time after time chastising the House of Israel, His chosen but often disobedient people, by allowing barbarians to invade and plunder their cities and put many of them to the sword.
That is what the Western World, including America, is starting to experience today, having likewise turned away from God.
This raging conflict between Islam and the West, this "clash of civilizations" that many are calling World War III, is at root a spiritual war.
It's been said that it takes a religion to fight a religion. More precisely, it takes true faith to defeat a false one. And by true faith I don't mean a set of rules, rituals and doctrine in a book, any book. I mean a genuine personal relationship with the one true God, and a nation of such people who follow the laws of conscience that same God planted in each of their hearts.
What is the answer to the burgeoning threat of Islamic jihad? The simple and terrifying bottom-line answer is that there is no answer unless America finally awakens and gives up its insane rebellion against its own founding faith and values.
We're fond of praising our World War II-era forbears who won that terrible conflict with another form of demon-possessed, expansionist fascism. But the "Greatest Generation" was different from this generation. It believed in God.
Come again? You say we also believe in God today? No, we don't not as a nation.
The WWII generation believed in God. They believed that this God was the God of the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. They believed He created us in His image, and that human life was therefore sacred, which meant we don't slaughter our offspring in the womb nor kill off our parents when they get old and sick. They believed in biblical morality when it comes to sex, which meant homosexuality, adultery and "shacking up" were sinful and wrong.
Very true. It is said that all evil needs to flourish is for good men to do nothing. I have been guilty of doing nothing. I have stood by shaking my head, saying there is nothing I can do. No more.I now ask myself 2 questions. 1) IF NOT ME, WHO? 2) IF NOT NOW, WHEN? We all must stand up and look ourselves in the mirror and ask these questions. Only when we stand up to the evil ,in our personel lives, our families, and our communities, will it be vanquished.