A Nation Lost and Adrift

An interesting article from www.ucg.org about the current state of the United States prior to Thanksgiving 2011. This follows this post about Germany and the current European financial crisis. For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

A Nation Lost and Adrift






article by Scott Ashley





America is simply proving again a great truth - that we ultimately reap what we have sown.



As I write this, the president of the United States is in the city where I live telling those in his audience to write their congressmen to urge them to pass a jobs bill to put millions of construction workers and teachers back to work. "It's all paid for!" he exclaims.



But his speech is remarkably short on specifics, and no wonder. The $447 billion package—a mixture of specialized tax breaks and new spending—would create an estimated 1.9 million jobs. Do the math. $447 billion divided by 1.9 million jobs equals $235,263 per job.



The bill is clearly designed to try to lower the nation's stubbornly high unemployment rate before next year's presidential elections, with the tax increases kicking in later so politicians won't be accused of raising taxes between now and election day.



And people wonder what's wrong with the country!



Last year the U.S. government added $1.5 trillion to finance its budget deficit. Few realize that it also added 3½ times that amount, $5.3 trillion, in new obligations for Social Security and Medicare. The total amount of financial promises not paid for is now more than $61 trillion—approximately $534,000 for every U.S. household.



In less than a generation, the United States has gone from the world's greatest lending nation to the biggest debtor nation in history. And the proposed solution for our financial turmoil is to spend more!



As Americans begin to see what their leaders apparently can't, confidence in government has plunged in alarming proportions. A new Gallup poll has shown that 82 percent of Americans, an all-time high, disapprove of the way Congress is doing its job.



Almost 60 percent have little or no confidence in the federal government's ability to solve problems. Just under half now believe that the federal government is a threat to their rights and freedoms.



The nation is distrustful, worried, lost and adrift.



Sadly, this should really come as no surprise. America is simply proving once again a great truth written almost 2,000 years ago—that we ultimately reap what we have sown (Galatians:6:7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.).



Almost 3,500 years ago God told the ancient Israelites, newly freed from slavery in Egypt and about to be established as a nation, that they should be careful to live by the laws He had given them, including economic laws. If they obeyed, He promised that He would shower them with every good thing for their obedience.



He went on to detail great national blessings of material wealth, military power, health, agricultural productivity, excellent weather and so much abundance that they would "lend to many nations" and "not borrow"—all if they would just "heed the commandments of the Lord your God" (Deuteronomy:28:1-13[1]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.[3]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:). They would sow well and reap abundant blessings.



And if they wouldn't obey and forgot their Creator? Then they would also reap what they sowed—problems that read remarkably like today's headlines, including curses on crops and herds, plagues of sickness, confusion, drought, military defeat, exploding debt and much more.



Few realize how these prophetic words apply equally well today. Few see how the world is shaping up for the fulfillment of major prophecies about the time before the return of the King of Kings. Read this issue to understand how our world is being transformed as foretold in the pages of your Bible many centuries ago