Can We Hear God Now?

By Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

You may recall in recent times the cell phone commercials where the Verizon man teasingly keeps asking the same question from a variety of locations, “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?” We sort of laughed at this predicament because time and again, we found it true in our own dealings with fickled cell phones. Perhaps, the question posed by the Verizon Company should be considered as an honest question as it pertains to Heaven’s Majestic Throne and the Holy One who sits upon it. America, “CAN WE HEAR GOD NOW?”

For years, God has raised up faithful men and prophetic ministries to warn America. They have shouted in the public square “cease and desist mutilating babies in the womb through the sin and crime of abortion. Bloodshed touches bloodshed; it breaks out (Hosea 4:2). You can’t welcome, coddle, and legalize murder in a nation and then not expect a spirit of murder to savage the land. Stop parading your homosexual sin like Sodom in the streets! Homosexuality will destroy those who practice it and a nation that condones it! Cease to do evil, repent, and come back to the God of our fathers and the Biblical principles that blessed our nation beyond any other.” The prophetic message to America could easily be summarized in Isaiah 55:7, which states “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”

In response, our nation for the most part has refused to heed the warnings, hardened its heart, stiffened its neck, and stopped its ears. We continued to turn moral wrongs into civil rights. We codified more evil into law. And as a matter of course, we still tolerate what God deems intolerable. Plus, like Israel of old, we label those who try to steer us from the primrose path to destruction as “Christian Right Fanatics” or as Hosea 9:7 states, “the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad.”

These last few days have pointed out once and again that America is drowning in a sea of blood and perversion. We are inundated with the news reports, talk shows, and other venues of media describing the horrific assaults against the young in our beleaguered nation. Three different school shootings have our nation reeling once again. Not even the Amish are safe as a crazed gunman burst into their schoolhouse and murdered five precious innocent girls and then turned the gun on himself. America, “CAN WE HEAR GOD NOW?”

Scandal in our hallowed halls of Congress continues to spew out over the air waves the abominable homosexual agenda that has made a prey of our young as well. Republican Congressman Foley resigned in disgrace as e-mail messages exposing his homosexual seductions of a young page have come to light. The timing of this disgusting affair no doubt points to a political hit job orchestrated by the Democratic Party. It is most certainly designed to hurt Republicans in the November elections. Evidence of his being a homosexual predator had been purposely squelched till now. Someone knew this was going on and refused to reveal it, until it would achieve maximum political damage, thus endangering our young simply for political gain. It stinks the high heavens. Beyond this travesty, however, America’s duplicity and hypocrisy has also reached the heavens. Our collective skirt has been lifted, and yet, we still refuse to blush. America, “CAN WE HEAR GOD NOW?”

On the one hand, America celebrates our diversity and upholds the homosexual agenda as patriotic as mom, apple pie, and baseball and then feigns horror that people act it out. A quote by C. S. Lewis will aptly highlight this sordid affair surrounding Representative Foley. He stated, “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.”

How long has America laughed and scorned virtue, honor, duty, faith, family, and fidelity? How long have we exalted vice, depravity, perversion, and bloodlust as civil rights? And now we dare throw a political hissy fit because we have to live with what we have so despicably vaunted in the face of a Holy God?

Do not be deceived any longer America, God will not be mocked! What we sow, we shall surely reap! We have sowed bloodshed in the womb and we are reaping bloodshed in our schools, workplaces and streets! We have sought to make straight what God has called crooked in the homosexual agenda and now that filthy, vile spirit is devouring our children! America, “CAN WE HEAR GOD NOW?”

Dr. Paul Cameron with the Family Research Institute has documented evidence that homosexuals are ten to twenty times more likely to molest children than heterosexuals. Homosexuals make up about two to three percent of America’s population and yet are responsible for twenty to forty percent of all child molestation cases. NAMBLA or the North America Man-boy Love Association actually marches in homosexual parades throughout America. They chant “sex before eight before it is too late.” They demand removing all barriers between demonically inspired pedophiles and innocent boys. They carry signs, such as, “Liberation of Pedophilia.” It should make one vomit and yet our nation continues to bow before this politically correct idol. It is a monstrosity that mocks, scorns, and trods underfoot everything wholesome, decent, and honorable in our polluted, bloodstained land. America, “CAN WE HEAR GOD NOW?”

America, we must face the horrible reality that we are losing our children to violence and perversion. Deuteronomy 28 chronicles the heart wrenching reality of nations that disobey God. It lists the curses and litany of woes that will befall a nation that defies the moral laws of God. Several of them deal with the loss of children, such as, “Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand…Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity (Deuteronomy 28:32,41).” Other passages actually become more terrifying as parents devour their own children just to survive (Deuteronomy 28:57).

Is this not happening in our day? Don’t we devour children through abortion and homosexuality in order for our lusts to survive yet another day to devour? The writing is on the wall and we are still trying to pretend God’s Word is not true. We honestly believe that we can murder His babies and allow for the sodomizing of our sons and daughters and then somehow believe we can escape the wrath of God. We are living in a dream world that is already a nightmare. Hosea 4:6 declares, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

As Americans we have forgotten the rock from which we have been hewed, the God that established us, and His moral laws that provided the righteous foundation by which we once stood. Yes, and we have certainly forgotten the moral law of God and no doubt God is forgetting our children. The newspapers scream this truth in their headlines. We have sown to the wind and we are certainly reaping the whirlwind. What can we do as we suffer the consequences of our folly, idolatry, and rebellion? Our opening Scripture points the way, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).”

Right now Solemn Assemblies should be called throughout the land based upon Joel 2:15-17 which states, “Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, ‘Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?’” We are in deep trouble my friends and it is only going to get worse lest we repent.

Beyond our spiritual response, the citizens of America need to say “Enough is enough!” We are not going to have this anymore, not under our watch! We must demand the civil authorities in America move immediately to shut down every abortion mill that slays the preborn for blood money. This is the fount where the murder flows. Whether we like it or not, there is a direct connection between the violence in the womb and the violence manifesting outside the womb. If we want to afford protection for the children we see, we need to afford protection for those we cannot see in the womb of their mothers.

They should also shut down every homosexual bathhouse and refuse to endorse, participate, or condone the homosexual agenda in any form or fashion. No more mayors and police officers marching in their parades. STOP IT!!! Once and for all end this immoral madness! It is an abomination before God and all the media, money, and politics in the world can’t make it otherwise. America, “CAN WE HEAR GOD NOW?”

God please remember mercy in the midst of your judgments!

Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas is the guiding shepherd of Elijah Ministries which is dedicated to imparting a biblical worldview to the Church of Jesus Christ that will provide the theological impetus for fulfilling the Great Commission. His ministry, which is located in Waco, TX is devoted to challenging Christians everywhere to pray, believe and work for repentance, revival and reformation to sweep America. For more information regarding Rev. Thomas and Elijah Ministries, please visit their web site at www.mttu.com/elijahmin. You may also contact Rev. Thomas via e-mail at elijahmin@ifriendly.com.