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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 35
John 3:4); and the Apostle Paul said, “I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known
lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet” (Romans 7:7).”
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(See Volume 1 for further
study on this topic.)
People often blame the Jews for the death of Jesus but this is inaccurate. Jesus died on
account of each of our sins, we are all equally to blame. But aside from that, it was the religious
leaders who conspired against Him, falsely accused Him, and petitioned Pilot for His crucifixion.
Jesus' harshly rebuked and criticized the religious leaders in Israel because they had deceived the
people and led them astray. This was equally true at the time that God used Babylon to bring
judgment on his people; Jeremiah writes:
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to
go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from
mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. All that found them have
devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have
sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of
their fathers. (Jeremiah 50:6-7; see also Revelation 18:2)
It is equally true that God's leaders in the Church have led them astray today. The great
multitude of sin in the Church is largely a result of pastors who have failed to preach the truth,
and/or have polluted and compromised the truth and/or who have lived a life of sin and
debauchery as an example to their congregations. There is a famine of hearing God's pure
uncompromised word in America. There was a famine of bread in Judah; Jeremiah writes: “And
in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there
was no bread for the people of the land.” (Jeremiah 52:6) Jesus is the “bread of life;” he is also
the word made flesh. The famine of bread in Judah is symbolic of the famine of God's word we
are now experiencing in the US.
Many Church leaders have also failed in the following areas: Many in America are
divorced; many are engaged in adultery; a growing number are homosexuals; and we've got
church leaders engaging in sexual abuse of children. Church leaders are compromising and
corrupting the truth; they're declaring the commandments of God have been done away with; and
they're teaching salvation by works. It is church leaders who are bringing the occult into the
Church; many are declaring that all religions are equally true and some are even declaring that
they are gods and teaching their congregations to do the same.
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It was the king of Babylon,
Nebuchadnezzar, who claimed to be a god but Isaiah makes a wider application; he writes:
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me.
Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine
heart, I am, and none else beside me. (Isaiah 47:10)
“I Am” is a title God claimed for himself and its use in the above verse is meant to
signify that the people of Babylon were looking at themselves as gods. This is unacceptable to
God; it was unacceptable in old testament times and it is unacceptable today. God judged Israel
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