I have no doubt that some of you will not know what this is a picture
of; even more will not know how to use it. Times have changed. Portable
typewriters have become extinct (however, you can still buy a new one,
if you look diligently). The point of this is that the current adult
population does not use or does not even care if these exist!!! Given
the decline of spirituality in this country, I have to ask myself: Will
there ever be a time in the U.S.A. that people do not know who God is or
even care to hear anything about HIM? Right about now, you are probably
asking yourself: Is Gary crazy? If it could happen before, it could
happen again....
Judges, Chapter 2
7 The
people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the
elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh
that he had worked for Israel. 8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. 9 They
buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the
hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 10 Also
all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose
another generation after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor yet the work
which he had worked for Israel. 11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals; 12 and
they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out
of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the
peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and
they provoked Yahweh to anger. 13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 14 Yahweh’s
anger was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands
of raiders who plundered them; and he sold them into the hands of their
enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their
enemies. 15 Wherever
they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh
had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very
distressed. 16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet
they didn’t listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute
after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside
quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the
commandments of Yahweh. They didn’t do so. 18 When
Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved
them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it
grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who
oppressed them and troubled them. 19 But
when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly
than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow
down to them; they didn’t cease from their doings, nor from their
stubborn way.
This
passage of Scripture is a synopsis of what happened to the nation God
chose. America is a land that untold numbers came to for religious
freedom and it has turned from God; can God's wrath be long in coming?
Where is a good "judge" when you need one? Or, for that matter, a
portable typewriter when the power goes out...
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