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America - You've had it Made Too Long

One thing about history is that in spite of the warnings about

repeating it if we don't learn from it is that it always repeats

itself. It isn't history that needs watching as much as the

human heart. Nothing much changes in human nature. Those riding

the crest of the wave are usually found having a party while

those caught in the crash of the wave are gasping for air and

fighting for life.

There is little doubt that America is riding the wave. She is at

the peak of her power and at the top of her game. Trying to get

her attention would be a lot like trying to stop a train with a

handkerchief. Every similarity to previous world powers

notwithstanding our collective national behavior is so close to

ancient Rome that all that is missing is the togas. The land of

the mighty Caesars made a noise heard round the world for a

season then died alone in a protracted whimpering that went

largely unnoticed as the world entered the modern era. What can

we learn from this? Leaving this question unanswered might

normally imply that the answer is understood, however, it is

apparent that for Americans nothing at all is understood.

The dangers are ignored, the warnings go unheeded, and the party

goes on. Contrasts of our lifestyle and that of other nations

make us all the more pompous and less willing to question our

own indulgence. We have been all to willing to conclude that

there must be something wrong with those guys over there. The

prophet, bard and poet must now curb their urgency and put out a

more entertaining message in keeping with the tone of the party

spirit. We are only one step away from jailing, hurting or

killing the messengers who provide us with a call to conscience.

Or have we already taken our first few baby steps in that

direction.

Like a mangy little dog scampering behind us and nipping at our

heals comes the ACLU standing up for the rights of Gays and

Lesbians while beating down manger scenes at Christmas and Ten

Commandment plaques in public buildings. It makes me wonder if

even common heroism has fallen victim to perversion. Are these

acts heroic, are they really protecting our freedoms?

In Pennsylvania a law was recently rammed through the

legislature that makes it illegal for a minister of the gospel

to quote passages of the Bible from the pulpit that cite

homosexual behavior as a sin. That law has been challenged by

people with a bit of common sense still left to them in that

state.

In Iraq and Afghanistan we are kept from entering and searching

mosques that are known centers for Islamic jihad groups or where

weapons are stockpiled and cached. They are considered cultural

centers and thus are placed off limits. Contrast this to the

latest effort to keep military chaplains from praying in the

name of Jesus Christ with those who they are sheparding.

Chaplains are guarding the spiritual welfare of our own soldier

citizens, is that any less important than the cultural

traditions of foreigners?

On a recent ride through a rural district of Arkansas I noticed

that there was a church building about every one and a half

miles on the road I was on. There were Pentecostal, Full Gospel,

Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Nazarene, Catholic

and some unheard of varieties of churches stretched out in

profusion for well over two hundred miles. As I drove I was

thinking of an old adage spoken by one of our most well known

missionary pioneers who said..."why should anyone hear the

gospel twice when there are so many people in the world who have

not even heard it once" I wondered if this profusion of churches

laid out to us like a grand spiritual buffet is just taken for

granted. No, I'm sure that it is.

After retuning home I saw a picture on the internet that I

couldn't help but contrast to the highway of churches I had just

encountered. On a news site online was a picture of three

Indonesian policemen standing behind three seated women they

were guarding. The policemen were in full dress complete with

strapped gun holsters, uniforms with arrays of badges and medals

and a stern look of duty etched across each sullen face. In

front of them were seated three average looking Indonesian women

garbed in light blue prison jumpers. Three middle aged

elementary school teachers who had just been sentenced to three

years each for teaching their young students about Jesus Christ

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in their predominantly Muslim school sat stunned as sentence was

pronounced. Save that Mosque but waste the lives of three

harmless but dedicated educators, now that's good thinking.

So over here it may not seem so bad...yet. Hollywood would have

to make stumbling wimpy idiots of most gospel ministers; it goes

with the territory and may seem even a bit tolerable after all.

If you're going to pump out a secular world view full of

profanity and degenerate living you don't want gospel preaching

ministers to be taken too seriously. It would be too hard to

sell a product if the naysayer's were allowed a soap box from

which to stand and proclaim that the product was trash within

the very medium the product was sold through.

Should a dedicated Christian happen to slip through the cracks

with the gospel on their lips and a life to back it up, they too

would be relegated to the class of the disdained. It seems

acceptable to make fun of the born againers and bible thumpers

in media and in society in general. No one cares if you strip

half naked, paint your face and act like a frenzied baboon on a

psychedelic drug at a football game...those are fans are they

not? But those who get even nominally excited about God are

always labeled...fanatics. It is unlikely that Americans notice

such double standards, since we are so bent on disregarding any

standards at all.

We have gone from a state of utter dependence on God as we did

during our pioneer days and then on to seeking the presence of

God in our formative years as a nation. But now we are entering

that place where we don't even like to retain the knowledge of

God at all in our thinking or living. What will be the result of

all this and what can we expect next? I will let the Bible

answer that.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,

God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which

are not convenient; Romans 1:28

About the author:

Rev Bresciani is the author of two Christian books and has

hundreds of articles published both online and in print. Please

visit www.americanprophet.org