There was a time that another group of people was in a similar situation. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible tells us that story. It is eerily similar to what The USA is going through right now. The people had turned their hearts against God. As a matter of fact, The Lord has laid this on my heart. I’m not claiming to be a prophet; however, I do believe that God speaks to us through His Word. Therefore, I took the liberty to go through Isaiah and update it to give us a more direct message.

I am not rewriting the Bible or anything like that. I just wanted us to get a more straightforward message. The Old Testament is in the Bible to teach us. Unlike some modern preachers and teachers, it is just as relevant today as it ever was. Feel free to compare my words with those in your Bible, and you will understand.

Here is part seven:

Isaiah 7:1-25 CSB

This took place during the administration of Trump, when he and the patriots went to fight against Washington, but they were not able to conquer it. When it became known to the patriots that Antifa and BLM had occupied the major cities, the heart of Trump and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind. The LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Trump. Say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Don’t be afraid or cowardly because of these two smoldering sticks, the fierce anger of Antifa and BLM. For Antifa, along with BLM and the Democrats, has plotted harm against you. They say, ‘Let’s go up against the USA, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install Biden as king in it.’” This is what the Lord GOD says: It will not happen; it will not occur. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all. Then the LORD spoke again and said: “Ask for a sign from the LORD your God—it can be as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.” But Trump replied, “I will not ask. I will not test the LORD.” Isaiah said, “Listen, Trump! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God? Therefore, the Lord himself has given you a sign: See, the virgin did conceive, have a son, and named him Immanuel. By the time he learned to reject what was bad and chose what was good, he was eating curds and honey. For before the boy knew to reject what was bad and chose what was good, the land of the USA will be abandoned. The LORD will bring on you, your people, such a time as has never been since America separated from Great Britain: He will bring the king of enemies.” On that day the LORD will whistle to flies at the farthest waves of the Atlantic and to bees in the land of California. All of them will come and settle in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes. On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the oceans—China and Russia—to shave the hair on your heads, the hair on your legs, and even your beards. On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep, and from the abundant milk they give he will eat curds, for every survivor in the land will eat curds and honey. And on that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers. A man will go there with bow and arrows because the whole land will be thorns and briers. You will not go to all the hills that were once tilled with a hoe, for fear of the thorns and briers. Those hills will be places for oxen to graze and for sheep to trample.

By J. Robert Smith

Democrats love to claim that their party underwent a metamorphosis in the 1960s, when they finally washed away the taint of slavery past.  The Rebellion, in which Democrats played principal roles in causing, was a century in the rearview mirror.  Goes the spin: Democrats vanquished their post-Civil War record of virulent racism, which expressed itself in Jim Crow (Southern apartheid) and the atrocities of the nightriding KuKlux Klan — the party’s white-garbed brownshirts — who ranged beyond the South, terrorizing blacks in states where Democrats concentrated.  

As we view the Democratic Party from the vantage point of October, 2020, we see that the party’s character is unchanged. The party of slavery, rebellion, and Jim Crow has found new expressions for its darker inclinations. 

Antifa and BLM are knockoffs of the KKK.  Riots and mob violence in blue cities are very much the provocations of the party’s new strongarms.  Trashing and terrorizing cities aren’t an end, but a beginning.  They’re demonstration projects of sorts.  Roadshows are to follow if the rest of us don’t knuckle under.      

Democrats have never lost their appetite for oppression.  Underclass blacks are as exploited and kept down today as blacks were in the Jim Crow South.  Now, though, they’re given welfare checks, public housing, and handhelds in exchange for votes.  Democrats’ “Great Society” schemes empowered white and black overseers and lined their pockets, but decades ago failed to lift poor blacks out of their circumstances.  Black generational poverty is bondage. 

Racism remains the Democratic Party’s franchise.  Blaming nonblack Americans for racism and underclass black failure is audacity borne of desperation.  Politics demand it.  So, Democrats offload their culpability.  They’ve run major cities for many decades, yet have nothing to show but empty promises and miserably bad policies and corrupt governance.  Say Democrats, white Americans – save for woke affluent progressives and leftists — must suffer for the sin of racism, current and historic. 

Democrats aren’t discriminating, however.  They want to “plantationize” Hispanics.  Democrats political viability requires capturing Hispanic constituencies. 

Charges of society-wide racism are a powerful wedge that Democrats are using in their efforts to upend America.  The American experiment in liberty was illegitimate, per Democrats radicalizing view.  Tyranny — under the guises of “progressivism” and “democratic socialism” — is the prescription, perhaps a softer variety, like Xi Jinping’s China, where a social credit system is daily refined, and where oligarchs and leftist apparatchiks thrive. Though ask Hong Kong citizens, Tibetans, and Uyghurs about what “soft tyranny” means.  Today’s Democrats have more than rebellion on their minds.  They have revolution.   

What’s the Green New Deal but a form of economic revolution, a means of drastically reordering society through the ruse of environmental concern?  Medicare for All, which destroys Medicare for seniors, is thinly disguised socialized medicine.  Vilifying and making calls to defund police is nothing more than an effort to undermine law and order.  What is Critical Race Theory other than an insidious attack on bedrock American principles?

Hence, modern Democrats pose new, and in critical ways, greater threats to the well-being of the Republic than their forerunners.  

Marx, not God, increasingly informs their worldviews.  Faith was once invoked by Democrats to rationalize slavery and white supremacy.  Today, Marxism in practice is slavery.  Marxism is the antithesis of Judeo-Christian faith.  Charity, equality, and brotherhood cannot be coerced.  Marxism is all sham.  It has no good intentions.  It’s a means to an end: power.  

Among Democrats, nihilism afflicts.  It’s the practical consequence of godlessness.  It’s end-stage rot.  The rot — a consuming hedonism — began infiltrating society with the 60s counterculture and has been metastasizing ever since.  An outgrowth, in part, is Democrats contempt for traditional virtues: family, faith, hard work, merit.

But Democrats, old and new, reconverge in historic fashion.  While old Democrats embraced, defended, and promoted the abomination of slavery, contemporary Democrats likewise champion abortion.  Abortion has been referred to as the slavery issue of modern times, and it is.  The killing of hundreds of thousands of innocents in wombs annually for decades is the other great moral stain on the nation.  Not incidentally, unborn black babies are killed at horrifically high numbers. 

From the Caldron Pool, September 28, 2020:

The President made the comments during a speech in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, where he noted the hypocrisy of the Democrats for affirming Black Lives Matter while supporting Planned Parenthood, an organization that President Trump said, was “founded on racism” and that “continues to target the black community.”

He’s not wrong. The abortion industry kills as many black people every four days as the Ku Klux Klan killed in 150 years. Between 1882 and 1968, there were reportedly 3,446 lynchings of black people in the United States. Today, more black people are killed by white abortionists every three days than all who were lynched in those years.  

Emboldened Democrats have discarded the pretense of rare and medically necessary abortions. They now unabashedly promote late-term abortion up to birth.  Their inhumanity and ghoulishness know no bounds. 

The day will arrive when the mass slaughter of the innocent will be seen for the great evil that it is, and with that genuine awakening, Democrats will again be seen as culprits in a colossal evil.  Some things never change.   

Years ago, friends and acquaintances used to think I was being facetious.  “The Democratic Party should have been abolished at the close of the Civil War,” I’d say with a very straight face.  There certainly was justification.  It was the party of slavery, as it had been from its inception.  It’s legislation and policies were catalysts in the ruptures leading to civil war.  Northern Democrats — many known as “Peace Democrats” or more accurately, “Copperheads” — served as a fifth column.  They aided and abetted their rebellious southern fellows.   

Imagine at the end of World War II had the Allies permitted the National Socialist German Workers’ Party to continue?  Regarding moral considerations, where does slavery stack up against the persecution and extermination of the Jews (among others)?  Both are, indeed, evils.  The Germans exploited slave labor as well.  Extermination, though, surpasses slavery as an evil, in that when you take a human being’s life, you take-away any chance of liberty, and the exercise of natural rights that undergird freedom.  Yet, you can argue that any human being who lives, from birth to death, in bondage, suffers a form of death.  Millions of black slaves suffered a form of death. 

Millions of unborn children suffer literal death at the hands of abortionists.  Their rights as human beings discarded with their tortured bodies.  There’s one party that stands squarely for this slaughter, the Democratic Party… the party of riots, racism, rot, and rebellion.   

J. Robert Smith can be found on Twitter @JRobertSmith1 and Parler @JRobertSmith.  He also blogs at Flyover.   

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/democrats_riots_racism_rot_and_rebellion.html

There was a time that another group of people was in a similar situation. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible tells us that story. It is eerily similar to what The USA is going through right now. The people had turned their hearts against God. As a matter of fact, The Lord has laid this on my heart. I’m not claiming to be a prophet; however, I do believe that God speaks to us through His Word. Therefore, I took the liberty to go through Isaiah and update it to give us a more direct message.

I am not rewriting the Bible or anything like that. I just wanted us to get a more straightforward message. The Old Testament is in the Bible to teach us. Unlike some modern preachers and teachers, it is just as relevant today as it ever was. Feel free to compare my words with those in your Bible, and you will understand.

Here is part six:

Isaiah to the USA

Part One

Isaiah 1:1-7,10-21,23-25,27-31 CSB

The vision concerning the United States of America that Isaiah saw. Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s feeding trough, but America does not know; my people do not understand.” Oh, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned the LORD; they have despised the Holy One; they have turned their backs on him.

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick. From the sole of the foot even to the head, no spot is uninjured— wounds, welts, and festering sores not cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil. Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your country right in front of you— a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! “What are all your sacrifices to me?” asks the LORD. “I have had enough of your churches and their programs. When you come to appear before me, who requires this from you— this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing useless offerings. They are detestable to me. Your preaching and programs have become a burden to me; I am tired of putting up with them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. “Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil. Learn to do what is good. Pursue justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause.

“Come, let’s settle this,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land. But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

The faithful country— what an adulteress she has become! She was once full of justice. Righteousness once dwelt in her, but now, murderers! Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them. Therefore, the Lord GOD of Armies, the Mighty One, declares: “Ah, I will get even with my foes; I will take revenge against my enemies. I will turn my hand against you and will burn away your dross completely; I will remove all your impurities.

America will be redeemed by justice, those who repent, by righteousness. At the same time both rebels and sinners will be broken, and those who abandon the LORD will perish. Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you desired, and you will be embarrassed because of the idols you have chosen. For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, and like a garden without water. The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to extinguish the flames.

Part Two

Isaiah 2:1-22 CSB

The vision that Isaiah saw concerning The United States of America: In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s house will be established at the top of the mountains and will be raised above the hills. All nations will stream to it, and many peoples will come and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of God. He will teach us about his ways so that we may walk in his paths.” For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He will settle disputes among the nations and provide arbitration for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plows and their spears into pruning knives. Nation will not take up the sword against nation, and they will never again train for war.

America, come and let’s walk in the LORD’s light. For you have abandoned your people, the Christians, because they are full of divination and of fortune-tellers. They are in league with foreigners. Their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no limit to their treasures; their land is full of automobiles, and there is no limit to their wants. Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the work of their hands, what their fingers have made. So, humanity is brought low, and each person is humbled. Do not forgive them!  

Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and from his majestic splendor. The pride of mankind will be humbled, and human loftiness will be brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted on that day. For a day belonging to the LORD of Armies is coming against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled— against all the governments, lofty and lifted up, against all the wicked leaders, against every military, and against every commerce. The pride of mankind will be brought low, and human loftiness will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted on that day. The worthless idols will vanish completely. People will go into caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from his majestic splendor, when he rises to terrify the earth. On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats. They will go into the caves of the rocks and the crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from his majestic splendor, when he rises to terrify the earth. Put no more trust in a mere human, who has only the breath in his nostrils. What is he really worth?

Part Three

Isaiah 3:1-26 CSB

Note this: The Lord GOD of Armies is about to remove from America every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water, heroes and warriors, judges and leaders, fortune-tellers and elders, commanders and dignitaries, counselors, cunning magicians, and necromancers. “I will make youths their leaders, and unstable rulers will govern them.” The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will act arrogantly toward the old, and the worthless toward the honorable. A man will even seize his brother in his father’s house, saying, “You have a cloak—you be our leader! This heap of rubble will be under your control.” On that day he will cry out, saying, “I’m not a healer. I don’t even have food or clothing in my house. Don’t make me the leader of the people!”

America has stumbled and has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the LORD, defying his glorious presence. The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster on themselves. Tell the righteous that it will go well for them, for they will eat the fruit of their labor. Woe to the wicked—it will go badly for them, for what they have done will be done to them. Youths oppress my people, and women rule over them.

My people, your leaders mislead you; they confuse the direction of your paths. The LORD rises to argue the case and stands to judge the people. The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: “You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses. Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD of Armies.

The LORD also says: Because the women are haughty, walking with heads held high and seductive eyes, prancing along, jingling their ankle bracelets, the Lord will put scabs on their heads, and the LORD will shave their foreheads bare. On that day the Lord will strip their finery: ankle bracelets, headbands, crescents, pendants, bracelets, veils, headdresses, ankle jewelry, sashes, perfume bottles, amulets, signet rings, nose rings, festive robes, capes, cloaks, purses, garments, linen clothes, turbans, and shawls. Instead of perfume there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of beautifully styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothes, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding. Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle. Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

Part Four

Isaiah 4:1-6 CSB

On that day seven women will seize one man, saying, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothing. Just let us bear your name. Take away our disgrace.” On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of America’s survivors. Whoever remains in America will be called holy—all in America written in the book of life—when the Lord has washed away the filth of the women of America and cleansed the bloodguilt from the heart of Christians by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning. Then the LORD will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire country and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory, and there will be a shelter for shade from heat by day and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

Part Five

Isaiah 5:1-30 CSB

I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes. So now, residents of the USA, please judge between me and my vineyard. What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes? Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled. I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briers will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it. For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is America, and the men of the country, the plant he delighted in.

He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair. Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no more room and you alone are left in the land. I heard the LORD of Armies say: Indeed, many houses will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants. For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only six gallons of wine, and ten bushels of seed will yield only one bushel of grain.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of beer, who linger into the evening, inflamed by wine. At their feasts they have lyre, harp, tambourine, flute, and wine. They do not perceive the LORD’s actions, and they do not see the work of his hands.

Therefore, my people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst. Therefore, Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go America’s dignitaries, her masses, her crowds, and those who celebrate in her! Humanity is brought low, each person is humbled, and haughty eyes are humbled. But the LORD of Armies is exalted by his justice, and the holy God demonstrates his holiness through his righteousness. Lambs will graze as if in their own pastures, and resident aliens will eat among the ruins of the rich. Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes, to those who say, “Let him hurry up and do his work quickly so that we can see it! Let the plan of the Holy One take place so that we can know it!” Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who consider themselves wise and judge themselves clever. Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are champions at pouring beer, who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against his people. He raised his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like garbage in the streets. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike. He raises a signal flag for the distant nations and whistles for them from the ends of the earth. Look—how quickly and swiftly they come! None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap broken. Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows strung. Their horses’ hooves are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind. Their roaring is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions; they growl and seize their prey and carry it off, and no one can rescue it. On that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. When one looks at the land, there will be darkness and distress; light will be obscured by clouds.

Part Six

Isaiah 6:1-13 CSB

I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphim were standing above him; they each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another: Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Armies; his glory fills the whole earth. The foundations of the doorways shook at the sound of their voices, and the temple was filled with smoke. Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies. Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth with it and said: Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for. Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking: Who will I send? Who will go for us? I said: Here I am. Send me. And he replied: Go! Say to these people: Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive. Make the minds of these people dull; deafen their ears and blind their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed. Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate, and the LORD drives the people far away, leaving great emptiness in the land. Though a tenth will remain in the land, it will be burned again. Like the terebinth or the oak that leaves a stump when felled, the holy seed is the stump.

By Susan Hill Charles Spurgeon said, “Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.” Sadly, biblical literacy is on the decline. A poll in Christianity Today revealed that

Three Ways to Improve Your Bible Reading — Group Ministry

There was a time that another group of people was in a similar situation. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible tells us that story. It is eerily similar to what The USA is going through right now. The people had turned their hearts against God. As a matter of fact, The Lord has laid this on my heart. I’m not claiming to be a prophet; however, I do believe that God speaks to us through His Word. Therefore, I took the liberty to go through Isaiah and update it to give us a more direct message.

I am not rewriting the Bible or anything like that. I just wanted us to get a more straightforward message. The Old Testament is in the Bible to teach us. Unlike some modern preachers and teachers, it is just as relevant today as it ever was. Feel free to compare my words with those in your Bible, and you will understand.

Here is part five:

Isaiah 5:1-30 CSB

I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes. So now, residents of the USA, please judge between me and my vineyard. What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes? Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled. I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briers will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it. For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is America, and the men of the country, the plant he delighted in.

He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair. Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no more room and you alone are left in the land. I heard the LORD of Armies say: Indeed, many houses will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants. For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only six gallons of wine, and ten bushels of seed will yield only one bushel of grain.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of beer, who linger into the evening, inflamed by wine. At their feasts they have lyre, harp, tambourine, flute, and wine. They do not perceive the LORD’s actions, and they do not see the work of his hands.

Therefore, my people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst. Therefore, Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go America’s dignitaries, her masses, her crowds, and those who celebrate in her! Humanity is brought low, each person is humbled, and haughty eyes are humbled. But the LORD of Armies is exalted by his justice, and the holy God demonstrates his holiness through his righteousness. Lambs will graze as if in their own pastures, and resident aliens will eat among the ruins of the rich. Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes, to those who say, “Let him hurry up and do his work quickly so that we can see it! Let the plan of the Holy One take place so that we can know it!” Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who consider themselves wise and judge themselves clever. Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are champions at pouring beer, who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against his people. He raised his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like garbage in the streets. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike. He raises a signal flag for the distant nations and whistles for them from the ends of the earth. Look—how quickly and swiftly they come! None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap broken. Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows strung. Their horses’ hooves are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind. Their roaring is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions; they growl and seize their prey and carry it off, and no one can rescue it. On that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. When one looks at the land, there will be darkness and distress; light will be obscured by clouds.

There was a time that another group of people was in a similar situation. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible tells us that story. It is eerily similar to what The USA is going through right now. The people had turned their hearts against God. As a matter of fact, The Lord has laid this on my heart. I’m not claiming to be a prophet; however, I do believe that God speaks to us through His Word. Therefore, I took the liberty to go through Isaiah and update it to give us a more direct message.

I am not rewriting the Bible or anything like that. I just wanted us to get a more straightforward message. The Old Testament is in the Bible to teach us. Unlike some modern preachers and teachers, it is just as relevant today as it ever was. Feel free to compare my words with those in your Bible, and you will understand.

Here is part four:

Isaiah 4:1-6 CSB

On that day seven women will seize one man, saying, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothing. Just let us bear your name. Take away our disgrace.” On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of America’s survivors. Whoever remains in America will be called holy—all in America written in the book of life—when the Lord has washed away the filth of the women of America and cleansed the bloodguilt from the heart of Christians by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning. Then the LORD will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire country and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory, and there will be a shelter for shade from heat by day and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

The following is from the Constitution Center. It is a missive about the formation, duties, and, in my opinion, the damage done by the 17th Amendment which was passed in 1913. When the Constitution was written Article 1, Section 3 required Senators to be selected by and answer to the State Legislature. The 17th Amendment changed […]

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There was a time that another group of people was in a similar situation. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible tells us that story. It is eerily similar to what The USA is going through right now. The people had turned their hearts against God. As a matter of fact, The Lord has laid this on my heart. I’m not claiming to be a prophet; however, I do believe that God speaks to us through His Word. Therefore, I took the liberty to go through Isaiah and update it to give us a more direct message.

I am not rewriting the Bible or anything like that. I just wanted us to get a more straightforward message. The Old Testament is in the Bible to teach us. Unlike some modern preachers and teachers, it is just as relevant today as it ever was. Feel free to compare my words with those in your Bible, and you will understand.

Here is part three:

Isaiah 3:1-26 CSB

Note this: The Lord GOD of Armies is about to remove from America every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water, heroes and warriors, judges and leaders, fortune-tellers and elders, commanders and dignitaries, counselors, cunning magicians, and necromancers. “I will make youths their leaders, and unstable rulers will govern them.” The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will act arrogantly toward the old, and the worthless toward the honorable. A man will even seize his brother in his father’s house, saying, “You have a cloak—you be our leader! This heap of rubble will be under your control.” On that day he will cry out, saying, “I’m not a healer. I don’t even have food or clothing in my house. Don’t make me the leader of the people!”

America has stumbled and has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the LORD, defying his glorious presence. The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster on themselves. Tell the righteous that it will go well for them, for they will eat the fruit of their labor. Woe to the wicked—it will go badly for them, for what they have done will be done to them. Youths oppress my people, and women rule over them.

My people, your leaders mislead you; they confuse the direction of your paths. The LORD rises to argue the case and stands to judge the people. The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: “You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses. Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD of Armies.

The LORD also says: Because the women are haughty, walking with heads held high and seductive eyes, prancing along, jingling their ankle bracelets, the Lord will put scabs on their heads, and the LORD will shave their foreheads bare. On that day the Lord will strip their finery: ankle bracelets, headbands, crescents, pendants, bracelets, veils, headdresses, ankle jewelry, sashes, perfume bottles, amulets, signet rings, nose rings, festive robes, capes, cloaks, purses, garments, linen clothes, turbans, and shawls. Instead of perfume there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of beautifully styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothes, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding. Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle. Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

There was a time that another group of people was in a similar situation. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible tells us that story. It is eerily similar to what The USA is going through right now. The people had turned their hearts against God. As a matter of fact, The Lord has laid this on my heart. I’m not claiming to be a prophet; however, I do believe that God speaks to us through His Word. Therefore, I took the liberty to go through Isaiah and update it to give us a more direct message.

I am not rewriting the Bible or anything like that. I just wanted us to get a more straightforward message. The Old Testament is in the Bible to teach us. Unlike some modern preachers and teachers, it is just as relevant today as it ever was. Feel free to compare my words with those in your Bible, and you will understand.

Here is part two:

Isaiah 2:1-22 CSB

The vision that Isaiah saw concerning The United States of America: In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s house will be established at the top of the mountains and will be raised above the hills. All nations will stream to it, and many peoples will come and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of God. He will teach us about his ways so that we may walk in his paths.” For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He will settle disputes among the nations and provide arbitration for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plows and their spears into pruning knives. Nation will not take up the sword against nation, and they will never again train for war.

America, come and let’s walk in the LORD’s light. For you have abandoned your people, the Christians, because they are full of divination and of fortune-tellers. They are in league with foreigners. Their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no limit to their treasures; their land is full of automobiles, and there is no limit to their wants. Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the work of their hands, what their fingers have made. So, humanity is brought low, and each person is humbled. Do not forgive them!  

Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and from his majestic splendor. The pride of mankind will be humbled, and human loftiness will be brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted on that day. For a day belonging to the LORD of Armies is coming against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled— against all the governments, lofty and lifted up, against all the wicked leaders, against every military, and against every commerce. The pride of mankind will be brought low, and human loftiness will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted on that day. The worthless idols will vanish completely. People will go into caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from his majestic splendor, when he rises to terrify the earth. On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats. They will go into the caves of the rocks and the crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from his majestic splendor, when he rises to terrify the earth. Put no more trust in a mere human, who has only the breath in his nostrils. What is he really worth?

It’s been a while since I posted. One reason is that I have been having computer issues for a couple of weeks. The other reason is that I have been praying for our Country, State, and local communities and all the leaders. The USA is in a sad state of affairs, and if things don’t change, we may be in for a really rough time. We will survive, but it will be tough.

There was a time that another group of people was in a similar situation. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible tells us that story. It is eerily similar to what The USA is going through right now. The people had turned their hearts against God. As a matter of fact, The Lord has laid this on my heart. I’m not claiming to be a prophet; however, I do believe that God speaks to us through His Word. Therefore, I took the liberty to go through Isaiah and update it to give us a more direct message.

I am not rewriting the Bible or anything like that. I just wanted us to get a more straightforward message. The Old Testament is in the Bible to teach us. Unlike some modern preachers and teachers, it is just as relevant today as it ever was. Feel free to compare my words with those in your Bible, and you will understand.

Here is part one:

Isaiah 1:1-7,10-21,23-25,27-31 CSB
The vision concerning the United States of America that Isaiah saw. Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s feeding trough, but America does not know; my people do not understand.” Oh, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned the LORD; they have despised the Holy One; they have turned their backs on him.

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick. From the sole of the foot even to the head, no spot is uninjured— wounds, welts, and festering sores not cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil. Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your country right in front of you— a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! “What are all your sacrifices to me?” asks the LORD. “I have had enough of your churches and their programs. When you come to appear before me, who requires this from you— this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing useless offerings. They are detestable to me. Your preaching and programs have become a burden to me; I am tired of putting up with them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. “Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil. Learn to do what is good. Pursue justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause.

“Come, let’s settle this,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land. But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

The faithful country— what an adulteress she has become! She was once full of justice. Righteousness once dwelt in her, but now, murderers! Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them. Therefore, the Lord GOD of Armies, the Mighty One, declares: “Ah, I will get even with my foes; I will take revenge against my enemies. I will turn my hand against you and will burn away your dross completely; I will remove all your impurities.

America will be redeemed by justice, those who repent, by righteousness. At the same time both rebels and sinners will be broken, and those who abandon the LORD will perish. Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you desired, and you will be embarrassed because of the idols you have chosen. For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, and like a garden without water. The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to extinguish the flames.