Where Do We Go From Here?

I am not a fatalist. I am not a pessimist. I don’t make any claim to prophecy. However, if one is any student of history; and if one believes in the Sovereignty of the Creator over His creation; if one believes in the Sovereignty of the Creator over history, it seems to me there can be only two conclusions applicable to the future of the United States of America. The first is that the United States will make a significant return to the values of the founding fathers, although undergoing some degree of purging within. Those values are found in the Holy Bible, the Sacred Scriptures of the Christian faith. The second is that the United States will collapse under the weight of its own decadence.  And if one would analyze the past path of decline, it would be reasonable to expect the beginning of this collapse to happen within the next fifty years, two generations. The Sovereign of history has repeatedly raised up peoples and nations to answer the call, that is, the promise, of  1 Peter 2:9-12.

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. ¹² Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

The founding Fathers and the Presidents and leaders of the past have viewed the role of the United States to fulfill this promise. Not only is this no longer true, but this view is held by a very small minority of the people of the United States. It has been historically true that such nations, those who continuously and obviously reject this role, have been replaced and other nations have been raised up to take their place. Tragically, the United States has become so arrogant in our might, that most do not believe that this great nation can be brought down. History would tell us different. Much greater nations have been brought down and relegated to the forgotten pages of history.

It is not apparent at this point in history which nation or people which the Sovereign Judge might raise up to meet His call, but it would not be unreasonable to expect, that for those who are perceptive and looking, this may begin to become apparent within the next generation. Neither is it a foregone conclusion that this nation, this United States of America, might not make a strong and significant return to our purpose and founding values. May each and every one of our citizens who call themselves Christian; who believes that God raises up nations and brings down nations for His particular purposes; who believes that we have strayed so far from our founding values that we are indeed in danger of losing our role, earnestly pray for a return of the United States to Him who raised us up before it is too late.