Coming Judgment On Wicked Humanity

Does God Care About Sin and Righteousness in a Nation

“Righteousness exalted a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people”

(Proverbs 14:34).

Introduction: As we see sin abounding and the filth of this world becoming viler than Sodom and Gomorrah you also see the Prophesy of the bible coming to pass. We see the wars and we hear the rumors of the earthquakes and sickness and diseases, droughts, floods and you name it is happening on planet earth according to the Prophecies of Jesus in Matthew 24.

Every time the people of America call evil good and good evil, you will see the hand of God move to bring Judgment upon the people. In Israel in the book of Samuel, the books of Kings and the Chronicles and all through the Bible, destruction happened because of the wickedness of Kings who failed to keep the ordinances of the Lord.

You see when kings followed after their Father David and kept the commandments of God Israel prospered, When evil kings came in and tore down the house of God and built houses for strange Gods, the results was, that multitudes died in war, famines and sickness devastated the people but yet they would not turn to God and keep is commandments.

1. America was once a prosperous land when men and women knew God and put him first.

2. Before the inventions of the Television many Christian families held bible devotions and prayer in their homes

3. Now it is becoming a law and some have been arrested for unlawful assembly in homes while Football and sports of all kinds and Super bowl fans can gather and have parties celebrating their favorite team with no consequences at all from law enforcement.

But listen the judgment of God is upon us and while some are devoted to their own pleasures they are not devoted to God.

While some mock Holiness and righteousness and show no fear of God and blaspheme God by showing disrespect in the house of God.

Before the world will be judged the house of God shall be judged first.

1 Peter 4:16-19 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

When we treat the House of God irrelevantly we will be judged according to our actions.

When evil men went to the house of God and desecrated it with their evil ways the judgment of God came upon them and their families.

The Apostle Paul made this statement in: 1 Tim 3:15 But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

People ask DOES SCRIPTURE MENTION THE FATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward” (Isaiah 1:4).

Yes, America is mentioned in Scripture as certainly as the names of the Godly are written in the Word of God. “And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:15).

In offering a promised benefit to all, the surest possible way for God to include you, is to address the benefit to “whosoever will”– “let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17).

When you volunteer yourself as a willing recipient– “Here am I; send me” (Isaiah 6:8), then you uncontestably qualify to receive the benefit.

“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it” (Isaiah 1:19-20).

In a similar fashion, the United States of America is a nation of “whosoever wills” that has turned its back on God.

“The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God” (Psalm 9:17). When the Divine Judge of America has determined that not enough righteousness exists in the people of America, then the Judgment must be executed against the nation.

“And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto Me; and if not, I will know” (Genesis 18:20-21).

America has led the world in teaching the culture of materialism, self-seeking and self-love.

“For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s” (Philippians 2:21).

America has cunningly guided the world in spiritual fornication. “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies” (Revelation 18:3).

The question is not if God will judge the United States of America, but when. In the book of Daniel The King feasted and drank his wine and they used the cups that was taken from the temple and the God wrote his judgment on the wall.

“Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting” (Daniel 5:27).

You don’t take the things of God and misuse them for your own pleasures.

Many of the Saints have cried out to God to spare the United States of America, just as Abraham interceded to Jehovah for the righteous in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. “And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?” (Genesis 18:23).

Beginning with the possibility of 50 righteous found within the city (Gen 18:24), Abraham persuaded the LORD to hold back the prophesied destruction, if as few as 10 righteous could be found (18:32).

After all, “That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from Thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25).

God has been pleased with those who have begged for revival and the sparing of America, even as He was pleased with Abraham’s intercession.

“And the Scripture was fulfilled which said, Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God” (James 2:23).

Still, Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, but Lot was spared. God will likewise judge the United States of America and deliver the Godly by the Tribulation Rapture of the Church.

“And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds 😉

The LORD knows how to deliver the Godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished” (2Peter 2:7-9).

When the god of materialism stalks the United States of America, the LORD Jesus Christ is no longer honored before the world as the Source and Power of America’s Greatness.

“Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols,” even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, said the LORD GOD, I will not be enquired of by you” (Ezekiel 20:31).

God’s people understand that He will no longer hear the petition to prevent America’s execution. The sins of the United States of America “have reached unto Heaven and Godhath remembered her iniquities” (Revelation 18:5).

America’s existence as a nation has been a blessing of God’s Providence. “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (Leviticus 25:10).

It has been no accident that the United States of America has experienced an abundance that has attracted the attention of the world. “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance” (Psalm 33:12).

Only God can make a nation rich. “The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich and He added no sorrow with it” (Proverbs 10:22).

“The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether” [Psalm 19:9].”

Years have changed America into a nation that cannot even pay lip service to the Almighty God. “How are the mighty fallen!” (2 Samuel 1:19).

God commands America to repent. “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” (2Chronicles 7:14).

However, God has a limit to how long He will tolerate the arrogance of America’s sin. “The LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man” (Genesis 6:3).

God would spare America, if only the professed Christians of the land would repent. “For the time is come that Judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?” (1Peter 4:17).

The stubborn confidence of the professed Church in the power of its own hands has brought God’s curse upon it. “Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusted in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departed from the LORD” (Jeremiah 17:5).

We no longer are a nation that honors God but I believe that we are as Matthew prophesied in Matt 15:7-9 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,

8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (You go through the services with pretending to enjoy God and the while longing to be at home or somewhere fellowshipping

· Many rob God but support your bad habits,

· The house of God isn’t important to you so why should it be to your family?

· The American churches have lost their pilgrim character.

“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul” (1Peter 2:11).

A. You are too sick to come to church but you can go spend a whole day out doing whatever pleases you!

B. Church isn’t as important as work!

Matt 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

“But what about those who don’t what will they receive?”

Rom 13:2 Whosoever therefore resisted the power, resisted the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

At home in the world, is the unfortunate description of the churches of America. “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion” (Amos 6:1).

Without a clear-cut separation from sin and the world, America’s churches have lost their distinctive platform to call the nation to repentance.

Her ministers and leaders have brought great reproach upon the Name of God in front of the unconverted.

“Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them” (Ezekiel 22:26).

America’s church members have imitated the immoral character of the pulpit. “Like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways and reward them their doings” (Hosea 4:9).

The sin of the pulpit has emboldened the people to new levels of debauchery. “Who knowing the Judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1:32).

So low have the American churches descended, that the LORD Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church (Ephesians 5:23), stands outside, knocking on the door for admission.

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My Voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20).

The answer is, “we can’t let you in it may keep us tied up here too long.

We are a people that enjoy pleasures for hours but complain that church lasted way to long!

No longer is it a question of nationwide repentance or church wide repentance, butindividual repentance.

Attempting to rescue America is no longer an option. “Save yourselves from this untoward generation” (Acts 2:40). Individual repentance and faith is all that remains. “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8).

Only the truly “peculiar” are marked to participate in the Rapture of the Church. “Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself apeculiar people, zealous of good works” (Titus 2:14).

By God’s grace, He will preserve for Himself a holy people. “Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O Thou my God, save Thy servant that trusted in Thee” (Psalm 86:2).

American Christians, like their brethren scattered throughout the world, need to be clinging to the Promises until our Savior comes for us.

The Promises make us holy like our Master, and enable us to escape. “Whereby are given unto us Exceeding Great and Precious Promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2Peter 1:4).

Especially now, those who are truly watching and waiting for their LORD is a Little Flock. However, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom” (Luke 12:32).

The remnant of True Believers in America is sure of God’s grace to make a way to escape from the coming wrath.

“And now for a little space grace hath been showed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape” (Ezra 9:8).

Christians in the United States of America, like all Christians who are watching and praying, are more than glad to reach out for the Promised Rapture as a way of escape from the coming Tribulation.

“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man” (Luke 21:36).

The Rapture of the Church is like a lifeboat launched from a sinking Titanic. “Looking for that Blessed Hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).

The LORD Jesus is our Lifeboat Of Hope, delivering us from the wrath to come. “And to wait for His Son from Heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, whichdelivered us from the wrath to come” (1Thessalonians 1:10).

In the end, the United States of America will not be saved. America will worship the Antichrist with the rest of the world.

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8).

If America has ever symbolized good or right, then the very rocks of this once blessed land would cry out for joy to find an American Christian “worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass” (Luke 21:36)

Is the joy of meeting the LORD in the air along with the brethren of all nations a priority to you while you lie at home and give an excuse why God is not as important as your day together with your family? And you expect God to be happy for you and save you when you make little or no time for him.

IT WON’T HAPPEN

“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy” (Jude 24).