“For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.” -Jeremiah 11:13

When one looks to America and the culture of the day, it is not hard to find where it is that we have wickedly departed from the living God.  Just look to the professing hypocrites in the Church (Matthew 23:23).  If we are to judge men by their fruits, then let’s do so as Scripture mandates (Matthew 7:16).

The late A.W. Tozer, in his article on “The Gift of Prophetic Insight”, said:

“What God says to the Church at any given time period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition, and upon the spiritual need of the hour. Religious leaders who continue to mechanically expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers of Jesus’ day who faithfully parroted the Law without the remotest notion of what was going on around them spiritually…The prophets never made that mistake nor wasted their efforts in that manner. They invariably spoke to the condition of the people of their times.”

“The Church must take right ground in regard to politics. Do not suppose, now, that I am going to preach a political sermon, or that I wish to have you join and get up a Christian party in politics. No, I do not believe in that. But, the time has come that Christians must vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics, or the Lord will curse them. They must be honest men themselves, and instead of voting for a man because he belongs to their party…, they must find out whether he is honest and upright, and fit to be trusted…. Such is the spread of intelligence and the facility of communication in our country, that every man can know for whom he gives his vote. And if he will give his vote only for honest men, the country will be obliged to have upright rulers. All parties will be compelled to put up honest men as candidates. Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But, the time has come when they must act differently, or God will curse the nation, and withdraw His Spirit.”

THE PULPIT IS RESPONSIBLE: “Brethren, our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it. Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren; but let us lay it to heart, and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals of this nation.” –Charles G. Finney, December 4, 1873.

The video below is from a local entertainment center called a “church” practicing idolatry to the fullest.  Shutting down church services in the preaching of the Word of God to put in its place what the Lord clearly condemns (Jeremiah 11:13).

“Incredible” is the word that comes to mind that people are truly this blind and so easily controlled.