Oh America, Repent, For Your Judgment Draweth Nigh!
The land is filled, filled with innocent blood. The judgment is
no longer afar off, it is coming very soon! But you say, what
innocent blood? The blood of 50 million babies cries to the Lord
from the ground. American soil is soaked with the blood of our
own children! Yet still you will say, God will never judge us,
He has turned His back, He has forsaken the earth. But America's
judgment shall come, in one hour it shall come.
"I am the Lord God which judgeth her. The innocent blood has
come up to Me, and the cries of thy children, which thou hast
slaughtered, has not gone unheard. Yea, it shall bear record
against you in the day of judgment, and the day of your calamity."
Oh, America, repent, for you are not perfect in the eyes of the
Lord your God. Turn back to Him quickly, or your judgment will
come quickly. The land is soaked with innocent blood. But
the murder of the unborn is not America's only sin.
Selfishness rules our nation, selfishness drives our culture.
All of the advertisements we see and hear are about "you:"
"it's all about U","have it your way","get yours today."
We have kicked out the Creator and replaced Him with the god of
humanism, ourselves. The defacto god of an American today is
himself or herself. Why, we even sacrifice to ourselves.
What is abortion, but sacrifice to self? What is sin, but "I'm
going to do what I want to do. No one is going to tell me what
is right and wrong?" From this comes all of our national sins,
adultery, fornication, sodomy, drunkenness, lying, cheating, stealing.
We look out for ourselves at the expense of others. We do
not head the warnings telling us to repent. Why? We like
what we are doing. We do not want to admit we are doing wrong.
What judgment, you say? Some new terror attack, a mini-nuke in
Chicago, or perhaps downtown Ann Arbor. A truck bomb in New
York, a North Korean missile strike in San Fransisco. Suspicious
activity under the US Capitol in recent months suggest that it may be
the next target. But I cannot say for sure, these are just
examples of what could happen. But, as I wrote in a previous
article, there will be thousands to tens of thousands dead. It
could possibly be far worse than that. If only America would
repent, and return to the God of her fathers!
But the innocent blood will not be pardoned by the Lord.
2 Kings 21:
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began
to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast
out before the children of Israel.
3 For he built up again the high places which
Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal,
and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshiped all the
host of heaven, and served them.
4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6 And he made his son pass through the fire,
and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar
spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger.
7 And he set a graven image of the grove that
he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen
out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move
any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will
observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and
according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh
seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD
destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did,
which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that
whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of
Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe
Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside
down.
14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine
inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they
shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
15 Because they have done that which was evil in my
sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came
forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much,
till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin
wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD.
Manasseh had to have been the most wicked king to rule the kingdom of
Judah. He built altars for the pagan gods in the temple of the
Holy One of Israel (2 Kings 21:4,5,7), and sacrificed his son to Molech
(21:6). He seduced the people into his wickedness such
that their wickedness exceeded that of the nations their fathers had
conquered (21:9).
But, worst of all, Manasseh shed innocent blood: Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another...
(2 Kings 21:16). Since he had seduced the people, they willingly
went along with the bloodshed, possibly participating in it themselves.
Therefore, the Lord pronounced His judgment:
11 Because
Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done
wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and
hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
2 Kings 21:11,12
Several kings later, even after the reign of righteous Josiah, this pronouncement of judgment still hung over the land:
3
Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to
remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to
all that he did;
4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
2 Kings 24:3,4
The Lord WILL NOT pardon the shedding of innocent blood. Oh,
America, your judgment draweth nigh! For the innocent blood will
not be purged from this land until God has exacted His judgment.
National judgment is coming, this is certain. But we can still
limit the degree of judgment by repenting now. Personal judgment
is coming to all. Some may excape it in this life, yet all will
face it in the next. We will all stand before the judgment seat
of God to answer for all our sins. Therefore, you need an
Advocate to plead your case. You need a Saviour to take your
punishment. (For we all deserve Hell). You need the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. Jesus Christ
died to take the punishment for your sins. Why don't you repent,
accepting Him as your Lord and Saviour?
The judgment of the nation is coming; if we as a nation repent, it
will lesson God's judgment upon us. If we as individuals repent,
it will lesson our personal judgment in this life, and grant us eternal
happiness in the next.
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