America seems so obsessed with celebrity. We have applied the slang term ‘tinsel town’ to Hollywood, the cradle of American culture. The word ‘tinsel’ has been used since the 1600′s to allude to the fact that where there may be name recognition or much personality, there may be a total deficit of substance. “All that glitters isn’t gold.” That cliché actually originated from Shakespeare’s play, Merchant of Venice: “All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.” The apostle Paul alluded to the impotence of a loveless man’s influence by comparing his words to “a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” (1 Cor. 13:1) In the more modern vernacular, we refer to someone who is puffed up with certainty of his own importance as an ‘empty suit’. In reality, he is lacking in substance and his influence is mostly imaginary.
There is a common deception prevalent among Americans today. The obsession with personality over substance indicates a misplacement of proper priorities. Many are convinced that the economic, political, and social problems of America can be solved by a person. All that is necessary to successfully climb out of this dark hole of despair is to find the right person to occupy the White House. Politicians and candidates seem to spend 90% of their time defending their past and 10% of their time casting a vision for the future of a struggling country. Substance plays second fiddle to persona.
Another cancerous deception eating away at the soul of America is the idea that our primary problem is political or economic in nature. The reality is that America has a spiritual problem that will require spiritual solutions. John Adams summed it up very nicely: “Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” A suit custom-made fits you well. The same suit won’t fit the guy sitting next to you. Our government was custom-made for a God-fearing Christian people. Trying to force a godless people into the same suit only reaps disastrous results.
Perhaps John Adams was echoing George Washington who made a similar statement: “We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained…” What was President Washington saying in a nutshell? God will only bless us in our obedience. Rebellion and defiance will merit God’s judgment, not his blessing.
America’s success wasn’t a freak accident of nature in spite of what the political or social evolutionists might want you to believe. America has been blessed by God. Now, it seems we have forgotten God. There are dire consequences for the individual or the nation that forgets God. “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” (Psalm 9:17) I’ll receive a ream of hate mail for making such a bold statement. It is interesting how times have changed.
Abraham Lincoln struggled to find a reason for a war that divided the nation he loved so dearly: “It is the duty of nations…to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins…with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy…The awful calamity of civil war…may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins.” He is insinuating that the Civil War was God’s judgment for a nation’s sin of slavery. What might God’s judgment be for a nation’s sin of infanticide, evidenced by the murder of 53 million unborn infants since 1973?
President Lincoln continued his call for a National Day of Fasting and Prayer: “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven…We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God.” If Americans had forgotten God 150 years ago, how much more have we forgotten God now?
When national or natural calamities occur, we always ask the same question: ”Where is our God”? Where was God during 9/11? Where was God during Katrina? Why do we expect Him to be anywhere near? We didn’t invite Him to the party. He isn’t on our guest list anymore. We no longer allow our children to study His love letter to them in government schools. They can no longer whisper His name before they partake of their meals. We have ripped down His formula for living together in peace and harmony from our courthouse walls. We applaud the empty suits of tinsel town who have become millionaires by making a profession of mocking God.
We seem determined to fill the cup of God’s wrath. It is one thing to invite corruption into one’s own soul; it is quite another to attempt to corrupt the souls of others. Nothing stirs the anger of God more. We have rejected Christianity in our education system and have replaced it with a pagan secularism. We charge children for their school lunch, but the condoms are free. We are stirring the pot of God’s wrath by exporting pornography, abortion, and homosexuality to other nations and other cultures.
Do we expect God to shrug His shoulders and slump away? How will God react to American’s rejecting Him? That question can be answered because God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes. He will react to us just as He did to other nations that rejected him. The pattern can be observed, especially by studying the history of Israel. Israel and America have a stark commonality. They were both founded upon the precepts of God for the purpose of being that “light upon a hill”, the salt of the earth, examples to other nations of what a God-fearing country might become and accomplish.
America has followed the pattern of ancient Israel. First there comes a serious departure from God. America’s divorce with God has gradually been realized over the last fifty years. Divorce is following by a warning to get back on course. The events of 9/11 and the economic collapse of 2008 may very well have been warnings to Americans of impending judgment on the impenitent. The failure to submit is evidenced by a spirit of arrogance, a fist in the face of God. When a people choose rebellion and revolt rather than repentance, multiple warnings are finally followed by greater calamity.
This calamity can be avoided. God’s anger can be assuaged. The solution is to follow the formula provided in 2 Chronicles 7:14; ”If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Americans are busy seeking, but they are not seeking the face of God. They are seeking wealth, comfort, pleasure, fame, and satisfaction of their own desires.
Storm clouds are gathering on the American horizon, but let us be reminded that revival never comes during times of comfort and prosperity; revival comes through the hand of God in judgment. The pearl hidden deep in the difficult times ahead may very well be a revival that will stir the hearts of Americans to return to the God of their fathers.
Let those of us who are Christian vow to let our voices be heard. “I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call upon the Lord, give yourselves no rest.” (Isaiah 62:6)
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Great article. Too bad so many people today are ashamed to even say they believe in the God of the bible and Jesus Christ. My wife is a blogger and sometimes she writes great posts like this one and she gets discouraged when nobody comments. I joined Western Journalism just so I could comment here and encourage you to keep speaking the truth.
This article is great. We as a nation have forgotten God of the Bible and Jesus Christ. I join with Western Journalism, also, in writing more truthful articles like this. Keep up the good work, Western Journalism. See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com
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This article is dead on! For more information, read the book “The Harbinger” by Johnathan Cahn and go to http://www.humbleourselves.org
“…I shall speak concerning a nation…to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of that evil that I thought to do unto them…if it do evil in My sight, that it obey not My voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them….” -Jeremiah 18:1-17
Judah (the Israelites) did not listen to God’s word through the prophet Jeremiah and even fought against and persecuted him. When God began to fulfill the warnings and threats He made against His chosen people by bringing the Babylonians against them to destroy them, King Zedekiah approached Jeremiah that he would beseech the Lord to help and rescue them. God’s reply to the King was that it was too late to repent of their willful sin and evil: “…I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath…” -Jeremiah 21:1-14
America should heed this warning.
watch these two videos , this man is a constitutional scholar and he is telling us obama is not eligible to be president of this country according to our Constitution, no other constitutional scholar has come forth to deny these facts , no one in our govt is doing anything about it , obama is a fraud and a traitor to our republic our laws and constitution, what do we do ? do we have to start a civil war to rid our govt of this usurper ? our congress and senate do nothing , they are cowards , they are afraid of a black uprising worse than the LA riots if we kick the first black president out of office and imprison him or worse hang him for high treason, but what about a patriot uprising !!!!! do they not fear us, this man is destroying our nation , he is dividing us using class warfare to keep the sheepels minds off the real problem… our govt has been hijacked by the communist democrat party and their con man obama , and he has pulled the biggest hoax in the history of our republic on ”WE THE PEOPLE” , we have been deceived by this fraud obama and we need to do something about it befor he destroys this country…. pass this on if your a patriot …delete it if you’re not or you just dont care about whats happening to our America…. but make no mistake, we are in a constitutional crises in America today that would make Watergate look petty in comparison
The evaluation of the meaning of “natural born citizen” in the Constitution comes from Dr. Herbert W. Titus, of counsel to the law firm William J. Olson.
He previously taught constitutional law, common law and other subjects for 30 years at five different American Bar Association-approved law schools. From 1986 to 1993 he was the founding dean of the College of Law and Government at Regent University.
And before that, he was a trial attorney and special assistant U.S. attorney with the Department of Justice.
His degrees are from Harvard and the University of Oregon, and he’s admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, appellate courts in the 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th and other districts. His practice has taken him into courts in more than a dozen different states.
His perspective:
part 1 & 2
PT 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PqeV0ZlZ1Cw
PT 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoaZ8WextxQ&feature=player_detailpage
‘m sorry, but the United States Constitution was written to be completely secular. This not an opinion, but a truism. That’s what makes this country special. Not the worship of a god, but the idea that humans from all walks of life and culture can come here and be free. I get the impression that this author thinks that non-believers and those individuals from other walks of faith are responsible for any down turn in our society. That “God” will punish humans for not obeying all “His” laws. Is the god Christians worship really this petty? I’d like to point out that most of the individuals elected into our government are God fearing Christians. It would seem that a good portion of these God fearing elected officials are the ones blocking certain social programs that can help the poor and the needy. They are the ones intolerant of homosexuals and women, diminishing their rights to marriage and health care. Doesn’t this go against what Christians are supposed to stand for? Blaming “godless” individuals for the problems of this country and acting as if Christians are being persecuted shows a lack of awareness. I’d like for this author to point out one aspect of the Constitution that reflects Christian morality and belief that isn’t general (such as thou shall not kill). I don’t recall ever learning about an amendment saying that Americans shall not worship any other god but a Christian god. The problem is not that this nation isn’t god fearing, but rather the intense fear that a small group of Christians have towards individuals who have different beliefs. These people are louder than those of us who are excepting of others beliefs. Most individuals just want to get along. The world isn’t going to crumble because we’re not god fearing. It will however, if we lose sight of our tolerance of others. Isn’t that what Jesus stressed, the tolerance and acceptance of others? Or does that only apply if one is a Christian? I’m an atheist and am extremely happy as such. I also understand why people choose religion, as a means to answer the transient questions our brains cannot even begin to understand or fathom. That said, no one religion can trump another. Christianity is just one of many religions that has existed during human civilization. The idea that this country was founded on the Christian belief and backbone is wrong and misleading. This country was founded and built from many different types of human experience and belief, and the great experiment worked. Not because a god made it so, but because we as people made it so.
Vmed928
I’m sorry that you had such a poor education concerning the founding of this nation. You must have gone to a public school, where the truth of our history has been systematically eroded over the last century. Do yourself a favor and go read the original writings of our founding fathers. An excellent starting point would be David Barton’s “Original Intent”. You’ll be amazed at the lies you’ve been fed up to this point.
Saul, I pray that the scales will fall from your eyes.
I do believe Our Forefathers Wrote the Constitution of the United States of America from their GOD fearing Spiritual Belief’s, That IF future Generations will only FOLLOW that Document as Christians Follow the BIBLE and adhere to the True We Will Overcome ALL evil! “The Wall’s of Jerico, Sound the Trumpets.”