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The Mystery of the Shemitah by Jonathan Cahn, Ch. 22 – The Falling by Jonathan Cahn
Moving forward the same length of time as before, four periods of Shemitah’s, twenty-eight years from America’s zenith of power in 1945, we are brought to the year 1973. It is, of course another Shemitah year. Unlike the first two cases, it wasn’t marked by a world war. But was it significant? Very much so.
In the midst of his blessing, ancient Israel had begun driving God out of its government, out of his public squares, out of its culture, out of the instruction of its children. America had done likewise – beginning in the early 1960s as America banned prayer and the reading of Scripture from its public schools. The rulings were symptomatic of a larger removal of God from American culture. What followed was a decade of tumult and chaos. The nation was moving – slowly at first, and then with increasing speed – away from God and the ways of God.
But 1973 would be a watershed in America’s spiritual and moral dissent. It was the beginning of that year that the nation’s highest court legalized the killing of the nations most innocent, it’s little children, that would ultimately lead to national judgment and destruction:
And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols….So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God….And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire. (2 Kings 17:15-17)
If the comparison seems severe, we must consider this: Israel killed thousands of his children; America has killed millions. At the time of this writing, the number of unborn children killed is estimated at over 50 million. If this was a cause for judgment concerning ancient Israel, a nation that had once known the ways of God but had now turned against them, then how could it be any less a cause for judgment concerning America, a nation that had likewise once known the ways of God but had now turned against them?
The Mystery of the Shemitah by Jonathan Cahn, Ch 22 – The Falling
The Mystery of the Shemitah, Ch. 22 – The Falling, by Jonathan Cahn