November 19, 2008
The fall of America
I felt alienated and alone on Election Day. I didn't recognize my country anymore. As I got out of my car for work in Seattle, packs of young people walked past me waving Barack Obama signs. They wore Zombie-like grins, celebrating the impending coronation of their self-made messiah. I was the invisible man in this wave of euphoria. No one could hear the groaning and sighing in my spirit. No one could see what's obvious: the United States is dying.
I believe God gave America a choice, and it chose the king it deserves. We are a rebellious and wicked nation and will reap what we've sown. During the election frenzy I was reading Ezekiel 23:35 and the LORD impressed upon me that this word was for America as well: "Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore you shall bear the penalty of your lewdness and your harlotry." The Hebrew word for lewdness, zimmah, can mean a heinous crime or evil scheme.
Our republic is rotting from the inside. Virtues of morality, decency and honesty no longer are esteemed. In fact, they are mocked. Our president elect won't, or can't, produce a valid birth certificate proving he is a natural-born citizen. Fringe groups say he was born in Kenya, which would disqualify him from serving as the American president. Inauguration Day is two months away and Obama and his minions already are scheming to divide Jerusalem and cripple the Jewish state. Obama's campaign mantra was change, but in the Mideast he's recycling Bush's flawed Road Map.
Like me, Jan Willem van der Hoeven, director of the International Christian Zionist Center, mourns for the United States. Here's an excerpt from his commentary Fall of America. Fall of the West:
Already you can feel it in the air: the hatred, anger and intolerance of many who have reveled in the election of their messiah-like Obama, the man who promises them – the young and old – change that is not based on personal change by repenting from sin and evil, but a deceitful promise of change, while everyone can live it up according to his and her own desires without necessitating a change in their own, personal behavior. Under Obama, nearly everything will go. The killing of the unborn, the perversion of sexuality, the very abominations that brought down the worlds of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Rome and the Greek civilization, will bring down America and, with it, the West.
Speaking of Gomorrah, I watched a YouTube video of a sodomite mob attacking Christians in the gay district of San Francisco (see link below). What provoked the confrontation? Worshippers were walking the streets at night, praying and singing Amazing Grace. They were swarmed by hundreds of homosexuals, who lunged and threatened to kill them. Some were doused with hot coffee; one woman was knocked down and kicked. Police in riot gear arrived, encircled the Christians and escorted them out of harm's way.
In these troubled days I am at a loss for words. My heart is so heavy I can hardly look up. LORD, in wrath remember mercy.