To
Ezekiel God said, “Confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices….” He went on to describe the beginnings of Jerusalem (Israel)
were quite common and she was not anything special at the time…. “(you were) thrown
out into an open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.”
“Then
I passed by and saw you… I made you grow like a plant in the field… you became
the most beautiful of jewels.” He goes
on to relish in the care and “makeover” He gave to them and says “So you were
adorned… You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. And your fame spread
among the nations on account of your beauty…
“But
you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute.”
Are
you tingling, yet, with a sense of how well this is describing the U.S.? Let’s see
what else He has to say…
“You
lavished your favors on anyone who would pass by and your beauty became his…
You also took the jewelry I gave you… the food I provided… your sons, your
daughters…” and “sacrificed” (gave) them to others.
“Was
your prostitution not enough? Woe. Woe
to you…. offering your body with increasing promises to anyone who passed
by.... Every prostitute receives a fee, but
you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing
them to come to you from everywhere
for your illicit favors. So in your
prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your
favors. You are the very opposite for you give payment and none is given to you”
To
understand how this affects us today and how it shaped history itself, we must
remember this very important fact: Jerusalem was the Gold Standard for all to see and Israel was the
Blueprint to help all countries see how they must follow God and not turn from
Him if they wanted to survive. Jerusalem (Israel) was not
taken out of this world to live for God; they were left right in the midst of
the world so as to draw the world into also believing in their God.
This
NOT a setting-aside of a prophecy to Israel for any other country to
take on as directed at them for some special reason. ALL
countries were always encouraged to “Turn
from (their) wicked ways and repent and follow God” and to become a
pattern after the one He set for Israel. Israel was intended to be His light
to the World and would eventually provide the true light through Jesus
Christ. But every single country was invited to follow. When coming to America most of the population had
done just that and they chose to set their feet on that solid ground.
Just
this morning I was reminded of the tours our current president takes and his
determination to ask the world to forgive us for being us. And right now our government is struggling
with this problem: How do we keep Egypt happy and
friendly (really?) while not failing to keep our own law about not giving money
to governments which have been overthrown by their own military. Now therein lies a true dilemma. How much more can we prostitute ourselves in
the Middle East? And how much more can we spend outside our
country while asking China,
our sworn enemy, to loan us a few bucks here and there so we can keep up our
habit of prostitution.
All
money going to assist enemy countries who declare hatred for us is bribery
money; and it does us no good at all. And all the things we do to dumb down
this country, so that others will not hate us, is outright prostitution of this
country. Every time we take another
freedom from ourselves we prostitute the constitution of this country and
become the laughing stock of our enemies.
Christians
must begin to speak up. We must begin to
take a chance on being hated for
what we say. And we must take whatever
comes from those actions even as Christ and His Apostles did as they spread the
Word among those who loved it and
among those who hated it. And they were despised by the haters.
I
actually wrote this page intending to add it to a new blog I want to start
about political opinion, but this is truly pertinent to us at this very minute
and we need to see with our eyes wide
open how far we have come from the America we intended to be. We are as much a prostitute before God as Israel ever
was. And He will take care of this
problem if we do not.
Lord,
may we be given eyes to see, not only what is happening around us, but how we
are helping it happen by keeping quiet and preferring not to offend and be
hated. May we now speak up against the
mess this country has become. And may we
seek ways to bring the people of this country back to You and Your ways for
Jesus sake. Amen.
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