O Say can you see, by the dawns early light............
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain......
My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty..........
I’m proud to be an
American, where at
least I know I’m free...
The United States of America..... The most powerful nation in the world, the greatest nation that God has ever allowed to exist on this earth, the only nation directly founded on Christian Principles and the Word of God, the nation that I believe is the “Gentile Israel”; and yet, never directly mentioned in End of Days Prophecy in the Word of God.
I love the United States of America, I am thankful
that I was born in this country.... this land of opportunity.... this land of freedom.... this nation founded from the very beginning
of her existence on the principals of God’s Word.
Satan is out to steal, kill, and destroy....... he has an agenda to take down the United States of America. Before we can understand where the US fits into the End of Days Prophecy, we need to understand where the US is spiritually. We need to understand what Satan is trying to do and is doing to undermine the effectiveness of the United States as the only “Christian Nation” ever established by God.
Look at Washington DC today; the capital of this great nation. We are
literally a house divided!
We’re not talking about political parties; we’re talking about core beliefs!
Look at what we have.....There are those who love the Constitution and there are those who want to change it completely; there are those who want to keep God as a foundational principle of our government and there are those who want God completely caste out; there are those who want a one world government/economical/social system and there are those who want to maintain the sovereignty of the United States of America; there are those who believe in the Word of God as truth and there are those who see God’s Word as just ancient literature; there are those who seek God in prayer for guidance and there are those who seek their own selfish desires and goals; there are those who see the corrupt and wrong nature of sin {such as killing unborn babies and homosexuality}, and there are those who simply do not see sin as sin, but rather ~ situational ethics; if it’s right for you, then it’s okay; there is no sin, there are only bigoted people who want to force their ideas on people!
And knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them,
“ Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand.”
(Matt. 12:25 NASB)
We are a house divided, we are a kingdom divided and it is tearing us apart physically, culturally, economically, and spiritually. And that is just what Satan wants!!!! These two factions in our governmental system are constantly at odds with each other and more so in recent history than ever before. Now, again, I’m not talking about political parties; both aspects of this division are represented in all political parties; and not just on a national level, but also on the state, and local levels. Satan has an assignment against the US; and in these End of Days, he is working overtime to accomplish his goals. It is necessary for us to lay a foundation of the situation so that we can more clearly see and understand where the United States of America is in these End of Days.
We are at WAR! A Spiritual War and the Battle Ground is right here in the United States of America. The U.S. may not be mentioned by name in the Bible, but we have a vital role to play in these End of Days leading up to the rapture of the Church and Satan is out to destroy the United States!
Let me tell you a story I heard that might help us to better understand what Satan is trying to do to America; help set the tone for
what we are about to study in order to understand our Spiritual Situation Report in these End of Days.
About fifteen or so years ago
this preacher was praying for a girl who was possessed by a demon. He was in the process of casting out this evil spirit from
this girl, who had been involved in witchcraft and the occult. As the demonic spirit was coming out of the girl, the evil spirit
spoke through this young girl in a male voice saying that there would be coming to America a strong spirit ~ literally a “Chief Spirit”
or a “Prince Spirit” coming to America to corrupt an entire generation.
The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great
work of the LORD which He had done for Israel. 8 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of one
hundred and ten. 9 And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim,
north of Mount Gaash. 10 All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them
who did not know the LORD, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.
JDG 2:11 Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of
the LORD and served the Baals, 12 and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land
of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus
they provoked the LORD to anger. 13 So they forsook the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 14 The anger of the LORD burned against
Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies aroundthem, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. 15 Wherever they went, the hand of the LORD was against them
for evil, as the LORD had spoken and as the LORD had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.
{Judges 2:7-15 NASB}
You see, this is the pattern. The generation that knows the miracles of God, that sees the move of God, that knows the victory of God gives way to a generation who doesn’t know God, who has never seen the miracles, who has never experienced the victory, who has been presented a watered down version of the Gospel of Jesus and doesn’t understand commitment to God, submission to God, surrender to God, obedience to God; because they don’t see the need for God, they don’t see the necessity of serving God or the benefit of trusting God; they don’t have the foundation in prayer, in the Word; they’ve been deceived and corrupted by this “Prince Spirit” who is determined to destroy the Christian foundation and heritage to the United States of America. But it didn’t used to be this way!
Things are progressing faster and faster; more and more intensely than ever before; like the birth pangs that Jesus talks about in His Word. The closer to the end we get, the faster and more intense the pains become.
A recent statistic indicates that only 4% of children who are raised in a Church will continue to be active in Church the rest of their life. What does that tell us? It tells us that 96% of the young people raised in Church will leave the Church sometime in their lives because they don’t see the traditional Christian Church as being relevant to their lives.
>It’s even worse for those under 18; it’s only about 9%.
> Here’s another
statistic ~ the probability of divorce today among Christians
is the same as for non-believers.
>Only 3% of Christians give a portion of their income to help someone else in need!
That means that 97% of all Christians in the US don’t give anything to help others!
>Only 25%, that’s 1 in 4, even donate their time to help
someone in need; and that is usually in a local
Church setting.
>Less than 1 in 10 Church people actually give a tithe!
That’s just 8-9% give God back a tenth of the blessing
He has given them. Just fifteen years ago, that figure
was up around 18%. In just fifteen years, the number
of tithe giving Christians has been cut in half!
What did God say in Malachi 3:8
“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes
and offerings. 9 “You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!
10 “ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it over flows. 11 “Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the LORD of hosts. 12 “ All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land,” says the LORD of hosts.
{Malachi 3:8-12 NASB}
This is not just for Israel; this is for the United States of America also. If we rob God as a nation, then as a nation we forfeit the blessings of God!! We open the door of our nation for the devourer and his demonic forces to come into our nation and attack our people, our way of life, our livelihood, our freedom!
There has always been a remnant of true believers to carry on the fight, but with each passing generation of youth, that remnant gets fewer and fewer..... Remember the statistics we just went over! Fifteen to twenty years ago these statistics were much more different!
True Believers, we are under attack in America! We are beyond critical mass, we’re in a meltdown!!!
How could this
happen? What triggered this massive turnaround and departure from our Christian Heritage and the Christian foundation of our
country?
You look at our young people today and their scope of worldly knowledge is much more extensive than when most of us were young. We see children at 11,12,13 years of age having sex; we see in-school clinics prescribing birth control pills to 11 year olds
without the consent of the parents; we see schools handing out condoms to our children and thinking that it’s ok! Forty
or Fifty years ago we would never have even heard of such a thing, let alone allowed it to occur! No one could even have imagined
that something like this would happen. But now, it so common that most people don’t even give it a second thought.
Just look at some things going on today ~ there is a 16 year old children’s TV show star that is unmarried, pregnant and still allowed to continue being a children’s TV show star. In fact, her ratings and viewings have dramatically increased since her pregnancy was reported! With each passing generation of our youth, the remnant grows fewer and fewer. Yes, there are exceptions, yes there is hope! We can reverse this trend!
The problem is that parents who have given up on their Christian Heritage don’t understand the need to reverse this ungodly trend and thus perpetuate it. The faction of our nation who has given up on their Christian Heritage doesn’t understand it either and they continue to perpetuate this trend.
Remember the demonic spirit that said there would be coming a “Prince Spirit”; a
“Chief Spirit” whose goal is to corrupt an entire generation.
As we look at the history of the US, we can see that spiritually we have followed patterns similar to that of Israel. Throughout
their history, Israel would rebel against God; follow after idols and strange gods and immorality. God would reject them and
they would fall into hard times; crops fail, drought, captivity, desolation, disconnected from the blessings of God. Then they
would call on the Lord God, repent of their sins, and return back to God and follow Him. God would honor His covenant with Israel
and bless them once again. The cycle continued through out Israel’s history.
Blessing and prosperity of God on the people of Israel; the people forget that all of this comes from God; this leads to prosperity/party mode; prosperity/party mode leads to disobedience, selfishness, self gratification, rebellion against God. God continually sends reminders through prophets for His people to repent and return to God. If they don’t, God removes His blessings from the people and hard times come, slavery comes, drought, crop failure, devastation, and economic depression of the nation. This is the cycle: Blessing, prosperity/party mode, rebellion, removal of blessings, devastation-slavery, repentance, and then Blessing again.
People began to turn back to
God, people began to pray,
people began to see their need
for God once more, people began to repent
individually and as a nation. God began blessing our nation again. Then came WWII. The country was still recovering
from the economic impact of the Great Depression and drought. With all the soldiers going to war, prayer was once more the choice
of the people. The years following the war started another economic boom for the America. America had repented, once again
turned to God and God began blessing the United States.
In 1963, there was a drastic change in America; a change that began to affect America and continues even to this day. That change
was the challenge and subsequent victory of Madeline Murray O’Hare in the Supreme Court to take prayer and Bible reading out of the
public school system. The Christian establishment was essentially in prosperity/party mode. This was a time of huge tent
revivals and miracles of healing and deliverance and yet we allowed this to happen.
We got caught up, apparently, in our own
self indulgent ministries and lost sight of some real issues in our nation. The education of the future generation of believers
for one. Since this time, you can research it and see, since this time in our public schools; grades have declined, morals have
declined, violence and fighting have increased, drugs have increased, sexual immorality has increased; and these continue to increase
at a greater rate today than ever before. I believe that it can all be traced back to the removal of prayer and Bible reading
from the public sch0ol system.
This created an atmosphere of rebellion in the United States which resulted in the unrest of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s; rebellion and party mode, disobedience and following after strange gods ~ the new age religion movement. The Church essentially lost its influence on teaching moral issues and the Word of God. This generation of young people was almost completely lost to the world. For the most part, this generation has little or no instruction in God’s Word ~ except for a remnant all would have been lost. These are the parents of today; raising children without any foundation in the Word; no knowledge of how to pray; no knowledge of the things of God; without any real concept of true Faith!
America is the only nation that attempts to hide, distort, or change their religious roots and heritage. According to the Constitution we are supposed to have “Freedom of Religion” ~ that is freedom to worship Almighty God in the manner we choose; not freedom from religion, not freedom from God.
Especially those of us who are Preachers, Pastors, and Teachers of God’s Word ~ we’re His watchmen; we’re supposed to be watching out for the flock; we’re supposed to be leading the people of God according to His Word, His Truth, His Righteousness, His Holiness. But we have reached a point where so many are only concerned about their own ministries, their own gain, their own increase that they have forgotten the whole purpose of
their Faith ~ seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.
Too many of God’s “Watchmen” have become like those in
Isaiah 56:10.
His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
11 And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied.
And they are shepherds who have no understanding;
They have all turned to their own way,
Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.
{Isaiah 56:10-11 NASB}
Satan works through people to negate the Word of God in our nation to the point where we are once more, as a nation, in rebellion and disobedience in our relationship with God and we lose out on the Blessings of God because of it.
God’s Preachers, Pastors, Teachers, Ministers, Evangelists, and Leadership are supposed to be His Watchmen! We’re supposed
to be on guard against the attacks of the enemy; we’re supposed to be training and disciple God’s people so that they can stand against
the enemy.
Understand, not all Preachers are failing in their mission; there are still many who are on guard and standing up
for the Gospel of Jesus and God’s uncompromised Word.
Fathers, as the Spiritual head of the household, are supposed to be God’s Watchmen for their families; keeping guard and protecting
them against the attacks of the enemy on their wife and children; training up their children in the way they should go; leading the
family in prayer and study of God’s Word.
But look how many families in the United States of America are without a Spiritual Head ~
without a father!
While his men ~ his watchmen; were sleeping, the enemy came in and sowed tares, a weed, probably darnel, which closely resembles wheat while it is growing and until it reaches close to maturity, you can’t tell the difference. Of course by then it’s too late! You see wheat is a grass and has a fibrous root system that spreads out laterally. The tare has a similar root system and as the two grow side by side,
This is exactly what has happened in the United States of America. We have been spiritually asleep and the enemy has come in and sowed tares in amongst us. Slowly but surely as we go along, the root of the tares become entangled with the foundation of our Christian heritage and teaching and disrupts our root system. Their way of thinking, their ideology, their belief system, their concept of morality, their corruption becomes a part of our lifestyle; and we will be uprooted with the tares!
When we sleep, when we’re not paying attention; when we become spiritually lazy; when we allow others to do the work; when we neglect the study of God’s Word; when we fail to pay our tithes; when we let others carry the load; when we go off in our own selfishness; when we become apathetic; when we fail to worship; when we compromise with the world; when we allow other things besides the Gospel of Jesus and His soon return to become more important in our lives; The enemy is going to infiltrate our Churches, infiltrate our homes, infiltrate our government, and destroy us. Then we’ll be sitting around asking “Why did God let this happen?”; when the problem was that we were not paying attention; we were spiritually sleeping; not on guard; and we allowed the enemy to come in.
Jesus made it perfectly clear WATCH AND PRAY;
Mark 14:38 NASB
Keep watching and praying that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 13:32-33 NASB
But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. “Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.
The term used here in Mark; watching and praying in chapter 14 and keep on the alert in chapter 13; is the same Greek term. The reference generally refers to a temple term where watchmen/priest were posted on the temple walls in order to be watching and on guard against enemies approaching the city. The Temple Guard would go around and make sure that all the watchmen were awake; especially in the 4th Watch of the night ~ between 3 and 6 am. If he found someone sleeping, he would either beat them with a rod or he would have them stripped of their clothes in front of all the other watchmen and burn their clothes so the priest would be naked and ashamed.
I believe that this is what Jesus was referring to in
Revelation 16:15 NASB
(“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”)
This is the end of part 1
of the Situation Report.