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awakening of a segment. No! It was a top-to-bottom,
through-and-through, social and spiritual turnaround.
Business was hailed so that values could be adjusted.
The entire population was in agony over sin and rebel-
lion against God. The king wept. The cattle and all ani-
mals were covered with sackcloth. Days and weeks of
prayer and repentance were called for by the official
government. Lawmakers turned to God and cried out,
"We are sorry. Save us from ourselves."
Beg him to save you, all who are humble—all
who have tried to obey. Walk humbly and do what
is right; perhaps even yet the Lord will protect you
from his wrath in that day of doom.
(Zephaniah 2:3 LB)
They repented without a promise of mercy! They were
not told anything about a reprieve. They repented on
only a warning, hoping for mercy. They had no Christ,
no cross, no offer of divine grace. No great and precious
promises. No great outpouring of the Holy Spirit! Yet
they repented. America has had all God can give in the
way of mercy methods, yet we do not repent. Why such
severe judgments on America? Because people who sin
against greater privileges and mercies are judged for
refusing greater light.
The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judg-
ment with this generation, and shall condemn it:
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and,
behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
(Luke 11:32 icjv)
Do you know of any national move in America that
even slightly resembles Nmeveh's move to God? I don't.
Our President gives only lip service to any genuine call
to repentance. It must begin in our White House, it
must include our Congress, then all our State Houses,
then our counties, then our churches, then our house,
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through-and-through, social and spiritual turnaround.
Business was hailed so that values could be adjusted.
The entire population was in agony over sin and rebel-
lion against God. The king wept. The cattle and all ani-
mals were covered with sackcloth. Days and weeks of
prayer and repentance were called for by the official
government. Lawmakers turned to God and cried out,
"We are sorry. Save us from ourselves."
Beg him to save you, all who are humble—all
who have tried to obey. Walk humbly and do what
is right; perhaps even yet the Lord will protect you
from his wrath in that day of doom.
(Zephaniah 2:3 LB)
They repented without a promise of mercy! They were
not told anything about a reprieve. They repented on
only a warning, hoping for mercy. They had no Christ,
no cross, no offer of divine grace. No great and precious
promises. No great outpouring of the Holy Spirit! Yet
they repented. America has had all God can give in the
way of mercy methods, yet we do not repent. Why such
severe judgments on America? Because people who sin
against greater privileges and mercies are judged for
refusing greater light.
The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judg-
ment with this generation, and shall condemn it:
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and,
behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
(Luke 11:32 icjv)
Do you know of any national move in America that
even slightly resembles Nmeveh's move to God? I don't.
Our President gives only lip service to any genuine call
to repentance. It must begin in our White House, it
must include our Congress, then all our State Houses,
then our counties, then our churches, then our house,
96
