as the Jews view themselves as the same, then why are
they doing these things?

Besides David and Solomon, one of the kings of Israel who
was most pleasing to the Lord, was Hezekiah. Do you know
why? As we are told in the Second Book of the Chronicles of
the Kings, not only did he repair the Temple of the Lord and
re-institute the priestly order and the daily sacrifices and
offerings, but he also sent letters to the tribes throughout
Israel and Judah, in which he strongly encouraged the people
to return to the Lord. Furthermore, he advised them to tear
down the altars and the false idols which had been built to
honor the pagan gods of the heathen, as we see here:

"And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that David his father had done. He in the
first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the
doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. And he
brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them
together into the east street, And said unto them, Hear me,
ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house
of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the
filthiness out of the holy place. For our fathers have
trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the
LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away
their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned
their backs. Also they have shut up the doors of the porch,
and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor
offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of
Israel. Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and
Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to
astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes. For,
lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and
our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. Now
it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of
Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us. My
sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to
stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister
unto him, and burn incense."
2 Chronicles 29:2-11, KJV

As we conclude this series in part three, we will be making
some final comparisons between ancient Israel and modern
America, and then consider the possible outcomes of
America's current state of apostasy. I trust that you will
join me.

Go To Part Three . . .