Cliffe wonders sometimes why God withholds
his judgment against America. I assume
Cliffe feels that the moral fabric of the United States has deteriorated
significantly in the last several decades, and that God may soon remove His
protective hand over America. I
understand this point, and I also agree that in many ways America seems to be
in moral decline. I do however believe
we romanticize earlier times in America perhaps too much. It wasn’t all Norman Rockwell. We think of the manners we had, we think of
the chivalry, we think of the general God-fearing we had. But what about the sexism? What about the racism? Both were arguably worse in the past. And what about the wanton violence in the Prohibition
era and the Wild West?
The truth is, if God judges or protects nations based on
their goodness, wouldn’t America still today be near the end of the line among
the 200+ nations to be judged? What
about all the nations where believing in the name of Jesus as Lord is
persecuted or even outlawed?
