"You shall know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free"
America Faces Judgment, But Christians Live With Hope
By Jeffrey Ludwig
April 14, 2025
We as individuals and a society are under judgment. Trump is like Josiah, who was a good king, but the judgment prophecies brought by Jeremiah (who began prophesying during the reign of Josiah) to the effect that Judah would be destroyed were still in effect. Even though he's "good," Trump is also like Cyrus who allowed a large contingent of Jews in Babylon to return to their homeland. He was a sympathetic and wise ruler, but he did not worship God. Trump is not a born-again Christian, but to his credit (not his salvation), he is in sympathy with some of our beliefs.
A national right to an abortion guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution was overturned, but the right of individual states to allow abortion is still allowed. So infant murder continues at a high level even though certain more Christian states are allowed to disallow or opt out of most abortions.
Hopefully, Obergefell v. Hodges will also be overturned like Roe v. Wade, and so-called "gay marriage" (anything but "gay" will be overturned as a Constitutionally enjoined "right." I'm a bit more optimistic because 36 states have already voted against homosexual marriage (including California twice). So, if it goes back to the states, hopefully, almost all states will reject it as a legally authorized arrangement.
Meanwhile, birth rates outside of marriage are high. Divorce rates are 50%. People are marrying later in life, or they are increasingly living together without being married. Drug use is up, and marijuana is legalized in many states. Dependence on government is increasingly replacing belief in the individual's responsibility to live a responsible, moral life and to provide for himself or herself unless they are disabled by a physical or mental impairment. Birth rates are down among evangelicals and people of European descent as we are overrun by people of Asian or Middle Eastern descent, or by Roman Catholics (practicing and non-practicing) from Latin America.
