America the Beautiful - a Vision Lost?

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. The people He has chosen as His own inheritance." - Psalm 33:12

As a nation we proved this promise as our history clearly proves. One of our founders, who is responsible for the famous Webster’s Dictionary said this: 

Noah Webster's Dictionary

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed ... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people." - Preface by Noah Webster in his 1828 Dictionary.

Our early universities had similar statements of purpose:

"The main end of the scholar’s life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life. Therefore, to lay Christ in the bottom is the only foundation of all sound knowledge and harmony.” – Harvard Rules and Precepts, 1638

As long as we adhered to these sentiments, we did indeed prosper in every arena of human endeavor. We became that “city on a hill” that Puritan John Winthrop preached about. However, in the 50’s we began the downward slide away from God. By the 60’s we had declared God was not important enough to remain in our schools, preferring instead the doctrine of ‘pluralism’, which is just another name for idolatry, and was quickly followed by the concept of ‘Separation of Church and State’ which was falsely attributed to our founding fathers intents. Soon we were removing God’s Ten Commandments from public places and even baring students from praying in school. This has been followed by a host of evils all resulting in the destruction of our foundational principles.

When we did try to address long standing problems, such as slavery, evil forces quickly turned what should have been forgiveness and brotherhood into bitter envy and racism. What could have been a strengthening of our national fabric was turned instead to further strife and division, not at all what Martin Luther King had in mind, and certainly not what our Christian Founders had in mind.

By kicking God out of our schools, we have allowed Satin to come in like a flood. He came with Humanism and evolution, which deny God and His Word, the Bible. He came with unrestrained sexual activity that has destroyed the American family. He came with abortion that has destroyed our humanity and released a spirit of murder upon our land. And he opened the door to homosexuality, which the Bible declares is the last stage of moral decay before a nation is judged (Romans 1). That is because once they are inside the schools they will multiply like viruses and that is their intent as one of their own has recently written:

"In response to NOM's ad we say, "NOOO! We're not gonna make kids learn about homosexuality, we swear! It's not like we're trying to recruit your children or anything." But let's face it—that's a lie. We want educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it." (emphasis added) (NOM is the National Organization for Marriage which advocates marriage between a man and a woman.)

Montebello High in CA

Immigrants no longer come to our shores seeking the foundational principles that made us strong and enabled such great liberty and justice, now they come just for the prosperity, not understanding what the underlying source of that prosperity was. Mexicans don’t come to be Americans – they just come for a job. They cling to their cultural mores seeming to not understand that those ways gave them a Mexico that they are all trying to escape from! In Tucson, Arizona the schools are teaching that America stole California, Arizona, etc from Mexico. They are also condemning Capitalism and lauding Communism. At this year’s May Day celebrations in Los Angeles, California unions join forces with Communism openly displaying their affinity for each other. SEIU (Service Employees International Union), one of President Obama’s favorites, clearly declares their Communist affiliation. No wonder California is failing as a state.

SEIU Marcher Carries Communist Flag

The Apostle Paul warned us what would happen:

"The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” – 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

Women soldier in Afghanistan

America, we are there! God has given us leaders that are under “strong delusion”. We desert and insult our allies; the Shah of Iran-deserted, Georgia by reneging on our promises for protection, Mubarak of Egypt-deserted, and insulting the Queen of England by sending her gifts back. We think we can appease our enemies with money or buy adopting their way, such as forcing our soldiers to not carry their Bibles or to wear Muslim headscarf’s. Our actions in throwing Mubarak, a long time ally, under the bus has angered another key ally in the Mideast, Saudi Arabia. Then there is the shameful way we have treated Israel, forcing her to give up land and other concessions to an enemy who will not be satisfied by anything less than Israel’s destruction. Our leaders, both Republican and Democrat prefer Muslim disciples of terror over a long time ally that is the only one in the Mideast that is a true democratic state, Israel. But, the biggest proof that our leaders are devoid of judgment is their willingness to stand against God in favor of those that hate us. God calls Israel ‘My land’ (Joel 3:2) and He takes a dim view of all those who try to ‘divide’ it! On the other hand, when the twin towers were brought down by Muslim extremists, the Palestinians were dancing in the streets and handing out gifts!

I have written about just a few of the signs that indicate we are in trouble. As we approach another Presidential election, many are holding out their solutions to the problems, mostly blaming the other guy or party. But the real problem is us! We have left our foundational roots in God. We have become ashamed of Him, the Living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If we do not return to Him, we have no hope as a nation, no matter what the politicians promise!