by After 250 years, the United States of America is still the greatest and freest nation in the world. This does not preclude her moral failures.
After 250 years, we can see the emancipation, evangelization, perdition, expectation and hopeful acceptation with God of the United States of America in Revelation 22.
After 250 years, we see our founding as a nation in Revelation 22:14, blessed for doing God’s commandments. As the decades and centuries flew by, we drifted from His commandments, landing us in 22:15. Jesus spoke in 22:16, reminding us through His church of this world’s moral decline. After this, He left us hope in the midst of our insolvencies, declaring in 22:17, “the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” This is a call to the church to return to Him, in revival. This is also a call to our nation and a lost world to come unto Him, in salvation. This call is strictly in accordance to His commands, with a stern warning in 22:18-19 about changing His Words, showing the deadly consequences of altering His method of revival and salvation. Jesus proclaims all of this before reminding us that our time is short in 22:20, “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” Our only hope is then found in the last verse of the Bible, Revelation 22:21, “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
After 250 years, as far as America has fallen, there is still hope of acceptation with God both individually and as a nation. There is still enough grace to see great revival (Titus 2:11-14). There is still enough grace to see many souls saved (Ephesians 2:8-9). We can see these attained before we witness Revelation 22:20 coming to pass. If we do not believe this, we are “fatalists,” which by definition is anyone who believes they are powerless to change their destiny — one who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity — one who believes the hope that God gives us to change us and our nation is of no effect.
After 250 years, is the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ upon you today, both in salvation and revival? If so, your eyes must remain set on Heaven above and not on the moral perdition and decay of our nation and world. Else, you will live a disheartened life with no hope that God is able to turn another soul or our great nation towards Him.
