After the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1000 points recently, Pat Robertson, a well-known Christian TV personality said that “Black Monday” was a “taste” of the “judgment of God” for national sins such as abortion.
“Of course it is judgment!” says Mark Blitz, pastor of El Shaddai Ministries. Blitz is also the one who came up with the “blood moons” tetrad. He argues the United States of America has courted God’s judgment with mistaken policies, especially with regard to Israel. “We already see the signs of economic collapse coming, with America being so much in debt and our government in a comatose condition.”
While secular sources such as analysts and international media outlets are warning of the possibility of American economic collapse, with some going so far as to predict “economic apocalypse,” some Christian leaders they caution America may well be facing heavenly judgment.
Joel Richardson, evangelist, filmmaker and author, said he would “never say that every negative or corrective cycle in the stock market is God’s judgment.” But, he says, “The fact is, God does indeed humble nations because He desires for them to repent of their sins and return to Him. There can be no question that many within the United States are increasingly rejecting God and His ways. No doubt, as a nation, we need to turn back to Him. Desperately so.”
“It’s important to say that we are discussing God humbling this nation out of His love and mercy toward us,” Richardson continues. “He burns to see us return to Him.” Richardson believes economic decline is a signal to American Christians to turn back to God.
Pastor Carl Gallups, a former law-enforcement officer, talk-radio host and author, believes hard times and even persecution are in store for American Christians. He thinks economic difficulties may only be the beginning. “But, I do know this,” he adds, “even if this particular financial disaster passes and/or corrects, America has a day of reckoning coming. And when it arrives, it will make what is happening now look like child’s play.”
“There is no way that we can teach our children – for several generations – that we originated from an accidental, random, cosmic explosion and that there is no need for God – and that the Bible is a simple collection of fairy tales and myths, without the Lord having His say in the matter. We are already paying the ‘reap what you sow’ curse, as we can see with the moral rot in our country. But there is worse yet to come if we don’t repent.”
“How can we exterminate 55 million of our most precious national treasures and resources, our own children,” Gallups continued, “and not expect God’s hand of judgment to eventually fall – and fall hard? How can we arrogantly usher in the Sodom and Gomorrah spirit of degradation and abomination; and then celebrate it, embrace it, glorify it, and codify it – while somehow expecting the author of life and marriage to remain silent?”
Pat Robertson’s comments were similar. “Here in America, we have been complicit in terminating the lives of in excess of 50 million precious unborn children and don’t you think Almighty God is going to hold us accountable for all that? We will pay dearly as a nation for this thing going on.”
“My understanding of the Lord from His Word,” said Gallups, “is that He is merciful and slow to anger, but I also understand that He is a God of justice and righteousness – and that He will not be mocked. We have pushed His mercy beyond anything I could have imagined – and we’re still pushing. I have a feeling that His patience won’t last much longer. I am not a ‘doomsday’ announcer by nature. But, I see the prophetic times in which we are living. I see the way we are turning from God and literally running in the other direction away from Him. Israel did the same thing and they eventually paid with their national sovereignty and centuries of horrific captivity in the hands of pagan nations. And it wasn’t as if God did not warn them of the judgment that would befall them if they did not repent. It seems to many biblical scholars as though we are running in the same path of that certain judgment.”
Bible teacher and author, Jonathan Cahn, also issued a new video warning calling for Christians to prepare for persecution and get ready to stand for God in a coming period of strife that will increasingly be devoid of “gray areas” or middle ground. He said that judgment is imminent because the U.S. clearly “crossed a line,” with the Supreme Court decisions on abortion, removing prayer from schools and most recently in its arrogant redefinition of the God-given covenant of marriage.
The mentality of these men has been predicted. There are larger calamities that will come, which will cause many religious leaders to claim that these are the result of Sunday desecration that the nations need to get back to God.
“This very class put forth the claim that the fast-spreading corruption is largely attributable to the desecration of the so-called “Christian sabbath” and that the enforcement of Sunday observance would greatly improve the morals of society. This claim is especially urged in America, where the doctrine of the true Sabbath has been most widely preached.” Great Controversy, page 587
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Andrew
Sunday September 6th, 2015 at 12:12 AMHere comes the Jesuit Pope on September 24 in the midst of all this “judgment is coming” talk. Very interesting timing.This highly significant event is going unnoticed by almost everyone.