America’s Loss of Blessing Turns To Curses
By Ray Gano
Well we are two months shy from the one year anniversary of this president being in office.
Folks, we are beginning to see God's judgments upon this nation. First and foremost, it is through our leadership. The people have elected a man who stands with Islam and against Christianity. He stands and supports terrorists and not with Israel.
The following is a headline I read this morning…
Obama green-lights Arab land grab
By Aaron Klein
A top Palestinian Authority negotiator told WND that the Obama administration won't stand in the way of a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negotiations with Israel.
Despite widespread assumptions the U.S. would veto any such U.N. Security Council resolution, the PA negotiator said that in initial discussions, the Obama administration did not threaten to veto their conceptual unilateral resolution.
"The U.S. told us that they prefer a negotiated settlement with Israel, but if we (Palestinians) insist on a resolution, the Americans will not necessarily reject it," the PA negotiator said.
"The U.S. has a history of never before vetoing any U.N. move to create a new state," the negotiator pointed out. (1)
Where did we go wrong?
How is it that what seems just over night we have turned our backs on one of our most closest of allies?
Scripture says…
Gen 12:3 (KJV) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
But more than that, we have become a rebellious nation, even in claiming the title "Christian" when all we do is pay lip service to God our Creator.
This nation is cursed because we have forgotten one simple thing.
What are we forgetting?
Here is what scripture says…
Deut 28:1-2 (KJV) 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 thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Now in Deuteronomy 28 was God addressing Israel. He promised them with specific blessings if they obeyed God and all his commandments.
Look at all the blessings God promised Israel.
Deut 28:3 - 14 (KJV) Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 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.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies 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.
8 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.
9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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:
14 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.
I look back at when this nation was a God fearing nation and the abundance the God blessed us with. We stood upon Deut 28:1-2 and our nation was blessed because we obeyed God.
Our nation was rich with food and we fed the world.
Our nation was great in strength and we protected the weak and evil trembled.
Our nation was wealthy beyond compare and helped people nations rise out of poverty.
Our nation was the leader of the free world, a beacon of liberty and a place where one was proud to be an American.
Today that is no more because we no longer fear God, and instead we spit in His face and parade our sinful disgusting lifestyles on the streets for all to see.
Folks, read what scripture says and please don't get lazy on me. READ ALL OF THIS…
This is what took place when Israel did NOT harken unto the voice of the Lord and did NOT obey his commandments…
Deut 28:15-44 (KJV) But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Our cities are cursed with crime, filthiness and sexual debauchery. Our farms and fields lay barren.
Cursed when our representatives visit other countries and laughed at are our leaders who have no respect.
We are a nation where cancer, aids / HIV, tuberculosis, flu strains, and just about any other disease you can name is killing us.
We suffer drought, heat waves, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, every natural disaster that falls upon is "the disaster of the century."
We no longer win our wars and our young men and women die for corporate greed and ill fated ideas our leadership presents.
We have broken families and the divorce rate is not 1 in every 2 marriages. Children turning against parents and parents against children.
We work hard 40-50-60 hours a week and still there is little to show for the efforts.
Plagues and pestilence ravage our farmlands, the cost to grow food is so outrageous that it is better to do nothing with the land and let it turn to dust.
The people go hungry, have no hope, and live in depravity, knowing nothing else but being a slave to the shallow lives they live, just eeking out an existence. The drown their sorrows in the ways of the world, the ways of the flesh, alchol and drugs both leagal and illlegal and still nothing helps them escape the disparity they live in.
Why can't we escape?
The reason is that God clearly states that the curse shall pursue and overtake them.
Scripture continues…
Deut 28:45 - 48 (KJV) Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
I look around at what is taking place here in the US as well as globally and I see man working towards his own demise through the pleasures of the world and of the flesh.
But that is not all, because we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, we will suffer at the hands of another.
Deu 28:49-52 (KJV) The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Folks, do you see our nation in this scenario? Don't you see the curses coming upon this nation? If you don't you have got to be blind or suffering severe denial. What God is telling us about Israel, our very own nation is beginning to suffer.
This is the path that this nation is on.
I fear that in the next two years, if we as Christians do not stand, then even worse will be set upon us.
We have a president who supports Islam and will not bock at Sharia Law being instituted here in this nation.
He is also a Marxist who has no problem with communism being established in this nation.
Right now both Islam and Russia are powerful forces that outnumber ours. They have the strength to invade. They have the power to enslave and rape this nation of what little abundance we have left.
Our nation is ripe for the picking because we have not headed the voice of the Lord nor have we followed His commandments.
One does not need a crystal ball to see where this nation is headed. If you are not sure, re-read all of Deuteronomy 28.
For if this nation falls to another, here is what we have to look forward to…
Deut 28:53 -62 (KJV) And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the
57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
Folks, when Israel fell to her enemies, the extremes were so bad that many women sustained a wretched existence by eating the flesh of their own children. Parental affection was extinguished… gone. The nearest relatives were completely avoided, so that they would not discover and demand a share of the revolting meal of one's own child. Greed was so rampant, compassion completely gone.
Can you imagine the depths of depravity suffered because Israel did not heed the voice of the Lord and obey His commandments?
This is where this nation is headed. You can clearly see that the Lord has lifted His hand and the curses are befalling upon this nation.
How many of you feel and see the writing on the wall too?
Are we prepared if the Lord tarries?
But more importantly, what are we doing to live for Him and share the Gospel?
Do you have “rose colored glasses” syndrome? Or worse, do we have a “what me worry” attitude because both feet are firmly planted in the world?
What is the answer?
It is simple…
2Chron 7:14 (KJV) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
My greatest fear is that we will wait to long before heeding that simple solution and suffer the pains of being slaves to another. We are half way there down that path of destruction, how much further will we travel?
Endnotes
1 - http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116154