If you do not have a biblical worldview, then recent events must seem very worrisome today. Consider the deal agreed to by our duly elected President’s team. Iran the leading sponsor of terror in the world whose overt stated intent is to destroy Israel and the United States and whose people daily gather to chant: “Death to America – Death to Israel”, now gets to continue their nuclear quest for a bomb, plus they will receive $100-$150 billion dollars and relaxation of the arms embargo and without question will soon expand terrorism even further around the world. They already lead the world in that department and are responsible for funding Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan Al Qaeda and other groups that have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims alike including United States soldiers. The deal was widely applauded by communist China, Russia, and Bashar Assad in Syria. I suppose communist leaders in Cuba and North Korea are next and a quinella of communists can gleefully boast of our stupidity.
So now there is the pesky problem of nukes soon to be aimed at our allies and us. The other headlines of today are the story of our duly elected President’s team successfully suing the Little Sisters of the Poor”. A federal appeals court in Denver ruled against the group of Colorado nuns who challenged a provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide insurance coverage for contraception thereby forcing them to choose between their care for the elderly poor and their faith. They must either sign a paper authorizing providing contraception pills according to laws in Obamacare or face heavy fines.
Then of course there is the news that uncovers the sale of body parts from aborted babies by Planned Parenthood. A recorded conversation on an undercover video was filmed in July 2014 by the Center for Medical Progress, an advocacy group that reports on medical ethics. They dispatched two actors posing as representatives of a human biologics company to a business lunch with Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services. The video shows Nucatola describing in graphic detail how abortionists are able to harvest organs from aborted babies based on the parts that are needed.
She told the undercover buyers “Yesterday was the first time people wanted lungs”. “Some people want lower extremities, too, which, that’s simple. That’s easy. I don’t know what they’re doing with it, I guess they want muscle.”
To which one of the fake buyer’s replied, “Yeah – a dime a dozen.”
“I’d say a lot of people want liver,” Nucatola said. “And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps.” She went on to describe how they are able to acquire other organs without “crushing” them.
“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
This breaks my heart. How can this woman be so heartless as to discuss over lunch the best manner to crush and kill a baby in such a manner so she does not spoil the chance of selling the baby’s organs.
The final major headline story for today is the escape by the most notorious criminal in the world “El Chapo” Gustmon – the Head of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico. He reigns over a multibillion-dollar global drug empire that supplied much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroin sold on the streets of the United States.
The U.S. Justice Department describes the Sinaloa cartel as “one of the world’s most prolific, violent and powerful drug cartels.” It says Guzman was considered the world’s most powerful drug lord until his arrest in Mexico in February 2014. “He is a complete savage,” CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes said. “What they do, and how they do business, is based on complete terror . . . They kill journalists, politicians, police officers, corrections officers. And then not just that person, but every member of their family.”
The Sinaloa cartel moves drugs by land, air and sea, including cargo aircraft, private aircraft, buses, fishing vessels and even submarines, the Justice Department has said.
The cartel has become so powerful that Forbes magazine listed Guzman in its 2009 list of “self-made” billionaires. Guzman’s estimated fortune at the time was $1 billion.
So where is all of this leading? We are seeing the rapid disintegration of morality in “America the Beautiful”. We have turned our back on God and now we are reaping what we sowed. The end result will be a further degradation and evil will completely take over the land. The beautiful young girl Kathryn Steinle who was shot in the back and murdered by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco is but one tiny example of the danger that is becoming commonplace. God is being mocked, His Holy word has been declared a myth, and Christians are being portrayed as right wing bigots and worse.
The Bible states that God will not be mocked. Make no mistake the United States has been blessed since its inception because it was founded as “One nation under God”, but that has changed and these monumental sins are not going unnoticed and He has promised to remove His blessing from any nation that turns its back on Him. We will see wars, race riots, murder, persecution of Christians, rapes, even more perversion of every flavor, economic turmoil, and natural disasters such as droughts, famines, and earthquakes as God begins to judge a nation that has turned its back on Him.
If you have a biblical worldview you know that what is occurring is happening as prophesied and at the appropriate time the Lord will remove His faithful remnant from the carnage and we will be with Him for eternity. If you do not have a biblical worldview I imagine you are scared silly and for good cause. Because without the promise of a good God in this dark world there can be no hope and you must face God’s wrath alone.
So is all lost? Not yet! The verse below is what is needed to avoid judgment. At the Jesus Alliance this is what we pray for night and day. It is not too late for those who are willing to seek God and humble themselves, ask for forgiveness and repent and turn from evil ways. God has promised if we do so He will hear from heaven and heal our land, (and us). Please take a moment and pray for our nation right now.
2 Chron. 7:14
Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.
July 15, 2015 – Click here to listen