{"id":6624,"date":"2024-06-22T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T18:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2024-06-22T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T18:21:48","slug":"when-the-history-books-are-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6624","title":{"rendered":"WHEN THE HISTORY BOOKS ARE WRITTEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>History records the rise and fall of people and nations.<br>And if we don&#8217;t try to avoid the factual record, we can read that history records the parallel patterns of why they fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany&#8217;s downfall into nazism is not a mystery or an anomaly.<br>The church lost their conviction to stand for right and stand against wrong.*<br>The church dropped the ball.<br>The church compromised.<br>The church thought they could be compatible with evil.<br>Hitler put his hand on the shoulder of church leaders and promised that he would take care of them (literally, in a meeting, in person).<br>He &#8216;took care of them&#8217; alright&#8212;and the church was never a threat to his plan after that.<br>Because it was too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the history books are written on America, they will show the parallels between the German church of the 1930&#8217;s and the American church today.<br>Evil abounds and evil grows in the culture and in leadership, and the church is watching it happen at best, and unaware at worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter, the last obstacle to overcome, for evil to completely take over, is now crumbling in complacency.<br>The church in America could make the difference again, even at this late hour in America&#8217;s history&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but the church is too comfortable in America with the way it is !<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what is going to happen ?<br>God&#8217;s full judgment, restrained so far, for the prayers of a faithful remnant, will fall on America now, in full horror.<br>God&#8217;s people, His true followers, will no longer pray for God to bless America or for God to save America.<br>Christians (for real) will suffer severely, soon.<br>We don&#8217;t have guaranteed promises of escape.<br>We do have guaranteed promises that He will be with us through the most difficult time of our life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, God may give us unexpected opportunities to share our eternal hope in Jesus with so many in despair without hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Letter To The American Church<\/span> (book and movie)&#8212;&#8211;Eric Metaxas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History records the rise and fall of people and nations.And if we don&#8217;t try to avoid the factual record, we can read that history records the parallel patterns of why they fell. Germany&#8217;s downfall into nazism is not a mystery or an anomaly.The church lost their conviction to stand for right and stand against wrong.*The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}