America...

Ezekiel 16:48-50 (King James Version)48As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

This portion of scripture written many years ago sounds like America today. An overabundance of material goods, sin of homosexuality, etc. I heard one congressman say he never thought he would be voting on marriage being the union of two people of the same sex. Our country has been on a moral downhill slide for too long. Fullness of bread. Gluttony is so prevalent in America today even our youth is battling it. America is now ranked as the most obese nation on the face of the earth. The church doesn't address the issue, rather it overlooks it. It ignores gluttony as being a sin even though the Bible is full of warnings about it. Abundance of idleness sure speaks of our welfare system. We pay people to sit at home and do nothing even though they are able to go to work. Young girls are having 2,3 or even more babies just to draw additional money. America doesn't strengthen the hand of the poor and needy they enable the lazy. Our country has gotten so greedy even the church has joined in. All you hear from most pulpits today is how to get blessed. The words sin or repent are never mentioned, and that is why we have a church full of people deep in debt, in poor health, etc. America has become so proud and haughty, we brag that we are the greatest nation on the face of the earth and yet we enable young girls to get pregnant thru planned parenthood and other secular means. We teach them sex ed in grade school and if they do get pregnant we will either support the babies for them or they can easily get an abortion if they so choose.

How does this portion of scripture end? Re-read verse 50, yes judgement is coming to America, you can count on it.I blame the church for most of it. The church has been so busy trying to get everyone blessed, increased in material goods, that they igonored the most important part, repentance.

We can quote IIChronicles 7:14, we can humble ourselves and pray, even seek His face, but until we turn from our wicked ways, God is not going to heal our land, instead He is going to judge it.

We need to wake up and get out of the bless me mode the church has been in for too long and get serious about the things of God.