Stock Market Crash

     I know many people thought it would not happen again.  Maybe it is not quite as bad as 1929, and yes, we have that past experience as knowledge and wisdom for today, but it happened.  September 16th, 2008, was America's worst day since September 11th, 2001.  I feel terrible for the 10,000 people who are suddenly jobless, and, let's face it, not too likely to find comparable new ones right away.  Just as I felt bad for the people of New Orleans after August 29th, 2005.

     I have said, and continue to hold, that God is judging this nation.  He allowed a foreign enemy, (come on, people, He has protected us from enemies for all of this time!) to come and attack our tallest, strongest, and nearly most symbolic buildings in our nation, our status in the world.  2,800 is a big number, but thank God it was not an hour later, when 20,000-30,000 people might have been in the towers.  He allowed a Category 5 storm to rip through a debauched, notoriously sinful city, New Orleans.  And all that anyone wants to talk about is rebuilding the foul place and returning to their sins.  (When may I awake, that I may seek another drink?)  Now, He has allowed our economy to become a shambles, and the Stock Market to crash as it has not in many, many years.  For Lehman Brothers, who survived the Depression, who have been strong for 150 years, to file bankruptcy, is unthinkable and a big clue as to how far we are plummeting.  

     As an emergency measure, President Bush has ordered the treasury to release billions and billions of dollars.  This is what has become necessary.  The American Dollar will certainly go down in value.   This may have very serious ramifications for our international trade.

     On the topic of international trade, why should we not be judged for our methods of trade?  Poor people in Third World nations slave, literally, slave away, suffering and working hard, to earn very, very, very, very little for their work.  All so the American retailers can have a product with very little overhead and massive profits.  

     You who think that God does not judge any more, please read the Word of God.  Stop listening to these feel-good, motivational preachers who want to croon about the sweet grace of God that would never judge anyone.  Yes, God is merciful, yes, He is longsuffering.  If He were not, He would have wiped America off the map 30 years ago.  But He is patient, and loving.  He also is just and righteous.  He cannot look forever upon a nation that points its finger in His face, laughing and daring Him to do anything about it.

     If you are one of these He will judge, please listen to me.  You are a sinner, separated from God by birth into humanity.  You may be a good person by people's standards, but your righteousness is as filthy rags to God.  "For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God."  "There is none righteous, no, not one...For together they have turned away and become unprofitable."  We have all transgressed His commandments.  We all are deserving of judgment, and will pass away without Him, into the Lake of Fire, which burns for eternity.

     But God, in His great mercy, made a way for our salvation.  He has made a path for redemption.  He sent His very own Son, Jesus Christ, to walk the Earth as a man, fully God, fully man, and to die, bearing our sins, to die a horrible death.  He was beaten, stripped of His clothes, and nailed to a cross, to die a horrible, painful, suffocating, bleeding death.  Even though He was righteous, and had no sin in Him.  Even though he was holy, He laid down His holiness to take up our sinfulness.  He wanted for us to be called children of God.

     You can accept this sacrifice, you can make His soul an offering for your sin.  You must believe that this is true.  You must accept that you are worthless and must die, apart from Christ's atonement.  The Bible says that you must believe in your heart and confess with your mouth unto salvation.  You must make Jesus the Lord of your life.  A lot of people think that means if He says, "Go to Africa," you must go.  Well, it does, but it also means that He is glorified in everything you do and say.  It means you put aside lying, deceit, malice, hatred, envy, foolish strivings, gossip, fornication.  It means you avoid even the appearance of these things.  It means you don't watch "Survivor" or "Desperate Housewives".  It means you don't listen to Metallica or AC-DC.  It means you don't dress immodestly.  It may be a big sacrifice, but when you stand before God, you will either gladly bow the knee and enter into your reward, or you will be forced to kneel, then you will be thrown, screaming and pleading, into everlasting torment and unbearable pain.  

     Please make Jesus your choice today.  If you do, contact me through here.  I want to be in touch with you.  Get a Bible.  I recommend a New King James Version.  Read Isaiah 53.  It is prophetic about Jesus.  It tells us what He did.  Read John.  Read Romans.  Especially read Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians.  Don't put as much stock in the amount you read at a time as in what you get out of what you read.  You need to be fed spiritually.  Find a Bible-believing church to meet with.  

Land of Injustice

     America is known as the Land of the Free, the Just, so forth and so on.  Wonderful patriotic words and phrases representing the ideals of moral, wise Founding Fathers who set our nation in order to be different from every other civilization in the World's history.

     Maybe they were not all Christian, but at least there was some sense of morality, of decent behavior, of good conduct.  Evildoers were punished.  People of all religions were accepted, never persecuted.  Christianity was considered America's official religion.  Most people were Christians.

     With time, however, people, whose nature is to be self-serving, decided to break off the bonds which had kept them a moral nation, and began to search for ways of pleasing themselves.  This is first especially noticeable in the "Roaring 20's", when people began to boldly challenge traditional morals, women began testing the waters with new, immodest dress.  People began to really buck God's laws more than they ever had in American history.  Decent society began the decline to the horrible muck pit we now see today.  

     This movement really progressed slowly, taking tiny little steps into the devil's den.  Little things that may seem like small potatoes to us today, but were big steps to them, led them further from God.  Their own wicked hearts kept them looking for pleasure.  This decline continued throughout the next few decades, growing increasingly treacherous with each growing generation.  "Free love", abortion, "safe sex", and other lies from the devil came stronger and stronger so that we have reached the place we are now.

     Now, we have porn everywhere, it just isn't labeled that way.  You can't go to the Wal-Mart without being exposed to porn.  Just try to point this out.  You will be VERY rudely laughed at and mocked by uncaring Wal-Mart employees.  (Don't think Wal-Mart cares about ANYTHING or ANYBODY...)  We have teen girls who think they have to dress like prostitutes to be cool.  And, ladies, don't think it's just teens, I see plenty of women my age, my mother's age, even my grandmother's age, who dress worse than the teen girls.  You can't even go to CHURCH without dealing with half-dressed women.  People think absolutely nothing of living together, of having an affair, a one-night stand.  People are so crude and foul-mouthed, so wicked.  

     I heard that at a recent NAARP meeting, Shirley MacLaine said that we are really too harsh and have no right to label anything as "evil", but that what one person might say is evil is completely rational to the person doing it.  That we might called Muslim terrorists evil, but to them, what they are doing is right.  This is the product of a collective nation with NO moral standard whatsoever.  Popular opinion judges right and wrong.  I would like to respectfully assert that if society were to run according to Shirley MacLaine's perspective, then people could murder anyone they were angry at, and suffer no consequences, parents could kill children who misbehave, men could rape any woman they want, siblings could kill each other, children could kill parents, parents could torture children, and any foul product of any wicked mind would be perfectly acceptable.  Because the person always has a reason for what they do.  A man desires a woman, she refuses him, he must have the right to rape her!  A sibling takes a toy away, surely you have the right to take a knife and run them through!  How about we send Shirley MacLaine to Indonesia or some hostile place and see how she enjoys what she sees?  How long would a rich, spoiled rotten, selfish, lazy, high and mighty person like Shirley MacLaine like to look at the world from a REAL perspective???  Insane!  Ludicrous!

     Though she might have said it on a larger scale than most Americans would, she only brought out the general attitude of America.  "I don't judge", is not a biblical notion comparable to "Judge not, and you will not be judged", it is a motto that basically rephrases, "Anything goes!"  It simply means that you can do anything and get away with it.  You can't.

     While I'm on this topic, I would like to mention the Judge Samuel B. Kent, in Texas, who honestly needs to be in prison!  This wicked, wicked man suppressed freedom of speech and religion with a very Communist sounding threat.  A graduation was about to take place, and he told the high school students that they were forbidden to speak the name of Jesus in any way, shape or form at the graduation.  He said a marshall would be present, and any student who mentioned the Lord would be held in contempt of court and go to jail for 6 months.  He said that any student who thinks he is kidding is wrong, and that if they were to try him, he would make them wish they had died as a child.  What?  Did I accidentally make you think this happened in Communist Russia?  In Hussein's Iraq?  In Catholic Europe?  No, here in the USA, in Texas!  This judge should have been snatched up by his hair and dragged out of his office, a mob should have forced him out.  Instead, like big babies, afraid to stand up, everyone bowed the knee to this little Hitler-like tyrant!

     So, you people who want to whine about gas prices, about the economy, you want to blame Bush, look at this nation!  Blame the wicked, selfish people in this nation!  America's predicament is only America's fault!  This nation is being judged by God.  And all who think you can escape His hand, you are wrong!