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Leviticus 26:26
For many years the evil in this country was disorganized and ran the gamut of radical political parties, student protest; inner city riots, marches on federal buildings, and so on. What is happening now is this same evil has become organized and it now operates through the decisions made by radical judges. This evil is found in many teaching departments in our major universities, and state colleges. [1] See The Professors, The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, David Horowitz, Regency, 2006.
Evil is in many of our public and private universities and in many of our distinguished seminaries. What I believe we saw in the sixties and seventies was the fire being started under the kettle of change. The fire may not be seen now as it was years ago, and that is because the fire is organized and has come together under the kettle of the United States. Evil flames of anarchy are burning hotter than ever. We are sitting in the kettle and many American values are melting away under this cauldron of intoxicating radical ideology. Values such as freedom, marriage, family, and patriotism are melting away.
This greatest of all nations on the earth today is being nuked from the inside out and the pressure is on us as believers to learn and apply God’s word to our own lives. And then to have the integrity to live that life and stand for the truth wherever we find it, and oppose error when it sticks up its ugly head. Our love for Jesus Christ and our love for his word must motivate us to oppose everything and every idea that exalts itself against the knowledge of his word. We must never let those who oppose Bible doctrine bring our minds into captivity. We must be in a readiness to stand against all disobedience; II Cor.10:5-6. Satan does not want us to be a Christian nation. He wants us to be a compromising heathen nation that’s more interested in getting along with the rest of the world than obeying God, and it looks like he is winning the hearts and minds of many, including Christians.
Lev.26:26
The Stock Market Crash
From Lev.26:26 we continue to look at the characteristics of the forth cycle of national discipline. The breaking of the staff of your bread refers to a broken economy such as was seen when the stock market crashed in late October 1929 wherein for the next ten years we suffered through what is known as the Great Depression.
It is said that wild speculation led to the stock-market crash as investors put most of all they had into the stock market.
The value of the stocks soared beyond the justifiable earnings and dividends of those investments. Much of the speculation involved buying stocks on margin, which is, paying a fraction of the cost and borrowing the rest. When a decline in stocks set in, prices plummeted. Panic selling followed until everything was gone. This era in American history can easily be compared to Lev.26:16-26. You may say, “How is that so?”
An overwhelming materialistic focus occurred during a time when things in this country were at an all time high, that is, the early 1920’s.
“And it also occurred at a time when many mothers found a new liberation from the traditional roles of staying home and raising their children. These modern trends led many people to move to the cities for work. Juvenile delinquency, crime, and other types of anti-social behavior became rampant. Family life had broken down as so many were caught up is their new freedom.” This era was rightly called the “roaring twenties”.
I believe the roar came straight out of the mouth of Satan, my words.” The women began wearing radically new clothing styles. Short skirts, short bobbed hair replaced long dresses and long hair. Women who wore such clothes became known as flappers. Loose living ensued and morals were radically abandoned.” [7] World Book Encyclopedia
These were the early to late twenties until economic devastation changed people’s lifestyles and their attitudes. They had forgotten the Source of their prosperity just as ancient Israel had.
After the stock market crash of 1929 people stood in bread lines and went to soup kitchens. Lev.26:26 food rationing, “and they shall deliver your bread by weight and ye shall eat it and not be satisfied”....
Many people scraped garbage cans for food.
Going To Hooverville?
Often several families lived together in crowded small apartments, Lev.26:26b ten women baking bread in one oven. Many people went homeless or lived in shacks. Many of these shack towns were called, Hoovervilles, as they became home to thousands. The name Hooverville was a term of disdain for President Hoover whom the people said did not do enough to end the depression. One Hooverville in Oklahoma was said to be ten miles wide and ten miles long with nothing but people living in junk cars and boxes and tin shacks.
People smashed tin cans together to make shacks. Some folks lived in crates and boxes. One family was seen living in a piano box. Many families lived in rusted out old cars; cars they could no longer afford to put fuel in or drive. “Severe droughts and dust storms hit parts of the Midwest and Southwest during the 1930’s. This area became known as the Dust Bowl, and thousands of farm families were wiped out.” [7] World Book Enc.vol.8. Judgment had fallen on America and everyone, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, believer and non believer was affected.
This suffering went on until W.W.II began in 1939 when Germany overran Poland. Just as America was starting to come out of the Great Depression through President Roosevelt’s leadership and due to a great many of the American people’s repentance and humility, another shock struck our nation. On Dec.7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor killing over 3,000 Naval and military personnel. Our Pacific fleet was all but destroyed. While this atrocity was in the making Japan’s ambassador was whispering into our President’s ear, “peace, peace”, “when war was in his heart” and Japan’s war machine was well on its way to the Hawaiian Islands.
We were down, but we were spared by the grace of God. We came back and were victorious in W.W.II and our nation recovered.
We went Old Testament on Japan, but now, nearly eighty years later, we find ourselves at war with a new kind of enemy. Our enemy is not just the foreign ones who speak Arabic and live by ancient customs. The enemy also lives within our gates. They are educated here and they are well spoken and well dressed and well respected in many circles. They come from all classes and all ethnic groups.
Freedom is a fragile commodity and it must be guarded with our lives. We do not want a repeat of the Great Depression.
We cannot survive with an American population of phobics nor elect a leadership who would rather get along with the world than defend and protect the way of life that has made this country great.
We should respect other nations as we would have them respect us, but when we have lost respect for ourselves and have lost what identifies us as Americans then we have been had. We must hold on to the traditional values that made this country great.
We must accept new technology, and new ways of doing business, but we must not change our moral values nor forsake our Constitution and Bill of Rights for any reason.
For a comparison between the circumstances of the Great Depression until now you may find this of interest.
1920-1929 These were years when we let the good times roll, and traditional values slipped.
1929-1941 Great economic depression and hunger and vulnerability to attack followed.
Sorrow and pain brought us back together...
one generation later, some 40 years and we come to...
From 1960-1968 America had a booming economy, but the Age of Aquarius dawned on our nation and dope and free love exploded. Urban unrest was high and the number of violent crimes such as murder, rape, robbery soared during this time while we were at war in Vietnam. [7 vol.20] This was a war we did not win, but this was no fault of the servicemen and women of our armed forces. Social unrest in America regarding the war in Vietnam caused the politicians to rethink their motivation for going to war there.
From 1969 into the early nineteen seventies we saw the worst period of inflation in our nation’s history as a severe recession led to the country’s highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. [7 World Book Enc. vol.20.]
The sorrow of those 55,000 soldiers dying in Vietnam along with those who came home maimed and socially tormented by a divided nation split this nation, and we have not recovered since then. We did not come back together as we did after World War I & World War II.
We never recovered.
Now, another generation is about to pass, another forty years is due up by the year 2009. What will become of us next?