One of the most important things for Christians to be aware of is that we are living in the "end times" or more specifically,the age of church apostasy which the Bible describes in detail.Since Satan knows that he is facing a hard deadline,he has been working over-time to bring as many as he can into his fold.One of his most successful techniques is to get people to worship false gods which is idolatry,one of the violations of the Ten Commandments.
In the United States there are numerous false gods readily available for purchase;Sex (of all different varieties),Money,and Nation being the ones that are the most popular.I'd like to briefly discuss the false god NATION because I have heard it advertised in some churches and especially on "Christian" telecasts.
Christians who are familiar with the Bible realize that the United States is the most evil and morally corrupt nation in the entire history of the world,considering both the depth of its depravity and most especially the astonishing variety of its disgusting evil.Some prefer to think that Nazi Germany should be given that distinction but the Germans lacked the creativity that Americans have to invent new and even more outrageous forms of moral perversion.From its acceptance of mothers killing their own unborn babies,to its media promotion of illicit sex,to its acceptance of re-marriages and which Jesus taught are acts of adultery(MARK 10:11-12),to its popularity of every imaginable type of drug to impair moral judgment,to its outrageous violent crime rate fueled by the absurd access its residents have to guns,to its failure to prevent child and senior citizen abuse,to its failure to provide adequate housing,food and medical care for its poor,to its failure to prevent corporate corruption,to its willingness to allow it to become the world's largest supplier of every imaginable type of pornography ,to its outlawing of God in its public schools,to its gleeful rush to make homosexuality a morally acceptable lifestyle,to its policies to benefit the rich by harming the poor, to its 10 billion dollars EVERY MONTH campaign of crimes against humanity in Iraq because "we're spreading (a corrupt Muslim government that uses Iran's radical interpretation of Islamic law) democracy";there has never before in the entire history of the world been any nation that on a daily basis practices more blasphemy against God as a matter of its foreign and domestic policies.
Real Christians follow the teachings of Jesus who taught love,forgiveness,peace and care for the poor.The false god United States teaches its people hate,retaliation,war and exploitation of the poor and those in minority groups.
BOTTOM LINE:Do not be deceived by false prophets who are doing Satan's work,encouraging people to engage in the deadly sin of idolatry by promoting the worship of false gods.
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