The Greatest Threat

By Chuck Wygal

What is the greatest threat to the world, and the United States in particular? It isn’t Communism, it isn’t Secular Humanism, it isn’t anything that we see as a threat. It is the Church. The Church in the western world in particular. We have fallen into the trap that we criticize the Pharisees for; the trap of works. Christians in the US have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

We are going about doing things in our own righteousness and not submitting ourselves to the righteousness of God. We are trying to “fix” our country’s problems through politics and the ballot box. It has not worked so far, but we think that if we get more Christians to vote maybe it will turn things around!

After our last election, when the Democrats took control, there was a conservative Christian in the news saying that the conservatives were sending a message to the Republicans that they were not doing enough, that is why the Republicans lost control. NOT!

Once a conservative leader quoted 2 Chronicles 7:14 and said: “We have the power to turn this country around.” Most of our Christian leaders will quote 2 Chronicles 7:14 and not truly consider what it says. We must look at the context.

When President Clinton was in office one of my favorite Bible teachers used to say that Clinton was not the problem, he was a symptom. A symptom of what the country had become. The Bible is clear that God is the one that sets up governments and takes them down. In Romans 13 we read that to resist our government is to resist God.

When the Israelites turned their back on God, God would send a Gentile nation to conquer and control them. Serving in the Temple more vigorously did not bring their release, they had to humble themselves before the Lord and confess their sin of turning their back on their God. When they did that God would turn their captivity into victory. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says when we, as a body, will confess that we have been trying to solve our problem on our own and humble ourselves, and admit that we are the problem, or at least standing in the way of the solution, then God will heal our land.

Chuck Wygal writes from Medford, Oregon.