The Pew Research Center: Religion and Public Life (May 12, 2015) had the following headlines:
"America’s Changing Religious Landscapeand had the following graph:
Christians Decline Sharply as Share of Population; Unaffiliated and Other Faiths Continue to Grow"
Evangelicals believe that a person must be "born-again" to be saved. That is a personal experience where one believes in, repents and trusts Jesus Christ. Although some non-evangelicals have done that, the majority (as known from their doctrine) have not. Therefore, I submit that possibly only 20% of the population has been born-again and many of those would be children of those who have been. Furthermore, there are many who "believe", but have not "trusted" in the Lord. I will be generous and propose that maybe 10% of United States adult citizens are biblical Christians! My "guestimate" takes into consideration the following scripture:
Matthew 7:13 "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, 14 and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."Let me digress for a moment. It is not my intent to judge people by denomination because there are many within those, that in spite of church teachings, have personal relationships with God and accept Jesus as their savior. That number is unknown, but scripture does indicate that they are few. Also, I'm not attempting to judge others, but to recognize that many mainline denominations have no regard for "born-again" experiences. Many within those mainline churches are "Christians" because they were born into families of those who attend those churches. At one time I belonged to one of those and because I got a "A" on my catechism, I was received into membership as a Christian. However, I was merely an intelligent sinner!
The point with this discussion is that the United States has and is courting a whore, or more accurately, a number of whores! Israel did the same before it was finally destroyed! In these passages I have taken references to Israel and changed them to us:
Hosea 1:2b "And the Lord said to the <Christian leaders>, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord. 4b I ... will cause to cease <The United States>. 9b ...for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God."
Hosea 2:2 "Plead with your mother (the whores of the U.S.), plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully..."
Hosea 2:8 For she did not know that I (symbolic of God) gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal (the devil). 9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. 10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them."
Like Israel (whose reference was replaced by the U.S.), the United States has chased after "whores". Few people are married to the One True God, but sneak out, often openly, with slut religions and secular temple prostitutes! Here are some of the whores:
- The government. Rather than crediting God for prosperity many credit the government, represented as Baal. (Hosea 2:8). People look toward the government for prosperity, undeserved by the way, when it's God who provides!
- Ourselves. This is the main god for most people. Rather than serve God, people choose to pleasure themselves. Even the government which they claim provides, is to feed, cloth and comfort themsleves. What God already did, people look toward the government to do. People don't vote for politicians. Each person votes for himself! The politician is the mere proxy for people getting what they desire.
- Entertainment: People accept anything to entertain! Music, television and movies have brought lasciviousness into every household. Christians now are entertained by what years ago they disdained. In our Christian liberty Christians have taken the liberty to sin at every turn. We claim that we can put aside the whoredom, but we merely participate as voyeurs! It all goes back to worshiping the "self" because people put aside what pleases God for what excites them!
- Eastern Religions. With immigration at exponential levels whores (religions) are arriving on our shores daily. Of course Islam is growing, but worse yet, are Buddism, Hinduism and other religions of the east. It's not so much because Christians are converting, but because Christians are accepting of Jungian Psychology, the martial arts, Yoga, eastern meditation, holistic medicine, positive thinking and many of the other techniques of pagan religions. This is syncretism; "the serving of other Gods before him"! Don't be misled, "before" means "alongside" God! As Israel did, we are doing! They went a whoring after other gods and did it right along with God with him watching!
- Science: Science is most often has credibility before God. Most Christians accept evolution and billions of years to create over what God said he did. Many Christians don't even believe God did it, that it "just happened"! Science, because it has a pleasing smile, applies it's lipstick just right to persuade the most devoted Christian to go a whoring!
- Education. Schools no longer educate. They indoctrinate! During the first year of college, most institutions persuade the eager student to put aside what their beloved parents and church have taught them and be open minded. They don't teach. They remold! Just look at those who serve counseling internships: they are required to put aside their own belief systems and counsel from the perspective of the whore teaching. For instance it is becoming, if not already, against the law to counsel homosexuals that they can change!
- Socialism. It's everywhere. America is no longer a capitalistic nation. We are a socialist nation which uses capitalism to finance our own destruction! For the unknowing, socialism is not a benevolent ideology. It's a power-seeking initiative and the outcome is always repressed people who must beg for prosperity from those who divide the pie! On top of that Marxism teaches the abandonment of God, the destruction of the family and the legal theft of the individual's property for the benefit of the "masses" they say, but to confirm totalitarianism in practice! This "whore" is the sluttiest of all, but by promising "social justice" people kneel to it, but are thrown in the fires of Molech. Much of the social upheaval we see right now in the streets is this whore giving birth to their own Ammi's and Ruhammah's (read about the whore's children in Hosea 2).
- Globalism. This is an attempt to get every nation to love the whores. Money is used to bribe the unsuspecting "John" into the dens of iniquity where the whore is ready to fornicate with them. Globalism is the child of socialism and is the structure needed for the anti-Christ to gain and retain power. Christianity is anathema in this world view, but all other religions are welcome to learn the skills whores need to draw others into the brothel.
- The Church. Are you surprised? The church is called a whore in Revelation! It's a child of the "Great Whore Babylon". It's a result of generations of fornication with whores. Mainstream churches are children of this whore if they fail to teach God's word as inspired and Jesus as the Savior. They are the churches which are Nicolatain in nature, bringing every type of sexual sin into the church: fornication, adultery, homosexuality, etc. These churches preach by what's popular or in vogue. Their desire is to "grow" when scripture teaches that the gate is narrow.
- Institutions. About any corporation, charitable organization, research center or civic organization are whores. There are fraternal whores which worship other gods before God. These little whores are driven by the dollar and prostitute themselves daily for the love of money. These are the Walmarts and the like who propagate progressive social policy aiming to get every dollar. They go a whoring after their first love: money!
There are many other "whores" with which our nation fornicates! You get the idea. America will be destroyed because of our whoredom. As Israel scoffed at its own destruction, so do we. Who is the Hosea of our day? We have none that I know of, but it's up to us to keep the United States out of the whorehouse. We can all be meek Hosea's with the strength of God. Hosea never prevented the destruction of Israel, but he tried as hard as he could! His teaching brought them back! Israel has been restored and we can be too, for a spell, anyway, until God's Millennial Kingdom comes!
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