"Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;"
Deuteronomy 11:16
One of the earliest warnings delivered to the children of Israel concerning idolatry is the scripture from Deuteronomy 11:16. This dire warning came immediately after God's promises to bless them if only they would be faithful to Him. read with me:
Deu 11:13 And it will be, if you will listen carefully to My commandments which I command you today, to love Jehovah your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deu 11:14 I will give the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
Deu 11:15 And I will send grass in your fields for your cattle so that you may eat and be full.
Well, as we all know, Israel did not obey the Lord and ended up following after a multitude of false gods and religions. What has any of this to do with you and I?
It has everything to do with us. As I write this today I am convinced that God has begun to abandon America and turn us over to the imaginations of our hearts. I cannot sugar coat it any longer. I cannot mince words and act as though I believe God is going to somehow overlook the sins of this nation.He will not because He cannot.
I am declaring categorically that I believe this nation is lost and that we are going to see a slow but steady erosion of the blessings God has heaped upon this nation. In that we have abandoned His commandments we have brought upon ourselves the consequences of our actions.
The church has allowed this nation to backslide because it has preferred to cater to her own selfish desires rather than the desire of her heart being to please Him who has called her out of darkness. We have willingly populated our pulpits with anyone who will tickle our ears and appease our guilty consciousness with stories designed to make us feel good about ourselves.
We have murmured and complained about everything to the point where we are a nation of ungrateful,spoiled brats hell bent on perpetrating our own demise. And God is saying "enough".
The church is deceived. The church no longer searches for truth.The church no longer has the stomach to fight the good fight.The church has laid her armor down and is defenseless.
O God, that a remnant might not bow the kneel to Baal!!
