America & Ancient Israel Pt 3: The Turning Away

I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. (Lev 26:11,12)
"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. (Matthew 10:32,33)
Israel was God's chosen nation. He called them out out bondage from the Egyptians. He led them through the wilderness. He promised them a land to call their own. All they had to do was obey his commands. It was a simple task: Obey God. A task that they fell short on.
As they got into the promised land, surrounded by other nations, they slowly began to embrace the ideologies of those nations. They began to get involved in idolatry (Judges 8:30), polytheism (Jeremiah 2:28), murder(2 Chronicles 21:13), child sacrifices (Jeremiah 19:5), etc. God was patient for a little while. He sent judges to rebuke them, followed by prophets and kings. God continued to be patient, until His patience ran out. He then removed His hedge of protection and the Assyrians invaded and conquered the northern kingdom of Israel, and a few years later, Babylon conquered the southern kingdom of Judah, and took many captives. God allowed the Jews to return home after being held captive for many years.
God gave Israel many opportunities to reform their sinful ways. Many times they did, but many other times they did not. After God's wrath came upon Israel, they were no longer the strong nation they had become. After the Assyrians conquered Israel around 570 BC, Israel didn't exist as a nation again until 1948, almost 2400 years later. Because of repentant nature of Judah, they were allowed to return to their homeland, but never to be the dominant nation it was under the kingship of David and Solomon.

“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill

The United States became a very strong a powerful nation. The founding fathers, made reference to the United States being a Christian nation. They wrote in their journals, speeches, and articles about the foundation of the United States being God driven and centered. The United States rose through the ranks of other nations, to become a prized nation. A model on the way a nation should become. The first “Super Power”. The United States represented all that was good in humanity. The national motto became “In God We Trust” (Psalm 56:11). Just as quickly as the United States rose to world prominence, they forgot who raised them up.
1962.
The United States began to worship an idol known as “Separation of Church and State”. The year was 1962 and with three Supreme Court rulings within 16 months of each other, the United States began a short process of turning its back on God. Engel v Vitale (public schools can not require recitation of prayer) Murray v. Curlett and Abington School District v Schempp linked together (public schools can not require reading of the Lord's Prayer or reading of Scripture) With the removal of any mention of God during the school day, it became increasingly difficult to teach morality. Something George Washington said would happen. But then something even worse happened. Legalization of the murder of children.
On January 22, 1973 infanticide became legal. The United States was duped into sacrificing children to Baal. Something that God would never approve of, nor anything He would ever demand of anyone. With the decline of God as a moral foundation, the United States began to compromise the founding fathers principles. Reverend Jeffery L. Osgood, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church in Dover, wrote in the Delaware State News: Back in 1962, when prayer was removed by the Supreme Court, something happened to America's soul and America's schools. Our nation became increasingly secular and less tolerant of moral standards and values. Since America became too proud to pray to the God of Heaven who created us, we have been reaping the rewards. Crime is way up. The family has broken up. The test scores of students have taken a submarine dive. It's time for a change!
( http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~jlynch/prayer/pro.html )
September 11th, 2001 a great tragedy occurred in the United States. War was declared against the United States. This tragedy brought some people back to God. But within a couple of months, Americans began to doubt God again. They would ask why God would allow this to happen. On September 13th, Anne Graham Lotz was interviewed by Jayne Clayson on the CBS Morning Show, this is the question and her answer: Jayne Clayson – I've heard people say, those who are religious, those who are not, if God is good, how could God let this happen? To that, you say? Anne Graham Lotz – I say, God is angry when he sees something like this. I would say also for several years now Americans in a sense have shaken their fist at God and said, God, we want you out of our schools, our government, our business, we want you out of our marketplace. And God, who is a gentleman, has just quietly backed out of our national and political life, our public life. Removing his hand of blessing and protection. ( http://www.annegrahamlotz.com/index.php/Interviews )
America is repeating the sins of Israel. If we don't repent as a nation, we soon will be taken captive by the “Babylonians” and the “Assyrians”. Will God allow us to return or not? That is the question.