Applicable to America
Wednesday, August 28th, 2024
by Ken Pullen
ACP
You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 16:20
I’m not naive nor ignorant. Anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes in this place knows I stand firmly, strongly for Israel. I am aware of what Israel means to everything. To God. To the Lord. Just take a look around this place and you’ll know my heart is with and for the Lord, and for Israel.
Aware that Israel errs, is comprised of sinners just as every other place on earth. But I know Israel’s place on earth and in the Word of God. There is no other land like Israel. To God. I believe and obey God my Creator, my Redeemer, my Saviour, and Lord. I don’t question God. Or His Word. I don’t argue with God. Or His Word.
I’m aware of who and what place God was addressing in Deuteronomy 16:20.
But it is applicable to America.
Okay, we got that clear, I hope.
So, how is Deuteronomy 16:20 applicable to America? Simple, really, if knowing factual actual American history and our Colonial era, our events leading up to the Revolutionary War, and our nation coming into existence.
While we had brilliant men and women in this land at the time, resilient, men and women, FAITHFUL GOD-FEARING BIBLE BELIEVING men and women — not all deists as mid-to-late 20th and current 21st-century textbooks and places called education centers teach [you can discover this truth with a bit of homework finding reliable sources that verify this statement]. No, many of the men and women who were living in the mid-to-latter 18th century in the colonies were faithful believers in the Lord and His Word. The Bible was actually read back then. Imagine that. Not only read — but believed and not corrupted, perverted by DEI, critical race theory, social justice terrorists, communists, sexually deviant and abnormal, morally perverted, pagans pushing the removal of the patriarchy and replacing it with the goddess religion, sorcery, witchcraft, and making the pre-meditated murder of human children something to be codified into what would become the U.S. Constitution in the continued worship to Baal and Moloch — excusing it all by adopting and approving relativistic ideology.
No, the people, the overwhelming majority of them were faithful Bible believing, Bible reading, Bible fluent believers in God, in Jesus Christ, in the working of the Holy Spirit. In God’s Hand at work. Divine Providence.
And not that long ago, in the timeline of world history, those people — far outnumbered, greatly out-armed and gunned, sorely lacking in ships, cannons, resources, manpower, etcetera — took on the world’s greatest empire, the world’s greatest navy and army and beat them.
Yes, men and women at the time in what would become America did it. But by the will of God. God at work. Contrary to the lies and dung flung about today and in recent times God made America possible as it was conceived and created.
Contrast then and now. And come up with a viable cause for our decline, our downward spiral, our current situation that holds water other than our turning from God.
Then, the overwhelming majority of people feared God. Had no qualms or trouble, no hesitancy in openly speaking about, writing about God, about Scripture, about God’s hand in making all things possible. A reverent, faithful people. For the greater part of the population.
Now? Now the overwhelming majority have either totally abandoned and spat upon, mocked, and turned from God — but not stopping there they imagine themselves as gods because that is what has been taught and approved as the Bible has been pushed aside and not taught. Now? Now the words Christian and evangelical have lost their meaning and become perverted and corrupted.
We live when the words of Isaiah 5:20 and 2 Chronicles 7:14 are as applicable to America as Deuteronomy 16:20.
We’re living in and living out by example Romans 1. We are in these Biblical times.
We have replaced the truth with lies and relativism. And it hasn’t worked. We have replaced reason, logic, rational thought, sense for delusion and illusion loving the lies and abhorring, ignoring and cursing, and attempting to cancel the truth. Now we have our churches filled with false teachers and unsound doctrines. Unbiblical teachings and beliefs and a whole lot of lost people who show up but they ain’t really truly Christ followers, humbled, hearts changed, born again and knowing that, understanding that.
Now we have the words of Jude 1:4 ringing true far more and louder than any church bells ringing in a steeple on Sunday mornings. And why only Sunday mornings? What happened to Sunday afternoon services? Sunday evening services? Mid-Week services?
We’ve turned from the Lord and His Word, His ways.
And we have hell in our future rather than heaven unless we turn from our wickedness, our sin, our immorality, our lies and delusions, our unrighteousness that is an abomination to God. Real repentance is required. Individual revival is required.
And until and unless this occurs an election outcome, a specific politician isn’t going to save this sick, lost land, our sick, lost people.
Only God can heal this land. Only faith in Jesus can heal this land. Only trusting in and turning to God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and turning to the Holy Bible, the whole Holy Bible daily, continually, praying for forgiveness, mercy, and relief. Praying for healing and restoration.
Only then.
Because Deuteronomy 16:20 is applicable to America.
This land is not our land as that famous song says — this land belongs to God our Creator. And He graciously blessed us with this land.
Look what we have done, look what we have become.
This is the thanks God deserves for making this land possible for us?
And we honestly expect things to improve due to an election? To some politicians?
Really?
Oy vey, folks, it’s time to wake up and smell the wickedness and the rot within and understand the only remedy. PAST that time. So, since we’re late to see this and act how about right now taking the necessary action to get off the wrong path taken and to get on the right path? The straight road heading towards the narrow gate. Yeah, okay, it isn’t the popular place to be. Instead of living to be loved by the world, accepted by the world, how about living according to the words of Yeshua Hamashiach, the Lord Jesus Christ? Since declaring to be a Christ follower, one of His disciples?
The World’s Hatred
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’”
John 15:18-25
You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.
Matthew 10:22
And…
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4
The Just Live by Faith
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
Romans 1:16-32
Love the world, be unrecognizable as the salt of the earth, a light unto the world, love the world and appear no different and reveal to the world…you don’t really love the Lord as you say, and you don’t believe what is in God’s Word because you aren’t a living example to them that you do.
Plus — no one is fooling God. Getting away with something with God. He Who knows how many hairs are on every head, every day throughout history, and if that ain’t enough for you — God also knows every thought of every person ever and always. He knows every heart. Every mind. Every just thing we do, every lie we tell and live. God knows it all. I think that truth annoys some folks. It doesn’t bother me. I find it a comfort. How about you?
It might not be easy to rebel against the world system and the world’s beliefs. To not be loved by the world as we might like to be. But the consequences of rebelling against God, against Jesus, against the Holy Spirit, and against the inerrant infallible unchanging eternal living and active Word of God holds far, far greater consequences. Eternal ones.
Need I write more?
Didn’t think so…
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