The Voice of Jeremiah’s rebuke and prophecy: America your crimes and your sins are piled up before God and testify against you! Yes, your sins accuse you! And you know what sinners you are! You know you have rebelled against the LORD, rejected Him, and refused to follow Him! America, you have turned your backs on your God!
America, your feet run to do evil! You can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You think only about sinning. You leave ruin, misery and destruction everywhere you go, no one is safe when you are around. Everything you do is unjust. You don’t know where to find peace or what it means to be just and good. You follow a crooked path, and no one who walks that path will ever know a moment’s peace.
America, do you know why God does not save you from those who oppress you? It is because there is no justice among you, and you know nothing about right living! You look and hope for light to walk by but there is only darkness. You look for bright skies but walk in gloom. You grope about like blind people. You stumble at noon as if it were night. Among the living, you are like the dead.
America, you are frightened and distressed! You look for justice, but it never comes. You look for rescue, but it is far away from you. You long for God to save you from oppression and wrong, but nothing happens. It is because your thoughts are false and your words are lies! America, justice is driven away in the land. Your courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.
America, the LORD has looked and is displeased to find there is no justice in the land! He is astonished and amazed to see that no one has intervened to help the oppressed. So He Himself will step in to save them! The LORD will use His strong arm, and His justice to rescue them and to win the victory! The LORD will wear justice and righteousness like a coat of armor and place the helmet of salvation on His head. He will clothe Himself with the strong desire to set things right and to punish and avenge the wrongs that people suffer. The LORD will punish His enemies according to what they have done, even those who live in distant lands. From east to west everyone will fear Him and His great power. In the west, people will respect the name of the LORD; in the east, they will glorify Him; for He will come like a raging flood tide driven by the breath of the LORD![1]
Thus says the LORD: America “Your own wickedness shall punish and correct you, and your turning from Me and desertion of faith shall condemn you; Know therefore and recognize that this is an evil and bitter thing: first, you have forsaken the Lord your God; second, you are indifferent to Me and the fear of Me is not in you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to abandon Me, the Lord your God, and no longer to remain faithful to Me. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”[2]
The Voice of Jeremiah’s plea: O America, overwhelming chaos is coming to your nation! [3] No matter where I look, the LORD shows me ruin and devastation! Even the stable mountains will shake! Only God’s mercy can keep you from complete destruction! [4] But the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, specializes in hopeless cases. He breaks the power of sin and He sets the prisoner free from the bondage of his sin. [5] Repent, mourn your sin, turn back to God, and be saved before it is too late!
[1] Isaiah 59:7-19; [2] Jer. 2:19; [3] Gen.1:2; [4] Jer. 4:27; see 5:10, 18; 30:11; 46:28; [5] John 8:34-36; cf. Ps. 102:20
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