In America today, half the nation believe that killing babies is a good thing, while the other half have revulsion at this practice. Half the population believe that sex is recreation, while the other half believe that arriving at marriage a virgin is noble.
The list of moral issues is endless, that is, morals which totally divide Americans from one another. This is the stuff revolutions are made of. This is the pattern that comes before great empires collapsed in on themselves and their people ended up sitting on the sidewalk puffing on a bong like the Quechua Indians of South America.
It is very easy, for conservatives, to see the problems in the Liberal Progressive Left. But, the conservative alleged Bible believing population have serious problems also.
Most conservative Christians were born into a Christian home, they were either baptized of dedicated to Christ as infants, the certificate hangs on the wall in their bedroom, and they went to catechism classes or attended Awana youth night.
One day they were either questioned by the consistory of the church to see if they could burp up the five points of John Calvin, or the Baptist kids "walked the aisle" and prayed the prayer at the "weeping rail." And, the domini stood before the church and declared them born again. In all conservative churches these kids could then take communion, and at that service they were assured they could not lose their salvation.
What did they have to give up to find assurance of salvation?
Nothing.
Long ago when the missionaries first went into the jungle and preached Christ, the African had to have a serious sense of inquiry to even understand the first principles of the Gospel. He had to want to learn about a system of belief that was diametrically opposed to everything he believed. Later, when he became convinced of the truth of the Gospel, the African had to turn his back on everything he learned at his mother's knee and from the respected elders of the tribe.
He learned that a woman could, under godly conditions, actually talk to a man other than her husband. He learned that a loving husband might offer to carry the fire wood or water for his wife. He learned that to touch a dead body and bury it with dignity was more noble than to feed the dead to the hyenas. He also had to be willing to be a disgrace to his family, tribe, and especially those elderly men he so respected as a child.
Thus, the American church has easy religion. To follow Christ is to simply do the same things Dad and Mom did. This means that the average American Christian has not had to abandon recreational sex, he has not had to denounce abortion which he once believed was OK. And, he has not had to cleanse his soul of many other filthy things once considered "normal." He had already been taught to believe in those standards.
In fact, when we meet a Christian who did actually make the journey from Progressive Liberal ethics to Christian ethics, we find a Christian with amazing strength of character and zeal.
Why? The Christian who had to renounce all his past moral standards must make the same journey the African in the jungle made after the missionary preached the Gospel to him. The breaking off from the past, the burning of all personal history, makes for a Christian who is very much like the Christian converts of the Church in the book of Acts.
Thus, the half of America who are standing for what seems to be godly morals are not half as mighty as you would imagine. This is why Republicans always are against abortion during the campaign, but later, they show no interest in legislation to stop it.
So, when these conservative Christians want to fire up their fellow Christians, what do they do?
This is why Donald Trump is now being exalted as the latest man of God for America. His call to make America great again strikes a note with the backslidden conservative Christians of America.
This is why this new uprising of Alex Jones, Hagman and Hagman, Tom Horn, Rodney Howard Browne, and Paula White, among many others, is the most unlikely mob of revivalists ever to come together. They are not people God has chosen to lead a revival of Christian zeal in America. They are self-exalting narcissists who want you to make a contribution of but their survival food, prayer cloth, or prophecy book.
I have actually heard these creeps read this verse:
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Vice President Pence quoted this verse, and he left out "and turn from their wicked ways." That is because Pence did not want to tell Americans they were fallen back into their sins. The Church in America is wicked. Worship has been turned into a night club floor show. Music is 7/11 rubbish (Seven words repeated eleven times). Sexual lust is rampant in all churches, especially among pastors. The average Christian does not read his Bible once between Sundays, and he flatly refuses to talk about Jesus to people in the market place.
Wicked ways, American Christian. You have wicked ways. And, God is not mocked.....
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Thus, there is NO hope for America. This Trumpian interval between chaotic eras is just that. America seems to be getting great again, but the final fall of this nation is very close.
WHERE IS THE SALT OF THE EARTH?
If you want to turn from YOUR wicked ways, start by taking your eyes off of Donald Trump and your guns, and turn your eyes upon Jesus.
Ezekiel 21:26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
