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The so-called "death rattle" refers to a gurgling sound that individuals often make during the dying process. When people are no longer able to swallow or cough, saliva builds up in the back of the throat and the airways causing a "rattling" sound when air passes through.
The sound many sensitive,discerning and thoughtful politically astute people are hearing from America today is very similar to a 'death rattle'.
Some of the following was gleaned from a sermon by Dr. J. Vernon McGee....
The historian Gibbon concluded that there were five reasons for the decline and fall of Rome.
(1) The undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society.
(2) Higher and higher taxes; the spending of public money for free bread and circuses for the populace.
(3) The mad craze for pleasure; sports becoming every year more exciting, more brutal, more immoral.
(4) The building of great armaments when the great enemy was within; the decay of individual responsibility.
(5) The decay of religion, fading into mere form, losing touch with life, losing power to guide the people.
"The first step in a nation's decline is religious apostasy, a turning from the living and true God. The second step downward for a nation is moral awfulness. The third step downward is political anarchy." fr. a sermon by Dr. J. Vernon Mcgee
"A great many people in the United States today think that our problem is in Washington, D.C. — I don't think so. Another group of people feel that if people could be reformed, if we could get people to act nicely, not be violent and not steal, if we could just lift our moral standards, then that would solve our problems. Again, I don't think that is the problem. Very frankly, I believe that the problem in this country is religious apostasy. The problem is out yonder with you and right here with me. The problem is that the church has failed to give God's message. I am not talking about every church or your church necessarily. There are many Bible-teaching churches across this country which have wonderful pastors who are standing for God — and I thank God for them. But the great denominations, by and large, have now departed from the faith. They have come to the place where they no longer give an effective message to the nation. As a result, from this religious apostasy have flowed moral awfulness and political anarchy." J. Vernon McGee
The American people are now on a toboggan hurtling down a ice covered slope on the way to eternal judgement that will assign them to the dustbin of history.
Idolatry is where every great nation has gone off the track. When a nation departs from the living and true God or when it gives up great moral principles which were based on religion, when it goes into idolatry, these factors eventually lead it into gross immorality and into political anarchy.
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/...isten/the-death-rattle-of-a-nation-47595.html
With apologies to Dr. J. Vernon McGee
The sound many sensitive,discerning and thoughtful politically astute people are hearing from America today is very similar to a 'death rattle'.
Some of the following was gleaned from a sermon by Dr. J. Vernon McGee....
The historian Gibbon concluded that there were five reasons for the decline and fall of Rome.
(1) The undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society.
(2) Higher and higher taxes; the spending of public money for free bread and circuses for the populace.
(3) The mad craze for pleasure; sports becoming every year more exciting, more brutal, more immoral.
(4) The building of great armaments when the great enemy was within; the decay of individual responsibility.
(5) The decay of religion, fading into mere form, losing touch with life, losing power to guide the people.
"The first step in a nation's decline is religious apostasy, a turning from the living and true God. The second step downward for a nation is moral awfulness. The third step downward is political anarchy." fr. a sermon by Dr. J. Vernon Mcgee
"A great many people in the United States today think that our problem is in Washington, D.C. — I don't think so. Another group of people feel that if people could be reformed, if we could get people to act nicely, not be violent and not steal, if we could just lift our moral standards, then that would solve our problems. Again, I don't think that is the problem. Very frankly, I believe that the problem in this country is religious apostasy. The problem is out yonder with you and right here with me. The problem is that the church has failed to give God's message. I am not talking about every church or your church necessarily. There are many Bible-teaching churches across this country which have wonderful pastors who are standing for God — and I thank God for them. But the great denominations, by and large, have now departed from the faith. They have come to the place where they no longer give an effective message to the nation. As a result, from this religious apostasy have flowed moral awfulness and political anarchy." J. Vernon McGee
The American people are now on a toboggan hurtling down a ice covered slope on the way to eternal judgement that will assign them to the dustbin of history.
Idolatry is where every great nation has gone off the track. When a nation departs from the living and true God or when it gives up great moral principles which were based on religion, when it goes into idolatry, these factors eventually lead it into gross immorality and into political anarchy.
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/...isten/the-death-rattle-of-a-nation-47595.html
With apologies to Dr. J. Vernon McGee
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