To what should we liken this generation? To what shall we compare it to? America of late is like Nabal of old who had crops and herds that God blessed so that he was very prosperous. He was, however, an arrogant fool who neither thanked or honored God for His blessing, nor did he honor David who, with his four hundred men, camped near Nabal's estate guarding it from thieves and raiders.
After harvest, David sent messengers to suggest a payment be given for their services. Nabal was drunk and foolishly laughed at the request. Later, upon hearing this, David became incensed. He and his soldiers lighting upon their mounts vowed that not a male person belonging to Nabal would live to see another day. Nabal had a wise and beautiful wife named Abigail who saw what was coming down. Knowing the reputation of David, she moved with fear and quickly prepared much provision in carts and on donkey's backs and met David on the way. Bowing humbly, she confessed her husband's sin and folly, pleading for the lives of all the men in her husband's estate. David moved by her beauty, wisdom, faith and humility, received her gifts and reproof. He turned and went his way thanking God for her. Nabal is America, prosperous but arrogant and foolish. Abigail is the Church, clothed in beauty, wisdom, and faith, who, knowing the character of God, moves with fear to intercede for a foolish generation. David represents God who receives the intercession of the Church and spares Nabal (America). Those who know to pray, had better do it! By the way, God Himself struck Nabal, and he died about ten days later. David took the lovely Abigail as his wife. America, do you think God cannot also strike you a death blow? Let us turn to God from: divorce, adultery, teen sex (fornication), pornography, unfair taxation, abortion, the self will of evolution ism, feminism expressed in numerous ways, lewd and violent television and movies. All of which total up to the rejection of His Son from Heaven.
Of this generation, it is true what Cotton Mather, a puritan preacher, said of his generation Religion begat prosperity, and the daughter devoured the mother. America, do you not understand that it was God who birthed you? It was the Almighty that brought forth understanding and conviction so that our national fathers established a government allowing for civil liberties greater than any other country in all of history? Do we not understand that it was He who gave us this portion of the North American continent with its rich resources and beauty? It was He who provided the strength, cunning and wisdom to bring forth prosperity. Do we not understand that it was He who allowed the great and terrible Civil War to purge us of our arrogance and oppression over those who were held in slavery? They which we held in dishonor, in murder, having stolen their dignity and the wealth of their labor. Why did He do these things? That we might be a nation filled with His light, a beacon to the other nations of the world, testifying to the majesty of His wisdom, protection, and provisions, the which, He has bestowed upon us by His grace. We have become a people steeped in our arrogance, self-willed, and rebellious. A people who throw off the restraint of God on every hand, a people who revel in darkness and think we should be both blessed and honored because of it. Such is our extreme confusion. We would do well to follow after the scriptural admonition. (James 4:6-10) God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble. Submit yourselves, therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up. Let us turn from our sin unto God that we might again be filled with His vision for us as individuals and as a people.
A Watchman,
Consider: I Sam. 25:1-14, I Ti. 2:1-4, Jn. 5:34