Do good and Live: Do Evil in the streets and you shall Wail
If you wonder what God does, in times like we are now going through, just look at what he did when Israel was going through equally difficult times in the days of Amos the Prophet.
Amos 5
V.12a - "... I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins ...."
Be aware that God knows the certain destiny and suffering of America's evil doers and "manifold and mighty sins"....
V.12b - "...they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right."
Our American system has been perverted and the powers that be are now "afflicting the just" (Honest citizens who work, pay their unjust taxes, and obey the laws, while the politicians take "bribes" from lobbyists and CEO's to violate the poor struggling citizens and their Constitutional "Rights".
V.13 - "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time."
Intimidated citizens who see the abuses of power and corruption of the entrenched government leaders, and their majority supporters, will not speak out and condemn the "evil" actions of their leadership because of fear of being abused ... so they "keep silence".
Then God gives Amos His will for His people in such "evil times". He tells them to always "Seek good and avoid evil" which will tend to good health and long life, and "the Lord will be with you" through all the trials.
V.14 - "Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord .... shall be with you ....."
Then God goes a step beyond "Seeking good and avoiding evil" and charges His people to "Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the gate" (That is, in the official seat of their government, at the gate) and it may not be too late for the LORD's grace to relieve you of the burden of such bad government.
V.15 - "Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious ...."
Here the Lord declares that His grace will be upon His people, who love to do good and hate evil. And likewise those people who hate and destroy, in the streets, will change their riotous behavior into wailing (crying in pain, grief and loss).
V.16 - "Therefore the Lord ... saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets." Amos 5:12-16.
President Ronald Reagan's words of 59 years ago foresaw what is happening in America today, as did many Christians. Reagan warned, on March 30, 1961, that, "Freedom is never more than one generation way from extinction. We didn't pass it along in our a will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
These things are not easily or quickly repaired, but if we act quickly, God may intervein in miraculous ways. yet unknown. RB
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