Promise of Blessings

There is a story in the Old Testament regarding the prophet Jonah, who went to give a warning to Ninevah to change their ways, but in the process, he ended up in the body of a whale, and went through great trials and tribulations before he was finally able to deliver the message of warning to Ninevah. Then Ninevah repented of their sins, turned back to God, and Jonah became a bit frustrated that the condemnation had not been carried out on that city-state, after all the trouble he himself had to go through to get the message across. He questioned God Himself regarding this decision, and God basically stated he had the right to change his mind: "And should not I spare Ninevah, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" (Jonah 4:11, KJV)

Now that leads the way for all the doom and gloom prophets who are predicting the downfall of our country, but this is still America, and we still have time to get back on the straight and narrow path. Time is short, but it has not completely run out. Many of the good grassroots people of America who are living decent lives are the ones who never speak up or say anything when they see the wrongdoing of others.

There is much violence and utter nonsense being broadcast in the entertainment industry, and so many of our young people are unable to separate fact from fiction. Also many of our young people do not know the history of our country very well, including the wars that have been fought in the past, and the reason for fighting them. I met the husband of one of my fellow Medical Transcriptionists at a conference once, and he was a school teacher. He told me that many of the young students of today will see information about World War II, for example, and say, "Did that really happen?" They are totally oblivious to how much sacrifice has been made so they can have all the advantages that they enjoy today.

If we are not careful in this country, we could actually lose all the freedoms that we hold so dear, and that is beginning to occur as we speak. Many of our country's leaders have basically sold our birthright already, as a nation, right from under us, while we were blissfully unaware that this was happening. We have been so busy as a nation trying to help other countries, and to bring up the standards of living of many third world countries, and we could end up like a third world country ourselves, if we do not take warning before it is too late.

In Deuteronomy chapter 28, (KJV) here is what God promises us in the Bible: "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command these this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

"The Lord shall cause thine enemes that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto: and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he has sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.

"And all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of thee. And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

"The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

"And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them;

"And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them." (Deuteronomy 28: 1-14, KJV).

Now, no country or countries has epitomized this large an amount of blessings as has the United States, Canada, the British Isles and all their Kingdom, and Australia. This blessing was bestowed upon the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, of whom the Jews, the tribe of Judah, are only one tribe. There were 11 other tribes besides Judah, some of which had traveled very far away from the area of Jerusalem, by the time this Blessing started to be carried out. Because God Himself had made this promise to Abraham and all his offspring (during the days of Moses), it was just a matter of time before the prophecy could be carried out, and we have lived in a time where we have seen the Blessings that God had to bestow on all our countries. However, there is a downside to the possibility. Once we forget where all these blessings come from, we are in very great danger of losing all these blessings that we have been granted from Almighty God -- and you can rest assured that all the other countries are watching right now, to see if we will lose our birthright completely. Now is the time to take a really good look at where our nation has made mistakes regarding all the advantages that we have had bestowed on us.

Yes, wars have been fought and sacrifices have been made, which have also helped us to be where we are today, but let us NOT leave God Himself out of the equation! Other countries all over the world are just waiting to see if we will turn into a laughing-stock in this country, and this should be a very dire warning that we need to get back on the path of belief in Our God, and not lose our faith, and our foundation which this country was built on.