“Prayer Meetings”
Friends, 
     *****   I watched the official State prayer meeting at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. at noon today. It alone was enough to warrant God's judgment last Tuesday--or next Tuesday.
 ******Here is a quotation from Bishop Jane Holmes Dixon: "There of us who are gathered here--Muslim, Jew, Christian, Sikh, Buddist, Hundu--all people of faith...." Leading the meeting were Episcopalians, a Roman Catholic Cardinal, Methodists, a Muslim cleric, and Baptist Billy Graham,an Arminian. The Methodist minister from Houston offered his prayer to the "God of Abraham and Mohammed, and the Father of Jesus Christ." 
*****This is the sort of religious activity that makes God want to vomit (see Revelation 3:16).  
*****Isaiah's warning to Israel is more detailed: ******"Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O Earth. For the Lord has spoken: 'I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not consider.' Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters. They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away backward.... When you come to appear before me, who has required this from your hand, to trample my courts? Bring no more futile sacrifices; incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, the sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies--I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. Your new moons and appointed feasts my soul hates.... Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood."  
******The United States is under the judgment of God. We are a nation of idolaters--demonstrated by today's prayer meeting--running after other gods: Mary and the saints, Allah, Buddha, and bowing before images, statues, icons, and priests. We have rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ; we have violated every one of the Ten Commandments, not only as individuals, but as a nation: legalized abortion, legalized theft, campaigns and officeholders that pander to envy and covetousness, legalized sexual perversion and immorality, unbelievers and idolators as chaplains in Congress and the armed forces, desecration of the Christian Sabbath, officially condoned lying and perjury--there are the reasons for the attack on Tuesday. God did not merely permit that attack; he caused it. 
*****If we are not humbled before God; if we do not believe the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,who saved his people from their sins; if we harden our hearts, then God will not be merciful; his judgment will continue. The religious response so far has been to harden our hearts, to continue to reject the truth of the Gospel, to continue to wallow in our religious filth and idolatry. 
*****But God will always be merciful to those who turn to him in faith. Isaiah continues: "'Come now and let us reason together,' says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword.'" 
John Robbins
The Trinity Foundation
http://www.trinityfoundation.org/
September 14, 2001