America's Judgment and Islam
By Bill Keller
Fathima Rifqa Bary is a 17-year-old Muslim girl from Ohio who converted to
Christianity and fled to Florida in fear of her life. I praise God the
courts in Florida have allowed her to stay, since we have already seen a
rash of "honor killings" on US soil in recent years. Remember the Muslim
man in Buffalo who decapitated his wife for wanting a divorce? Or the
Houston cab driver who shot to death his two daughters in the back of his
cab for simply becoming "too western"? I have tried to tell you for years
that Islam is a religion of hate and death, and according to Islamic Law,
Fathima would be put to death for leaving Islam and converting to
Christianity.
This is an important story because Muslims who have come to this country
have not sought to assimilate themselves into the American lifestyle, but
they have sought to force people here to follow their laws and beliefs.
Many US banks have entire departments set up to follow Shariah Law for
Muslim account holders. Some airports have been pressured into providing
footbaths for Muslims. As most people go about their daily lives, Muslims
in this nation are working tirelessly to turn the United States into a
Muslim country.
Will Islam be the United States Babylon? All throughout the Bible and human
history, God has used human instruments to do His work and fulfill His plan
and purpose. We read all throughout the Old Testament how the children of
Israel would turn away from God, follow the false gods and idols of the
world, live in open rebellion to God's commandments, and eventually He would
have enough and pour out His wrath upon them. This was usually done in the
form of allowing the enemies of Israel to take them captive and enslave
them. As you can imagine, that got their attention real quick.
Eventually, after a period of time and due to His never ending love, grace,
and mercy, God would free the children of Israel, give them their land back,
and begin blessing them again. Of course it was in this time of captivity
that the children of Israel would repent and ask God to forgive them. They
would be in a place where God was their only source of hope and strength.
They began to worship Him again, trust Him again, obey Him again. The
amazing thing is once He set them free, it was like they got amnesia. Almost
immediately they would be back worshipping the false gods and idols of the
world. They would be getting involved in every kind of sin you could name.
Worshiping God, trusting Him, living in obedience to His commandments were
all forgotten.
It was like when you were a child and you disobeyed your mother. She would
make you go stand in the corner for a period of time. After the time was up,
you were allowed to go back to playing and doing what you wanted. During the
time you were standing in the corner, you were sorry for what you did. You
promised your mother that you would obey her from now on. As you stood in
that corner you appreciated the freedom you had to play and do what you
wanted. But what happened when the punishment was over? It wasn't long
before you were not listening to your mother any more. You began to do
things you knew you weren't supposed to. What your mom had to say and her
rules didn't matter any more.
Like I tell you often, man has never really changed since the Garden of
Eden! Go read the Book of Judges. What a classic illustration of this cycle
of sin-> punishment-> repentance-> restoration-> and sin again, you will
ever find. You read the Book of Judges and you start screaming at your Bible
every time God frees them from their enemies and they immediately fall right
back into the same pattern of sin that forced God to punish them in the
first place. Over and over and over this cycle is repeated and you think to
yourself how stupid these people are! At that moment, most of us have one of
those sobering moments when the Holy Spirit says loud and clear, YOU ARE NO
DIFFERENT!
Before I deal with our nation, let me deal first with each of us as
individuals. We are all susceptible and at different times in our life fall
into this pattern of sin. This is why I implore you each day to stay in the
Word, pray, keep close to the Lord, be in church on Sunday or some day
during the week, and find ways to serve the Lord. You see, all of these
things working together insure that you are never far from Christ. It keeps
you constantly focused on the Lord and your faith. It makes it very
difficult to fall into the many traps Satan lays for you each day to tempt
you and lead you into sin and away from God.
You know and I know that the first thing you do when you allow sin into your
life is that you stop reading the Bible as much, usually stop reading it
period. You stop praying as much, again, you often stop talking to God at
all. You quit going to church regularly, if you even go at all. You are like
Adam who after he sinned, ran and hid from God and we see that great scene
of God in the Garden asking, "Adam, where are you?"
Of course, as I tell you often sin always has a very high price tag. You
NEVER sin and get away with it. There is always a high price to pay when we
choose to sin against God. Eventually the time to pay, to suffer the
consequences of our rebellion is upon us. We then go through that season of
chastisement, of punishment, and it is during this time that most turn back
to the Lord. We ask Him to forgive us, repent of our sins, and in the season
of punishment find our relationship with Christ again. Eventually the season
of punishment ends and we are back to living our lives again. Hopefully we
learned our lesson and have strengthened our walk with the Lord and will do
all we have to do each day to stay close to Him, live in obedience to His
Word, and enjoy the blessings of that relationship with Jesus.
*Hear my word for you today! The United States is no different than the
children of Israel. We are a wicked and rebellious people who have forsaken
our God. We have squandered His many blessings and have turned this blessed
land into one that is cursed. We have turned to every false god, idol, and
philosophy the world has dreamed up in opposition to the God of the Bible
and His Truth. We proudly and legally practice infanticide in this nation,
slaughtering 4,000 babies every 24 hours. We have embraced, celebrated, and
accepted as normal deviant sexual choices that God never intended man to
engage in. We have opened the floodgates to allow pornography and every kind
of sexual sin man can imagine to exist without any restraint.
As Paul told his young disciple Timothy in 2 Timothy 3, men have become "
lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient
to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous,
without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash,
conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God- having a form of
godliness but denying its power. "
Just as God spared not His wrath on his own chosen people, punishing them
for their rebellion, so will the wrath of God be felt on this nation for our
rebellion. In the past God has poured out His judgment on nations by
allowing their enemies to take them captive. I believe today as I type these
words that unless this nation immediately repents, turns back to God and to
His Truth, ISLAM WILL BE OUR BABYLON! Amen.
I can't read the Bible and read about God's judgment on the
children of Israel for their cycle of sin and not understand that we are
facing His judgment for our rebellion. The Bible is also very clear that
even amongst God's choice servants, when they sinned there was always a
price to pay. Why would we think for a second we can sin and get away with
it?
My prayer for you today is that you will realize that there is a huge price
to pay when we sin. Our rebellion to God always brings consequences.
Likewise, God blesses us for our obedience. So it really boils down to a
choice between consequences and blessings. I have to tell you as someone who
has experienced both, blessings are MUCH better. Sinning is not only an act
against God, but really stupid since we know we aren't going to
get away with it. I pray today that the Lord will speak to your heart and
each time you are confronted with the choice to sin, you will remember that
you pay a huge price for that sin at some point. It is just as easy to OBEY
God, and instead of dealing with the pain of whatever consequences arise,
you can enjoy the blessings that flow from your obedience.
As for this nation, I sense our time is very short. I sense in my spiritual
gut that at any moment God could unleash His wrath on this land. We are not
only due His judgment, we are long OVERDUE! As I see the events of this
world unfolding, I clearly see that Islam could very easily be God's
instrument of judgment on this nation for our rebellion, just like Babylon
was His instrument of judgment on the children of Israel for their
rebellion. I only know the glimpses we get from the Word what being taken
captive and enslaved by a hostile people would be like. None of us can even
begin to fathom it. I do know that it will be horrible. I also know that it
can be avoided IF we act now.
If I can help you in any way you can contact me through my personal email at:
bkeller@liveprayer.com