But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. (Numbers 32:23 KJ2000)
We live in the generation in which our sins and the sins of our fathers have found us out. We can no longer hide from the results of our lies, our thefts, our murders, and our immoralities. If there is any particular sin, then know that we ourselves, our fathers, our mothers, our friends, and our brothers have certainly committed it, and plan to do so again. And we are all the time thinking up new ways to sin with body and brain. We live in a time of utter lawlessness. No one can count on anyone doing the right or moral thing. From President to Congress to Supreme Court to teacher to car maker to plumber we all act lawlessly. Just this week the Democrat chairman of America’s House of Representatives’ Rules Committee, Alcee Hastings, announced, “When the deal goes down, all this talk about rules, we make them up as we go along….” Didn’t you always think that Congress functioned by particular rules? Now you know it doesn’t. Today the power elite simply decide their outcome and make rules accordingly. Welcome to the “real” world.
This explains why our nation pulled down its public displays of the Ten Commandments and why our churches no longer preach against sin. For many, sin no longer exists because, they say, “Christ did away with sin.” The very people who received God’s grace of forgiveness thus turned against him through profane acts of lawlessness, like supporting abortion on demand (wasn’t abortionist George Tiller executed in the very church which failed to excommunicate him?) and by ordaining practicing homosexuals and pro-abortion radicals to their ministries (what else would you call practicing lesbian and Dean of a “Christian” school, Katherine Ragsdale?). Isaiah prophesied of these people, saying, “Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.” (Isaiah 26:10)
Our past several presidents, including Barack Obama, all represent judgment from God. None have spoken out against the lawlessness and tyranny in our land. None have put an end to the child-killing business of abortion. None have supported laws to prohibit pornography and grossly violent movies and games. None have encouraged the masses of thieves and lazy citizens to work and stop collecting welfare. None have spoke openly for righteousness and God’s holiness and urged their nation to repent of their many sins!
God poured unlimited grace upon his people, especially in America. We once lived in a Christian nation. At one time we truly were a “land of uprightness,” but no more. We turned grace into lawlessness and now all deal unjustly. Indeed there is no justice in the land.
Many of us live in families where certain of our members have become very ill or have gotten into serious legal troubles. Serious illness often comes from sexual permissiveness, illegal drug use, eating the wrong foods, drinking too much alcohol, or smoking too much tobacco. Serious legal troubles often come from these same things plus stealing, lying, and other selfish behaviors. Jeremiah says, “Have you not brought this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?” (Jeremiah 2:17 KJ2000)
God makes us responsible for our problems. He has taught us his ways, yet we continually refuse them and devise our own paths. Jeremiah lived at that time when those paths had reached their end, or goal. Today, we too live in the time when society’s, or Mystery Babylon’s, ways have reached their end. The book of Jeremiah shows us exactly what we can expect barring some massive nationwide, perhaps worldwide, move of genuine repentance.
Following the above reprimand Jeremiah proclaims, ‘Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.” (Jeremiah 2:19 KJ2000)
This explains why great and profound judgments have begun to befall this once Christian nation. And notice this, the judgments do not come from some supernatural source. The judgments come from man himself. We now live in a police state on the verge of ruining health care and intent upon bankrupting each one of us. We beat the drums of war against all nations on earth. How long until one, or more, beat those drums against us? Then, be sure, our wickedness will have corrected us, for we shall be too busy nursing our wounds and burying our dead to fulfill our lusts. Then, because we failed to mourn for our sin now, we will cry for the foul breath we breathed while time remained to heal our land.
