| (Copyright 2010) by Bill Buckman (Port Austin, Michigan) |
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| What does the United States of America need to repent of? Our supposed president Barack Obama has declared today, May 6, 2010, to be a National Day of Prayer. What should we pray for? Our nation is going through a lot of trials at the present time. Are these trials because there are a lot of “bad guys” out there who are our enemies? Should we pray for God to strike down those enemies because we are the “good guys”; because the United States is a righteous nation? Or are we really not a righteous nation as a whole? And is God the one who has raised up these enemies to correct us? I believe what we most need to pray for is national repentance. What do we as a nation need to repent of? We need to repent of all our false gods. I believe God is beginning to show us who our false gods are; by letting them fail and fall. Perhaps the first false god we need to forsake is god “gov”. Have we come to look to the government to supply our needs, instead of our Maker? Does our national congress as a whole really care about the common people or have they proven themselves to be “elites” who live in a different world from the rest of us? Maybe it is time to repent of supporting Republicans or Democrats and begin to elect truly biblically righteous leaders. Have we made the Federal Reserve System a false god to protect our economy? Maybe it is time to repent of letting the Federal Reserve issue “money” that is immediately a debt and rather make congress “coin” debt-free currency based on what we actually have already produced as a nation. But then we would also have to repent of becoming a non-producer nation and bring our jobs back home. We need to repent of using our minds and our hands just to get the “almighty dollar”, instead of serving the real Almighty. Do we already have the “mark of the beast” and don’t even know it? (Deut 6:8) We need to repent of putting garbage into our minds and bodies (the temples our Creator gave us); as in a lot of unreal (junk) food, drugs (legal and illegal), “American Idol”atry, Hollywood “pop” culture, pornography, and many other ungodly things. Hollywood culture has ruined and continues to ruin the lives of many who are caught up in it. We need to repent of corrupting the seeds God gave us to grow our food and not try to patent what is His patent. We need to repent of stealing from our farmers, as in not paying them a fair price for what they do produce and a fair wage for their labor, so they can continue to survive as farmers. And farmers need to repent of raising food crops for quantity and not quality. We need to repent of the fornication and adultery that is filling our land. We need to repent of rejecting the heterosexuality that our Creator designed us for. We need to produce godly offspring and not destroy them before they are even born. There is much more we as a nation need to repent of. Yes, there are a lot of bad guys out there. But we are not the good guys. And our heavenly Father is going to take care of all the bad guys. He loves us so much that He not only sent His son Yahshua the Messiah (Jesus the Christ) to shed His blood to cover our sins; but He is going to continue to work in every one of our lives until He has cleansed all of our sin out of us and made us truly righteous. I believe He is beginning to show us that He is the only true and all-powerful and loving God. He will reveal all our false gods for what they truly are, and will draw all of us to Himself in His good time and His good way. We need to pray a prayer like Daniel did as recorded in chapter 9 of his book and cry out to Him to grant us repentance (Rom 2:4). Then our God will make our enemies to be at peace with us (Prov 16:7) and will give us righteous rulers (Ez 34:23-24). He will make us so we can enjoy eternity with Him and His Son as he intended from the beginning. |
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