In 2 Kings 17 the Bible has a very sobering warning for those of us in America.
In describing the fall of Israel to the Assyrian nation, it states:
7”For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods, 8and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel... 9Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities…. 10They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree. 11There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger, 12for they served idols (Americans worship sports ‘idols’, movie ‘idols’, we even have singers we call ‘American Idols’), of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
13”Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets… saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” 14Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15And they rejected His statutes (His civil laws) and His covenant (His agreement) that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should not do like them (Our American courts now often use so-called ‘international law’ as a basis for court decisions). 16So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven (in other words, ‘practiced astrology’), and served Baal. 17And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire (they burned their children to heathen gods; we do this by the torturous practice of abortion), practiced witchcraft and soothsaying (we teach our children to do this with Harry Potter books), and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 18Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.
22”For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, 23until the Lord removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.”
Is there a warning here for America?
Is there hope? YES!! Just this month over 50,000 people, mostly young adults, met on the ground in front of the U.S. Capitol crying out to God with repentance; pleading with Him to turn our nation back to Him. There is a remnant across this nation who are crying to God day and night. He hears. He will answer. Jesus said, “Ask and you shall receive.” (Matthew 7:7)
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you---
and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you. I’m Don Pinson this has been Think About It.