Eternal Approach

Over the years, it has become a bit of an obsession with me to watch footage of the Tsunami that hit Japan back in 2011. Especially now, with the new earthquake that just Japan around the first of this month.

There always seems to be a new video that has been released covering that 2011 tragedy which hit many of the eastern coastal towns.

This obsession is due, in part, to my fascination with the power of water. The ocean is both beautiful and terrifying. It cannot be underestimated.

And it causes me to think that the Japanese people were just unprepared for what took place. They trusted that the tsunami walls were built high enough to hold back the surge.

Yet, their entire lives were devastated in an instant. Lives that they had built, over many generations, were wiped out in just a few minutes.

So, I wonder how we, in the United States, would react if such a tragedy struck here?

How would we, who live right smack dab in the Midwest (for example), face such a disaster? We who live in the small towns and farm communities that generally don’t face any serious threat of earthquakes, floods, hurricane’s, Tsunami’s, or comet strikes.

The Sound in the Distance

The hard truth is that we will face some kind of a disaster in the future.  

Although it may not be of a natural kind. As in bad weather or as the result of the shifting earth. 

Our disaster will most likely be more of a spiritual, economic, or political kind. Where the rights of free speech, the free exercise of religion, or the right to speak out against immorality, are suddenly taken away (or too slowly to notice).

Despite the clear provision in our founding documents that those rights are “inalienable”. That they are given to us by God. 

Not by the government, but by God. 

We may face a serious economic meltdown where people are cut off from their hard-earned money or retirement funds. Because of some “unknown problem” with the banks.

Due to some “technical problem” that the experts in the banks and the government promise us that they will “solve shortly”. Whose “best experts are working tirelessly to solve”. 

Denial of the Great Flood

It’s hard for us to come to grips with this idea. That something of that magnitude might actually happen to us in this country. 

Many Americans have become like those, of whom the scriptures speak, who chose to believe that “all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation“. (II Peter 3:1-7).

I remember reading something by Henry Morris (from the Institute for Creation Reasearch) who said that there are documents from the ancient library of Alexandria that show that even back then, in a time not that distant from the Great Flood, people actually denied that the worldwide Flood ever occurred. 

Those early people were among the first to deny that the worldwide flood of Noah ever took place. Who denied that God had sent judgment upon the whole earth that changed “the world that then was“. 

That belief, also known as Uniformitarianism, is the foundational doctrine of the Evolutionary theory. A belief that is increasingly accepted even among many who profess to be Christian. Even among leaders and pastors who teach in our seminaries and preach in our churches.  

Who profess to believe the accurate and simple statements in those first chapters of the Genesis record. 

America in the Last Days

Most people today simply believe that things will always continue as they have in the past. That America will always prevail. That things won’t get that bad. 

Or that culture and politics are like a pendulum. Meaning that the bad times will soon get good again. That things will soon swing back to normal.  

I hear people say this all the time.  

In What “god” Have We Put Our Trust?

What guarantee do we really have that our lives will continue as they have in the past?

Why are we so special?

Do we still stand firmly upon the word of God which influenced those early American documents?

Do we still honor God in our public educational system?

Do our government leaders seek to boldly protect the rights of all Americans to freely express their biblical beliefs?

Do Americans still have the right to preach against the immorality of our culture in promoting homosexual and transgender sexuality? Or have we already lost that right? 

What “god” or “gods” do Americans really follow today? 

In what “god” have we put our trust?

So, how will this country escape the judgment that so many that have gone before us have faced? Those nations and peoples throughout the ages who were wiped out by one kind of disaster or another?

Who suffered judgment for far less iniquity than our own nation has committed.

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