Let us examine where we are today in America and then take what I will call the Isaiah challenge. In this country we have taken prayer out of our schools, separating us from God. Today, God cannot be mentioned in the public square unless you are the president for the most part. We have legalized abortion which is the shedding of innocent blood. See my discussion on that in “Abortion for Destruction.” Our government officials constantly lie to us. The lies they have been saying to us about the recently passed health care bill are classic. For example, how can one increase spending when one is bankrupt and somehow save money when one’s income never increases? It has been shown again and again historically, that when you raise taxes above 11%, revenues drop. Justice in our society is perverted. It is the criminal who is the victim and not the actual victim of his or her crime. People in this country and especially those in power are running to and fro through this society seeking pleasure and abandoning the principles of God. The liberals in our society are constantly calling the Christian who does follow God’s principles a Nazi. I heard it done once again on television, yesterday. The Christian is just like the Muslim extremist is a statement that is often said. Black is called white and white is called black in this society; so where do we stand with God now?
So let us read Isaiah 59:1-15. “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has uttered perverseness. None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity…they weave the spider’s web… (which) shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they made themselves crooked paths: whoever goes therein shall not know peace. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men…we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before you (God), and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.”
So what is God’s solution to a nation that practices these things? Let us read Isaiah 65:11-12 which says, “But you are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain (God’s principles)…therefore will I number you to the sword, and you shall bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.” God promises us the sword which represents judgment for turning away from him. God brought Obama and his ilk into power to judge us. Judgment has already begun, and he is giving us only a short time to repent until his judgment will be irreversible. God’s people in this country must repent today which is why it is so vital this message gets out to everyone in this nation as soon as possible.