33-What-could-and-should-America-do    (TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE)

Repent!

America must sorrow over its many grievous transgressions, humble itself in the dust, and flee to Christ’s forgiving blood for the only escape from the awful eternal torment to come, before it would be too late.  Then the believers in America would have to wait for their country’s impending punishment as the Old Testament prophet, Habakkuk, had to do (see Habakkuk 1:5-11; 3:16-19).  The few faithful Americans that had not bowed their knees to Baal, would be faced with the same predicament as the people in the days of that Old Testament prophet.  That is, God promised to send the Jews a terrible punishment; there would be no stopping it.  They were informed of it ahead of time.  Yet all that they could do was to wait for it.

Hence, Americans must wake up to the same.  In other words, Americans must realize –

1. That God’s terrible punishment of total war will be coming, it will not be diverted.
2. That the faithful in the church will not escape this impending doom either, though to them it will be a purifying, not a punishment of God’s anger;
3. That not only the faithful, but that all the citizenry must repent and believe.

So wake up, America!  God is in a punishing mode.  Your ignoring of God’s gospel has brought on all of this.

Wake up, church members!  Repent!  Leave your ideology!  Return to biblical doctrine only!

Wake up, Lutherans!  Return to the biblical doctrines found in the Lutheran Confessions!