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God Bless America, – America Bless God
The spirit of God uses the word of God to make us like the Son of God. It seems clear God has blessed
America, and America at one time bless God.
We are told in Psalm 33: verse 12, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: and the people whom
He hath chosen for His own inheritance.”
Thinking back on history Irving Berlin introduced a prayer by saying, “While the storm clouds gather
far across the see, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free. Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,” As we
raise our voices in a solemn prayer.” Then he gave this prayer, God bless America, land that I love; Stand
beside her and guide her; Through the night with the light from above; From the mountains to the prairies, To
the ocean white with foam, God bless America, my home sweet home.” The original version was written during
the summer of 1918. He never used the song so it remained tucked away until 1938. Then in the fall of 1938,
Berlin decided to write a song about = peace. He recalled his "God Bless America," from twenty years earlier.
He altered some parts to update popular persuasions. After that he introduced it to the world on November
11, 1938, with Kate Smith singing it.
For me and my wife Joyce, the older generation, it was good to be raised to see "God Bless America."
Everywhere in America was blessed!
The song has always been special, but since September 11. 2001, it has increased in its endearment. If
God did not bless America, during that time of troubles, our nation would cease to exist.
Another popular song reminds Americans! "America! America! God shed His grace on thee, " which
is true because grace is unmerited favor. With seeing favorable conditions in America, we have to conclude that
God sheds His grace on America daily, even as He does the rest of the world. Perhaps America receive more
blessings, because we had Godly patriotism through songs like these!
Think of how God blesses America and how we want Him to bless all of the House of Israel, wherever
they are located on this beautiful globe! According to Acts 14, God is responsible for our fruitful seasons, by
blessing us with abundance of food here in America. This is why many Americans give thanks before meals and
why we have a special day on the fourth Thursday of November. In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas are explaining
to a group of people who were about to worship them said, that they should not do it, “Saying, "men, why are
you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from
these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in
them, Who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways. Never the less He did not leave
Himself without witness, in that He did good, giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts
with food and gladness" (Acts 14.14-17).
In the book of Daniel chapter 4 turns the subject to government. Government that comes from God,
even down to who may be made president. God showed by example a ruler that he was king, because God made
him king! King Nebuchadnezzar thought that his government and his glory were all of his own doing. It was for
that thought God made the king suffer, until he learned otherwise. “This decision is by the decree of the watchers,
and the sentence by the word of the Holy Ones, in order that the living may know that the most High rules in the
kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men” (Dan 4: 17). Do you think
the words of Daniel apply to Babylon alone? Babylon was far more anti-God than any of us imagine America
being.
God’s servant, Jeremiah, reveals that God is responsible for the prosperity or adversity of America.
However, listen to these words carefully, because they will lead us into the rest of this article! “The instant I
speak concerning a nation and concerning a Kingdom to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation
against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. And
the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning A kingdom, to build and to plant it, if it does evil in My
sigh! So that it does not obey My voice, Then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit
it” (Jer 18: 7-10).
All these gifts are why we sing, God bless America. Land that I love, Stand beside her and guide her,
Through the night with the light from above. From the mountains to the prairies to the ocean white with foam,
God bless America, my home sweet home. This is why we say in the pledge of allegiance, “One nation under
God.” What does this mean? It means at that time we had in this land, this flag, and had a temporary
government as a gift from our Great God Almighty! Almighty meaning, that this did not become 'the land of the
free and the home of the brave' by blind fate or a happy set of coincidences, but that a wise and benevolent God
was hovering over us from the very hour of conception, and a long time before that therefore, we pray, and sing
“God Bless America.” By asking God to bless America, we have had blessings because of God, hearing us.
By removing God from our daily lives and placing a stranger in the White House, that God said for
us to not do, if you do there will be curses to follow. “When you come to the land which the Lord your God is
giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, 'I will set a king Over me like all the nations that are around
me,' You shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your brethren
you shall set as King over you; you may not set a foreigner [ stranger ] over you who is not your brother”
(Deut 17:14-15 NKJV). Deut 28: 43-44, relates to verses 14 and 15 that we just read. “The stranger that is
within you shall get up above you very high; and you shalt come down very low. “.........he shall be the head, and
you shalt be the tail.”
We cannot say we don’t understand! Why it seems God stop blessing America. Deuteronomy – just gave
us the answer. However, we cannot forget another truth. Many people who have yet to be called often say that
God loves unconditionally, that He gives grace unconditionally, that He blesses unconditionally. There is a
measure of truth to these words, but - also a measure of misinformation. If all God's blessings were
unconditional, no one would be lost, no nation would ever be destroyed. God gives His love, grace, and blessings
long before we bless Him, those are unconditional. But He expects something in return and if He does not see
it He ceases to give blessings! This is why it is not only critical to the health of any nation, including America,
to acknowledge that God gives the blessings. But America today has stopped thanking their Creator for the
blessing He has given them – us!
Moses in Deuteronomy chapter 8, addresses the House of Israel, by looking backward and not forward.
We will see what was true for the whole House of Israel, is also true for America today. We should often remind
our self of these verses, “For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a Land of brooks of water, of
fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and
pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you
will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten
and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. Beware that you
do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I
Command you today, lest-when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;
And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have
is multiplied; when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land
of Egypt, from the house of bondage; Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery
serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty
rock; Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your Fathers did not know, that He might humble you
and that He might test you, to do you good in the end- Then you say in your heart, 'my power and the might
of my hand have gained me this wealth, And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you
power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Then
it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship
them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroys before you,
so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God" (Deu 8:7-20 ).
Does this only apply to ancient Israel? Is it merely Old Testament and so does not apply to us? Two
verses in the Psalms should make an impression upon us, after reading Deut 8, “Blessed is the nation whose
God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance” (Psa 33:12). 2nd verse, “Happy are the
people who are in such a state; happy are the people whose God is the Lord!” (Psa 144,15)
Notice Isaiah’s inspired words, “We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks
open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the Truth may enter in. You will keep' him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever! For in Yah, the Lord, is
everlasting strength. For He brings down those who dwell on high, the lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low
to the ground, He brings it down to the dust. The foot shall tread it down - the feet of the poor and the steps of
the needy” ((Isa 26.1- 6)
Whenever Americans say or sing “God Bless America." America is blessing God! If sang or said from
their heart. Let us back that up with Godliness. Satan has powerful forces seeking to keep America from
blessing God. There are a lot of brain washed citizens in the United States of America today! There is still an
attempt to remove our national motto, “In God We Trust."
This generation seems to be unaware that our public schools once used the Bible as a text book and had
prayer in the class rooms! Today both are no longer allowed in schools. There are attempts to now keep the
“Pledge of Allegiance” silent from all schools.
Schools have began operating as psycho centers, where personality would be shaped rather than minds
educated. There is a shift to untested experimental programs away from having schools represent parents to teach
children to think independently and replace the values of their parent with secular ones.
Did you see the shocking and detestable mother and her biological son both pictured on the cover of a
popular magazine getting married and having a baby? I read someone, seen on the internet, a daughter dating
her father! This is a real slap in the face of God’s creation and is a outright abomination! News like that don’t
stop there. Teachers in some U.S. states are now brain washing 4th grade students about the word “incest” and
pre–schoolers taught about same - sex marriages. What this society is teaching and promoting is outright
demonic. The devil is also using his servants to teach children at kindergarten that they are neither – male or
female, but an “It” – not a he or a she. Satan hates human beings! He is not a male or female, but a devil, who
used to be a Cherubim.
It seems nobody fears God anymore! Man will reap what he has sowed! Just as the days of Noah and
Lot are being repeated today, and now is not the time to be silent. Isaiah 58 tells us that!!
This evil movement are hostile to teaching true Christianity and once again, many church’s are ignoring
truth! We find the spirit of God gradually withdrawing from earth because “iniquity shall abound, the love of
many shall wax cold” (Matt 24:12).
The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion, but now religion
can not be practiced on many occasions. We now have freedom from - religion!
Churches today are filled with noisy, idiotic praise, and unbiblical blabber– a bedlam of confusing noise
and strange doctrines. Entertainment is taking over the street corner churches instead of humility and
righteousness. Satan knows his time is short and is desperately enticing minds , deceiving and corrupting
multitudes with unscriptural theories and heresies.
God’s word thru and thru tells us, the entire majority will hate godliness in the last days. “This know
also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce
breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers
of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn
away” (2 Tim 3:1- 5).
God’s inspired word is to be heard and obeyed. Speech may be technically free, but those who say
politically incorrect things are ridiculed and called purveyors of hate and are excluded from public discourse.
Dictator Obama and his chosen forces are seeking to keep God out of American public government life
and our own private lives.
George Orwell once said, “This is America– that can’t happen here.” In Jeremiah’s time, the Israelites
chanted a similar mantra– “the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.” This was the narcotic which allowed
them to ignore Jeremiah’s warning of impendent destruction. They all felt the Lord’s temple was among them,
therefore God would never allow Jerusalem to be destroyed. They gambled on that and lost. Americans
religious are gambling at the same table, same game, different century! The United States of America is
directionless. It has began its rejection of God and has launched into a new era of time, called the Laodicea
era. Timothy writes, “These resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith” (2 Tim. 3:8).
An excellent description of today's world! The world we are to come out of because of such lawless people.
This world is becoming like a powder keg and the fuse has been lit. We are already seeing the chaos and
violence in our streets and in the towns around the world.
More dangerous yet are the nuclear weapons that are spoken of proliferating around the world. Sooner
or later someone will use one. Iran = Russia = China. Isis or Hamas, would if they had their hands on one.
There is all these troubles and more around the globe coming.
There is a rising beast power that the three unclean frogs of Rev 16, brings to our attention and soon it
will begin flexing their muscles. We are told what John witnessed, “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs
come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false
prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth” (Rev
16:13-14).
We are about to witness seeing these three frogs go to work! We truly are living in perilous times, most
Israelite nations are on the edge of economic collapse. It's a question of "when"– not "if!" These massive deficits
are soaring out of control here in the United States of America. It is predicted to be $21 trillion, by 2018. We
have heard it’s a lot more than that! Over 100 trillion if all debt was added together.
A total collapse of banks would affect just about every man, woman, and child in the free-world. Factory
closings, business failures, failed pension funds, stock market closing down, etc., etc. We have already seen a
lot of this happen, and things are going to continue to get worse.
The American party is just about over. Man's six thousand years is almost up! The lying, cheating,
murdering, etc. is about to end. The Bible says - this is so! And scripture we know, can not be broken.
Only blessing are ahead for God's called! The seventh millennium just around the corner. The Bible, -
God's instruction book is about a new government, including its restoration on this earth under Jesus the Christ,
using His firm hand, to rule with a "rod of iron."
Government is everything! God recommends that we adopt His ways into our lives! Isaiah 9:6, reveals
to us: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the Government shall be upon His shoulder. And
His name shall be Called wonderful, counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace."
God's government cannot be stayed. We have been called to serve in God's kingdom, His government yet to come.
Today God desires people who would obey not only the letter of His law, but its spiritual side as well,
not seeking loopholes. God calls such people into His church to be both taught and trained to rule with Christ
- the redeemer.
The over-comers will be called saints, they will be raised into a spiritual eternal life and be given
positions of authority in God’s kingdom. Paul tells us: “Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world?
And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know you not that we
shall judge angels?” (1 Cor. 6:2-3). That is a heavy responsibility, it is going to require training out of God’s
working manual – the Bible.
Many today accuse those like us that believe in obeying God– “Legalist.” That is what we have been
accused of because we believe what the Bible teaches us! They say we are attempting to obtain salvation-through
works. That accusation is false– no person can be saved by such a method! Salvation only comes through Jesus
the Christ, and by His shed blood. God's called are to obey His laws; statutes and judgments its their guide to
keep from sinning. Obedience to these same laws will be established world-wide in the Kingdom of God, under
Jesus, the Christ.
The Apostle Paul informs us that God's laws are established period! “Do we then make void the law
through faith? God forbid: yea, We establish the law” (Rom. 3: 31). Period! Would someone be allowed to steal,
commit adultery, murder, lie or take God's name in vain? And still be used in God's government? Of course not!
Nor will anyone be allowed to break His fourth commandment, His Sabbath day's of rest.
God's law breaking has a penalty-of death. It claims the life of the one who transgresses it. God’s law
has power to take life, then it’s therefore is more powerful than the sinner. It is the sinner– transgressor, who is
under the law.
When the sinner repents of his transgression, and accepts the sacrifice of Christ as payment of the penalty
of the law, then he is pardoned - under grace, the law no longer stands over him, claiming his life.
We find Peter teaching that continued progress in divine things is a great protection against the
compromising with false teachers. “Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
To him be glory both now and for ever” (2 Peter 3:18).
Grace is not increased head knowledge or a tireless activity, it is increasing likeness to our Lord of lords
and King of Kings, expressing unmerited pardon. Knowledge means to be familiar with Christ through His
word. Grow in both grace and knowledge is the ultimate reason for our calling so we can be qualified
ambassadors for our Father and His Son, Jesus the Christ in heaven.
Read two verses from 1 Peter 4:7 ‘The end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch unto
prayer. And Vs. 11, ‘If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as
of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
No one can deny that God has blessed America. But the sinfulness of her people– Israel- is bringing
God’s wrath upon the United States. With knowing and understanding that– may our prayer be as Irving Berlin
wrote: “God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her, Thru the night
with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam,
God bless America, my home sweet home. ☜
James Russell