AMERICA'S REAL PROBLEM
Friday, November 1, 2024
Shalom, to you my Friend and Co-Minister in the Great Commission...
Many Christians believe that if they can elect the right people, place the right Supreme Court justices into position, and pass the right laws, they can save America. By all means, we should vote and do all we can to impact our government. I am the first to encourage that. But that alone won't save America. Though politics play an important part, America's problem is not ultimately political. It is not ultimately economic, and not even ultimately cultural.
America's problem is ultimately spiritual, so only a spiritual answer can solve it. If we change laws but not hearts, then the unchanged hearts will, in time, change back the laws. We should seek to change unrighteous laws, but if we don't change hearts, we will lose everything in the end. The overturning of Roe V. Wade was momentous and by the hand of God. But without the overturning of hearts, people will seek an abortion, if not one way, then another, if not in one state, then another, until they can overturn the overturning itself. A recent poll found that 66% of Americans oppose the total overturning of Roe V. Wade with 29% in favor. How long can that be sustained if hearts don't change.
According to another recent poll, the percentage of Americans who want to overturn thelegalization of gay marriage is 28%. The percentage in favor of legalized gay marriage was found to be around 70%. As for the more conservative, as in Republicans, the percentage was somewhere around 50%. Among young Americans, the percentage is even higher than 70%, but then about 1-in-5 to 1-in-4 young Americans now consider themselves LGBT in one form or another. With regard to America's future, it is that last percentage, that of the young, that will prove the most important. We must face the fact that we are living in a nation in a state of apostasy.
In the years 2016 to 2020, the American government was led by a Republican and conservative administration. And there were many accomplishments that conservatives and Christians could boast in - executive orders issued on behalf of life and religious liberty, the appointment of conservative Supreme Court justices, the Jerusalem Declaration, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Abrahamic Accords, the recognition of Israel's sovereignty in the Golan Heights, and more. But at the same time, America's spiritual, moral, and cultural decline, apostasy, and fall, did not stop. If anything the indoctrination of its children in the classroom, online, and in mass media, into the ways of immorality and godlessness only increased. If we don't change those things, we will not change America's trajectory - or its fall.
Electing a more godly or moral administration will not matter in the end, if there is no changing of hearts, no turning back to God, no revival. On the other hand, electing an ungodly or immoral administration will not matter in the end, even if we do change hearts, if the nation does turn back to God, and if true revival does come to America.
This month, let us now vote with our prayers, and fervently plead with God for revival. It is that only that can save this nation. And May God greatly bless you this month as you do!
Your brother and co-laborer
in His love and service,
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn
See Message: 2 Chronicles 7:14: God's Key to Revival
Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:14