The Only Hope!

When terror comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none. Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will try to get a vision from the prophet; the teaching of the law by the priest will be lost, as will the counsel of the elders. The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 7:25-27

An accused murderer may stand before a judge and jury and detail all the wonderful things he has done over many years. He may remind those who stand to condemn him that this was his first and only murder and he should be given a second chance. He can show them all his meritorious awards for outstanding public service. But all those things are irrelevant when it comes to whether or not, if guilty of murder the man should receive the penalty for his sin!

Even a casual reading of the Old Testament will convince you that nations also are judged for the evil they have done. There were many good people in Hitler’s Germany. There were many wonderful deeds of kindness performed every day, but the nation was judged because of its evil not because of its righteousness.

As Christians it is easy to become confused about nations. Jesus died for people not nations. The blood of Jesus covers your sin when you come to Him. The Bible never says that His blood covers the sin of an entire nation. Nations are not saved, people are! When a man or woman turns to Jesus in faith and repents of sin the union with Jesus is complete. When a nation turns to Jesus it is simply called a revival. If you live in a nation where everyone but you turns to Jesus and is saved, you can still persist in your rebellion and go to Hell!

The Bible clearly states that a nation can be healed because of God’s people turning to Him and prayerfully repenting. But national sin will come face to face with the justice of God Almighty.

For almost forty years the people of the United States of America have been given opportunity after opportunity to stop the killing of innocent children before they are born. We have not stopped it! Will God bless America and never hold us accountable for the lives that have been lost? For an almost equal amount of time we have told God that He is not welcome in our governmental affairs. Will God continue to bless a country above all others when He is ushered out of every matter of state?

Don’t be deceived. The faith of our Founding Fathers is of no consequence as we stand before God today. It matters not what they intended. What matters is what we have done. For that we will be held accountable. Pray for revival! Revival is the only hope for America!