The Bottom of the Bird Cage
What a nasty nation America has become. God compared rebellious Israel in Jeremiah5:24-31 to a foul and filthy cage of unclean birds. Israel became so grossly wicked that God referred to her as Sodom (Isa. 1:9, 10) and as Sodom’s “sister” (Ezek. 16:46, 48, 49, 56). America too, “is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird” (Rev. 18:2). The level of lewdness and the abominations in America today would be the envy of the most demoniacal deviants that ever walked the streets and alleys of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah.
Thirty years ago I heard a preacher say that America had become the land of the cheap thrill, the shady deal, and the sex pill where people no longer make a difference between the Jacks and the Jills. He didn’t know the half of it.
Where is sodomy more celebrated than in America? Where is addiction in terms of drugs and alcohol any more indulged and glorified than here? Who leads the world in the number of divorces; one of the things that God specifically says that He hates? (Mal. 2:15, 16). Pornography is such a multi-billion dollar industry here that not just Hollywood, but most major corporations whether they are producers of electronics or automobiles are heavily invested in it.
The sum total of Hitler’s Holocaust victims is miniscule compared to the multiplied millions of babies that have been murdered and continue to be murdered by abortionists and their clients. America is judgmentally strangling in a flood created by the innocent blood of the unborn. And, in the meantime, America is, with all of its iniquities one gigantic, obscene stumbling block to all of the children who are allowed to live. Jesus said that it would be better for someone to have a millstone hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea, that for him to offend a little one (Matt. 18:9). No nation has done more than this one to expose little children to things they were never meant to see or experience, to exploit and corrupt children and young people than the bloated vultures who are the media moguls and social engineers in this country.
America is like “a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,” and the dirtiest and most hateful “birds” to befoul America aren’t all in Hollywood or in the Planned Parenthood’s infanticide clinics. For the most part, those who lead in the government of this nation on the local, state and national level are like the leaders of Israel of whom God said, “they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed” (Isa. 52:5). These unclean birds are birds of prey, preying on the property and the liberties of the American people. Large numbers of the worst of these birds are roosting in Washington D.C. in the Whitehouse and in the Congress. They are the worst kind of con men and women; the greatest concentration of deadbeats, liars, conspirators and traitors to be found anywhere on planet earth throughout the history of planet earth. Their perfidy and moral putrefaction is only exceeded by the globalist-minded, money-mongering megalomaniacs from under whose wings they go in and out.
Of course, dirty birds don’t see themselves as dirty birds. A bird cage that looks clean to one person make look disgustingly filthy to another. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so is ugliness. The Bible says, “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits” (Prov. 16:2). God’s Word to America no doubt is the same today as it was to Israel in Ezekiel’s day, “Thou art the land that is not cleansed” (Ezek. 22:24).
What must God have in store for a country such as ours that embraces and promotes everything that God hates most while seeking to legislate against anything and everything that would even call attention to His existence. America has become a nation, not only eager to fight against God, but one that would prefer to forget Him altogether. “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Ps. 9:17).
The New Disapproved Gospel--Manufactured in Hell, Assembled in America
What a mockery has been made in this country, by churches and preachers of the message of the gospel and the gospel ministry. Titus 2:11-15 summarizes what should be expounded and what should be expected in terms of “the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24): “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” With only rare exception is preaching and teaching that presents this kind of Christianity being heard, and it is rarer still to find this kind of Christianity being lived out in America today.
During the periods when America was strongest and noblest, this was the kind of message that was preached and this was the kind of gospel fruit that was produced. But not today! Today America is glutted with build-a-bear types of churches catering to phony professed Christians who don’t have enough information as to what constitutes a real believer to do a half-way convincing imitation of one. And these are pastored by “wolves,” who in such a carnal atmosphere, are not even bothering to put on sheep’s clothing any more.
Churches have degenerated into community “worship centers” where the only thing worshipped is self and where ministries are focused on getting their fair market share from among those who are shopping for a church to attend that will meet their “felt needs.” Preachers “have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean,” (Ezek. 22:26), and people, professing to be Christians, “will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears and they turn away their ears from the truth” (2 Tim. 4:4). What an unholy farce!
“A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?’ (Jer. 5:30, 31).
A POSSIBILITY THAT MAY REMAIN FOR AMERICA
God said to Israel, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chron. 7:14). Maybe it is not too late for America. Maybe “for a little space grace” will be extended to us (Ezra 9:8). The possibility seems to be slim to nothing, but then, Nothing is impossible with God (Matt. 19:26). Nothing is too hard for Him (Gen. 18:14; Jer. 32:27).
But understand this, America’s hope is not in any prayers prayed or crocodile tears cried by those in this country who have never had the desire, let alone the decency to humble themselves to God, acknowledge and repent of their sins and place their trust in His Son Jesus Christ , accepting Him as their Lord and Savior. God is not interested in the prayers of a congress who invoke His name in prayer on the steps of congress and then turn right around and continue legislating as wickedly as ever with no thought of what God thinks about it. Prayers for America offered to God by people who have never come to the cross of Christ with their sins to get forgiveness through His blood are worse than worthless. Those who want American saved from disaster, but want it left as unclean as ever have nothing to offer in terms of the rescue of this country.
But the Bible says that “the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16). Any hope for America lies in the intercession of God’s people and churches that will repent of their sin, their inconsistencies, their hypocrisies, get into conformity with the teachings of the Bible, and get their lives right with God. The only hope for America is for those who are lost to get saved and those who are saved to get right!
The Bible says, “If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous” (Job8:4-6). |
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