| "All the sinners of my people shall died by the sword, | | | | will wilt as lettuce in the noon day sun. Their courage |
| Who say "the calamity will not overtake nor confront | | | | will be as women in birth pangs and their teeth will be |
| us"...Amos 9:10 | | | | grinding away in pain. For thus the Lord warned them, |
| A man sits upon a step. It leads to nowhere. Once it | | | | but this is America, we are safe here. But the voice |
| led to the most famous place in America. It was the | | | | winds down to a whisper and says "or so we thought, |
| Capitol. But, alas they feared not the Lord, but put Him | | | | how blinded we were". |
| out of all their ways. Thus, the epitaph is: How blinded | | | | In the church the minister is looking around. It is full he |
| we were? We prepared for a calamity, but who can | | | | reminds himself. All is good. We are financially blessed, |
| be prepared for the wrath of Almighty God? The | | | | spiritually mature, and living as saints. Yet, in the mist of |
| answer, no one. | | | | deception, a shadow stirs in the corner. Yet another |
| That surely would be our final statement after the | | | | victim is seen listening to this voice. It tells them " God is |
| judgment falls upon a secular nation called America. | | | | good, he doesn't bother with your sins. Your rich and in |
| The once polished stone shining in the world is now a | | | | need of nothing, just look how good you are doing." |
| faint glimmer of what it used to be. Gone are the | | | | The shadow slinks away to another victim as the |
| people that feared the Lord and ordered their | | | | preacher preaches on. Gone are the days of |
| conversation aright. Gone are the congressman who | | | | annointed preaching. "Preaching it as it is" the old timers |
| stood bravely against the attempts of ungodly sorts to | | | | would say. "Hell fire and brimstone", "the gospel |
| turn away anything that gives to God credit, glory, or | | | | nuggets given out" another would say. The gospel |
| obedience. Now, the love, turning colder, shakes it head | | | | today is filled with living the good life, making it big, |
| and says..."How blinded we were". | | | | having money and riches. Enjoying the good life. As |
| The distance cries are in the tens of thousands. These | | | | one preacher said "don't tell me you can have joy |
| are the innocent ones that were murdered in their life | | | | without money. Money is the thing that brings joy, it is |
| arrival. These are the ones that were torn asunder by | | | | better than the Holy Spirit". Thus the deceptive mirror is |
| instruments of torture preventing a life to live. These | | | | turned inward and no one sees. The rich and in need |
| are those who aborted remains are tossed as refuse | | | | of nothing crowd has just grown again. The church is |
| upon the scrap heap of history. No one mourns them. | | | | full, the message is soothing, and the disciples are |
| No one cares. No one protests anymore. Gone, simply | | | | multiplying. The problem is, no one knows what the |
| vanished in the daily lives of the america that once | | | | gospel is anymore. The epitaph is being read in |
| stood proudly for life. Now, it vanquishes this life with | | | | eternity...."woe to those who are rich, woe to those |
| death and blood. Those who did protest were looked | | | | who are blinded with the world, woe to those who |
| upon as the culprits. These, they said were the ones | | | | love the world and its things"...For they will surely say, |
| "to blame for this chaos". Thus the evil became good | | | | "how blinded we were". |
| and good became evil. | | | | Yet, amidst all the chaos of the end time schedule. |
| Along the streets another Sodom arrives. It is the day | | | | There is a fire burning in the depths of a few. These |
| of pride. Once upon a time another city called | | | | are those who love is not of the world, nor of its things. |
| Gomorrah was as this one was. Now it is gone, the | | | | These are those who know the gospel message and |
| victim of its own pride and sin. They feared not the | | | | share it. These are those who know the Lord God. |
| Lord God who made them. With these who have | | | | These are those who follow Yeshua HaMassiach in |
| gone this pathway before, this Sodom doesn't see the | | | | Hebrew, the Lord Jesus Christ in English. The heart is |
| danger. It thrives in a place called America, in a Town | | | | burning, the love is overwhelming, the dedication is to |
| that has bravely stood against such evils in the past, | | | | the death. Their love is steeped in Him who gave |
| now it embraces this as good. Sodom has another | | | | Himself for them. They were the sinners saved by |
| day to be proud and do its own evil or another day to | | | | grace, the lost who were found, and the wanderers |
| repent. But how long? The sand is running out of | | | | who finally found a home. These are those who trust |
| Eternities clock, then those who do such things will | | | | in the Lord...Surely they will say.... |
| face the Lord God who made them. Then their pride | | | | |