God does NOT have a covenant with the United States
I'll repeat for the Christians in the back. God does NOT have a covenant with the United States. The Church in America is really quite pompous I have discovered as I have gotten older. It bothers me to watch some of these folks talk about the covenant of God and America as if God needs us. He doesn't need us.
The only nation God has a covenant with is the nation of Israel and yet we in the US believe that godly morality resides in the West. As if God changed His mind over the years and moved it to us.
How crazy is that when our country didn't even exist when the Bible was written?
When I was a kid it never quite made sense to me how Israel was across the Atlantic but we were the nation of God. It didn't make sense because it's not true.
We as believers have individual covenants with God. The more believers in one area, the higher the God concentration. Like mass immunization creates group immunity. People at large benefit.
America has seen prosperity and protection because of the people of God who live here. The Bible says blessings rain down on the just and unjust. God blesses His people and those blessings benefit all. That doesn't mean God has a covenant with America and we see that fact more and more becuase as the number of believers goes down in this country the crazier it seems.
Donald Trump or any president for this matter doesn't automatically obtain the presence and protection of God because he's in office. That presence comes from actually having a personal relationship with God themselves and to a lesser extent being surrounded by believers, remember mass immunity.
America has benefited greatly from having great men and women of faith residing in its borders. Unfortunately, we a Christians have not been great stewards of the Gospel. We have started to look less like Christ and more like the world.
For that reason it has weakened God's presence not because He is weaker but because we have diminished Him in our lives.
And every time in the Bible that this began to happen with the children of Israel bad things happened. Oftentimes it was that they ended up conquered. The difference in that situation though is that God promises them He would not let them be destroyed.
America has no such promise.
And that is what is so scary. Many Christians act as if the United States is all powerful because God has made it so. That's hogwash. Even with the Abrahamic covenant God has allowed the children of Israel to be conquered multiple times. So how can we be immune?
What I have as a Christian is that God will never leave me or forsake me. That means that regardless of what is happening in or to my country God will always be with me. It doesn't mean bad things won't happen. It means that when they do God will be there as I navigate through it and will bring me out on the other side.
The US stands at a critical point in its history where it's actions and response will be recorded and judged harshly.
For Christians we have to decide whose side we are on. It should be the Lord's and not this awful ungodly rhetoric.
I'll repeat for the Christians in the back. God does NOT have a covenant with the United States. The Church in America is really quite pompous I have discovered as I have gotten older. It bothers me to watch some of these folks talk about the covenant of God and America as if God needs us. He doesn't need us.
The only nation God has a covenant with is the nation of Israel and yet we in the US believe that godly morality resides in the West. As if God changed His mind over the years and moved it to us.
How crazy is that when our country didn't even exist when the Bible was written?
When I was a kid it never quite made sense to me how Israel was across the Atlantic but we were the nation of God. It didn't make sense because it's not true.
We as believers have individual covenants with God. The more believers in one area, the higher the God concentration. Like mass immunization creates group immunity. People at large benefit.
America has seen prosperity and protection because of the people of God who live here. The Bible says blessings rain down on the just and unjust. God blesses His people and those blessings benefit all. That doesn't mean God has a covenant with America and we see that fact more and more becuase as the number of believers goes down in this country the crazier it seems.
Donald Trump or any president for this matter doesn't automatically obtain the presence and protection of God because he's in office. That presence comes from actually having a personal relationship with God themselves and to a lesser extent being surrounded by believers, remember mass immunity.
America has benefited greatly from having great men and women of faith residing in its borders. Unfortunately, we a Christians have not been great stewards of the Gospel. We have started to look less like Christ and more like the world.
For that reason it has weakened God's presence not because He is weaker but because we have diminished Him in our lives.
And every time in the Bible that this began to happen with the children of Israel bad things happened. Oftentimes it was that they ended up conquered. The difference in that situation though is that God promises them He would not let them be destroyed.
America has no such promise.
And that is what is so scary. Many Christians act as if the United States is all powerful because God has made it so. That's hogwash. Even with the Abrahamic covenant God has allowed the children of Israel to be conquered multiple times. So how can we be immune?
What I have as a Christian is that God will never leave me or forsake me. That means that regardless of what is happening in or to my country God will always be with me. It doesn't mean bad things won't happen. It means that when they do God will be there as I navigate through it and will bring me out on the other side.
The US stands at a critical point in its history where it's actions and response will be recorded and judged harshly.
For Christians we have to decide whose side we are on. It should be the Lord's and not this awful ungodly rhetoric.
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