Is America on the verge of destruction?

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“Where the Bible warns, then so must I do likewise,” warns Billy James Hargis II in Christian Crusade Newspaper. “It is as if I am in a theatre, where a great many people are gathered, and I know that there is billowing smoke within the building. Is the loving thing for me to remain silent and sit down and watch the show? Would it be caring for me to exit the building altogether, not saying a word, while leaving all others to an uncertain fate? Or do I ruin everyone’s enjoyment of the show by shouting that we must exit the building, causing discomfort, people’s irritation and risking the potential embarrassment of being wrong? I ask you now, which is the loving, caring and considerate thing to do?”

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“And if I am wrong, then I will be wrong,” writes Hargis, son of the late Dr. Billy James Hargis, who on nationwide radio was the Rush Limbaugh of the 1950s and 1960s. “I will be among the best of company! Paul, Peter, John and literally every last apostle, along with the whole of the early church, believed that Jesus Christ would return during the days of their own persecution and tribulation, as indeed he did! For surely Christ returns for every Christian in the coming of death, and death will claim us all, short of the Rapture. The message of sin and apostasy in the church, I carry to you today, is relevant and true, regardless of the timetable, and needs to be told for my own peace of mind, if for no other reason. “

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In Hosea 8, God speaks through the prophet: “Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocence? For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.” Samaria was the capital of ancient northern Kingdom of Israel at the time. In other words, it was what Washington, D.C., represents in America today.

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Hargis agrees. “We read in Ezekiel 33:1-6, ‘Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person away from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.’ In other words if I, the “watchman on the wall,” sense danger and yet say nothing, then the blood of those sleeping will be upon MY head and hands, and this is a risk that I cannot take!

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Some would suggest such prophecies only applied to Israel – and we have little to learn from them, says Farah. “Nonsense. We can learn from every verse of the Bible – and need to – especially when they speak to us about our own experiences. That’s why they were written. That’s why they were recorded. That’s why God spoke them. That’s why the Bible is the bestselling book in the history of the world. That’s why these ancient words, above all others, have been preserved for us today. When modern American leaders are actually mouthing the same words as the unrepentant and proud leaders of ancient Israel, who wanted to do things their way instead of God’s way, let’s just say it gets your attention,” says Farah. “In America we are not only repeating the ancient vows, we are re-enacting the plot. We are indeed setting up kings, without regard to God. We are making princes who He knows not. And we are making idols of material things, so that we may be cut off. Lord help us.”

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“I can’t begin to tell you how many people just do not care or can’t be bothered,” writes Hargis. “I tried to witness to one man I know to be an absolute mess about the reality of Hell and his reaction was that he was just fine, that he had already been through Hell already. I tried to reason with him, but he would have no part of it. He already knew all there was to know about Hell. However, the Bible tells us that when Daniel got a glimpse of, not even Hell, but of the Apocalypse, he fainted dead away and was sick for several days after! This is not something that, if we can avoid it, we should be playing around with. As those in the days of Noah learned, once that Ark door closes, then that’s all there is! No exceptions! But, on the other hand, the Bible tells us that whatever awful thing we have to go through down here, Heaven will be more than worth it, and I find that exciting! We may need something like that to hold onto, in the days ahead, and to me that’s good as streets of purest gold!