America; Crumbling On The Inside

 Pastor Jeffries wrote a book a few years back called IMPLOSION.  In it he tells the story of how the demolition team came to First Baptist in Dallas to implode their old church so they could make way for a new one.  They set the explosives on the main foundations and when they pushed the plunger there was a BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!....and the nothing happened for a few seconds. The DELAY seemed like an eternity to those watching and wondering if a colossal mistake had been made! And then a huge collapse in a pile of dust and rubble!  The IMPLOSION was a success!

He uses that word picture to describe where he believes America is today.  The foundations have been detonated already, FAMILY, GOD-FEARING, MARRIAGE, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MORALITY.  These are the foundations that made America great!  And yet the left wrapped them with explosives and pushed the plunger!  We are now in those few seconds following the BANG! and all that's left to happen is the implosion into dust and rubble.

Today we see this devotion from another pastor, Greg Laurie, who is basically saying the same thing.

 "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."

—2 Chronicles 7:14

On the wall of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, are these words from President Thomas Jefferson: “God who gave us life gave is liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

Someone conducted a study of the world’s great civilizations and noted that every nation has an average cycle of 200 years. They looked at various nations that came into prominence and then disappeared into obscurity.

And interestingly, each one of these nations went through the same sequence. They went from spiritual faith to great courage, from great courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, and from dependency into bondage again.

Where do you think America is today? I think the problem is that many Americans don’t know—and many don’t care.

Any civilization that ultimately collapsed, or was overcome by a foreign power, first fell apart on the inside.

For example, as the Roman Empire rose to greatness, they no doubt assumed they would be around for centuries to come. But they were crumbling on the inside.

I believe the same is happening in America today. There’s moral decay on the inside.

We need to get back to the true God, not just spirituality. We need to get back to the God that our founding fathers believed in when they established this nation: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Yes, we need to get back to the God who sent His Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sin. We need to get back to the true and living God who can save America.

Here;  Where We Ought to Be (harvest.org)

As followers of Christ how are we supposed to react to this news and evidence all around us that America is teetering on the edge of destruction?  Certainly God is no respecter of nations.  He sets them up and tears them down to accomplish His purposes.

"But Dennis!  This is America!  Surely you know the song God Bless America?!  Surely you know that God only exists to bless America and never to curse America?"

Sadly, that's a big problem with America.  Most now have no idea WHO He is.  And most have rejected His Son.

An implosion is coming!  We just hope it's the rapture that causes it.