Amen!
Thanks for the awareness, Bro. Andrew Henriques.
I believe that some (probably honest) people are
misinterpreting the words in this Bible Verse:
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.
- II Chronicles 7:14.
Some folks are confused about what happened 400 years ago in
Massachusetts (when the Pilgrims arrived seeking Liberty of Conscience), and
the present time. Right after the Pilgrims settled in their new home, they were
followed by the Puritans who wanted to reform the Church of England by
returning to the fundamental faith of the Mother Anglican church (reform from
within the DENOMI-NATION). The Pilgrims had left England and had separated
themselves from the Church of England. As time progressed the Puritans became
the dominant Denomination within the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Puritans
were intolerant of Christians of other persuasions and expelled them from the
colony. Eventually, a Separatist Minister named Roger Williams was banished
from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he then established the Colony of Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations; a colony providing Religious Liberty to all
seeking to worship according to the dictates of their conscience and providing
religious liberty and separation of church and state. On the southern part of
the colony on Aquidneck Island in Newport, in1644 the first Seventh Day Baptist
Church in the New World was founded, along with Touro Synagogue in 1763, the
first Jewish temple.
There has only been one Theocracy in history according to my
understanding. That Theocracy was Israel, after the Lord led them from
captivity in Egypt unto the Promised Land in Canaan. The Lord led them through
the wilderness by day with a Pillar of Cloud and provided a Pillar of Light by
night. From that point onward as the Children of Israel laid claim to their
tribal inheritance, asked for a King, the King of Kings came and dwelt among
them, and they rejected & crucified Him (as he said "your house is
left unto you desolate”) ... Since then, there have been no other authentic
Theocracies.
In America any effort to bring "the Nation back to God" is futile. First, the Lord cannot save America as a whole, the United States is a Secular nation. It was never a Theocracy, it was founded by men, not God. Though, the Lord in His infinite wisdom did lead those Pilgrims to the shores of Plymouth Rock. But, ever since those seeking to worship The Lord Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, many of the enemies of the True Faith have taken advantage of the opportunities provided by the Religious Freedoms provided by the Bill of Rights and the Ten Amendments. America is now home to Christians, Atheists, Papists, New Agers, Wiccans, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Baháʼí, Sikhs, and Animists. It's inconceivable that any RENEWAL MOVEMENT will reform the whole nation to receive God's approval, per se. It's a Fool's Errand!
According to
what I have read in the book of Revelation of the Bible, there will be no
wholesale reformation anywhere on Earth. There will rather be an imposed
pseudo-religious dictatorship led by Rome which will control the whole world
for a short period before Jesus returns in Glory and Strength to redeem His
faithful remnant. I have not read anywhere in the Bible where the United States
returns to God as a nation. On the contrary, the U.S. will lead the world in
persecution of true Christians and will establish a Global Sunday Law. Those
who refuse to obey the mandates of the Image of the Beast will be marked for
death. The Image of the Beast is the Church/State conglomeration that we see
forming itself before our eyes. And the Mark of the Beast (the Papacy) is
SUN-DAY Worship.
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