IS AMERICA SODOM'S GRANDDAUGHTER?

A friend of mine,Bill McCoy, sent me the following word that he received on September 30, 2009:

For I alone am over the earth – it obeys my every command. These earth quakes are from me – my wrath upon the wicked nations of the earth as it was fore told by my Son in Matthew 24. The Lord says, “Repent oh evil nation and change your ways unite with my land and people – or woe to those things to come upon the U.S. It mocks me while it serves the world – abortions, homosexuality, the laws of the land that dare ban me from my children and creation. For your nation has turned its back on me and shakes its fist at my Throne. I see all, I know all – Repent and be saved – continue and my wrath you will see – as it was in the days of Noah, the days of MY prophets – then all will know I Am that I Am – the Mighty El-Shaddai.”

Many will automatically dismiss this because of a false teaching that says that God is no longer the God as revealed in the Old Covenant when it comes to his wrath. They say God used to be angry and he used to judge nations, but now that entire wrath was placed on Jesus at the cross. As one teacher says, “God is no longer angry; he’s not even in a bad mood! There is no way God is going to judge America and if he did he would have to apologize to Jesus!” This man says the problem is we do not let the Bible get in the way of our thinking:Let’s see what the Bible has to say about this.

First of all God in his wisdom left us the whole Bible, not just the New Testament. When Paul said in 2 Timothy 3:16 that, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” he was referring to Genesis through Malachi because at that time there was no written New Testament. Secondly, it is a gross misrepresentation of God to paint him as this angry Lord who was always looking for sin so he could punish. The truth is, the blood of millions of innocent lambs and other animals was shed to cover sins in the Old Covenant because God is a God of mercy: “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live” (Ezekiel 18:23)? Furthermore, God is revealed by David as “The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy” (Psalms 103:8).

What saith the scriptures? “If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it” (Amos 3:6)? Who overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah? “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly” (2 Peter 2:6). Notice it said example, not an exception. Notice that it is recorded in the New Testament. The problem is that this is not the image of God that we want people to see so what do we do? We change his image: After all, don’t we know best?

Who said God was no longer angry? He is not angry without cause and he is not angry with those who are in Christ, but for those who reject the poured out Blood of the Lamb and refuse to obey the gospel, the scriptures teach that there is a present wrath: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36). Paul speaking of the Jews said in 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16: “Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.”

God judged the nation of Israel severely some forty years after the New Covenant began for rejecting Christ: “But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city” (Matthew 22:7). If he destroyed Jerusalem, and if judgment must first begin in the house of God, will he not judge America? Are we not murderers of millions of innocent babies? Do we not worship with Sodom: “Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)? Is America Sodom's granddaughter?