“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; or I am God, and there is no other”- Isaiah 45:22
Clearly as a nation,- we will face the consequences of our actions. God is Just; He will not let our sinful actions go unpunished forever.
For as a nation, we have done much to offend God. Murder, violence, abortion, gay marriage, atheism, witch craft, the occult…
As a nation, we have created a society that supports evil and violence.
Sadly, is it really a surprise that someone mowed through a Christmas Parade and killed at least 5 and injured 40 people, 12 of them children? Attacking Christians, whether verbally or physically is becoming common place.
From removing Christ’s Cross in a variety of places to the removal of God from the public square…Our nation, which has been so Blessed by God, has done much to offend our Lord. And it’s not like God does not punish nations, look below at what God said to Babylon:
”For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.”
“Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.”
“Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.” – Isaiah 47:10-13
Does not America today sound quite a bit like Babylon?
Tolerance of other view points does not mean that total disrespect for Jesus or those who follow Christ is acceptable!
And Mary warned us in Ecuador, but sadly we did not listen. Mary shared with us that a “spiritual catastrophe” in the Catholic church was coming and would occur sometime after the mid 1990s -and it did!
One thing that Mary warned us of: is that many would be unable to receive the sacraments of Baptism, Holy Communion, Confession…Think of what happened during Covid! How many churches were shut down? While Walmart was ruled essential; church was not!
And she also warned us that marriage would be under attack -and it is!
She warned us that many of the Faithful would be blinded and unable to see God’s Truth. And they have been! God clearly considers gay marriage to be wrong, and yet how many have failed to speak God’s Truth? A great stateman once said, “the only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing” How many of us have stood by and done – nothing?
But Mary also gave us a ray of hope to hold onto. She said that “when evil finally seems to triumph over all, when all seems lost, Complete Restoration of the Church will begin and the Church will finally reawaken.“
God loves us! He may punish our nation, but He still loves us and will still answer our prayers. And our hard times will not last forever! No matter what, hang on to God’s Hand and pray, in Jesus’ Name, He hangs on to yours 🙂