When you read the Bible, in particular the Old Testament, there are countless tales of how God came to save the Israelites, but He always extracted from them the promise that they would abide by His commandments and pay tribute to Him. Everybody involved would readily comply, because they had seen the wrath of God before and they didn't want any more of it. But, sure enough... a few years or decades would pass and they would fall back into their sinful ways, worshiping other gods and ignoring the Commandments. Invariably, they would find themselves plagued with pestilence, drought, floods and horrible kings. They'd finally resort to prayer, God would relent and come to save them and the cycle would start all over again.
In the history of America, way back in the good old days, we were a God-fearing nation. We didn't tolerate crime, sin or ungodly ways. And, it seems that our nation was blessed with abundant food, beautiful children and a good government. We regularly defeated our enemies and became known and envied throughout the world as being a just and Godly country.
But, here we are now... our economy sucks, we're plagued with terrorism, disease, pestilence, drought, floods and a government that is just as corrupt, (if not more corrupt), than the money changers of the temples in Jesus' time. And when you stop and look around at the situation we're in, you can readily see that we have once again... as a people and as a nation... turned our backs on God.
We can't just keep on going through the same old cycles over and over again, century after century... and expect different results.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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