Introduction
In this sermon we are going to cover what we are best able to address, there is more to it than we can cover.
What we will be focusing on is Jehovah God removing Himself from a nation. It is God who raises a nation up, and it is He who tears it down (Job 12:23). God is a righteous Dictator, He does what He wants, when He wants, how He wants, for as long as He wants, and no being tells Him otherwise. This will be an unhappy sermon for some, but please note that it is intended to help recalibrate and to sober the abandoned nation in view, for its own good. It is difficult to write because our focus will be on the United Sates, where we and our loved ones and friends and colleagues live.
The Judgment of Abandonment
Not much good can become of a nation, or an individual for that matter, when God “removes” Himself from either one. He removing Himself is what we mean by “abandonment.” It is a judgment in the sense that it is a sentence, a sentence levied by God, singularly to satisfy the Divine Justice, itself anchored in God’s precepts (commandments, laws, teachings). Abandonment—God “giving the subject over,” that is, letting them go on their own willful ways—unchecked—to loss and oftentimes to ruin. Clearly, without God’s wind in their sails trials and tribulations must follow as surely as night follows day. Their extent, and depth, and how long they last, and whether they lead to total destruction, that is up to God and His plans for that nation (or individual, but our focus going forward will be at the national level with the United States in view). There are always signs that indicate abandonment is underway, signs that have sad and sobering biblical precedents, and with God’s help, in the following subsections, we will try to identify some of the ominous signs that seem to indicate that the United States has passed the tipping point of God’s tolerance and is experiencing God’s judgment of abandonment (JOA), indeed, judgment by the very God who founded the U.S., a nation ever so willingly founded on His precepts by God-fearing, humble people who much loved God, and who had come here precisely to worship Him freely. We will do this by category: spiritual, domestic, economic, and military JOA signs.
Spiritually
Here sits the event horizon of Abandonment, the point of no return unto grace. The Judgment of Abandonment has spiritual causals, and the judgments attending the other categories mentioned follow in turn. Like dominoes, when this one falls, the rest fall in turn. And this one follows the outline found in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (Romans 1:18-23, 24-29, 30-32), which lands on depravity. Given over to depravity (Romans 1:28, literally aDOKIMOS, we like “unprincipled,” clearly not up to God’s standards)—that is literally the judgment, literally, “given over” to depravity. Depravity is the portal to doom for an individual or a nation in spiritual freefall itself attested by this very depravity. Spiritual freefall, with no discernible danger for the moment—very insidious–but woe, It is freefall unto doom, and the horror of it is that there is no turning back but for a holy Right Arm no longer in the fight. Given over to depravity—that is the judgment—it is the judgment that leads to the “domino effect.” But why? Because the unprincipled mind of the individual and in the aggregate the national consciousness cannot discern and think and decide aright anymore once depravity sets in and is allowed to fester—this should be self-evidently obvious notwithstanding myriad biblical precedents. For our purposes, national consciousness per se is shaped by governments, and typically reflects their sentiments; it trickles down as a license, and is far reaching, and when it is trickle down depravity, we find depravity and the attendant fallout in the home, the workplace, in the schools, and of course in the government—uncomely domestic and national fallout, unabated, because God throttles it not, He lets it go, in this way giving the nation over to its preferred course—depravity.
Arguably, this depravity, this moral corruption and wickedness, this exceeding unreasonableness, is acute in the West, and it accelerated, it gained in intensity, after World War II as per tracking Romans 1:18ff above. That is, in escalating, stepwise fashion, marginal Godlessness gave way to unchecked Godlessness, and unchecked Godlessness gave way to unabashed immorality, and unabashed immorality landed on depravity. And today we have depravity on unabashed, licensed, display, in this manner: brutal murder of the unborn by the millions, men marrying men, women marrying women, men “turning themselves into” women, women “turning themselves into” men. Reductio ad absurdum (reduction to the absurd): depravity[1]. Surely such a mind, and in the aggregate such a national consciousness, is inclined toward irrational thought in myriad ways, having clearly shown itself to be guided by a confused reality (thus the domino effect mentioned). And like water covering a surface fills all nooks and crannies, so this depravity, this unreasonableness and irrationality, settles into the fabric of a nation and debilitates it, ultimately destroying it. There must be reason and clear thinking, with a firm grasp on reality, for a nation’s various functional parts to work right, and unabashed, open depravity in the national consciousness, licensed by government, betrays a susceptibility for a nation to think and thus govern in a manner that is out of touch with reality. The reader may wish to tuck away the proposition that depravity in the national consciousness, necessarily unfazed by a weak modern Christian Church (1Peter 4:17), is at work in these follow-on judgments of abandonment. Again, perhaps more than any other, the nation in view is the modern bellwether of depravity, the United Sates of America.
Domestically
Of the many directions we could go, we are going to focus on these two categories: the U.S. Supreme Court, and Law Enforcement in the USA. National consciousness is influenced by government, it reflects its sentiments, and our government per se follows the mandates that come to it from the Supreme Court. So, there is a strong link between the national consciousness and Supreme Court rulings. The U.S. Supreme Court has opted to remove Jehovah God’s jurisprudence, precisely His precepts (laws, teachings, commands—the Law of Jesus Christ), from its jurisprudence and the follow-on federal and state legislature based on that Godless higher court jurisprudence. Moreover God’s person, attributes, and very existence (tangibly discerned through Jesus Christ) are denied, allowed no weight in decisions, thus we find Him nowhere in our government, in its sentiments, nor in the national consciousness (“The Heartbeat of a Great Nation become Greatly Foolish”). That Godlessness, which could only, and in fact did, lead to depravity, is primarily why America is under the Judgment of Abandonment. We may lay much of the blame of that Abandonment at the feet of our Supreme Court because so much of consequence in the goings-on of our trickle-down government unfolds precisely from that ruling body. So, over the course of barely two-hundred and fifty years since its founding strictly on the Word of God, America is bottoming out as a rudderless, Godless nation, foremost of its own choosing, and of course by the attendant abandonment of God: He leaving America to its own course and devices, quite without Him by its side going forward.
The integrity (and efficacy) of Law Enforcement in the USA rides a sine wave, we have witnessed many ups and many not so pretty downs. What is the average amplitude of a sine wave? It is zero—there sits the judgment. Granted, there are many hard-working, and well-meaning law enforcement officers and police in the USA, but there are just too many that are essentially as out-of-bounds-dirty and underhanded as Satan who coaches and guides them, and good people suffer and/or are killed at their unholy hands too often. Rather than expounding on that here, we defer to a previous sermon on the subject (“Law Enforcement in the USA”). The matter is included here because we see it as an unmistakable sign of abandonment by God. Law and Order are dear to God’s heart and reflect an aspect of His holiness, when these become degraded in a nation it is because His Spirit, the Restrainer, exceedingly grieved, has backed out and left that nation to its own wicked devices.
Economically
- Since around 1950, when the century long eye-popping blessings from God decisively ended for the American Empire, we witness not surprisingly ramped up exploitation of the masses of labor, themselves comprising the bulk of the population, and all the attendant struggles for them, financial and otherwise, and unrest. Why the exploitation? To squeeze out more profit for the shareholders by keeping benefits, perks, and especially wages down? Sounds good if one is a shareholder, right? Not really. The shareholders who benefit the most are the majority shareholders, an elite few, who have their finger on the pulse of the entity’s short- and long-term market health and thus buy | sell heads-up—for most shareholders that is not the case, certainly not for the average employee who holds relatively few shares, if any (but who does the bulk of the work). Do these elitist capitalists deserve to benefit so conveniently at the expense of the workers, blue collar, white collar, who do the actual work? Is the risk the elitists took worth that much? The economy of God knows no such disgusting things (“The Economy of the Early Church”).
- There is an irrational national debt spiraling out of control that sooner or later is going to irrecoverably undermine the integrity of the U.S. dollar and foreign lending and international trade. There is a financial crisis of unprecedented magnitude sitting on a hairpin trigger just waiting to explode here.
- And an out-of-control consumer debt (but cf. Leviticus 25:35-38, Proverbs 28:8), out of control consumer debt consequential to the next point:
- The shock of heretofore unexperienced negative real wages is why we have point 3.) just above—a stifling type game changer in this economy, with real wages further accelerated downward by inflation, with attendant inflation-combative rising interest rates and the irrational printing of money fueling the cycle and choking the already struggling laborers further, with no real fix in view (see how man’s economy pains him—that too is a judgment).
- And slowing overall growth, foundering vis a vis a peer competitor who is growing very fast.
- Marked international de-dollarization efforts are afoot to break asunder the U.S.’ sanctions-imposing “big stick;” there is an increasingly flat-out real possibility that the U.S. dollar is replaced as anchor and reserve currency by the various national reserve banks; this would force an unprecedented reshuffling of wealth in the U.S. Obvious domestic fallout here spilling over geopolitically.
- The U.S. untethered the dollar from gold in 1933, and finally in 1973. Thus, the dollar is ”fiat money,” i.e., government issued without backing by a physical commodity like gold or silver—its value is a function of the internationally perceived stability of the issuing government (U.S. here) and supply and demand (perceptions are a fickle thing). If the government becomes unstable by taking serious losses militarily or gets into serious trouble with things like national and international debt, or chronic unreasonable trade imbalances, the fiat money devalues not linearly but exponentially. The U.S. (and other governments) utilizes fiat money to allow for “flexibility” in handling sundry economic crises by way of increasing or decreasing the money supply (cash in circulation +bank deposits). A gold-pegged currency is too “rigid” in that regard is the argument. All well and good as long as the government remains stable and does not get into an inescapable debacle of some sort. No, it is not a Godly approach in our estimation. It is like saying, I can sin (or be stupid) and get away with it because the Standard has no hard and fast boundaries. That only encourages sin (and stupidity) upfront (notice that God and His economy are not fluid). It assumes that one is always going to be one step behind the crisis, and it discourages a priori crisis management because there is available a flexible escape route. It is consistent with depraved thinking. But any move away from that flexibility though at this point would so throttle this government that it would collapse almost immediately—“flexibility management” (fiscal, monetary) is so ingrained in this economy it knows not how to function otherwise. Credit and debt, spending, interest, and taxation, are its watchwords, precisely the ones God’s economy refuses (and Satan encourages, they are some of his favorite bludgeoning instruments after all).
It is the Judgment of Abandonment. God has arrayed Himself against this Godless nation, its irrational decisions here are folding back on it on a grand scale, an unmistakable sign of abandonment. Is it too late for it to turn? Would it even “lower itself” to do so?
Militarily
Notice the year—since 1950 either outright defeat, or armistices (largely stalemates) with exceeding lingering unresolved tensions; either way, with massive local destruction and much death, thus did the head of the NATO snake (USA) make war largely in futility. Notice too how far from U.S. shores these largely futile wars are. Korea: 1950-1953, Vietnam: 1954-1975, Libya: 1986-2012, Gulf War: 1990-1991, Somalia: 1992-1995, Bosnia: 1995-2004, Serbia: 1998-1999, Afghanistan: 2001-2021, Iraq: 2003-2011, Syria: 2014-present, Ukraine: 2014-present, Yemen: 2015-present, Niger: 2017-present. The death, destruction, sorrow and pain caused by this here satanic blood lust, this depravity, is mind boggling[2]. With hundreds of military bases around the world in other people’s country (Fig. 1), and thousands of nukes, and the only nation to actually use nuclear weapons, twice, the United States of America has become one of the most if not the most war-mongering killer nation in history. That is depravity and a sort of freak paranoia on display. Can a holy God continue to bless a killer nation such as that? Biblical history clearly shows that He does bear long with a nation, and while He bears, He warns, and warns again, and again (Matthew 23:37-39—here Jesus Himself does the warning and announces the abandonment, of old He spoke through His prophets). Abandonment is a late-stage warning—the latest, the last. God’s abandonment of the U.S. is not unlike His abandonment of even His own people Israel and Judah of old when they slid into chronic idolatry, immorality, and wickedness, and He flat handed even them over to their enemies to serve those enemies—Dr. God here prescribing a humble pie diet going forward for those who were not fatally struck with the edge of the sword.
It serves us to return to the above wars the U.S. has waged for a moment. One could argue win | loss realities in that list all day long, but the important point as we see it is this: where is the peer competitor in that list? Does the U.S. really think that it can step into the ring one-on-one with a true heavyweight given that track record? True to its out of touch with reality depravity it does indeed. The reader decide—the U.S. thinks that it can fight not one (Russia or China), but two (Russia and China) of those heavyweights at the same time—is that depraved and crazy? How can any U.S. diplomat be taken seriously echoing that sort of irrational national hubris? How does one negotiate anything substantively healing when confronted with that manner of reckless arrogance? Well, that is the looming judgment—God will let them step into that ring in due time, sacred, not secular time, another fight they will lose, and irrecoverably at that time, in keeping with suppositions about the Ezekiel prophecies put forth in our Revelation chapter eighteen commentary. Please notice that in the conflict in Ukraine, which looks a lot like how things came together and miserably ended for the U.S. in Vietnam, the U.S. led “collective West” has faced off against Russia at the expense of a very brave proxy Ukraine sad to say. Please notice too that the 2021 GDP of Russia was just north of $1.5 trillion, that of the collective West about $31 trillion, with the U.S. accounting for the lion’s share. So, who is David, and who is Goliath, in this the most recent U.S. led debacle and tragedy? The narrative pushed by the U.S and its allied governments is that the U.S. led West and Ukraine (altogether “Goliath”) are embarrassing the mighty Russian army—”David,” claiming it cannot advance much, but it is exactly the other way around. The truth is, the U.S. led West has lost that fight; in fact, given all the hubris flaunted about, one would think they should have been able to end it in victory months ago, especially with the stifling financial sanctions they imposed on the people of Russia and the military might they brought to the fight[3], but they cannot prevail for the same reason that most of the other conflicts listed above ended in failure[4]. God fought against Goliath in David’s day, and He is fighting against this here “Goliath.” It is called the judgment of abandonment. Here is another one. There are a lot of soft underbellies in the West making very stupid military decisions (stupidity and depravity are kin folk). For example, concerning the Ukraine conflict, why did these genius planners run out of ammunition, resorting to devilish cluster munitions to “hold Ukraine over” for the time being—it is almost laughable if it wasn’t so tragic (Proverbs 20:18, Luke 14:31-32)[5]. And the equipment and weaponry is obviously not of the quality western citizens thought their taxes were paying for—Russia is apparently laying it waste and sending the videos around the world to prove it. It is called the judgment of abandonment. In the U.S., the “quality” of that equipment and weaponry is directly consequential to the influence of an arrogant military complex, DoD and otherwise, that is inept at too many levels, is fraudulent, wasteful, and “distant” from reality, largely run by “good ‘ol boy” networks putting in their time just to get by and ultimately fat-cat it somewhere nice in their retirement, they do not really give a hoot about the quality of the work, not very much. We witnessed this firsthand at Strategic Air Command, Vandenburgh, and at the Naval Weapons Facility, Crane. If one may extrapolate out the quality of things we witnessed at Crane regarding, for example, the electronics in the U.S. Trident missile (submarine launched ballistic missile), then it comes as no shock to us that Russia is destroying much of the western-provided equipment and weaponry. Even if Ukraine were receiving the very best U.S. conventional weaponry, we reckon the same losses would show up precisely because of its shoddy quality and poor design (we cannot address the quality and design issues of the U.S.’ allies because we have no experience in those arenas; the pattern of abandonment by God would argue for the same poor quality and design and craftsmanship). The whole of it, from the arrogant and rather inept military complex to the surface-deep, money-grubbing politics, the results on the battlefields listed above—it is called the judgment of abandonment. The judgment of abandonment through the vehicle of an out of touch with reality, depraved, national consciousness shaped by government, reflecting its Godless sentiments, yea, awash in it.
Concluding Comments
How much longer can the U.S. play dodgeball with God without catching one of His balls on the chin, where it really hurts? Not very long. The fix is simple, but impossible as we see it. The biggest problem the U.S. government has is a God-problem, that is its biggest problem. O, but the U.S. does have a god for sure, many of them, but not Jehovah God, the One who planted our ancestors, and loved them, and helped them to grow, and wax great. Sadly, He has been booted out of government. It is the Christian people of this land, not its Godless government, that keeps the U.S. afloat these days. The U.S. has abandoned God, and guess what, He has abandoned the U.S. Folks in our government ought to take that seriously and think about it and wring their hands over it, over what it means today and going forward. Let us help them out with some JOA goings-on in the nation.
- That is why your family, the linchpin of your society, is breaking down; divorce, kids growing up without parents, abortion, abuse, secular not sacred training of your youth, and the beat goes on into the next generation, and the next because God throttles it not.
- That is why you are a polluted nation, litter and waste and trash just about everywhere one looks. The streets of so many of your cities are embarrassing and disgusting to look at. No discipline, no sense of responsibility, no sense of Godliness, of course.
- That is why your economy is degrading, it is why you are losing ground economically to peer competitors, in fact, you better duck, because BRICS is going to leapfrog you and leave you in the dust. God will let it unfold because He is not fighting for you anymore.
- That is why you are losing, stalemating at best, in the wars you love to wage—look again at your track record listed above if you do not think that is an accurate statement. You have been getting your hiny handed to you for a reason here, precisely JOA.
- That is why you do not have law and order, many of your own police are as dirty as the criminals, crime is off the charts, especially in your cities, because you yourself do not understand law and order having ridded yourself of God’s precepts in favor of your own. So, God gives you over to this train wreck you call law and order.
- God has given you fools to run your government, fools to adjudicate in your courts, and near idiots to lead your military, because that is the reward He grants arrogant, Godless governments like you (Psalms 14:1).
- That is why a plethora of countries around the world are ashamed to be associated with you, because you yourself are ashamed of God, ashamed to be counted as a nation of God and by God and for God, ashamed to the hilt even to speak His Name, so He sees fit to put that same sort of odium on you, get it?
If the U.S., particularly its government, because that is essentially where the problem lies, from one administration to the next and onward, were to humble itself, and publicly espouse God, disdaining the cost, maybe, God only knows, maybe He would relent. As we see it, the only thing keeping this country afloat is the dedicated Christian community that prays for America, prays for revival, and mercy. That’s it, that is the only reason why the U.S. has not been removed from the world stage as a world power already. But we suffer here under this satanic, depraved government.
Praised be your Name great Jehovah God. Please have mercy on us in this nation that you founded. Remember our ancestors whom you planted and who served you and loved you, and grant us time for revival unto Godliness and unashamed worship of you, even you. Amen.
Illustrations and Tables
Figure 1. U.S. Imperialism (CIA, NSA Driven).
Works Cited and References
“A Letter of Invitation.” (a standing invitation)
Jesus, Amen.
< https://development.jesusamen.org/a-letter-of-invitation-2/ >
“Law Enforcement in the USA.”
Jesus, Amen.
< https://development.jesusamen.org/law-enforcement-in-the-usa/ >
“Revelation Chater Eighteen Commentary.”
Jesus, Amen.
< https://jesusamen.org/commentaryrev18.html >
“The Economy of the Early Church.”
Jesus, Amen.
< https://development.jesusamen.org/the-economy-of-the-early-church/ >
“The Head of the NATO Snake.”
Jesus, Amen.
< https://development.jesusamen.org/the-head-of-the-nato-snake-and-and-revelation-66/ >
“The Heartbeat of a Great Nation become Greatly Foolish.”
Jesus, Amen.
< https://development.jesusamen.org/the-heartbeat-of-a-great-nation-become-greatly-foolish/ >
Notes
[1] We are quick to enforce “mask laws” in the midst of a pandemic to protect the lives of others but discount the judgment that befalls the lives of others when a nation celebrates depravity.
[2] We lost a good friend from Cambodia to cancer, almost surely a consequence of exposure to or unwitting ingestion of “Agent Orange,” which contains the deadly chemical dioxin; some twenty million gallons (seventy-six million liters) of this and other herbicidal chemicals were sprayed over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos by the U.S. from 1961 to 1971. We can be sure that has caused the death of untold myriad good friends and family over the intervening years. If God has His eyes on the sparrow, and He does, how much more so on the untold myriad innocent souls here (Matthew 6:26, 10:29-31).
[3] According to Bloomberg, Russia’s GDP grew by 4.9% in the second quarter of 2023 despite international sanctions and could return to pre-war levels as early as 2024. The sanctions failed is the point.
[4] So, will they “save face” and shift the blame and tell us next that it all failed because Ukraine did not follow the game plan? How depraved is that, given proxy Ukraine’s suffering and losses, not to mention that it is a U.S.-led provocation of the war in the first place? “Not one inch eastward by NATO,” wasn’t that the agreement? They lied, of course.
[5] Ukraine is leaning on a bruised reed—it is not an accident that it is bruised. Give it up friends, restart and rebuild your lives leaning on God our Savior, Messiah, trust Him, and call on His Name, and He will help you rise out of the ashes because He loves the people of Ukraine—did He not “go out of His way” to evangelize Ukraine in dark times before? He cares about you very much is why He did so in those days, and it is no different today, because our God is not frivolous, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow (Numbers 23:19, 1Samuel 15:29, James 1:17). He will help you rebuild, trust Him. Don’t fight the U.S.’ fight any longer, God has abandoned the U.S., but He has not abandoned you. He better than anyone understands your sufferings. Tether tightly to the true Sovereign, even Jehovah God. We are praying for you.