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    The 'I' Judgments: Four Sins That Brings About the Fall of Nations
    The 'I' Judgments: Four Sins That Brings About the Fall of Nations
    The 'I' Judgments: Four Sins That Brings About the Fall of Nations
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    The 'I' Judgments: Four Sins That Brings About the Fall of Nations

    By Joe Maggelet

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    Through years of Old Testament study and prayerful insights, Joe Maggelet discovered four key societal failings that prompt God to say to a nation “enough is enough.” In The ‘I’ Judgments, Joe reveals both the four sins (each one starts with an ‘I’) as well as the disturbing reality of where America stands with respect to the sinful practices so repugnant to the Judge.

    Joe warns that the United States is dangerously close to falling out of favor with the One in whom we claim to trust. Believers must understand where we’re headed, so we can prepare for the spiritual growth and ministry opportunities possible even in the worst-case scenarios that could be upon us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 26, 2016
    ISBN9780990981329
    The 'I' Judgments: Four Sins That Brings About the Fall of Nations

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      The 'I' Judgments - Joe Maggelet

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      INTRODUCTION

      The wicked will return to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God. —Psalm 9:17

      For two weeks of 1979, I sat in a college Old Testament class and listened as the professor daily asked us, What is so special about Isaiah? As if in answer to the question he repeated every day, he told us that Isaiah was the greatest of all the prophets—and I believed him. When he came to Isaiah 40:1, in fact, I was so moved by what he explained about the passage that I began to cry. Now, 37 years later, tears still well up in my eyes when I think of how great our God is and what He did in Isaiah 40:1!

      So what made Isaiah someone who could be considered the greatest of all the prophets? As I see it, God gave him an astounding perspective on the world of his time and the times to come. To reveal the plans God had in mind, He essentially lifted Isaiah up and transported him 150 years into the future, set him down, and said, Write!¹ As a result, Isaiah was writing as if he were in the midst of the future Babylonian crisis, and out of his visit to the future, he wrote, ‘Comfort, O comfort My people,’ says your God (Isa 40:1). In the prophecy, God had judged His people, Judah, by raising the nation of Babylon to carry Judah into captivity. By sending this message ahead of time through His advance man Isaiah, God had a ready-made message for the Jews in exile when the time came. Comfort, O comfort My people would become extremely relevant to His people in a foreign land.

      It was this example of God’s judgment of Judah that led to my fascination with the topic of the rise and fall of nations. More specifically, I was fascinated by the God who is big enough to build or destroy whole nations!

      The Man at the Top Is Not a Man

      Nebuchadnezzar was the Babylonian king God raised up to take Judah into captivity, but He also made sure that Nebuchadnezzar knew who was in charge of the plans. In Daniel 4:17, God revealed His purpose to Nebuchadnezzar: In order that the living may know that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes and sets over it the lowliest of men (see also Daniel 4:32, 34-35).

      Nebuchadnezzar had to learn an important lesson, a lesson every president, king, ruler, or dictator in all of history should understand: God is in total control of rulers and their nations. No one becomes a leader without God establishing him or her as the head of the nation. Even a nation itself does not exist unless God makes it so. The Ruler above all human rulers is the Lord our God, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

      In that 1979 Old Testament class, I saw clearly for the first time God’s perspective on the nations of the world. They are His to use in accord with His plans for humankind. God alone determines the lifespan and purpose of nations. Psalm 22:28 is blunt on this point: For the kingdom is the Lord’s, and He rules over the nations. And Psalm 47:8 says, God reigns over the nations. God sits on His holy throne.

      God has spoken through the prophets to teach nations about their purpose and warn them against presuming to be in charge of their own destinies. Just as Nebuchadnezzar was judged until he learned that God ruled over Babylon, so nations will be disciplined until they learn that God rules over them. Once they accept that lesson, they will be blessed.

      As a 19-year-old college student, I was so intrigued by this truth that my thoughts turned to my own country, the United States of America. Were we living out our purpose? Were we being blessed by God because we obeyed that purpose? Were we being judged by God?

      Perhaps you remember 1979—or have read about the significant events of the time. Decades into the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union still threatened one another with nuclear annihilation, and a Middle Eastern country called Iran rocketed onto the front pages in the tumult of selecting a new form of government under a revolutionary leader named Ayatollah Khomeini. He transformed Iran into an anti-American Islamic theocracy. Disdaining the nation that had supported Iran’s previous leader, the Shah, Iranians attacked our embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage. Nearly every night after the November diplomatic outrage, I watched ABC News begin each report with anchor Frank Reynolds announcing, Hostage crisis, day ____. These hostages would not be released until Ronald Reagan became president, more than a year later.

      During subsequent years, I became convinced that God was, indeed, judging America, and I wanted to know why. Then I ran across Psalm 9:17: The wicked will return to Sheol, even all the nations who forget God. There it was in the Psalms—my answer. America was in a process of turning away from the purpose for which the Lord had raised her up.

      The realization disturbed me greatly, and my constant prayer for our nation since 1979 has been for repentance. Yet, we still have not returned to the Lord who raised us up in the 1700s, and we have not thanked the Lord our God for all of His benefits bestowed upon us. Now, in 2016, we have drifted even further than in 1979—and our situation is much more precarious. The difference between 1979 and 2016 is of great importance.

      Dual Judgments

      God delivers two types of judgments on nations. One I call medicinal judgments and the other, final judgments.

      In 1979, the United States was under the medicinal judgments of the Lord. These judgments are intended to open the eyes of a nation’s citizenry so they might be healed. Amos 4:7-8 offers an example of a medicinal judgment:

      Furthermore I withheld the rain from you while there were still three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city and on another city I would not send rain, one part would be rained on while the other part not rained on would dry up. So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water, but you would not be satisfied; yet you would not return to Me declares the Lord.

      Medicinal judgments are bad, but they extend hope to a people.

      Fast forward to 2016, though, and we are under a final judgment—a judgment meant to destroy the nation, her government and infrastructure. I have read many books on the subject of the rise and fall of nations, and they are alarming. For example, in Twilight of a Great Civilization, Carl F. H. Henry refers to a speech called The Barbarians Are Coming, which he delivered at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in September 1969.² In the speech, he talked of the decline of our modern culture and a swift relapse to paganism.³ In the areas of science, education, and religion, Henry pointed out that America was going in the wrong direction—and that was in 1969!

      Think about what has come to pass since Carl Henry’s warning about a relapse into paganism. During the intervening decades, we have witnessed a wholesale turning of our nation towards anti-Christian ethics without considering where these new ethics will take us. And those who warn the nation are attacked and demeaned!

      Or consider Francis Schaeffer’s The God Who Is There. Schaeffer argued that America was suffering from a change in its concept of truth. From the new concept of truth, he explained that men and women, beginning absolutely by themselves, try rationally to build out from themselves, having only man as their integration point, to find all knowledge, meaning, and value.⁴ This new type of thinking excluded absolutes and exalted relativism. Schaeffer predicted that this type of thinking would lead to all forms of immorality becoming accepted as normal in society.

      As early as the 1960s, God raised up men to warn America about its dangerous path. Since then, many more have joined the chorus sounding the alarm. In 1994, for example, Jim Nelson Black wrote When Nations Die in which he examined the three areas of social decay, cultural decay, and moral decay. Black recounts a conversation that Soviet dissident and world-renowned author Alexander Solzhenitsyn overheard between two peasants in the Soviet Union. ‘It is because we have forgotten God. That is why all this is happening to us,’ they said. ‘We have forgotten God.’ Solzhenitsyn said he would never forget the wisdom of these simple peasants.⁵ As I look at America in 2016, my critique is the same as those two peasants: America has forgotten God, the truth I found in Psalm 9:17.

      I am not the only one who has discerned America’s forgetfulness. In 2010, Erwin Lutzer authored When a Nation Forgets God: Seven Lessons We Must Learn from Nazi Germany. At the beginning of the book, Lutzer observes:

      I have written this book to show that Nazism did not arise in

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