"Rome fell SEPTEMBER 4, 476AD. In the century preceding, Rome was overrun with illegal immigrants: Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards and Vandals. They first assimilated, many working as servants, but then came so fast they did not learn the Latin Language. Highly trained Roman Legions marched rapidly on advanced roads but were strained fighting conflicts worldwide. Rome had a trade deficit, having outsourced its grain production to North Africa, and when the Vandals captured that area, Rome did not have the resources to retaliate. Attila the Hun committed terrorist attacks. The city of Rome was on welfare with citizens given free bread. One Roman commented: 'Those who live at the expense of the public funds are more numerous than those who provide them.' Tax collectors were 'more terrible than the enemy.' Gladiators had provided violent entertainment in the Coliseum There had been injustice in courts, corrupt government bureaucracies, exposure of unwanted infants, infidelity, perverted bathhouses and sexual immorality as seen in the ruins of Pompeii. 5th-Century historian Salvian wrote: 'O Roman people be ashamed...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us.'"
Our nation is in danger of the same fate if we do not seek revival in the church with all our hearts. The time for lip service is over - we must return to the Lord with all our hearts, seeking to deny ourselves and seek to know Him and to accomplish His will on the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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I believe that is true. It is time for every person to get serious with God.
That is very, very appropriate...
We read the accounts in Scripture and we say, "How is it that they could just ignore the obvious?"
We raise our chins and pull our shoulders back a bit and declare, "If I had been there, I wouldn't have danced around the golden calf..."
Yet here we are, about to suffer the same fate as those who have gone before us, save for the grace of God alone.
I was so happy when I heard the closing prayer at the Convention: "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
Who gave the closing prayer?
John 13:17: "If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them."
HI Okie
Still praying for you and Mrs OKie. and all my friends here on these couple of blogs
Maryb,
You went and got yourself a user-pic. woo-hoo! :-) I like it. What does it read?
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