ONE NATION ... DIVISIBLE
The United States of America was once the most powerful nation among nations, including China and Russia. We grew richer and more productive year after year, taking it all for granted. We were known as a Christian nation and our God was questioned by only a few who didn't know God or didn't want to acknowledge He exists. Others blamed Him for all the wrongs in the world. Other gods became acceptable over time. Now they have established themselves and compete with the one true God for position. God is a jealous God and has never allowed other gods to take His place nor will He ever. Therefore, our nation is in a precarious state of impending division. At worst, it could be conquered by another nation. We think that can't happen to us since it hasn't happened to us before, but the Bible speaks otherwise.
Below are verses that indicate how the Lord feels about nations that disobey Him or abandon Him. Even though some of the verses apply to a certain nation, the same concepts apply to our nation and other nations.
“Pray no more for these people, Jeremiah. Do not weep or pray for them, and don't beg me to help them, for I will not listen to you.
...and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,
And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.
You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him?
You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”
Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.
After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is going to drive them out before you. It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”
For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
Occult Practices
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. (This pertains to entering another nation but it would also apply to those entering our nation.)
He has declared that he will set you in praise, fame and honor high above all the nations he has made and that you will be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.
If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.
The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.
The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.
Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.
You yourselves have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the Lord your God who fought for you.
Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them.
“The Lord has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you.
He is the God who avenges me, who puts the nations under me,
Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.
At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the Lord’s anger.
They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”
They worshiped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.
Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”
One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.
He makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.
But if he remains silent, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he is over individual and nation alike,
The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.
God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.
He rules forever by his power, his eyes watch the nations— let not the rebellious rise up against him.
May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth.
May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.
May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun. Then all nations will be blessed through him, and they will call him blessed.
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