God is totally involved with the current economic and security challenges to America in ways most believers have not guessed. The key to understanding this is in the Bible where God shows how He cares for a nation He loves even when they do follow Him well.

1. GOD IS THE LORD OF
THE NATIONS
The Destiny of Every Nation is in God’s Hands
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2. OR IS HE?
Economy not well. $16.8 trillion in debt
Not able to protect our own civilians from terrorism
Natural disasters, drought, crazy weather patterns
Moral decadence at every level of society
Christians becoming the Enemy of the State
The Church is full of sin and “asleep at the wheel”
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3. CAN YOU FEEL HIS PAIN?
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4. WHAT DOES THE
FUTURE HOLD?
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5. WE REALLY DON’T
KNOW WHAT THE
FUTURE HOLDS
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6. BUT WE KNOW WHO
Holds the Future!
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7. THIS IS HIS WORD TO HIS PEOPLE
No matter what happens ( Is.41:10)
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8. GOD REALLY DOES HAVE THE
WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS
He created all the nations and their languages ( Gen
11)
He determined their boundaries and when they
should exist (Acts 17:26) “and He made from one man
every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the
earth, having determined their appointed times and
the boundaries of their habitation...”
“When the Most High gave the nations their
inheritance, when He divided all humankind, He set
up boundaries for the peoples according to the
number of the sons of Israel”. (Deuteronomy 32:8).
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9. GOD DETERMINES THE
RISE & FALL OF NATIONS
“God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your
descendants will be strangers in a land that is not
theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed
four hundred years. (Gen 15:13)
Daniel told the pagan king Nebuchadnezzar: “You
shall be driven away from human society...until you
have learned that the Most High has sovereignty over
the kingdom of mortals and gives it to whom He
will (Daniel 4:32).
Daniel predicts coming of four kingdoms in sequence:
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome ( Daniel 2)
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10. GOD CONTROLS THE
GOVERNMENTS OF NATIONS
“ Let every person be subject to the governing
authorities; for there is no authority except from
God, and those authorities that exist have
been instituted by God” (Rom. 13:1).
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised
you up for the very purpose of showing my power in
you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the
earth" (Romans 9:17).
The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand
of the Lord, He turns it wherever He
wishes” ( Prov. 21:1)
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11. GOD CONTROLS THE POWER &
HEARTS OF LEADERS
“Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus,
whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations... I
will give you the treasures of darkness and
riches hidden in secret places, so that you may
know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who
call you by your name.”
“And the LORD said unto Moses, ‘...see that thou do
all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in
thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he
shall not let the people go.” (Exodus 4:21) (9x)
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12. GOD USES EVIL MEN
FOR HIS PURPOSES
Romans 9:17-18: "For the Scripture says to
Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I raised you up, to
demonstrate My power in you, and that My
name might be proclaimed throughout the
whole earth." So then He has mercy on whom He
desires, and He hardens whom He desires."
"...there were gathered together against...Jesus...
both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles
and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever Thy
hand and Thy purpose predestined to
occur," (Acts 4:27-28)
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13. HOW GOD USES NATIONAL PROBLEMS
TO RESTORE HIS REBELLIOUS CHILDREN HE DEARLY LOVES
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14. GOD’S PATTERN OF RESTORING HIS PEOPLE TO HIMSELF
SEEN IN BOOK OF JUDGES
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15. GOD’S PATTERN OF RESTORING HIS PEOPLE TO HIMSELF
SEEN IN BOOK OF JUDGES
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16. AMERICA’S DARK HARVEST
SEEN IN THE FOREWARD TO HEALING AMERICA’S DNA
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