13 Years Later

It is September 11th, 2014.  It has been 13 years since terrorists made a strike on our soil using airplanes to take out the World Trade Center, hit the pentagon, and a third plane that may have been heading to the white house thwarted by hero citizens who gave their lives.  Over 3.000 Americans killed in cold blood. 


Where are we at 13 years later?  Have we defeated the enemy?  Not really.  Have we pulled together as a nation?  not really.  Have we turned to God as a nation?  Definitely not.  We are more divided than ever.  We have moved further away from God.  Our freedoms have been systematically removed.  Our government has grown larger and more intrusive.  Our police forces have become branches of the military.  We have made criminals of those who grow natural food, and legalized those who genetically alter our food so they can use poisons that destroy the environment.  We have criminalized self reliance and created millions of dependents on government.  Our jobs have been outsourced to the point where we expect people to make a living flipping burgers or standing at a wal mart checkout.  We tell people they can't collect rainwater, but let corporations steal water from drought stricken citizens.  We have accumulated more debt in the last 13 years than in the entire history of the nation.


There is so much more that I could mention that 13 years and 1 day ago would have been completely outrageous, unheard of, and would never have been believed if they were told these things would happen in the USA.  We've come to accept being searched at airports and events, having our phones tapped, our information stolen and sold, being told what we can eat or drink, even what kind of light bulbs we have to use.  We've had our healthcare and insurance taken over by government.  Our banks bought out by government.  Corporate welfare and bailouts for the super rich that has sold us common folks into perpetual slavery.  The most sickening part is that we are told that all of this is for our own good, and for our own safety. 


Is this the kind of world that so many of us have fought for?  Is this the kind of ideology that we are trying to tell others that they should be like?  What kind of upside down world has it become when the likes of China and Russia have warned us about the terrible outcome in store if we continue down the path we have been heading.  Our leadership thinks the more dangerous enemy is their political foes and uses the full power of government to go after US citizens, while we take weak motions and tokens against the real threats of Islamic terror that has been doing nothing but growing steadily since 9/11. 


Instead of repenting and turning our ways back to God and His ways upon which this nation was founded, we have stood defiant against God, pushing him further and further away from public life.  Instead of promoting the Bible and making admonition of teaching its principles, we have practically criminalized it and penalize those who do read it.  Instead of defending the rights of people to worship God as they see fit, Christians are often faced with rules and regulations that limit their ability to live their faith, and in many cases the full force of government is used to attempt to make the Christian go against what they believe and to support things that are an abomination.


We have a government that tells Christian people that they cannot feed the hungry, help the homeless, speak the word in places, pray at certain places.  Our schools won't allow Christian prayers, but will accommodate Muslim prayers.  They take our history and change it to remove our Christian founding.  They teach as science, unproven theories that are without God, but will not allow competing science that supports creation. 


A spirit of lawlessness have come over the people.  We see rioting in the streets with looting and vandalism, random attacks on people, the knockout game, pouring feces on autistic kids.  We have seen the growth of greed to the point where making the dollar is taking precedent over the safety of the people.  They alter our food, steal our water rights, poison our ground, stuff our foods with chemical alternatives all the while ignoring the vast increase in cancers and heart diseases, Alzheimers and autism. 


It seems to me that on 9/11/2001, it was just the beginning of judgment upon us.  Not so much the God is going out of his way to punish us, but that He is allowing us to walk further away from His protection and allowing us to suffer the consequences of our actions.  Does He really need to dole out punishment when we are doing such an effective job of screwing ourselves up?  When the bottom does finally fall out, it won't be Gods doing, but our own fault for acting so foolishly and disregarding His ways. 


I think we are past the point of avoiding some of the horrible consequences that are awaiting us.  It may be that only such harsh consequences will make us turn back to the Lord.  When the debt load collapses the economy, there will be famine, starvation, riots, gangs and militias fighting for control of small territories.  This will be followed by drought and disease.  Outside forces will seize upon our collapse and invade.  It is a natural progression of consequences that can be seen through history.  There is nothing about us that makes us immune.  If and only if we return to God right now, might we get through what is about to occur.