QUARANTINE BLOG # 27

April 26, 2020

I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet.  I am the son of a carpenter.  Nor am I a “Chicken Little” who announces to all who come within range of my voice that the sky is falling.  It isn’t, by the way, although it is rather cloudy.

This line of thought started when I read Judges 2 as part of my morning devotions (I am using The One Year Bible published by Tyndale): “So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for Israel. Now Joshua ... died ... and they buried him. When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel. (Judges 2:7-10, selected verses NKJV – emphasis mine).

A generation who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.  I know the United States is not mentioned in Scripture, and the U.S. is not Israel, but we are a nation which has been uniquely blessed by the Lord.  Regardless, we are increasingly moving away from the title “Christian nation.”  A preacher in whom I have total confidence said that he sees a day coming when Christianity will be outlawed in the United States.  It already is in Canada he said (for example, if you preach that homosexuality is a sin, you will be arrested and charged with a hate crime).

We are on that downward slope. 

Businesses lose court cases when they are charged with discrimination for refusing service to those whose lifestyles contradict the teachings of the Bible. 

Entertainment becomes more and more promiscuous. 

Language becomes more crude, more obscene. 

Disregard for the laws of the land is becoming prevalent – with recreational use of marijuana still a federal offense, 11 states have nevertheless approved it. 

The generation in Judges who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel were overthrown.  “So the Lord ... handed them over to raiders who plundered them. He let them be defeated by their enemies, so that they were no longer able to stand up to them” (Judges 2:14 Common English Bible).

I repeat, I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet.  But I am deeply concerned about the future of our nation.  Pray saints!

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