Does America Have a Covenant With God?

Several weeks ago as I was pondering the happenings in our nation and world, the Holy Spirit spoke to me, reminding  me that Israel was the only nation of people who has a national covenant with God.  As much as most Americans would like to believe that our nation has a covenant with God, it simply is not true.  Those Americans who have received Jesus Christ as savior and Lord do have a personal, relational covenant with God, as those grafted into the tree, and in fact, a much better covenant. But the nation, as a whole, does not. If this is true, it means that any Gentile nation whose population has become more and more secular over the decades, as ours surely has over the last 60 years, has the probability of losing favor with God.

In October of this year at The Missional Holiness Conference, Wesleyan pastor Dwight Mikesell brought out the fact that we have already lost God’s favor. In fact, we are already experiencing His judgment. He correlated political and social direction away from God over the last 60 years to Romans 1:21-32. He divided the decades between 1950 up to the present into 4 blocks with the accompanying judgments of God. Let me present them here in abbreviated form.

In the 1950s and 60s, evolution was promoted as the correct view of human origin, taking God the Creator, out of the equation. Since God was gone, we need not speak to Him, so prayer in public schools was eliminated. The corresponding verses in Romans 1:21-23 say:

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

In the 60s and 70s we came into the sexual revolution which brought with it unchecked immorality, increased pornography, STDs, and legalized abortion.  We continue to read in Romans 1:24-25:

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

In the 70s and 80s, homosexual rights became an ever increasing political and social power play between traditional morality and liberal agendas. The correlation continues in verses 26-27:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

From the 80s to our current time, political correctness has morphed into political corruption as we see in verses 28-32:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

I don’t think it possible to ignore what Mikesell brings out as a true assessment of a nation under judgment, not because of the sin, but given over to the sin.

 The other day I read an internet post on a popular prophetic site by an honored, veteran prophet. I will not mention his name. It really doesn’t matter who it is. What matters is that he was, in my humble opinion, so wrong in his assumptions about America. If he thinks the intent of our founding fathers can sustain us, if he feels Kate Smith’s singing of “God Bless America” will turn our hearts, if he thinks our stellar support of Israel will stay God’s hand, I cannot agree with him. He goes on to talk about America blessing God, but here again, who can do that? Only those serving God can bless God. It will take the bride within the church interceding and repenting for the church at large to start the ball of revival rolling again.

Is it not obvious that our economic, political, and religious systems are in shambles before us? We cannot rest on the laurels of our founders, a patriotism that honors country over God, or a quasi-coziness with Israel. It is only the kingdom of God made manifest by the true people of God directed by the Spirit of God that is going to give America a fighting chance.