God broke His silence and spoke words of warning and guidance. Our Creator God gave His loving help for us to fear and revere Him in a good way, all for His glory and our best life.
He warned about worshiping other gods, false idols, sinning and the penalties of sin.
God forewarned parents against their choice to sin and how sins consequences would be felt on their children and generations that would follow.
God Almighty spoke in Exodus 20:2-6 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.”
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;”
5 “you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,”
6 “but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
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In verse 3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.” God hates false gods and false religion. This is the God of the Bible Who chose Israel as His nation to bless and to punish as a Father raising a child for the world to see and learn.
The same God sent His promised Messiah, Jesus, Who’s teachings in the Bible were held high by America’s forefathers and blessings flowed making our nation great.
In 1925 social modernists and the science of evolution went against fundamentalists believing in the God of creation and the Bible. The battle ground was in schools teaching young minds of America’s future. Society was split and pitted against each other in a court of law through the drama of the Scopes monkey trial.
Ultimately it was God who allowed the choice of the majority of people who didn’t want biblical tradition to prevail. Consequently disobedience in neglecting God and not believing His word as truth, would bring further destruction against America as advancing sinfulness increased.
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Now in 2016 America, a once Christian nation, is embracing the false religion of Islam. Taking school children on field trips to Mosques and wearing Muslim head garb mocks the one true God. http://freedomoutpost.com/us-school-forces-girls-follow-islamic-dress-code-field-trip/
In verse 5 “For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,” Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Throughout history or ‘His story’, God has administered His wrath against sins and His blessings for obedience. He demands true worship for He alone is God and He is a jealous God. God wants all people to love and obey Him and the first step is trusting in Jesus by faith alone.
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United Americans once stood under God and the Bible as the majority. Now the majority are falling and stumbling with divided opinions, loyalties and false religions.
America is suffering a great decline from greatness. What was good is now bad and what was bad is now good. No Ten Commandments, no Bible, no God. How long will God be patient?
No human, no leader or potential leader can fix sin problems or the major problems to come.
Few people speak of sin fewer still can reason why God is bringing judgments on the world.
God will not be mocked. Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
John 8:47 “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
John 9:31 Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.
2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation
Only prayer by the people can change anything.
Now is the time to seek Jesus in prayer and cling to the Rock of salvation.
Luke 11:10 “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
