Many words and pointing fingers can be heard and seen as to what is responsible for the American malaise and decline. Some say apathy, a laissez-faire attitude, which is prevalent from coast to coast and all points between. Some think voting is the answer, and that’s all they need do in order to maintain the republic — while fewer than 50% of those of voting age ever participate in any given election. Half the nation blames the democrats, the other blames the republicans. A very divided nation. Perhaps more greatly divided than at any other time in American history. See http://America was less divided leading up to and during the U.S. Civil War than it is today.ffor some concrete examples.

Yet for all the words, the wagging tongues and pointing fingers, and other finger signals quickly given in this eroded and uncivil, raging nation — the steam and fog created from all the words and the noise refuses to go to the root problem and to the root solution.

The root cause is our SPIRITUAL decline. Our MORAL and ETHICAL decline. Our eroding away of our being a people, a nation firmly founded upon the Christian faith. Upon not only our belief in God and Jesus but in the attempt by a great number of our people over the years to live Christian lives pleasing and acceptable unto God our Creator and He, Who, by His Divine Providence made our nation possible.

As God makes ALL THINGS POSSIBLE.

It isn’t U.S. folks! It’s God who brings the sun up every morning. Rains on our crops. Makes the food available. Blesses us. And also, due to our grievous sins, our growing immorality, our growing turning from Him and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in His divine justice and judgment mets out His wrath upon a sinful, thankless, lost and disobedient people!

God is in total control. Yet it is our individual deeds and words, it is our collective deeds and words, it is either our obedience and love and submitting to God and the Lord Jesus Christ, turning to God’s Word for our nourishment and growth — or our disobedience, our wonton willfulness placing self and things of this world above God, totally removing God, spitting on God and the Lord Jesus Christ and on the inerrant Word of God, our refusal to submit, to obey, to pray, to live within the Word and to give God the honor, glory, praise, and place He ought to have that determines our course.

Not a political party, for there are just as many corrupt, lying, sinning within one political party than the next.

Not an election.

God ordains who the leaders will be. According to His working on this world. (Read http://Habakkuk).

Yes, America is in grave danger. Do not be lulled into believing just because something has never occurred it then cannot happen.

Do not be deceived. America is on a course headed for fascism becoming the rule rather than what has been the past 200 plus years. America has been in spiritual, moral, and ethical freefall decline now ever since the ending of World War II. And this falling, this rot, this stench, this decline accelerates just as a falling rock dropped from 50,000 feet accelerates as it falls.

Yes, America is in REAL danger.

And unless we as a people, in greater numbers than lesser REPENT and TRULY REPENT and turn back to the Lord, turn back to Jesus Christ, unless we do not grieve the heart of God and the Holy Spirit, until we truly repent and turn back to prayerfulness and praying upon and living within the Word of God?

This rapid descent into the abyss and permitting evil to dwell greater in the land and among the people will only increase.

We are given example upon example within God’s Word of His people turning from Him in disobedience to serve themselves and false teachings, idols, their own wonton willfullness rather than seeking the Lord’s will be done and obeying, submitting to the Lord.

And we can clearly see in God’s Word the consequences of the peoples sin and refusal to repent and turn back to God, or we also see the results when God’s people did repent, submit, turn back to the Lord, and received His forgiveness and blessing.

The course taken is up to each of us.

But know the choices made are all threads of free will weaving the fabric of God’s working, God’s plan, God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

And if you haven’t read http://Habakkuk I strongly urge you, your family, to gather on a regular basis and do a solid, deep study in God’s Word on that book. It isn’t dusty ancient history that happened to some people you can’t relate to.

It’s as current as it gets folks! As timely as it gets!

Wake up and smell the rot, the sin, the decline, and stop ignoring it or waiting for the next person to do something about it. Not affixing blame to politics, to the political party you oppose, to some man or woman. Affix the blame in each of our own hearts and lives for our turning from God and His Son, His Word.

Want an answer? A solution? If you consider yourself a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ than the answer? The solution? Is the Lord Jesus. The answer the solution to every problem is the Lord Jesus Christ and the Word of God — and our being a light unto the world in all this darkness and stink. Our following up on the Great Commission and being ambassadors of Jesus to spread His gospel.

THAT’S the real answer and solution. Not a political party. Not a man or woman running in a political election.

Want to get out of the course of danger we’re on?

Then get on the road to bold, large real prayer not amiss. Get on the road to devoted and diligent Bible study. Get on the road of light as Saul of Tarsus saw while heading to Damascus and listen to the voice of the Lord which can be heard through His Word. Learning His authority, His power, His mercy, His wrath towards sin and corruption and being lukewarm, His grace and love — His will learned through His Word.

Ken Pullen

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

ACP — A Crooked Path

Why America Is in Real Danger

August 11, 2020

By Dennis Prager

Reprinted from Prophecy News Watch & DennisPrager.com

Americans have long been proud of the fact that, unlike European countries, America never went the route of totalitarianism as embodied in communism, fascism and Nazism.

This achievement may be coming to an end.

In order to understand why, it is first necessary to understand why European countries embraced — or fell victim to — totalitarian doctrines.

Until World War I, the primary beliefs that gave life meaning, both on a national and personal level, were Judeo-Christian religions and patriotism (love of one’s nation). What gave people moral guidance were Judeo-Christian values.

For most Europeans of the younger generation, World War I, with its seemingly senseless slaughter of millions, ended belief in Christianity and, in many cases, ended the people’s faith in their nations. God was deemed absent; religion was deemed unnecessary; and national identity was widely seen as a cause of the war.

That left a void that was almost immediately filled by communism, fascism and Nazism.

In Russia, World War I led directly to the Russian Revolution. Even before the war ended, in 1917, the czar was overthrown, and later that year, the Bolsheviks (the Russian communists) took over. As awful as the czar was, there was far more freedom under him than there was in the Soviet Union until the fall of communism 72 years later, not to mention the murder of more people — 20 to 40 million — under the Soviet regime.

In Italy, the rise of fascism followed World War I. And in Germany, the Nazis came to power just 15 years after the end of the Great War. Nazism conquered most of the European continent during WWII, and after Germany’s defeat in 1945, the Soviets imposed communism over all of Eastern Europe.

Though there were communists, communist fellow travelers, Nazi sympathizers, racists and anti-Semites in the United States, neither communism nor fascism nor Nazism took root here. The primary reason was that, unlike most Europeans, Americans did not lose their faith in Judeo-Christian religions and values or in America after World War I. America remained so religious that, in 1954, the words “under God” were inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance recited daily in American schools.

However, by the 1950s, faith in America, Christianity and what we call bourgeois middle-class values was largely limited to older Americans. The post-World War II baby-boomer generation was already being indoctrinated in secularism and anti-Americanism. As early as 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school prayer was unconstitutional.

By the late 1960s, vast numbers of baby boomers were attending demonstrations that were as much against America — routinely characterized as an imperialist and colonialist aggressor country with an evil military — as they were against the war in Vietnam. It was not uncommon to see America spelled “Amerikkka” or “Amerika” at protests and in graffiti.

When I was in graduate school at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I was taught that men and women are not inherently different from one another and that the Cold War was between two superpowers (equally at fault), not between freedom and tyranny.

Another generation has passed, and the post-Christian, left-wing baby boomers have come close to achieving complete success. The mainstream print and electronic media, universities, high schools and elementary schools, the arts and now sports have all been conquered by the left. Except for sports, from the beginning of the 20th century, they were almost all liberal, but now they are left.

We now have the answer to the question: What will happen to America if Americans lose faith in God and country as the Europeans did after World War I? What will happen to America when Christianity dies as it did in Europe after World War I?

The way things now look, America may have its bout with some totalitarian doctrine — almost surely some form of leftism. Liberty has never been a left-wing value. From Lenin on, wherever the left has come to power, it has suppressed liberty, beginning with free speech. Already, despite a Republican president and a Republican Senate, America has less free speech than at any time in its history. Exactly one year ago, I testified before a Senate subcommittee and wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal about YouTube (owned by Google) placing more than 100 Prager University, or PragerU, videos on its restricted list.

And things have gotten much worse. Last week, PragerU was locked out of its Twitter account for retweeting a press conference of eight physicians in Washington, D.C., which had already received 17 million views, and Facebook has just informed us that if we even cite studies that show possible benefits of hydroxychloroquine (with zinc) in the early stages of a patient with COVID-19, we will lose our Facebook account.

And then there is the “cancel culture” — which is merely a euphemism for leftist suppression of dissent. People are booted from internet platforms, fired from their jobs or have their reputations smeared and their businesses ruined for differing with the left — on anything.

We are also undergoing a nonviolent (as of now) version of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, with individuals forced to issue humiliating public recantations of their beliefs and attend reeducation sessions (we don’t yet have reeducation camps, but they should not be ruled out as a possibility if the left is in control).

Another communist norm taking root in America is the rewriting of the American past. We are living a famous Soviet dissident joke: “In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it is the past that is always changing.”

On almost all social issues and many economic ones, the American left is more radical than the left in Europe. Europeans across the political spectrum are more wary of ideological fanaticism because of the vast scale of death and suffering that resulted from communism, fascism and Nazism.

One might say that Europe was inoculated against fanaticism. Europeans are more preoccupied with working less, traveling more and being taken care of than with ideological movements. But America, which has not suffered under fanatical, irrational, liberty-depriving ideologies, has not been inoculated.

Without such a vaccination, what replaced Christianity in Europe may well do the same in America.

This column was originally posted on Townhall.com.

Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is “The Rational Bible,” a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, “No Safe Spaces,” will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.