As early as 1838, more than two decades before he became President, Abraham Lincoln (who, by the way, did not win the majority of the popular vote), predicted what we are now seeing in America.
He said in a speech that America would never be conquered by a foreign power using military force. He said: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” […]
When I worked with Campus Crusade for Christ at Berkeley in the late 1960s, it was the heyday of the “free speech” movement. At Berkeley today, apparently “free speech” is but a distant memory. If that.
In fact, if you don’t say exactly what the faculty and many of the students want you to say, they will shout you down and/or block your audience from attending.
If that doesn’t stop you, they are willing to break you, burn you out, or threaten to kill you. So much for free speech at the birthplace of free speech. But that is the logical result of more than a half-century of intense indoctrination by professors and faculty diametrically opposed to most of the values that made America great and, ironically, provided their freedom to teach and the very campuses on which they lurk.
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Even though we now live in a time where ICBMs with unfathomable destructive power can reach America’s heartland in minutes, I believe Mr. Lincoln’s words are still true. If America falls, it will be the result of moral decay from within.
And I believe we are now in a death struggle with those forces of decay. That’s why I think intercession on behalf of our nation should be a part of our daily prayer lives. Only God’s mercy can save our nation.
transmitted by Hal Lindsey – 2/17/2017
