Comparisons between Israel in Hosea's day and the USA today.

A comparison between Israel in Hosea's day and the USA today, where to start is the real question!

Hosea wrote to the apostate Israel (the Northern Kingdom) during the reign of Jeroboam the Second. The Northern Kingdom had recovered all of the territory previously lost and was in a time of prosperity. Here the big however is they were into pagan worship, adultery, violent crime and other activities that God deplores. Hosea warned the people that continuing to stick their thumbs into God’s eye would lead to God using the enemies of the Northern Kingdom to bring God’s judgment on them.

Were the terrorist’s attacks of 911 comparable to Hosea’s prophecy to the Northern Kingdom concerning God using their/our enemies as a partial judgment? If so as a country we sure haven’t taken the warning seriously. There are TV series glorifying vampires and werewolves. The “New Age” embraces many activities that are denounced in the Bible. Homosexuality is promoted as “an alternative lifestyle. Babies are ripped from their mother’s wombs. Add to that Christians are as likely as non-believers to have abortions, divorces and more.

We in America along with much of the world are embracing an Ecumenical Religion. Many Christian churches including Evangelical churches are abandoning Israel and questioning their right to land given to them by God. As anexample the Christ at the Checkpoint organization has a Manifesto which includes in part:

1. The Kingdom of God has come. Evangelicals must reclaim the prophetic role in bringing peace, justice and reconciliation in Palestine and Israel.
2. Reconciliation recognizes God’s image in one another.
3. Racial ethnicity alone does not guarantee the benefits of the Abrahamic Covenant.
4. The Church in the land of the Holy One has born witness to Christ since the days of Pentecost. It must be empowered to continue to be light and salt in the region, if there is to be hope in the midst of conflict.
5. Any exclusive claim to land of the Bible in the name of God is not in line with the teaching of Scripture.

I guess these great minds should lookup Geneses 12:3 again and be a little more spiritually sound and little less PC.

Although many try to deny it, our country was founded on Christian principles. Ronald Reagan was quoted as saying “America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere. The text of President Reagan’s Farewell Address (January 11, 1989) speaks to an America past, perhaps we can again…. http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3418