Are We Seeing the End of America?
While looking through my files for stuff on another subject, I came across the following writing of mine from August 25, 2016. That was 6 years ago. (I made a few grammatical and formatting corrections here). At the time, they were just ramblings as I looked at the coming election. But now I wonder if they are really ramblings as it appears we are getting closer to the “End of America.” Consider for yourself.
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Jeremiah the Prophet wrote:
“Jeremiah 14:12, When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
Paul the Apostle wrote:
“Galatians 3:24, Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”
Jeremiah speaks to the end of the Kingdom of Israel. The northern kingdom is gone. This is the remaining or southern kingdom. He points out the reasons behind its end in the total of his writings, the Book of Jeremiah. Many times in his writings, he points out the reasons for the coming judgement, Godlessness. And he indicates the manner in which the end of Israel will be brought about, “sword, famine and pestilence.”
Paul makes his above statement in the Book of Galatians some 650 years later. Without getting too deep in theology, the “law” addressed here is the Old Testament, in short the history of Israel. Israel’s fall should have taught us something, it should have been our schoolmaster, but it did not and is not.
America now stands in a similar position as Israel. Israel’s political leadership was corrupt. Its religious leadership was corrupt. The family unit was corrupt. And the individual only saw God as a means to an end or an imposition, or not at all. It was, in essence, a Godless society.
God doesn’t just judge man or society without warning. All true clerics and historians can see the warning signs in the history of various now non-existent societies. God warned them with sword, famine and/or pestilence. They ignored Him. The warning signs are there for us today.
In short, the “sword” is war, coming under the rule of an outside force. “Famine” is the destruction of the food and housing in a society. “Pestilence” is disease and natural disaster.
Do you see these working now in America? It appears such in many countries, including America.
Sword, famine and pestilence close out societies. They become “history” for the “schoolmaster” and student.
The circle for America is near complete. The only question is, will it be completed or will America recognize its corrupt leaders, watered down religious efforts and personal individual responsibilities to God and to each other?
Again, the “schoolmaster” we are pointing at, in this case, is history. Consider Paul’s words on an intellectual level. Whether one is searching for God or already believes in God, or has not use for God, history is the same for all on both sides of the Cross. Neither intellect nor ambivalence can change it.
Only a change in a society’s direction can change its history. But God will take care of His own.