My heart, as I am sure those of
yours, is heavy this morning as we learn more and more about the terrorists’
attacks in Paris, France last night.
Hundreds of families have been
impacted as well as the whole country as they come to terms with the deaths and
maiming of innocent people. AND the
reality of men, women and children willing to kill themselves in order to kill
others.
It isn’t as if the world has not
been warned of the impending attacks on Christians and Christian nations.
Are all Muslims out to kill
Christians? No, but it doesn’t take all
Muslims to perform these acts – and we should have learned from history that
when we let our guard down bad things are going to happen - because there are
those out there that hate us and will inspire others to commit criminal
acts.
Hitler took over a country with
a minority of followers. He changed the
world.
Small nations around the world
have been victims of terrorist activities by the leadership of a few men who
were allowed to practice their crafts.
In the 1980’s Wasco County
learned that just a few people, under the color of ‘religion,’ can bring terror
to small communities and leaders can inspire some of their followers to commit
terrorist’s acts – taking over a small community, poisoning over 750 people we
know of, threatening to control the ballot box and eventually threatening to
control a whole county.
And we are told that small town
Mayors are asking the government to give them more Muslims to help their
financial situation – don’t look into their background, don’t insult them by
saying there may be terrorists among them – just send them to us.
Ask the citizens of Wasco County
how that works out.
It is interesting that the first
thing France did, after the initial shock of the attacks, was to close down its
borders.
There is an old saying among
country folk “Don’t close the barn door after the horse has run out.”
America has forgotten that
adage. I am not against immigration; my
grandparents came from France and made a home for my Dad and Uncles,
contributing to the community around them just as have millions before and after
them.
However, America has opened up
the gates, KNOWING, that among those coming in are those that wish to destroy
this country and will do so with violence if need be – and doing nothing to
insure those people are ‘vetted.’ We
have cut back on the very protections we have against the terrorists and are
burying our heads in the sand.
We haven’t learned. We didn’t learn when we were attacked by
terrorists on 9-11. We haven’t learned
as our soldiers are attacked by terrorists on our own soil. It has hit American citizens and will
continue to do so, getting worse as time goes on.
Under the color of ‘tolerance’
Americans have allowed the few to dictate terms that are coming back to haunt
us. We are seeing families destroyed and
Christians coming under attack because they proclaim the Word of God.
AND we think God doesn’t
care.
Instead of turning from sin and
looking to God, asking forgiveness for our nation, we have authorized sinful
behavior by laws and the courts. We
think because we are so understanding and not calling sin for what it is that
somehow things will get better.
How is that working out for
America?
We have our leaders gleefully
proclaiming that America is no longer a Christian nation – and while it never
has been, it at least used to stand for the principles handed down by God – but
in making these statements they have declared that we are now open for any and
all thoughts no matter how detrimental to our nation and its people.
As the Jewish people were warned
when they refused to follow God, so the world and America is being warned right
now.
Did God cause the deaths of
those people in Paris?
No He did not. Neither has He caused the raising up of
terrorists and their activities around the world, but He is allowing it.
He gave man free will. Adam abused it in the Garden, as has mankind
ever since – it is man’s will, man’s action that has caused the deaths of
millions upon millions of people by violence in all its forms.
But as we pull farther away from
God, His Hand pulls farther and farther away from us.
History is repeating
itself. It started with Adam, and it has
been documented by historians ever since.
We but have to read a few verses
of Scriptures to understand God will punish, either overtly or by allowing the
sin we so crave to become the punishment we so deserve.
Lamentations 3:39-42 Wherefore doth a
living man complain, a man for the punishment of his
sins?
40 Let us search and try
our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
41 Let us lift up our heart
with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and
have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentation 5:19-22 Thou, O Lord,
remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to
generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou
forget us for ever, and forsake us so long
time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee,
O Lord, and we shall be
turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly
rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
And for those that say we are in
a new age, that God will not act as He did in the Old Testament read these
verses from the NEW Testament.
Hebrews 10:28-31 He that despised
Moses' law died without mercy under two or three
witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer
punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot
the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of
grace?
30 For we know him that
hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And
again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of the living God. KJV from
BibleGateway.com
We need to repent as individuals
and we need to repent and return to God as a nation – failing that we will
continue to spiral down into a hole that will surround us with the grief of our
sins.
Later, Art
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