Judah and America
The prophet Isaiah was sent to preach to the people of Judah. The people of Judah were God’s people, but Judah had become corrupt and had forsaken God’s laws. Isaiah warned the people to turn from their evil ways or they would be taken into captivity.
When one reads the warnings issued to Judah, one can easily see the similarities between Judah and America. Just as Judah had turned away from God, America, as a nation, has done the same.
Notice the vivid description Isaiah gave of Judah: “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment” (Isaiah 1:4-6).
Isaiah described Judah as being sick, wounded, and diseased. They were not literally sick; rather, Judah was infected with the spiritual disease of sin.
But look at America today. It can no longer be claimed that we are “one nation, under God,” because we have abandoned the Christian principles upon which this country was founded. We have murdered more than 50 million babies since 1973 under the guise that the babies were not “real” babies. Only 20 percent attend a church service on any given Sunday in America. Americans spend 14 billion dollars a year on pornography. Pornography generates more revenue than Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Football League combined. Only 57 percent of children grow up in homes where both parents are present. Only thirty-five percent of Americans believe that sex before marriage is wrong, and 20 percent of those under age 30 have at least one sexually-transmitted disease.
God warned Judah and offered forgiveness if the people would turn from their wickedness: “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:16-18). Sadly, Judah did not receive the message and the nation was destroyed in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians.
What will we do in America? God is giving our country time to repent. God loves us and wants all to be saved (I Timothy 2:4; II Peter 3:9). But we must obey His will…before it is too late (Matthew 7:21).
